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 "The heart of the struggle between capital and labor is the idea of employer and employee," he says. "There ought not to be employers and workmen—just workmen. They're two parts of the same machine. It's absurd to have a machine in which one part tries to foil another.

"My job at the plant is to design the cars and keep the departments working in harmony. I'm a workman. I'm not trying to slip anything over on the other factors in the machine. How would that help the plant?

"There's trouble between labor and capital. Well, the solution is not through one side getting the other by the neck and squeezing. No, sir; that isn't a solution; that is ruin for both. It means that later the other side is going to recover and try to get on top again, and there'll be constant fighting and jarring where there ought to be harmony and adjustment.

"The only solution is to . It can't come only by the demands of labor. It can't come only by the advantages of capital. It's got to come by both recognizing their interest and getting together.

"That's the solution of all the problems in the world, as I see it. Let people realize that they're all bound together, all parts of one machine, and that nothing that hurts one group of people will fail in the end to come back and hurt all the peopie."

So, at the end of thirty-seven years of work,