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Nowadays labor questions
justifiably concern everyone.
When it comes to an industrial
plant, one is not satisfied any
more to be informed on the
quality of its products, on its
manufacturing processes, on
the nature of its equipment.
One wants to know how the
workmen are treated there;
this concern does not solely lie
with the civil servants charged by the government with applying
the recent laws for the protection of people employed in the
factories; it has existed for a long time among the numerous free
associations which are dedicated to the study of social problems
and researching the means of solving them peacefully and
equitably, and for a long time before that among certain owners and heads of industry concerned with the material interests and
moral of their workers.
