- Current Literature - LABOUR AND CAPITAL IN ALLIANCE. By W.
Howard Haze11. (London : J. Murray. 8s. 6d. net.)-L- Mr. Hazen has written a very sensible little book, as we should expect from what he has written before now in our own columns. His views have the invaluable merit of goodwill as well . as common sense. They are expressed without distinction but with admirable clearness, from a first-hand experience of conducting a large business. They have little novelty or profundity, but are apt for the moment, and need urgently to be impressed upon those readers who employ others or are themselves employed as wage-earners. He metes out praise and blame impartially to those who deserve them for merits or faults of head or of heart, and urges on both sides what is their moral duty and their present economic necessity. He summarizes the methods (industrial councils, profit-sharing and other schemes) that have been found helpful where they have been given a proper chance of success, and he gives short chapters to the exposition of some vital, economic, industrial and commercial truths which ought to be axioms to all concerned. In one respect he encourages us by quoting sound opinions uttered by Labour leaders such as - Mr. Clynes, only to discourage us by the thought of how rarely these leaders who have acquired knowledge try to hand it on to their followers who have less.
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