in particular places with particular
human beings. In the factory that listened to Jim, no order from a
national Collective Bargaining Works could have begun to meet the
situation as well as Jim did and the factory did.

If Jim had stuck his head in the door by orders from Indianapolis, or if
the President of the Company had had a telegram giving him national
instructions to lie awake that night, what would it have come to?

I believe in national or collective bargaining as a matter of course, in
certain aspects of all difficulties between capital and labor. But the
causes of most difficulties in industry are personal and have to be dealt
with where the persons are. The more personal things to be done are, the
more personally they have to be attended to.

If the women of America were to organize a Childbirth Labor Union, say
next Christmas--and if from next Christmas on, all the personal relations
of men and women and husbands and wives--the stipulations and conditions
on which women would and would not bear children were regulated by
national rules, by courtship rules and connubial orders from
Indianapolis, Indiana, it would be about as superficial a way to
determine the well-being of the sexes, as foolish and visionary a way for
the female class to attempt to reform and regulate the class that has
been fenced off by The Creator as the male class, as the present attempt
of the labor class to sweep grandly over the spiritual and personal
relation of individual employers and individual workmen and substitute
for it collective bargaining from Indianapolis.

There is one thing about women. It would never have occurred to the women
of this country as it has to the men to get up a contraption for doing a
thing nationally that they could not even do at home.

For every woman to allow herself to be governed from the outside in the
most intimate concerns and the deepest and most natural choices of her
life is not so very much more absurd than for a man in his business, the
main and most important and fundamental activity in which he lives, the
one that he spends eight hours a day on, to be controlled from a distance
and from outside.

The whole idea, whether applied to biology or industry is a half dead,
mechanical idea and only people who are tired or half alive, are long
going to be willing to put up with it.

As the mutual education of marriage is an individual affair,--as the more
individualness, the more personalnes