s there is in the relation is what
the relation itself is for, the mutual education of employers and
employees is going to be found to have more meaning, value and power, the
more individual and personal--that is to say, the more alive it is.

All live men with any gusto or headway in them, or passion for work, all
employers and employees with any headway or passion for getting together
in them are as impatient of having the way they get together their
personal relations in business governed from outside, as they would be in
the sexual relation and for the same reasons.

If it was proposed to have an audience of all the women in America get
together in a vast hall and an audience of all the men in America get
together in another, and pass resolutions of affection at each other,
rules and bylaws for love-strikes and boycotts, and love-lockouts, how
many men and women that one would care to speak to or care to have for a
father or mother, would go?

Only anaemic men and women in this vast vague whoofy way would either make
or accept national arrangements made in this labor-union way for the
conditions of their lives together.

And in twenty years only anaemic employers and anaemic employees and
workmen are going to let themselves be cooped up in what they do
together, by conventions, by national committees, are going to have eight
hours a day of their lives grabbed out of their hands by collective
bargaining and by having what everybody does and just how much he does of
it determined for him as if everybody was like everybody, as if locality,
personality and spirit in men did not count, as if the actual daily
contacts of the men themselves were not the only rational basis of
determining and of making effective what was right.

XIV

THE NEW COMPANY

I met a wagon coming down the street yesterday, saying across the front
of it--half a street away, American Experience Co.

I wanted to get in.

Of course it turned out to be as it got nearer, The American Express Co.,
but I couldn't help thinking what it would mean if we had an equally
well-organized arrangement for rapid transit of boxes--boxes people have
got out of or got into, as we have for conveying other boxes people are
mixed up with. (Fixes were called boxes when I was a boy. We used to
speak of a man having a difficult experience, as being in a box.)

The Air Line League proposes to be The American Experience Company--a big
national concern for sh