Report of meetings :   September 22, 1949 

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<br/><br/> The Rotary Balita no. 630 (September 29, 1949). 
<br/><br/> Straight from the International Labor Organization meet in Geneva and an enlightened "acquaintance trip" across the United States, homespun humorist and surety man Tiving Lovina toe-ed the line of tradition, and did what every single home-coming Rotarian of his calibre is supposed to do: report. Fresh and healthy from some American hospital where it is said he buried his major gastric tragedies, the Labor Secretary enthusiastically unfolded his wares of the latest that there is on world labor conditions and employee-employer relationships. Some of the pearls of Solomonic wisdom that he displayed were: Labor is not a commodity (which precept is supposed to make all exploiting tyrants quake in their shoes) the laborer, made in the image of God, has every inherent right to a decent standard of living. A man may suffer material hardships for long and in silence, but he will not stand for any sullies on his personal dignity and self-respect. A union is not organized primarily for hostile purposes and for strikes; rather it is created for a more harmonious understanding between labor and capital. In this worldwide scarcity of skilled labor, there is a shameless and pitiful abundance of unskilled surplus labor. And to clinch ali labor philosophies one can always bunk on that old Quezonian refrain of social justice.   Welcome home, Tiving!