expired.

Here was loyalty as stanch and effective
as that which wins battlefields and creates
nations. It increased the efficiency of the
individual workers; it greatly augmented the
effectiveness of the organization as a whole.
It was developed, without appeal to sentiment,
under conditions which make for division
rather than coperation between employer
and employee. The men were unionists;
wages, hours, and so on, were contract matters
with the boss. Yet in an emergency, the tie
between the tunnel builder and his men was
strong enough to stand the strain of the fatiguing
and long-continued effort necessary
to complete the job and save the former from
ruin. Like incidents, on perhaps a smaller
and less dramatic scale, are not uncommon;
but the historian of business has not yet risen
to make them known.

_Loyalty, to Nation or Organization, shows itself
in an Emergency_

As with patriotism, business loyalty needs
some such crisis as this to evoke its expression.
In peace the patriotism of citizens is
rarely evident and is frequently called in