Arnold Bennett's Journals - Friday, July 14th 1916 – London yesterday. [Gordon] Selfridge
[founder of the great department store] was extraordinarily eloquent and sane
in the matter of the relations between employer and employee. But he was very
jealous on politics. He said whenever politics came near their store they
trembled. Asked by me what he considered the sphere of politics, he said
politics was to govern. Apparently the immense difficulty of defining politics
had not occurred to him. He has no trades unions to deal with. He said he gave
a lecture at Leeds University and that the atmosphere was clearly hostile to
employers. There can be little doubt that the condition of affairs in his store
is just about ideal.
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