Show k r- r A i f Labors Labor's Attitude 0 ORGANIZED D labor include three planks planks' in it its ts re reconstruction reconstruction re- re 15 construction pro program m as it affects affee s public and 1 lic utilities The committee on ow reconstruction 4 declares for federal ownership operation or r regula- regula tion With no IIO preference expressed jt it t is to be e concluded con eluded that the committee would be satisfied with le legislation patterned after any am one of the tile three forms As a a. result it becomes clear that whatever er policy is formulated it will bear the in indorsement of organized labor as expressed 1 by this committee omm Private 0 ownership absolute and complete is the tile only nl possible solution of or the utility problem of the present pres res- res exIt ent nt lay day which is not nol favored by br the tue committee On the he theother other oilier hand the tile country is without its its advocates of this departure so it is clear that the countr country is not threatened with the only policy which labor cannot accept The Tue muddle of utilities existing today is to be bc solved only by one of three methods Government ownership federal operation or t government regulation constitute the tile courses open to Con Congress and the people The problem cannot be solved unless we wc resort to one of the tile three proposals There i j still some d divergence of opinion as to which h. h t offers the tile best solution although federal operation is serving to warn want the people against both government go ownership and federal operation It is becoming becoming- apparent that these courses offer no more encouragement to the tile people peo peo- jie than the tue old system of pr private ate management ham ham- l ered b by cumbersome regulation Competition is as essential to the welfare of labor labO as it is to the industries of the nation Government Go ownership is is bound to stifle competition and aud if it is adopted labor Jabor is bound bounel to feel its effect in restricted liberties and pro prospects Federal operation is but a form of government go ownership and auel is fraught with the dangers hence it would seem that of tb the three planks in labors labor's platform the last regulation is h the most acceptable le By establishing government re regulation regula regula- ula- ula tion on an un efficient basis the inter interests of labor labo are arc conserved hoth in its field of endeavor or and in its Jiing living liv liv- ing requirements Labor is promised less by a bureaucratic form of government than any other class clas Government Go Ownership ownership owner Owner- ship of f public public- am and semipublic utilities is but the first step in the formation of a u bureaucracy It is not nit a Ion long step from public service to the necessities of life Hie A As Asa Asu u a result it is clear that the tIle tendency to bureaucratic government cannot annat stop with the utilities but must also i lude our industrial lire life Labor expresses itself only us' us of a a. change from ironi tile tho chaos h change should he be beneficial beneficial an and l this is not t promo prom prom- I o b by government go ownership or federal operation 0 |