Show Not A Private Fight There is a tendency on the part of labor and management who are parties in an industrial dispute to regard it as strictly a private fight And they carry on this fight with little consideration for or the public welfare although it is the public which gets caught in the middle and suffers most The automobile strikes strikes and and there have been many ol of them re re- recently re- re recently in addition to the General Motors tie up up tie have deprived the nation of hundreds of thousands of o urgently needed cars Now if the threat of strikes by the steel and electrical workers is carried out the country will be set back baek still farther in its efforts to achieve postwar economic recovery The point is that the situation in the United States Slates has reached a stage where unless something is done to force both labor and management to work out their dif dif- differences differences differences instead of merely sitting back and shouting at each other the nation will suffer such a stag staggering gering economic blow that postwar prosperity may prove to be a myth America has the greatest productive tive capacity of any nation in the thc world But the capacity rapacity means mean little unless it is used to the thc best advantage And that certainly isn't being done now Time is running out If labor and an I management go on kicking around their golden opportunity for a great prosperity they will wake up ur some day to find that they have lost it by default And An not only they but the en en- entire entire tire nation will pay the cost of their folly So management labor-management disputes are arc not private disputes It is time the public used the full weight of its influence to force a just just and and quick settlement quick settlement of the these e fights |