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Show Break Concentration Of U. S. Industry, Weston Demands "The industries of this nation have become too heavily concentrated concen-trated in a few congested population popula-tion areas, and must be decentralized," decen-tralized," Joseph H. Weston, Democratic candidate for the United States Senate, said in a statement this week. "The Democratic party must take the lead in breaking up as many of these industries as possible pos-sible into smaller units, so that more people who now are in the working class can rise to positions posi-tions of ownership and management. manage-ment. I "The automobile industry, especially, is one that ought to I be divided into many component parts factories and scattered all along the idle railroads of the nation, where many small cities and towns already have facilities waiting for such developments. "In a long period of unchecked growth, our industries have pushed themselves together into bigger and bigger units, with fewer and fewer people at the very top, and fewer and fewer opportunities for this nation to realize the full potential of the brainpower and management ability of millions of members of what is doomed to be a permanent perma-nent working class, if we continue con-tinue at our present rate of concentration con-centration of industry. "It was not meant that Americans Amer-icans should be paired off into a class of a very few managers at the very top and more and more people all along the road dropping downward into a permanent per-manent working class. "We must reassert the right, and not only the right, but the opportunity, of every member of the working class in America who desires to do so and has the ability, to rise into the ownership and management class. This can only be done by breaking our industries down into many autonomous auto-nomous units, where the ownership owner-ship and management meet in lower unit levels," Mr. Weston concluded. |
