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Show (Released by Western Newspaper Unlon.l AS WE GO ABOUT SAVING MAN HOURS EVERY LOYAL AMERICAN will approve of any method which results re-sults in the saving of man hours so badly needed In our national defense preparations, but The press was given a graphic story of production speed In connection connec-tion with the recent launching of the battleship South Dakota. According Ac-cording to that story, before the ship hit the water, the keel of a new one was being laid on the ways she had Just left. So great was the effort to save man hours that the workmen who had built the South Dakota were not permitted to stop work for a few minutes to see the monster slide Into the waters of the Delaware river. All of that represented a commendable com-mendable saving of a few man hours when man hours are sadly needed, in the great shipyards around San Francisco bay was stopped, or seriously retarded by an unwarranted strike called In violation viola-tion of a labor contract by a comparatively com-paratively small number of essential essen-tial machinists. Over a period of 30 and more days, the time loss represented rep-resented hundreds of thousands of man hours, and nothing much was done about it. Yes, the conservation of man hours at Camden was all to the good, but that story of production speed given to the press sounded a bit like carefully planned propaganda. propa-ganda. ft ah HONEST LABOR ENTITLED TO FAIR SHARE PRODUCTION values, the amount for which manufactured commodities commodi-ties are sold, are divided between labor, raw materials, management and selling, taxes municipal, county, coun-ty, state and national and capital, as interest on investment. Labor, the man or woman who works at bench or machine, demands de-mands its fair share of what it produces. pro-duces. Collectively and nationally, we know labor receives a fair share of the national income, but each workman, individually or by factory groups, wants to know that he gets his share of what he produces. He does not want to take the word of some interested party as to the amount of his share. He wants definite def-inite proof. That is the crux of the real labor problem. There are labor racke-I racke-I teers and labor saboteurs who can ' be dealt with without injury and, in fact, as a benefit to honest labor. The solution of the problem of honest, hon-est, patriotic American labor means finding some method by which each workman in each factory group may be definitely shown that he gets his fair share of what he has helped to produce. With all the Ingenuity to be found in America, that should not be an unsolvable problem. It has been accomplished ac-complished in some plants and those plants do not have labor difficulties. NO ROOM FOR SABOTAGE OF AMERICAN DEFENSE ONE AND ONE-HALF MILLION men in the armed forces of the nation are working, at $21 a month, with inadequate tools to prepare themselves for the job of defending American liberties, the American way of life. Thousands of other men are re-I re-I fusing to work at wages of from $160 to better than $200 a month so the $21 a month men may be provided with the tools needed to defend our liberties. We do not want government operated op-erated industry. It cannot be as efficient ef-ficient as when privately operated, i We do want, and demand, that privately pri-vately operated industry be operated operat-ed without excessive profits and the government levies heavy excess profits taxes to prevent any possibility possi-bility of war profits. The government has drafted men for the armed forces at a wage of $21 a month. It can, and may, draft men to man the machines to produce pro-duce the tools of war needed by the armed forces for the protection of American liberties. Strikes in any Plant in which defense equipment is hemp produced should not, and will not long be countenanced. It is that kind of thing which caused the downfall of France. It is sabotag-ing sabotag-ing the American defense effort TO BE SURE, this present war is terrible, but it does not sound so bad when we realize more Americans Ameri-cans were killed during the 18 months we were an active participant partici-pant in the last war than the total of English losses during two years of this conflict. 'DOLE OR WORK? As an experiment, the state gov- k IUin0iS made an to find jobs in private employment for 90 .nd.v.duals then on relief, for 5 ammbr- Placea were found for 46, two others refused to accept any job. three did not show up after "tnSrd three not want the kind of jobs offered. The numbers but Smd! t0 Prv athing. but what would your guess be as to e percentage of those now o "li2 ho prefer to continue to recede . dole than to work for a limg7 |