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Show gXh settle all Every Reason for Quick Change From War to Peace, Post Says. Element in Wage Question May Produce Some Industrial In-dustrial Unrest. WAKirr.N'OTO.v, Dec. l. "if we put : our.-!'.'lVfH down to 'winning: t he peace' l,y ilriv.:H a?) we have to winning ttie war, the problems of labor and industry , , in tho al'tr-tlie-war period wii! bo easily and instantly nettled," say a L.ouia 1 i'j;it, a.-j.Htant secretary of labor. . Mr. l-'ost declares he does not anticl- j pal i! any particular problems In the re adjustment purled. "We cliariKed quickly t troni P'-ace to war production," lie flaid, "and it seems to mo that there should be no reason why our factories and our ; workman should not he able to change j back from tho war basis to the peace t.ji.-tiM u:i quickly, making due allowance I for audi lack of raw materials as may i ex'.st, duo to seasonal conditions. Hut, tfivtn tho raw materials, plants which i Wf,r- manufacturing articles for peace 1 inch) before the war should be able to ! reassemble their machinery and change ' t j i -1 1- prures:-u;H back to the basin of peace ! production without so much confusion j and di-lay as many people anticipate." I Shifting of Labor. j There is bound to be certain shifting i of la bur from plants at present solely designed fur war work back to plants ! : that wc.ro tho big producers in peace I i union, i!r. Post believes, but he regards f I the employment service of the depart- ; : tneiit of labor as a suitable agency for : handling the problems that might arise from such shifting and believes that it I will be abie to provide workers with i Jobs a 4 well as to provide- workmen for I employers. 1 There is an element fn the wage ques- tion which may produce industrial unrest, un-rest, and in that only does the country l'i ih.f.o-r.r fr-nm Hi rot -n n 1 r 1 1 o t i rn tin- ' , crHMitics, thinks Mr. Post. Kven this i may be avoided by intelligent agreement j . )i;id conferences botweeu labor and em- j ployers. However, i'ost declares, "if em-i ! pryers are to be guided by the type of I I men who have figured all through his- I ; lory as the "privileged class.' who think . it their religious duty to ivi'iise to deal ! with organized men, we will have trou- . hit). If as much disposition will he shown by employers to adjust industry ' and its probieio ; as the men they hire, I tlio possibility of trouble will bo reduced j to a minimum. Matter fur Individual. ; "The worker who In peace times was able to earn $;10 a week has, under war wages and war overtime, frequently ber onabted to go homo on pay night with i ? luu in his pocket, representing his I week's wages. The man who has ex perienced this Is not going to be willing to Maud a material reduction in It.- It I Is true, of course, that lie will bo willing to forget the overtime work he has been putting in, but even should there he a J reduction In the cost of living, which seems unlikely, the worker is jmt going j I to accept a reduction of his wages to ! j his pre-war basis. That, however, is a I matter of the individual, rathci than the union. I "Collective bargaining will solve much i of that. I feal that there should be con tinued existence of the agency represented repre-sented through the national war labor board. The decisions of that board, providing pro-viding for a review of the wage awards every six months on the basis of changes in the cost of living, and more ' particularly the awarding of the right of ; collective bargaining, if entered into ! thoroughly and in harmonious spirit by workers and employers alike, will do much to solve the problem through the ' operation of the shop committees. ! "X do not anticipate any lack of jobs, i People forget that we ha ve been prac-I prac-I tlcing abstention from what we want and need and thai there is much production pro-duction to be caught up with and much essential work to bo done that has been neglected or postponed during the war period." |