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Show 14 'i FOLLOW THROUGH By George S. Benson (President'of Harding College, Searcy, Ark.) Do you believe working people have a right to organize and bargain bar-gain as a group for their general betterment? Do you believe a man who has saved some money has a right to invest it in any business he likes and to run that business, trying to make a reasonable profit? Do you believe that big-volume production at low cost is the key to good pay? My answer is yes three times. If you agree, you subscribe to the fundamentals of the Labor-Management Labor-Management Charter. It was signed last March 28 by William Green for the American Federation of Labor, Eric Johnson, for the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, and Phil Murray for the Congress of Industrial Indus-trial Organizations. It is a powerful document, able if carried out to do the world more good than the famous Atlantic Charter. Not New . . . People who work surely have rights. Open competition is certainly cer-tainly fair. Economy of time and effort yields positive rewards. These ideas arc not original. They are old and time-tested principles. All of them stand out clearly in the teachings of Jesus and of many great men who have lived and enriched the world more recently. They appear ap-pear in the Labor-Management Charter. Being the richest and strongest nation in the world, the United States has a serious responsibility. It is graver than ever now, with a global war to finish and the world to be set in order. Miss Columbia Colum-bia must point the way and she stands at the crossroads. America's choice will determine which way the whole world goes; to peace, plenty and human freedorm, or to poverty and oppression. Big job . . . I Of the 200 billion people who have lived on earth, not more than 2 could call their souls their own. The way of the world has always al-ways been oppression and it still is. Now especially the trend is toward tow-ard dictatorships. Not 20 of the people now living ever dreamed of freedom and prosperity like we enjoy. America is in actual danger of being carried with the political tide. Like any guide-post, the Labor-Management Charttr is powerless power-less in itself, useful only if it is followed. If followed, however, it indicates in-dicates an orderly transition from war, to victory in peace and prosperity. pros-perity. If it is ignored, our alternate course leads to economic war, government by edict, lower wage and less of the things people want. The system of open competition has made America the world's most influential nation and kept it in the forefront of human progress prog-ress for 170 years. A recent survey shows that conservative business men are ready (if permitted) to offer more than one job per available avail-able worker after the war. For full employment, good pay, ready markets and active business, let's follow through with the Labor-Management Labor-Management Charter. |