Show Finance and Labor Must Realize 1 Recovery Machine Only One on R Roa By BURTON KLINE The president Mr Rockefeller r and Mr Green have spoken of ot the national national national na na- na- na recovery ry act with almost the fervor of men reciting a creed By letting citing in the sunlight of great social betterments the act does docs possess somethIng that stirs mens men's souls But Buthe the he best churchman finds life HIe still annd astern a tern stern and practical matter for all the I reverence of at his beliefs And for tor aUthe all aU the he sincere piety of these eminent speakers toward toward the new economic credo redo its application to life is another sternly practical matter will continue to brace themselves for snags nags in its way Rockefeller and Green notWithstanding notwithstanding notwithstanding not not- withstanding two have showed up al- al rC ready eady dy both of ot them serious Will f 11 I nance ance gas the machine with money Will iVill labor heave sand in the works The first question will probably answer anwer an an- itself Before long Mr Green may not be in position to an answer the other Labor may run away with him None knows better than the man manof manot ot of f finance that It takes money to get money but those who think up better ways of getting it than the recovery machine provides are wasting their time ime Its It's the only machine on the the road oad the only one with a chance of getting to the goal In time Money may be coy in committing it it- self elf to the great adventure but bu there here is another adventure that that finds It t still more coy Money has never been given to suicide Finance may maj nimble grumble and balk but it knows that tha it if if there is no recovery there is ap apt to o be no such thing as finance Nor any such thing as labor either And labor has not always been as quick as finance in spotting the buttered buttered but but- buttered side of its bread Now behind the he scenes each of them growls over what recovery hands to the other am and between them recovery itself may suffer Unless that master politician in the White House shows new v sleight sleigh of ot hand LABOR THE REAL THREAT REAT The real threat to recovery comes from labor and the whole fate of th the program hangs on its mood and be be- havior Neither is it all the fault o of labor It is not subject to the unanimity ity that rules the world of finance Money has a single mood Its owners think as a single man Never has organized organized or or- labor possessed such tive live organization It is itself overrun with a hundred conflicting beliefs an and has often run away awny with its leaders Business fears that tendency in labor labo far more than labors labor's organization And in that tendency lies the present threat to recovery On one and the same day the New Ne NewYork NewYork York end of Inside Stuff reported business men as palsied by dread o of labor and Washington reported strikes quietly up for settlement i ithe in inthe inthe the conciliation bureau of ot the U U. S S. department of labor lacor The dread appeared appeared ap ap- to be justified In Washington you learn in quiet quie that Mr Green has his cohorts behind behind behind be be- hind him as never before They sta stay behind him because they trust him to get all that labor is after peace after peace peaceably ably if possible But to get it If h he doesn't they take the bit in their teeth For all aU Mr Greens Green's brave words of trust in the recovery act act there ar are those who question the peace of his heart And for all the clarion call o othe of the clans to the federation convention conven- conven tion they count on speech of plainer plaine sort when the conclave opens WRECKAGE GRIEVES LABOR Behind the scenes all labor is fo foone brone tor br torone one thing grieved and indignant a at what it regards as the wreck of th the U. U S. S labor department It took 5 50 years to get a laboring man into th the cabinet and his department is strictly their baby Now they complain it is nothing but a welfare bureau Behind Benin closed doors they crack rude jests a athe at atthe atthe the high-hat high methods of the lady se secretary secretary sec sec- who has made it so As secretary secretary seer secre- secre- secre tary of labor they say she remains a foremost welfare worker and proceed proceed proceed pro pro- to ignore her as tragically o oi out t tot of ot place now that hell appears to b be popping Here is a single detail in their bi bill of complaints Madam secretary drafted drafted draft draft- ed Isidore Lubin a scientist I mist from the Brookings institute to tobe tobe tobe be commissioner of labor abor statistics Good as long as the gentleman stuck to his muttons Evidently he was given power He reaches out to merge with his bureau the conciliation se ser ser- vice Even the lady secretary mus must see the folly foUy of this in time anc and stop it If It anything ng on earth is an endless succession of personal equations a 1 matter matte of man to appeal it is th the settling of ot strikes Bitter hatreds have hav to be smoothed Hard names violent violen talk unprintable epithets hurled a at each other by heated enemies must b be erased The enemies themselves mus must be turned into friends Ever since 1913 this has gone on i ithe Inthe in inthe the conciliation service of the depart depart- department department ment of labor Without a word of n notice notice no- no tice it has calmed down thousands o of strikes and saved the country uncountable uncountable un countable hundreds of millions ii irl wages and profits otherwise lost los through stopped production Now sa say leaders s of labor when the Vb recovery's triumph or lizzie r B hinge on halting these run runa strikes think of or sending out p makers fortified with a abins abin's hatful otI of bins bin's decimal points t MASTER MANIPULATOR J IN Ij 1 1 WHITE HOUSE J J They odd add that mere dread oha of att has whitened overnight the ma mahas many has inspired this work since th the of labor was started Inot l It not extravagant to add further further tJ t the he fate tate of recovery may rest on OIlI shoulders of this one master maste- co c ator For 20 years he has ha been country's devoted slave He now nON t n become its savior l Labor knows this Johnson bv he it t. t Farley Fancy knows it The pres knows it The lady secretary d dd well to know it Incidentally country should know at last Wh who gentleman Is 12 He is Hugh 1 L. L Ken Labor adores dores him Big busin business j I it might doff its hat to the the man who saved it so many millions But But But-at at the end of a cabin cabinet 3 y y place lace your bets on two r The other will be that of the geiman gen gei man who puts himself to sleep l p e etl night with a guitar a harp or OJ thing When the Roosevelt t opened welfare was the order of day We are arc now getting down brass knuckles The need of ot at an 1 one practical laborite in lin j the tho dement dej dep ment of labor b became ame apparent it was not for nothing that Ned Grady was put there His gel there has something by the i Vi hilariously humorous about It it Undoubtedly it was done on p pr order But the job of himself on a ladys lady's sarcastic ton toi was left to Farley He got it ACt Ace ing lag to Washington gossip madam said to Farley Fancy You run y department and Ill I'll manage ml mil But note one point McGrady is 1 assistant secretary of or labor a adue an ant due to rise Note other things Big bush busi dreads labor Labor fears the ther n nery ery act with all its golden pro prom will not deliver The sleight of is showing itself The playing both ends against the ml mId The middle is industrial peace ace hell he'll get it by keeping each end worried to fight J Speaking of masters at theIr cr the White House has contained contain such master manipulator of men events since Abraham Lincoln 1 Copyright 1933 McClure Nei Ne en paper Syndicate |