Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-08-07 | Page 4 | Rationalism

I Ip RATIONALISM r LABOR I leadership and the r rink rank and aud file F p of Americas America's s workers were solidly and ardently ar ar- dently committed to the rational program forin for in industrial peace expounded Monday Monda in Labor t temple and if it employers ers of labor in the tIe United St States tes would go along with them in following following follow follow- ing jug the the- formula strikes and all the woe in their wake w would bid fair to disappear from this country At the opening s session o of the convention b otlie f the International Union of of Mine Mill and Smelter Workers 30 state organizations being represented and ad con constructive tr tive advice was g given on the tIle all aU important t a and d bec necessary sai q o of fostering cooperation between capital and nd labor Without labeling it as s. s it a conservative conserva ti tive e counter attack on on r the counsel stands stands forth as the thoughtful 11 and and intelligent approach to the sol solution ion of a major national problem To the vast vast- as majority of workers the presentation of the formula form could in no sense of f the word be regarded as reactionary It was wasa a stirring appeal to reason a call to abandon the he outmoded to espouse an enlightened concept concept concept con con- and to togo go forward to what W. W M. M r. r Knerr chairman of the state industrial commission and nd a recognized friend of labor declared to tobe tobe be he a new democracy with three point point stability in industrial social and p political freedom Men with capital and thos those with labor to sell 1 M. M I. I j Thompson president of the Utah State Federation of Labor urged are dependent dent upon c each ch other The Thc problem he said is bringing them tog together But Dut he lie offered the thc solution of this problem H Peaceful ea arguments gain a thousand times tinis as much as forceful warfare warfare war war- fare rare and the thc sooner soone labor and aud capital realize a conference table is the place to o work out grievances and to make contracts one with the father the sooner these Unite States will wiIl from this period of chaos and nd wanton waste vaste k That is the modern rn rn rna a and l enlightened path to enduring industrial peace It is society's challenge that both capital and labor move speedily to the thc goal Mr Knerr made the point in hi his address to the delegates He also drew from the situation now confronting the country country country coun coun- coun try the hopeful promise that both labor groups groups groups- and employers' employers organizations will benefit in inthe inthe the long r run ran n front from th the experiences connected with the present unrest If not nt the nation tc is paying a monumental price to remain in the darkness of ignorance and stupidity The TIle time is ripe for industrial America to from the twilight zone to Jo get set into tile the full glare o of daylight to see things clearl clearly as asI I they are It is in iii that twilight twilight- zone that radicalism radicalism rad rad- and reaction flourish the thc one to destroy I fury and anel tIle the other to smother civilization in In a sl NYer r wt b not l less ss certain death It is in inthe inthe the he shadows that communistic plots hat hatch 1 and andIn jn In n the same br breeding ding ground that the idea of the corporative or c state was given give iven birth Both nr nrc unAn un American r can and unsuited to this soil hither either would blight this whole land aud both mean unending class wal warfare ar in which there can b be victory ictor for either side The program laid aid b before Mondays Monday's ro das convention sessi session n i is truly American It l is is a ch challenge to the to the patriotism he loyalty the cons conscience and nil the reason of cf worker vork r and employer throughout through nt the tile length and Breadth of fair air aJr land