| Show Barter or Battle the Big Question Before Industrialists and Worker By BURTON KLINE The meaning of recent events becomes becomes becomes be be- comes clear only In the light of the national notional opinion that creates events and national opinion has taken some tome strides in the past few months A year ago prediction of this dramatic dramatic dra dna matic alteration In American wa ways s 's of doing business would have seemed preposterous preposterous and and the same short year has brought this altered attitude altitude toward business labor and life The new history is still on the make the national opinion that creates it is still on the move and the question of whither opinion is carrying the country country country coun coun- try becomes important Two main drifts stand out as sweepIng sweepIng sweeping sweep sweep- ing business and labor before them from points far apart and headed toward toward toward to to- ward inevitable junction Is the meeting to be friendly friendly or or not The course of these momentous drifts of ot opinion can be seen at a glance Even before the recovery program had taken practical shape the country seized with rel religious louo fer vor on the mere prospect of escape from its ills Business sat back to wait till the camp meeting was over Public fervor rose the higher when the recovery plan bc became ame the law Business waited to spot Its faults pick it ft to pieces watch it fail or set up another plan in its place place preferably the old one that brought the depression The newfangled notion I of running business was a gospel a creed The new emotional system of business busi ness acquired a habit of ot putting the jobless to work improving prices expanding expanding ex ex- ex trade BU Business saw that return return re re- re turn to the old order might have to wait watt Time alone could pick the new one to pieces All the same something somethIng something some some- thing must be done to help push It out of the way Fears and Hostility Hostility- Opinions Opinion's ne next t step ahead was supplied supplied supplied sup sup- plied by two leaders of business it it- it self One of them gently counseled his fellows to string along with the new Idea The other Mr Teagle of Standard Oil put it more bluntly bluntly- Busine is on a way one-way street I Now business is signing the creed National opinion n has swept it thus far But behind its wry smiles are arel I new fears and a fresh hostility Labor has also been tr traveling along to new hew enlightenment Business concedes that this N n It A which puts the beatitudes into business business business busi busi- ness Is Ls here to stay but contends that the same plan that binds business business busi busl- ness to rigid rules releases opinion to stride right on What of ot the longest longest long long- est eat stride of ot all these all these rights that thai opinion hands over to labor What of recovery itself with labor let bet loose to wreck it For all its us rapid if it reluctant adjustments adjustments adjustments adjust adjust- ments t to these rapid moves moves of opinion opinion ion bus business mess has one final adjustment to make Under the old order business business business busi busi- ness regarded labor as little but a cantankerous mob to be fought With good reason Labor had become these warring factions actions impossible for busi business busi- busi ness to deal with on any scale Ecale because busin business itself itsel had fought their unification uni uni- Now labor at last is handed this right to unification and business at al last has a sort of labor commits CI whole the to deal with with-on i ac Kl 1 limited by nothing but c gr grasp p what is placed in its hand Barter or Battle By now the drift o of events h. brought the two converging bo bj close to the junction point and future of the country may hang 3 whether the hand that business h hS forth to labor Is that of pf a f o a ot friend It Is Ls the last adjustment business to one make-one Samson to toj toi- an other now nearly as as' as strong as if Which is it to to be tobe or barter i At present th temper of boi both 1 none too sweet Outwardly buIn busing has bowed to everything b but t i tH j last adjustment Behind t tit the fr it marshals its trade association in an prepares for r war Mr McMullin tells in Inside St 81 that Wall Streets Street's truce with y Ington is over Its first point tack is to be the presidents president's mone policy but the real aim of ot the I cial powers Is restoration to tot th thI old dominance nce of the rational national cW And at the first move toward president they step straight into clash with labor The president himself has only step tcp aside to disclose what a I Ito to be plain to all aU but finance app lIe HyL behind him labor and national octo ion Both have hustled busIne r ready and will do it again S Section on of ot the recovery act giving labor thi tb right of ot unification wasn't writ WI by President Roosevelt It w was was rI ten by labor J 1 In the end business will make Us fa final adjustment because opinion or ders it so so and and labor has acquire a powerful voice in n. n shaping the 11 g a opinion The adjustment will hi friendly because labor is so dispo disposed and and because labor is no longer io o many men to to- tobe be fought but buta a force forte to be faced The force is worldwide moreover That is the measure ol its str strength Yesterday the m mill U was Industry only anI meeting place with labor Toda Today labor is out of the mill mm milland and a alart part life Jie A large part of life Observes History In Ia Italy it headed toward cO cot con mun anci and m-and and ended in iii Mussolini J Germany it did the sam sams and and d en ends end de in Hitler Russia is labor and n no noil Ing tog but In England the emer eri government Is due to pass pw out in U next few lew weeks weeks weeks-on on the toe toed of h laoo Here Herc its unification goes on en with will Every labor organization the land has men in the field signup sign up and herding them inthe ill in the A. A F. F of L. L whose L.-whose whose own ship has mounted in a matter u I weeks from to is still is rising And is not to be lear fear American labor has more than mit mit m mas it has brains d t It was born of ot British trade un not ism and Is 50 years ahead of its pi ju ent in what it has accomplished accomplish i social legislation in workmen's con cc factory inspection une insurance In rots avoided it is still farther ahead ij British labor has made itself a I p party party and and is often Iki k American labor has won by hold the whip over both the other po cal parties It licks its foes foe and dec el its friends In England labor is 1 bor bar In America labor cons consists Americans Listen to a few of th the sentiments i m 1 This from one of their publication The great drive against N R B A AIts A b bits D its foes has begun beun This Js ls ra m rathan rac than politics It nta s th the in patience of tempo temporarily depose depo groups of ot bank bankers rs and business aw m with a new type of ot control of wi r. r economic life Well Mr Bus BusIn Man what are you going to put inn place It is well enough to destro desire N R H A Abut but the responsibility re reto repair to reemploy jobless men ann 1 a dying business sy and to bring back some some kind hand of cf cent business order in this coun We repeat there are just three co open to the American AmerIca people a If 1 dicta dictatorship in the name of the b ness class economic communism m o oa a middle way of restricted capila symbolized by N NH R A. A American labor said one o 0 of I f leaders over the luncheon table a human movement for human tt dom But for labor civilization vow go goto to helL 5 Copyright McClure New PI p f I Syndicate I t I i Sixty thousand persons P perished less than six minutes during theban thebon the we u ubon bon ban Portugal earthquake of 17 17 after a a. violent shock the sea sa back and then rolled in over the ci oa j-J j An eminent Smithsonian Smith sc Dr Hugh M M. Smith has seen 5 cia daft long legs in such numbers ft es make the surface of the earth carin in motion as they scurry observations were made Jn the we thins of ot northern Slam r |
