Salt Lake Telegram | 1940-03-25 | Page 6 | We Are One Big Family

We Are One Big Family DISPUTES between capital and labor In the nation often teem to depict the country as being divided into two naturally opposed and antagonistic campa. Too much of this hldet the true situation that In many respects we are one big family, with no sharp cleavage between one class which Is wholly capitalistic and another which it wholly noncapitalistle. A recent case In Philadelphia reduced the whole capital-labor Issue In the nation to Its simplest terms. Some 500 employes of a cooperative co-operative hosiery mill In Philadelphia are both union workers and capitalistic stockholders. As stockholders they wanted to keep the mill going, so approved orders at a price which was too Vow to permit payment of the union wage scale. As workers they wanted to uphold the hosiery workers union which hsd thrown a picket line around the plant So both as capitalists capi-talists and aa workers they suffered from the controversy. The point Is that In this ease, the capitalist-workers capitalist-workers realized they suffered In both capacities, capaci-ties, whereas generally In labor disputes the mutuality of Interests of all of us In such conflicts con-flicts la overshadowed by an apparent but In fact false, complete diversity of Interests. Some day there it reason to hope that we'll 11 realize there It no such thing la America as a pure capitalistic class or a pure labor class; that all workers have a stake In capitalism capi-talism and that all who own Industrial and business property have a stake In labor; that what helps one helps all, what hurts one hurts all - When we reach that point. 90 per cent of the trouble between so-called capital and so-called so-called labor will disappear In the realization of the common Interest. Then well have real harmony and peace In Industrial relations based on mutual understanding yes, and we'll have reemployment and prosperity, too. 1 4 '