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Show 1937 Strike Cost Set At 5 Billions for U. S. NEW YORK. Dec. ln Strikes cost this country around fiva billion dollars, or between (160 and 175 per family, in 1S37. "The worst and most costly period of labor turmoil in our history," Ernest T. Weir, chairman of National Na-tional Steel corporation, told American business leaders today. Speaking before the annual convention con-vention of the National Association Associa-tion of Manufacturers, he declared capital and labor "not only must get along, but can get along together." to-gether." and asserted the government govern-ment attitude "in the present situation" sit-uation" was "one of the biggest stumbling blocks to . a rational get-together." Weir, with Dr. Leo W'olman. Columbia Co-lumbia university labor authority. and Charles W. Fahy. general counsel of the national labor relations re-lations board, was one of the principal prin-cipal speakers at the association's final sessions of its three-day convention. con-vention. Today was designated In the program aa "labor day" and da-voted da-voted to problems of ths relationships relation-ships between management and workers. So delicate and important were the problems discussed, in the opinion of the conferees, that announcement an-nouncement waa mad the meeting meet-ing would be closed and no reports re-ports would be made of the addresses ad-dresses of some of the speakers. ' Asserting that a critical busi-Commu4 busi-Commu4 em Pace rorl ICoiumn Four, (labor unlom) a more drastie rig illation. Tou advocat putting unions oqt of busine." Fahy wont on to explain hi position that penalising a union would in offoet put It out of bus-in bus-in u, and that such a change, in hi opinion, would b unfair un-)a un-)a ths employer could also b "put out of businsss." ' '37 STRIKE COST PUTIIIBILLIOHS Coitltiee tnm rw Oee) ness recession has sot in," Wslr plsadsd for cooperation between labor and capital. "What w need now," be said, "are leaders who think not in terms of labor alone, or farmers alone, or consumer alons, or of sectionalism. "America cries for men who give their allegiance to the people as ' a whole and who, when serving ons group, refrain from a parti unship which is harmful to other groups." Amendment of the national labor la-bor relations act was one of the msane by which cooperation eould be secured. Weir declared. Modification of ths national Is, bor relatione act In favor of employers em-ployers was vigorously opposed by Fahy at ths convention. Fahy mads It plain h spok only for himself and said: "You want to Impose on thsm |