Show rw 1 IT 1 6 I 1 ap HUGH S CD JOHNSON A aft 0 V 0 washington D 0 Mc ble GIlADY GRADY SELECTION the selection of E F mcgrady mccrady to advise tho the war department on I 1 labor relations have been improved upon from the govern ments point of view from mr Gradys Mc it may not bo be so hot eddie is a dollar a year man mail ile he cant efford to be that except on a part time basis after a life of unselfish service for labor unions at wages far below his worth he was getting on ile ho had family obligations addition In he la is the easiest touch I 1 know it if you are arc out of luck all you have to do to get Mc Gradys money Is to ask him for it so he have anything put aside the RCA did one of the most intelligent tell igent things in recent industrial management it employed tills this great union labor leader to keep its labor relations straight made him first a director and later a vice president and paid him a salary commensurate with other first lieutenants of mr RCA would not willingly lose his services and mr mcgrady mccrady can make belated preparations tor for his old age for these reasons it would be unfair to require him to give up that job it would also be unnecessary because it if the war department Is wise it will keep out of labor disputes lutcs keeping out take too much of Mc Gradya Gradys time except at the arsenals and to a limited extent elsewhere the war department Is not an employer it procures its supplies from contractors they will get into some disputes there will be some strikes some of them will delay the rearmament program but it la Is not tile the ardys business to horn in that Is the business of sidney hillmann hillmans Hlll Hill mans labor organization or the perkins conciliation cil lation service army officers are not fitted by training background or office to conduct themselves well in the heat or emotion of a strike situation where you cant move men by yelling squads right if the army push this porcupine over to the departments where it belongs or if it permits them to push it over to the army some soldier Is a sucker it Is a safe bet that it wont be done while mcgrady mccrady Is there and that if it is done he wont stay there appeasement out of the administration are coming coining private warnings that one great greal american danger just now Is organ and dally daily growth of appeal ers and their cunning propaganda to stir up public sentiment for appeasement pea it easy to define just what is meant by Ws this use of the word appeasement pea as a byword by word grew out of the series of settlements with hitler acceded to by france and en england 9 whereby they belched on the alliances france at least had made with such little nations as austria and czechoslovakia in order to ring germany in a cordon sani dalre of steel and to preserve the provisions of the treaty of versailles they tossed those little nations to the nazi wolves quite obviously because there was nothing else they could do they had allowed themselves to become too weak and germany to become too strong to do anything else the very word appease taken take n with the circumstances of those se settlements t tle ments implied that there was some right on the nazi side th the e appeasing concessions were used not as a truce to gain time tor for all out defense they were used as a narcotic assurance to the british and the french of peace in our time with an effect that they w went nt on snoring while ger germany became me stronger and stronger some of us began to insist that we prepare years before munich and with growing insistence ever since insistence on our own weakness on the great threat growing in the world and the absolute necessity for american rearmament many it if not most of those who took ahli stand believe wo we are not even yet arming effectively we have preceded and supported every move to speed and increase total defense to the point of american invincibility on this side of the world our only point of difference with other equally earnest and sincere americans is that we do not believe in either the necessity or the wix als dom of scattering our defense over more territory than we can guard do not believe in putting our country into a military situation in which its defense depends on the strength or weakness of others their blun dors or successes we do believe that whether britain wins or does not win we shall never be safe again without adequate defense of our own that part of our strength Is our financial soundness and that we cannot weaken it by undertaking to t finance the wars of others at a cost which in a long war to which we are a party could rise as high as one hundred bundred billion dollars it if that opinion and record Is what Is meant by appeasement we regard argument the word as an epithet without 1 1 1 I 1 |