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Show ' ? toy ttfiae , Could it be that the labor ' unions aren't interested in the future well-being of Amerio3? Makes no ' matter to labor's chiefs that our soldiers haven't adopted forty-hour weeks, or de-! manded time and a half for over-! time, Philip Murray of the CIO and ' William Green of the AFL this week turned thurabB down on any compromise that would call for longer working weeks and Went evon further when they demanded de-manded double time In some instances. in-stances. Uncle Sam is in great need of agricultural products, but we cannot can-not blame a farmer who leaves to accept a defense Job. In a forty-hour forty-hour week most defense workers make more money than a farmer does In an eighty-hour week. The farmer doesn't get time and a half for every hour over forty in one week; he doesn't know the meaning of double time. ! Right now, with the United States rushing to get more airplanes air-planes off the ground, more ammunition to shoot, more bombs to drop, more ships to fight with, more tanks, more guns, more mechanized equipment, equip-ment, the laboring populace is in the limelight. But the country will soon realize real-ize that the farmer cuts an important impor-tant figure, too. He feeds the soldiers, sol-diers, he feeds those who manu-.'- facture arms and other war equip-- equip-- ment, he feeds the homes for which ; our soldiers are fghtlng.: ; WhJpayB the bill? ' Most of thosa who have rushed off to defense industries aren't heavy taxpayers But the farmer is. He provides the money that pays labor that has now become a war profiteer. Is there any doubt that labor has taken the play away from indus-j indus-j try ! Go ahead and pay labor time i and a half for overtime, and , double time for the seventh consecutive day, but pay labor with defense bonds a third of his regular salary and all over time. And put a ceiling on prices pri-ces In defense zones where costs have increased tremendously tremen-dously excessively. It would be a different matter if labor saved its pennies for the rainy day that is almost Bure to follow, but yon can bet dollars to doughnuts the taxpayers will be called upon to support them when war Jobs run out. The more they make, the more they spend. We honestly believe that there is u place for labor unions or one labor union under the juris- diction of the voting public and not operated by racketeers. There are such things as fair salaries and fair profits but neither can be applied to conditions today. Because of excessive costs of labor, Uncle Sam pays excessive prices for his airplanes. We hardly call that patriotism. |