Show the goal must be justice our entire nation may bo be 0 on 11 the vergo verge ot of a witch hunt inflation has reached the hardship stage and when economic hardship prevails some group usually takes the rap this time it if caro care la Is not exercised in the needed revision ot of labor laws labor will suffer arrogant labor leadership has created an incalculable reservoir ot of popular resentment tile tho resentment Is justified generally speaking A a man may not hold bold a J job ob in a basic industry toddy today without wl phout paying tribute to a labor boss whose union is legally accountably to no na one T the 1 danger Is that shortsighted short sighted politicians 1 itic ians will try to cash in on tills this resentment just as a decade abo ago every demagogue in the co country un ing sought office with swoop sweeping attacks on Indu industry siry there were two outstanding domestic events in 1946 first W was as tile the november election which partisanship to ono one side was a magnificent ant re affirmations of the mhd doctrine of tree free government at a time when most of the world seems to have deserted descried to tho the forces of reaction which tho the super state represents the vote amounted to an indictment of autocratic to td government and to an all indictment of 0 labor libor abuses as weli well millions of people who belong longto to labor unions binions stoke spoke unmistakably at the polls polis tor for a return to first principles the second event was the coal strike and its dramatic unprecedented ce conclusion there could be no lie mistaking the publics sense of outrage when one man callously decided to subject tile the whole nation to industrial paralysis widespread un unemployment employment and actual destitution mr lewis defeat was fore ordain ed no man mail and no group of men can forever be contemptuous of the welfare As one magazine put it an era ha had ended a long era in which labor leaders drunk with power and tree of public responsibility had received almost anything they demanded this was the real significance of mr lewis surrender to the f forces arces of law and public opinion when special interest and the general interest tire joined in conf lif the general Interest intel est must win judged by volume of comment by e editors and colum stcyr of of union union abuses should be the first order of business of th the 1947 congress there la is a chance that before the year is out an individual may once more moie have the right to ork and pay tribute to no one there Is a good chance that unions will have to give an accounting of themselves be before fore the laithe law the same as atlon it Is a practical certainty that the license of a union leader to call a strike and cri cripple an entire nation at the nod of his head will be terminated but the line between needed correction and the witch hunt can easily be crossed and that will actually be the great problem of 1947 not to cross the line to cross this line now when our country la is bedeviled with tile the racking strains of inflation would be disastrous industry itself which has suffered an era of political persecution can now prove to be labors staunchest ally industry knows known the havoc that punitive legislative attacks can wreak it is extremely encouraging that both industrial du and labor leadership seem opposed to taking the easy way out which la is to have the government make all the decisions once that hat philosophy became entrenched both labor and industry would find themselves facing what amounted to dictatorship tor ship tho the outcome of any war may ma continued on lant pagel page till GOAL COAL BU Cont continued limed from pago page 1 he intertwined by events avents far ar front lio lie shooting sheeting so it Is ia witt with the labor problem for fifteen epars lie ho federal government of tile the Ili lulled tod states has nevor never known a balanced budget ilic public debt liam has ellin bed beyond comp comprehend clon the result has been as aa ln in BB as billit following day tho the value of money Is not what it used to be even the patient school teacher has had to resort to strikes to keep body and soul together only aggressive public backing of economy minded representatives in government can solve tills this phase of the labor problem lorn if we make a single resolution tor for 1947 it should shoula bu be it 11 fui one for solvent gov orpiment orn orli mont ment once the people understand that solvency in ill government la is lioce mary to tho the control of at all 1 living costs we will be on tho the road to practical solutions of 0 most of uncertainties including labor problems |