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Show SPECIAL PRIVILEGES MUST GO The role of labor in national defense is a topic which is causing much thoughtful discussion these days. And labor's best friends have come to the conclusion that it, no less than capital, must make sacrifices in the interest of liberty. No longer can we afford costly industrial tie-up, while labor leaders and mnaement wrangle and get nowhere. No longer can production be deliberately slowed down to conform con-form to the ability of the least efficient workman. And no longer will the public approve a legislative policy which, in effect, starts with the premise that the manager is always wrong- and the worver always right in industrial disputes. The tragic experience of France contains a hard lesson for America. In France, working hours were not increased until the last moment and that was largely responsible for the nation's incredible military weakness. Politics pampered the workers and politics thus made defeat inevitable. This does not mean that the worker is to be exploited. It simply means that all factors in our society must give up special privileges that no man can escape the necessary sacrifices. That is the first step toward security. M |