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Show Declares Pay Envelop Must I Contain Real Money to Curb Unrest (By International Nevs Service.) BOSTON, April 12. The American business men must see to it that the pay envelope contains real money if the nation's industry is to be stabilized stabil-ized and production increased, according accord-ing to a statement by Edward A. Fi-lene, Fi-lene, Boston merchant and director of the Chamber" of Commerce of the U. S. "Four years of the greatest' destruction de-struction the world has ever seen can be made good only by at least four years of intensive production," said Mr, Filenc. "The first two years of this period of restorative production will be extremely ex-tremely dangerous because, until there is food and work enough in every important im-portant country in the world, there is grave danger that a hungry and idle population will become the prey of irrational radicals. "Increased production in the United 1 1 i iii ' -m-mj aeaa mi. i ,ki m n States means, therefore, not only in creased wealth for us, but also a method for helping to save Europe from serious social dangers which might later infest. Increased production produc-tion will not come by merely wishing for -it. If it comes at nil, it will come by reason of better labor relations, brought about possibly, by shop committees, com-mittees, stock ownership by employes, profit sharing, good housing and working conditions, heal.th protection, good recreation facilities and sickness and old age insurance. "This means that business men must give careful study to making the pay envelope contain real wages. No wages are real that will not buy a sufficiency of food, clothing, shelter, recreation and provision for illness and old age. A just wage paid by the employer can be made unjust by speculators and profiteers in the necessities of life. If wo are to have increased wages we employers must ihink not in terms alone of dollars, but also In terms of the dollar's purchasing purchas-ing power. "Business must become interested and must promote co-operative movements. move-ments. Co-operative stores, co-operative housing associations, co-operative savings organizations and the like will help to decrease cost to the workmen. Effective interest by business busi-ness men in city politics will improve school conditions and insure proper health and recreation facilities to citizens, citi-zens, and with help solve the increasing increas-ing complex transportation problems. "Rut ft Ic. nnt c:itffirlont Hint wp in the United States should alone increase in-crease production. The war destroyed much of the old peace-time production not only of this country, but of every civilized country. It will require increased in-creased production throughout the world to shorten as much as possible there will be an insufliciency of food and raw material." oo ' ! |