Show GENERAL ip ahu MUCH gha S aa P JOHNSON I 1 jcu I 1 1 0 f I 1 I 1 washington Was hinston DC de C mcgrady selection SELECTION LECTION Si the selection of E F mcgrady mccrady to advise the w way ir department on labor relations clant havi have been improved upon from the governments point of view from mr Mc Gradys it may not be so hot eddie Is a dollar a year man he cant afford to be that except on a part time basis after a life of uzi unselfish selfish service tor for labor unions at wages far below his worth he wai was getting on he had family obligations in addition he Is the easiest touch I 1 know if you are out of luck all you have to td do to get Gradys Mc money Is to aek Is k him for forat it so he have anything put aside the RCA did one of the most intelligent tell igent things in recent industrial management it employed this great union labor leader to keep its labor relations straight made him first a director and later a vice president land and paid him a salary commensurate with other first lieutenants of mr Sarno fl RCA would not willingly lose his services and mr mcgrady mccrady can make belated preparations 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 keeping out take too much of Mc 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 Is not the ardys business to horn in that thai Is the business of sidney hillmans hillmann Hill mans labor organization or the perkins conciliation cill ailon 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 I 1 squads right if the army push this porcupine over to the departments where it belongs or it if it permits them to push it over to the army some soldier is a sucker it Is a sate 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 private warnings that one great american danger just now Is organization 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 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 england I 1 whereby they belched on the a alliances lances Il france at least had made w with ith such little nations as austria and czechoslovakia in order to ring germany in a cordon sant sani taire 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 with the circumstances of those settlements tle ments implied that there was some right on the nazi side the appeasing concessions were used not as a truce to gain time 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 went on snoring while germany became 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 if not most of those who took this stand believe we are not even yet arming effectively we have preceded and supported every mova move to speed and increase total defense to the point of amerie american an invincibility on this side of the world w orld our only point of difference with other oth er equally earnest and sincere americans is that we do not believe in either the necessity or the wisdom 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 blunders or successes 0 we do believe that whether britain wins or does not win we shall never be sate safe again without adequate defense of our own that part of our strength Is our financial soundness and that att we cannot weaken it by undertaking to finance the wars of others at a cost which in a lone war to which we are a party could rise as high as one hundred billion dollars if that opinion and record is what to Is meant by appeasement we regard the word as an epithet without argument |