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Show Released by Western Newspaper Union. LABOR AND CAPITAL CAN WORK TOGETHER LABOR IS, and has been, a political polit-ical football. No honest and practical prac-tical effort has been made to solve the labor, capital and management problem. Political parties have, for years, pronounced against considering consider-ing labor as a commodity, but tio effort has been made to put labor jri any other basis than as a commod;iy in our industrial production. Because labor represents votes ;ts real problem has be3a igaored, i1 has been encouraged to run wild, and a very considerable portion ol it has wound up in the hands ol racketeers with whom the politicians consort as a means of securing votes.. If that condition continues labor "will kill American industrj and when it does labor will have killed itself. There is a real solution for the labor, la-bor, capital and management problem prob-lem that can be found if an honesl and unprejudiced effort in that direction di-rection is made. Such an effort has been made with varying degrees of success in a number of industries, In all such experiments, labor has been considered on the basis of e partner in production, entitled to an equitable percentage of production income, with a definite knowledge of what that income amounts to. The results have proven satisfactorj to capital, to labor, to management and to the consuming public. These: experiments can be the foundation upon which to build a general policy, backed by basic, protective, lawi under which the courts can rendei decisions in individual or collective cases without entailing Interminable delays. Such an effort will not be made so long as political partiei want to play to a labor gallery, want to use the labor problem as I vote attractor. Labor today, in the aggregate, receives re-ceives even more than a fair and equitable share of our productive revenue. Management and capita; expect labor to be satisfied with I statement that such is a fact. Laboi wants to be shown and as a partnei in production would be in a positiori to know. It is easy to name reasons why a three-way partnership In productioi is Impracticable or impossible, bu' if honest and capable men, with unprejudiced un-prejudiced minds, attempt to find the way it can be done they wil surmount all of the obstacles ant produce a basis on which such I partnership can be built. When tha' is done, when there has been enact ed a basic law providing for th( recognition and operation of such I partnership, the labor problem wil nave been solved, the day of strikei and production stoppages will- bi over, the place of the labor racketeers racket-eers will be gone. o 6ERIOUS MISTAKE IS RICH FARM STATE IN THE EARLY SPRING of 194 the government began building i large high explosive plant In a Mississippi Mis-sissippi valley state. As a site manj thousands of acres of good farn lane was purchased. The farmers were moved off, the farm buildings razee and then, when the plant was laid out, it was found some 15,000 acre! : more land had been purchased thar was needed. Some one had madi i a mistake. That mistake had caused something like 90 farm families giv lng up their homes, being moved away to strange localities and i among strange associates. It had cost the American people a siz able sum of money to pay for un needed land. It had deprived the nation of the food product of 15,00( acres of the best of corn land. Foi j the last three seasons that land ha! produced only a bountiful crop o: weeds. o a I AM ONE of a favored few whe once each month receive a copy o a small publication, "Washingtor I Close Up," issued by the Citizeni ' National committee. It is filled witt factual information regarding the activities of government. The facti ! It contains should be in the handi of all the American people, and 11 they were, it would obviate all dan , ger to our American form of government, gov-ernment, our American way of life. A way should be found to give sucl non-partisan Information a far wider circulation. I HEAR "The Solace of Nature" mentioned as the subject of a "paper" "pa-per" read at a woman's club. I dc not know what the lady said but 1 get mine by looking over the greer lawns, the flowers, the palm treei and remembering the cold and snow and howling blizzards I encountered at this season for so many years, e e 'e CLASS ROOM THEORIES are all right In the class room but for government, gov-ernment, dn times like the present there is needed sound horse sense rather than the trial and error test ing of bureaucratic theories. Give us more men equipped with a practical prac-tical know-how" and less of those equipped only with untried theoriej and dreams. e THOSE WHO OFFER ALIBIS fot their own shortcomings should be willing to accept the alibis of others but they seldom do. th?1? E,CIVILIAN PAYROLLS ol the federal government there were fa JtUy 359.354 more employees fta" for January, 1943. That numb" would go a long way toward pr" vuhng that European second C 00 WE PAY THE SUBSIDIES In taxes instead of paying them prices of subsidized commodities. faSfwl?118' thr fellow's lault when we fail but our success the fruit of our own abiUty |
