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Show To Double U. S. Business American business should double during the next generation, genera-tion, according to Charles Luck-man, Luck-man, president of Level Brothers Broth-ers Company, who advocates big business change its approach ap-proach and relinquish "past attitudes at-titudes of indifference and unconcern" un-concern" for the people who man plants and offices. Mr. Luckman also insists that the standard of living for wage-earners wage-earners must increase one-hundred one-hundred per cent to achieve the objective. He says that "the average wage-earner could stand a more generous supply of quite a few necessities." The speaker pointed out that during the last seventeen years, the nation progressed from an average of twenty-four cents per hour to $1.11 uer hour and says that average hourly earnings earn-ings can be increased $2.22 an hour without any further de-; de-; flation of real dollar values. ; While there will be man) 1 business men to question the conclusions of Mr. Luckman ! the goal of doubling business ! might be sufficient bait to at ! tract general interest. He frank I ly states that American busi I ness, in the last twenty years ' by and large, "earned" its rep utation of being "opposed tc everything that spelled greatei security, well-being or peace o: mind for the little guy." He cites "the record" saying "We declared war on collectivt bargaining, opposed increasec taxes for education, fough health and safety ordinances battled child labor legislation yipped and yowled agains minimum wage laws, strugglec against unemployment insur ance, decried social security and currently we are kicking th( hell out of proposals" to providi universal sickness and acciden insurance." |