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Show EDITORIAL: Labor and Peace According to the rule book a four year war ended for us in August when a battered Japan threw in the sponge. A grateful nation, weary of bloodshed, look-zX look-zX down the road of peace with new hope. Perhaps the nations eyes were blurred on that day in August or perhaps it could not recognize the dangers that lurked lurk-ed along that road. Now, after three months of so-called peace we are up against the stark reality real-ity that there can be no peace for this nation until its internal dir-ficultics dir-ficultics arc settled once and for all. There is no need to look beyond be-yond present day organized labor to find the reason for our internal intern-al strife, for the full responsibility responsibil-ity rests entirely upon labor's shoulders Every thinking American Amer-ican understands that the day when organized labor struck for better working conditions, for the right to bargain, and for long over due higher wages has come and gone. Now labor, mad with power, and led by men who seek to use that power to further their 'own political ambitions, has turn-jed turn-jed it's back upon the nation 1 when the nation needs it most. We recognize the right of work ing men, and Americans everywhere every-where were in complete sym pathy with the labor movement when it fought for that which was right. But that sympathy ir. fast vanishing, and instead of lo oking upon organized labor as a group seeking to better condi tions for millions of Americans, the nation as a whole, even mem bers of labor groups, now look upon the unions as breeders of class hatred; stumbling blocks ir the country's struggle toward ?. lasting peace, based upon con structive work. Organized labor is building this house for itself, and unless it soon recognizes th weakness of its structure, the house will fall in ruins. Business and management dc not wear clean skirts, but organ ized labor is wallowing in the mud with skirts that, once were reasonably clean. No one would recognize labor's clothes as the same garb it once wore. Yes, according to the rulr book, the war ended almost foui months ago, but we are farther from peace today than we were six months ago. |