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Show ez6o0)0 & if r-ywxam&sim Til Released by Western Newspaper Union. LABOR AND CAPITAL CAN WORK TOGETHER - LABOR IS, and has been, a polit leal football. No honest and practical prac-tical effort has been made to solv the labor, capital and management problem. Political parties have, foi years, pronounced against consider ing labor as a commodity, but nc effort has been made to put labor or any other basis than as a commodity in our industrial production. Because labor represents votes iti real problem has been ignored, il has been encouraged to run wild, and a very considerable portion ol it has wound up in the hands oi racketeers with whom the politicians consort as a means of securing votes. If that condition continues labor will kill American industry 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 oi success in a number of Industries. In all such experiments, labor has been considered on the basis of a partner m production, entitled to ac equitable percentage of production income, with a definite knowledge of what that income amounts to, The results have proven satisfactory to capital, to labor, to managemenl and to the consuming public. These experiments can be the foundation upon which to build a general policy, backed by basic, protective, laws 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 parties want to play to a labor gallery, want to use the labor problem as a vote attractor. Labor today, in the aggregate, receives re-ceives even more than a fair and equitable share of our productive: revenue. Management and capital expect labor to be satisfied with a statement that such is a fact. Labo: wants to be shown and as a partner in production would be in a position to know. It is easy to name reasons why a three-way partnership in production is impracticable or impossible, bul if honest and capable men, with unprejudiced un-prejudiced minds, attempt to find the way it can be done they wilj surmount all of the obstacles and produce a basis on which such a partnership can be built,. When thai is done, when there has been enacted enact-ed a basic law providing for the, recognition and operation of such a partnership, the labor problem will have been solved, the day of strikes Bnd production stoppages will b over, the place of the labor racketeers racket-eers will be gone. SERIOUS MISTAKE IN RICH FARM STATE IN THE EARLY SPRING of 1941 the government began building a large high explosive plant in a Mis-Bissippi Mis-Bissippi valley state. As a site many thousands of acres of good farm land was purchased. The farmers were moved off, the farm buildings razed and then, when the plant was laid out, it was found some 15.000 acres more land had been purchased than was needed. Some one had made a mistake. That mistake had caused something like SO farm families giving giv-ing up their homes, being moved away to strange localities and among strange associates. It had cost the American people a sizable siz-able sum of money to pay for un-needed un-needed land. It had deprived the nation of the food product of 15.000 acres of the best of corn land. For the last three seasons that land has produced only a bountiful crop of weeds. I AM ONE of a favored few who once each month receive a copy of a small publication, "Washington Cloie Up," issued by the Citizens National committee. It is filled with factual information regarding the activities of government The facts it contains should be in the hands of all the American people, and if they were, it would obviate all danger dan-ger to our American form of government, gov-ernment, our American way of life. A way should be found to give such 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 do not know what the lady said but I get mine by looking over the green lawns, the flowers, the palm trees and remembering the cold and snow and howling blizzards I encountered at this season for so many years. CLASS ROOM THEORIES are all right in the class room but for government. gov-ernment. In times like the present, there is needed sound horse sense rather than the trial and error testing 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 theories and dream::. THOSE WHO OFFER ALIEIS for jheir own shortcomings fhould be willing to accept the alibis of other 3Ut they seldom dc. |