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Show 6X1XSXSSXSXSXSSX5XSXj OPINIONS OF THE PRESS' ' XSXSXSXSXSSXSSSSSX5XS THE CHICKASHA (OKLAHOMA) (OKLA-HOMA) STAR (INDEPENDENT) President Truman's declaration declara-tion that a fact-finding board should decide whether General Motors should pay more to its CIO help, may in the end mean that the CIO will get the benefit of any savings made by the company's com-pany's management, rather than the general public get the savings in lower-priced cars. If a corporation corp-oration is compelled to pay out of its earnings to labor on the basis of what some board thinks is proper, then the system of American Am-erican business of reducing the price of its commodities when earnings justify it, will have to be discarded. Most American automobile manufacturers in the past have made belter automobiles in order to make more money to sell cheaper automobiles. But if President Pres-ident Truman's fact-finding commission's, com-mission's, labor policy is followed, follow-ed, automobile manufacturers will be compelled to make more money to pay more money into CIO coffers, not for the reduction of the price of their products. The farmer and small business man who arc shouting for the President's fact-finding labor plan had better consider where this plan will lead If followed to its logical conclusion, the CIO and not the public will get the benefit of the savings that great corporations make. The CIO will be sitting in the seat of power to dictate where earnings and profits pro-fits will go. Another thing to consider is, it is only a step from telling the big corporations what wages they shall pay, to telling the small business man and the farmer what wages he should pay for picking his cotton: The plan of the CIO is to take over the big corporations first, but be not de- ccived, when the biz boys are taken ovei, u.c lading over of the little fellows will be like shooting sho-oting fish. |