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Show TOOL USERS AND TOOL OWNERS In a recent advertisement signed by a well-known business concern, this statement appeared: "My boss has 14 Grand tied up in me." What that slangy use of words meant was that the average employee em-ployee in industry represents a capital capi-tal investment in property, plant, machinery and equipment of $14,-000. $14,-000. In other words, labor has jobs only when some business man, or group of investors, puts up the money necessary for the creation of jobs. It was well said recently, by a student of economics, that men in governmental authority too often forget that while the rights of workers work-ers are being considered, the owner of the tools used by workers must also have some consideration. After this war is over, the plants now devoted to military needs must be re-convcrted to peace-time activity; activ-ity; must be re-tooled for the kind of production they were engaged in when it became necessary to tool up for war. Labor will expect peacetime peace-time jobs then, but somebody must provide the money for re-converting and re-tooling. That money cannot be forthcoming unless enough profits or capital can be stored up to meet such requirements. |