Show MONEY AND LABOR IN WAR the government has been considering ever since the world war how profiteering profiteer ng by both capital and labor can call be prevented if wr w 1 break loose again it I 1 is s easy to say that both acci m 1 and labor should be drafted for service but how bow louid it work take capital first this is a free country and you cant cadt force people to enrage engage in business if they do not want to if prices on a product were fixed by the government hut but the costs of labor rose so as to wipe out all profit crofit most people would stop work and put their money into safe banks and bonds then if you attempted to draft labor and order people to go anywhere where ahei e they were needed and do any kind of work that was needed and work for such prices as the government thought right the government would be in trouble right off riots would be likely in many places and there might be serious threats of revolution A large part of the army would have to be kept at home bome to quell the outbreaks of disgruntled workers the popular support of a war run on that basis would be so poor that the might ais well make peace on the best terms it could get yet the profiteering that existed in the world war by both capital and labor was something outrageous and it ought to be prevented if any country cou riffy ever has to fight again people who risk their money in making war supplies in alime a time of war take a good deal of risk and are entitled to a moderate profit the government should prevent that profit from becoming exorbitant by levying heavy taxes on excessive gains As respects labor in war time it is doubtful if there is 19 any better way than to insist that all parties agree to arbitrate n industrial disputes Ois whatever rights people may have to strike in times of peace the strike is a too dangerous weapon to use when the nation is fighting for its life with foreign enemies |