The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1916-01-15
PLAN TO .GER|MAN|z .
AMERICAN INDUSTRY
Big Business Would Use Military
Discipline TO Improve
Wage Farmers.
HOLDS IT NECESSARY
TO GET FOREIGN TRADE
Rockefeller Morgan. Interests
To Cheaper Labor Cost Of
American Goods.

Military training as a means Of dis
ciplining the workers and making
them more useful to the corporations
is the latest idea put forward by the
National City (Rockefeller) Bank of
New York, in the publications with
which it is flooding the country.
This is the bank whose president,
F. A. Vanderlip, has organized a fifty
million dollar corporation to exploit
foreign markets and the natural re-
sources Of foreign lands.
Attention already has been called
to the campaign of the Rockefeller
bank for unrestricted immigration and
low wages, in order that American
employers may undersell foreign COM
petitors in foreign markets and so
establish a commercial world empire.
Looks Good To Them.
In the issue of "rhe American"
just published by the Bank, appears
a leading article urging a Superior
,ganization of industry" under private
control, as the best means Of coping
with European competition. The Bank
says: ;
1T is hardly necessary for any
body to advise that som ething Of the
idea of the German super-organization
Of industry ought to be attempted
here since it seems to be coming
along naturally. There appears to- be
a more liberal disposition, both Of
fetal and popular, toward co-opera-
ton in business activities today than
during the time when discipline and
tribulation for corporations was the
indiscriminate order Of the day. The
Federal Trade Commission has just
entered upon a gigantic QUESTIONABLE,
of business men all over the country
regarding permissible combination in
foreign trade. The commissions at
titude is friendly. Manufacturers in
several lines are so confident Of full
liberty to coordinate their efforts in
going after export business that they
are establishing formal selling COM
binations, for the purpose" -
Wants Low Labor. Cost. sz:z*s.ss
T: Bit part of the Wall Street scheme
for. a :'super- Organization OF indusry''.
lis its insistence on low labor costs.
The worker and producer are not to
share in the benefits They must be:
reasonable" and get their reward in
the knowledge that American business
is supreme. Incidently they must
support a huge army and navy to
protect foreign Investments.
That the Rockefeller interests and
the Morgan interests are working
hand in hand in their campaign for
foreign exploitation, is shown by the
Gary dinner to Theodore Roosevelt,
at which, according to Holland" the
well-known financial writer. foreign
trade was principally discussed. It
is. shown also by the assertion of
George w. Perkins that the industry
of this country must be Germanized
in order to compete in the markets
of the world.
Producer Not Considered.
The flaw in the Rockefeller Morgan
plan is it's ignoring of the producer.
He is not to share in the benefits.
Instead, labor costs are to be kept
low, and therefore immigration is to
be encouraged.
Here is the Banks new argument
for a big army and navy:
"A basic element in the industrial
Of any country is. OF
course, the individual efficiency Of .
workmen. DR.. Karl Helfferich,. who
q