The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-11-17
WE WANT REAL
PREPAREDNESS

trial relations aud some suggested
remedies for existing public evils wei
worth Your earnest consideration. The
followlus is front prediction cir
cular issued by ,h, Committee on In
dustrial Relations Ounorfician:
The Committee on Real Prepared
ness. OF which 1.r Amos Pinchot is
chairman. IS cu.lucuug series of
conferences thr.uahout the eastern
half OF the United States. Fourteen
have already be-" held in industrial
ceuters, such a> New York, Chicago,
- Louis. kansas CITY, Minneapolis
and Ptttsoursh AH. several more were
held last month " southern cities ana
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at all the conferences, cites the fol
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ORGANIZED labor has achieved we'll
nigh miracle in shortening hours of
work and increasing the number of
dollars maid the nronortfon of the
workers of the country now ORGANIZED
The future task is 70 keen present
gains. but TO raise the general we'll
being of all workers. This involves
two fundamental changes.
1. Eliminating the raids government
makes upon the earnings of the work
ers. through our present system of
securing revenue for governmental
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tax, urged by the committee, on land
values, on large inheritances and on
large unearned incomes.
3 Eliminating parasites who charge
heavy prices for natural resources and
services necessarily monopolstc in
nature, such as transportation and all
public utility undertakings. This will
be done by government acquisition
thereof, as urged by this committee,
and cannot be done in any other way
AS Mr. Delos F. Wilcox, franchise ex-
pert, points out, governmental regula-
ton of public utilities is a complete