The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-12-05
EVERY MAN TO HIS
JOB, SCHWAB URGES
Steel Maker Tells Reconstruct
ton Congress How to Re-
adjust Business.
REDFIELD ALSO SPEAKS
Secretary of Commerce Warns
Against Attempt to Grab
Foreign Commerce.
Special Despatch TO THE sUE.

Spcc1dI Dcapdfch 10 HE Bun
ATLANTIC CrTY, Dec. 4.-Charles NJ
Schwab told the 1000 representatives
at the Reconstruction Congress of the
Chamber Of Commerce Of the United
States to-day that the place for every
big man in the country was at the
helm Of his own enterprise in the diff
cult moments Of Industrial readjust-
ment and reconstruction.
This conviction, he said. led to his
own resignation from the Emergency
Fleet Corporation to return to the d.
rection of his own corporation.
In an interesting session at which
Secretary Redfleld Of the Department
of Commerce told OF the trade prob
lens confronting the country, and
Harry A. Wheeler. president of the
chamber, disclosed that the industrial
captains had asked, without success,
that President Wilson take q COM
petent industrial committee with him
to the peace conference, the transition
from war conditions to a peace status
was thoroughly discussed.
The President, according to Mr..
Wheeler's correspondence. had no DELI
mite views concerning the revamping
Of American industry to meet the de-
mands Of the post-bellum period.
EVERY mans place" said Mr..
Schwab in his address, land every
mans greatest value to his country Is
right at the helm Of his own busi-
ness. Therefore I asked President
Wilson to relieve me of my duties in
the Emergency Fleet Corporation that
l might take up what I consider more
important duties to the nation await
ing me in my own office, directing
the work of the $4,000 men on my
payroll.
Each Must Meet Own Task.
Each man must study his own sit
uation. No general rule can meet the
situation. When business and indus
try realizet this and get busy then
matters will adjust themselves in the
| natural course Of events. What we
must prevent is a sudden slip of the
cog that will give us a Jolt from
which it will take years to recover"
After paying high tribute to the
patriotism of American labor through
out the emergency period and express
ing his firm belief irf organized labor,
Mr.. Schwab was applauded when he
| declared: But I believe also that the
organization and control OF labor
should be made by the people within
a plant or industry and not by those
on the outside"
He appealed to his hearers as both
| individuals and members Of organiza-
lions to put their shoulder behind the
wheel for great merchant marine.
Let there be clamor loud and long
for its development" he urged.
The real effort of the real Amerl-
can business man is still before him.
We have faced and will face a great
| change in this social structure OF ours
The change will not benefit the man
of wealth and birth but the doer OF
things for his fellow man.
1.-THE period of autocracy of capital
| and labor cannot obtain In the future.
/ sincerely doubt sometimes II labor
has received its fair share Of credit
and recognition in recent years. We
have got to devise ways and means
to bring about true democracy, so
that the laboring man can hold up
MS hehu ana say as you or /, i am
an American citizen
We must stand shoulder to Shout
der now with labor. above all, to
plunge ahead with the confident be-
lief that the business OF this country
will go on and upward despite any
| condition which may arise In this
| country"
Big shipping Production.
With reference to the shipbuilding
programme he predicted that 1919
would bring forth eight to ten million
Of tons and the end Of 1918 witness
from three to four million OF tons In
actual commission.
Mr.. Wheeler's revelations concern
Ing the requests made to the President
TO include an industrial committee in
his peace conference plans, and the