The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1919-10-03
RALtYING FOR PEACE.

We are beginning to rally for peace
We are using the same Democrat,
methods that brought success in Val
The first big step is the calling of Z
national industrial conference. Here
things can be talked over. And talked
over Openly-nOt in star chamber whis
pers! Here democracy IA develop
plans. A meeting of representatives
of organized labor, big capitalists
farms and such as nearly diSinterested
professionals can be found, should
make a beginning toward locating q
road leading out of immediate diff
culties.
That is all We have Il right TO ex
pect. They viii n find a panacea
They will not stop strikes. They
will not AT once reduce the high cost
Of living. The society that tries sud
den jumps into invisible utopias gen.
orally leads in a very deep. muddy
and sometimes bloody ditch. Eastern
Europe will offer several apt illustra-
tiOnS.
When people went to war they raj
lied regardless of old divisions. They
Joined for fighting and for working.
and they accomplished miracles.
We are learning that the dangers of
peace are little less than those of war.
Nations on the verge of bankruptcy
and famine, trade in chaos. credit
trembling, production declining(which
is most ominous OF alb and high prices
squirting OF to revolution, these are
the elements of a crisis rivaling those
of Verdun and Chateau Thierry.
II we are to meet it successfully the
cooperation that put over everything
from Salvation Army drives to the
Hindenburg line must enter industry.
70 fake cooperation will do. Pater-
nalism is but a part of autocracy. We
must meet industrial problems as we
met other prOblems-in the spirit Of
democracy. Events have moved fa~
enough since the war to show that the
English speaking world is about TO
try some form of genuine democratic
management in industry.
France and Belgium are feeling their
way along the same road. 1t is this
road upon which unionism, collective
bargaining, arbitration, Whitley plans
and shop committees are milestones.
This national council may possibly
q new vista. 4.tl-4- !
Nations that never knew democracy.
are still vibrating between ~autocra-
Cies, seeking an equilibrium. Others,
years ago, found a partial equilibrium
in e ar imperfect democracy and
are past this stage. America will not
tolerate autOcracy nor dictatorship of
gabby leaders in the name of the pro-
letariat.
This conference may mark a turn
in the industrial conflict, and the be-
ginning of a better understanding. ,
English experience strengthens this
hope. Canada looks for light to. SINH
lar gatherings.
Many of the largest capitalists who
will be invited to the American con-
are on record in favor of labor
representation in industry. If the con-
ference, through the educational pub
licity of discussion and endorsement,
this already swiftly advancing
it may be the beginning of
hat cooperation upon which must be
built the accelerated production which
alone can rescue us from the present
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Somebody should be left behind for in
and a link with future
meetings.. 1t should form a nucleus
'round which many minds may rally)
find a common thought. h
That is the way democracy has tried {
md found good.-Muskogee (Michi- :,
,an) Times. i