Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1919-03-22

brief period OF time, Il AVfaJ
to ensaee In the conflict necessary
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lor the reduction in the wage rates
Nhen 10 little return il to be hao 1or +
The wage workers and the rarmsls
have reserves in hand that Will oe
ased IN the maintenance OF their 1an'-
uies. and in addition to the equipment.
That means that when we get into
real postwar period, in the aggresale
tremendous amount OF adoi'ionai
purchase will be made.
We are short in our normal supply
Of labor somewhere between three I'LL.
lion and ave million workers; SO Il
we could engage in our pre-war a.
tiyities on a postwar basis lmmeoi-
ately, there would be q shortage -
the supply Of labor.
It is not very generally known Dul
It is nevertheless fact, that 'ne
strikes that took place at Seattle, d.
Butte, at Paterson, at Lawrence anu
at a number of other places recehuy
we're not industrial, economic disputes
in their origin, no matter now mucn
economies may have been involved IN
the dispute. A deliberate attempt was
made to create a social and pol1tlcai
revolution that would estaDllsn the
Soviet form of government in the
United States and put into eject the
economic theories Of the Bolshevik OF
Russia. It failed because for TWO
years the Department OF Labor anu
other agencies of the government nave
been fighting that false philosophy
not by the utilization of force, but by
appeal to the. judgment, to the reason
Of our people.
Interests Are Mutual.
Employers and employees have a
mutual interest; not an Identical IN
terest, mark you, but mutual inter-
est in securing the largest amount OF
production from given amount OF
labor. having due regard to the health,
safety, opportunities for rest, recre-
alton and development of the work.
ers; for if there is nothing produced,
there will be nothing to divide; II
there is a large amount produced,
there will be large amount to divide !;
| and the interests Of the employer and
THE employe only diverge when It
comes to a division of that which has
been mutually produced; and II they
are wise in their generation, when that
divergence takes place they will sit
down around the council table and
endeavor to work out the problem on as
nearly Just basis as the circumstanc-
es surrounding the industry will permit
1 do not believe that any country
owes any man living; but I do be-
lieve that every country owes every
man an opportunity to earn living
To place. men at work on any job
where the results from 1t are not
needed, is just so. much waste OF
time and energy and man-power. But
there is a tremendous amount OF
work. a tremendous amount OF i'm
movement that is needed; and sc
that the minds of our workers Will not
be fertile fields for the propagation
of false philosophy it is our duty tt
see to it that these activities are nov
engaged in to the fullest extent.
We have visions of industrial &C
tiyity in the near future. All OF tn
wars that have been engaged in from
the beginning of the development o
the factory system until now hav'
been followed by periods OF indus
trial activity. Now, with the vas
amount of destruction Of life and o
property that has taken place in thi
war, as 1 visualize the situation, one
we get back into a regular post-wa
swing. there will be at least a decad
of industrial activity, period In whic
the false PHILOSOPHERS Of Bolshevisr
will find no foothold, and where W
can 90 on working out our socia
problems, our economic problems an
our industrial problems after careft
consideration Of each Of them, as the
are presented, and thus move onwar
in an evolutionary way to that highe
sphere that our country is destine
to occupy.