New-York tribune., 1920-09-07

proves that Congress has provided the
way to immediate hearing Of the griev-
ances OF railway workmen and prompt
compliance with their Just demands.
NO Labor In the world to-day as 80 FOR
tunately situated az that on tho Amer
ican railroads.
"Ihe Republican party had it's birth
to free the slave labor Of America.
Instantly it turned to insurine CON
ditlons to AFFORD the abundance of en-
ployment.
81 believe in the protective policv
which prospers America first, and
exalts American standards Of ware
and American standards OF living
high above the Old World. We have
thought little Of these things during
ing instead Of importing-shippinr out !.
instead Of shipping in-but it will soon
be a different situation in the world
exchange. do not object to humanity
seeking equaliZed standards of emn]ov.
ment and living, but do insist in Old
World standards being raised to ours
not ours lowered to the Old World.
Trade Balances Recedins
"Our enormous balances of trade
with foreign nations is fast receding
and peoples who seek recuperation
from wars waste and bankruptcy are
expecting to sell to US to recuperate
because our people are the abiest to
buy in all the world. One must admit
the promise of a cheaper cost of livinc
II Europe's cheaper-made merchandise
IS brought to our markets. But note
the peril to labor! If we buy abroad
we Will slacken production at home.
ana slackened production means d.
mlnlshed employment, and growing
l0I1nnQa oil
ments. L want to cheaper the cost of
living as much as any one in all the
land, but | do not wish it cheapened
by the processes of unemployment and
lowered standards of American Labor
THAT is why l speak for my partv's
policy, on the one hand, and ask so
earnestly for efficiency of production
on the other. The latter is a practical
pan Tor reducing cost without sur
rendering the high standard of wage.
Fray, do not ever believe you are
injurinng yourselves by giving full re-
turn for your employment. The call
IS Tor maximum production, and fac
tory success is your success. Do not
scale down to the inefficient and in
capable; let US train up and build up
to the heights of the efficient.
MANY, other things will help to
reduce living cost. want to see
protlteering, isolated and punished. 1t
robbery. The one who practices profi-
teerlng is false to business and to
country. l do not know of a deadlier
Toe to our common country. because
ne creates the unrest that threatens
from within and emphasizes the appeal
to class.
Reduced cost of government will
help, and we can reduce cost of gov
err eminent by quitting the play of politics
with the nations bread and butter.
Stage assaults on proiteering, mostly
deallng with petty offenders, do not
deeply impress the country, and sugar
agreements which add a billion to our
sugar bills for a year do not indicate
know-how which entities the bunglers
to hold their jobs.
II believe in unionism, believe in
collective bargaining, l believe the two
have combined to speed labor toward
its just rewards. But 1 do not believe
in labor's domination of business or
government any more than l believe
that capital shall dominate. We had
our time at that, and we learned the
danger and ended it. We do not want
to substitute one class for another:
we want to put an end to classes.
we live in an era of collective en-
deavor. Capital led the way, and
AaooE organization was not only nat
ural, but necessary. 1t has done more
than serve its membership, it has
riveted the thoughtful attention of
America to social justice and brought
the fruits thereof.
Labor's Advancement Challenges World
81 hold that the advancement of
labor's cause in America challenges all
the world. We have made, of course.
few thousand millionaires, but we
made millions of self-reliant, advanc-
ing, creative Americans. The luxury
Of yesterday is the accepted necessity
of to-day. struggled to own motor
car after I had been an employer for
twenty years, and workmen nowadays
drive to their tasks at thirty, without
realizing the transformation.
"The progress is the miracle of
American opportunity. l want to hold
to fundamentals, strike at any develop
ing inequality and halt assault on our
system, then 60 on to greater things
The way is open. Opportunity is call
ing, and harmonized capital and labor
and management will clear the waiting
paths, and individual resolution, the
h N Yit Of sr,eric,p TrooGo,,, will