Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1920-01-22
REPORT OF THE SPECIAL COM.
MITTEE OF FIVE MEMBERS
COUNCIL OF THE GREATER
IOWA ASSnCJATTON

! COUNCIL OF THE GREATER
IOWA ASSOCIATION.
1 Your committee, appointed at the
| first meeting of this council, Deem
Der Is, 1919, to outline specific activi-
ties and a program Of campaign look
ing toward solutions of existing econo-
mic and social problems has held
three conferences. The general situa-
tion-and proposed remedial plans
have been fully discussed.
Your committee is agreed that the
task. assumed b. the Members Coun-,
Gil is formidable. but also that it is
fundamental, and must be success
I fully completed. The membership Of
this Council-comprising as it does a
complete representation of the var
ious business classifications of Iowa
including both employers and en-
,ployees-can be of material service
toward solving our present public
problems by prescribing remedial
plans and endeavoring to have these
plans accepted by the people of this
7 state.
/ The success of this Council will de-
pend altogether upon the extent to
which its members put their minds
and hearts into the task.
4 Your committee believes the pro-
gress of this Council should be grad
ual, and that instead of Immediately
endeavoring to reconcile specific basic
differences of opinion as between the
several classifications of business, we
should adhere. at this second meeting
of the Council. to a pronouncement of
those fundamentals upon which the
minds of all true Americans are
agreed-and upon which must depend
the preservation of our Constitutional
government.
4 Your committee therefore recon-
mends:
Eliminate All Radicals"
That all radicals" (by whatsoever
"ism" they may be classifiedD who
propose, by force, to effect funda-
mental changes in our form of gov
eminent, be deported (if alens,) or
locked in our penitentiarics, (if citi-
zens of the United States;) and that
this Council recommend to the loyal
people of this state that they do all
in their power to bring this about.
Support the Constitution.
That the Council assert that the
Constitution of the United States is
the sole guarantor Of our rights, our
liberties and our opportunities
therefore must be preserved inviolate
No Direct Action.
That we, as people-both indi-
vidually and by groups-must adhere
strictly to the law as it is interpreted
by our courts, and that all opposition
to existing law must be through or
derby discussion and the exercise of
the right to vote. -
Economy Is Vital.
That the wasteful spending of mon
ey is the principal cause of profiteer-
ing, and that the shortest and safest
path to normal cinditions is through
rigid individual economy; that neither
increased wages of employees nor in
creased income Of employers is a val
id excuse for extravaganza.
Dig Out the Roots.
Social unrest is symptom of real
imagined grievances; causes for real
grievances must be removed-and
imagined grievances must be dissi-
pated through corrective publicity
The public refuses to continue as a
victim of avarice, on the part of
either employers or employees.
Produce or Suffer.
The effort of employees must be
toward greater production per man;
the less there is produced, the less
there is TO be divided-and the more
there is produced. the more there is
to be divided. This is fundamental
and positive economic truth. Like
wise the effort Of employers must be
toward greater production and there
must be realization that employees
shaal receive compensatory wages.
Labor vs.. Radicals.
That the action of the state officers
Of the Iowa Federation of Labor in
opposing the l. w. W. and declaring
that all such radicals should be de-
ported or jailed-whether or not they
are members of labor unions-be ex-
pressly appreciated by this Council
as forward step in Americanism.
Awaken Our People.
That statewide campaign is inn
mediately necessary to awaken our
people to the danger that now
threatens from the widely organized
forces of those who would destroy
our American ideals; that the Ameri-
canization work already done by the
Greater Iowa Association be com
mended and that its program for 1920
j, be accepted by this Council as the
best method for conducting this cam
paign.
(Signed)
, w. j. Tobias, representing Farmers
, Group.
f. L. Eaton. representing Manu-.