The Connecticut labor news., 1923-06-08
SAMUEL GOMPERS.
SAMUEL GOMPERS. GOMPERS POINTS OUT FACTORS IN LABOR'S PROGRAM
Federation Head Says Labor ane Capital Are Getting Closer-De-
 scribes Prosperity Plans"
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Especial to Labor News.) .
 Washington, D. C.. June 8.-The foundation of the road to industrial security consists of better working condiZ tlons, shorter work k days, and improve ment in relations between wage earners and employers. according to Samuel Gonpers, president of the American Federation of Labor. President Gompers outlined these features in his ''per- manent prosperity program" made public early 1his week following the harmony meetings" he attended with Secretary of Commerce Hoover and Julius Barnes, president of the United States Chamber of Commerce
 President Gompers said capital and stressed the importance of considering the human factor in dealings between workers and their emp1oyersA
 If reason could have full sway for only brief period, eliminating the dis organization and the conflict which still exists. the American people could easily enough build for themselves paradise almost beyond imagination" the fedora ton chief declared.
 These who clanor for wage re- auctions, for the policies of feuda1ism, disruption and disorganization in indus try are in the. fullest sense of the word promoting national retrogressioD<a and de- struction Their attitude is fhe very anthlthesls of patriotism andy all think ing persons are coming mort and more to regard 1t so.''
 Gompers quoted department of com merce figures to show that the United States sells 75 per cent. of the autono- piles moving III international trade pro- duced by worrknen. whose wages are three times that of some foreign com- petitors, to show that payment of ade- quate wages does not hamper trade. He said that similar conditions are found III other American products, which com pete successfully in home and foreign markets. Continued payment of high wages, continued advancement and i'm Drovement in standards of living, con- t1nued earning capacity of wage earners to purchase and consume products of American industry are better preventa- suggestions brought out by Secretary Hoover's business cycle committee, Gompers said.
 improvements in productive processes goes on without interruption" he added. Improvement in employment relations, one of the most important factors in increasing production, Is seen. Waste in industry is being eliminated, with the help of labor and of scientific workers III the held Ot management.
 "If wages increase so that the tre- mendously augmented per capita pro-, duction can find distribution among the masses of our people, we shall have gained magnifcently. But if such in crease in production should come with out concurrent increase in the ability of the masses to procure and consume we should be confronted by a tragedy of untfinkable proportions"
 He declared that high paid labor can successfully with the products of low paid labor and that American workers are the most efficient in the world. He quoted Secretary Hoover to show that great productivity of the present day is due to better organized effort" and to increasing skill, ad- vancement in sciences, labor saving de- vices and improvement of processes and