Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1923-06-22

,..5... #r.l Labor News Service.
v....4s..a. D. c, June 21.-Sam-
e.s.ss4s President Of the Ameri-
V. Fs#.r.s.57 Of Labor, writing in
''' -. American Federationistl
the .sbas address by Herbert
e :,. Htel States Secretary oil
nov, . Ia .ypport of organized
L ,.hor,s contention that there Is nc
1 az excuse for any. employer
lss l.ag = rrauce wages or in any way
70 - ~ m adequate standard OF living
w. AMERICA wage gamers.
~, aTbs almost prodigal productivity
= American labor declares Mf.
Gunner makes unnecessary any
u l'nl INIT generosity in connection
.l ;,9 agg human factor that serves
WI ~ IN She industrial machinery
q the republic"
p.,.IHng that two months ago the
,n ~ Federation directed at
.anean 70 statistics quoted by julius
6s,ass President of the United
S Sl4s Chamber of Commerce, show
,a Ia The tremendous increase in pro-
4Istiyity Of American industry, Mr.,
Gompers adds that Mr.. Hoover has
made an important contribution to
M facts already pointed out by Mr..
Barnes. -
Mr. Gompers quotes from an ad-
dress given by Mr. Hoover before the
United States Chamber of Commerce
IN New York in May, in which the
Secretary of Commerce said that 1t
wonld be possible for every American
IA enjoy the standards of living of ten
wears ago even if the country were to
isy off two million workers. He. de-
rlarps that Mr.. Hoover was speaking
Of a real gain and not an apparent
pain in productivity and efficiency
and after giving extracts at length
from Mr.. Hoover's address, he con-
lnues
1--WE have achieved enormous gains
in the state of general well-being by
Improvement in human relations and
in mechanical productive processes.
II reason could have full sway for
only a brief period eliminating the
Reorganization and the conflict which
still exists, the American people could
easily enough build for themselves a
paradise almost beyond imagination.
TO cite once more a statement
made by Mr.. Hoover in this address,
he states it as a fact that 1--WE sell IS
per cent of all the automobiles which
move in International trade today and
do so at real wages, three times
those Of some of our competitors. y
II Is therefore not the payment Of
adequate wages that hampers indus
tral progress in any direction.
What is true of American automo-
OlleS in the export trade is true of
other American products in the same
trade and furthermore it is true of
American products at home, in compe-
luton with imported commodities in
all except an insignificant small
group Of articles which need not be
considered in any general survey of
the field
Kissing Wage Stimulates
Inc fact is that the payment of
adequate and eyer-increasing wages
stlmulant to industry, necessary
% Inc very life Of industry. Can any,
ele imagine any successful industry
y America today continuing to exist
i wages were the wages of tor yeors
ago? = w. - :
Inc surest road to bankruptcy and
aauohal destruction would be re-
afh TO the wages that were current
he beginning of the ten-year
tnod OF which Mr.. Hoover speaks.
mat unthinkable thing could be
sOne and We're done what would be-
ss'ie OF the tremendous productivity
= INDUSTRY The market would be
o's'toyea. There would be idleness
NV only for the two million workers
~ Nhieh Mr.. Hoover speaks but for
s nah' millions more--such idleness
t NV misery and Reorganization as
. ~ country has ever known. The
Il ny OF the prodigious output
0a' we industrial machine is made
P's1loie only by high wages.
"A very capable committee an
sO'n'ea by Mr.. Hoover conducted a
:" JAg =. INVESTIGATION into the operations
tv.la "aaS Is known as the business
ys,t 49, pom conclusion of that in
io,hsauoh the committee brought
masb , q report Skeptics who have
tSsi ia more more than a shadow of right to
u, 't skeptlcism will say that it is vet
iSi,a 1iOm proven that there is such a
as business cycle. But