Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1923-06-22
aDE )UATE AND EVER RISING
Wage NECESSARY TO LIFE
0F INDUSTRY SAYS GOMPERS

whether there Is or not a better pre-
yentive Of industrial depression thar
any brought forth by Mr.. Hoover.
,tftpeit--Mi ian qfleIrfifiFK mingulnu
excellent committee is the continued
payment of high wages, the continued
advancement and improvement Of
standards of living, the continually
charging ea@acity of wage-earners tC
purchase, use and consume the pro,
ducts of American industry.
Improvement in productive pro.
cesses goes on without interruption
Improvement in employment rela-
tions, one of the most important fac.
tors IN the Increasing of production
goes on continually. The elimination
of waste in industry is being achieved
with the help of labor and with the
help of scientific workers in the field
of management.
Productivity Keeps Growing
These things mean that Droduc.
tivity per capita grows ever larger
and larger.
Only some cataclysmic destruction
can rob US of the gains we have made
Rive years from now we shall have
made a gain at least equal to the
gain of the last ten years. We ven.
ture the prediction that we shall have
increased the volume production OF
our industries so that there will Their
be as much more per person as We
now produce over ten years ago.
IF wages increase so that this
tremendously augmented per capita
production can find distribution among
the masses of our people we shall
have gained magnifcently. If such
an increase in production should come
without concurrent increase in the
ability of the masses to procure and
consume we should be confronted by
tragedy of unthinkable proper
tons.
THE only road to industrial secur'
ity, with increased production, is
through a constant improvement in
the relations between wage earnerS
and employers and in a constantly
growing ability of wage-earnefs tC
improve their standards of living
Through increased wages, improved
working conditions and shorter
workday.
Statistics. have forever robbed
short sighted and reactionary employ
ers of their excuse for wage reduc
tons.
Sound national policy demands
ever-increasing standards of livint
for the masses of American people
Old Argument Smashed
"The fact cited in this editorial
Il FOL at hn
excuses for refusing wage increases
and show that industries are able tC
pay fair and constantly rising wages
that products of high paid labor car
compete Successfully with products
of low paid labor and that American
workers are the most efficient work
ers in the world. Finally, they show
that unless there is constantly rls'
ing scale of wages in American In
dutsry, constantly rising standards
and constant improvement in the gen
eral conditions surrounding wage
earners, industry can not under any
circumstances maintain its rate Of
gain in volume of productions; thai
any road except the road onward anC
upward is the road to rum.
lit OEpl anu TIC oDiAtaNoh
American industry and commerce owe
to American organized labor are moi
even now fully appreciated. The pro
test and resistance of American or
ganized labor against the drive fol
wage reductions have turned the tide
of industrial depression to the in
dustrial revival which Mr.. Hoover sc
clearly elucidates.
THE tremendous outpouring Of
commodities from our great and com
pick productive machine must have
a sure destination unless we are to be
confronted by inexcusable and ter
rible calamities. The only destina
ton that there can possibly be for this
great outpouring of life-sustaininf
product is within the confines Of oul
country in the homes of the greai
masses of our people.
"Those. who clamor for wage re-
auctions, for policies of feudalism
disruption and disorganization in In
dustry are in the fullest sense of the
word promoting national retrogres
sion and finally destruction. Theil
attitude is the verv antithesis of pa
triotism, and all thinking persons are
coming more and more to so regarC
it,