The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1928-09-20

The Department OF Labor should be
authorized to undertake the collection
Of regular statistics upon seasonal and
other unemployment. We must have
this fundamental information for fur
Their attack upon this problem, from
the further solution of which will
come greater stability and prosperity.
We have gained enormously in eff.
cheney in our whole economic machin-
cry in the past seven years. l can
not take the time to recite to you the
extraordinary evidence of this. hest
tate to express it statfstically lest l
appear to exaggerate. Taken as a
whole we have swelled our production
on quantity basis by nearly 80 per
cent. Parallel with it wages have
risen and the prices of manufactured
goods have fallen.
We see a great expansion in the
automobile industry, in telephones
and electric lights. In seven years
we have seen the radio industry
emerge from a few hundred thousand
to hundreds Of millions in its product.
We have seen the aeroplane industry
develop from almost nothing seven
years ago, to most potent industry
today. Due to increased efficiency
hundreds of thousands of men and
women have been transferred from
the factories to our expanding insur-
ance and banking to take care of en-
larged savings, other hundreds of
thousands have been transferred to
our filling stations. our garages, our
hotels and our restaurants.
Employer and Employee
l have already stated the position
Of the Republican Party in positive
support of free collective bargaining.
1 have stated that it is necessary to
impose restrictions on the excessive
use of injunctions. 1t is my desire
and the desire of every good citizen
to ameliorate the cause Of industrial
conflict, to build toward that true co.
operation which must be the founda-
ton of common action for the common
welfare. The first requisite to less
conflict is full employment. By full
employment we are steadily reducing
conflict and loss.
He would be rash man who would
state that we are finally entering the
industrial millennium, but there is a
great ray of hope that America is
finding herself on the road to a solu-
ton of the greatest of all her prob
lens. That problem is to adjust our
economic system to our social ideals.
1t is idle to argue that there are no
longer any conflicts of interest be-
tween employee and employer. But
there are wide areas of activity In
which their interest should coincide,
and it is the part of craftsmanship to
organize and increase this identity of
interest in order to limit the area of
conflict. Conflict diminishes and COM
mon purpose tlourishes only in pros
perity and in an encouraging atmos.
phere of sound governmental policies.
At such time as this a change in
national policies involves not-as
some may lightly think-only a choice
between different roads by either of
which we may go forward, but a ques-
ton also as to whether we may not
be taking the wrong road and moving
backward The measure of our 10
tlonal prosperity, of our stability, of
our hope of further progress at this
time, is the measure of what we may
risk through a change in present
policies. More than once in our ma.
tional history change in policies in
a time of advancement has been
quickly followed by a turn toward
disaster.