The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-08-31
LABOR AND THE NEW DEAL

LABOR AND THE NEW DEAL
Bruce Cation, editorial contributor tol
The Times-News, directs attention to the
fact that American labor has great cause
for rejoicing as Labor Day is celebrated
this year. The New Deal is deal in which
labor has already profted in large meas
ure. The NRA program was cOntrived
chiefly for the purpose of supplying en-
ployment for idle labor and. raising the
wages of those who are employed. AS
progress is made in this direction the work
ing men of the country have satisfactory
reasons for engaging in the celebration of
their annual holiday with more enthusiasm
than they have been moved to display in
several past years.
However, Bruce Cation also points out
that with the opportunities and advan-
tages promised to labor under the new or
der, there will go new responsibilities. Cat
ton says that labor has been given a new
charter of rights, but that is labor's part
in the New Deal to demonstrate that this
charter will not be abused, to prove that
capital and the consumers of the country
can get square deal from labor and the
kind of cooperation that will be necessary
to restore and maintain business and in
dustrial prosperity.
The country can safely repose confidence
in the good intentions of all honest en-
ployers and working men. Both classes are
interested in the general welfare of the
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ever, it will be unwise for either labor or
capital to jump to the conclusion that the
New Deal and NRA are introducing the
Millennium in the United States of Amer
lea.
The country is experimenting with GER
tain formulas for the restoration of nor
NAL business conditions. President Roosc-
welt, in the beginning of his introduction
of the country to these new plans for the
operation of industry and business, admit
ted that he was experimenting and said
that if a reasonable proportion of the ex-
periments proved successful, he would be
satisfied.
If the experiments succeed, or any of
IL
the man-power behind them and not be-
cause of the formulas. There is, as far as
anyone can determine from the present
point of view, no magic in the formulas
If the country pulls out of present Difficult
ties and enters a period of reasonable Sc
curity and prosperity in business, it will be
due to the efforts of honest square-dealing
Woodworking employers and laboring
men, cooperating to improve business and
industry and with both classes carrying on
in spirit of determination to do the best
that can be done under the circumstances
What is being done by the government
is not only gigantic experiment, but is
necessarily only temporary program. IT.
most enthusiastic supporters, in their sanel
moments, do not content that the present
program could be extended over an indef
mite period of time. 1t is so fundamentally
unSound that to adopt it as the permanent
order for the conduct of business and in
dustry would promise nothing more than
complete wreeking of the courfry's civil
cation.
However, putting all this aside, the
country's evident determination to d.
something for the improvement of condi
tiOns among the unemployed and to put ;
large number of people to work and t
take more interest in the welfare of ceS,
tain classes of working people, anon,
whom economic conditions have been very