The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-01

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 During the last twelve months our industrial recovery has been to some extent retarded by strikes, including a few of ma jor importance. would not min imize the inevitable losses to enI- pi0yers and employees and 10 the general public thnpugh such con- fiicts. But would point out that the extent and severity of labor disputes during this period has been far less than in any previ- ous comparable period.
 When the business men of the country were demanding the right to organize themselves Ad- equately to promote thcir le- gitimate interests; when the farmers were demanding legis- :, lation which would give them opportunities and incentives to organize themselves for a com. mon advance. 1t was natural that the workers should seek and ob- tain a statutory declaration of their constitutional rights to or. ganize themselves for collective Bargaining as embodied in Sec  trial Recovery Act.
 New Adjustment Means
 Machinery set up by the Fed- eral government has provided some new methods of ndjust- ment. Both employers and eTn-. ployes must share the blame of not using them as fully as they should.
 The employer who turns away from impartial agencies of peace, who denies freedom or organiza- ton to his employees. or fails to make every reasonable effort at a peaceful solution of their diff. ferences, is not fully supporting the recovery effort of his gov- ernment.
 Not Fully Cooperating
 The workers who turn away from these same impartial ag- encies and decline to use their good offices to gain their ends are likewise not fully cooperating with their government.
 It is time that we made clean-cut effort to bring about that united action of manage ment and labor, which is one of the high purposes of the Re- covery Act. We have passed through more than a year of education. Step by step we have created all the government agen. cies necessary to insure, as a general rule, industrial peace, with justice for all those willing to use these agencies whenever their voluntary bargaining fails to produce necessary agree ment.
 Give Fair Trial
 There should be at least full and fair trial given to these means of ending industrial war fare; and in such an effort we should be able to secure for em- proyers and employees and con- sumers the benefits that all de- rive from the continuous peace- full operation of our essential enterprises.
 Accordingly, propose to con- fer within the coming month with small groups of those truly representative of large employers of labor and of large groups of organized labor in order to seek their cooperation in establishing what l may describe as spe- cific trial period of industrial peace.
 From those willing to join in establishing this hoped for period of peace, shall seek assurances of the making and maintenances of agreements, which can be mu- tually relied upon.> under which wages, hours and working condi. later adjustments shall be made either by agreement or, in case of disagreement, through the mediation or arbitration of State or Federal agencies.
 I shall not ask either employ CTS or employees permanently to lay aside the weapons common to industrial war.
 Seek Peaceful Methods
 But shall ask both groups to give a. fair trial to peaceful methods of adjusting their con- fiicts of opinion and interest and to experiment for a reasonable time with measures suitable to civilize our industrial civiliza- tion.
 Closely allied to the MIRA is the program of Public Works provided for In the same act and designed to put more men back to work, both directly on the public works themselves, and in- directly in the industries sup. plying the materials for these public works.
 Save Human Resources
 To those who say that our ex- penditures for public works and other means for recovery are a waste that we cannot afford. answer that no country, however rich can afford the waste of Tits human resources. Generalization caused by vast unemployment is our greatest extravagance. Mor- ally, 1t is the greatest menace to our social order.
 Some people try to tell me that we must make up our minds that for the future we shall perman- ently have millions of unem- ployed just as other countries have had them for over decade. What may be necessary for those countries Is not my responsibility to determine. But as for this country, stand or fall by my re- fusal to accept as Q necessary condition of our future per- manent army of unemployed.
 No Army of Unemployed
 On the contrary, we must make it national principle that we will not tolerate large army of unemployed and that we will ar- range our national economy to end our present unemployment as soon as we can and then to take wise measures against it's return. I do not want to think that 1t is the destiny of any American to remain pernaanent- ly on relief rolls.
 Those, fortunately few in num- Der, who are frightened by bold ness and cowed by the necessity for making decisions. complain that all we have done is unnec. essary and subject to great risks. Now that these people are com ing out of their storm cellars, they forget that there ever was a storm.
 Nature Take Her Course
 They point to England, They