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represented by observers" the die
hards, i. e., employers group, was
unconcerned. For years-16 to be
exact-they had had their own way
in labor conferences. A week passed
and nc Americans appeared. Mean
while the general debate on Director
Buffers report started Butler is an
Englishman. He is also and out-and-
out New Dealer and now has raised
the cry for an international new
deal. His recent visit to the United
States served only to deepen his con-
victions.
Not content merely to point out
trends of American social reforms,
Director Butler made specific recon-
mendations-recommendations which
had been strained through the sieve
of socially-minded economists, politi-
cal experts and workers connected
with the Labor Bureau. They in
cluded, Watch Americans"
Americans Watched.
It happens that is exactly what
European employers and workers
and governments-are now doing
Defenders Of the old economic shib-
boleths, supporters of the gold bloc.
apologists for the debt cancellation
lists all have had their eyes across the
Atlantic for the last two years. Most
of them see the handwriting on the
wall, but their interpretations into
their own languages of what is writ
ten differ widely.
"Cervantes, fitting at sheep and
windmills," says Georges Tchourtch-
Inc, representative Of the Confeder-
alton of Industrial Corporations OF
Rumania and a member of the en-
ployers' group on the Governing
Board of the labor office, adding
that public works Gin America)
which do not meet an economic ne
cessity are artificial stimuli, tried anc
found wanting already in Italy
Laws of a "socialistic nature" he
argued, bring in their train unfore-
seen consequences" and as fol-
planned economy it is only in $50
cialist or Communist Russai where il
is possible" To American labor he
paid the compliment that they
wanted Ito remain faithful to po-
litical liberalism and at the same
time abandon economic liberalism.
And American monetary policy? It's
objective, already reached, according
to Tchourtchine, was mot only tc
relieve farmers of their debts, but tc
reduce and not increase the salaries
of the workers"
To the Europeans Tchourtchine
warns:
1T is uncertain whether this policy
(American imitation VS.. French def1a-
tom will continue and whether the
influence of America will extend II
Europe and oblige Europe to follow
the American policy of raising prices
or whether America will soon abandon
its experiment, as many of us think
:. America is in any case a country
rich in gold and resources and Sc
able to continue its experiment for g
long time, and able to ruin us eco,
nomically or to ruin herself. The
ruin of America, however, would have
as bad repercussion on Europe a.
the ruin of Europe would have or
America. Cooperation is urgent anc
indispensable, not so much for Great
Britain, France and the United State.
as for all the other countries which
follow one or the other of their sys.
TENS :"
To which workers delegates-anc
some government spokesmen reply
with the European equivalent of "Oh
nertS!"
THE criticisms of Mr.. Roosevelt
policies were not borne out by any
impartial and satisfactory analysis ot
the facts" retorted Halvard Olsen
leader of the Norwegian Federation
OF Trades Unions, who. this Summer
brought his organization to a confer.
ence for the first time since the Labor
Bureau was founded Ole Colbjorn.
sen. colleague of Olsen, explained
to the employers that American work.
ers were not trying to get a bigger
slice of a small cake but the same
sized slice of bigger cake"
But what has jolted European re.
dictionaries the hardest is the cate.
gorical statement of E. Arthur Bald.
win, vice president of the Interna.
tlonal General Electric Co., and rep
resentative of American industry that
THE principles underlying thes,
(Roosevelt's) measures are widely re.
garded in the United States as EN-.
bodying features that must more anc
more become the foundation of Amer.
lean business structure which will. il
one form or another, prove a perma.
pent part of it
Had John L. Lewis, or Mr. Andrew.