The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-20
New E Features Needed In Industrial Scheme
Discipline By Consent, Not Dictatorship Desired n Writes Social ReseatCh Director in Yale Review

must be effectively organized and represented by leaders of its own selection, according to Mir. Johnson in his discussion of "The Labor Crisis"
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 "But once a management has iE- vested its intellectual resources in a system of discipline by dictator ship, it appears incapable of con- ceiving of anything elSe," he adds ''The springs of administrative ir- vef1tion easily run dry"
 The present upheaval cannot be solved by methods used inthe past, he states, because of two far- reaching changes. one Is the fact that the industrial workers of to- day are not the immigrants of a generation ago; the second change has arisen out of the New Deal policies.
 "The effect of nationwide relict through the federal government in- ccrporated 8 new principle in our unwritten constitution: that so long as there is food and clothing mater ilal in the country, no one, r nearly no one, shall go hungry or naked And this principle knocks a mair, prop out from under the dictatorial system of discipline. The boss may fire, but he cannot have the satis- faction of thinking that the man fired and hih family will go hungry They will 90 on relief and live, fl not luxuriously, still at ease. Even if men strike, relief comes to the aid of their families. Itis, therefore no longer possible to starve @ strike out.
 Tn China and India millions oi people do starve to death, decently and peacefully. Our own people lack philosophy, and mass starva- tion would be attended by disorders that even the most courageous ad- herent of laissez-faire doctrine would shrink"
 The Social Security Act and the Wagner Act have further under mined the old system of discipline MT. Johnson points out.
 Wagner Act
 Collective bargaining, that buzz aboo of the old system, becomes compulsory, if is can be organized and the old method of peace by firing and .black-listing agitators and organizers has become unlawful But the Wagner Act is a law, and we are Americans, trained in boot logging, racketeering, tax-dodging It is too early to appraiSe the effect of the Wagner Act"
 MT. Johnson suggests that man. agement would not try to evare the Wagner Act if 1t were amended to permit the employers to invoke the offices of the National Labor Board in determining what labor group is representative for purposes of col- lective bargaining, and for banning strikes while this matter is sub judice. On the whole however, thel e are forces already operating in this country potent enough to compel a fairly thorough revision of our whole system of industrial discipline he says, but is doubtful about what $aAASNoAO1A uAAC NA40lASCo VIII OBkCs
 "There are some eager souls that refuse to take any leap at all except 8 long one," according to MT. John son. If our time-honoured system of dictatorship does not work, why we will have to go over to Fascisnl or Communism. Perhaps that is not so long leap, after all. The dif- ference is industrial discipline be- tween Hitler or Stalin and our old- time industrial Relationships is that Hitler and Stalin can behead or shoot, while our industrial dictator could not only beat up. seldom fatally, and blacklist. The defect of the methods of Hitler and Stalin is that somehow they fail to bring out full production, even in popula- tions 50 heavily militarized and ter rorized as those of Russia and Ger many. Try anything of the kind on us. and the decay in our standard of living would make us all counter revolutionary"