The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-04-23
LABOR DESERVES CONFIDENCE, RE
SPECT AND CONSIDERATION

This newspaper has at times in the past
had the temerity to speak good word for
capital and management, or the business
and industrial employers of the country.
Ii has been for the purpose of aiding in
our limited way fair and honest public
understanding of the country's economic
problems. Referring to the subject again
we desire to speak in behalf of the decent,
honest working men of the country, the
employees of business and industry. They
have their problems and difficulties, too;
and they deserve the sympathy and help
of employers and an understanding atti-
tade on the part of the public.
Working men are like employers and all
other groups of the country'S citizens in
this particular, the ranks of the workers
are made up of good, bad and Indifferent
citizens. In the ranks of labor, as in the
ranks of employers and other classes of
citizens, the majority is composed of good
citizens, honest men of good purposes,
loyal Americans.
Labor, perhaps to a greater extent than
owners and management of industry, is
troubled by the actions of the indifferent
and the bad type of citizen. The indiffer-
ent, inefficient, lazy worker, who lacks a
sense of responsibility to employer, to his
honest days work for his wages, is a source
Of trouble for the great body of honest,
efficient workers. Worse than this class,
however, in every particular, and the root
of the biggest and most acute evil of pres
ent day labor problems is the worker who
can Faithfully be branded as trouble
maker. This worker may be merely dis
gruntled malcontent, or he may be one
of numerous classes of radicals who have
filtered into the ranks of labor and are
boring from the inside with the purpose
of destroying this country's industrial, eco.
nomic and social systems and displacing
the American order with one of the fan
tastic systems of foreign origin.
In any case labor suffers by the actions
of such members of its ranks-suffers in
reputation, in employer confidence and in
public esteem-in addition to the troubles
and losses incurred by strikes, riots and
attendant losses of employment and wages
Fortunately for this section of the United
States - in fact, the entire geographical
section commonly known as the South-we
have here less labor troubles, and less acute
labor problems, than elsewhere in the
country. There are several reasons for this
condition, which cannot be stressed here
but one of the chief reasons is the native
Americanism of the people, the absence OF
workers of foreign birth and alien ideas
and purposes, and the scarcity of radica
agitators and their destructive propaganda
and efforts.
In any consideration of the problems Of
labor and capital, of employees and EN-
ployers, fundamental fact which shoult
never be overlooked is the basic fact tina
capital, labor and management are tn
three essentials of business and industry
Neither of the three can proceed alone o.
succeed without the cooperation and &C
tive aid and support of the other two. On
is=iust as essential to business or industrial
procedure and success as the other.
As neither labor or capital can procees
alone, but must work together, co-operat
and strive for the attainment of the sam
ends, how foolish and unwise is the cours
which engenders antagonisms, strife an'
cross purposes. How can industry or an,
line of business succeed unless employer
aud employees are working together j
g. 49, 80. {. ca 4