The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-08-18


is beyond question. It's weaknesses
and maladministration are becoming
more pronounced and notorious each
succeeding day. On the other hand its
outstanding accomplishment has been
the bringing home to capital and man
agement the fact that only by mutual
recognition Of each others right to or
ganization and collective bargaining
and resultant joint action on both the
industrial and legislative field can we
hope to solve our industrial problems
with minimum Of interference or
regulation on the part Of government,
We need now to proceed to q more
clear and accurate definition and rec
ognition Of the place and the rightful
claims, both of capital, organized or
unorganized, and Of the workers,
whether individually or in association.
The extent to which we can succeed in
operating on this plane will determine
the extent to which we need to have
recourse to law.
The accomplishment Of this goal
will mark tremendous step forward
in social progress. 1t will provide for
greater security and certainty Of in
dustry and Of living, both for the own
ers of capital and for those whose
main dependence for their living must
be the labor Of their hands and
brains. The substitution of team work
for antagonism will produce much
greater results, both in industrial pro-
duction, and in social order.
1t is our hope that the hardships
and experiences of the past decade
may have cleared the ground for the
foundations of new and more per
manent integration of the essential
elements of control within our Amer
lean system. Some of the fixed ideas
which were held for half a century OF
more by the guiding minds of indus
trial management, have come to be
recognized as unavoidable. So long as
these mistaken IDEAS We're in control
an orderly industrial system was i'm
possible. Furthermore, SO long as these
ideas guided management and finance
they produced automatically a condi-
! ton of economic unbalance. American
organized labor has never asked fol
anything which would disturb the
basic structure of private property
private industry and private profit.
There remains before American in.
dustry that problem of problems-the
r IL
to work. That is indistry's great tasI
under our economy: it cannot be as
sumed by government save on a tenn
porary emergency basis. This tasb
cannot be successfully performed anC
recovery and progress cannot be re,
allied so long as there exists a dead
lock of hostility between government
and business and vice versa, and sc
long as there is lacking unity in co,
ordination of effort on the part OF
management, labor and political ad
ministration so indispensable to liberty
and security.
For the present we face permanent
unemployment as part Of the prob,
! ZEN Vi INDUSTRY. buL permanent ull'
employment must be regarded as al
eXcrescence upon the national indus
trial and economic body. 1t is a threat
to the industrial order. We do not
see how industry can solve this prob
lem through management alone ant
without the assistance and the cooper
alton OF organized workers. There l:
the opposite approach which each OF
these elements IN industry must MAKE
to the problem For industry, perman
ent Unemployment Is accepted as al
unavoidable feature OF industrial so
clety, to be faced IN terms OF taxation
ana regarded as q permanent entry OF
the debit side OF the ledgers. But tol
the workers, permanent unemploy'
ment IS, frst, an individual threat anc
a llVlng lear. 1t Is an industrial bur
den as well, a lump on the side OF the