The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1938-10-06
The Cherry Tree
Where We Hutchet Out
The Truth
o A NEW SWING
@ SELF GOVERNMENT
O BETTER DEVELOPMENT
@ ONLY KIDDING

Decided swing against further gov
ernment regulation of industry is ap-
parent in American Federation of La
Dor ranks.
This swing has been growing in re-
cent months, though it was perfectly
plain to informed observers a year or
two ago.
Conventions at Houston voiced the
feeling.
Metal Trades Department took the
lead.
Criticizing bureaucracy, John P.
Frey pointed out that the American
labor movement was founded on "self-
government in industry instead of
government by bureaus and admins
traitors"
The department convention reaffrm-
ed the stand by the A. F. Of l.. con-
vention two years ago in opposing
creation of additional new boards or
commissions to handle labor problems
unless responsible trade union Of
fetal was named to each.
x X x
Metal Trades action reflected grow
ing distrust of government regulation.
1t means a turn toward self govern
ment and voluntary action.
This doesn't mean that labor would
abolish existing regulatory agencies.
Far from it. Need for them is con-
ceded.
1t simply means that labor wants
the fullest possible study and con-
sideration before any more regulatory
bodies are created. 1t also means that
labor wants any additional regulatory
bodies to have adequate labor repre-
sentation.
The trend points to renewed SYM
pathy for the Samuel Gompers phil
osophy expressed in the following
words of the famous leader:
"The A. f. of l.. has apprehensions
as to the wisdom of placing in the
hands of government additional pow
ers which may be used to the detri-
ment of the working people. 1t par
ticularly opposes this policy when the
things can be done by the wOrkmen
themselves"
Children who have everything done
for them don't learn to do things
themselves.
They do not develop initiative and
self-reliance.
Just so with citizens of a nation.
If government regulation takes in
too much territory, citizens learn to
look toward government for the
things they ought to do themselves.
Labor knows there is no substitute
for voluntary, cooperative action in
many fields of human endeavor.
X x X
National Safety Council aptly calls
accidents Americas three and a half
billion dollar parasite.
The huge cost of accidents is one of
the biggest parasites on American la
Dor and industry.
This parasite" will be considered
by the safety council at it's silver ju-
bilee congress and exposition in Chi
cago October 1O14.
Safety work-highway, industrial,
home--is a field in which organized la
Dor can cooperate with benefit to it.
self and the nation.
By cooperating Fundamentally in
the safety movement, labor can DEM
onstrate voluntary action that needs
no Federal government help to be ef-
fective.
x X X
Big noise from Europe browns out
lot of political oratory and flubdub
in the United States.
Tough on the politicians but lot
of the CUFF won't be missed.
Some people even say the drown
ing out of the politicians is one bene-
fetal result of a war scare.
But probably they are only kidding.
x x x
whether in Germany or Russia,
the dictatorship always acts in the
name of the people," says Eugene
Lyons, famous European newspaper
correspondent, who knows his dictators
and isn't afraid to say what he thinks