The times-news., 1938-07-28
THURSDAY, JULY 20, 1888
WHEN WILL THE CLOCK STRIKE?

ing plant, employing 260 workers, found
it necessary to reduce wages under the
stress of present business conditions. This
caused strike. After several weeks ne
gotiations and the usual procedure in such
eases, the company offered employment to
all who desired to return to work. Nobody
returned to work. Owners of the business
called a directors meeting and after due
consideration of the problem, announced
that the plant would be dismantled and
the business liquidated.
Galax loses All industry and 260 persons
lose their jobs. 1t is probable that all or
many of them will have to go on relief. "
This is only one case Of many through
out the country in which similar action has
been taken by owners Of industry The
REASONS for such action are to be found in
labor troubles, fomented by radicals; in
oppressive federal laws, and in confisca
tory taxation.
The conditions under which industrial
lists and in many cases, other classes of
business men, are forced to conduct their
businesses are impossible. They can't carry
on successfully hampered by such cOndl-
that course they have been taking by scores
throughout the country.
The NLRB, the American counterpart OF
the Russian OGPU, has not yet arrived at
the point where it can tell manufacturer
that he must operate a losing business or
be taken out and shot. Consequently, when
conditions are made impossible by the CEN
traI government, or by radical labor, the
only possible course is suspension of op-
tratiOns.
OF course, there are hundreds and thou
sands of men in Virginia and everywhere
who have no employment, and the GalaX
plant could be manned a dozen times over
in few days or weeks; but that would
probably involve the management in riots,
boodShed-certainly it would involve in
endless trouble with the federal OGPU-
and no doubt the reasonable conclusion
reached by the management was that the
game of trying to operate the plant was
not worth the candle.
I'm former days, when the American sys-
tenn was operating in this country, instead
Of the Russian or German systems, the
plan was for an employer and his en-
ployeS to try to get together and do busi-
ness If terms could not be reached and
the employees desired to quit, they quit, the
employer hired others to do his work,
those who had quit sought other jobs, and
things moved right along.
The new system is essentially and vastly
different.
It will continue to result in idle plants,
vacant factory buildings, increased unem-
ployment, staggering losses for capital and
labor, destruction of the capital resources
of the country, and ultimate bankruptcy
and ruin.
Exactly the same kind of radicals who
fastened communism on Russia and forced
fascism on Italy and nazism on Germany
are now operating in this country. Their
aims and purposes here are exactly the
same as in Europe They will, if they con-
tInue to control the central government
and have their way, make this nation COM
munist, or compel the opponents Of COM
munism to adopt Hitlerism as means OF
saving the country from the fate OF Russia.
These radicals are sWarmlng into the
South, planting cells of communism IN
every industry that can possibly be reach
ed, and after these are established they
proceed to make trouble, to start strikes,
labor wars, to precipitate bloodshed, to
throw industry to the rabid lions of NLRB.
Thus we find in conservative Virginia, in
little mountain town like Galax, conditions
which make it impossible for a local indus
try to continue operations, which drive it
out OF business, throw 26O men out of en-
ployment and on relief"
Is the clock about to strike the hour for
American action by real and loyal Ameri-
cans?