Henderson daily dispatch., 1939-06-02

are the ones who must provide the
jobs, the time has come for action.
Private Ownership or FaSciSm
If we are to continue our system of
private ownership, there must be
radical changes in the attitude of the
government, labor leaders and even
preachers toward employers. Unless
the state is to take over all industry
and be responsible for giving every
body a job, then it is essential that
it help, rather than hinder, employ
ers. When there is a shortage Of work,
the need is for more employers. This
is the simple and only answer to
unemployment.
We are, therefore, facing this sit
uation: Either we must change our
American system of government and
turn to state capitalism (Which ul-
timately develops into Fascism) or
else we must change our attitude
toward employers builders, and in
vestors We have played at this thing
too long Now that all groups are
suffering, we can delay the choice
no longer. When scores of well-paid
executives are forced to sell their
homes, slash their standard of living,
and return to manual day labor, then
we come smack up against problem
which has not yet occurred during
the depression.
Must Encourage Employers.
If the great need today is for more
employers, we must encourage en-
ployers. The following are three ways
this can be done:
CD Taxes can and must be low
cred. refer to city taxes, state taxes,
federal taxes, and the other hundred
and one taxes now inflicted upon
employers. This, moreover, is not an
appeal for the idle rich AS far as
am concerned, Roosevelt can put
80 per cent tax on the "play-boys'.
l am asking for lower taxes on
homes. business. blocks and factories.
No matter how much money the
federal government is willing to
loan for new houses building will
not increase until taxes are reduced.
1t is the taxes which you must pay
dQOlLlOn
to your plant that hold back build
ing. Merely lowering the interest
rate on mortgages will not encourage
you to build a new house if your
taxes are going to increase more than
what you save on mortgage interest
(2) Labor must let up on en-
plOyerS for awhile. l believe in COL
lective bargaining. The wage workers
of the corporation have as much right
to combine. and negotiate through
some person of their own choosing
as have the stockholders. When labor
leaders, however, think that they
must get little more each year for
their members in order to hold their
jobs and collect their dues, it is very
dangerous. Wage workers should
realize that their leaders may serve
them better at times by urging a re-
duction in wages or an increase in
hours. The current theory about
hours is wrong. Reducing hours ulti-
mately increases prices othat the
net result is a loss in the number
OF jobs. Only as more is produced, is
there more to divide.
Cd Restriction and regulation as
to building operations and other new
plans OF employers should tempor-
arlly be lifted. Every kind of handi-
cap today is placed upon a man who
wishes to build a new factory or
store or even to put an addition on
his plant I recently wished to have
new toilet pd1 into my building
and was obliged to consult four diff
this simple improvement. Employ
ers must now secure city permits,
state permits, federal permits, labor
union permits, fire permits, smoke
permits, and various other kinds of
permits before they can spend a
dollar.
Not only this, but people in the
neighborhood oppose the addition on
the, factory because it will create
Imore noise of something else. The
time has come when parents must
choose between having noise, smoke
and a job for their children or no
noise and no job.
+ In the meantime, employers are
saying to themselves, whats the
luse? Life is too short" AS result,
the number of employers is getting
smaller every day instead of getting
bigger as is needed in order to create
new jobs. ~
industry Depressed; Race Tracks
/ Booming.
But the above is not the worst
While the number of employers IN
the basic industries clothlng
land shelters rapidly declining, yet
those engaged IN promoting gamo-