Evening star., 1939-12-08
Consumers, n. 4. n.
Told Labor, Capital
Must Cooperate
Manufacturer PurIey
Told This Is No Time
For Standardization
By the Associated PreSS.

By the Associated PreSS.
NEW YORK, Dec. 8-Two Amer
ican conventions took q look at
each other today and In each was
expressed the opinion that capital
and labor must cooperate for the
common good.
One convention was the 44th of
the National Association Of Manu-
facturers: the other was the 39th
Of the National Consumers League.
Sidney Hilman, president Of the
Amalgamated Clothing Workers OF
America and vice president of the
Congress Of Industrial Organi-
cations, addressing the latter meet
ing, called for cooperation by
union industrial and governmental
agencies to improve purchasing
power and thereby preserve our
democratic forms from any possible
threat of totalitarianism."
A. w. Hawkes.. president of Con-
goleum- Nairn. Inc. and vice presi-
dent of the N. A. NJ, told the manu-
facturers: This is no time for self
gloriflcation, and progress will be
made by labor and capital if each
looks as deeply into the wrongs
within itself as into the wrongs
within the other"
Mr.. Hillman asserted that rugged
inGividualism" on the part of busi-
ness could only lead to a repetition
Of the Ohio relief crisis elsewhere.
He praised the Federal Wages and
Hours Act and other weltar, i, ,..-
lation as important steps toward
raising purchasing power, insuring
some degree OF well-being, and
warding of despair and desperation.
Labor's Leaders.
Mr.. Hawkes., for his part, said:
when labor chooses leaders whose
recognized fundamental platform is
the maintenance of law and order
and protection of private property
in the hands Of its lawful own
ers, then they will have
the proper support Of public opinion
which will demand, establish and
keep peace and harmony and pro-
duce more stable fruits from the
united efforts of labor and capital"
The Consumers League also heard
Federal labor legislation praised
by . manufacturer, Samuel L. HofI-
man, chairman of S. L. Hoffman A
Co., Inc. garment makers.
The Manufacturers Association
pledged itself to 4 2s-point platform
calling for revision Of labor laws, a
balanced Government budget and
lowered taxation.
More temperate in tone than many
speeches delivered to the congress,
the platform was only mildly critical
of the New Deal and showed the
efforts of drafters to make 1t plat
form Of American industry" upon
whose principles all business men
could agree
The program urged the co-opera-
tion Of industry, labor. investors and
consumers in restoring national
prosperity on a basis Of free enter
prise and reasonable regulation of
industry by Government.
1t was presented by Charles z.
Speaks, president Of the Fisk Rub
Der Co., and Clarence Francis, presi.
dent Of the General Foods Corp.
On Labsr.
The industrialists pledged labor
the highest possible income con-
siStef1t with mnna reyusnt onA r~
asserted the congress stand favoring
the open shop rs follows:
Recognition Of the right of the
employe to join any labor organi-
cation, or none At all, as the en-
ploye himself may deem best IN
his own interest, Of his own free
will and volition. without coercion,
duress or intimidation from any
source"
Without specifically mentioning
the National Labor Relations Act,
the platform characterized as among
the obstacles of recovery labor legis-
lation which should be so modified
as to insure fairness to the en-
ployer, the employe and the public. ~
On Budget Control.
On the problem Of budgetary con-
troll 1t continued:
"A determined effort should be
made to so reduce the expenses OF
government that income would not
be exceeded and this desirable