The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-01-05

-
TechnicOlor adventure picture Heart
annie Theatre, Sunday, with cOntinuOu
cally become the purchasing power of
the multitude. A wage cut automati-
cally shrinks industry's markets, and
thereby reduces the opportunity for
capital and labor to operate proftably.
Furthermore, the temporary advan-
tage gained by one competitor
through a wage cut provokes other
competitors to initiate the example. AS
result the original competition re-
lationships are restored and the one
accomplishment is to make goods a
little cheaper and little less acces-
sible to the working man consumer.
End Trade Slumps
So the working men and women of
America who have been described as
the partners of capital have concluded
that the partnership must become
much more thoughtful of it's GUS
toners. Organized Labor demands
that the traditional splurge and slump
habits of American trade and industry
must be reformed and reformed quick
ly and thoroughly.
Labor points to the tragic short
sightedness of our financial and indus
trial leaders in the past who have toll
Grated condition in which one-third
of the nation are indeed all housed, i'll
fed and i'll clothed" because they per-
NIT average family incomes Of only
$455 year.
May | call your attention to the fact
that organized labor today is by no
means restricted to the skilled crafts
men. The most impressive accomplish
ment of Labor in. the past three or
four years has seen the organization
of an increasing number of poorer paid
workers.
For many years only the so-called
aristocracy of labor could be organized
because their skill prevented easy sub
stitution of scale. The legal right to
organization for collective bargaining
may have existed but the mass indus
try workers knew that union member
ship was rewarded by dismissal and
probable blacklisting. With the Wag-
ner Act, the mass industries can no
longer lock their gates against labor
unions. The workers of the large scale
industry are geing organized.
That is why labor anticipates that
capital will review it's wage and labor
policies. The aim of labor is to have
sufficient purchasing power among the
multitudes so that the wheels of in
dustry may run on an orderly year
round basis.
The splurge and slump policy must
be succeeded by wage policy for con-
sumer maintenance of markets.
Labor will insist that wages and
employment must be sustained by in
dustry as producer and distributor OF
else that the taxing power of govern
ment be used to provide purchasing
power to those who cannot find work
at decent wages.
To me that objective is a conserva-
tive approach to solving economic, So
cial and political problems of basic
Importance.
Labor in Politics
That objective involves politics and
properly so. Labor people are the ma
jority group in our political democracy
and gradually labor is becoming con-
scious that its interests are best
served by united political action.
Labor has already demonstrated
that it's traditional policy Of support
our friends and defeat our enemies
can bear fruit when the issues are
made clear. | predict that Labor will
increasingly recognize that its inter
ests can be served only by conscien-
tious liberals.
American Labor prefers not to un-
dertake any third party movement,
but it is obvious that such movement
may gain headway if the major par
ties give only a tweed
ledee" choice.
Back home in Massachusetts, | know
that our people have been finding it
increasingly unsatisfactory to have to
choose which of the two or three
candidates is the lesser evil.
Management exerts substantial in
fuence in politics. l ask you gentle
men to consider the necessity of af-
fording an honest choice of clear cut
programs and candidates. The Amer
lean worker will refuse to accept sub
terfuge indefinitely.
Importance of Labor
Labor, after all, is a substantial
center Of our community life. 1t is
high time that the public as whole
recognized it to be a fact.
Those who attempt, except during
political campaigns, to make it appear
that Labor is only small edge in the
community circle are hurting them
selves. Those who denounce labor as
q selfish minority are creating IL will
in the community and are making