Evening star., 1940-06-25
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! Its chief aim should be to aid the
working out of peaceful solutions of
these difficulties around the confer
ence table before they break out in
strikes and lockouts. Placing in the
hands of any governmental agency
the power to decide who was wrong
after the loss has occurred is not
a solution.
Railway Labor Act
Hailed as Model.
We should draw lessons from the
Railway Labor Act, adopted in 1926,
which we in Minnesota have used
as a model, with its waiting periods
and emphasis upon conciliation be-
fore strikes and lockouts occur, and
its protection of the basic rights of
labor. These simple principles have
met with marked success wherever
used. They are in keeping with the
fundamental principles of the rela-
tionship of democratic government
to a free economy.
We must recognize further on the
domestic front that the farmers are
the very backbone of America. We
must raise their income and their
buying power. The maintenance of
millions of free farm families living
on soil that they can call their own
is oRe of the greatest bulwarkS for
future freedom When, as now, with
extremely low agricultural prices,
the natural economic processes do
not permit them to maintain their
status on the farm they must be
aided. This should be as a reward
for their production of the food
supplies for the Nation and as an
incentive to their conservation of
the soil upon which they live.
These aids again must not be
looked upon as a solution to the
agricultural problem. but only as a
temporary eXpedient to ease the
maladiUStment that exists. We must
seek real solutions in keeping with
the natural economic forces that
are involved in cur system. We
must step by step take out of pro-
duction marginal land that it is eco
nomically unsound to cultivate and
that only add. to surpluses. We
must increase the acreage in wood
lots and timber tracts, we must ag-
gressively market surpluses at home
and aboard. Millions of European
refugees should be fed with our sur
plus agricultural products.
Through development of more
jobs and more purchasing power
for our consuming public, we must
expand the domestic market. We
must advance in research and dis
covery of new uses for agricultural
products. We must furnish new Jobs
for the excess population upon our
lands so that instead of being a bur-
den upon agriculture they become
production portions of our popula-
ton and new units of consumption
We must preserve as far as it is eco
nomlcally sound to do so our own
markets for our own farmers.
Government No Bed
For Society to Sleep In.
The tragic unemployment of the
young men and young women of our
| Nation has been one of the very
great losses of this depression. They
have not wanted the dole. They
have not wanted aimless month bv
month subsistence. They want op-
portunities to prepare for a life of
productive activity.
The great productive processes of
a free people under a system of in
dlvidual enterprise have made this
Nation the great power that it is.
1t has given to our people the high
est standard of living in the world
This system has been and will be
subject to its depressionS and it's re-
cessions. its Embellishments and re-
adjustments as the years roll by
We must recognize that Government
should furnish cushion against the
sharper fluctuations of this eco
nomic system, but that it cannot
successfully furnish a bed upon
which society can go to sleep. We