The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-11-28
Support Of Free
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Oall team belng sent out on the fleld
without knowing what minute, on
what play, the rules are going to be
changed on Them
Cites Contribution
Daniel j. Tobin, president of the
International Brotherhood of Team
sters, chairman of the labor commit
tee Of the Democratic party's national
committee in the three presidential
elections in which President Roosevelt
has been elected, representing some
5C0,CC0 members of what he says is
Americas biggest union," said: "The
best way can tell you how much we
believe you can't have free enterprise
without democracy, or democracy
without free enterprise, is that our
men want to keep their jobs, and our
union contributed 100000 to the Dem
Ocratic campaign fund to elect Presi-
dent Roosevelt for his third term, and
all told we spent about 100000 of
our own money in this last campaign,
educating our members on that point
We'd ostracize the man among us we
caught with his hand out behind his
back to take money from politician.
Not one Of us had his hand out for
. political job, either.
"I'll never believe President Roose-
welt is hostile to private business. He
knows free enterprise is vital to the
welfare of labor, and he's the best
president labor ever had. 1t seems to
me that the business men who con-
tend that Roosevelt has been the
enemy of business are the business
men who never tried to understand
Roosevelt President Roosevelt has
told me himself, face to face, that he
hoped he could help business without
putting down the working man; that
he believed by raising workers
wages he was increasing their pur-
chasing power and helping business as
whole. But the actions of certain
clements Of big business have forced
him to call big business to order.
"Some of the leaders Of big bus
mess have refused to try to under
etand President Roosevelt, just as once
| they refused, and some of them re-
fuse yet, to try to understand labor.
Intelligent leaders of big business are
paying the price for the actions Of
their less intelligent brothers.
All Vital Parts
"But free enterprise and labor and
democracy are all vital parts of one
whole, and that whole is the United
States Of America"
John Frey, president Of the Metal
Trades department of the A. f. Of L.,
| With a membership he says stands to-
day Somewhere between 100000 and
| EC0,CO0," said: Gree enterprise and
TIE right to private property can only
exist under a democratic form of gov
crnment, for any other form of gov
crnment is a government by men in
stead Of a government by law"
Democratic Relations
"Our unions relations with our en-
ployers, the men who have put adven-
ture money into free enterprise, which
take it is what YOU mean by cap
italism, are as democratic as we can
make them, and that is very demo
cratic indeed" said John p. Coyne
president Of the Building and Con-
Gtruction Trades department of the A
i. Of h., which he says has some
,5O0,O 600 skilled workers in 10 differ
cnt trades. "When one of our work
crs is able through his brains and
ability and thrift to become an en-
pIoycr, which | assume you would call
entering the capitalist class we cheer
him for it, for we know here is Il boss
who has come up the hard way and
Knows what the workers problems are
accause he has lived them.
"We have committees Of employers
come to our conventions and sit with
us while we draw up our contracts
OF course, we believe that this is an
integral part Of democracy. We have
enough accurate information from
workers in the totalitarian nations tc
know that there is no labor situation
under the directors any more. Work
orS there are the same as slaves
The same as convict labor on a chain
gang. All they can do is take orders
even though the British have a
wartime dictator, with extraordinary
wartime powers, the situation OF
British labor is vastly different from,
that in the totaIitarian nations. British
labor is like a free citizen who has
volunteered to defend his country and
Joined the army for the duration OF
the war British labor has been pow
orful factor in British government for
"cars.
War-at a Work Bench
War these days is more than a
man with a gun on his shoulder, a
cartridge belt and bayonet at his
waist, and full pack on his back
War in 1910 means a man at work
bench with micrometer he knows how
30 use, and plenty others with plenty
Of other tools, too. AT the start of
our national defense program we made
a survey in the building and construc-
ton trades, and listed 10000 skilled
workers out of Jobs. We've made them