The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-07-17
HONEST LABOR ENTITLED
TO FAIR SHARE


TO FAIR SHARE
PRODUCTION values, the amount
for which manufactured commodi-
ties are sold, are divided between
labor, raw materials, management
and selling, taxes-municipal, coun-
ty, state and national-and capital,
as interest on investment.
Labor, the man or woman who
works at bench or machine, de-
mands its fair share of what it pro-
duces. Collectively and nationally,
we know labor receives fair share
of the national income, but each
workman, individually or by factory
groups, wants to know that he gets
his share of what he produces.
He does not want to take the word
of some interested party as to the
amount of his share. He wants def
mite proof.
That is the crux of the real labor
problem. There are labor racke-
teers and labor saboteurs who can
be dealt with without injury and,
in fact, as a benefit to honest labor.
The solution of the problem of hon.
est, patriotic American labor means
finding some method by which each
workman in each factory group may
be definitely shown that he gets his
fair share of what he has helped
to produce.
With all the ingenuity to be found
in America, that should not be an
unsolvable problem. 1t has been &C
complished in some plants and those
plants do not have labor difficulties.
NO ROOM FOR SABOTAGE
OF AMERICAN DEFENSE
ONE AND ONE-HALF MILLION
men in the armed forces of the
nation are working, at $21 a month,
with inadequate tools to prepare
themselves for the job of defending
American liberties, the American
way of life.
Thousands of other men are re-
fusing to work at wages of from $3.50
to better than 5000 month so the
$21 month men may be provided
with the tools needed to defend our
liberties.
We do not want government OPP
Grated industry. It cannot be as eff
ficient as when privately operated.
We do want, and demand, that pri-
vately operated industry be operat-
ed without excessive profits and the
government levies heavy excess
profits taxes to prevent any posi-
bility of war profits.
The government has drafted men
for the armed forces at wage of
$21 a month. 1t can, and may, draft
men to man the machines to pro-
duce the tools of war needed by the
armed forces for the protection Of
American liberties. Strikes in any
plant in which defense equipment is
being produced should not, and will
not long be countenanced. It is
that kind of thing which caused the
downfall of France. 1t is sabotag-
ing the American defense effort.
TO BE SURE, this present war is
terrible, but it does not sound so
bad when we realize more Ameri-
cans were killed during the Is
months we were an active partici-
pant in the last war than the total
of English losses during two years
of this conflict.
DOLE OR WORK?
AS an experiment, the state gov
eminent of Illinois made an effort
to find jobs in private employment
for 90 individuals then on relief.
Of that number, places were found
for 46, two others refused to accept
any job, three did not show up after
accepting and three did not want the
kind of jobs offered. The numbers
were too small to prove anything,
but what would your guess be as to
the percentage of those now on relief
who prefer to continue to receive a
"dole" than to work for living?
FIFTH FREEDOM
w. o. CBILL") HART, editor OF
the Orange (Calif.) Daily News, in
an editorial says: "The President,
by suppressing the labor racketeers
responsible for the strike at the In
glewood, Calf, airplane plant, has
added a fifth freedom to the four
guaranteed by the Bill of Rights. His
fifth is the freedom to work" As
Bill says, the first four are not worth
much without the Presidents fifth.
The freedom to work is not to be
sighted. A prosperous nation is one
that has plenty Of productive jobs.