The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-04-24
The Cherry Tree
Where We Hutchet Out
The Truth
O EASY TO STOP STRIKES
. ONLY ONE REAL WAY
0 MUST BE VOLUNTARY
. TO WORK IN L. 5.

The pontitical brigade will tell you
how easy it would be to stop all
strikes and maintain perpetual indus
trial peace. Hitler also knows how.
There is only one proper way for
America and that is through vOlun-
tary agreement.
That doesn't mean waiting until for
eign agents and proVocateurs can be
brought to see reason, for their job
is to create all the havoc possible. But
it does mean voluntary agreement
with the great responsible organiza-
tions of American labor
And it definitely is a part of la
boris job to see to it that the pro-
vocateurs are put where they belong.
Now let's set down one more state
ment: There is no sufficient reason
or excuse for a single days stoppage
Of work and there ought be none.
Americas need is too great!
But if we are to achieve continuous
production through Nazis methods it
will be too bad. 1t will be a con-
fession that somewhere in the dem
ocratic process there is bad hitch.
And IF that proves to be the case
we shall have laws with teeth in them
prescribing compulsion.
X x
Alerady state legislatures are seri-
ously at work on measures to fix
stiff penalties for stoppages of work
and for drastic action to compel closed
shop conditions on defense jobs. Some
probably will pass.
Labor, admittedly, is in a hole and
it better hurry to get out before it
gets the lid slammed down on its
head.
The many can be made to suffer for
the bad tactics of a few and for the
sabotage of the enemy. Under such
laws AFofL unions would suffer for
the anger created by CIO conduct.
Believe it or not.
X X X
One probable reason the whole mat
ter has not been taken more seriously
by some unions and their leaders is
that they have been unable or unwill-
ing to believe the war danger is as
great as it actually is.
1t isn't easy to believe that this
nation is in a position of front line
danger. BUT IT IS!
1t would be a good idea to go
over the records of the last World
War. There was sabotage then, too;
and there were strikes that were not
caused by the agents Of sabotage. The
cost of living was shooting upward.
was, done and it.w eff
and it will be voluntary-or else!
And employers might as we'll re-
member that repression is never a
one-way proposition. They, too, will
be restrained and compelled.
x X X
Somehow the impression has spread
that labor is at fault almost exclusive
Iy. Of course that just isn't so. But
not tempered legislators aren't going
to be too careful about that. They
are just going to crack down.
And the compulsion will hit both
sides-probably hard.
There can be voluntary action And
everyone viii feel happier about it. 1t
had better come fast.
The great war issue is more I'M
portant than anybody's grievance,
no matter how serious that griev-
ance may be.
Full speed production-ALL THE
TIME-must be had at it will be had,
one way or another. There is still
chance to choose which way, but the
chance won't remain there long.
Most American workers will work
to stop Hitler because they want to,
not because they are forced to. And
ditto with most employers perhaps,
even including those that hate unions
the most!-CMW.