The Coolidge examiner., 1941-04-18

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fail Under the best of conditions program is
not coming up to original hopes and when strikes
precious days and weeks irretrievably lost.
The waste occasoned by strikes computed in
one of General Johnsons late columns. According to
him. during January February and the first three weeks
of March, the strike toll 1,129000 mandays And
that as he further observed does tell the whole story
Many of the strikes took place in key factories the result
being that other factories could not get needed materials
hundreds of thousands of man-days lost else
where.
Labor's excuse for strikes is that it is not get
ting its fair share of profsthat the industries which
have been given contracts rolling up unpreceden
ed gross revenues and that the worker should be paid
substantially more and be given other monetary
benefits in addition This argument may be valid in
But, far most industries concerned gross
profits poor gauge of net profits The tax burden
alone taking the increased earnings and there
be doubt that taxes will be still higher in the
to Furthermore the very pace of the drive add
ing heavily to ndustrys operating costs. You carry
operation in the most economical way when you
have plenty of time-you must often take the most
pensve way when the days flying by and deadne
for delivery at hand The cost of most materials
is on the rise Long ago. top government officials said
that is going to get rich out of this That will
be pretty largely true Through taxation the
control and limit income just about it pleases
number of thoughtful friends of labor are of the
opinion that the strikes are, sense sucdathat they
ALLEVIATE public good will to the extent that the i'm
gains by labor during the past eight years
be lost Every poll indicates that the public is fed
up with what it regards labor racketeering. They
indicate overwhelming majority of citizens favor
sort of forced mediation by that will prevent
strikes. AS Raymond Clapper coumns who certainly
has been antiabor recently wrote Don't think
that thousands of families into whose homes conscrpon
has reached, will not support the Roosevelt Adminsra
ton if it is driven to take the hard-boed way. Mr.
Roosevelt will have public sentiment fully behind him.
This feeling is obviously shared in government
circles According coumnss Alsop and Kntner "Such
episodes the AsChamers strike have filled the Con-
gress the best of all reflectors of public opinion with
violent resentment The demand for strong to
deal with the labor situation would have produced
suits long ago had not the House and Senate leaders
struggled manfull hold their followers back The de-
will soon grow too pressing to be ignored"
In Short unless labor listens to reasons" you
look forward to laws to control strikes The late
defiance of Secretary Knox and Commissioner Knudsen
by CIO leader in the As Chalmers strike almost
universally condemned by the nations press And the
threat of far important strikes in most vital in
dusries has caused meaningful fist-cenching in
Washington.
AS the President has said profiteerng industry will
also get short shrif Government through the priority
system literally choke any business into submission
If worst to worst he use the power to
mandeer Labor leaders mistaken they think they
get away indefinitely with holding up the defense
program. This is than an drve-to millions
of Americans it is crusade. And they mean to see it
through.