The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-03-20
DredrYF Future
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ana working agreement reached. To-
day, however, said Mr.. Bevin, as
result of the common sacrifices which
each side has been called upon to
make and which each has made with
patriotism almost unrivaled, that
Labor has discovered an error in it's
own thinking and it's own ideology
that there is in fact a deeper level
of unity between Capital and Labor
in their mutual responsibility for
sacrficial service that they had never
known or realized before To me
this new insight of British Labor is
one of the most profound observations
that has come out of the present
conflict and should give us in this
country an appreciation of our under
standing of the mutually of interest
that does prevail in the rendering of
industrial service.
Capital, Management and Labor,
which together compose industry do
have a common interest and a COM
mon public responsibility. This is
ever reflected in the continuing and
continuous operation of our national
economic system. If, then, our pres
ent industrial order is to survive its
major purpose must be to promote
satisfactory human relations and natl
onal security. On the success or fail
ure of that achievement depends not
alone it's own welfare and continued
existence but that of the whole of
the nation.
and my fellow workers and trades
unionists are and have been convinced
it is possible to promote satisfactory
human relations and make secure our
national safety under our present
economic and industrial order. In
deed, we are persuaded that the en-
during basis of cooperation between
Capital, Management and Labor, for
the promotion of these objectives is
essential if we are to safeguard not
alone the principles Of democracy but
the very life blood of free enterprise
and the liberties of free workers.
Today Europe is again engaged in
another world war. Regardless of its
ultimate outcome, Europe faces bank
ruptcy and social revolution. And we
cannot hope to escape or evade its
dire consequences. We here in amer
lea are not free from the dangers
inherent in this conflict. Considered
in the larger sense, from the broader
point of view, and in keeping with
its true historical background and per-
spective, this conflict is not merely an
{ her outbreak of continual European
turmoil. 1t is the crisis toward which
all nations have slowly but surely
progressed ever since the birth of
mankind. This conflict is war of
all mankind-in which all fronts are
merged into one-the front of gov
ernment by law defending itself
against the onslaught Of government
by man.
The extent to which we as people
are influenced by this trend will be
the extent to which we will have linn
tied and restricted our system Of free
enterprise and restricted the liberties
of our people.
Today, the business community in
our land is alarmed by the intrusion
of government into the whole area of
our economic life. 1t complains of
taxes and public Indebtedness, while
it favors more or less the benefits of
infationary public spending. 1t wants
to maintain if not increase the price
level of it's products, while it resiSts
the efforts of labor and of agriculture
to do likewise. There are still those
employers who dream and imagine
that their business is purely a per
sonal affair and who propose to run
it to suit themselves. 1t is mainly men
of such an attitude that have made
for present day tendencies, Legislative
and otherwise.
If our system of private enterprise
is to continue, if business management
is to continue to function as under our
present economic order, if we are tC
realized that "unity" in industry SC
essential for the maintenance and
preservation of our democratic ideals
then it must be willing and be pre-
pared to accept the sharing Of respon-
sbility of providing for the security
of others besides its own.
Ill utdlIIiS Will CIIpioSNop iiio]ilr' SCI
of corporate structures have been
prone to consider labor only as a com
modify. But in the nature of things
labor is not commodity. Labor is
what a man is; Capital is what a
man has. Labor power is a com
modify; but labor is also one Of the
parties to a transaction, namely, the
agreement to employ on the one hand
and the agreement to furnish services
on the other hand.
Involved in labors program of col
lective bargaining and Of joint action
is but another implementation of that
principle Of democratic action and con-
troll and under which there has been
the greatest development of the sys-
TEN of private ownership of property
But if those who are opposed to the
application of democratic controls tc
industry have their way, we shall most
certainly find ourselves following the