The Wilmington morning star., 1941-01-25
' Fair Enouuh
BY PECIEp

"AGA VI PSoltlOll.~ lie F61tNr
NEW YORK, Jan. 23.-Nevs,
mind whether I advocate such ,
course. Do you want to know wba.
I think will happen to our labor O,
union problem by the time wa
come out of the ether.
Well. it is my idea that the Was.
ner act will never be amended IN
any important particular and, n
course, never repealed, but that i,
will just scale off and be forgotten
because by that time we will bava
our own adaptation of the Na7i
and Communist system of hand.
ling labor questions. By then 81
many of the people will be EN-,
ployed directly or indirectly by the
government that wages, hours and
pay will be established by the GOV.
eminent and the right to strike will
be abolished. 1t will be recognized
as a fact-Which it certainly is
that the strike is a modified form
of war and that, of course, people
cannot be permitted to make war
on their own country.
So there will be arbitration and,
probably, concessions to the work.
ers, varying according to the politi.
cal strength of the administration,
but strikes will be out. Moreover,
most workers will like this arrange.
ment. because people don't like to
strike and will be glad to get rid
of the racketeers and bossy All.
tators who jerk them around nov.
adays.
Already, from over on the left,
from voices which Invariably sing
in praise of the Roosevelt govern.
ment, you can hear discussions Of
the suspension and eventual abro,
cation of the right to strike. Mayor
LaGuardia. a socialist in his time
and now the political patron of the
only representative that the Com.
munists ever had in Congress, is
against strikes by workers on the
municipal transit lines. Sidney
Hillman, a man of similar polti.
cal persuasion, is against strikes
on defense projects. and the new
leader, a social democratic paper,
I says. 1T is not by rigid formulas
! that rights can be ascertained but
by the will of the people, preferably
acting through process of law but,
when that fails, operating in crude
ways"
In other words. if you strike,
we'll, how would you like some cas-.
tor oil or, how would you like to be
transported to a concentration
camp up around Dannemora?
every obstacle to the produc'
tion of defense of democracy, no
I matter whether it is labeled rights
of private property Or rights Of
organized labor must be over
come" the New Leader says.
Now, of course, I know this pa
t per doesn't speak for the admins
tration. but I would like to bet you
{ something that it speaks for the
future and that once his condition
t is accepted for purposes OF pre-
paredness and : or war it never
will be revoked, no matter what
happens to Hitler.
The idea that I have is that
without ever saying so this govern
ment has always been socialistic
in some unformulated way and
that the administration has a
sneaking approval of the Nazi and
Communist method of handling Ia
Dor and running industry from a
, government office.
Of course, what with the expose
of running the preparations, and
possibly a war too, and giving
Britain what she needs, industry
will become nationalized, too. Busl'
ness will be SO deep in hook tha'
the government will just take over
and labor, therefore, will work lot
Sam, who might be a pretty goou
boss, at that. He is a pretty tough
boss in some of his services where
politicians don't have to meet W
lion conditions or demands anu
want to make good records 1oi
themselves, but no worse tn
many private employers, and ne
has no slack seasons. The WORKERS
might like Sam as a boss, but no.
body is going to ask whether the'
like him or not. Nobody is gong
to ask them whether they want u
, 90 to work for him. They WIZ
think they are working for prlVa'e
, industry, but will suddenly rean1s
one day that Sam owns the lhoos'
try or runs it with his money
The contention that govefnneH'
contracts should be withheld from
unfair employers can be applied
to plants controlled by unfair Wr
ions, too. And, of course, over ~.
the left they have long taken II iot
granted that when the goVerhHV".
is the customer the goVefnhleI.
can dictate the labor conditions
can revise them up as easily as II
can revise them down, too
Don't ask me for the detall''
am better on big, lumpy gehel%
ideas. And don't get petulah' lyJ
because this system, in a gehe-"
way, is Hitler's and Stain s.
Fate, as Miss Anita Loos "fo'S,
(-. 4Loeo davis, J