The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-08-13
"WE MUST ALL PULL TOGETHER''

L in waging the production war was issued last
week by Robert ]. Watt AFL international Repre-
sentative, and James b. Carey, Secretary Treas
urer of the CIO, in addresses at the Schenectady
Conference OH Labor and the War, conducted by
the Labor Production Division, WPB.
Watt hailed the important part which, he
said, the Labor Division could play in 1.-The i'm
mediate establishment of fuller measure of
democratic participation and responsibility"
"We must continue to insist that whether they
are wearing the mantle of management or the
OveralIs of the worker, there is a real community
of interest in the unity of free men and women,
Watt declared.
81 get concerned when read the highly se!ec-
tive presentation of the news about labor and the
effort that is made to point to labor as a selfish,
isolated group" he said "Al such stories are
false.
Like any black plague, strikes at the
working people hardest because there are so many
of them. But if any group is the American people,
that group is labor.
From what group do the soldiers and sailors
come? From what families are the fighting forces
built? Upon what group is the danger OF OppreS-
sion and the loss of freedom greatest? You know
the answers. Labor in America is and represents
the heart of the people"
Watt described his recently concluded visit to
London where, he told his Schenectady audience,
he had found a spirit which said: "We have proved
that we can stand together TO defend our liberties,
and await the day when we can destroy
the monster who struck at lis day and night.
That sentiment, he declared voiced by ''rich
and poor together, because, after ALL they are In
it tOgether.' "Ihey are i'm it together because
bombs don't distinguish between Park Avenue and
the BOwery. In winning victory the poorest may
play bigger part than the richest :. The story
of Britain and the record already being written
in our nation prove that although labor hates
and the SuiferngS which war imposes labor
accepts suffering for all 50 that all may win the
right to live free men and share the fruits of
the land and the accomplishments of the toll of
men and women.
Carey described the wartime need for train
ing of the pre-war iobless, for keeping prices
down, and extending credit to business. ''We have
learned" he said, that these wartime controls
must be exercised by the joint cooperation of labor
and management under governmental Supervi-
SION.
You as production soldiers on the home in
dustrial front are Just as important To victory in
this as the armed soldier the military
front" he told the conference delegates.
I'VE know from bitter experience that we lack
the implements of modern warfare. We lack them
in dreadful way. In the Far East at Bataan and
Singapore, it was lack of planes. In the recent
Libyan campaign. the Germans swept forward
because we lacked quick moving artillery--anti
tank and ant-arcralt. And we lack ships to carry
all kinds Of supplies to the critical Russian front.
And ii is general lack of ships planes, guns and
tanks that delays the taking of offensive action
by the United Nations any front.
"Nictory depends arms and men. We have
men-we need arms. Let us understand our prob
lens by considering where we have come from
to this point, where are now and where we are
going. Let say at the outset that | know we
are going to win-l know it in part because we
can hold meetings Of this kind in effort
and examine in critical and Thoughtful way our
national destiny.
Speaking for labor ! can say that all we ask
is equality OF sacrifice. We will bear share of
the burdens OF war but want TO know when we
have every right to expect that each will bear
equally proportionate share in the giving up OF
things, in the use OF what is left, in the payment
of taxes and in the regulation of work and travel
And most of all, we want equal participation in
the effort. These meetings enSting the par
tcipatiOn of all groups in the community based
with neghbOrs to keep America for you, for
all Of US, for the future vi ourselves and mankind