Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-29
Production
For War Hits
Predictions
Only ShipbuiIdine Lays
as Output Speeds Up
BY PAUL MALLON

made the best speech at the
trades union convention in Lon
don the other day $50 the radio
says advocating naturalization
OF eyerything-mines, factories,
property.
She wanted the government
TO own and run everything. To
none of her audience. including
the radio reporters, did IL occur
that what she advocated was a
union form of Nazism.
Her speech was only an open
declaration of the popular MUIR
murings that have been yelling
up from the Grips groups, as
Stunning that our system has
broken down." that I'VE must
provide better one after the
war"
In all their proposals they
seem to want to out-Hitlerize
Hitler by adopting national So
cialism in one form or another,
although they do not seem to be
conscious of il.
Maybe the British system is a
failure. / doubt il. I know ours
is not.
THE news of this trend rising
l. in Britain comes simultane-
ously with official reports that
our productive system has just
won the greatest success in all
its 166 years of trial.
After five months of war il
is producing in every phase be-
You'd the colossal and unbeliev-
able goals that Mr.. Roosevelt
set for il THAT is every line
except shipbuilding). It ma S
met the test of war and won.
II has surpassed the feats of
Nazism, Communism and every
other ism.
This was done by effectine
unity between industry and la
Dor, not the way Hitler did it,
with a bayonet, but by the
democratic appeal to reason,
with a little pressure here and
there.
If this unity can be main
tanned the same way in a post
war peace era, what a country
this will be. Real wealth these
days as well as real security, is
the ability to produce. Money
is worth only what the govern
ment says. Prices likewise.
TAKES are destroying old
l. wealth and will prevent any
new wealth from accommodating.
The only thing you can really
count on as an individual is
your ability to produce. So also
with a nation, which is only a
collection of individuals.
The British trend. as manifest
again in this ladys speech, is
the opposite. She thinks secur-
ity lies in supplanting individual
initiative in ownership and work
with the unambitious, static,
negative, reactionary force of
government ownership, out of
which no one has ever made
money except politicians.
Through socialism. labor in
this country would only acquire
an interest in bankruptcy. Ger
tainly labor is not making any
money out of the little govern
ment ownership we have today
public utilities, etc..
Its organizational advances
have been less marked in gov
eminent than in any other line
of national activity (only about
$4,000 government workers have
been organized out of the mil
lions employed). That is not the
way toward labor advances or
any other advances.
Our postwar economy should
be founded primarily on the in
terests of our so, 900, 900 or more
good workers, not directed en-
tirely toward the interest of a
few million unemployed or I'M
playable. It must be aimed at
keeping good jobs for good
workers, not at an unattainable
security through bankruptcy.
Peculiar wartime cross-cur-
rents are not confined to Britain.
Some one started lambasting
congressman a few weeks ago
and since then the popular
movement has reached the pro-
portions of a campaign against
Congress.
Congress is in disuse. II II
also comes into discredit, the
main constitutional bulwark Of
the democratic way of life and
the four freedoms will be lost.
There are both good and bad
individuals in Congress, but Con-
gress as constitutional force,
is not functioning during this
war. II has wisely ceased to be
a restraint on the executive. II
has, like its isolationists, kept
quiet and permitted the swifter
functioning OF one-man govern
ment.
Some minor officials mot
many in this government think
this would be good idea to con-
tinue into the future. They
think Congress is failure.
II is all right with me If you
want TO throw anything you like
at a congressman as an indi-
vidual. but when you start
throwing at Congress, you are
most apt to hit yourself.