The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-01-01
The Cherry Tree
Where We Hutched Out
The Truth
. UNITY GREAT
WHAT ARE WE TO THINK?
Q TRY AND SASS BACK
PULL FOR VICTORY

A Merry Christmas is over and a
Happy New Year impends. For all
we know we shall not have another
Christmas as merry for some time to
come.
The nation merely paused in the
first rush of war, took an easy breath
and said to itself, "well, we might as
well carry on in the tradition while
we can" Who knows what comes?
No one can be sure how long it may
take to lick the barbarians!
On every hand the talk is about
how long it will take. Few are foolish
enough to look for quick or easy vic
tory. But on every hand, without eX-
ception, people are prepared for what
ever may be the cost. There is no
question about an eff; it is only a
question about "when."
1t has to turn out right, no matter
when, or at what cost. 1t seems that
there never has been such unity.
Interesting, too, is the fact that SO
many labor men today demand that
when peace comes it shall be last
ing peace, based upon cooperation;
and their reasons simply laugh off as
silly the points brought forward by
labor men who opposed the League
Of Nations after the other war.
Times change; thinking changes
Old bogey men don't scare US any
more.
There is a universal determinations Z
that the world cannot again risk a.
blood bath at the will of another
psychopathic Hitler, another neurotic
Mussolini, another lustful Japanese
war clique making up the mind of an
emperor who masks behind the pre-
tense of deity. What a hokum in this
day and age!
But while the days and nights bring
us news of tremendous conflict, each
development marching to form the
phalanx of events that will shape the
outcome, what are we to think of men
at home who gum the works by stop
ping production over petty grievances
that could be righted while work went
on? What are we to think?
Of course it is idle to expect that
all dislocations can be prevented.
There still are many who do not un-
derstand that the nation is in its most
critical situation. There still are some
who think a picnic is happening and
that the main idea is to grab every
thing in sight and sass back at every
chance.
The pitiful and regrettable thing is
that those who do unreasonable things
are building up great resentment
that may break loose and set back the
clock on labor progress.
1t is too bad that every man does
not know just what President Roose-
welt said before he summoned his %
man board to meet and work out al
way of labor peace.
1t is too bad, too, that some work
men can't hear what so many soldiers
say every time there is an unwarrant-
ed stoppage of work.
There would be some burning ears.
The fact is that unions have on
their hands one Of the most burning
and vital public relations problems
ever faced-and there can't be so very
many mistakes, or else.
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1t seems to me better that some Of
these things be said here and by
others who want labor progress,
rather than have them said in bitter
ness by those who want to go back to
the days of darkness.
There is a temptation to cry out to
some local leaders and to some small
groups Of membership and to say,
"For heavens sake, have some sense.
Don't rock the boat, for if you rock it
you may wreck it."
And while this mood is on, let it be
said that Phil Murray, who had gained
much goodwill for himself by his
fortnight convention and post-con-
vention declarations, didn't gather any
fresh laurels by naming John l.. Lewis
to be a member of that conference
group.
Perhaps Phil doesn't understand
that John L. Lewis just doesn't rate
any more.
This is time for those who counsek
unity and full steam ahead-and wh0>
also act the same way they talk
Let's cut out all monkey business