The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-28
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to beat progressive ideas. This fear was the stuff of which appeasement was made, and 1t was that philo- sophy of appeasement that nourish- ed Hitler.
 Tt is my personal opinion that the future peace of the world lies in the relationship soon to be es- tablished between the United States, Great Britain, Russia and China. The ideas we may have had based on the Russian communist program of 10 years ago should not be allowed to wreck the world peace program, covering the years ahead of us.
 Future Prospects
 ''In my opinion, Russia's future prospects compare with our at the beginning of this century. Its ma terial growth will be rapid over the next 30 years, and, as its natural riches are developed and realized by its population, the Russian people will react as have human beings since the beginning of time.
 Russia as our ally makes sense in Q big way. Russia as someone else's ally raises consternation in the breasts of those who are vitally interested in the world our children will have to live in. As our allies that consternation is dispelled. As allies of others, what happens to our hopes for a long period of peace following this war?"
 Of the labor management prob. lem at home, he said, in part:
 T can say, with the feeling that I am on solid ground, that manage ment must not use the postwar period for its own war on labor unions, without laying the straight road to strict government control or worse. The day of liquidating the vast majority of the people of this country for the benefit of the nin- ority in the drivers seat is gone, and the old-ttmers and the die- hards who would turn the clock back in this direction are a liability to the capitaliStic system, to busi- ness generally and to theirucountry. If they should pervail in the coun- cils of important business groups their contribution to the postwar world will be a death-blow to the interest they think they are pro- tecting.
 Cooperation
 "On the other hand. union labor cannot make demands which will tend to destroy private enterprise and the American way of business ,. without destroying itself in the doing.
 Unless there Is an honest, friend ly and mutual acceptance between labor and management and capital, much of this beautiful and produc- tive plant which we have expanded under the stress of war will rot and rust away. If that should hap pen it will make little difference whether the failure was due to the prejudice of capital or the llnreason of union labor. The graves of both will be dug.
 'The Marxist charting his con- ception of history will dismiss this plea as the feeble quack of the dying capitalistic duck. The business baron who yearns for the good old irresponsible days and thinks that labor can be put in it's place with a sound thump on the head will dismiss it as sentimental twaddle. But I think that both have missed the boat and are colorful but use- less ornaments of the American in- dustrial society.
 Now is the time to organize 0a- bor-management) cooperation to meet our postwar problems and this is the paramount domestic prob- lem we face, and I strongly recom- mend to both management and union labor leadership the setting up of some agency at once to work steadily throughout the balance of the war for the accomplishment of that cooperation which will SO far in the settlement of future prob- lems of this nation both at home and in the field of international trade"