The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-03-26

special aptitude it has never yet given
any evidence of that fact.
Contrast this fumbling attempt to
cope with the man-power problem
with a carefully planned program of
production for use and service in
which the government agencies would
have an accurately and efficiently
prepared catalogue of all workers.
employed or unemployed with a
knowledge of their skills, preferences
and adaptability, and the manpower
problem would be considerably less of
headache.
! That central governmental agency
should have the right in every emer-
gency to place skilled workers where
they are most vitality needed is suffi-
GENTLY reasonable to require little
argument for its support Even in
times of peace that agency should
have accurate information as to the
availability of any and all kinds of
labor and should have the right, with
due regard of course to the preference
the worker where his skill would be
of the most service to society. Such
program does not necessarily pre-
dictate totalitarian state, since in
social democracy with the profit mo-
tive eliminated, the incentive of
achievement would govern the action
of the individual and service to So
ciety would be the rule rather than
the exception. Thus labor or profess
sional workers would naturally CRAWL
tate to the jobs and industries which
they liked best and for which for
that reason they are best fitted
When the government becomes the
sole employer of labor we will have
taken the last step toward the solu-
ton of the employment problem |
There will be no more unemployment |
(for who dares to say that there is |
not sufficient work fairly crying to |
be done to keep every one busy for
the full span of his productive years? p |
By the tsame token when the gov I
eminent becomes the sole employer
VI ldOOl VIC nave ldhCn d lOuS ClCp
toward the solution of the more yex-
ing problem of politics in government,
for the worker having become by that
process both employer and employee
will feel that he has a REAL
STAKE in the efficient operation of
his industry, and since his personal
task is so vitality affected by the eff
cient operation of that industry he
will be more deeply concerned in
officials for their integrity,
capability and efficiency rather than
for their Misunderstanding and back-slap-
ing proclivities.
Hand in hand with the hangover
caused by the problem of manpower
goes the question of salary limitation.
Growing resentment on the part of
he "lower classes toward the ex-
brilliant profits exacted by the great
and the privileged
raves" has forced leadership to make
| few reluctant recommendations re-
,arding salary limitations. While adj
officials were not slow to
jldCO ItoIllCtiOHS OH wage iuCItdStS,
,ased on the little steel formula"
hey have exhibited extreme reluct-
nee to place limitation on the sal
ries of industrial executives. To do
o might cause these executives to
uit their positions and thus handicap
he war effort. However the old say
ng still holds, that what is sauce
or the goose is also sauce for the
ander." If the government has the
light and the power to draft manual,
killed or professional labor for es-
entail industries, then it also has the
light and the power to draft capable
nd efficient executives. If present
ldustrial executives are not willing
, continue in their positions without
fabulous salary then they are not
Z patriotic as they would have us