The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1944-04-21


MS name on the pat circle of friends in all sections of the
II Angsman
to big business silver platter will different when
peace comes
I Uncertain its powers reconcile employment
with full profits big business cautious about postwar
promises Like the doctor who that the patient may
not live through the night or may only last another week
month"; big business is making in advance that rosy
promises don't boomerang to the eternal dscred of industry
AS nation, we have the machinery. We have the raw
materials. We have the labor We have the financial
nation Banking and industry for the most part have the
machinery the materials and the financial
Labor stands almost alone with little financial
and practically machinery materials.
The farmer has control materials but very
little Except he is aided by loans he subject
to market which he has control whatever That is
why materials actually at the of banking and
industry.
Little business is also at the mercy of market which the
small merchant does not control The he for the
goods he sells and for the equipment he sell them
controlled by power tiny cope
Supposedly those who makes living by his profits he
often actually receives too little for the labor he puts forth in
his business.
In these days of labor shortage the worker is hand
capped chiefly by the excessive living which raid
his paycheck But in days past and perhaps in days
there has been the question of selling his
the highest bidder Labor has been commodity in the
open market and may be again.
Unions have been formed to prevent the worker from
having sell his labor in competition with his fellow
worker Unions have also attempted provide standards
of competition in some lines of business to prevent
chants being chseed of existence toward the
brink of poverty by cut-price outfits.
In years has stepped into the picture
restrain the preers their increasing control
wages Attempts of them mistaken unsuccessful
have been made to get the farmer better price the worker
better and the ndustriaist smaller margin n
keeping with his proper place in society
The attempt at the time to profits has made
mockery of the program 1t was necessary to kill little pigs
and to w under crops to boost farm prices society full
underpad workers. Wage increases wiped out by
still higher price increases put by the ndusriasts who
still controlled the economic system
Yet start has been made. IVA, monument to the
"yardstck" plan by which government industry can
check the prices of monopoly such the private utility
light and power industry is an example which may be
followed when industries converted The idea is
Bible that the Iaborer worthy of his hire
has official recognition from government
Other ideas also firmly established. The unemployed
worker has earned the right to compensatoness than his
but something to keep him going until he finds
another job The aged worker has earned the right to retire
earned during his productive The active
right organize into union for his
protection.
Big fought these ideas when could accepted
grudgngly when they too wide support But big
business still has the powerful whip over labor.
Probably bestr why industry is talking of
21a million unemployed after the is intention to
this whip over labor Enough obles workers thrown
into the labor market might help break down
standards might help break labor unions through loss of
members might turn labor against the government if
government friendly to labor is still in office
has happened in this country before. The famous
Shutdown strike of industry in 1928, when big
turned the keys to their plants laid off labor in
numbers to curb the rising strength of unions and the
growing popularity of the New Deal familiar
One Dubuque banker boosted that financial
from LaSae Street in Chcago-the Wall Street in
middle wes-woud bring into line the smaller Industrial
lists who wish go along with such diabolca program
There is only one far the workers p
concerned Labor must think out its solution and
accept just solution put forth by industry. Labor
avoid blind allegiance profits such distin- TIA
gushing between the farmer and the merchant and the
small indural whose labor productive the ie
hand coupon clipper the big proteer who c
specazes getting rich off the labor others the
other IN
On the upgrade since the Wagner Act was passed in G.
1885, think and vigorously take II
the doxnhi path.-Dubuque Leader. B