The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-04-13
VICTORIES ON THREE FRONTS

THOUGH our emotions are held by the clutch OF
anxiety for American soldiers on the battle
front, our judgment tells US that IN addition TO
winning this war by military superiority we shall
have to win the peace by establishing lnterna-
tional conditions and agencies that Will enable us
to keep the peace, and we shall have to preserve
democracy and individual freedom at home
Wage-eanerS are serving on all fronts -
fighting at sea and on land making the munitions
necessary to supply our armies and transporting
supplies to where needed; giving thought, eX-
perence and faith to planning world where ma
tions can live together in peace with those political
and economic conditions that will permit people
in our own country to develop the qualities Of
initiative self dependence and responsibility
which make personal freedom and democracy
valuable.
Personal freedom on the political side means
civil rights and representation; on the industrial
side freedom Of contract, Individual or collective,
in genuine free enterprise; on the social side
equal opportunity to develop personal talents and
abilities, with equal access to opportunities Tor
progress and service; and on the moral side, such
use Of rights and opportunities as 90 not inter-
fere with exercise Of these rights by others.
The basic error in our human relations IS that
we do not apply to collective relations those moral
standards that guide our personal lives. AS we
apply moral standards to industrial and political
decisions-forcign rs well as domestic-we shall
make progress in eliminating the causes Of strife.
Wage-earners who perform the creative pro-
cesses Of production feel a special responsibility
Tor MAINTAINING Tree enterprise al Ter Ihe Wai, lOt
free enterprise is essential TO free unions, which
our political freedom rests. We are striving to
maintain free labor we maintain and SurpaSS
records Of wartime production. Without workers
spending themselves in long hours Of work the
miracle Of Americas wartime production could
never have happened. Stupendous as has been
this task OF supplying the munitions OF war, we
cannot win this war unless we also win the peace,
and the recOnVcrSon Of industries at full employ
mcnt levels under free enterprise.
Accepting our full responsibility, the Fedora
tion proposes, as the basic agency to guide our
reconstruction, Il federal economic commission
composed Of representatives Of labor industry,
faimers-apponted as representatives Of their
respective GroupS--With chairman designated
by the President. Regulation and controls would
then be determined in the light of economic cX-
percnce and needs and by economic agencies
This is the only way to escape political controls
and irresponsible bureaucracy.
Instead of political enforcement, we must sub
stitute the compelling power Of voluntary coopera
ton in fmtherance of mutual interests and wei
fare.
Such an endcavor will test to the utmost our
ability to cooperate and our understanding that
ultimate progress depends upon progress for all
not special privilege. BV the power of coopcra-
ton we can escape a tOtalitarian state