Evening star., 1944-10-01
Wallace Emphasizes
ICo- operation Is Vital
For Postwar Jobs
~ the Associated Press.

/, ~ the Associated Press.
PITTSBURGH, Sept. 30.-Predict-
ing full employment for United
States citizens after the war If all
groups cooperate, Vice President
Henry A. Wallace said tonight, 81
don't say Roosevelt will give you full
employment but he will come q lot
closer to 1t than the other candi-
date.
He will not depend, like the other
candidate, on giving the green light
to Wall Street. The common folks
will not vote for the man who puts
Wall Street first and the people Sec
ond," asserted Mr.. Wallace in an
address in Carnegie Music Hall.
by full employment. mean put
ting at least 5000 900 more people
to work in 1946 than were working
in 1940," said Mr.. Wallace. with
employment of that sort, we can
produce, according to the Depart
n1ent Of Commerce, at least SO per
cent more of peacetime goods than
we did in 1910. We must pro-
duce at least $4,000 ,0o0, 900 Of
peacetime goods and services in or
der not only to have full employ
ment but also to carry the interest
on the war debt easily.
Advocates Higher Wages.
"The surest way to bring on
depression and make it hard to car
ry the interest on the war debt is
to cut the wages of labor. One
way to maintain postwar prosper
ity is to raise wages rather than to
reduce them. I am referring espe-
cially to those whose efficiency has
increased and whose wages have
not gone up as fast as the cost of
living. Many of us will have to have
an advance in real wages if we are
to do our part in consuming so per
cent more in the way OF peacetime
goods than we did before the war.
Some folks think that planning is
not necessary. They didn't think it
was needed even for the war effort.
For example, the Republican candi-
date, referring to war production
said, All that was necessary was
to give American enterprises the
green light in order to bring forth
miracles of production
THE candidate apparently was
not close enough to the war produc-
ton effort to realize that that mir
acle required the closest co-opera-
ton of us all and that if we are to
get the same cooperation and full
employment in peace we must do
more than merely give American
enterprises the green light"
Praises Philip Murray.
Mr.. Wallace praised the work of
Philip Murray, president of the CIO
and the United Steelworkers of
America, saying his life typifies in
so many ways all that is best in
modern Pittsburgh" Mr.. Wallace
added:
Murray came to this country
after the worst of the 10Th century
Pittsburgh lawlessness had passed
away. But he knew about the coal
and iron police, the paid deputy
sheriff system and the methods of
the Homestead strike. He knew
what it was to be run out of town
by deputy sheriffs and warned never
to return, simply because he had
tried to get check weighman paid
by the miners to sit with the COM
pany employe as he weighed the
coal mined by each miner.
Standing for simple honesty was
a crime IN the eyes of deputy sheriffs
in those days. But as Is 50 often
the case, the injustice of yesterday
Is the soil in which the Justice or
tomorrow grows. Injustice made
great labor leader. and today in the
Pittsburgh area there is remarkable
harmony between labor and capital
and between Americans of all races
and colors. Yes, Phil Murray S name
deserves to rank with that Of the
other great Pittsburgh Scot, Andrew
Carnegie. as a great b,,jlder