The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-02-24
WE MIST CHOOSE

THE FEDERATION is taking seriously it's re-
sponsibility for leadership in the postwar
period We have been lnQuiring into what the
problems will be in order that labor may develop
policies and plans for meeting them
1t is plain that reconverson will involve half
our national ncome bring work changes to some
thirty millions of our labor force and that we can
move forward to an economy of abundance with
abundant employment and without materially
lowering present national income or the incomes
of individual workers; or we may follow the path
toward depression, unemployment and a national
output that does not provide enough to eat or
wear, nor enough good homes for all the people,
but keeps large groups IN poverty and under the
lash of fear of want and dependency.
Labor elects a program for abundance OF mate
rial things in order that we may be free to have
a share in community life and do our part IN de-
termining national policies and problems. Labor
can attain its program if those OF management
are willing to cooperate with us and let us CO.
operate with them If we value free enterprise and
free unions we must cooperate The alternative
is chaos when the government must take over.
We know full well that if private organizations
do not take the initiative and assume their re-
spOnsibility, we shall under government regulation
lose the nexbties and incentives for voluntary
adjustments which are best suited to industrial
needs. We know further that when the American
people perceive the need and appreciate the grav-
ty of situations, they always lay aside differences
and work together for mutual protection and
welfare.
We want intervention by the government only
when it is agreed that such government function
can be performed as a service to all concerned.
Service and RECOMMENDATION are as far apart as the
two poles of the earth.
Upon cooperation between managements and
workers, with the active support of consumers,
depends the well-being of our nation and the fate
of devastated Europe and China. The United
States the creditor nation of the world, is re-
sponsible for stability in our own country and for
helping to supply war-devastated countries with
the means Of rehabilitating their agricultural and
industrial activities
There are millions of homeless people in
Europe workers have been forced to labor for the
conqueror; men and women are in prisons; fam
lies have been separated seeds, herds, the means
of transportation and trade destroyed. Nations
need help and encouragement to return to free
constitutions, if we are to win the peace.
The forces of evil as well as good are very ac-
tive and slight deviations in either direction may
determine our future. We should lose no time in
mobilizing all our constructive forces and organ
iZations for cooperation in establishing the eco
nOmc basis to sustain our democratic society, that
we may them help other nations to the same end.
stability here will sustain stability in other cOun-
tries. We have no choice but to save others if we
would save ourselves.
We should get about our joint responsibility
in planning for maximum production with full en-
poyment so that plans shall be ready. Planning
for the future will in no way lessen the war effort,
for we know only too well we must win this war
to gain security in future progress.