The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-06-22
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Millen,t editor-in-chief of Farm Jour
nal and one of the country's foremost
| farm leaders
when | first took Office as president
of my organization many years ago"
Mr.. Duffy said, II told the convention
that we should have. tariffs sufficiently
| high to protect the American standard
of living. l am as ardent believer in
that today as l was then"
He commended the League for bring
| ing together leaders of industry and
labor, suggesting that there be more
such conferences and more cooperation
between employers and employees. He
continued
| IF we are to succeed industrially, if
our standard of living is to go on--the
one thing that will save us is whole
hearted cooperation between workers
and ownership in industry.
Government regulation is like die
tatorship," he declared ''It usually
works well in the beginning but turns
out disastrously for the people in the
end, The system of free enterprise,
with all its sins and defects, is still
responsible for our own high standard
of living, the highest in the world"
He warned that the postwar years
hold as many threats for management
as for labor, citing the, example of
| France.
IF we are to survive" he asserted,
.'labOr and management had better get
| together. And as a representative of
| labor / offer to you labOr's complete
confidence and beg you to join hands
with us and push on to real success
and put the banner of the United
| States higher, than it has ever been
| before"
Mr.. Duffy is a director of the Union
J Labor Life Insurance Company, Third
Vice President of the AFLS Union
! Label Trades Department, and mem
ber of the executive committee of
| Americas Wage Farmers Protective
Conference. He was one of the leaders
of the BUY American" movement.
The conference accla med the
Leagues new 20-pOint Declaration of
Principles which held, in part, that
"the cooperation which the United
States can safely contribute in inter
national economic affairs will depend
upon the maintenance of sound and
prosperous internal economy"
Presented by Dr. Killheffer, the
Declaration asserted that 1.-The nation
will find it's first duty in safeguarding
the gainful and regular employment of
its own citizens-at the highest attain
able living standards"
There is real danger, he pointed out,
in the present trend toward freedom
of trade among nations despite differ
ence in wage and living standards"
This may result, he continued, in re-
ducing United States tariffs below the
point where American industry can be
protected - especially with continued
I'industrialiZation of many low-wage
countries. He said:
Unless we take a very short view,
we must not forget that while there
will be delay in rebuilding the destroy
ed industries of occupied nations, the
United States and the United King
dom will be helping to rebuild them
and the new plants will be the most
modern obtainable, with equipment and
know how furnished by the sup
pliers"
He cited recent public statements
that American industry should switch
to lines of manufacture not dependent
on the aid of tariffs. Full employment
of our people" he declared, cannot
be provided i'm Il few lines of produc-
tion where no tariff protection is
needed"
Senator Wheeler warned against
adoption of any policy, foreign or do
mestic, which would lower American
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