Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-09-07
It's News
To Me
By 0. J. Pecord

By 0. J. Pecord A
There are two schools of thought with respect
employment program advocated by labor.
hand labor that full employment be
attained in time war; possible in time peace. 1t
further that without full employment
and security.
Business and industry and you include the
that employment mirage beautiful to look at but una
system which talks about but quite
free enterprise
And So we have the conflict ideas
ty which labor constantly seeks but attanS its goal
while captastc enterprise lip service to freedom
ideal which it has, and will attain.
THE FACTS
at notion of the prospects
full employment in system conflicting
deooge must view the past the immediate past of wartime
production expectations of the future The
only thing we have to pass judgment
We have just completed greatest history.
cent conflict mechanical which all the ingenuity
full test Mechanical warfare plus chemical
warfare the world has before known has left
too Supplied realize the implications which World
War II means to the present and the future world
Mechanical warfare demands and machines. 1t
that instead of man becoming slave machine the
chine the the machine
victorious and the who create the victorious machines
go along for the ride True death to millions men, but
the end, machine controlled by after
ons beaten into abject and uncondonay surrender
In time of mechanical warfare there is no unemployment
Instead there definite for the of
strength lies not only in but importantly in outpro
ducng the in the instruments of death and destruction
Thus jobs ounumber the available regardless which
nation wins the
PEACE DIFFERENT
different. longer any outpro-
dce the enemy for the enemy no longer exists He has been
robbed of his ability to indeed he probably
prevented from competing the peaetme rivalry which
exists world of industralized nations with
peaceme production face to face with the theory
of captasc endeavor to the cheapest market and
sell on the dearest"
industry purchases any
commodity it is only reasonable to expect that will attempt
follow the practices respect which
buying other materials And Moreover it by
methods which sometimes devious bring about conditions
which wiz force down the price of labor
One of the conditions which industry seeks to impose upon
labor in order to control its price unemployment Thus
in normal times there millions unemployed
called normal float of workes jobs
the bidding for jobs becomes animated
and result there gratifying industry
in the price of labor
SUPPLY AND DEMAND
AS commodity labor to respond of sup
used by the ndustrasts The plentiful the supply
bo the cheaper becomes The labor becomes the
higher its price.
Indusrals love surplus of labor Labor intense
dislike for unemployment The former finds
control the price Of labor and thus empor
ar greater profits while the workers discover that they
not sufficient purchase back sufficiently large enough
volumn of the goods it produces
When this occurs layoffs Take place continue until
such time that the indusras able off
plus of manufactured goods either by selling nations
or by slowly rdding themselves of their products.
LABOR KNOWS
Labor is well of the economic philosophy
dustrass It recognizes that must bring about full employ
ment find itself market and the realization
of these facts weapons which are at
hand combat the evils which rob of security
Political action the has picked
Its means of seeking to the advantage which
by those who control the producing
the wealth of the country Ballots rather
weapons which American workers bring upon more
equitable distribution of the commodities they produce
Looking at the picture today in this light is quite appar
INT that Congress the which must aim
sure and which it must convince that only
but that has the detroy the political life of those
who refuse to along with abors employment
This brings the questoncan destroy DO
ca field those who stand in the of its realization
greater security through full employment program?
rankness must give answer for today labor
still unable to control the southern Democrats and
IS not sufficiently educated to rid itself the
ary northern Republicans
The crisis is not here yet but rapidly approaching
LaborS educational barely scratched
lace Meanwhile industry is opposing any legislation to give
u employment because it not as human beings
but as marketable commodity.