The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-09-07
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@ BY GEORGE S. BENSON
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Follow Through

Do you believe working people
have right to organize and bar
gain as group for their general
betterment? Do you believe man
who has saved some money has a
right to invest it in any business he
likes and to operate that business,
trying to make a reasonable profit?
Do you believe that big-volume pro-
duction at low cost is the key to
good pay? My answer is yes, to all
three questions.
If you agree, you subscribe to the
fundamentals of the Labor Manage
ment Charter. 1t was signed in
Washington last March % by Will
liam Green for the American Fed
Grafton of Labor, Eric Johnson for
United States Chamber of Com
merce, and Phil Murray for the
Congress of Industrial Organiza-
tons. 1t is a powerful document,
able (if carried out) to do the world
more good than the famous Atlantic
Charter.
Nothing Original
People who work surely have
rights. Open competition is certain
ly fair. Economy of time and effort
yields positive rewards. These ideas
are not original. They are old and
time-tested principles. All of them
stand out clearly in the teachings
of Jesus and of many great men
who have lived and enriched the
world more recently. They appear
in the bor-Management Charter.
Besides declaring the rights of Ia
Dor, the fairness of competition and
the dividends of economy, the La
Encouragement Charter contains
two vital pledges: ~ To settle in
dustrial disputes peaceably - no
strikes, no violence, no. lockouts, no
trickery, and (2) To support sound
economic system in America-an
expanding foreign trade and an en-
during peace. Both are perfectly
sound.
Big Responsibility
Being the richest and strongest
nation in the world, the United
States has serious responsibility.
It is graver than ever now, with a
global war to finish and the world
to be set in order. Miss Columbia
must point the way and she stands
at the crossroads. Americas choice
will determine which way the whole
world goes; to peace and plenty or
to poverty and oppression.
Of the 200 billion people who have
lived on earth, not more than 90
could call their souls their own. The
way of the world has always been
oppression and it still is. Now espe-
cially the trend is toward dictator
ship. Not 20% of the people now
living ever dreamed of freedom and
prosperity like we enjoy, but Amer
lea is in actual danger of being car
ried with the political tide.
Jobs and Markets
The Labor Mana cement Charter
points the right way: toward free
dom of faith, security of ownership,
and liberty in self-government. Like
any guide-post it is powerless in
itself, useful only if it is followed.
If followed, however, it indicates an
orderly transition from war to VIC
tory in peace and prosperity. If it
is ignored, our alternate course leads
to economic war, government by
edict, lower wages, and less of the
things people want
The system of open competition
in enterprise made America the
worlds most influential nation and
kept it in the forefront of human
progress for ITO years. A recent
survey shows that conservative busi-
ness men are ready, if they have a
chance, to offer more than one job
per available worker after the war.
For full employment, good pay,
ready markets and active business,
let's follow through with the Labor
Monaonpoenf Ch ortar