Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-03-16
It's News
To Me
By O. J. Pecord
60,0O0,000 JOBS


Much has been written and said about providing
the workers of this country with 6Ooooooo jobs the post
era.
Most people are impressed with the sound 6OOoOoOO
jobs they think would be wonderful thing for all workers
who want jobs to be able to work and and buy and buy
buy Truly would be wonderful thing but far the
plans have not passed the talking stage
OF certain amount of talk and discussion neces
before anything really constructive accomplished in this
country but after ALL the will be the veterans Will
be back and people will be looking for obsand we may s
Frankly I'd like to see something concrete in way
planning by by industry and by labor to
certain that all this conversation about postwar jobs at
high doesn't vanish into thin air.
Not only would lot of people like to something def
the postwar planning and that
jobs high People would like to have assur-
an n that n % mot De Of sn er
than the which ended only when the present war
We must the end of the shooting mark the
beginning of another economic in which the workers OF
PROSPERITY Pr SspRisE arf FROM iSe Ti1s1mi WHERE
This prosperity about which we have heard much talk
the depression began in 1929 first by Hoover and
the Republicans and then from Roosevelt and the New Dealers
country Certainly these times cannot be called prosperous
despite the fact that the workers making more money than
1t takes money give prosperity for
but the evil which purchases for the things we
a useful commodity 1t has but commodity
and that that to % the @ we smo Of money
circulation find that commodities difficult to purchase
because of shortages brought about by the war.
The workers want prosperity and not merely high wages
household goods furniture and appliances radios and hundreds
of other things which not available to them at this time
though they making relatively larger than be-
the
question all this prosperity from?
While recognize that the financial backing which makes
industry possible also that it is the
of the workers which produces the
things which we all need in order to live
workers believe that those who invest their money
private enterprise entitled reasonable reward for
rsng their capital On the other hand workers realize
this when carried to extremes ends in surplus
which guts the market brings about unemployment
and want in land of potential plenty and apparently only enS
TO absorb the surplus when
getting rid of the surplus exports to other countries
GOVERNMENT CONTROL
the light of and based recent
we'll remembered depression, it obvious that
control private industry manipulate
the country cannot be trusted their
profits without of control being exered over
them
AS matter of fact the present to show that
small the country just
greedy profits they before the bottom fell out
their world 1929 The only difference between and
the corporations making profits
country years following this 1t is
certainty that foreign markets will exist such existed
before Europe and large part OF Asia will need rehaba
tion rebuilding food clothing machinery and other capital
the thing the workers this country
most interested in is a stable economy.
These few of the things which must be considered
seeking 60000 900 workers. and is to
these points that labor must its best thought Unless the
profit system is controlled in the postwar it will again get
out of hand and lead depreons and bigger and
better