Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-04-20
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million jobs would be little
more specific about the meth
DDS to be employed In attain
ing their goal.
This writer yields to no one
in the matter of the intensity
with which he yearns for full
employment, but he does not
think that the cause of pro-
gress and democracy is served
by gabbing about 60,000,000
jobs as If they were so many
peanuts.
Quit your kidding - you
hotshots who talk as if so mil
lion jobs can be had by turn
ing on a faucet with simple
twist of the wrist-and let's
get back to solid earth.
We need to keep our dogs
In the dirt; because, If only a
few million of us fail to con-
meet with one of those 60,000,-
600 jobs, we're going to need
to keep our feet in practice
for the practical business of
job-hunting.
Wouldn't we look funny
looking for work up in the
clouds where the hotshots play
tiddley-winks with millions of
imaginary jobs.
LOUD TAKERS
Who are the loud takers
whose mouths are so profi-
cient at re-converting our eco
nomy to full employment for
peace?
Some of them are top-flight
politicians; some are govern
ment bureaucrats; some are
fuzzy-minded laborites; some
are petty politicoes-like Earl
Browder, the boss Connie
who naster-minds on all the
worlds m jor and minor
problems.
I do not ring Browder into
this discourse just to be funny.
A Communist is the most un-
funny creature in this world.
The boss of the American
Commies has a role to play in
one particular kind of a cam
paign for go million jobs.
Let us now look at this one
particular kind of campaign
for full employment.
FOREIGN TRADE
The particular kind of a
campaign for full employ
ment to which l refer shapes
up about as follows:
First, the emphasis of post
war business expansion will
be placed on foreign trade,
supervised by the American
federal government, but man
aged by American capitalists
and bankers.
Second, a large American
Army, Navy and Air Force,
supplemented by peace-time
military conscription and the
use of far-flung bases obtained
in this war, will police the
expansion of American for
eign trade.
Third, American labor will
be rushed toward collabora-
tion with the emp1oyers-in
the manner of the Green
Johnston-Murray Charter
with a drive for a postwar
no-strike pledge and contin-
ued regimentation of labor by
government agencies.
Fourth, as a result of the
foregoing policies, America
can achieve so million jobs,
and still pay off plenty of
profits to our plutocrats, who
will run the show, while labor
licks up the crumbs.
PROVIDERS ROLE
Under this scheme, Browder
and his buddies would serve
as policemen for the pluto
Gratis. From strategic positions
of power inside the labor
m v m n t, the Commies
would connive to keep labor
in check. They would try to
prevent strikes; they would
plug for settlement of labor
disputes through Intervention
of government agencies; and
in every manner try to sup
press militance and indepen-
dence on the part of labor.
The Commies would do this
in order to keep profits flow
ing to the capitalists and
bankers who are providing
jobs through foreign trade,
and, incidentally, exporting
huge volumes of goods to Rus
sia.
All of this adds up to
campaign to get 60,000,000
jobs through a program of
'totaliberalism"- / do not
want any part of it,
If / have to lick a capital
lists boots, with a Connie
holding my head down, in or
der to get full employment
I'll take my little old soap box
and sleep in the street.
What has destroyed every
precious civilization has been