Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1946-01-31
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r. G. STROMBERG

I have never seen nor heard
more eloquent appeal for settle
ment than expressed in a full
page advertise
Small ment in a New
Business Man York paper re-
Appeals - Gently. The adj
vertisement is
headed "a Plea From A Bewil-
dered Small Business Man" and
is addressed to Government,
Labor and Management.
The text is as follows: Il
manufacture zippers. cannot
get enough tape. ! cannot get
enough metal. l cannot get
enough labor. l cannot get
enough of anything except GUS
toners. If l could get enough
material and enough labor, and
my competitors could too, very
soon between us we would make
so many zippers, the competition
would be so keen-that there
would be no possibility of in
creased prices and no danger of
initiation, at least so far as zip
pers are concerned.
What is true of my business
tzippers'is true Of buttons and
dresses and fab
production, RIGS and steel and
Ingenuity Of autos and loco
Management. motives and
finger bowls and
teseh picks and Of apple sauce.
Production. com etiiion, the
ingenuity Of Hl,unGement The
eo-op ration Of labt Il
psAxs afIation,
ment regulation n q 4.
Please stop your strikes!
MANAGEMENT - Please pay
your emloyee a higher wage =
remember he is your best Gus
tomerl GOyERNMENT-Trust
us-don't regulate us! Wen
hold the line-yOluntarily.
ITO the average people of
America-We cooperate so well
in time of war for death and de-
,struction-to fight our enemy.
Why can't we in times of peace,
construction and for our
utual welfare, cooperate just
- well and not fight each
other?
please, everybody get to-
gether and let me make my
zippers." The advertisement was
signed David SHERMAN.
The sanity of the argument
lies in the fact that all sides
lose. And when all interested
in any problem
Cooperation lose there can
OF Labor Will be no gain.
StOp Initiation Whether the in
dividual's family
be one of labor, management,
government or just an innocent
bystander they are all what
finally makes up "the general
public" No matter where our
sympathies lie we all are made
TO sacrifice because of the failure
IT organization heads to get to-
gether. Of course we don't
want initiation. But we do want
this country to maintain a high
standard of living and we can
not pay the tax load unless men
are employed at a wage which
permits them to hold heads high
and give their families some of
the better things Of life. Nor
do we want to see prices soar TO
heights which cancel wage in
creases because then we start on
the initiation spiral which leads
to unknown although certain dis
aster.
Our American economy is built
so intricately that the smallest
margin separates prosperity
from depression. There is a deli
cate thread of relationship be-
tween all phases. Of national
well-being. The manufacturer
Of zippers is dependent on the
great steel industry as is the
manufacturer Of pins. Full en-
ployment determines the extent
OF public buying of real and pure
Injuries. And the person who
denies that the health Of indus
'ries providing luxuries is the
secret Of general prosperity sim
ply lacks any understanding of
our economy.
Some progress has been