The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1947-10-16

These are labor convention days
which means that they are impor-
tant days.
They come when strictly labor
issues are of top-flight importance
and they come when international
issues are of even more Importance
We need some mighty wise labor
craftsmanship.
The Taft-Hartley Act is but one
of the issues that can cause haii
to turn gray. There are many 9th
ers. The cost of living in one and
initiation is one, though the two are
hooked together closely.
When you pay your dime and
get on a roller coaster you know
where the contraption is going to
stop and where you will get off.
1t is different with initiation. With
that, all you know is that you will
get hurt where you get off.
But there is little use singing out
few issues. There are issues in
every hand and few issues are
! strictly labor issues.
The Marshall Plan is a labor is
sue. Whether the European econo-
my breaks down and the whole con-
tinent goes red is 3 labor issue. If
it isn't that, then what is it?
Whether the economy Of Asia
China and Korea-can stand up is
labor issue
Boil it all down and the fate of
the world is labor issue and labor
cannot evade that fact, except at it's
grave peril.
Bound up in the economies of
Europe and Asia and whether they
remain free or go red is the basic
issue of whether freedom lives
there, or dies.
Our position will be precarious
indeed if only the Western Hemis-
phere remains free for the individ-
ual and this is all the more so since
a good part of Latin America has
not yet learned how to guard and
respect the freedom of the individ-
ual.
Mr.. Peron is a beam in our own
eye to which there are few notes
to be added in this hemisphere.
What we do about the Marshall
Plan is not a question of whether
or not we like charity and can af-
ford it.
The question is much like wheth-
er or not you will put out a fire
next door, partly to help the neigh
bors, but partly to keep your own
house from burning.
Probably no labor conventions
have ever been called into session
at a more critical time.
1t would be good if all questions
could be analyzed and determined
on basis of uncolored facts and
unheated logic.
But labor isn't always cool and
clear-headed just because it is la
Dor.
1t can be just as passionate as
others, just as likely to be swayed
by emotions and just as likely to
oppose something because an enc
my is for it.
1t would be good if our domestic
economy could be analyzed as a
cold fact and it would be good if
we could get at the world situa-
ton on the same basis.
For example, in the rough, we
know that at home corporate di-
vidends have been and are sky
high and we know that a great
segment of wage earners have
been slipping down in point of ac-
tual income. Some Of these are or
yanized, some are not. The balance
IS shot, the economy is hay-wire.
Too much and too little, is the
it is the world story as
we'll as the domestic story.
1t needs a statesman's look and
/ statesman's answer.
AS a part of the picture, ex-
ports are being cut hard and some
stocks are beginning to pile up on
shelves. Maladjustment is, if not
at least bit on the loose.
Gentlemen of the conventions,
you have a mountainous mess of
problems on your hands.
1t is no time to play for peanuts
md it is no time to seek the easy 1
way out. Please think deeply and /
ace issues squarely, without fear.
Privacy is enjoyed only by those ;
whose affairs are of no interest