Evening star., 1959-10-18

T\HE PORTS have been paralyued The great steel
''''''' a. cold
- In 100000 homes the bread winner has been
is easy to blame somebody else. Finger pointing
ancient game.
Meanwhile we all lose. Only enemies win America
becomes weak when most need to be strong
What is the right way to end these strikes!
Factnng commissions may be necessary But the plain.
est fact the blindness of human The greatest fact
IL that human nature be changed.
When men change, conditions change conditions that
strikes and lockouts
This is theological age We Americans must live
Codgven deoogy bring the to Communism,
ruption, division, dictatorship and despair.
No strike today just industrial Every strike quickly
becomes theological Selfishnes and theological blindness
in both management and labor whether they like not
used by Communism to break down the economy OF
the free world The total cost of the present steel strike
is date six billion doars-which is the entire cost Of
India's next five-year plan
Men who are ideoOgically awake will quickly settle
their differences.
At the turning point of the 55day steel strike of 1852
man had inspiration His John " Rife. He
the last Executive Vice.Presdent of the C. l. o.
Not Who's Right but What's Right
locked In this situation, Rife reflected "a little of what
is right and less of who is right might help produce
issues dividing the operators and the steelworkers
longer purely material The gap lay in different realm
that Of the clash of human Wills with the obstinacy PRIDE
suspicion and bitterness which accompany it. 1t moral
the creation of moral climate" From John Rife Of
the SteeIUorkers American Labor Statesman to be published
November by Coward.McCann New York;
Rife suggested the union policy committee invite in the
representatives of the management. They
The Pittsburgh Post Gazette of July o. 1882 reported:
1.-THE surprise visit of the industry group to the union
gathering set precedent in industrial relations in the
steel industry apparent to observers that their
presence disspaed Of the tension and bitterness the
long strike had engendered."
The Ne.O York Times Of July q, 1852, contained this
of the final meetings. "Mr Fare and Mr. Murray
privately for 70 minutes and again later with their aides
Mr. Fairess said in effect We have got to take whole new
approach to each other. Something is obviously wrong
We have got to learn to get along together Mr. Murray
replied in like vein saying that the union interested
In simply damning The sides then quickly
dcked off the terms of the agreement
1T exaggeraton to say that the spirit to which the
No men on the industry and union sides gave voice
primarily responsible for their ability arrive settlement
fresl0ent
that they had settle the strike within twenyour hours or
else much less of a factor"
John Rife fought for the destiny of the labor movement
lie believed with Frank Buchanan, intiator of Moral Re.
Armament that Labor led by God lead the world"
Shortly before his death in 1858 Rife said to United
States Senator Senator tell America that when Frank Buch.
changed John Rifle he saved this country $5OOOOOOOO"
Moral Re.ArmGment is incorporated in the
handbook, ''IdeOIOgy and CO-Existence," q
York I9; Mackinac Island, \
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