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PAGE ELEVEN BabsonDiscusses Labor Hava Wt a Patriotic Congrast? Babson Park. Mast.. March 13. In a llfetlma of activ con cern In helping solve the problems of Management and Labor I have always been on the aide of thoe who have been working to raise the workers' standards of living. I have always believed in collective bargaining. I recently told some employer friends that they better get ready for a day when the closed shop may be installed In our major industries and when Labor may be represented on the boards of directors of such corporations This is the present trend. Slavery Looms If Allies Defeated Democratic capitalism must be dynamic. It cannot stand still 11 it is to succeed against the Inroads of other systems that are abroad in the world today. Furthermore, I realize that the hard-won advantages which the 0 workers in this country have achieved over the years must not be thrown away. I say this much as a good friend of all concerned and as a former as sistant to the secretary of labor during World War 1. The grim fact confronts us. however, that we as a people are today fighting for our very lives. The continued existence of all the values we hold dear Is at stake in the global war which now encompasses us. If the United Nations are defeat ed, the status of the American working man and woman will be degraded to that of slave labor. This is what some con '" gressmen seem to forget when they insist that, in this grave emergency, we must continue to grant labor the forty-hour week. They even appeal to a willing- ness to extend general wage in Q creases and otherwise permit labor to entrench itself even more strongly than before. Short-Slghted Solons Causa Most Worry ' I believe that such labor lead ers as Philip Murray, president of the CIO, and William Green, president of the AFolL, axe hon est and sincere men. There are racketeers in the labor move ment Just as there are racke teers in business and in the pro fessions. I'm not worried about those fellows. It's the short sighted attitude of a majority of congressmen that l m concernea about. This short-sightedness be comes almost criminal when congress permits labor leaders even go so far as to call strikes In war Industries in order to enforce labor's demands. Con gress should at least immediate ly adapt the Canadian wage sys tem. I sincerely hope congress will again hear from home as they recently did when voting A themselves pensions. The only argument I have . heard advanced in favor of con tinuing labor's special privileges at this time is that other selfish groups are doing the same thing! We hear a lot about war profits and "the selfish insistence of the farmers" in demanding still higher prices for their crops. 1 am opposed to excessive war profits. I am also reasonaDiy certain that Secretary Morgen- thau and the present pro-labor congress will syphon these pro fits out of corporation treasur ies by the 1942 tax measure. Paid Farm Leaders Fought by F.D.R. This administration Is not friendly to the stockholders of America and no one knows tins better than our labor leaders who have waxed fat since Mr. O Roosevelt was first elected. As to the paid farm leaders, their short-sighted selfishness is being stoutly fought by the president. In fact, he will, I believe, veto the farm parity bill If it passes In its present form. He is gettirg tired and disgusted with all paid lobbyists whoever they repre sent. Our most dangerous foe today la not Hitler. It is not Japan. It , is our own refusal to give up our selfish privileges for the duration of the war. From the evidence at hand, I regret to say that labor seems to be one of the worst offenders. The Rus sian people and the Chinese people are winning their battles because they are sacrificing everything to the common pur pose - of defeating the enemy When we cease to think and act Oas labor union leaders, or as farm union leaders, or as cor poration officials and begin to act as our embattled forefathers did at Bunker Hill and Valley Forge, we shall begin to win this war. Then and only then and not one day sooner. Labor Main Causa Of Inflation Era Even apart from primary pa triotic reasons, labor must real ize that, by insisting on the re tention of its favored peacetime hours and WaffM atatna 14 la bringing down unnn all nf ua the full fury of inflation. Leon nenaerson is absolutely right in hiS Stand a0ninat waA In. creases, higher farm prices, and other attempts to hasten the in flationary sniral. Th tntln of the forty-hour week is only an ODiique insistence on further wage advantages. It marks the point at which overtime pay starts. I know workers are per fectly willing, anvtime. in war or peace, to work 48 or even 54 nours a week, it Is solely a ques tion of wages that is Involved. The decreased outaut nf sumers' goods means that for the duration wa all mut the reality of a readjusted stan- oara or living. If the workers, bV inKlKt in An Hlrawt anaa In. creases and the forty-hour week, pusn wage schedules skywards, they will merely be trying to lift themselves by their econom ic bootstraps. Their wage dollar will buy less and less of more and more articles. No system of iixea prices can prevent uni versal bootlegging. Wag IncraasM In Stamps Advocated When wage increases are ab solutely necessary, they should be paid in the form of defense stamps and bonds. There are two good reasons for this: (1) It would help sop up the surplus purchasing power that would otherwise go to speed up infla tion. (2) It would provide a grateful cushion for the work ers later on against dislocations of the early post-war unemploy ment period when such bonds, converted - Into cash, would come in very handy. In fact, I believe more of present wages should be paid in defense stamps. Labor it making a fundamen tal mistake if it insists that peacetime prequlsites are per manently endangered- if they are temporarily waived as part of the total war effort I believe that some sort of legislation suspending the work-week limi tations contained in seventeen federal laws should be enacted. Such a repeal can by the legislative act itself be con fined to the duration of the war. After the war is over the former provisions would automatically become effective again. Such action would carry out the ex pressed wishes of the president in his last address to the nation when he asked that continuous and maximum war production be maintained. I frankly think that the house of representatives blundered when it rejected this - - It'll mJ " l jrwa Lrv- ijfit: f i.cse r tM i am RiiieinirUipnr LAerTV 1 Ul llll I. ill ilUll.l III PEACE REICNED IN AUSTRALI A T H E N Continued Japanese raiding slabs at Anstralla have brought about all-out weparations for war, when It comes. This Is a view of Brisbane, a city of 124,S0t and capital of tha state of Queensland. SENIOR HIGH IN CONCERT MAR. 20 The entire senior high school music department, under direc tion of Miss Helene Leach and Mr. Wilson Wait, will present a pageant-concert on March 20. Some of the numbers to be In cluded in the program are: a concert version of the own fauf by the entire chorus: A Dire for Two Veterans." a modern and timelv mmno.l. tion that Is scored with drums and trumpet accompaniment, to do presented by the boys' chorus: and tha romantic "I jrlv of Shallot," which will be sung by tha girl' chorus, with pan tomime stage pictures. The band will play a grouo of contest numbers and marches. among which Is "Pax and La bor." With the stirring "Pomp and Circumstance March," by Elgar, the chorus and band will conclude the program. Accord ing to Miss Leach, the depart ment feels that this pageant concert will be the finest achievement of the year. There will be a nominal ad mission charge and tickets mry be obtained at Prultt s melody shop, at the senior high school office, or from any member of the music department. Clotlnr tlma tor Clajwltted Ada a a. m. Too lata to Claaall; 13 40 OHFlStilomdRiTtTiI Cttrka L Fallat. OoacUT 014 H proposal tome days ago. I hope the senate will revive it Rmambr Franc And Parl Harbor Let us not forget that one of the things which paved the way for the defeat of France was the insistence. Just before World Warr II by the pro-labor Blum government that French work ers should retain their so-called "social gains." This was the crazy attitude of the French government and of the French workers even in the face of the gathering storm. Those same French workmen are today la boring 70 and 80 hours a week at a mere pittance of a wage, turning out Hitler's war produc tion. Were those workers able to speak to the millions of mem bers of the CIO and of the AFofL, what would be their messaei today? I know what they would say. They would say "For what does it profit a worker to keep his forty-hour week for a little while, if he loses thereby everything he holds dear, including liberty itself?" High School News by STUDENT REPORTERS By Tholma Kaplon Featured on Medford high's regular Friday radio program this afternoon was John BagUen and his oration on "American ism, the Protector of Liberty." Ned Liebman, newscaster, pre sented his regular weekly round up of school activities. Jim Tucker acted as general an nouncer. Highlight of last week's program was an inter view with Jiro Shimodo by Ned Liebman of the recent Southern Oregon Hi-Y conference. Southern Oregon's first Hl-Y rally, last Friday and Saturday with Medford high acting as host was considered a success by all attending. Guest speak ers for the conference included: Dr. Walter Redford, president of S.O.C.E., who discussed "The U. S. Citizen on the March"; the . Rev. Victor Phillips, Methodist minuter from Klamath Falls, who spoke on "What Every Citizen Needs ; and Everett ' Harding, northwest association I area executive, who discussed , "Hi-Y in Today's World." Club presidents of schools : represented Included Warren S Holbrook, Medford; Dick Fin nell, Ashland; Gene Allison, Grants Pass; and Bill Kennedy, Klamath Falls. The presidents from Marshfield and Roseburg I were unable to attend. Last Saturday night, follow ing the Medford-O.S.C.E-. rooks basketball game, the Order of M held a dance in the girls' gym to raise funds for the or ganization's pictures in the 1942 Crater. The gym was decorated in a patriotic manner, displaying red, white, and blue emblems. Order of M members In charge of the affair were: Marc Jarmln, Warren Holbrook, and Curt Hopkins. t An interesting review of school activities for the past three months was presented at a regular A.S.B. business meet ing this morning, after which district regents of the D.A.R. presented $7.50 to Opal Barn hart, second place winner in the D.A.R. state-wide print dress contest, and $2 to Masa Kayama, who received first honorable mention. Miss Helene Leach, vocal Instructor of the high school, led the students in sev eral selections before A. S. B. President Don Shanahan ad journed the meeting. COLLIER'S COSTLIER New York, March 13. 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