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Republican Party On Spot i On Labor Question-Willkie This la the fifth of a serifs of seven articles by Wendell Wlllkle on the position he believes the Republican party should take in 1944. This arti cle deals with labor. The problem of labor today is surcharged with emotion and dangerously sharp cleavages. Men more zealous than wise are trying to label the Democratic party the exclusive friend of labor, and the Republican party its Inveterate enemy. The source of this theory is not difficult to discern. Labor leaders feel that before the advent of the present administration labor did not get a fair break, and that previous Republican administrations gave consideration solely to a busi ness point of view. Today, on the other hand, many industrial ists believe with almost fanatical intensity that the present admin istration sees everything exclu sively through the eyes of labor, and plays politics both with and within labor. There is considerable truth in the viewpoints of both. , However, nothing inherent in the nature of the two parties justifies the roles that propa gandists have sought to assign them. Assuming that there are in the Republican party a few nineteenth century industrialists who still believe that labor is a commodity, every one of these has his Democratic counterparts in the Smith-Connallys who de vote their energies to bating organized labor. Labor's Position Different But the Republican party has allowed itself to be put on the spot on the labor question. It SUSS- MIXED You'll like the Big, Rough Blox Compare the Qua!ity of This Fuel Big 300 cu. ft. Load, 12 or 16-in. BEDFORD FUEL GO. Tel. 3111 &FIR $550 1122 N. Central has done so by falling to appre ciate sufficiently that for labor essential coptent of freedom is different in today's industrial society from what it was in the agricultural society of an earlier age. Men no longer able to own, or to aspire to own, small busi nesses and farms have sought new solutions for a need which all Americans must respect the need to control for them selves 'the circumstances which dictate their working lives. How ever much the present adminis tration has bungled the problem, it has taken cognizance of this historic change. A 1944 republican platform should acknowledge the neces sary requirements for the pro tection of labor under conditions existent today not yesterday. Some of them are: The continu ance and improvement of a fed eral wage and hour law, and fed eral regulatory machinery for its interpretation and enforce ment. However, it should be re membered that no law, spon sored for business or labor, is a good law which creates in the mind of either the justifiable be lief that fair and impartial treat ment cannot be obtained under it. Compulsory social insurance must be broadened in its base and progressively expanded. Repeal Coercive Laws Coercive legislation such as the Smith-Connally act which Is both unwise and unenforceable should be repealed For labor's inherent right to strike, which it has voluntarily abandoned dur ing the war, is the basis of all its rights and must not be out lawed merely because the ad- 1 P or only 1 down YOU CAN CHOOSE ANY OF THESE LOVELY NEW FUR COATS AT WARDS! China Mink-Dyed Coney with Yoke backs Luxurious Blue Fox-Dyed Coney Tuxedos New, Young Plaiina-Dyed Coney with Pom-Pomi Smart Skunk-Dyed Opossum Greatcoats Expensive looking Sable-Dyed Coney Tuxedos Jet Black, Lustrous Seal-Dyed Coney Even Beaver-Dyed Coney with Turn-Back Cuffs Jtff t III j lilll SQ50 U U plus 20 Excise Tax Yeil Wardi arranges it to you con get the beau KM fur you want, pay for it out of income I Only $5 down now; we itore your coat while you complete the payments. And you're getting a coat of prime quolity pelts ... a 1945 style I Tuxedos I Turn back cuff j I Yoke bock. Choose yours today I ONLY S5 DOWN HOLDS YOUR COAT UNTIL NOVEMBIR-ISlh T AT VI ontgomery Ward ministration has created sn at-! mosphere in which strikes are inevitable. Industry must convince labor that it Is prepared permanently to accept the basic principles of collective bargaining and unions must be reassured that the period of transition to peace will not be used as in 1919-20 to destroy the organizations they have built. Labor also has aspirations which are not only just but in dispensable to the health of a society marked by wide eco nomic fluctuations. For instance, an annual wage to those who work in plants with long season al or periodic shutdowns seems fair and necessary. And our post war economy must be built on a high wage level if we hope to furnish a market for the goods of an expanding peacetime produc tion. Our wheels can keep turn ing only if our workers can keep spending. Co-operation Bring Results Labor - management co-operation has proved fruitful during the war. The more it is continued and developed after the peace the less necessity there will be for government intervention in industrial relations. It Is time for both labor and management to' grow up, to recognize each other as essential factors in the same basic enterprise United States Industry and to settle their af fairs among themselves without recourse to government. Now that labor is reaching maturity all labor leaders must recognize what some leaders are saying witness the recent state ments of Mr. Thomas and Mr. Dubinsky that labor must be come responsible, must drive from its midst the racketeers, adopt democratic procedures and account for its funds and activi ties both to the public and to its own membership. And if the re luctant few refuse to follow democratic procedures than un der appropriate legislation such; matters must be regulated. j Finally, and basif to the whole question of labor in a democra-l tic society, in addition to its parti in American industrial life, labor must be made an essential part of government, with a real labor representative in the cabinet. Like other economic graups, it must share in the determination of government's fiscal, domestic and International policies. Thus it will share the responsibility for the results. Severe Stresses Coming The coming days of demobili zation will be difficult, particu larly difficult for labor. Mil lions of men and women will have to take up new forms of work in new localities. Return ing soldiers, will properly feel that they should have equal If not preferential opportunities for jobs. The adjustments of our economy to a peacetime basis will bring a multitude of stresses and strains, and labor is fearful that It alone will be asked to bear the sacrifices. That must not be. Every thoughtful American knows today that a strong labor movement is one of our greatest bulwarks against the growth of facistic tendencies and conse quently Is necessary for our dem ocratic way of life. The republi can party must demonstrate vis ibility and tangibly that it ap preciates the contribution of labor to our economic well being. It must have no doubt that it understands that labor has legitimate grievances, and Justi fiable aspirations toward a more secure place with larger partici pation in our modern industrial life. Above all, the republican party must demonstrate that it con produce a constructive, Just and humane labor program. B0ST0ND0CT0R HEADS MEDICAL ASSOCIATION Chicago, June 16 (U.R Dr. Roger I. 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