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
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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-
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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.
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today and will become president
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now at the association's next
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