Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 29, 1924, Page 12

SA ee ee Se > eee a PAGE TWELVE. Se ee bears RADICALISM OF LAFOLLETTE HOT SWALLOWED BY LABOR IN _ SPITE OF By DAVID LAWRENCE (Copyright, 1924, Casper Tribune) ASHINGTO Aug. 29.—The American I ion of Labor is not swallowing Senator Robert M. La- Follette or radicalism. ~ Altho an indorsement arty ‘ederationist,”” the American or, will say in its ptember number issued, some important nich can not but be con- strued as a fundamental objection to certain principles for which La- Follette s The Federation of Labor frank agrees with LaFollette on the subject of trusts and monopolies and government ownership and de- mands that the Sherman anti-trust repealed. The “Federa- * expresses a friendship for & means of conserving nd thinks the LaFollette pro Kram of trying to cure monopoly by political regulation is wrong. After reading the editorial, one can t help wonder how the American n of Labor could endorse » at all for, on principle, art. Would the Wis pe to what the Anyone who leader car n by studying the editorial which says, in has been nominees as labe ubser Lys onsin orthcoming ately owned monopoly as a political issue is bound to play a part in the present political campaign. It compels attention, directly or in directly, in the political platforms. Thé Democratic party demands strict ement the Sherman anti-trust law. The “ollette plat forms call for use of the power of th overnment to crush private rather than foster it. The platform propounds the doctrine of laissez faire, poly, ablican old Rood or leave things about as they are. “No political platform meets ‘the on this great ques- nnd labor, in con s-could not and did nalysis on that issue other issues but th wpecial considera- he outset in order that la hor's future « > may be as clear ns has ben its past rec L the} LATE ENDORSEMENT “The American Federation of Labor has demanded and will con-| tinue to demand the ‘repeal of the Sherman anti-trust act. It can not hold with the Republicans and noth- ing needs to be done but it would prefer the status quo to a tinkering procgss that would result in streng- thening the antitrust ct or in creat- ing new, politica] machinery © with | which to’ burden labor and industry without bringing real benefit to either, “Let It be set forth definitely here that labor and industry are indivis- ible and inseparable. Labor, as such, may have interests that seem to.clash with the interests of other factors in industry, but as a part of the great world of industry, labor, management, science, all share in the responsibility for the produc- tivity and general well-being of. in- dustry and they are all bound up in its fate. Labor can not go with the Demo- cratic demand for strict and ‘stern application of the Sherman law. Other strict and stern enforcement that that law had had. hag been against labor and labor confessedly and absolutely has had enough. “Labor has provested from time out of mind against being classed with dead, duN merchandise, Labor is not a commodity. The Demo- jcratic platform declares that. labor is not a commod'ty, but it cancels this lip service by demanding en- forcement of a law which almost more than any other has served to place labor beffre the courts in the category of commodities “Neither can American labor ap- prove the demand for what is often termed government repression of monopoly. Labor’s fight is not against combination in industry as such but against the evil influences which control such great combina tions and which are all too often ex- erted in our poiitical, judicial and economic life. “Labor declares that the question of controlling nenopsiy and conserv- ing the public welfare against abuses by monopoly can not be soly- 4 by the political state and almost every attempt so to serve it will have the institution of private prop- erty as long as our present form of government stands,“ Democracy rests upon the private ownership of property as much as upon any other basis. ? “The basis of monopoly, and of all large ownership, is in the institution of private property. There 1s no going back of that fact. It stands and theorists will do well to re- member it. “Starting on that basis, ownershfp submits to natural forces at work in the field of industry. These na- tural forces make for constantly en- Jarging units of production and con- stantly enlarging organizations for production and distribution. Some of this enlargement is undoubtedly devised also to enlarge profits: But basically, it is all) so far as it is sound and lasting, in accord with changing methods of production and devised to securé economy of pro duction, volume of production .and facility of distribution. It is’ econo- mically sound. It is in response to normal and natural demand for me- thods ‘that fit the requirements of men and machinery, “The United States Steel Corpora- tion is called a trust. It is a produc- tion machine of tremendous worth to the peogle of America. It was built to Work and it does work. The supreme court, wiser than platform builders, found a way to allow it to ilve. It-was good strategy, too, for it sayed the government the humilia- tion of-an unenforceable decree, “Henry Ford, in a national ad- vertising campaign, 1s telling all America of his great combination) of including mines, forests, mills, smel- ters, railroads, ship lnes.and fac- tories. Here is a machine which came. into being in response to a natural demand. It 1s a wonderful economic machine, for economical purposes. Ford knows this and he is-doubtless advertising the explana- tion of its sound merits in order to build up a public understand™M¢g that will be too wise to attack it destruc- tiv “Whatever platform. builders may say, it is too late in the economic day to go’out with a broom to sweep back the tide. ‘The tide was started when steam power was discovered, hastened when.steam was harnessed to machine pulleys, accelerated when Ben Franklin flew his kite into elec tricity and fame and given irresisti- ble force when the modern factory system stood forth sm full flower. On this tide, we go on to better things, or in {t we go down to destruction. 4 to more abuse than remedy. “Consider this vital fact: Govern- ment stands as the guarantor of the ate propert; shall but we can return {t. The proper sphere of government in helping to- ward»beneficial results is to find and furnish information, to at and production units—a horizontal trust, | | “We can not turn back the tide,| Che Casper Daily make known the facts, to encdurage and insist upon development within industry of machinery which will take from invested wealth its dicta- torial power over’ policies of produc- tion, employment and public rela- tions. There is. normal course which must be pursued, just as there always is where life and its perpetua- tion are concerned. The government may be helpful, but it can not take over the task without spoiling the, whole effort. “The labor movement will resist at all times every effort at governmen- tal coercion, every effort-of govern- ment blindly to go counter to the natural and evolutionary forces that are at work where life has its being and its sustenance. Labor is con- cerned with life, while government too often sees only formulas. “In this issue there is bound up the whole contest between govern- mentalism and individual and gfoup freedom, between free industry and state socialism. Labor is for free- dom, for the normal, rational things —for the utmost of freedom and full- ness for life and life forces. Let politicians give - heel to. those thoughts.” ~ Be so TY SS NOTICE TOS MEN Dipping pens at Bishop will be open for dipping on and after the tenth of September, Register at Richards and Cunningham store with A. L. Wallace, M. u. BISHOP. The yearly rice crop of the world is about 190,000,000 pounds. 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