Evening Star Newspaper, September 1, 1929, Page 5

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Pleses Send Modern Homes Book 0, Garages 3 Nam Star 9-1-20 DAVIS SEES BRIGHT * FUTUREFORLABOR :Workers to Have More Lei- sure Hours, Secretary Says in Radio Address. | | | | inued From First Page.) country, Secretary Davis called atten- tion to the series of articles now appear- ing in The Star, describing conditions among the mountain people of the pro- posed Shenandoah National Park, less than 100 miles from Washington. “We shoould move the poor people from the mountains of Virginia, Ken- tucky and Tennessee,” said Mr. Davis, “and give them employment at good wages, s0 that they could improve their standards of living.” Much to Be Thankful For. American workmen and _employers have much to be thankful for, in Sec- retary Davis' opinion, for in na other country is there such contentment. “Worker and employer are locked to- gether in a partnership of good will which neither would care to break,” he declared. “It has brought them too much prosperity for that. I believe we are due to go on and develop still further this mutual respect to the ad- vantage of all.” Following is the text of the secre- tary's speech. We have in America 120,000,000 peo- ple, drawn from nearly all the countries of the Old World. Back there where these people came from there is still jealousy, conflicts of interest, political | differences that have led to open out- break. Here 120,000,000 of the same kind of people live and work together tn peace. Across the seas certain religious tri are at each other’s throats. Here every kind of religious belief goes its way without interference from any other. We have in America newspapers and magazines, open forums and every kind of wide-open avenue of expression. With all of these you do not hear one ripple of discontent in our national life. That is our America, as Labor day will find it on Monday next. In other countries labor also has a day to itself—its May day, in the Spring of the year, Ours comes in early Autumn, when the harvests have been garnered and we think of the next season. ‘That is characteristic of ou Labor day. It is a day when we look into the future. 50 Years of History. The other day a nationally known newspaper, which is about to celebrate its fiftieth anniversary, asked me to prophesy the position of labor in Amer- ica 50 years in the future. I said that in this day of wonders it is safe to prophesy anything, but that it was safest of all to judge what would happen 50 years from now by what has hap- pened in the 50 years that have passed. One of the blessings that have come to us during these 50 years is more time from work. It means something that labor in America is so well off that all over the country it can take a day off to think of its blessings and plan for more. Fifty years ago the 10 and 12 hour day was the rule. Except for shutdowns, there were few days off. In | my travels over the country, which I think it is my business to do in order to keep in touch with our labor inter- ests, it has astonished me to find ‘here and there instances where the 10, 11 and 12 hour day still prevails. It means something that the 11 and 12 | hour day and the seven-day week is | something to astonish us. It'is the in- defensible exception, which we think ought not to exist. So accustomed have we become to the shortened day that any longer .period of work seems obsolete and wrong. v that we have progressed in the past 50 years from the 12-hour day, I believe the next 50 years are going to | see the wo! complete his full day's | production with still more leisure time in which to enjoy the fruits of his labor—his motor trips, his visits to the theater, the library, the concert hall. The force that is bringing this about is modern scientific business system and the genius for invention that is going into_high-speed, automatic ma- chinery. Sysiem and machinery are making production so easy and rapid that less of the day and the week will be needed to turn out all the com- modities we can sell and use. In the next 50 years this system and ma- chinery is.sure to be further.improved. It is not fantastic to say that the time will come when the day's work can be done with hardly more effort than pull- ing a lever or pressing a button. A good many of our hardest mechanical Jobs are performed with just that much effort today. Ultimately much more of our time and energies can be devoted to improvement of our minds and the enrichment of our lives. Workers’® Sons Fill Colleges. I believe that all our church, schools and colleges must begin right now to train our people for the proper use of the greater leisure time they are going to have. As it is, we have raised to the highest pitch of usefulness the education we have had. Now we need to be educated in how to live, and I believe the greatest demand for this education will come from our millions of workers. Today the largest increase in college enrollment comes from the ranks of the workers, It is the sons and daugh- ters of our carpenters, masons, pud- dles and_mechanics who most want to go 1o college. Today we pride ourselves on giving the great majority of our children a grammar school training. Tomorrow we shall not be content until all of our children will have a higher education. I believe we will have to build more trade schools, more colleges for the thousands who want to go on. It is the workers today who are con- tributing the largest number of college- trained men and women to our popu- lation. As a people we rank today as among the most intelligent of all; 50 years from now we shall be not only the most intelligent but the most highly educated. Not only will the interests of the mind_be better ministered to, but so will those of the body and the heart. With the use of the automobile, the aeroplane and the zeppelin, I believe we shall see our great cities become fac- tories, stores, banks and theaters, while the home is taken out into the country. The man or woman employed in factory, store or office will so easily and swiftly move to the place of employment that I believe no one will have to complain as President Hoover did when he said: “The enormous losses in human happi-| ness and in money which have resulted from lack of city plans which take into account the condition of modern life need little proof. The lack of adequate open spaces, of playground and parks, the congestion of streets, the misery of tenement life and its repercussions upon each new generation are an untold charge against American life. Our cities do not produce their full contribution to the sinews of American life and na-| tional character. The moral and social issues can only be solved by a new con- ception of city building.” Cities Are Waking Up. Our cities are beginning to wake up to this backward situation, and I be- lieve these new and swift means of transportation will. enter into their plans. I look for the day when those who work in the city will live next to the wonders of nature, away from the factory fumes and smoke and the herd- | ing of tenements. They will know what |1t is to enjoy quiel and beauty instead of noise and dust. All of this is within reach if we wisely handle the job we have at pres- ent. Some of our toughest problems I believe we are solving now. It was but yesterday we were alarmed at the + number of worlzl‘lmlleul by these I newer mwrr-uv;a‘=k . Employ- ers have been to see the danger in adding to unemployment, with its effect of reducing the earning and buy- ing power of our people. The time 1s near—I believe it is here now—when the wise employer, before installing labor-saving machinery, will firsf plan new employment for the workers his machines are to displace. He realizes now that every worker he drops is & | customer deprived of purchasing power. At the very time when he plans to turn out more goods to sell he will not want to cut down the number of customers for his goods, and he knows that if he does not pay higher wages and thereby give the worker his full share of the profits of this increased pr&ductlon. the machine will defeat it- self. We are all glad to see our various corporations strong and Jmspem“s and regularly paying their dividends. But I wish some of our employers would see one good way to make their divi- dends earn still more. If some of these extra dividends were devoted to wage increases, think of the number of new automobiles ‘that would be bought. In turn the maker of autos would have more steel to buy, more planos, more radios, more of every- thing; so that in turn the dividends of every business would be increased, with the worker more fully employed. New Industries Absorb Jobless. Even the unemployment which may have been caused thus far by labor- saving machinery is largely taking care of itself, through the rise of new in- dustries to absorb the skill and energies of those who really want to work. For example, the new industry of making airplanes has opened up occupations to thousands of men who have found an interesting and well-paid new occupa- tion, while the motor industry has created good business openings for men in repair and paint shops, gas and service stations, and operating commer- cial trucks and busses. As I have said before, I have no fear of the labor- saving machine so long as employers maintain the present liberal scale of wages and keep our people equipped with purchasing power. Their wants will then keep the wheels of industry on the move. We do have a little unemployment in America. Yes, even in the best of times | there is unemployment. Much of this | is seasonal, as we see now, when harvest hands, berry pickers and those engaged in moving our crops have finished their work in the fields and flock to the city for emplayment there. But there is one thing about America and Amer- icans. It is our habit to go to the root | of things. Right now we are launched on a movement by which the Federal Government and the several States are planning the stabilization of employ- | ment. There should be no politics in the employment problem. The forty- | eight States and the Federal Govern- i ment should join hands to solve this problem. We are Republicans and | Democrats and Socialists on election day, but when we are in office we are to serve all of the people. I am sure we are going to solve this unemploy- ment problem and solve it right. Very soon every man and woman who listens to me can help in solving the problem. The census enumerator will be along and will ask you a number of questions—among other things, whether you are unemployed, how you lost your job, how long you have been idle, what new job you prefer, what are your abil- ities,” and similar points. This new census we are about to take is going to supply us with just the information without which we have been helpless in the face of unemployment, and I earnestly ask every man and woman to make correct and complet: answers to every question asked. We need these first-hand facts, because it is only from them that unemployment can be grap- pled with and wiped away. Hoover's Conception of America. T believe every heart here in this country beat a little more warmly when President Hoover said: “My concep- tion of America is a land where men and women may walk in ordered free- dom in the independent conduct of their occupations; where they may en- Jjoy the advantages of wealth, not con- centrated in the hands of a few, but spread through the lives of all; where they may build and safeguard their homes, and give their children the full- est advantages .aud opportunities of American life; where a contented and happy people, secure in their liberties, free from poverty and fear, shall have their leisure and the impulse to seek a higher life.” The next few years, I believe, will see us much nearer that goal—again if we wisely meet the job immediately before us. Just now the proposed new tariff is under attack, and I beg to point out that these attacks are only a repetition of those we have heard before. These wiil die away, as they have before, when the pegple understand what has been done for their . I have seen it happen before. In 1922 there was op- position to the tariff act on the ground that it would increase our costs of pro- duction. The costs have decreased. They said the duties then proposed would raise prices, and prices have steadily fallen. They said the tariff would cut down necessary imports_of goods we do not make ourselves. Our | imports have greatly increased. All that is being said again, and the facts will disprove it, as they did before. During the recent campaign both presidential candidates favored a pro- tective tariff. It is the policy of the party to which I belong, and I am for it. I saw what a tariff can do to create employment when I was & young man and a worker myself. I was out of a job entirely too much before the Mc- Kinley tariff came in. I had no such trouble after it was in effect. American industry has grown to be the marvel and envy of the world because it has been protected from low-wage compe- tition. Today, when this competition is more severe than ever, it must have more protection. Fight for it if you want to see industry hum and employ- ment steady for all. Tariff Is Economic Problem. ‘We needed a tariff before, and we will get it again. That is one of the eco- nomic problems we can regard as solved. We needed the restrictive immigration act, and it passed, so that we now pro- tect the American workman from cheap labor abroad as well as from cheap pro- duction abroad. | | Is there Gold at the end ornamental” describes ger than the weather film . ., 100% Pure and priced most reason- ably! ‘the Rainbow? At the end of the rainbow of color « « there is gold, certainly! “Useful as well as Had the restrictive act not passed, with a ship carrying capacity of a mil- lion a year, what would we do now with the 9,000,000 that would have come since the time of the enactment of that law? Today immigration is limited to 150,000 a year from Europe. Yet with the lock- ing of the front door to the immigrant coming from Europe, the back door has been left open, and since the passage of the restrictive act more than 300,000 aliens have come in from Mexico. They are still coming at the rate of from 40,000 to 60,000 a year. Most of it is cheap labor. We have enough cheap labor in America now. In other words, we have enough poor in America now. We need to raise our standards. Cheap labnkr means the long day and the long week. We have made great inroads on the long day and the seven-day week, even in industries where managers sald the shorter day and week were out of the question. In the steel industry, for example, they said they must run 24 hours a day and seven days a week. How, they asked, could th> eight-hour day fit in. But the long day in the steel industry was practically abolished at the conference called by President Harding gt the White House, and I doubt very much if the industry would now go back to the old long-hour day if it could. In every kind of industry the day of the hard-boiled man is past, whether it be in labor, among manufacturers or business men. In some sections of the country the appeal is being made to manufacturers and business men to move their plants there because of the low wages and long hours of production offered. Where that prevails the peo- ple do not earn enough to buy the products made and business is flat. The system defeats itself. A low-wage community is always a poor commu- nity. As a prominent manufacturer once said to me: “We employers ought to band ourselves together and ostracize the employer who insists on long hours, the long week and low wages. He is spoiling business for us all. He is a barnacle on America's ship of prosperity.” Age Limits Are Passing. ‘The three Fates of industry and American prosperity are the long work day, the long week and low wages. Where the worker is so employed he has no time to buy, no money to buy, and if he did have he would have no | ambition to buy. H Another hard-boiled habit that T am | glad is passing is that of arbitrarily | dropping men as unfit for further serv- ice at a certain age. Some fixed the limit at 50 years, some as low as 40. These employers thought they were pepping up industry in line with the youthful spirit of the day. Some were afraid of overloading their pension system. Whatever the motive, the prac- tice had gained some headway. They have not yet applied this system, so { far as management is concerned. If they did, industry would be in a poor way. Even three of our distinguishea men on the Supreme Court of the United States are past 70. They are entitled to $20,000 a year retirement pay, but they want to serve, and they serve well. Now our employers are waking up | to the folly of this discharging of men at a certain age. Nobody grows old in this youthful age, and, with ma- chinery now so easy to operate, the man of 70 is as productive as the youth of 20. Moreover, the man of riper years has gained in steadiness. He sticks where he is, with his ac- cumulated skill and sensible experience. Employers now are more loth to lose these men at the very peak of their value to a working organization. While I was at Sunbury, Pa., last Monday I met a man more than 70 years of age who was operating one of these big engines on a fast train, and he said, “I am good for 15 years more.” He looked it. A few days ago the proprietor of a great department store in the East paid a splendid tribute to the services of his older employes by dividing a million dollars among them. That was a fine example. I am sure others will follow it. In one of the great manufacturing plants there is an association of vet- eran employes numbering 3,400 men| and women who have been in the em- ploy ‘of that one concern for periods ranging from 20 to 40 years. There is another splendid example which will spread. Spirit of Partnership. If we go on in this splendid spirit of | partnership now prevailing between | worker and employer, with constant sci- entific improvement in business meth- ods and manufacture, Labor day in the | future will be a glorious day. I have seen the great change come about in the steel mills. I started to work as a| boy of 10 and one can hardly recog- nize them now as the place where I worked, the method of manufacture is 0 advanced. The same progress occurs | in every line. As Secretary of Labor I| am chairman of the Federal Board for | Vocational Education, and during my | term of office under three Presidents| we have rehabilitated in round num- | bers 40,000 men and women who have | been maimed by accidents or otherwise | helpless persons. Now some of them are | making more money than in their lor-l mer occupations. We are doing greatl things in these days; we are going to do still more. { The country is contented. —Worker | and employer are locked together in a partnership of good-will which neither would care to break. It has brought them too much prosperity for that. I| believe we are due to go on and develop | still further this mutual respect, to the | advantage of all. | These are some of the thoughts that | come as I have watched the procession ! of Labor days, year after year, as we| come to this one. Let us rejoice in our | resent blessings and seek to deserve | hem. Let us also plunge into new ef-| forts, so that when this occasion rolls | around another year we may have still | other advances in peace and plenty to cheer our hearts. Above all, let us pro- | tect America and develop our own in. dustry and help our farmers reap their due. “We should ever keep in mind that we cannot live the American way on poor profits, low wages, long hours and the long week. Strive with all your heart to raise the standard of the American people and abolish poverty. of a GOOD paint, beau- tifying and protecting the surface 4« « SAVING money. “Murco” Life Long Paint is the GOOD paint that will protect your pocketbook! Beautiful in every color . . . big- down to the last thin EJ Murphy G \ . 710, 12th St..N. W. INCORPORATED National 2477 Gl PROPOSES CUT INARMY EXPENSES Mexico Will Give Attention to Education and Public Works, He Says. By the Assoclated Press. MEXICO CITY, August 31.—Presi- dent Emilio Portes Gil tonight, in a statement to the press outlining the recommendations which he will sub- mit to Congress tomorrow in his annual message, said it would be possible next year to begin gradual reduction of ap- propriations for the army, which would rbrmit extension of educational and public work. He believes that such recommenda- tions are capable of realization, since peace has been restored in Mexico and since the government has guaranteed impartial and legal presidential elec- tions on November 17, “thus assuring peaceful transmission of power next February.” A gradual reduction in the per cent of the government budget assigned to military pu would be “following the universal tendency and satisfying the wishes of the public.” The President said he hesitated to fix the lines of the financial program for next year, since his terms ends in February, but that he considered it his duty at least to make general recom- mendations. He will advocate continuance of the program of strict economy which has enabled his government to maintain public services at the usual efficiency while reducing the domestic debt. the same time the government has been able to confront the costs of the revolution last Spring and other ex- traordinary circumstances without in- creasing taxation. He would have “democratic mod- esty” in all public expenses, and said that money saved through reduction | ball. of the war department appropriations and in other flelds should be devoted in great part to expansion of the edu- cational program, particularly in rural communities, Adequate sums should also be devoted to fostering national industry, in order to reduce imports and solve the unemployment problem. The President recommends continua- tion of the development of air trans- port lines and the construction of roads, and urged necessary funds be set aside to carry on the agrarian and irrigation program. 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He was expected to win many laurels for the Georgetown Playground group in the recent inter- playground field events, but unfortu- nately had to be out of town. Tomorrow, he will be found in South Atlantic_fancy diving contests at the new McKinley High School swimming | 1 | pognher activities of this boy wonder, affectionately known to his many friends as “Whitey,” due to his light blond hair, include serving as captain and playing quarterback on Tony | taurels among the teams of 115-pound | average; playing golf and some base- Carl attributes his many accomplish- | ments to interest taken in him by the here he is employed as an electrician. “Before I came up here I couldn’t | do anything, but I watch the base ball | |and foot ball games and the students| | have taken an interest in me,” Carl| | stated modestly, in accounting for his unusual athletic ability. He served as mascot for the George- town University foot ball team on its trip to New York last Fall, when it won its famous victory over New York Uni- |w | Plansky’s foot ball team which won |- students of Georgetown University, | = | CARL LINKINS —Star Staff Photo. -\ versity, and several years ago also was ! mascot for the base ball team. Carl is the son of Mr. and Mrs. John ¢ T. Linkins, 3609 O street, Gordon Hotel 916 16th St. N.W. We have a_few desirable rooms left 2t £30.00 10 $50.00 per month; full hotel i ' Downtown Location Make Reservation Now The Gordon Gives Most for Your Money NOTE: We Desire to State that, | Our Great Summer Sale Continues with Unabated Interest T was planned to be a Sale that would make new friends and would carry the conviction that it is quite possible for those contemplating only a modest expenditure, to find here what they want and to select the same from a varietv which we feel is unrivalled. 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