Evening Star Newspaper, April 1, 1937, Page 50

C-8 LABOR FEAR LAID 10 UNCERTAINTIES U. S. Seen Walking Through Valley of littery Times. This is the fifth of a series of articles by Mr. White on the changing industrial scene in the United States. The writer has talk- ed with many leaders of labor and industry in gathering material for this series, subsequent articles of which will appear in The Evening Star. BY WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE. An interesting letter came to my desk this week. It was from the sales manager of the Ford Motor Co. In it he declared that when the strike was called on General Motors the Ford people were behind with their orders and yet were running nearly a thou- sand cars a day under the plant ca- is that the man who has nothing risks nothing when he looks for trouble. So Homer Martin, the strike leader in Detroit, is carried on the shoulders of his admiring fellow workers either on strike or eager to strike. And when he says that “we laborers are going to get what is ours,” they cheer. Be- cause they are living on their emo- tions. Fear, one of the strongest of human emotions, always is with them. Bonds Reflect Timidity. Another evidence of the presence of an abysmal uncertainty on the roau to business ic the way the price of Gov- ernment bonds jiggles up and down and all around. Apparently those bonds that are bubbling in the specu- lative market have the same psycho- logical reflexes that labor has, and, in the reverse, the price of bonds ingi- cates the same timidity which may have been in the heart of Mr. Ford | when he vetoed the order to speed up production. The President has not conquered fear. Wherever a dollar goes, fear follows. The banks are full of unused money. The country is years behind in its housing problem. Heavy indus- try has its nerve, and is going ahead. Perhaps the certainty of war is so much greater than the certainty of peace that heavy industry can afford to throw dull care to the winds. But pacity. He also stated that, despite the ob- | vious advantage to the Ford company | in that hour, Mr. Ford personally vetoed a suggestion to put the plant in | capacity production in order to di advantage his hardest competitor. | During the entire time of the General Motors strike the Ford sales manager had to sit by and see the plant jog- ging along at only a comfortable rate of production. “Why?"” one asks. Probably, aside from the innate decency of self-re- straint, Mr. Ford realized that he could not afford to rock the boat. And certainly it would have rocked the boat if the General Motors Co., resent- ing Ford's activity, had started a com- | petitive price war after it recovered from the strike. That was easy to forecast. Uncertain Times. ‘Throughout the world, in the higher reaches of industrial finance, one ter- rible fact lies in the consciousness of the thing known as big business like a thorn in the flesh—the conscious- ness that these are ticklish times. In a word, uncertainty. That same un- certainty is in reflex action back of all the labor unrest, back of all the sit- down strikes and the whole mani- festation of the proletarian distrust of American capital. One of the differences between the man who has something stored up for & rainy day and he who has nothing except in the market for scrap iron and those things which make the im- plements of sudden death, much of American industry is going through the valley of the shadow of the jitters. ‘The most obvious phase of the pre- vailing fear in American life being on the labor front, manifest in this sudden craze called the sit-down strike, it will pay to consider for a moment the two reasons why labor is frightened. Two specters stand across the path of labor’s prosperity; first, obviously, the millions of unemployed. The fact that | these unemployed do not starve does not make the spectacle of the unem- ployed less appalling. Their condi- tion, socially, morally and economic- ally, gives labor the horrors. 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Indeed, all over Europe labor foolishly hes made the swap and finds that labor has lost liberty and has only the security of a lower stand- ard of living. The living standard in Russia, where labor first made that swap of liberty for security, is 't lowest standard in the white man civilization. And labor’s living stand- ards in Germany and Italy and Cen- tral Europe, where the tyrants rule, are nearly as low as the Russian standard. And laboi inContinental Europe, having made the trade and lost its liberty, can argue only with the machine gun an . the tremendous army, well fed by taxes squeezed out of labor. In America, where living standards still are high—high even when they are doled out to the unemployed, whether in direct relief or labor on made wages—the menace of uncer- tainty still is with those wh work | with their hands from day to day, or | week to week, or month to month. For as wages rise, commodity prices pop up, The fatter the pay envelope, the leaner the larder of labor at home. Then, with the haunting ghost of the unemployed man next door and the goggle-eyed scientist in the laboratory figuring how to cut down produc- tion costs, is it a wonder that Ameri- can labor hurries to Cadillac Square in Detroit, to the Plaza in Cleveland, to Union Square in New York, to release | its emotions, cheering any labor leader who rails at the existing industrial order? Result of Conditions. This mass timidity of the working | millions is the result of a condition and not a theory. Priming of the pump has been tried four years. It has not removed the cause of labor un- | rest. Whatever the cause is, and that is any man’s guess, a dozen hypotheses | fit some of the facts, and most of the | facts will fit on the string of two or | three hypotheses. The most obvious hypothesis is the uncertainty of the | times, as manifest in politics in the | uncertainty of government. It is easy to blame the President— as, easy as it is to overpraise him. There seem to be but two crowds in this country—those who refuse the President any credit, who disbelieve in him and all his works, and the other crowd, those who put their brains in escrow and let him do their thinking. If there were a middle group who admitted the President's nobility of purpose, who admired his glamorous courage, who conceded the wisdom of much of his aspirations and yet who could say no and smile and mean it, the country would be better off. But the negatory section has been saying “no” for four years | and scowling. These people cannot smile. And the others take it out in grinning and hope for the best. 8o the country is paralyzed. 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