Friday, May 30, 1947
Labor Situation
Becoming
Desperate
It seems that the more our gov
ernment studies the labor situa
tion and the more laws are pro
posed to relieve the conditions,
the more complex and difficult
the problem becomes. What is
happening in big business and la
bor unions is happening right here
in our community on a small
scale. And so far no immediate
relief is in sight.
A few mornings ago, when we
had a good season for setting to
bacco plants, a farmer came down
main street looking for some one
to help drop tobacco plants. He
found them and asked if they
would help him. Yes, they said,
for $1.35 an hour. He would not
pay it. In fact he could not pay
it without loss. His wife and two
small daughters said they would
drop those plants, and they did. I
recall last year a farmer told me
he ha dto pay SI.OO an hour for
help to tie tobacco. For some time
laborers have been demanding at
least 75 cents an hour as carpen
ters’ helpers. And they are de
manding the same wage from
farmers. That’s their price, and
at this time they get it or refuse
to work. One farmer told me that
he would be better off to cease his
farming if he had to pay that
much, that he could make nothing
at that wage.
I appreciated the high cost of
almost everything. But I know
some merchants who, although
they had a great deal to contend
with and goods were hard to get,
yet they have during the war pe
riod made more money than ever
before. And they are still selling
some articles at too high a profit.
Business men must realize they
must for a while make less profit
and labor must learn that they
must also work for less in these
times of adjustment. I heard of
one man who found he was mak
ing less than his hired helper, so
he closed up his shop and ured
himself out. And, he nettedmore
working for the other fellow than
he had made for himself.
The situation is serious. E 'ery
efiort has been made to evade an
other depression. Each of us
shoul dsave every cent we do not
actually need to spend. The next
dollar is going to be much harder
to earn than the last one. Our
government cannot put oui its
millions in public works and re
lief agencies should another de
pression come. With all its bil
lions of debt to be paid and the
millions in Europe to be fed or
they perish, each of us must pro
vide for himself. The hardships
and dangers of war may be oast,
but the comforts and pleasures of
peace are far off to many of us.
It may yet be necessary for us to
divide that last loaf with our
neighbor. By saving today we
may later be able to save others
as well as ourselves, physically at
least.
I never have been a believer in
capital punishment. I do not be
lieve the State has any right to
take from its citizens that which it
cannot restore. Granted that the
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State has the right to take the life
of a citizen, the only possible jus
tifiable case should be one of un
questioned and proven guilt for
wilful outright murder. I believe
the State should never take the
life of any one guilty of any crime
except murder. I protest the right
of the State to kill bs punishment
or as an example to others.
Russia with all her strange ideas
of human rights—some of them we
might believe to be more progres
sive towards human rights than
even American now comes for
ward and announces the immedi
ate abolition of capital punish
ment. This action was in keeping
with a former policy of the Russian
government against the taking of
life by the State.
The Supreme Court decrees:
1. The death sentence is abol
ished in peacetime.
2. For crimes which have
brought the death sentence, 25
years confinement in forced labor
camps should be adopted.
3. Death sentences not yet car
ried out will be commuted by the
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j courts to punishment contemplated
in Article 2.
I would add a fourth reason for
abolishing the death sentence:
Morally a man or his country has
no right except in self defense to
: take the life of another, which in
itself is the inviolable and sacred
gift of the Sovereign Creator.
—T. B. D.
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