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W/r/r Of LAtOt DAY 1948
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MEJMY’S MESSAGE
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that the reactionary have been
having a field day in the past
three years in a number of state
legislatures, with the result that |
today hostile state laws, of vary
ing degrees of severity, are oper
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ating in more than half the states
of the Union.
The # injuries inflicted upon
the tens of millions of average
wage-earning citizens since the
end of World War II have been
dealt out to us by the reaction
aries of business and politics
whose grip on Federal and state
law-making bodies is not yet
complete. There are quite a few
items on their program for the
American labor movement which
they are keeping veiled for the
present. While for the most
part the National Association
of 'Manufacturers and its unholy
agents and allies have done a
good job of guarding the se
crets of ther future warfare
against organized labor, enough
has leaked out to make clear
that labor's enemies have in
store new measures no drastic
as to make even the Taft-Hart
ley Act look mild by contrast.
Yes, American labor does have
serious matters to consider on
this Labor Day. To my mind,
the most serious' problem of all
is one that must be of concern |
not only to workers but to all
other Americans who believe1—
really and truly believe, in their
hearts—that the free American
way of life is the best way of life
to be found 0n our planet.
Our American way of life is
indeed the best ever devised by
(he minds of men, and it is
the best not simply because we
have the most telephones and
automobile^ and bathtubs and
skyscrapers. There is much
more to it than that. The Amer
ican way of life is best for va
rious reasons and in various
ways, but the most important
point about America is that we
have been free from the blight
of what is often termed “the
class struggle.”
The nations of Europe know
what the class struggle means.
The class struggle has been go
ing on over there for decades. It
is one of the sad facts of Eu
ropean life.
American* labor, as represent
ed by the American Federa
tion of Labor. Has always re
jected the concept of the class
struggle. We have never been
out to destroy the employers.
On the contrary, we have al
ways recognized und defended
ed the legitimate rights of em
ployers. No stauncher defend
ers of our American free en
terprise system exist than the
7 .'>00,000 American working
men and women who make up
the American Federation of La- ’
bor. We have asked and fought
for recognition of labor's rights.
We have asked and fought tor '■
economic justice. But we have i
always recognized that decent,
fair employers were fully en
titled to decent, fair treatment
at labor's hands.
Where the class struggle idea
calls for “war to the death” be
tween employers on the one side
and workers on the other side,
our idea in the American labor
movement has been “live and let
live.” In the past 100 years, mil
lions of people left Europe and
came to America because they
were sick of the class struggle.
No one circumstance has contrib
uted more directly or more vital
ly to the phenomenal rise of our
nation than the absence of the
ruinous class struggle. America
has grown mighty and it has
prospered, and none have pros
pered more than the employers of
the nation.
And yet today the National
Association of Manufacturers
and certain legislators have
permitted their hatred of organ
ized labor to blind them to this
fundamental fact. Like the to
talitarian* of . the Left, but
without the name deliberate
planning and awareness of
what they are doing, the con
trolling clique of the NAM and
their federal and state legisla
tive cohorts have been taking
steps to bring the nation ever
closer to the precipice of the
class struggle.
American labor has always .re
fused to believe that this deadly
disease will ever catch held here.
We have never wanted it. We do
not want it now. The class
struggle is an evil thing, as the
tragic experiences of other peo- j
pies, in other lands, have amply j
shown. i •
But the NAM and other re
actionaries who are driving to
bring about a condition in
which the emergence of the
class straggle concept would be
inevitable even in democratic
America had better stop and
reflect for a moment—if they
ran spare that much time from
their plottings against working
men and women.
Let them ponder and ponder
well Chat, if there is going to be
a class struggle in America, it
can have only one result, only one
outcome—not the crushing of la
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bor, as they desire, but the utter .
defeat of the initiators of the
struggle, the powerful reactionary
wing of Big Business.
Despite the menace which we
face today, I am confident that
we can soon again move for
ward on the road to a better
day for America’s workers. The
past record of the American
Federation of Labor indicates
beyond question that strong op
position will bring out even
stronger labor’s will to prog
ress.
MAN HOURS DECREASE
PER UNIT OF PRODUCT
New York.—The average num
ber of man-hours expended for
each unit of product wag three
per cent less in 1945 than in 1939
in the manufacture of selected
types of general purpose indus
trial equipment. Robert R. Beh
low, regional director of the Bu
reau of Labor Statistics Depart
ment of Labor, reported.
Between 1939 and 1942, he ex
plained, the index of unit man
hour requirements declined stead
ily to a point five per cent below
that of 1939, as important grains
in manufacturing efficiency were
made. During 1943 and 1944,
however, the trend was reversed.
By 1944, man-hours expended for
each unit had increased to about
the same level as in the base
year, 1939. Average unit-man
hour requirements decreased three
per cent from 1944 to 1945.
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