If
business activity should increase… unemployment will end.
In
other words, employing industries must be ABLE to hire workers.
Many
things could prevent this.
Anything
in the social, economic or political life of the nation that obstructs business
activity will stand in the way of reemployment.
Strikes
that choke production and throw thousands… into idleness are social
obstructions.
Taxes
that restrict the ability of industry to expand are economic obstructions.
Leaders
who appeal to class prejudice to further personal ambitions are political
obstructions.
America
can remove all these obstructions.
But
to do so, it must compel its Government to rule without waste.
It
must adjust labor difficulties through compulsory arbitration.
It
must not permit the reasonable differences between workers and employers to be
an excuse for civil war.
In
short, if America will be SENSIBLE, it can remove the fear that the United
States is destined to support a permanent body of unemployed.
Washington Herald
Editorial
Monday, March 1,
1937
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