Swing (Jan-Dec 1945)

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THE CHAMBER AND THE SUPER-NEW DEAL 19 yield a return for stockholders and managers. Any price increase, based on the new wage increase, is opposed. The point is made that labor, not ownership or management, should enjoy any fruit of greater capital investment and improved techniques and greater production efficiency. "It is when these actions and attitudes are translated into longerterm effect that the basis for anticipating a large-scale postwar New Deal is disclosed." I feel definitely that Kansas City business men must begin to understand the problems of agriculture and of labor; and their getting together on a basis where we can preserve what we know as the economy of a nation that is surpassed no place in this entire world. With that thought in mind I have been doing a tremendous amount of work on the outside, with the United States Chamber of Commerce and with the National Association of Manufacturers. I say "I." Many business men have; it happens that it is a subject that I am very much interested in, and I hope that I can instill some interest in all of you here in Kansas City. In late November we had an agricultural industry meeting in Columbia, Missouri, under the auspices of the National Association of Manufacturers. It was the first meeting of its kind in any city in Missouri, and to those of us who attended it it was a very heartening sign that there is the opportunity of getting together on some common ground, and of understanding each other's problems. I had the privilege of speaking before that group and I would like to quote briefly from that talk: "Too many of us in industry and in agriculture have, for too long, been unaware of, or indifferent to, the mutuality of interest between us. We have been too intent in pursuing our own side of the national highway even to glance to the other side and note that our natural economic and philosophic ally was going our way. Through the medium of gatherings like this, promoted by farsighted farm and business leadership, this unawareness or indifference can be replaced by interest and concern for each other's welfare. "We have a broad, basic relationship, born of economic inter-dependence and common faith in the same philosophy. Recently published statistics emphasize the closeness of our economic tie. Since 1940, the nation's