Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1917 — UNITY NEEDED TO HOLD TRADE AFTER THE WAR [ARTICLE]

UNITY NEEDED TO HOLD TRADE AFTER THE WAR

Labor Must Join In Effort to Meet New Competitive Spirit In Europe. “Employers and workers must unjte to meet the conditions that the restoration of peace in Europe will bring,” says Engejtg U. Outerbfhlge, president of the -New; York .Chamber of Com merce. "1 think there is no single element in industry before this country today of such vast importance as the matter of bringing these two constituents la to .mutual confidence and understanding in a real Spirit of co-opera-tion.

“In the world conditions now prevailing the peoples of tire belligerent, nations have, under the stress of a compelling necessity, developed a degree of Co-operation and efficiency in production of which they never before knew themselves capable and -Vhtch has never been approached anywhere else in’ the world. “The war has produced many unprecedented conditions. This is only one of them. After it is* over there will be many we shall have to meet and many changes to which we shall have to adapt ourselves. Some cannot be foretold or foreseen, but it appears to me inevitable that the consciousness of the efficiency and productive power that hgs been developed in the European peoples will lead them not to turn to previous methods or lives of indolence and ease, but that they will tarn their developed powers to production m peaceful pursuits aud that we then shall have to meet in foreign Gelds, gnd perhaps in domestic the fotce of a competitive production organized on a degree of efficiency which we have never before had to combat.”— lndustrial Conservation, n. y. .