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Show CHAPTER IX SOCIAL LeGISLATION AND PLANNING Thomas Congr_sionol was Q member of the Lebor and Education Committee career direct confltet with and sooo became its chairman. While there he big busin8$S, ized Amerlcon bullness groups. was early OF better put perhaps, with the He felt that the trouble with that it refleeted the negative in, his came largest Industry in org,an Gnd labor thought habits developed by Americans with relotion to eaeh other and their institutions, including their Government. Each group distrusted the other. In G speech in defense of hls bill to -'\ Hortley Act during 1929 he sai. r.,eG,1 the Taft The distressing thing we learned from I'.. tening to testimony day ofte.r dey WQS thet even in Its most liberol decisions the Supreme Court honestly Q;nd actually accepted t-he conclusion which' Karl Marx accepts so ,completely, that there is 0 natural clash between tne employer and the employ· ee; that it i$ esserttial th.t they throw the weight of one ela. ogoinst the other. No such theory exists in connection with the philosophy Of the thinking of the American people in regard to the'r CONtitutlQn, or in regard to the revolutl-on of I know the American people our industry-labor relations. Qre not going to _and for that kind of eternal and everlast ins clash, Clnd ore not going to bel ieve in what is sa:. to be o noturallaw whieh makes it impcmibl,e for men who ate employed to be real men, and makes it Impossibl-e for the men who employ them to treat their employees as men. If they should ever .stcmd for such a thing democracy would be destroyed, and all we hove tried to do in the lost one-hundrea ... 161 |
