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What’s In A Name?
By Maurice R. Franks
{EDITOR'S NOTE: Maurice R. Franks is President of the National Labor-Management Foundation and Editor of its official publication, PARTNERS.)
To study the public, pronouncements of our politicians is to wonder if , they will ever learn the basic facts about labor. Too many of them seem to regard unions and their leaders as all there is to the picture. In general, even our topflight political minds overtook the obvious fact that there are several important segments to our American industrial society—and that their combined enterprise has but one effective purpose; to serve the general public, the customer.
Most words that are written or spoken on the subject of labor relations seem to lose sight of the fact that labor in this country does not consist of union labor, exclusively.
This being the case, it would be well for our politicians—particularly the men charged with producing legislation governing labor—to get down to brass tacks in dealing with the problem and to realize, before they realise anything else, that union labor in this country is only a minority group when compared to American labor as a whole. The statistics are on record for each and every one of us: Out of our 60-odd million workers, only 16 million—or approximately 25 per cent—are
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