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Fifth Draft, Wages and Prices Speech

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218 the THIS ARCRIVES A80 FIFTH DRAFT - 14 - REGERÓS wages earned. Only in that way can we reach the mass production that has brought this country to the front of the industrial countries of the world. Labor must constantly find ways within its own ranks of cutting down on absenteeism, reducing turn-over, avoiding jurisdictional disputes, making collective bargaining instead of strikes the effective and mature way of doing business. Let me now turn to the question of just how wages are to be increased. Many people have asked the government to step in and decide who is to increase wages and by exactly how much. I have, indeed, been criticized because I refusal have not stepped in to lay down the law to business and labor. My to do so has been deliberate. Curiously enough, the same people who urge me to use government war-time machinery of control to determine wage adjust- ments have on other occasions been the first to point out that the continued intervention of go vernment must spell the end of our system of free enter- prise. I am deeply convinced that we must get away as quickly as possible from government controls and that we must get back to the free operation of our competitive system. Where wages are concerned, this means that we must get back to free and fair collective bargaining.

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