The Jones County News

A Get-Together Industrial Committee
The National Civic Federation, with the approval of President Harding, Secretary of Labor Davis and Secretary of Commerce Hoover, has organized a national industrial committee, designed to bring together for conference leading representatives of conservative labor organizations, employers who believe their interests are closely allied with the interests of their employees, and the general public.
Formation of such an organization, including in its membership such men as former President Taft, Samuel Gompers, John Hays Hammond, T. Coleman du Pont and John D. Ryan, is believed to be an encouraging feature of the development and active operation of a sound, sane Americanism and to represent a healthy, patriotic and progressive thought and spirit in this country, which will provide the best possible insurance against the development of such fanatical radicalism as that which is now making Russia a center of human misery, devastated by typhus, cholera, starvation and severe restriction of liberty. Russia's downfall was due primarily to the fact that there was no adequate middle class, no common ground on which the downtrodden peasant and workingman could meet with employer, business man, politician or professional man for consideration of their mutual interests and improvement of their economic and social position. There was ease and luxury on the one side and toil and misery on the other. There was no medium through which these extremes might be brought together and blended into a tolerable, stable existence for all.