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224 Annals Am. Acad. Pol. & Soc. Sci. vii (1942)

handle is hein.cow/anamacp0224 and id is 1 raw text is: FOREWORD THE labor army at home is the indispensable second front of a modern war. Upon it depends whether brave and willing men on the battlefield are left dismayed and powerless or can turn their sacrifices into victory. Many Frenchmen remem- ber with heartache that in those crucial months when unity, resolution, and effi- ciency were the imperative national needs on their home front, vital energies were worse than wasted in internecine quarrels and fatal delays. We in America, suf- fering less from such discord but mindful of prewar tensions and present hindrances to maximum productiveness, are determined to overcome these obstacles to survival and victory. The labor program of conducting a war may be divided into two broad cate- gories. The first is that of providing manpower. It embraces the efforts designed to supply adequate labor and skills at the points of essential production, and it consists largely of the techniques of allocating, training, and utilizing available tal- ents under national direction. The second is the promotion of those industrial relations policies and practices which produce the fullest measure of industrial co- operation. That is the subject of the present volume. It deals chiefly with the more intangible and indefinite problems. In these the difficulty is as great in know- ing what to do as in having it done. To attain labor morale is not only a matter of providing incentives to individ- uals. The emphasis has shifted to the complicated issues of satisfying dynamic labor groups and their virile leaders. Formulae must be devised to harness the power of labor organizations within the sturdy and disciplined gear of management so that the two may not tug against each other but walk briskly to a common goal. The buoyant strength of unionism has thus introduced new and puzzling prob- lems of administration for industry and government. It has presented equally puzzling questions to the average citizen. People everywhere are profoundly con- cerned with what is happening in labor relations and what should be done. They are wondering, evaluating, arguing. Some, for example, are querying Government policies, not so much from the standpoint of present expediency as from that of postwar and future implications. Others, on the contrary, are hopeful that this very emergency experience will help us more enduringly in fashioning the kind of a world we are fighting for. Hence to take time out to consider present develop- ments and programs is basic to sound public opinion and guidance. In scope, the volume has been planned for a variety of uses and wide distribu- tion. It is designed for the layman and the professional, the general reader and the specialized student, the industrial concern and the academic institution. That such a discussion is of immediate and national importance would seem to be attested by the willingness of outstanding authorities and of administrators bearing large re- sponsibilities to present their specialized knowledge and mature thinking on the topics here included. Many of these contributors have made genuine sacrifices, as, for example, in giving part of their meager summer vacations to present their views. The result is a volume of broad, keenly stimulating, and highly constructive chap- ters whose authors have thus earned the gratitude of every reader who is seeking enlightenment on present-day labor relations. HERMAN FELDMAN Vii

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