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B What path should labor take now? * ‘The Lewis path of strikes is certainly out, for it doesn’t win wage increases, and what is more important, it negates the basic consideration that this is Jabor’s war and any | qualification bf the no-strike vote is scabbing upon the war to wipe out fascism. The constructive alternative is the mobilization of Jabor’s vast, and atill hardly used political strength. No. - this doesn’t mean waiting until next election to cast a” _ ballot although a blow to the defeatists and reactionaries | in the many elections this coming Tuesday will be very important. It means a drive RIGHT NOW to win the ‘vast majority of the people—who are not in Jabor’s ran +—to the idea that a sound stabilization program is in)- ‘perative for a quick.and decisive victory over the The Transport Workers Lpion of New York gave practical example of what this means on a loca] basis. A fight which seemed almost impossible to win ended in a great victory for the union—and the war effort—with- out a strike. . Congressmen will continue to sabotage the stabiliza- tion program, stabilization authorities will continue yield to them, employers will continue to think only #f profits—just as long as they feel labor’s political apat and know that the public generally is not yet aroused. ” Tf labor wants a sound stabilization program, with the President's seven points fully applied; if a wage policy $s to be realistic with production and a high morale the | uppermost corsideration, thenlahor must unite its forces {S teunch its greatest drive to win the people. eevee