PLANS FOR TOMORROW 



factories beyond the seaboard area that was most vul- 

 nerable to airplane attack from Europe. For social and 

 political reasons the Government was well pleased to 

 make the most of this opportunity. The South and West 

 have therefore been spotted with new plants. Many of 

 these were operated as war plants by Eastern com- 

 panies, and the temptation to curtail operations in the 

 old factories and expand in the new locations with all 

 their up-to-date equipment will be irresistible. New 

 ventures, too, are going to be swayed by this same pull 

 to the South and West. 



In the prewar past the bait of low wages and com- 

 parative freedom from union interference has been the 

 most tempting lure to bring new factories into the South. 

 These seductive inducements are losing their savor. 

 Wages and working conditions will continue to be 

 equalized and standardized all over the country. The 

 more American industry decentralizes, the more effec- 

 tive will agitation be for union organization in new 

 plants in new territories. There is plenty of popular 

 sentiment to enlist political aid for this cause. Accord- 

 ingly, in the next few years it may well transpire that 

 the chief benefit of "freight equalization" to Southern 

 industries will be its offset to "labor equalization." In 

 any event, the one inevitable question, raised whenever 

 a Southern plant location has been up for serious con- 

 sideration, will be swept away by freight-rate revision. 



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