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•ii %%",. FISHING TACKLE BASEBALL GOODS SHOTGUNS REVOLVERS and AMMU NITION 1 AND THIS- While Industrial Leaders Gamble With Fate! Behind very important doors the Menace of communism is discussed iihese days. Behind other very impor tant doors g*reat industrialists and )ankers are reaching for all the sov iet gold they can get, giving fine mod #rn machinery in return. Behind many factory doors Amer lean workmen are discovering that American machinery in Russia, with Communist conscript labor, is making jproducts that can be SOLD in our Atlantic seaboard states for less than jlhey can be MADE for in our own ^Factories. Behind many Southern farm house doors big botton growers and miser able share-croppers are waking up to the fact that the red soviets are on the verge of taking over the world •Cotton market, to the desolation of our Southern workers and producers Behind other Southern farm house doors the cruelly exploited growers of tobacco are being stricken with the same fear, with pellagra stalking through farms and market places. Behind other farm doors in the great wheat belt of the Middle West the growers of wheat are being made sick at heart by the knowledge that the hammer and cycle have replaced that Stars and Stripes over the grain cargoes that fix the world price of wheat. Behind certain great bank doors it is perfectly well known that Amer ican machinery, financed by American dollars, has made possible this red invasion of world markets with crops and products that can be sold at ANY PRICE because the soviets run a vast monopoly for political purposes—and those political purposes sum up to one awful thing: world revolution against democracy. Ford and General Electric and oth ers can survey their shipments to the soviets with the certain knowledge that in furnishing machinery they furnished MUNITIONS OF WAR for the soviets, for the soviets wage war with the machinery of production, un til they get ready for the other kind of war. Meanwhile the strengthened sov iet machinery in Russia strengthens the communist machine in the United States, and we hear of red riots and fresh red onslaughts agfeinpt bona fide organisations of labor. The sov rn Harry J. Ihompson ii i Plumbing Heating JK 233 Main Street Phone 736 Sporting Goods BICYCLES AND MOTORCYCLES Radios, Tubes and Batteries Duersch Cycle Co* REPAIRING A SPECIALTY 22 North Third Street The BEST of Everything When you sit down to enjoy a meal here, you can feel certain that everything that is served you is of the highest quality. The MOOSE RESTAURANT For Ladies and Gentlemen OPEN DAY AND NIGHT 354 High Street BEST PLACE TO EAT Phone 3450 Poullos Bros. WAGONS VELOCI PEDES AIR GUNS ELECTRIC SIPPLIES OF ALL KINDS ii r^s^B^i v90!:,f iets pour back into the United States for destruction a part of the strength gained by the use of American-made mass production machinery. And there is another side to the picture. Wage earners in the United States, to a total of more than six million, are out of work. Those that have work are menaced with reduc tions of wages, and thousands have already been forced to accept reduced wages—the most disgraceful blot on our industrial history. Great bank, including some that have profited from trade with the red tyrants of Moscow, demand that American workers, already underpaid, accept still lower wages. This makes for the kind of desperation that re sists red propaganda with decreasing vigor, and all too often falls victim to its hideous spell. With these plain facts before them, what are American industrial lead ers thinking of today, that they gam ble |So lightly with fate? THE SILK WORM NO LONGER RULES Prophetic of what may happen to the cotton industry, is the short story short because recent—of rayon, the artificial silk which is sweeping the textile world into its train of beauty and utility. Rayon has already cut heavily into the silk market, and even Japan is busy turning the chemical yarn of this new product into the cloth of commerce. In 1929 the American cotton farmer cultivated almost 46 million acres, 14,828,000 five-hundred-pound bales of cotton, which sold on the market at about 16.4 cents per pound, or a total of over one billion dollars. That sounds like big money. But it was slow, and hard-earned. In 1929, there were 28 rayon estab lishments in this country, which em ployed about 39 thousand wage earn ers, who turned out a product valued at $149,276,487. This was a quantity estimated at about 121,000,000 pounds, and the market value given by our commerce department was about $1.18 per pound. In 1911 this country produced 320, 000 pounds of rayon in 1920 the pro duction was 10,000,000 pounds, and the market value was about $2 a pound. In 1930 it was more than ten times that and the price was down to $1.18 per pound. The weight of cotton produced ir 1929 was over 7 billion pounds. But rayon is a threat which is pro duced by a mechanical imitation of the silk worm. It comes from a big metal cylinder containing a chemical solution of wood pulp—or something equivalent in fiber or cellulose—un dor a procure. And the little metal "t IWfvVT OHl era THE BUTLER COUNTY PRESS spinneret shoots out the semi-liquid, which hardens into a thread on ex posure to the air, fine—or finer ac cording to the desire of the man wh« adjusts and operates the great me chanical silk worm. Silk, in 1929, was worth $4.88 pei pound. Which as compared with the chemical yarn price of $1.18 per pound, accounts for the vast increase in the rayon industry throughout the y- world. The possibilities of a reduction in price are shown in the "margin" of the "value added by manufacture," as shown in the census returns on rayon. The cost of material, containers, fuel and purchased power for rayon was $33,291,000 the wages paid amounted to $44,704,000 and the value of the product was $149,176,000. Of course, there are rent, insurance, interest, y v v 'JJ'V'r (.'V \7v n •. A .»• V"-, -s-' -v i v 4 Compliments of DDIflfl AVCDC' UiiivKLA I LiIVO LOCAL UNION No. 11 "Build With Brick" Paint It Now! The RalstonPaintCo. Third and Market Phone 426 SP advertising and all such things to be paid, before one can count the profits on the business but it is plain that as the number of rayon plants in crease the price will come down. The spinning of these chemical threads into yarn requires from 15 to 500 of'the threads, according to the use to be made of it, but the whole process of picking and carding, as is necessary in cotton and wool, is X' A i eliminated in rayon, as it is in silk. Some of the chemists have been experimenting with the cotton plant, turning it into a chemical soiUtion, from which a chemical thread was pressed through the spinneret. And the verdict thus far is, that the whole plant—bollweevil, seed, and all can just as well be made into a thread which requires no picking or carding. —International Labor News Service. E NNA7 or E na n 1 V *, *.«H