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FRIDAY, APRIL 10, 1936
BAD TASTE, WORSE MANNERS
Alfred P. Sloan, president of Gen
eral Motors, took the occasion of his
company's annual report to air his
views on political and social questions.
Mainly, they are the orthodox views
of big business which regards profits
as the primal purpose of existence.
He speaks of the "deadening hand of
straitjacket government regulation.'
He complains of the volume of taxes
which G. M. has been required to
pay. And he declares that New Deal
methods and experiments "have defi
nitely postponed recovery."
It would be interesting to know
how Mr. Sloan gets such positive
information. Not, certainly, from the
records of his own company. The
stock of General Motors participated
in the toboggan slide of the fall of
1929 and, after a partial recovery,
sank so low that if Mr. Sloan had
looked over the side of his craft, he
could have seen the bottom of financial
things.
At one time in 1932, General Mo
tors common stock was quoted at
7 5-8 which means that it was sell
ing at $7.62 a share.
That, remember, was under the Old
Deal. Now consider what has happen
ed to General Motors under the New
Deal. Its net sales in 1935 were $1,
155,641,511, a gain of 34 per cent from
the year before. Its net profits in that
year were $167,226,510. Its common
stodk is now selling at from $65.87 to
$68.12 a share. The last figure is
almost nine times the price which it
brought at a time in 1932.
Under the New Deal dispensation,
Mr. Sloan's company has gained from
$58 to $60 in the price of its stock,
and cleared net profits in a single
year of more than $167,000,000. With
those figures staring him in the face,
what right has Mr. Alfred P. Sloan
to complain of the New Deal
The New Deal has faults. It allow
ed the banks to go back to the finan
ciers who had ruined them, instead of
keeping them under absolute govern
ment control—if not under govern
ment ownership. It has been alto
gether too tender of the incomes of
multimillionaires and it should, in its
first month, have levied on the heaped
up surpluses of corporations like
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General Motors a tax that would have
made much of government borrowing
unnecessary.
These are faults to which labor has
a right to point. But it is bad taste,
worse manners and the worst possible
sportsmanship for Mr. Alfred P.
Sloan to criticize the New Deal.
SETTING A GOOD EXAMPLE
New Jersey municipalities are set
ting a good example to public and
private employment by restoring pay
cuts imposed on city employes dur
ing the depression.
Newark and Jersey City are leading
in the movement for pay restoration,
recognizing that their action is in
creasing purchasing power and gov
ing impetus to business recovery.
Citizens of communities throughout
the nation would do well to insist
that their local governments do as
Newark and Jersey City have done.
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WHAT NEXT?
Hibbing, Minn., recently opened a
$35,000 glass school building which
has these modernistic features: An
electric eye which automatically turns
the lights off and on in keeping with
the amount of natural light passing
through the structural glass walls
scientifically regulated temperature
and humidity adjustable desks
green, brown, silver and chromium
plated furniture.
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WISDOM
To love war because it makes he
roes, is to love croup because doctors
and nurses die i-n trying to save the
child.—Anatole France.
PRIM SHOP OWNER
Is Accused of Illegal Union
Label Use
Hempstead, L. I. (ILNS)—Vigilance
of trade unionists in behalf of the
union label has resulted in the arrest
of Herman L. Bogart, owner of the
Park Press, Farmingdale, L. I., on a
charge of violating Section 209 of
the state labor law by illegally using
a union label on campaign literature
printed for the Nassau County Borah
for-President committee. Bogart was
held in $500 bail for further hearing.
The complaint against Bogart was
signed by John H. Hansen, secretary
and treasurer of Typographical Union
No. 915 of Nassau county. Secretary
Hansen charged that Bogart was us
ing a union label on printed material
done in a non-union shop. Bogart con
tends that the literature was made
from an electrotype and was not under
the jurisdiction of any typographical
union.
Voters* Attention
The last day for registration for the Primary Election, May 12, 1936, is
April 13, 1936. All persons who have not registered or voted in the past two
years must register to be eligible to vote at this election. This includes per
sons becoming of age and those who have moved since the last election. You
may register at the Court House on or before the above date.
The office of the Board is open daily from 8:30 A. M. until 9:00 P. M.
REGISTER NOW.
BOARD OF ELECTIONS.
By Bob Dunn
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AVAILABLE AT THE WHITE. HOUSE UNDER THE.
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a Little Hatchet
we tell the truth
about many things, sometimes pro
foundly, sometimes flippantly,
sometimes recklessly
A great many persons think labor
is tearing itself apart and so isn't
making any headway.
Such persons ought to pay more
attention to newspapers and period
icals.
Labor is commanding MORE AND
MORE ATTENTION.
For this month, as an example, the
Magazine of Wall Street and the At
lantic Monthly are two outstanding
magazines devoting much space to
labor. Labor men will not agree with
what they say, but THEY ARE
TALKING ABOUT LABOR.
The Wall Street Journal runs a
labor column, not daily, but two or
three times a week.
LABOR IS IMPORTANT and its
importance is growing.
Of course this means a wider oppor
tunity for labor papers. Labor papers
that tell about labor intelligently, as
this one seeks to do, are the best
authorities on labor news.
Those that want the best and fresh
est news about labor will turn to
labor papers, as they ought to.
When old line publications go over
board in the effort to print labor news
it means that readers want to know
about labor.
That is exactly the situation. Read
ers want to know about labor.
In the national field International
Labor News Service gathers and dis
tributes authentic labor news—fur
nished to many papers—including this
one. Just as press associations serve
daily papers.
Labor news is on the road to being
recognized as of first grade impor
tance.
Those that don't know about la
bor will shortly be regarded as too
ignorant to be bothered with, too
backward to have important respon
s Utilities.
Labor editors have a real sense of
news, too. That's because so many
of them really are newspapermen.
Witness the sensational scoop by
the Trenton Labor News in the f»rrest
of a new Lindbergh case figure
When a labor paper can be on the
street witn such a story before daily
newspapers even suspect it, it means
a highly developed news sense. La
bor papers have plenty of it.
Regularly they scoop daily papers
on big labor news.
"Read your local labor papers"
ought to be a national slogan.
Trade papers and magazines have
immense circulations. Women's Wear,
dealing exclusively with garments, is
a daily.
George H. Brandhoff, Chairman.
Fred M. Stitsinger, Clerk.
Labor papers serve a far wider field,
interest millions more, ought to cir
culate in almost fabolous numbers.
Why not
Well, why not? One reason: Too
many labor men don't care, don't see
the vital importance.
Another reason: Too many outside
the labor movement don't know they
can buy labor papers and learn
first hand about labor.
Another reason: The labor press
itself too often doesn't take advantage
of its opportunities.
Self advertising has not been well
done, -on the whole.
It's time for all of us to wake up.
And that means unions and union
members.
Labor papers serve the movement,
not individuals. It is a matter for
the movement, as well as for editors
and business managers.
Labor and the labor press are all
set to "go places."
Seeing it, we urge a great crusade
for the reading of l&bor papers—this
one and all others. GET THE
FACTS WHERE THEY ARE.
READ YOUR LOCAL LABOR
PAPERS.»
MACHINISTS
Win Right to Bargain Sep
arately
Washington, D. C.
v(AFLNS)—Thf
National Labor Relations Board rul.•
that Canton Lodge No. 812, Interna
tional Association of Machinists, rep
resents the machinists employed by
the Canton Enameling and Stamping
Company, Canton, Ohio, and that ti
machinists comprise an appropriate
unit for purpose of collective bargain
ing. The board therefore ordered the
company to cease and desist from re
fusing to bargain with the union.
In announcing the decision the board
pointed out that the company's m&i:
body of production workers are repi
sented in collective bargaining by
Lodge 18506 of the Stamping and
Enameling Workers' Union, which
loes not admit machinists and has
never claimed jurisdiction over them.
Under these conditions the 13 ma
chinists employed by the company,
12 of whom are members of the Ma
chinists' Union, lacked an agency for
collective bargaining unless the un
ion were designated as a separate
unit.
After a strike last fall the company
signed an agreement with the Enam
eling Workers' Union, but the ma
chinists, who worked in a separate de
partment, had no part either in calling
the strike or negotiating the settle
ment. The president of the company
claimed one agreement should cover
all of the employes, but the board up
held the right of the Machinists
Lodge to be recognized as an appro
priate bargaining unit under the pro
visions of the national labor relations
act.
If congress would investigate the
importance of foreign-made products
it would find out why eleven million
workers do not have permanent jobs
GEO. KAPPEL
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long and 180 feet wide. Contracts for other buildings
will follow immediately.
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