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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11,1936
THE TARDY SCHOLAR
Speaking to a group of engineers
at the Hotel Astor the other night,
former President Hoover said:
"I am convinced that when we fully
understand the economic history of
the period of the Twenties, we shall
find that the debacle which terminated
the end of another apparently highly
prosperous period was largely con
tributed to by a failure of industry to
pass its improvement (through labor
saving devices) on to the consumers."
Mr. Hoover is learning something.
But how little he has learned, and
how long it has taken him to do it,
may be seen by a brief quotation from
Franklin D. Roosevelt's speech of
acceptance at the Chicago convention
in 1932. Mr. Roosevelt said, speaking
of the same period to which Mr. Hoo
ver refers
"Corporation profits resulting from
this period were enormous. At the
same time, little of that profit was
devoted to the reduction of prices.
The consumer was forgotten. Very
little of it went into increased wages.
The worked was forgotten. And by no
means an adequate proportion was
paid out in dividends. The stockholder
was forgotten.
"What was the result? Enormous
corporation surpluses piled up, the
most stupendous in all history. Where,
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C. J. PARRISH, Seey.
3rd and Court
Steel: Before the recent partial
raises, 71.5 per cent of the workers
got less than 75 cents an hour.
'These records show three impor
tant points," says the Survey. "(1)
that 575,000 workers in these four in
dustries, or 63 per cent in all, have
been receiving less than the minimum
wage to support their families in
health. (2) Some progress was made
between 1933 and 1935, wage levels
being lifted in general by amounts
varying from 8 to 20 cents an hour.
(3) Companies are today in a posi
tion to grant substantial wage in
creases."
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The Christmas Buying Circle
By I. M. ORNBURN, Secretary-Treasurer, Union
Label Trades Department, American Federation
of Labor
During the Yuletide Season when the members of the family gather in
a circle, it is a good time to make a pledge to buy Union Label gifts. If each
member of a Labor Union and his family would buy only Union-made mer
chandise and patronize only Union services, Christmas would be more boun
tiful and the New Year would be more prosperous for all workers.
There is even a greater circle in the social and economic life of our
Nation. This circle is formed when workers join a Labor Union and buy
Union Label products. Through collective bargaining organized workers
receive better wages, and when their Union-earned money is spent only for
Union-made products and Union services, it constantly revolves and comes
back to them in better and better wages. This circle spirals upward and
brings prosperity to our beloved land. The depression was caused by a con
dition that was just the reverse of American Labor's plan for recovery.
In 1929, our economic system went into a tail-spin. Wages were reduced
workers purchased less and less goods, and buying power spiralled downward
in a vicious circle which caused increasing unemployment
WHAT NEXT?
One of the smallest and lightest
electric drills ever made is being
shown at the Power Show in New
York city. Though only half the
over-all size of any other quarter-inch
electric drill, it produces the same
NOTICE!
The following individuals have been put on the list by the
Carpenters' Local Union No. 637 of Hamilton, Ohio, as being
unfair to Organized Labor:
Frank J. and Edward P. Weiss
Arthur W. Hage
Jacob S. Smith
Merle S. Bufler
Charles A. Henrie
Edward J. Luddy
Edward R. Burnett
L. G. and Leo H. Haverland
JOE GALLAGHER, Pres.
Local 637
EAT and DRINK
At
Bill Finn's Cafe
FRONT AND COURT STREETS
OPPOSITE POST OFFICE
Some workers sit and hope that Santa Claus will come down the chim
ney and bring them bountiful gifts. The only "Santy" is the one that work
ers make for themselves by joining a Labor Union and buying their own
products. This Santa Claus comes through the front door with a larger pay
envelope on Saturday night.
Do your Christmas shopping early and buy only Union Labeled gifts.
It is not in harmony with the Christmas spirit to purchase products of sweat
shops in which chiselers employ child labor and women at low wages. When
buying Union-made goods, the purchaser is assured that they are American
made, and also that they are made under the most sanitary conditions by
skilled workmen. Become Union Labe
it a Merry "Union Label" Christmas.
under the spell of delirious speculation
did these profits go? Chiefly in two
directions. First, into new and unnec
cessary plants, which now stand stark
and idle. Second, into the call money
market of Wall street."
In this speech, July 2, 1932, Mr.
Roosevelt cited three great faults of
the corporation autocracy which dis
tinguished what Mr. Hoover calls the
Twenties. Four and a half years later,
Mr. Hoover shows that he has partly
learned one of those three.
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THE COLD FACTS ON
WAGE LEVELS
First calling attention to the fact
that today, the minimum health wage
is 73 cents an hour, and must be
higher in industries which have vio
lent fluctuations in employment, the
A. F. of L. Monthly Survey of Busi
ness gives the following figures on
wages in four big industries:
Cigarettes: 95.6 per cent of the
workers get less than 72 cents.
Paper Boxes: 82.7 per cent of the
workers get less than 70 cents.
Automobiles: In September, 1934,
56 per cent of the workers got less
than 75 cents an hour. The present
rate may be better. But autos are
the worst large industry in the matter
of flucuating employment.
This gang is looking for two things.
First, to balance the budget by cut
ting down relief.
Second, to have an "era of good
feeling" between big business and gov
ernment.
The propaganda of this bunch is
behind the troubles that have blazed
up in half a dozen places on the sud*
den cutting of WPA workers.
THE BUTbEK COUNTY PRESS
-conscious when you buy gifts. Make
power. It is so small that it fits into
the hand like a small-calibre auto
matic revolver.
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WISDOM
All overmuch governing kills the
self-help and energy of the governed.
—Wendell Phillips.
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The Cherry
Where with our
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we teU the tru(h
about many things, sometimes pro
foundly, sometimes flippantly,
s o e i e s e k e s s y
A considerable group of people in
this country are going round, posi
tively looking for disappointment.
And they are going to find it.
This group includes the people we
used to call "captains of industry."
That was in the days of our innocence,
before we realized that many of these
captains were pirates. It includes the
professional apologists for big busi
ness. It includes also many folk
whom accident has put in the party
opposing big business, but who think
and act, when they have a chance,
as big business would wish them to.
In New York, the eviction of the
dismissed WPA was carried out with
the regulation brutality of metropol
itan police in this country. One man,
merely for refusing to go when told
to do so, got a fractured skull—some
thing which sounds almost like self
determination in the steel towns.
It won't work and the mayors of
11 industrial cities are telling the
world that it won't work. The great
est glory of the Roosevelt administra
tion is its relief work. It must not be
dimmed by the asininity of a few back
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number bureaucrats and the ceaseless
propaganda of corporate bosses.
Prosperity has come a long ways
back, wages are going up. The only
escape that big business can see from
this dire calamity is to stop the gov*
ernment relief work, throw one or
two or three million men on the labor
market, and beat down Wages by the
needs of these men.
It just won't work, that's all. The
officials of New York, Boston,, Chi
cago, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, New
ark, Cleveland, Louisville, Baltimore,
St. Paul and Milwaukee have united
in saying that it won't work.
And as for the "era of good feel
ing," there'll be plenty of time for
that when big business shows some
faint indication of being willing to
earn it.
Not one of the big-unit industries
has yet brought forth works meet
for the repentance. Until they do,
until they agree without pressure to
the emancipation of labor, which
means the free and unrestricted or
ganization of labor until they ac
cept the political and economic re
forms which have rais.ed this country
out of the worst depression in his
tory—why, until then, their protes
tations of good feeling are rather
hollow.
And their disappointment is sure.
Labor Fights Decision
Barring Tailors' Strike
Cincinnati, O. (ILNS)—Cincinnati
labor is planning a determined fight
on a ruling by the local court of ap
peals, permanently enjoining the Cin
cinnati Joint Board of the Amalga
mated Clothing Workers of America
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employers are granted the right to
coerce their workers into surrendering
their rights to strike, the backbone of
the labor movement is broken."
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