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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19,1941.
UNFAIR TAXATION
The pending tax bill providing for
taxation of incomes as low as $750
goes too far, in the opinion of many.
It places an unjust burden on those
earning less than $15 a week. It acts
to lower living standards already at
bare subsistence levels and can hardly
fail to be detrimental to the third of
the population described by President
Roosevelt as "ill housed, ill clothed,
ill fed."
The American Federation of Labor
Executive Council declared last May:
"The main burden of taxation is on
the wage earner already. It would be
economic folly to increase this load."
It seems to this paper that taxation
of $750 incomes is uncalled for and
comes under the head of the "economic
folly" denounced by the A. F. of L.
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IN NAME ONLY
When prices are rising, wage in
creases are increases in name only.
Actually they are restoration of the
standard of living. As has been
pointed out by labor, when prices go
up, as they are doing now, existing
wages buy less. So the worker really
takes a wage cut when prices jump.
He seeks higher wages to get him
self bacft: where he was, in point of
buying power.
Union members can confound shout
ers against wage increases by quietly
directing attention to this fact.
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THE REPRESENTATIVE
PRINCIPLE
The nation will get national unity
and total effort for defense only when
all groups feel they are part of the
national effort and share the respon
sibility for achievements.
Free men can grow strong through
voluntary sacrifice, but the will to do
is weakened by sacrifices imposed by
others.
There is one simple method for
enabling the masses to share effect
ively in national undertakings that
of representation. Representation is
the basis for confidence and good will.
It is the way to spread responsibility
for results over the rank and file and
arouse the will to carry on.
The American labor movement is
made up of workers who are loyal
citizens and who value their precious
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All over Free China today, and to
some extent even behind the Japanese
lines, are found the familial* signs of
a red triangle containing two Chinese
characters: kung ho. These signs refer
to the Chinese Industrial Co-opera
tives, or the Indusco, a movement first
launched in the fall of 1938 in Hankow
under the chief sponsorship of Dr. H.
H. Kung, Minister of Finance.
Objectives of the Chinese Industrial
Co-operatives are to assist in military
and economic resistance to aggression
by the production of daily necessities
to help in national reconstruction by
the establishment of a sound co-opera
tive basis for small industries scat
tered throughout China and to hasten
the full realization of Dr. Sun Yat
sen's Principle of People's Livelihood.
The development of the Indusco can
be divided into three stages, namely,
the planning stage, the big offensive,
and consolidation. By the spring of
1938 Japanese big guns and incendiary
bombs had destroyed 80 per cent of
Chinese industries, and there wire
thousands of destitute, homeless
people, among whom a large number
of skilled workers were compelled to
lie idle in refugee camps.
The best way to meet the situation
was to found flexible, decentralized,
small industries, it was reasoned.
Through such an industrial movement,
not only could skilled Chinese workers
in refugee camps be prevented from
working for the Japanese but they
could be induced to move into the
hinterland of China to become self
supporting and self-respecting citizens
to man the new economic bulwark
against the Japanese invasion.
The most far-reaching significance
of the Indusco lies in the belief that
such a movement can do much to lay
the foundation of a new industrial de-
democratic rights. Labor executives
have been gi*avely concerned that in
this fateful time national unity of
purpose and the will to achieve should
be strong and true.
Labor is eager to give service to
capacity and again it urges the prin
ciple which alone can assure a united
and total effort for defense—use of
the representative principle in order
to give every citizen a share in na
tional defense.
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WHAT NEXT?
A photoelectric unit to detect smoke
of too great density from furnaces in
industrial plants gives an audible or
visible signal to firemen and, if de
sired, will provide automatic control
by admitting steam or air over the
fire, Nation's Business reports.
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WISDOM
Never has there been so much false
arithmetic employed on any subject as
that which has been employed to per
suade nations that it is to their in
terest to go to war.—Thomas Jef
ferson.
THE
CHERRY TREE
Where with e«r Little Hatchet we tell
the truth abent many things, sometimes
profoundly, sometimes flippantly, seme
times recklessly.
If you expect to have to grope for
a few Spanish words with which to
find your way through a meal, make
a purchase, or fill your gas tank in
Mexico, forget it. The chances are you
will take a quick look into your phrase
book, struggle bravely to make your
wants known in what you think is
Spanish, only to be answered in good,
or at least passable English.
A quarter of a million tourists in
less than a year can teach a lot of
English! Finally you come to wonder
if any Mexicans speak Spanish when
United States travelers and their dol
lars are around.
And there's something—those dol
lars. The exchange rate is 4.85 for
one. When you exchange $20 for
pesos, even at 4.80. which most busi
ness houses give, you have 96 pesos—
a lot of pesos.
MOOSE HOME
At 8:45 P. M.
Zou are supposed to go a long way
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COMMENT ON WORLD EVENTS
Hamilton, Ohio
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mocracy for China both during and
after the war, thus hastening the
realization of Dr. Sun's plans for a
modern China.
The organizers of the Indusco have
established three zones of industry.
They are: 1. The rear zone. 2. The
middle zone stretching from Kansu in
the northwest in a huge arc round the
fighting line to Fukien in the south
east. 3. The zone of "guerrilla indus
try" in the fighting areas and even
behind Japanese lines.
Following the planning stage, the
"bib offensive" set in, and in the course
of less than a year more than 1,000
industrial co-operative societies were
organized. The outstanding character
istic of this stage of development was
speed—speed in rescuing machinery
and other tools of production from
areas threatened with imminent inva
sion, and speed in giving refugees,
particularly skilled workers, produc
tive employment.
The stage of consolidation calls for
the reorganization or combination of
many co-operatives. The number of
co-operatives in a given locality may
be reduced, but the size and quality
of the membership as well as their
efficiency is improved by consolidation.
As far as "guerrilla industry" is
concerned, the Indusco is at its best
in southeast Shansi where its units
operate in a hit-and-run manner closi
to or behind enemy positions. "Stay
as long as possible" is the policy
adopted by the industrial co-operatives
which keep their machinery busy even
to the accompaniment of gunfire.
Often the members have to move
bag and baggage when their plants
are threatened by military engage
ments. Frequently they have to trek
across hills with their equipment, raw
materials, and personal belongings.
on those pesos—but you don't go as
far as you expect to go.
Costs have risen. You pay a peso
for taxi fare. You probably will pay
2.50 pesos for breakfast. On the other
hand I have had dinner, with a good
preceding cocktail and a fine steak for
about $1.10 U. S., in surroundings
that in the states would cost at least
$2.50. But by and large the exchange
rate doesn't get you the profit you
expect. Of course if you live in a
house, as at home, the cost of living
can be kept amazingly low.
However, costs are rising, as they
are at home and for some of the same
reasons. And the economic balance,
such as it is, is being thrown out of
gear.
This Mexico is a strange place.
There are many Mexicos. There is
Mexico City, one of the most fascinat
ing cities of the world. There is the
Mexico of Tampico and its oil. There
is the Mexico of the northern desert
and of the northern plains—the Mexico
of the hot and humid south. There is
the suave and cultural Mexico of the
educated Spanish-descent population
and the Mexico of the illiterate Indian
who will hide from your camera. And
in some sections there is still the
Mexico of bandits.
Cardenas never did anything worse
than to arm the so-called agrerians.
Rut there is the music and there are
the flowers of a musical and romantic
Mexico—a gardenia corsage for a thin
America dime, or violets if you prefer.
Mexican handicrafts are improving
in workmanship. The average tourist
manages to collect a trunk full of junk
that will not fit home surroundings,
but that need not be the case. Beauti
ful and well-made things may be had.
Fine silver work abounds—and the
same is true of glass. A great wood
carving art is developing. Silver is
sold by weight, regai'dless of the hours
of work the smith may have done.
A favorite question is about food.
It is of the vevy best, either American
or Mexican. Those who are disap
pointed are those who do not know how
to find the right places. For the care
less, the Greasy Spoon exists here, as
in Chicago, or Des Moines or New
York City.
Those who like to theorize about
Mexico should remember that in the
country there still are thousands of
bare or sandalled feet and that here in
the capital it is by no means uncom
mon to see a huge piece of merchan
dise being delivered on a peon's back
partly supported by a strap across the
forehead.
There just isn't a Mexico. There are
scores of Mexicos. Today in the na
tional palace I saw the ex-govemor of
the State of Sonora—a full-blood
Yaqui Indian, his hip bulging with a
gun without which he simply would
not feel dressed. And in show win
dows a block away diamonds and
jewelry and perfumes from some of
the finest factories in the world.—
C. M. W.
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PENSION LEGISLATION
WAS PASSED
IN
THE MARCH OF LABOR
1914-
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,N 1939 16,000 WORKERS WERE"
KILLED, AND A MILLION AND A
.QUARTER INJURED OR.
PERMANENTLY CRIPPLED
BY ON-THE-JOB
ACCIDENTS
AND DISEASE
ETAL TRADES
URGE SPEED IN
SHIPBUILDING
Washington, D. C. (ILNS). Fol
lowing close on President Roosevelt's
plea for increased production in de
fense industries, the Metal Trades De
partment of the American Federation
of Labor urged redoubled efforts by
shipbuilding workers and manage
ments to produce speedily "ships, ships
and more ships."
In its official bulletin for September,
the Metal Trades Department de
clared
"At this time we wish to call to the
attention of all who have our coun
try's interest at heart the need for
skilled mechanics to offer their serv
ices to the shipbuilding industry."
It was explained that the depart
ment is conducting a drive to obtain
a greater supply of skilled workers
for jobs in shipyards. The bulletin
added:
"It is to you men—whether exec
utives, skilled mechanics or laborers—
that our country is looking for the
production of ships which we very
sorely need. Our country is calling
today for the delivery of ships, ships
and more ships and it is up to all of
us to heed that call."
The bulletin pointed out that the
Metal Trades Department as far back
as 1923 adopted resolutions in conven
tion demanding that the United States
Navy be built up to full treaty limits
and has ever since conducted a cam
paign for expansion of the American
Navy and merchant marine.
Commenting on the "almost mirac
ulous" growth and expansion of the
American shipbuilding industry in the
last few years, the bulletin declared
that the United States now is the
world's outstanding nation in shipping
and shipbuilding.
The Metal Trades Department ini
tiated and participated in the negotia
tion of regional stabilization agree
ments in the shipbuilding industry,
establishing basic working standards
and voluntarily renouncing strikes or
lockouts in favor of mediation and ar
bitration. The department has an al
most perfect record in enforcing this
no-strike policy, it was said at A. F.
of L. headquarters here.
PAYS TRIBUTE TO
PRES. ROOSEVELT
Grand Rapids, Mich.—In his Labor
Day address here, President William
Green of the American Federation of
Labor paid high tribue to President
Roosevelt for his efforts in behalf of
the workers. Mr. Green said:
"I would be remiss in my duty as
president of the American Federation
of Labor if I were to neglect to ack
nowledge the co-operation and help
which the labor movement has re
ceived from our government through
President Roosevelt and his adminis
tration. The President warned us at
the inception of the defense program
that sacrifices would have to be made
by labor, along with capital and in
dustry, but at the same time he prom
ised that the economic, social and
legislative gains made by organized
labor and the democratic rights of
the workers would not be scuttled in
the process.
"President Roosevelt has kept his
word. The workers of America have
kept their faith in him and he has
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greater tribute I could pay him than
to declare here and now that the mil
lions of American workers gladly fol
low his leadership and have full confi
dence in his policies and his purposes."
MEDIATION PLAN IS REJECTED
Michigan City, Ind. (ILNS).—Mem
bers of the Brotherhood of Railway
Carmen announced that the local union
had rejected an appeal by the National
Defense Mediation Board to end a
strike at the Pullman Standard Car
Manufacturing plant here. The union
is demanding a union shop and seni
ority provisions. The strike, called Au
gust 17, affected 1,800 men. A hearing
before the mediation board is sched
uled in Washington.
BETHLEHEM DRIVERS
CHOOSE AFL TEAMSTERS
Brooklyn, N. Y.—Truck drivers em
ployed in two Brooklyn and one Staten
Island yard of the shipbuilding divi
sion of the Bethlehem Steel Corpora
tion by a unanimous vote selected the
International Brotherhood of Team
sters and Chauffeurs, A. F. of L. af
filiate, as their collective bargaining
agent, the National Labor Relations
Board announced.
LABOR ACTION ASKED
ON CURTAILED JOBS
Atlantic City, N. J. (ILNS).—Set
ting up of special labor committee to
aid in the transfer of workers from
curtailed non-defense industries to de
fense jobs was urged here before the
annual convention of the New Jersey
State Federation of Labor by Joseph
Keenan, of the Office of Production
Management.
Keenan explained that many work
ers at plants producing consumers'
goods faced loss of employment be
cause the plants were unable to get
materials. The labor committee, he
said, could work out a program
whereby these workers could be placed
in defense plants.
Keenan urged unions to increase
their participation in instructional
training of apprentices. This also was
the subject of an address by Thomas
Lyons, president of the New York Fed
eration of Labor, who said this par
ticipation was vital because appren
tices were being turned out by schools
wtihout a clear picture of require
ments.
Lyons suggested an inventory of
the need for workers in the various
trades so that youths could be trained
for careers "for a longer period than
the present emergency."
A resolution approved by the con
vention pledged aid to the peoples of
Great Britain, China and Russia and
all opponents of Fascist aggression.
It endorsed the policies of President
Roosevelt and the government in con
nection with aid to the democracies.
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