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THE CHICAGO
Vol. 1. No. 1
Demand Congress act! 'p-j s-
Nation fights to halt price
disaster; Buyer strike on!
Death of the OPA may set off the biggest buyers' strike in history.
More than 2,000,000 Chicago consumers this week prepared for a bitter strike to stop zooming prices.
The blast at inflation came in answer ot the wiping out of rent and price control by a Big Business-minded
block of Congressmen despite overwhelming demands for the continuation of the OPA.
Mobilization for the buyers strike got under way her 6 in cooperation with a nationwide wave of consum-
ers protests as civic, labor,
women’s and church organ
izations pledged to purchase
only essential commodities.
Revolt against the lynching
of OPA was touched off here
for'the Extension Committee
for the Extension of Price and
Kent Control, representatives of
more than a million consumers,
who called for a buyers’ strike
and stated:
“In this period, in which we
are waiting the action of Con
gress, and in which the con
sumer is left unprotected from
greedy business and real estate
Chicago
fights race
covenants
by Richard Durham
See Page 8
★
Bribery
behind the
Iran crisis
by Johannes Steel
See Page 5
Chicago, July 6, 1946
interests, we are calling upon
every individual to protect
himself and his neighbor by
joining a nationwide move
ment of consumers to refuse
to pay over ceiling prices for
goods and services.”
* * *
ISSUED by Mrs. Manuel Rob
in executive director of the Com
mitee, the statement urged a bar
rage of telegrams to the White
House “until even the present
Congress will be forced to obey
the peoples’ will.”
The American Veterans Com
mittee with 3000 members in Chi
cago took a fighting stand
against the OPA-killing as Sid
ney Ordower, executive secretary
of the Chicago chapter, declared:
“We’re playing for keeps, no
holds barred, to get back OPA.
We’re going to institute buy
ers’s strikes. We are going to
investigate every eviction that
takes place in the city—espe
cially where a veteran is con
cerned —and we’re urging our
people to stay in their places
and refuse to pay any addition
al rent hike.
We’re selling apples on street
corners called “The Taft Apples”
he stated.
• * - •
BETTY Dashew, head of the
Chicago Action Council, represen
tative of 3,000 business and pro
fessional groups, stated that her
organization felt "the only thing
left for consumers to do is to
take action in a nationwide con
sumers’ strike,” and said the
CAC was already working with
other groups in mobilizing for
the nationwide buyers’ strike.
Others on early record support
ing the nationwide buyers' strike
included the National Negro Con
gress, The United Electrical
Workers, the League of Women
Voters, and the Chicago Federa
tion of Consumers.
Mrs. Lillian Inke, chairman of
the Independent Voters of Illi
nois, declared that her group had
“tremendous sentiment” in favor
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'Trampling out the vintage... ’
What to do
about Prices
IWire or write your Congressman and Senators Brooks
and Lucas. Tell them to pass a resolution at once, ex
tending OPA as is for another year. Tell them to act
now, before prices and rents get out of hand.
2 Support the national buyers’ strike against inflation.
Buy only what are bare essentials—basic foods and
medicines—until Congress renews price control. Re
fuse to pay any increase in rent.