The nonpartisan leader. [volume], March 15, 1920, Image 13

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Labor Not to Blame for High Prices
"C,.Texas Business Man Shows That Faulty Distribution
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In the building trades the labor cost
has increased to a larger degree, but
there is a misconception upon the part
of the public in general concerning
these wages. The capitalists gener
ally and partisan politicians figure out
how much such a man makes in a year
as if he put in every working day,
whereas I am told that the trades
mentioned do not succeed in getting
in more than SO to 75 per cent of the
working days above holidays. This
puts a different Complexion upon the
matter. These trades, in this city,
draw on an average about $44 per
week for a 44-hour week—$2,288 per
year. But when you cut this down,
say 331-3 per cent, the figures a^p
quite moderate, living expenses and
rents considered.
System Is Chiefly Responsible
DITOR Nonpartisan Lead
er: It has been made to
appear by the Literary
Digest that the farmers
generally are hostile to
ward union labor, hold­
ing labor responsible for high prices,
but I believe this is wrong. In the
small but profitable business with
which I am connected (typewriters)
labor costs, though 50 per cent more
than before the war, cut very little
figure in profits the additional costs
for freight and express aggregate
more than the labor increases. In the
great businesses like steel, oil, etc., I
believe that labor costs are still lower
in proportion.
FARMERS DEPEND UPON
WORKERS FOR MARKET
Our present structure, of prices is
a house of cards if you pull out one
card the whole house comes down.
Reduce high wages in the cities and
workers can not pay the high prices
for food, coal, clothing, etc., which
would react upon the farmer. The
price structure may well be compared
to a slippery hill, much easier and
safer to go up than to come down.
There is no doubt in my mind that
our distribution system is wasteful,
extravagant and really criminal. Dur
ing the past summer, instead of tak
ing a useless, expensive vacation, I
went out with one of our salesmen in
his Ford and camped out for two
weeks. As we left Dallas I bought
three good peaches for a dime. With
in less than 100 miles we went down
a sandy lane to find a camping place.
While the partner was preparing the
camp I took a lard bucket and a sack
and went down to see the outlook for
foraging. I got a gallon of milk for
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New York the premiums collected by
township mutuals and the state insur
ance department would go into banks
friendly to or owned by the common
people. There they would be avail
able for financing the co-operative
creamery, co-operative elevator, the
state industries, or for mortgage loans
at low rates to farmers. It would be
difficult to overestimate the advantage
this would be to co-operation and
other nonprofit business. Unfair bank
ing service is the chief problem of co
operators.
The state of Massachusetts has been
writing nearly all kinds of life insur
ance, including group insurance of
factory employes, in connection with
its state savings banks. Ohio and
Washington have made a conspicuous
success of state insurance for risks
under workmen's compensation. Fire
15 cents and the farmer asked me if I
liked peaches. He told me to take all
I wanted.
"They are not worth the crates," he
said, "and the best I can get is 25
cents a bushel, hauled to town, three
or four miles away."
Fire Insurance—A High Cost Business
And they were the most splendid
peaches I ever ate! In the morning
I went down for more milk and a few
more peaches and found our friend
energetically throwing that splendid
fruit over the fence to his hogs. I
helped him, inwardly cursing at the
fool system we have which causes peo
ple to pay an extortionate price for
fruits and vegetables, while 100 miles
away they are worthless.
Farmers, as a class, need educating
as to what city dwellers have been up
against for the past few years. A
farmer boy reads about city laborers
getting $5, $7.50 and even $10 a day,
but he does not stop to think that if
he had such a job he would have to
pay $5 to $7 a week for a decent
room, outrageous prices for meals,
clothing, etc. A short trial would
convince him that current wages on
the farm would make him more money
at the end of the year.
I am 53 years old, born in Michigan,
grew to young manhood in Nebraska
on a farm, went through drouths,
grasshoppers and all that sort of
thing, so I am not writing from theory
but from knowledge. There are
enough people in the United States
who are dissatisfied with both the old
parties to elect every office that is
open this fall and the thing to do is to
lay aside prejudices, misunderstand
ings, go to the bottom of the thing and
all unite.
Dallas, Texas. C. M. RORK.
WHO GOT THE DIFFERENCE?
The prices of wheat and its products
for September 23, 1919, compared to
the fixed prices in effect during gov
ernment control, shows that wheat has
gone up 17% per cent, but flour has
increased 34.7 per cent in price, bran
41.7 per cent, mixed feed 58.5 per cent
and middlings, shorts and red dog 73.5
per cent, says a bulletin of the North
Dakota Agricultural college. The
percentage of increase in the prices
of flour and the feed from the wheat
was thus two to four times as much as
for the wheat.
WHAT DEMOCRACY IS
"A democracy is a country that is
not ruled, but served." DAVID
STARR JORDAN.
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