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Show ' Kiexiew Eremito o2 (DiuiinreinnS ' .V- v; 1 V7 EDUCATE ORGANIZE COOPERATE VOL X; NO. 'ITT SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. FEBRUARY 34 I - I I J I - II Monopoly Has Dollars Ruined the American Farmer and Cents And Industrial Worker I I Place the blame where it justly belongs. You can talk until you are black in the face about American conditions and the hard time) we have experienced, but the truth of the matter is that the chain-stor- e monopoly has contributed more than any other factor in pauperizing American farmers and industrial workers. This is something for the legislators to give serious attention to, instead of devoting their time in debating over questions that will not help the farmer nor the industrial worker. Editor Utah Labor. News: I operate my business on dollars and cents. You operate your business dollars and cents. You operate your farm on dollars and cents. The city operates on dollars and cents. The county operates on and cents. . The state operates on dollars dollars monopoly has ruined anj npnfc hundreds of manufacturing plants and caused unemployment The United States operates on and cents. among the industrial workers. This octopus has kept the farm dollars courts The operate on dollars products at low levels, and thus ruined producers on the farms. and cents. The question of chain-stor- e monopoly and the absentee The jobholder operates on dolownership of retail business is a question that affects everyone, lars and cents. merchant chain-stor- e because it affects American chil dren and opportunities that will or will not be opep to them as they reach manhood and womanhood. Shall we strive to keep open the broad highway of opportunity to the sons and daughters of American families? There are many questions you should ask yourself before you decide that it is in the ' interest of community life in America, that a few giant chains owned in New York or Chicago should control the retail business of this nation. National Octopus Did you know that only one grocery chain, the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co., controls about 10 per cent of the nations grocery business ? It is also interesting to know concern rethat this chain-stor- e ceived in one year from manufacturing concerns more than eight million dollars in secret and confidential rebates, discounts, advertising allowances and brokerage. The two concerns granting them the greatest amount of money over were both Wall Street $700,000 controlled corporations. One of these concerns, .Standard Brands, Inc., of New York City, was organized by and is controlled by J. P. Morgan & Co. The other, General Foods Corporation, of New York City, has as its chairman of the board E. F. Ilutlbn, of E. F. Hutton & Co., a Wall Street brokerage concern. To the average person it will seem' amazing but it is none the less true, that over half of the profits of the A. & P. in one year were realized from these secret and confidential rebates. This was revealed by an investigation made (Continued on page 3) BETWEEN THE LINES By CECIL OWEN n Publicity Director, Labors Non-Partisa- League. WASHINGTON President Roosevelts vigorous mes sage asking for the appropriation of $150,000,000 additional funds for the W.PA., not only sets forth the grave situation of the unemployed but it also exposes the absurdity of the ac tion by which both houses of Congress slashed this amount from the Presidents original request. Senators and Representatives alike excused their votes against adequate relief by saying that the President was free to come back for more if, an emergency developed. But the President would not have been asking for the original amount unless an emeregncy had already developed. Obviously, too, the President had an excellent understanding of the situation ahead for the next five months. Acting with the greatest speed, it takes not less than a month for an appropriation measure to get at Washington Was full of rumors of a man to through both houses, and become about the appointment of Ohio, former replace Mosier, law. Committee. of member that When the Congress voted a sixty The 'selection of Congressman day appropriation, and said come Jerry Voorhis, of California, greatback for more, any experienced was a and liberals ly encouraged member must have known that it to the King of the would be necessary to ask addiVoorhis is one of Demagogues. tional funds immediately, if the the most consistent and determined body-blo- money was to be available within the sixty days. , The real object was to find some way to strike a blow at President Roosevelt, and give the Congressmen an excuse which they could offer their constituents for slashing relief expenditures. Playing politics with the needs of the unemployed will require a better excuse than the flimsy come back for more offered by the Senate appropriations committee. w progressives in the Congress; he is a clean, honest and sincere New Dealer. He was one of the few Congressmen who voted against the continuation of the Dies Committee. The country can at least expect minority restraints, within the Committee, upon the smear tactics of its chairman. Tory Burke Senator Burke, of Nebraska, is has nothing if not consistent. He come forward now with a ' series Liberals Encouraged of amendments to the National LaAfter the House of Representa- bor Relations Act which w6uld detives had approved the request of stroy all effectiveness in the law, Tweedledee Dies for a new lease and put labor relations back where bn life for his Committee, the air (Continued on page 4) Price: 1A Chain-Stor- e In the past 10 years the y ft! ni it JiK6lL' OJf Ql eeg-3- L - operThe independent ates on dollars and cents. Therefore, it is necessary that setany economic question must be othin cents and tled with dollars er words, FAIR legislation. Sure, they, the chain stores, tell us. that they save the consumer money and thereby raise the standard of living.. The chain stores tell us tha they give better service in airlines , of endeavor. The cham tells us they pay high- er wages After Dark merchant and the chains pay the same wage whera a labor agreement has been signed by both parties, namely independent and chain. Where ah agreement has not been signed you can. find the employees in a chain store working about two days in one. The old saying still holds true--y- ou can fool all the people some of (Continued on page 7) Cents Per Copy mi f... by Rice ARE YOU EVER BLIND? Well, You're Close to it Many Times if You Drive at Night for your eyes Are like a Camera In the dark Pupil of the eye is wide Open -- - The STRAINING FOR LIGHT Sudden Glare Contracts the Dilated in Pupil Less Than a aEC0N GLMtJ vy 11 Glare gone , it Takes the Pupil Several Seconds to open and again Adapt Itself to darkness - in That Lapse You arc Partially 4, women shorter hours. The truth is, the independen 5 fiinppijj: i DRIVING AT MIGHT VITIIOUT OAFETY LISIfTV SPEED Z.USE LOWER BEAMS . REDUCE MEETING OTHER Z.EOLLOW RIGHT EDGE of CAR3J To Appreciate Roosevelt-RemembeHoover NOTES FROM THE STATE LEGISLATURE r By UARDA McCARTY Death of a movement to authorize the sale of liquors and wines by the drink. (From Philadelphia Record) Prosperity is just around the corner. Thats what Herbert Hoover told the American people and property both houses. Thats what Mr. Hoover has been Tentative approval of homestead from 1929 to 1933. , tax exemptions in Inflation is just around the corner. them ever since telling Putting the quietus on the pro- 1933. posal to bar governmental employ He has been 1 00 per cent wrong on both prophecies. ment of persons whose spouses aTe On the day Hoover left office the only thing around any gainfully employed. These were highlights last week corner in America was a closed bank. r . of front line action at the twenty-thir- d six And after years of Tepeated promises that inflation was session of the Utah state about to beskyrocket on which prices, as in Germany, and ruin the country, Monday legislature, forty-secon- d and we its find: its day gan third to last week of lawmaking That whereas the commodity price index ranged between deliberations. 100 under Hoover in 1929 and Presaging interesting action to The price index today is down around 77. come on measures of vital interest In his Lincoln day speech Mr. Hoover shouted the country to the state as a whole was the introduction of several new bills. a rendezvous with inflation and a full-size- d dictator. old age assistA If there were even faint inflation the price toward nudges ance bill places payments on a 1 index would be need basis instead of the present soaring far above the 00 mark. Instead, the $30 less income basis. Another srice level has dropped to 77 from 86 in the last two years. senate measure proposes that Thats deflation, not inflation. school classes up to and including Mr. Hoover demonstrates that he is as bad a prophet in the fifth grade be taught by radio. A house bill prohibits and 1939 as he was in 1929. In 1 0 years he has learned nothing. n stay-istrikes, limits picketing and use of labor boycotts. ' Normally our feelings toward the depression President are Epic Plan feeling of pity, and our inclination is not to take him very seriOther new bills of interest pro- ously- But his Lincoln Day address was such a complete mass pose extension of the period in of misinformation and so completely ignored his own record as which a preceding years motor vehicle license plates could be used President that it is time to recall the conditions to which Mr. to April 1; authorize an appropria- Hoover, on Monday, demanded a return. tion of $100,000 for Utahs 1947 Hoover wants an end to Government spending He becentenary observation, and create a the that grudges has been production-for-us- e money spent. program similar In other words, he would return to the to the Epic plan proposed in days when he told California. Congress it was all right to appropriate money to feed mules (Continued on page 2) (Continued on page 8) senate-introduc- , ed sit-do- |