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Show UTAH LABOR NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, MARCH 24, 1939 Page 6 DOg&gi? Eg flttsr o&nctl AMI yaoQfcsEa ranatisr HuavfltJG ITora0 EJ70H I? TTG!1I? HmcnGlpGDaGEGDIlti OttGtfGG Hoad ttDo Ado Answer: The creation of oppor stores in other sections of the coun chains, to please keep an account tunity for independent business to try to depend on to keep it going for a month or two months and continue (Continued on rage 7) ' AND FARMERS uilding communities, and until the independent merchant MENACES WORKERS to make jobs for men and women could be put out of business. Then now carried on relief. prices would go up and the public Postal in Employes of his the interest and interest 1) from How would pay the bill. We do not Page these prob(Continued may Question: He the country. need economic dictatorship in this Unionized incidentally point- lems be dealt with? dollar, 14 4 cents for packing; Answer: First, by prevention of country and the fight against a 27 Vi cents for railroads; interstate ed out that the farmers were store chains greedily clutched 40 Vi helped as well as himself; that the monopoly and the curbing of the few men owning a few retail chain-stor- e Forty employes of the Postal systems is a fight against Telegraph cents, but the Florida grower re farmers had a surplus of peas that large concerns that are taking company in Salt Lake chain store the was them helping from local people privileges economic dictatorship. ceived a miserable llVi, cents. away of organized laare members City Of one to dispose of. Let us see who was and opportunities, which has reCalifornia tomatoes: the interstate If Question: the For bor. they are memconsumer dollar in the same mar- - helped by this sale of surplus peas sulted in the destruction of oppor- chain is a bad system, why do not bers of the present local of the Denver 17 Vi at 4 cents a can. The can comfor independent business en- the people stop trading with them? American Communications tunity kets, 11 cents for packing; Associainterstate pany made a fair profit on the can. terprise and has caused the placing cents for railroads; been tion, C. I. O., but it is expected that Answer: have polls Many made V4 a The the railroad and fair company of men and women on relief, many chains received 44 cents; 23 profit on transporting the can to of whom would otherwise find em- taken on this subject. Some peo- a local union charter will be issued with ended only up grower ple answered that they expected to for a local union in Salt Lake City producer and cannery, and also ployment. cents. ... the . . to trade with interstate continue emThese are very convincing oxfi on the transportation after it was Question: Are consumers saved chains as long as it was so con- with jurisdiction over Postal adand in offices all The Utah telephone company $750,000,000 annually trading with venient for them to do ployes cial figures by the Federal Trade filled. but so, they mean would This calls on the made a fair illustrations Similar profit chains? territory. Commission. would favor a law that would make jacent union of approximately 100 local a Answer: That is not possible, it could be given for other commodi- necessary to complete sale to the for them to patronize members. necessary distributor. 5f business lines out 38 of 45 when ties, including dairy products.inter- But the farmer who produced the independents have a lower over, home business instead, in order The Salt Lake City unit has a Prior to the advent of the worked for less than' 5 cents head, according to United States that they may be compelled to pat- collective bargaining agreement in peas state chains the average farmer ronize institutions that are of the I had an open market in which to sell an hour and threw in absolutely Bureau of the Census. Further, greatest benefit to the communi- effect with the Postal Telegraph his products. But today his price- free the soil on hi3 farm required interstate chains charge customers ties in which they live. company. higher prices when they dominate is virtually dictated by the grasp- to produce them, A large percentage of people do The wage earner working in the distribution in any locality. In admonopoly interests. ing chain-stor- e Welcome, Labor to trade with such inter- A refuse receive a not did living dition, court records disclose that cannery wage. the interstate chains have a system state systems, but many honestly Fill Up At The chain store either received of charging up' to each manager of believe that they get tetter bara profit or else placed his com-I- n a store all the goods delivered to gains than they would get fiom inCom-1 petitor a little bit nearer1 to bank-missi- him at retail prices. It is well dependent merchants and do not 1937, the Federal Trade of ruptcy. The railroad company known that broken package goods consider the. social objections. reported to the Congress follows: as Others have traded by the month profited, the can trust profited, the cannot be weighed out accurately Standard Oil Products Atlas the United States with j telephone company but inderecords chains loss certain and is then with in with a and Commission there profited, Batteries Tubes "The Tires great survival the farmer and wage earner suf- - types of commodities. The man-o- f pendents and discovered at the end the that belief its dismay T. W. Perry, Lessee, fered. ager is, therefore, encouraged to of the month the bill to the indeindependent farming by farmers Friend of Labor and in farms own was no the in some customers than cheat his pendent larger way who own their or We Appreciate Your order to keep from appearing short bill to the chain for, a month. One maintain an American stardard I back know around. merchant has comes when the in Patronage gained is supervisor jeopardy. iiving This shortage has been proven in many customers by telling one, You cannot read this report HEBER CITY A member of Congress from the United States courts to be as who has been frank enough to adwithout realizing that the Federal in is Michigan Commission protested to the Federal much as 25 cents and 30 cents on mit that he is going to try the saying, Trade Mr. Farmer, Commodity words, Surplus Corporation the dollar in the case of certain just so many chain-stor- e because this Government organiza- commodities. interstate the unless abso tion was purchasing potatoes in are is you broken, Question: Will newspapers lose system not but PIKES PEAK GARAGE & SERVICE STATION Maine, purchasing potatoes $200,000,000 advertising revenue lutely ruined. in Michigan. An investigation dis- each year? See and Ride in the 1939 Ford closed that the chain stores had Welcome, Labor Answer: No, as independent lobby ganged up on framed up the farmers in Maine merchants will advertise more than Authorized Sales and Service lobby ha ganged and Government money had to be the chains. However, the chains The chain-stor- e HEBER CITY, UTAH JOE HYLTON, Mgr. It has ganged used to fix a fair price in this mar- are trying to make the newspaper up on the farmers. has It ket, which was unnecessary in the owners believe that it is in their up on the wage earners. and livestock the on Michigan market at that time. selfish interest to stand by the ranged up wreck- Government is and it money has been used chains in all publicity. producers dairy ob- When in Heber Its where they this the In by corporation to prevent Question: Would the Govern pities ing them. " the on PHONE 78 chains from destroying' entirely ment lose the taxes now paid by intain control they gang up the farmers market for potatoes terstate chain owners each year ? PRESCRIPTIONS consumers. 0 on the Atlantic seaboard, onions in Answer: The amount that would THE REXALL STORE Massachusetts, grapefruit and be received from independent merfarm surplus would, from their and Florida chants places juice taking HEBER CITY L. HIATT, Mgr. Friend of Labor chain grapefruit the j J. Texas, and poultry products from doubtless, greatly exceed The national corporate oi ajj over amount now paid by interstate nati0n. claim must credit for disposing of the commodities waa announce(i jn the news- - chain-stor- e owners. Judging from certain surplus me advised Govem-thcritic hundreds of complaints crim- A the One the papers recently that Welcome, Labor ffcrmers. a from civil the largest ment inal to and was purchased had he against ready eggs, purchase just or The announcement as given to .the chain in America each year, I national chain store three cans and challenged doubt that the taxes paid by the neas for 12 cents press is as follows: was such Commodi-1 of this concern are suffi owners "The Federal purchase Surplus me to deny that ties Corporation announced that it cient to cover the actual cost of Meats Groceries Farming Equipment was prepared to purchase eggs to policing by the Federal, State, and Complete Department Store . stabilize and strengthen the mar- - City governments. It costs lots of Welcome, Labor to and lawsuits to propket. Purchases will be made, itl money try Phones 7 and 8 Heber City, Utah said, at any country purchasing erly inspect and supervise all the the concern a of if activities merterminal and giant market, point, Good Eats cantile exchange if greater than! public interest is properly pro normal surpluses accumulate and tected. Heber City, Utah prices decline below present levels or fail to respond to normal sea- - CHAINS DESTROY sonal advances. INDEPENDENTS "Eggs so acquired will be AUTO oBlllwB j tributed to needy persons through Question: How do interstatestate relief agencies. chains unfairly destroy independIt is a bad thing for the coun- ent merchants? try, and especially the farmers, for Answer: One case was cited by a few buyers to control any marHonorable Charles H. March of the ket. If national chain stores get Federal Trade Commission, in the It will go all the way to defend you and control of this country, both farma said He that address. a public ers and customers will suffer. Prichain opened up a store opfight for your happiness, welfare and prosvate monopoly is indefensible and large a successful merchant retail Welcome, Labor posite should not be tolerated. perity. in a Minnesota town. No matter We appreciate your patronage man placed small the what price QUESTIONS AND At all times Utah Labor News is urging on his goods, the chain store went ANSWERS Clean, Cold, Union Made chain the a little lower, although Beer Cigars Candy the patronage of independent businesses. It is the same goods was Question: Why are the loans to made handling as by the same manufacturer small business not being made by WASATCH supporting legislation to curb. the growth of was handling. the independent banks or R. F. C.? The independent was dependent interstate chain-stor- e BILLIARDS Answer: The security is insuffimonopolies. that at his particuearnings chain upon as a national corporate cient, to survive. The large Where Friends Meet can go into any locality in com- lar locationthousands You should become a regular reader and of other retail Friends had chain petition with an independent busisubscriber of this paper and thus encourage ness at any time and destroy it R. A. Turner, Friend of Labor immost is the Question: What Heber City, Utah and support this battle the rights of your WELCOME, LABOR portant problem confronting our country ? of home and the boy or INTERSTATE CHAIN MONOPOLY 3-- Trailway Service on 7 Poflaeo Bgrag Go s' at I HUBER MERCANTILE CO. Chicks Cafe The Utah Labor News Is Your Best Friend . . . ais-Yall- the for future your ONLY $1.50 A YEAR MURDOCK'S BILLIARDS BEST WISHES TO WASATCH COUNTY LABOR Welcome When in Midway It9s SPORTING Union Made Beer on Tap Heber City, Utah COLEMAN BEIUG CO. GUY E. COLEMAN, Mgr., Friend of Labor GOODS Headquarters for Labor in Heber I - girl. Address- - UTAH LABOR NEWS 24 South 4th East St. Salt Lake City 7 |