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Show Page UTAH LABOR NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, MARCH 31, 1939 2 SHtaf) Hafcor Catabiuhed 1929 A MEMBZ3 OF THE This paper receives Union News Service, a Cl. 0. affiliate. 04 second-clas- s matter March 23, 1930, at the post offics at Salt Lake City, Utah, nnder the Act of March 8, 1879. Entered aa Subscription Advertising rates bj request. flAO per annual Address all communications and remittances to Utah Labor News, 28 South 4th East Street, Salt Lake'City, Utah. Published weekly at 28 South 4th East Street, Salt Lake City, Utah. Telephone Was. 2981. M. L L. M. Til OM PSO N THOMPSON Office Manager We stand for what the Constitution stands for domestic tranquility," the establishment of justice, and the promotion of the general welfare. ' UTAH LABOR NEWS. bill is in the public interest. I do the business of good fathers and ducer and the consumer? No. Take your own United States not recommend coercion, intimida- mothers who are trying properly government figures and you vill tion. or threats as a method to be to rear and educate the coming discover that the spread the last 10 used; in fact, neither should be re- citizens of our country, their chilyears during chain domination Is sorted to. I do recommend the use dren, when some of those fighting and destroying, do not have chilgreater than it was during the of logic and reason. Sincedo you to pass these valuable prividren not preceding 10 years of competitive have the right side, you and unleges on to. They would be left to business. The spread has become have to use unfair methods instead. greater, and in 1932 when the derhanded tactics. Selfish interest corporations Mr. Harry Hopkins said in his chains made from 20 to 30 per cent will prompt some people to be on that our side and some on the opposite Des Moines speech a few days ago: profit on their investment Our farm homes receive less hard year that we all know about side. It is my opinion that there is less than 10 per cent of the national the retail dollar was reduced to the farmer to the amount of 33 selfishness on our side for the rea- income, and on that they must cents. He had been getting 60 son that if we are successful in bring up about 20 per cent of the cents out of every retail dollar be- - I curbing or restricting the chains it Nations children. Question: Should we maintain a , fore chain domination, but in 1932 Ii will not only help the independent in Washington ? but it lobby now in 33 mcrchants business, to and was reduced it it cents, Answer: Not at all necessary, is not much more than that today. will help all other independent foresince there are already existing ornot business as well and will Where Io Chain Profits Go? of the ganizations that are keeping the So in taking these hundreds of close to anyone opportunity thousands of traveling men off the going into business. Whereas, if people informed as to what is goroad and in creating a greater un- the chains win, only a compara- ing on in Congress. The most ef-- ( Continued on page 3) employment problem, it seems to tively few ' people will be helped of me it has not helped the producer the other lines independent T we know it has not; it has not business will be destroyed, and the WE BUY, SBLLOB TRa1)E closed be will door of does consumer. the Where opportunity helped LIVESTOCK! Fresh Cows; that money go? It goes to a few and safety locked to those who de will trade for dry stock. Milk Wall Street bankers in New York sire to, engage in business. cows sold on easy payments. and to a few charming American Question: Should one refuse to For Bull Service ladies who go overseas and marry work for a cause in the public in Provo W. 5th North some count for a husband. That is terest because he will be indirectPhone 657-- J where the money goes. It is taken ly benefited ? Answer: No. If the chains are away from the local communities and placed in the hands of a few restricted, the independents are WELCOME, LABOR people and used by a few people. only directly benefited along with Much of it goes to foreign coun- the country. If the chains win, a ALEXS CAFE tries. It is not placed back into cir- few people and we know now who The one spot to remember culation, because they do not need they are will be directly benefited Day and All Night Open of 7 any of the comforts and necessities to the extent of tens of millions are We Never Close of life that they are not already dollars a year. Some people CITY BRIGHAM buying. So it creates a very seri- fighting for these greedy privious and damaging problem. leges, spending millions to destroy Opportunities at Stake The Works Progress Administration has reported that every decade IN THE SAME Easter Greetings at least 2,000,000 young men and women must leave the farms and OLD WAY M go into the cities, that the farms cannot take care of them. What are The Housing Bill, its sad to say, those 2,000,000 young folks going Was riddled full of holes. to do ? If you have the chain-stor- e Some friends of Labor their system operating from one end of customary roles. Played the country to the other, they have Theres nothing in the world they Wouldnt do for you they say charge of all these local communities. The local print shop is out. That is their line of ballyhoo The local lawyer is gone. They do BEFORE election day. , not need him. In addition to that, 254 South Main the insurance agents are gone. He But when theyre at the capitol cannot go into the grocery business .. And busy making laws or the drug business. What are The workers learn with deep regret those 2,000,000 young people going Theyre in the tigers claws. to do? If you prevent them from They will plead and theyll petition having the opportunity of going Easter Greetings into business for themselves, what With their backs against the are you going to do with them? wall That is, just the young people. It To the ones THEY put in office! is a serious question. Its a tragedy, thats alL What About Consumer? THOMAS H. WEST. Now, what about the consumer? The consumer is the father or Welcome, Fellows j mother of those young people. The Aid First Safety Equipment, j consumer is also thinking about and Supplies Clothing to will he him what when happen UNIVERSAL SAFETY 1069 East 21st South gets to be 45 or even 40 or 35 APPLIANCE CO. of Private will years age. industry JACK COOMBS, Mgr. not employ him. What can he do ? SUGARHOUSE 69 E. 4th So. Was. 1629 In times gone by he could go into business for himself into the insurance business or the printing business, or many different kinds EASTER GREETINGS of business, but he cannot do it now. So you might just as well make arrangements to either curb the greed of a few people jvho are Served at ALL Leading Fountain and Lunch Counters trying to get control of retail distribution and all the privileges and ALSO TO TAKE HOME FROM BAKERY AT 1142 SO. STATE opportunities of this nation, or arrange to put many of them on some kind of relief roll when they get to be 21 years of age certainly when they get to be 35, when they cannot get employment in private industry. It is a very serious question. 1: -- PROPOSED FEDERAL TAX ON INTERSTATE CHAIN STORES where the chain-stor- e operators (Continued from page 1) bank has eight forms for the purpose of state a that law a saying pass The getting people to write a letter. could not issue currency? answer is. that it would have been One of these forms is used and the unconstitutional; but the Congress letter written on stationery furused the taxing power as a vehicle nished gratis by the company, and and placed a 10 per cent tax on the manager turns them in to the that currency, which resulted in de- chain office unsealed. Then they stroying a number of state banks, are examined, and if found satisbut it accomplished the very factory they are sealed up and worthy objective of saving the cur- stamped and sent to the Congressinspired rency system of this nation. Why men in Washington do we place a tax upon the owner- propaganda from 1 per cent of the ship and the transfer of machine guns? Is it for the purpose of raising revenue ? No; admittedly not for that purpose. It is for the purpose of keeping up with the ownership and the transfer of those machine guns so that the government can more effectively deal with the criminal class in this country. There are two cases and I could name a number of others where the taxing power of Congress is used as a vehicle to accom plish a worthy and desirable pur probpose. So in approaching thiswe are taxes of the lem from angle It not breaking any precedent. has been used by both parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, in the past in the Congress of the United States and for the same purpose. Chain Companies Affected There are about 1500 chain-stor- e companies in this country. "The average number of stores to each company is 35, This bill Will levy a tax so small upon 35 stores that no company will have cause to seriously object to it, and they will not object to it. Where do all these objections come from, you ask? of They come from the 1 per cent 1 chain-store per the companies cent, 15 or 20 that are attempting to gain control of retail distribution in this country. That is where the opposition comes from, and they are the ones that you hear from in 'these inspired letters, chain stores that will be affected by the terms of this bill. Food Monopoly We have one concern in America that is doing 10 per cent of the retail food business. Ten such concerns would do all of the food business in America. The effect of this large purchasing power has been disastrous not only to the farmer, who has been the principal sufferer, but also to the consumer as well. The Federal Trade Commission has pointed this out to Congress on numerous occasions. It is the Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. that is doing 10 per cent of the retail grocery business in America. If nine other concerns like that one were doing as much, all the food business in America would be under their charge or under their control. . The farmer has been hurt for this reason: They have ganged up on the farmers and they have forced them to sell for very low prices. They brag about this to their city consumers. They say in effect, We have such buying power that we can make the farmers sell to us for whatever prices we offer. If they do not, we will go out of the market and destroy the market. Some city consumers like that, but many of the city consumers have vision. They can see what this will lead to. If it destroys the farmers buying power, the farmers are the best customers of the people who live in the cities, so that Vallay Auto Semico the buying power of these farmers VVtft) being destroyed, the peope who LLOYD LAWTON. Mgr. live in the cities are also injured by such tactics as that. Welcomes Labor (FZPC3) CASOiUM When chains first came in, the HEBER CITY, UTAH argument was made that the wholesale houses would be eliminated and that traveling men would be eliminated. The wholesalers not been have eliminated. The inEaster Greetings terstate chains have set up their own wholesale houses. There is no Neil ODonnell saving there. Not a single distributive expense has been elimiMortuary nated by the chains. The result Eureka Salt Lake City was 295,000 traveling men were turned off one year, in 1929. Of Unexcelled course, that upset our employment More jroblem in this country. Service lave been turned off each year since. If that is in the interest of 372 East 1st South Street the country, I have not a word to Wasatch 6488 say, but let us see if it is in the interest of the country. Did it reduce the spread between the pro- - Boston Store 1 Ben Franklin Store F.3i?i?iicsn L3eati IPSgg & HOW YOU CAN HELP PASS H. R. 1 COAILSave on Utahs Furnace Lump up Lump 3-i- n. 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