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Show It's Tit For 1 at By GEORGE S.BENSON THE FINITE dmrela-tionship dmrela-tionship 7hlesPto prices has wageS, anluZegd effectively in re-been re-been dtwaWje r. cent weeks To tne who ican house fe " d appor- along. exchange it i"f prices boost for her husband. And cause for jubilation. Mags HENRY FORD II, Output whose grandfather " P practiced so well the mechanics of good economy and who dealt fairly and well wn The mass output system, recently Parted what may become a trend in tne automobile industry. In Satog the first postwar pnee reduction on cars, Mr. Ford actu allv gave the equivalent of a wage boost to all Americans who buy Fords, and if other car manufacturers manu-facturers follow, it will mean a boost to all who buy automobiles. And as mass production of automobiles auto-mobiles comes to peak, still lower prices will surely follow. The key to the wage-price balance bal-ance is: more output. One manufacturer manu-facturer has advertised this balance bal-ance thus: "If we want a bigger ,cut out of the income pie either as management or labor, the best way for all concerned i8 t. a bigger pie." He continued ?v' can't cut bigger pieces out ,; smaller pie. You can't r ,?1 to raise wages, anywhere ' shrinking production" fi?"'' right. , ' ltal; Keep A IN AN indust,' Balance democracy jw 11 i- .we,have a high ,5' ard of living largely beL.U,: production of goods has t brought into line with the lr possible consumer prices V i production, every time' Z" greater value to the consul-lower consul-lower prices. It also means' to those who invested the a that bought the tools i r ' means more to labor that i -: the product. 1 r These thoughts may why not all of labor has ing to get behind the banner t' "industry can afford a 25? eral wage increase without f ing prices." The American h eration of Labor has reported'' findings that in 1946 an ji ' wage increase brought foe,,: in living costs of equal ar The balance of wages and is just that close in our structure. Now is the time for American to understand with Mrs. Pennythrift the' he-wife, he-wife, that all of us must crate cr-ate in order to use these ft mental economic facts to thf " vantage of the whole nation.'; cannot hope to maintain fori this free America which (-' unless we seek long rangj" operation and nnderstiv" rather than short-sighted-advantages which in the wis destructive to all, |