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Show Plea Made To Make Zippers Apparently driven to distraction, distrac-tion, a man who wants to make the millions of lowly but important impor-tant zippers that millions of people peo-ple want, bought a full-page ad in an Eastern paper last week to state his case. Heading it "A Plea from a 'Bewildered 'Be-wildered Small Business Man' " David Silberman, the zipper manufacturer, man-ufacturer, addressed himself to "the U. S. Government My Government," Gov-ernment," and to labor and management man-agement and said: "I cannot get enough tape. I cannot get enough metal. I cannot can-not get enough labor. I cannot get enough of anything except customers. cus-tomers. "If I could get enough material and enough labor, and my competitors com-petitors could ,too. very soon between be-tween us we would make so many zippers, the competition would be so keen that there would be no possibility of increased prices and no danger of inflation, at least as far as zippers is concerned. "What is true of my business is true of buttons and dresses and fabrics and steel and autos and locomotives and fincrerbowls and toothpicks and anplesauce. Production, Pro-duction, competition, the ingen-unity ingen-unity of management, the co-operation of labor, is what will prevent pre-vent inflation not government regulation. "Please, everybody, get together and let me make my zippers!" |