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Show - T- O 0:Et "lh ' UH Pmwm R Uk. City, A I Ut Unytrf LS , ALREADY reams have been written on the - Automobile Workers insist' ions would bring them to time by a strike. What about the consumer? Is he to become the forgotten man? As soon as a company has the ability to pay more, re wages to be raised? In the past an industrys increased profits have been divided three ways: (1) they have gone to zise --wages (2) they have gone as dividends to reward ownership, and (3) they have gone to reduce prices. Nearly every person reading this piece will well remember that $1000 bought a better car in 1940 than $3000 dollars bought in 1920, although wages were much higher in 1940 and dividends generally better.. Up to now, competition competition for good workmen, .for buyers and for investors has taken care of the f profit item quite equitably. But there is another side to this picture. After the big war profits have been consumed, profits may drop or become negative Would Reuther still want wages .quantities. hooked to profits when there were no profits? street? Or is he advocating a one-wa- y As we have stated, under this demand, there -would be a definite tendency-t- o set all wsges in line with the highest profit firm,. The death rate of business concerns would be terrific. The rich concerns would get richer; the poorer would go broke. The end result would be monopolies. With one or two gigantic monopolies in each' industry, the public would begin to clamor and the voice ofjunion labor would be heard above all others. As sure as night follows day, the government would take over, first by price fixing and regimentation and then by outright ownership. Under statism or any other form of collectivism, labor would suffer most and unions would v . be about as useful as barnacles. AH of which causes us to wonder if Reuther and his UAW-CI- O really want wages tied to profits. ence that wages should be based on ability to pay and that the employers books should be opened to the unions to prove or disprove this ability. It will be remembered that this aspect of the current wage controversy In the automobile industry was headlined the other day" by General Motors withdrawal from President Trumans proceedings, because' profits were being included as a factor in settling the unions SO pen cent wage increase demand. s. On its face, ability to pay higher wages seems one reasonable ground for paying them. If an ed employer is making large profits, most any that he can person would say afford to give more money to his workmen, but it Isnt quite as simple as that. To base General Motors wages on ability to pay would start a chain of events which inevitably Would rock the very foundation of our economic add . political, system, Lets take a ; look at what would happen: 1 Supposing it was discovered that GM profits could stand daily wages of $12 instead of $9, ut in 2he case of the XX Motor Car Company, prof- -' its; could stand only a $9 daily wage. The union under a policy often proclaimed vice president, by Walter P. Reuther, UAW-CI- O would not permit several rates of pay for the same work in the same industry. So the XX company would have to raise Its wages regardless and either go broke or try to recover by raising the price of its cars to the point where they would not be marketable in competition with CM products. PThq result would be plain to see. General Mdtora and one or two other motor manufacturers would soon have a monopoly which would either be directed or ultimately taken over by the; government 11 General Motors and the other motor Inand dustry survivors were paying 30 or 40 per cent fNLY congress can remodel our ineffectual labor laws so that they will higher wages than other industries, everybody It would want to work for these companies. fairness and equality. Under present wouldnt be long before other industries or other represent labor legislation, all manner of biased rulings businesses would have to match these wages, secured by labor leaders against in have been afford Prices them. not could or whether they would be forced up in all lines with only the dustry. Abuses have become so odoriferous that have an-- ere-- of mast fit surviving. they have finally reached the- - publics noatrila- -, of which this One of the latest moves of labor leaders to ... like the inflation and monopoly alienate public as well as congressional good will, country has not seen. But supposing that Reuther decided he was is their attempt to compel executive or" super- -' vlsory employes of companies to join labor unwrong about differentials and unions actually atpermitted a dozen different wage rates for the ions. This is nothing more nor less than an tempt to gain control of management without sa$e jobs in the same producing area, depending on individual firm profits. Then with wages any financial obligation or responsibility. If managerial and supervisory employes can booked on to profits or ability to pay, the question of profits would become a matter for union be "forced into ' unions,""management "might " as negotiations. We would have the sorry spectacle well turn the industries over to the unions to of pinion leaders attempting to set prices, fix op- - operate, for there would be no one left on the 'side of management to represent the owners. If rating costs and do the other things which influence profits, union leaders and not management congress fails to correct this situation, there will be no more freedom of enterprise in the United wo&ld take over the running of all business and if management or the owners objected, the un- - States. . fact-findi- ng fair-mind- off-ha- nd -- Has Ownership Any Rights' one-sid- ed A- ; Solcolskyht Curst of Appeasemeh - By George E. Sokotoky despair a prospect for a social I In fact-findin- g" fact-findi- -- ip 1 -- fEndjof Tims, Eastern Standard The main drawback about down to the last grasping miwriting this article to ita subject. crobe, it will never be missed. The atomic bon-bof purest There certainly will be a lot of ray serene. There to a chance good insurance wasted. nobody will bo here to read I have a dull desire to be the It.. last man 4n this vale of inflascienIf the tion, investigations and other tists are : right sorrows. I would like to look and the human over the books before 1 play race to going to touch tag with a comet's (aiL destroy Itself, I , I would like to look under wtnt toto be some famous toupees to see if -around enjoy they are kept on by chewing gum lt lf I am the or the vacuum system, Iasi man on H 1 would like to will tell I earth, gander Peggy tome people Hopkins' diamonds to see if you 1 could boil . them down. what think of , r them! I would like to play solitaire The year has Jk just once without some stranger dly breathing on the back of my abfd B4et Bugs" a toehold. The neck. scientists brighten up the corner That worth waiting for. by threatening us with cooperaThere are a lot of things the tive extinction before next De- last man on earth could do. I cember. am not going to buzz them here As I said last autumn, if the because I do not want to stir human race exterminates itself up competition. on rV ri , r, Y net-rtans- fer Ullkeyser: y, ot busi-lawi- ng - andthe V () K Flashes of Life con-aum- ers equlp-queradi- ' ng Ru-ba- t pe oo STARTING MONDAY, JANUARY 7, 1946 -- ALL GEOGRAPHICAL GLOBES 25 OFF THE RECORD By Ed Reed Special-lo- t OFF .ofz STATIONERY AND GIFTWEAR By Arthur 'Bugs' Baer And after the last man on base teps off that final wharf there will be a great silence. The silence will last for ten millions of years. And, finally, a protozoan will stick its single-cellpersonality up from the eternal tides and look around in amoe- ban amazement It will crawl out onto the hot sands aa ita rhizopodtc ancestor did more than ten millions of years before. Before It lays the egg that will hatch history, war, strife and tha. paper chase ef life, liberty and happiness, It will scratch lta Invisible forehead and Why should I go ponder, through that all over again?" Whereupon, it will slink back Into its warm, cozy swamp and pull obUvion up afound ita neck. Which to the advantage of having but one organic substance .with one cell and one solitary vote. You do not have to wait to hear from the outlying counties. , f . His statement of this order. He does clearly of not understand what mend the abandonment for the olc long enough patthis constructive, positive sys means. To him it means tem of his mind to disclose it- tem of life. They advocate ad- nothing more than a problem in self. Be apparently hits hard and ventures in socialization. They arithmetic. If a company takes prefer a government control so in so much, it can afford to fart at the incident immediaterigid, so cynical that man be- pay wages accordingly. It ia aa before athim, but never ly; a simple as that Actually, nothcomes, by their proposals, slave to the state. Theirs is a ing is more complex. tempting to fit anything into system of thought or action. If total abnegation of human A of goods has to that has glways been his way, " righta and in their place they have producer access to reservoirs of it can have for him the justifi- -. erect a brutal structure of state .capital to continue in business. cation that he reached the pres- - primacy. . If, under the American system, This ia a fundamental strugidfncy of the United States by he borrows from the public, . that route. gle that cannot be solved by the asking them to invest In hla A nation, like an individual, street corner politics of Kansas plant, equipment or tools by must live by some philosophy City or by tha stock In his comor go haywire. The United of Jimmy Byrnes. It involves purchasing pany, he haa to make It atSates, by choice, has since its a decision to abide by or to reHe tractive to the leader. Inception accepted an economnounce the foundations of Amerwith ethers who are competes ist System baaed upon the icanism. And Americanism is borrowing. He even competes private accumulation ef capeven more a way of life than with hla government, which la ital, the investment of such Communism or Fascism. Apborrowing. His success ' accumulation in privately-owne- d peasement and compromise will always depends upon eonfidenco In the enterprises, small at not serve. One must take sides ability of management, on, first and growing through for one way or another. probable returns on the investCompetent management and Harry Truman is, of course, ment and tha assumption that unfettered ingenuity functionnot a Communist, but be is also it will be a continuing busiing within a competitive . not a capitalist He baa probness. Should he fall to obframework regulated by govably never given the matter a tain loans from the public, ho ernment within its police powpositive thought He ia a man of might go tq the government, : ers but never controlled by it action, canny but not always and falling that, he must go For three centuries on this wise action. He is moved by out of business. If the govcontinent we built that way the needs of the moment but ernment becomes too heavily and built well oo well that finds it difficult to reason from Involved, we may have a Fasthis country is today the prineffect to cause, from what faces cist economy, as in Italy and cipal. world repository of liq x him to what brought the aitua-tio- n Germany, or a Communist did wealth, into existence. Therefore, economy, as In Soviet Russia. because of the downfall of he is unable, tor project, hi-- ; This la certain: It will hot ho : nations during World War L the thought into the future. He American. revolt of the masses during an moves like man caught in a Mr. Truman does It ia a intervening quarter of a cen- maelstrom, courageously smiling, not know pity and understand this. tury and the catastrophes to for he is sure that someone will Hia conduct and pronouncevictor and vanquished alike pull him out Perhaps there ments the month of De- during Worid War II, ttiose who - has always been someone kbout cember during indicated that ho only ou but this is a understands how to meet things kPa or- - who recognize in universal pretty tough maelstrom. halfway by appeasement. frealdeat. Truman Jias been matter of opinion. He relates t By Westbrook Pegler- -l before he set up hia t even, Norman - Baker. fn Laredo the FCC restation of Laredo, Tex., has filed a pe voked his- - license for a station tition with the Federal Com- in Muscatine, la. , munications in Commission, Bakers petition says that Washington, charging that the sometime In 1941, he being in Alamo Broad- , jail, a trusted employe of XENT Com- casting of i deliveredad to representatives X pany, of San option to buy the Alamo, A n t o n i o, by f . Mexican station. And, he says, under handed under that option the Mexican-firob-methods did deliver part of the talned p h y- ; equipment ! Alamo. Thus, he steal possession i says, he y as put out of business of important I at last, a result long desired by o c a d asting ; br the FCC and Alamo was enabled equipment, the to apply for a better frequency o f property and increased power while othCIA.; Industrial er stations were unable to obtain Universal - D e such advantages because, of the Mexico, at Nuefreeze. vo Laredo MexReturning to Laredo in .July Mr. Pegler ico. warnThe Alamo station is the most 1944, he charges, he was unnamed that if ed persons by of the property important single Tekas state network, organized he tried to prevent the physical' of the apparatus across by Elliott Roosevelt. The he border he might, be arrested to be works stock, represented his probation or worthless in January 1942, re- - tor violation of tax case. in a cently yas valued at $100 a prosecuted Nevertheless, Baker states, he share. Bakers petition alleges notified the Mexican governthat on the basis of the acquisi- ment which forbade the exportation of this equipment, the FCC in an unprecedentedly short tion of the equipment during the detime, and without notice or op- war. This, he says, delayed Alamo to and compelled livery for interested arty portunity the FCC for extenslonsof parties to be heard, granted ask Alamo Broadcasting Company a time for the completion of lta Such improvements. construction permit. However, Baker alleges, in equipment was frozen by war Broadregulations at the time. Bakers April, 1945, the Alamo its agents, of- petition charges that the FCC casting Company, and employes, gave Alamo the permit on thecials,to servants Nuevo Laredo and loadunderstanding that Alamo would, went use in its improved station a ed four large trucks with said and other radio transmitter and other apparatus transmitting to crosscompreparatory equipment, Mexican from the acquired at cover the under ing bridge was known station whose pany, " - night. He, therefore, started as XENT. In a Mexican court for an Baker "has a record of two action injunction, but as the result of convictions in the federal courts, well-knotricks, artifices and both set forth in the petition. In devices common to the Mexi- -' the first case, in 1935, he says can border, said trucks did move the FCC instigated an indict- across the bridge approximately ment charging him with making 30 minutes before the papers bor-b- er across the and .. transporting were delivered. , into Mexico without permist Production Indefinitely Postponed However, he says, the injunca sion from the FCC phonograph tion did prevent the removal of on was which record played, Mental Confusion Follows Wrong Policies one large deisel and generator, XENT. He was sentenced to two 300-fotowers, wires and four months in Jafl and fined parta of the antenna system. con-- , the The says $2000. petition durable goods. Thl PrPrty. he says, to now By Merryle Stanley Kukeyser the goods and services that there these kinds of cir the was reversed viction by In connection with prevailing I reason to believe can be sold For example most of the cult court of appeal- s- on the xJnder attachment., to prevent nonsense about out- - t profit. Hence, government tioni housing is built by regulation ground that FCCs ak" een ncon?1,tent a1 business risks through i certain to make a losa In pro- - ness either to be sold or to be was invalid. thereand retained which and, full employment rented, private and "se- - during anything though he may be only unclear, when he 8tates Miter that Phil- -' curity" legislation, the basic is-- enterprise will not produce. Any- - fore, business buys most of the to reason to areume thrt R Overtonrof Austin, Tex.," sue to how much national so- - thing produced at a losa causes materials used in building, j, dealt cialtom .the people wish to mix waste of capitaL Capital provides - maintaining housing. attorney for Alamo, arranged Baker a with whch method by a11 with a private enterprise sys- employment. Hence, waste of (5) Many of the important claims to have cured external permission for him to spend 15 tem. - capital in producing anything at kinds of durable days in Mexico. He says this goods i.e. loss reduce toe employment Those used in constructing and cancer. He was next convicted was insufficient time for him to Aa long as the Issue to be-of using the mails to defraud in Investigate thoroughly and that clouded with misleading nomaintaining the plant of. producthe Operation of a hospital at the visit was restiicted to such menclature and misbranding, tion, transportation, and com- Eureka He was Ark. Springs, "as wasin tended tO" (2) The useful goods produc- - munication are bought only by confusion results. in January, 1940 to duration" business purposea.Jj buslnesVor The seal of appeasing" the' year in prison and fined Alarno and Gene Cagle, the gen- ai income include both consump- - The voluifte of buying of $4000. demagogues and the preachers eral manager of the Texas state durable and tion goods. goods business done durable of goofy economics leads only goods by He lay in Jail 14 months, for network, now largely the prop- con- - la determined by the current and to mental confusion, and tends . (3) Everybody buy no received he which credit, erty of Elliott Roosevelts forto make emergency conditions sumption goods. Many wage- - prospective profits of business, while his appeal was pending. mer since remarried and earners and other individuals chronic. he production of durable He then went to. Leavenworth knownvife, as Ruth Eidsoq. Ho does In soaking business, which buy many kinds of durable goods,J goods for the maintenance, im-- on March 22, 1941, and he was not explain why Overton would such as automobiles and the ma- provement, and expansion of the released on constitutes the services of supJuly 19, 1944.' .At have helped him to enter Mexico and in terials used erecting of of the and American transporply industry people plant that time he was on probation all. In war and In peace, the peomaintaining housing. tation provides in periods of and could be sent back to Lea- at owns 500 shares of Tex--a- a' Cagle also business But buys (4) ple are unwittingly soaking, prosperity a very large part of venworth at the whim of the state network which he themselves. , all the employment and wages Department of Justice to servebought for $5000. They are now which enable the people to buy out his remaining eleven months worth about More than a quarter of a cenBaker $50,000. both consumption goods and of good time," so he lay" low says the increase is attributable tury ago, Rudyard Kipling paid . . durable goods. his respect to such Immature Doctors Orders until he was outof Jeopardy. to the FCCs permit to increase Dr. GALLUP, N. M. (AP) Baker insists that he had avail- the power of Alamos station As our economic society begropings when he wrote: In the carboniferous . epoch Charles W. Kenney has put his comes Increasing complex, It to able as witnessea many persons KABC from 250 to 50,000 watts. whom he had Cured. Baker prays the FCC to Inthey promised abundance prescription book to a new use Important to spell out for popular the for all, He seamed to be convinced vestigate Its own conduct and princiunderstanding a fuel shortage for solving ples by, which it operates. that he'ean cure cancer and to facts as to his charges. He furBy robbing selected Peter to some of his patients.' Otherwise the science ef indushave suffered" severely, but ther asks that Alamos construc- pay for collective Paul; For a family of seven in dire try may be thwarted by Intel But though they bad plenty he to a mercenary tion permit be revoked and that whether of money; there was noth-- - need because of illness, the leetnal racketeering mas- -' quack, a mistaken zealot ora it be forbidden to use any as political science, martyr to prejudice remains a ment obtained from XENT. ing their money could buy; physician prescribed coal, ad , . And the gods of the copy dressing his order to George book headings said: coal yard operator. If you dont work you die. In a thoughtful message en- Treed titled Free Private Enterprise JoKANSAS CITY (AP) Versus the New Economics," Samuel O. Dunn, veteran pub- seph Mossel escaped from a fire lisher of the Railway Age, ex- in his apartment building all to res-jposes seven major fallacies un- right, but firemen had . him. . ew illusion," the derlying He had taken refuge in a tree which its advocates erroneously describe as the new econom- after crossing the -roof of an adjoining porch. ics. The mania for creating flat prosperity by statute ignorea the Busy, Bold Customer even subjoined points, accordCHICAGO There (AP) ing to Mr. Dunn, who points was only one customer in Henry out: Ewarts store at closing time, (1) The production of use- - 10 he locked the front door and to ful goods and services the only-- turned to servo him. The- - out source of real national income, tomer produced a gun and deand therefore, of real national manded money. Zwart promptly pulled the purchasing power. The measure of the usefulness of any kind of light-switc- h, the plunging 10, 12 and 16 inch store into darkness. But the goods or service to the willingness of people to buy it at a bandit succeeded in finding the price or rate at least equal to the cash register and getting $150. total costa of producing it. In- - When he couldnt open - the cluding a return on investment front door to escape, he backed Private enterprise will provide off a few steps and went right all through the glass. employment in producing . . J Really Want It? UAW-CI- O Network TheT NEW YORK 4, 1944 We stand1 for the constitution of the United States with its three departments of government as therein set forth, each one fully independent in its own field. Does fhe Pegler: t 25 BOOKS ed 3 TO 50 Fiction, for $1.00 Non-Fictio- OFF Church n, 69c 98c ut"-- ' Original Yafues up to ,$5.00, t , J'" f , , K IDescir! BooEi Comrapainiy , ' The Book Center of the Intermountcdn West 44 East South Tempi Go back and ahut that door, Clancy raised in a barn?" were you Street Salt Laka City, IQ, Utah t |
