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Show UTAH LABOR NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY. OCTOBER 23, 1936. THE NEW DEAL AND SMALL ENTERPRISES (Continued from Page 6) rates were lowered through 7 opened his campaign for SCHOOL BOOK AND POWER TRUSTS at Abilene, Kansas. Senator DOMINATE KANSAS, SAYS LABOR EDITOR Arthur Cappers paper, The Tohim as re-electi- on of Commerce has been collecting Administration Pays Average Salary ernment example. the data on retail sales by inde- Landons of Month Per to Teachers While Children of State Volume of Business $37.79 pendent stores. According to re Small enterprise, and particularly ports from 6281 firms in 15 states, Must Use Old Dilapidated Buildings Not Fit for School retailers, had found it impossible covering 22 lines of retail busiPurposes. to live under the reduced volume ness, there was an increase in reof business that accompanied a tail sales by independent stores of TOPEKA, Kansas (Special). example after which other states drop in national income from 80 18.2 between June of 1935 and billion dollars to 40 billions. Vig- June of 1936. Such a remarkable Leslie Doud, editor of the Kansas might pattern. It has been a orous stimulation of purchasing increase would suggest that inde Weekly at Topeka, has for nothing administration from a report which describes ginning to end. The balancing of power was necessary, and this was pendent retailers are tending to Kansas school situation under the Kansas budget is a myth; un- the supplied by increased wages under business with their gov- Do-Nothi- ng peka Daily Capital, quotes saying on that occasion: Constitutional limitations prevent Kansas as a state from taking a direct part in relieving distress among the unemployed. Kansas counties, however, have been authorized by special laws during this emergency to match available federal emergency relief they did not do) and to administer this relief as required by the federal relief administrator. Kansas has always received her quota of federal funds promptly because of the efficient work of local and state relief authorities and because all federal requirements have been met. At Expense of Children The public schools present the saddest of all spectacles in Kansas today. Landon economies have been accomplished at the expense of the children of the state; they are the real victims of a administration. Today the public school system is a travesty; the aid which the state extends to it is less than that which is extended by any other state in the Union. Kansas still clings to the little red school house, and that little red school house is falling to pieces, a dilapidated wreck. Other states Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, have their enlarged and the rest school houses, rural graded schools situated in the center of areas served by school buses, and taking rank with the best of the schools 0f municipalities. On all of the h (w-hic- do-Lab- or ed keep pace big the presidents reemployment rivals. agreements and later by N. R. A., National income will be at least by Telief payments, and by govern- $21 billions higher in 1936 than in ment expenditures. Careful esti1932, and every indication points mates indicate that employment in to continued thriving business for Governor Landon. der the Landon administration the Mr. Doud makes amazing reve- state has done nothing but sink lations regarding the school situa- into the mud and stay there. tion in Kansas, which are backed Pledges Not Carried Out by official reports. Surely here is The Republican state platform an index to a manner of thinking of all industry increased 15.6 be1934, which was adopted in Tosmall enterprise in every line. Re and to an attitude toward questween June and October, 1933, has proceeded along lines tions peka on August 28, 1934, and upon the welfare of the which alone, and that payrolls, which in- covery Landon ran for which stimulate consumer indus- massesinvolving of the people. Mr. Douds contains stantly spur sales of small enter-pric- tries and service trades, in which a labor plank with six report is worth the most serious clauses, upon which increased 18.5. Factory the bulk of individual the party enterprisers consideration of those who have payrolls in the first six months of are found. to enact itself enabling our national welfare at heart in filedged 1936 were 87 in the next two years. larger than in the welfare. terms of human first six months of 1933. Benefit Not one of these clauses has been The report submitted by Mr. . enacted into legislation or is on Part III payments to farmers through the I the A. A. A. program brought fresh No cold statistical record can Doud follows: states statute books today. The Landon administration in i Not one pledge to labor has been purchasing power to rural regions. measure the relief afforded by the Kansas is controlled and dominated carried out. The effects of governmental sup- Roosevelt administration to d of plies purchasing power and priAttention is called in particular enterprises threatened with by two outstanding interests the vate business wage increases were failure. Dun and Bradstreet keep school book trust and the light and to the fact that in the enumeration immediately noticeable. Overdue a current check on the number of power trust. Of the two the school of things done in the previous two bills, rents, taxes began to be paid. insolvencies and the number of dis- book trust is the most rotten, and years, not one of them refers to The magic of cash revitalized rural continued enteprises, which latter the stench of it reaches to the or relates to the labor interests and stores. Gradually confidence and comprises about 95 of the total high heavens. The light and power the laboring people of the state. business credit were restored and a jsurge number of firms going out of busi- trust reaches into other . There is a plank about the dis- of retail buying power began which ness. Records are not kept of con- groups, however, and is the direct tress of a(rri(lture which merely is still mounting, as shown below. cerns perilously near the insolven- alliance between Landon and the aska the Washinffton administra-bi, business of Kansas. Net Sales by Retailers tion to simpIify jts present pro. cy line, but Duns Insolvency Index Amount Dean Ackers, general manager gram, is crystal clear in its unmistakable Year and Light, (Millions of Dollars) photograph of the halting of ruin of n relief is worth quot . 1932 c of the State ,n to commercial 25,597 enterprises. here: 1933 The table below compares the 25,037 Jhe ,ec01mic distress that has 1934 first ten months of the New Deal rect link between the United 28,649 ce f 1935 32,G06 with the same ten months under States Chamber cf Commerce and ing the recent years has made no such school is to be found, and' In recent months, the department Hoover in 1932. the Landon state administration. necessary unprecedented activity not one of its magnificent concrete Landon selected Ackers to head of our federal Duns Insolvency Index to the highways, on which $28,000,000 of government the Kansas Emergency Relief ad- end that this distress is aleviated. enterFederal and state money has been Apparent number of failures for each 10,000 listed commercial ministration, and through him has Common justice to the recipients spent in the last 12 months, carprises Yearly Average (Old Series) been exercised a control over the of this relief demands these measa school bus. There are no expenditure of all relief funds in ures should be administered with- ries school buses in Kansas. Kansas. Thus, Landon has had his out and on an equitaOther partisanship states, such as Illinois, finger right in the expenditure of ble basis. and other progresPennsylvania the Federal governments money A Republican legislature sit- sive states, have a minimum salary in Kansas, without which today in regular and special sessions law for school teachers, and proKansas would be in the most des- ting relief legislation approved viding that no school teacher shall perate plight it has ever known adopted the national administration. At be paid less than a minimum of by since the days of Sockless Jerry all the chief executive of S100 a month or thereabouts. times, Simpson. It would be bleeding Kansas has cooperated fully with Kansas has no such law, and its Kansas again. the various agencies of the fed- - average salary for a school teachei By way of explanation, it should eral in its rural schools is $37.79 a government. be pointed out that Kansas in its We pledge to the people of month. That is the average; there governmental affairs is probably Kansas a continuation of a policy . are scI ool teachers in .Kansas who 1933 (New Series) 99.0 the most backward state in the The next table below shows that and ?ith a!J ar raid 525 montf? 1934 58.6 Union. During the Landon admin-- 1 I this improvement in the solvency relief to home the county ??leral county, gemery agencies 1935 57.9 istration it has been at a complete j that such relief shall be of small enterprise has been conM. Landon, is one of Alfred of strictly 1936 (6 mo.) 52.2 tinued. In fact, the lowest point of standstill; there has not been a them where the minimum is $25 a 44.6 1936 (June) insolvencies since 1920 was reached single piece of legislation put upon sen- month. Another clause the final Furthermore, there are its statute books during the Lan- tence in June, 1936, when the annual Taken from July, 1936, issue the to an Kansas who are still in teachers pledges party rate touched 44.6, as compared with Dun & Bradstreet Monthly Review, don administration which can be adequate maintenance and financto cash county salary wartrying But the failures of individua' pointed to today as progressive, ing of our the 1932 average around 150 for school to them in 1934. public systtem. rants given and held up to the country as an each 10,000 concerns in business. business men, of family-operatMr. Landon on September 5 (Continued on Page 8) The liabilities of concerns failing enterprises, and thousands of smab in June of this year was the low- shops are listed, in 95 cases out of amounting to $33,529 and 418 imHimiiimimiiiHHinMmHtHHmMiiMmiiiiniiiimHiiiiiiiiHiiHiMiiimiiHmiiiiMHmMMiiiHHHiiHiHHmmiHHWniHimiHiiHmiHHiiimHHHi1 drouth relief loans amounting to j est in thirty years. 100, not among the insolvencies I but in column of those who volun- $198,719. Duns Insolvency Index to and were failbenefit there retired. In Rental of number 1932, payments tarily Monthly apparent ures for each 10,000 listed commer- 422,000 such voluntary cessations, farmers under the A.A.A. amountwhich means that one out of every ed to $275,814.84 through June of cial enterprises: of the concerns listed by Dun this year. five Monthly Average 1925-192- 9 & Bradstreet simply folded up. The Resettlement Administra106.2 120.7 In 1933, as shown by the table tion was also applied with 223 1930 133.4 1931 below, only 311,000 concerns went loans made resulting in payments and 176 outright out of business voluntarily or one of $147,458.85 153.3 1932 to farm famfor 105.8 of six $13,457.34 lout 1933 Old Series) grants THE GOVERNOR WHO HAS SIGNED MORE ilies who were without a living inDiscontinued Enterprises LEGISLATION IN FAVOR OF LABOR THAN Commercial Voluntary cessation Percentage of Total come, and who are now paying Failures Year (nearest thousands) Firms Discontinued their own way from earnings from ANY OTHER GOVERNOR their farms. 20.3 1932 422,000 32,000 t The Public Works Administra15.9 1933 311,000 20,000 I1E IS THE MAN FOR tion 15.6 projects) includ307,000 1934 12,000 mu18.8 ing schools, waterworks, and 374,000 1935 12,000 Derived from vital statistics of industry and commerce, Dun & Brad nicipal improvements loaned $36,-90- 0 and granted $327,125 to Salt i street. Lake shows county for these improvethe record that 123,000 fewer DONT BE MISLED Reduced to simplest terms, ments. with as in Hoover the wall 1933, concerns went to the compared year Emergency relief was given to 1932. Stated another way, one concern in every twenty listed by Dun CHECK HIS RECORD & Bradstreet owed its existence to the improvement which came with those in distress during the period April, 1933, to April, 1936, in fedthe new administration. eral. funds in the amount of e, do-nothi- ng hard-presse- . g rZnyiiS ItS-P!ff- n , I . non-partisa- n.' et GOVEIINOn IB IL dD AD HD - (non-feder- al LABOR $6,-632,4- poration aided 6,239 home owners The Works Progress Adminisin this county, enabling the home tration with its employment-creatin- g owners to save their homes from program on useful projforeclosure by making it possible ects has made paymentspublic for work to refinance mortgages on easier within the county of $2,430,921.87. Numerous benefits have accrued terms and represented Likewise, the Civil Works Adminrepayment to Salt Lake county, its cities and an of $16,183,351. outlay istration, the original employment-creatin- g towns, from federal appropriaNew life was into the program, spent $1,530,282 injected tions, according to data compiled home in employment-creatin- g funds Federal counbuilding industry through by the National Emergency work. the Federal Housing administra cil, Allen T. , Sanford, state REELECT FEDERAL BENEFITS IN SALT LAKE CITY di-rect- tion which insured 2,881 loans for for modernization and $915,634.17 Salt Lake county has participat721 loans new home construcfor of ed in practically every phase in an additional tion, bringing this extensive program. In the entire state as a whole Through the Federal Land Bank grants, allotments and payments Land Bank Commissioner, and total a from federal funds reached were extended on 573 farms loans there addition In of $80,889,309. in this insured county in the amount of and closed by were loans 7. $1,075,500 granting farmers relief federal agencies totaling from obligations they were unable meet. Through the Reconstruction Fi- to The emergency crop, feed and $9,288,210.73 nance Corporation was made available to Salt Lake drouth relief programs were likesup- wise widely employed in Salt Lake county in the form of loans to busicounty between January 1, 1933, port and rebuild the countys There land September 30, 1935. interests. economic ness and Loan! Cor were 356 crop and feed loans The Home Owners 0. DHL AND PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT AND VOTE FOR The Entire CENTRAL DEMOCRATIC WAREHOUSE j Ticket STRAIGHT $63,-164,39- And Be Sure 520 W. 2nd So. 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