Show W T A am 4 k by western newspaper union MAN DIAN HOURS LOST MAKES TOTAL DURIED BURIED in the department of la bor at washington aro are the figures which tell tho the story atory of strikes in the united states for his book the dead hand of bureaucracy lawrence sullivan dug up those figures for the years from 1930 1030 to 1030 1039 the labor department keeps them on the basis of the number of man hours lost and the figures for 1041 1941 when available will demonstrate how much more we might have PC accomplished complis hed in the matter of edness and old aid to england had there been no strikes in n 1030 1930 the number of man hours lost lost because of strikes was in 1632 1032 it had increased to but in 1033 the year of the enact ment of tho the wagner labor law it lumped jumped to with for 1034 tho the top year was I 1 1037 with the staggering figure of 28 man hours lost that mount meant one weeks work for men or 62 52 weeks of 40 hours each for men enough time to build approximately two battleships for 1030 1039 the last year for which I 1 have any figures tho the loss was man hours what will it be in 1041 1941 how flow much will strikes affect our efforts for preparedness pa redness and aid to england I 1 it will certainly mean enough hours to have produced hundreds of airplanes or other implements for the defense of the nation strange BS as it may seem both william green and john L lewis say may the administration of the wagner act by the national labor relations board Is cespon responsible sible for the strike problem 0 WITHOUT PLAIN FACTS THERE IS NO DEMOCRACY AMERICAN DEMOCRACY is il be ins ing sabotaged through the feeding of misinformation paraded in the guise of facts to the american people that Is hot the act of any one political party or any one group 09 0 political leaders oders lc the policy of ell all parties is to attempt to support their policies by false interpretations of the acts of the peoples government ern ment american people do not object toy to any expression of political opinion on the part of political leaders but they do object when then the men they hive have met bet up as lea leaders derl attempt to support their opinions by false presentations people are entitled to the bare uri unvarnished varnished facts and they are not getting that kind of information some day the people will discover they have been hoodwinked and when they do tho the political leaders who are responsible for the condition will pay the tha penalty before that happens democracy may be so far gone that it will take generations tor for its recovery democracy will function only w when cn all people who must carry the tha responsibility for its functioning are in full possession of the plain facts THE DOLLARS SPENT AT HOME WORK FOR US A CLERK in a market of our town receives a dollar as part of his valary he spends it with the clothier tor for a necktie the clothiers clo thiers clerk on gets it as a part of his bis salary ile he spends it for food at a market the owner of the market pays it to a carpenter carpen ter for store repairs the carpenter pays it to the lumber dealer the lumber dealer pays it to his truck driver and so on and on that dollar spent in our town may pass through many hands and eith each person parson receiving it derives a benefit because of the dollars spent in n our town our merchants and home owners are arc able to pry pay taxes with the taxes they py pay we wa support our town government we maintain schools for our children we pave and maintain our streets it la Is the dollars spent at horne home which make our town a desirable place in which to live the dollars spent outside our town do not help in doing any of these things they do nothing toward maintaining our property values these are things to think about when we have dollars to spend now HOW DICTATORS ARE BORN ON MARCH 23 1933 the german reichstag galve a ava liffler hitler the privilege of mab making ia the laws of germany tor for tour four years thal thata made hitler a dictator that marked the real beginning of world war no 2 when the legislative branah branch of any country abdicates and passes its functions on to the administrative branch a dictatorship results le at the end of four years the reichstag could not take back what it gave away in 1933 TOO BIG 1310 LOOKING BACK through history aie W 0 find that kaiser wilhelm napoleon tamerlane genghis khan Charlema charlemagne gae attila atalla the hun caesar Aj Alp lekander kander and perhaps others e i rs have it at one time or another attempted to conquer the world and r make ake it over to their liking no one of 0 them succeeded hitler vil lort ii destined to meet the samo fate the y orld Is ado big for at aty 7 one man to swallow even in lesser affairs things can become too thoun uno Ie lAlly t 1 R i |