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Show Depression Versus Prosperity Now that prosperity is on, and the business executives, politicians, owners of chain stores, ect., need the youth, they should be careful not to commercialize on them, for the youth are the future rulers of the world. During the past few years, in order to survive, sur-vive, our parents have been forced to work for a meager salary, with long hours and bad working conditions thrown in. We were becoming European Euro-pean in our ways, in that owners of large stores and industries could employ workers for as low as $40 a month. Some of the high school students would even work in offices for "experience" no wage included. Today we are fighting dictators, and we'l1 always be fighting a dictator in one way or another, an-other, unless these big profiteers are eliminated. It is known that in this city several stores do not pay for overtime work. Women were worked over the maximum hours per week last year, and were afraid to report it to the labor board, because the "big boss" would make it difficult for them to obtain another job. When the high school and college students asked for work before wartime war-time prosperity, they were sworn at, cussed and kicked out of the way. "Go away. We don't want you. Quit bothering us!" Is it any wonder that Hitler promoted Nazi-ism Nazi-ism by saying to the youth of Germany, "Come unto me. We need you!" Our freedom is being appeased. We are not the America we think we are, and won't be until we show these small-time dictators we are doing a little "housecleanin'." |