Milford chronicle., 1919-11-07
DANGER AHEAD


The unceasng and in many cases, exorbitant wage
demands Of organized labor may justified by
the increased Of living That is question on which
there wide differences of opinion But whichever view
Of the matter is the wage demands go on the
Increases granted the extra burden passed along
to the consumer and the living to CORES
pondingly high levels.
Labor both organized and unorganized has gained
lost by the Higher wage standards established
do not down. Once up always up. the rule.
while labor has thus been the gamer by
the upheayals. the is true of the farmer The
price Of farm products particularly grain and live
stock, have by leaps and bounds. The farmers
have more money spend, luxures within their
reach than they had known for decades before the
broke out
Neither the very rich the bankers sufferers
Such bankers handled foreign government business
invested in munitions manufacture are heavy gamers
Many Of them, well thousands who engaged mis-
cellaneous manufacturing. Piled up enormous war
fortunes. The very rich, even though as high as
from so to IS per their incomes have so much
left that they need not and do deny themselves any
thing In all these quarters eyspending is going
at prodgious pace Hotels demanding enormous rates
are crowded to capacity The theatres in New York and
all the country doing recordbreaking business
the hghprced the dealers in jewelry
and in the expensive kinds of mems and womens
apparel the puryeyors of all the infinite varieties of things
Unnecessary and of high It has been and a riot
If moneysquandering such the country has known
or years.
Are there, then any sufferers from the the
aftermath reactions? Ask the teachers the clergy
men, clerks the writer's the editors the tens and
ems of thousands of professional professional
zen. the and of small incomes sufficient for
ler modest needs before this orge high prices but
ow cut half and less than half purchasing power
nd at this day spelling deprivation to the verge of want
here before they spelled modest independence. These
the real afterthewar sufferers Their is legion
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ley have either stood still increased by figures that s.
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s dsproporonate share of the ever-increasng ~
owed the consumers and the rent-payers shoul- w
by the granting of eXtoronate labor union demands inn
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mt funds from the countrys -burdened nc
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rhey have been patient lot thus far these real suffer CIR
from the wars inevitable consequences Their voices Mi
seldom heard in complaint. They narticulate and
organized But the thing forever. Either Nh
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