Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1926-02-19

IN justice 10 our BAkEklES, on X
STONE COMPANY. and other manu-
featuring interests, we are appealing
TO the buying public. merchants, and
working people that are inconsistent,
in their buying.
Some of our largest stone contracts
for public buildings have been let to
outside firms that give no support to
the Twin Cities, is il fair to our stone
company, that employees a number Of
people that live here and are home
builders, and part of the purchasing
power here.
For instance, look at our BAKER
les, we have a number of bakeries
in our cities that are tax payers, and
their taxes help TO maintain the
streets, and the schools and other
things that go to make our city a good
place to live in.
Why should these bakery owners be
lay off some of their help to cut down
expenses, when there is enough bust
ness for all of them, if the buying
public will only support them, and
quit buying out of town bread, that
does nothing for our city, but use our
streets for their trucks and their own
benefit, and pays very little if any
thing to help maintain these streets,
and build the streets, and does nothing
toward our school interests.
Does these big baking interests that
sends bread into our city, and cuts the
price just to try to drive our own
bakeries out of business, ever con-
tribute anything to our city, does this
big soulless company hire any bakers
in our city and create spending pow
er so that our retail merchants can
enjoy business, No--while on the
other hand our own bakeries employ
nearly one hundred people that are
our own citizens and home builders.
These employees spend their money
at home here, and pay taxes, and help
maintain the schools and streets, and
is it fair to drive them out of their
jobs and homes, for the sake of a
penny or two on loaf of bread, and
give it TO some company out of our
city that does nothing TO help main
tain our city.
The retail merchants and business
are as thoughtless in this
matter as the working people, and are
helping to cut down the purchasing
power of our own people, because they
do not instruct their wives TO buy
home made bread. -.
Here is an example Mr.. Merchant
and Grocery Man in particular, for
you Mr.. Grocery Man, you could stop.
some of it with a little cooperation, #
YOU Mr.. Grocery Man would quit
gushing it on the public, when they
call up and ask for bread and don't
say what kind they want. The eX-
ample is this, if these bakeries are
forced to lay off as many as ten en-
ployes that are earning as much as
81 10000 per year, these ten men
takes $500 purchasing power out OF
our city, and from our business ana
retail merchants, and if more men are
laid off it means more, and TINS Is
that can be prevented, II
everybody will give our bakeries the
support that they are entitled to-
So. Mr.. Merchant and business man,
and your clerks, and other working
people. that don't belong to our labor
organizations, let's cooperate and see
that our bakeries stay here and pros
per. a
What does these soulless corpora
tions care about you and your city
what do they do to help maintain your
city. do they help pay the taxes, build
the streets and schools and make our
city a fair place to live in. DO tney
help to pave any of the streets that
thv run their trucks and delivery
wagons over, you bet your life they
don't. but they will come in and cut
prices and to run the small baker out
of business, that does pay the taxes
ard keep up the schools, and MAIN
tain the streets, and you Mr.. Grocery
Man are helping them do 1t by keep
ing their product in your places OF
business. for if you refuse to handle
II our people will eat good home MADE
bread. and buy other products that are
on your shelves, that are made here IN
our cities and you will be lending a
helping hand to keep your dollars al
home, on products that are made here
Now to our own people, the union