The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-06
Miners Forced to Pay More for
Bread After Wage Cuts; Cost Of
All Food to Shoot Up, Grocer Says
INITIATION CAUSES
JUMP IN PRICES
or ALL GOODS
Wallace At Same Time
to DumpWheatAt Low
Prices Elsewhere

In Illinois bread prices hare already
risen. Beginning today the price Of
a 12-ouncc loaf of bread in Spring
field. Jacksonville. Carlinviile, Tsg-
lolville, Beardsville and Li7c0l---
where the miners have had their
wages cUt-will go up 1 Z cent and
pound loaf will go up one cent. Bread
price increases were already an
nounced for Iowa and California.
Then the bread price r'se ~" ~
effective throughout the whole state.
After July 8. the American Bakers
Association will shove urices Of bread
up throughout the country.
The United Press. in a dispatch
from Washington, prints an interview
with a typical American grocer. This
Grocer F. A Dodge, said prices OF
many food products, from s97@' =
% canned milk were rising so rapid
= he had difficulty in marking up tina
vice tags.
"Never Like This"
In all my experience" he said,
"T've never seen anything like this.
Fiour's gone up more than a doisa'
a barrel in less than a month. There
are new quotations nearly every
day. And in four days il will so IN
about s1.50 barrel more because
of this wheat processing tax. That
! means I'm going TO have to raise
my -four prices about 2 cents a
pound all told.
Bread hasn't gone up yet, but il
will before the week is over. So will
breakfast foods, macaroni and all
cereal food. including pretzels,'
Groceryman Dodge said that he was
afraid his trade would fall off because
prices were rising so rapidly and his
customers wages would not rise.
And every day the value of the
dollar drops. Imitation once it hits
food prices, goes fast. Every rise in
food prices land this happens every
day. means Q ware cut ~ ire work ers.
1t means a cut in relief to the u~-
employed, if they are lucky enough
, to get few cents in cash relief
In the grocery store and in the pav
check is where the workers will feel
the Roosevelt new deal" not in TIE
radio speeches of General johnson.
or the sweet statements Of President
7 Roosevelt
After Four Years OF Misery
This acute rise In the cost of living
/ comes at q period when the whole
working class has been raced ~
( four years of misery and suffering
/ To raise the profits of the bosses.
+ Roosevelt's schemes throw new and
crushing burdens on the toiling
masses. 1t is typical Of tho "pqw daaln
that bread prices should be the first
/ to rise, that the workers should get
the first kick in their stomach. In
order to get around a general sales
Tax, Roosevelt s'aps tax on bad
He gives the -four mills. the boss
I bakers an opportunity to tell the
workers to paw more or eat less bread
I The Roosevelt processing tax on flour,
which is sIpposed to add millions to
; mortgage payments. is q tex PLACED on
I the workers 50 that thew have IN oav
/ it before they can take one bite OF
bread
All the history of price rises proves
that, regardless of oil other circufr
stances. the rise in the price of bread
is followed by similar rise in all
other food prices.
Too Much Wheat
Roosevelts policy Of making the
starving workers pay more for their
food is nowhere more glsringly shown
by the fact that there are $50 900 900
bushels of wheat rotting in the ware
houses. Bread prices should 90 down,
There is more wheat than Secretary
Of Agriculture Wallace can find places
to dump it. He sends millions Of
bushels of wheat to Climatic help
Chang Kai Shek in his war against
the Soviet districts. Chang Kai Shek
does not give the wheat to the Chi
nese masses He sells 1t for cash TO
Japan, Secretary Of Agriculture Wal
lace win dump wheat on the world
market in order to give the grain
spectators, the boss bakers. an oupor-
tunity to raise profits by raising bread
prices. The working class, for whom
bread is the chief everyday necessity,
will be made to pay.
Double Edged Sword
Such is the cost TO the workers Of
Roosevelt's initiation policy. Now we
can see the powerful weapon In the
industrial slavery act to keep wages
at a minimum" while prices go up
without any hindrance. 1t is symbolic
that Roosevelt's double-edged sword
against the workers should first slice
off the amount OF bread the worker
will be permitted 10 est.
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