The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-03-12

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 Washington, March 12.--An unus- ually high proportion of the mail reaching Capitol Hill these days couldn't decorously be printed.
 Partisans for or against Roose- veltt's judiciary reform plan are worked up in many cases beyond their capacity to control their emotions. Sometipes they become abusive, profane, or even threat efling in communications to mem- bers of congress who do not agree with them.
 Senator James P. Pope of Idaho received a particularly nasty one the other day from 8 New Jersey man, who excoriated him at length because the writer didn't like Pope's radio speech on the court plan. After several pages of vitriolic comment, the writer con- cluded:
 Please, senator, excuse the pencil"
 Tails Wag the Dog
 Privately, leaders of the 0. I. O., recently gathered here, were will. ing to concede that divided counsels within the steel industry had been a considerable factor in the success of their negotiations with the U. s. Steel Co. and subsidiaries.
 Once, they explained, the late E. II. Gary of the steeel corpora ton, was the industry's one big voice. When he spoke, all con- troversy ceased.
 But new men have begun to speak up. They include Eugene Grace of Bethlehem Steel, Tom Girdler of Republic Steel and Ernest Weir of National Steel. These men assumed leadership in the industry and at times gave the appearance of tails wagging a dog. Some bitterness over this situation developed in the upper reaches of the U. s. Steel Corp, known to the industry as "big steel" The men who control big steel believed that their corpora ton would be the target for all forms of attack in case of major steel strike.
 Furthermore, big steel is under stood to believe that real wage schedules enforced by union pres- sure might help stabilize the in- dustry.
 Independent steel companies, one Is told, knew nothing about the progress of negotiations between John L. Lewis and Chairman Myron Taylor of U. s. Steel, except what they could get through undercover work. They wouldn't believe what they heard until President Benjamin Hairless, of U. s. Steel's Carnegie Illinois Corp, and Chairman Philip Murray of the steel workers organ izing committee, actually went into conference together. Then the in. dependents released their announce ments for 40-hour week and in- creases in wages.
 Where Your Money Goes
 Next time your spouse groans and asks where on earth all the money goes, you can reply that you know where at least some of 1t goes.
 The federal trade commission has found and reported, by direc- ton of congress, that:
 When you buy loaf of bread,
 the retailer, on an average, gets
 about 10 per cent of what you
 pay, the bakeries 56 per cent,
 flour millers per cent, farmers
 13 per cent, and other middle
 men and transportation agen-
 cieS 5 per cent.
 The average price of a pack
 age of cigarets, exclusive of state
 tax, is 12.8 cents, of which 6
 cents, or 46.S per cent, goes to
 pay an excise tax to the federal
 government. The manufactur-
 CTS receive 2O.2 per cent, the to-
 bacco grower gets only 12 per
 cent, and retailers and wh0le-
 salers receive 2l per cent.
 As to beef, the finding is that H
 wholesale and retail distribu-
 tors receive a gross margin equal
 to 42 per cent, the meat pack
 ing companies get 13 per cent,
 the farmers 40 per cent, and
 transportation agencies and
 other handlers 5 per cent. Copyright. 1887, NEA Service, Incl
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