The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-12-14
Buy Union Label
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union label-conscious. Collective buy
ing is labor's most powerful weapon.
Every industry and every public SER
vice should recognize this fact.
During every campaign for union
label buying, definite results are re-
fected in the cash registers of local
merchants.
'For a moment, l desire to address
American merchants-large and small
in order to arouse their interest in
cooperating with organized labor.
Everyone knows the paths of all mer-
chants are not strewn with roses nor
paved with profits. More than half
of the merchants who go into busi-
ness in the United States fail during
the first five years; IS per cent fail in
the first seventeen years.
american Labor believes that this
appalling percentage of failures in
business is due to the lack of coopera-
ton on the part of business men with
organized workers. We firmly believe
that if local merchants would work
with organized labor we could in
crease the sale of American-made,
| Union Label goods. This would in
crease the purchasing power of all
Americans.
Protects Living Standards of Workers
"When you see the union label on
any product it is a message from
workers in some factory where the
goods were manufactured that they
were made under humane conditions
by men and women who work for de-
cent wages. 1t is the best guarantee
that product is not made by child
labor. 1t is assurance that fathers
and mothers earn enough to support
their children, educate them, and also
allow them to enjoy fresh air and
sunshine instead of shaving in in
sanitary sweatshops. 1t is the best
insurance of healthy and useful Am
erican citizens. When one patronizes
only those firms that carry union
label products and employs only
union services designateoAby the shop
card and service button, he is raising
the living standards of all American
citizens.
"There is no method through which
better times can be brought to Amer
lea than through the buying of Union
Label and American-made products.
1t will keep our money in our own
land. 1t will increase purchasing pow
er. In general it will bring a more
permanent prosperity to America.
Surely, these are worthy reasons why
every purchaser during the Christmas
shopping season should buy union
label products.
Buy UniOn-Label Christmas Gifts!
GA most positive campaign can be
carried on by American consumers
through buying Union-made products.
The Union Label is the best guaran-
tee that products are made in America
because it is a symbol which assures
the purchaser that the products are
made in some American industry by
American workers who receive decent
wages; work shorter hours; and under
the most favorable standards that
have ever been established in the
world. Thus, while we continually
urge the boycott of foreign-made
products, we suggest that the public
ask for and buy those practical gifts
for Christmas that are made under
American labor conditions.
"What would be more appropriate
than to dedicate the holiday shopping
season this year to the great cause
Of the union label? 1t would be most
appropriate because by urging Christ
mas shoppers to buy only unionmade
gifts they are also buying goods that
are made in our own factories. In
addition, this indirect boycott of for
eign-made goods will create more jobs
for our own citizens. If all Christ
mas presents that will be purchased
in 1889 were made in America, en-
ployment would be increased and like
wise taxation for relief purposes
would be reduced to minimum"