The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-04-23
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it, after deduction of all taxes, total
ing more than s9O,OOO,OO0. STANDARD
Oil net profits for 1910 of more thai
$110,0O0,O00 represents a profit O
$4,000 from each of it's $4,000 work
ers. The six largest corporations
llisted-General Motors, American T
& t., Standard Oil, DUPONT, u. S
Steel, and General Electric-derivec
net profit of $797 from each of theil
$4,000 employees. And, whether you
believe It or not, (Ripley attention!)
the income of these same workers fol-
that year averaged less than half Of
$797.
The Social Security Board has pre-.
pared an average budget for family
of man, wife, and three children, of
$4,000 year for decent living stand
ard. This budget provides II cents a
day for food per person; SIS year for
education per child; $1.50 per week
for medical care, and 1914 month for
rent = certainly most modest And
yet 20 percent of American workers
earn less than $1,000; one-third earn
less than $500, and only percent as
high as $4,000 1t is difficult to see
how the blessings of American indus
try are extended to the workers.
This country is now engaged in a
very noble effort-the defeat of Adolf
Hitler and all that Hitlerism implies.
In the opinion of most intelligent peo-
pie, the defeat of Hitler transcends
everything else in Importance 1t
would be impossible to calculate the
blood and tears humanity will shed
and the decades of darkness that will
follow in the wake Of nazi victory.
Labor-baiters like Vinson, Cox,
Hoffman, ct al, are retarding rather
than aiding the national effort by
their insistence on anti-labor legisla-
ton. Nobody who wants to see that
effort succeed wants to see labor
strikes, or anything else, that will in
terfere with the production program.
But democracy cannot put forth its
best effort with industry waxing fat
and the workers ground down in pow
erty Industry can be put In its prop
err place If the government wants to
put it in it's proper pIace-and its
proper place Is an obedience Of labor
avs as we'll as other laws, mainten-
ance of labor policies that reflect the |
democratic standards of the day, and |
payments of wages that will assure an
American standard of living.
That is the best, and only, way Of |
assuring that we will reach produc-
i've effort to meet the needs of the
lay. There is no danger that indus
ry will go on strike if the govern
nent insists on the above. program.
The government possesses a very
and convincing weapon if
means business.
-aking over Plants
Some of the New Dealers close to
be Administration have been plug
ing hard to convince the President
} take over one or two of the strike
ound plants to show industry and {
he country that government can op- t
rate plants during period of emer- /
ency more efficiently than can prl- {
ate management. There is little 8
oubt that the President was ready to q
Ike vigorous steps in that direction c
| the Allis-Chalmers case when the Z
ggravated strike in that plant was t
,ttled. Il
Government operation of defense Y
dustry, it was insisted, would solve
10 problem of work stoppages, since 7
ncle Sam would hardly violate his a
vn labor laws. Also, there is not a s
tile convincing evidence that "pri- n
tie enterprise" so-called, is largely Il
sponsible for the plight that the a
find themselves in today b
n the Living Costs Front c,
Creation of the Office of Production a
,ntrol and Consumer Protection, nj
tn appointment of Leon Henderson W
chief, is proof that the Admins st
ation is determined to prevent rises in
living costs such as occurred dur st
3 World War No. l. Henderson's T
B will be to see that prices do not tn
out of line. His powers will be In
eat. Maxey Jarmen, president nj
the General Shoe Corporation, be
shville, Tenn, says that he was
correctly quoted when he was re- bl
rted to have stated that a general w
percent rise in shoe prices must ov
expected at will hammer Onlv in wi