Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1944-08-18
Riots
OrVotes!.
by Ben Dor
An LPA Exclusive

Dy Den OOT
An LPA Exclusive
In the days of George
Washington, it was found
that the calendar had been
running a little slow and had
fallen IL days behind the sun.
So it was decided to move
the date up. You went to
sleep one night and when you
woke up the next morning it
was IL days later.
But a lot of people didn't
like it. AS matter of fact,
they disliked it so much that
they rioted in the streets,
yelling: Give us back our IL
days."
Riots have kind of gone out
of fashion since then. During
the last depression, the peo-
pie of this country lost about
400 billion dollars worth of
food, shelter, clothing and the
other necessities and con-
veniences of life. But nobody
rioted in the streets. Nobody
yelled, "Give us back our 400
billion dollars worth of pro-
duction."
AS a matter of fact, / can't
remember anybody asking for
it, even politely. Maybe IL
days on the calendar are more
important
GOVERNMENT POLICY
During the last three years,
Government policy has al
lowed business to pile up bill
lions of dollars in cold cash
and in Government bonds.
This is in addition to the
plants built with Government
money, debts paid off with
Government m ey, and
promises of postwar refunds
of taxes paid with Govern
ment money. 1t applies to
all kinds of businesses
These making war goods
and those making civilian
goods.
To big companies and to
little companies.
To corporations and to un-
incorporated businesses.
but it doesn't apply to
workers. For workers to
have gotten more cash and
more bonds would have con-
tributed to the inflationary
gap!"
The corporations had big
taxes to pay, so they raised
their prices and let the work
ers pay the company's taxes
as we'll as their own. OF
course, the price increases
brought in a little more than
just the tax money-a little
extra cash and a few extra
bonds - but you can't do
business just for patriotism,
can you?
So the workers who actual
ly made all this stuff that's
stopping Hitler and sent
their sons and daughters out
to deliver it personally
they've had their extra pay
(if they got any taken away
from them. But probably
that, too, Is less important
than IL days on the calendar.
NO RIOTS
Nobody riots, because riots
are out of fashion. But why
don't they even VOTE?
They don't vote, even though
they've had billions taken
away from them that they
needed during the war. They
don't vote, even though the
luncheon tables buzz with
plans for cutting wages and
raising prices in order to take
away from them anything
they may still have left.
When the war is over, we'll
have a bigger producing sys-
tenn than we even dreamed of
having during our life time.
It's like big furnace that
has to be stocked, only instead
of on coal, it runs on dollars
the dollars you got in your
pay envelope.
Everybody agrees the dol
lar fuel supply is TOO Low.
The dollars have been kept
from you, but the plans still
are to cut down on the dol
lars you get and reduce their
value by raising prices.
If they got you back to
where you were in 1910, 20
million workers will walk the
streets when this war is over.
think that you'd better
think about this. If, like
me, you don't like riots,