The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-16
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 ReeonveFsion
 Head RetoiIeVs
 Guest Speaker

Boston, Oct. 16. (UP)-Reconver. sion Director John W. Snyder called on business today to raise wages to keep up purchasing power or workers, but said labor must not" ask for too much lest 1t lead to runaway infiaion.
 Snyder spoke to New England wholesalers and detailers at meet ing on distribution.
 He stressed two factors: one the need to keep tip consumer pur. chasing power to balance the cost of living and the other the tr1- creased profits of business which he felt should be shared with labor:
 Snyder said there were general developments that would tend to increase profits.
 He cited tic tax reduction legis- lation now on It's way through congress, curtailment of overtime pay, increased productivity Of workers and more efficient tech. niques developed during the war.
 Wherever possible Q share m these sayings should be passed on to the workers to keep their earn. ings and their purchasing power in balance with the cost of living" he said. T am sure that employers . acknowledge the importance Of good wages in maintaining the American market.
 Labor, on it's part, must realize that workers must not press TOT wage increases beyond what may reasonably be granted. otherwise It will serve to bring on the very thing that would make labor's gains meaningless, runaway inf1atlon.
 Stating that reconversion Is go" Ing ahead. despite the tnevit.-. able Interruptions and bottlenecks, :" Snyder said there was Q huge &C., cuTnulated backlog of demand for goods which would keep produc- tion high if pay did not 90 down.
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 He said the accumulated demand for durable household goods was estimated to equal about two years sales at lo4O rates. He said there now were about i,200, 900 more i1ars ried couples in America than there would have been without Q war And many of them, he added, have been unable SO far to buy furTli' ture, rugs, pots and pans, refrigera. tors and washing machines and other equipment for their homes
 Tn addition, he said. within Q wear after the servicernen are de- mobilized we can expect marriages in this country to reach an ale time peak"
 while this huge backlog of de- mand is unmatched by production there will continue to be c threat of imitation, he said.
 We must fight this threat oi imitation as we would the plague, he declared, adding that prices must be held down lest 6 big boom "kill of our ultimate market and ruiTi our chance for stable prosperity. Referring to the QovernmentI decision to require distributors te abb5507Th rtiss;;::;c;s:s manufacturing price ln' creases wherever possible. ne re. minded his audience that proiit' went up during the war.
 "Your government asks you tc make a special effort to work urldei policy which has been laid down in the public interest" he said Admittedly 1t will not be easy. But these are not easy times. We are striking out for greater future of full employment and full produc- tion that can mean better times fol eyeryone. All our efforts to stimu. late production so that you VII have a greater volume to distriDute will shorten the time during whict inc controls must be kept in force