Milford chronicle., 1945-10-05
What's The Matter With Is!
Ma>hinutoD. ID. e.. October .


Washington, ID. e.. October >
The daily papers carried the news
that biz oil companies have in
creased hourly wage rates % per
cent and that they are now faced
with demands Tor an additional l.
per cent. CumputinS the difference
in hourly WAGES and weekly take
home pay a. compared With l94l
involved another ; per cent in
crease. making the total increase
demanded loot up 10 about ~ per
cent. The union labor leaders told
the oil companies To come across" !"
or face Il strike. Strikes are falling
over many sections OF the country
like atom bombs. and threaten pro-
GuCtion and employment. at the
!ery time when everybody has
been talking about the dangers of
unemployment.
Senators have suggested tremen-
deus cuts in taxes. But how can
that be with all our liabilities Oi
the War2 And the cost OF living
climbing
The War Labor Board and other
principal labor agencies were put
under direct control of Secretary
o. Labor SchWellenbaCh. and the
President gave him the whip" and
told him To crack il. When the
strikes stopped the delivery OF
rev spapers to millions of people
III New York City the new Secre-
tary didn't crack. Then strike.
broke out III the automobile plants
AZ Detroit and elsewhere. Other
strikes crippled the saw mills anc
lumber industry ON the Pacific
Coast. and hundreds of skyScrap-
trs and office BUILDINGS in New
York were without elevator ser
vice. The strike leaders seemed tC
have the world by the tail
And all the power of the Gov
erument and the resentment of tn,
general public didn't seem t
change the determination of IN,
{. l. Q. to raise d million d0lla
strike fund. Meantime coal miners
walked out in various parts of tn,
, country. while Westinghouse ant
. other biz industrialists were para
lyzed by strikes.
Labor leaders declare there mus
be an increase of 80 per cent il
wages and they have heen demand
, in9 that price levels be held dow
to the old rates OF l940-4l. That
. crazy scheme because ii can't h
done
) Every private enterprise, factor
and industry must have profit
from their business. because the
/ can't carry on their business Whe
= costs of production pushes abov
contemplated ceilings.
There are numbcrless scheme
: for the Government to suhsidi2
: agriculture. factories. home builC
: in2. Substantial aid will be give
). soldiers but that program has n,
been worked out.
: On top OF all that England. Ru.
Sia and forty or fifty United y;
k tionS seem to be united" in II
:. belief that the American TAXPAYER
can be hled white by the Washin.
) ton Government to lend and civ
n them money
f The story could be continue
with columns OF almost unbelie,
. able details that all lead back
L the puzzle contained in the title
e this article: "What's the matt,
=, with u.s." We won the war. HO
long is il going to take to win II
peace
The Farmer and the City Fello,
- The lonS-ran2e future of ael
= culture appears promising fro
= the standpoint of prices and i
IT come. but the main chance hing
4 on the corn crops. The Chamber
commerce of the United State
which is the greatest busine
le mems organization in the COUNT
e. says so. 1t is interesting to knt
lc that the National Chambers Ae,
cultural Department COmmitte
> has gone to the cOrn-rOots in
studies and as a result big bu,
ness" makes the statement tn
n there is "a vast uncertainty hove
- ing over the corn outlook, d,
lie first to greatly delayed plantin!
is and subsequently to highly u
- favorable growing cOndtiO
% throughout much of the seas
eS thus far and over large area
m The trouble is explained as f
a+ lows:
These are conditions whi
- farmers could not offset by 10
IS working hours and the efficit
he use of available machinery. AS
r., result. the crop is not so far ;
- yanced as is necessary to insure
ill good yield.
a The big Chamber is not a ne
TO conner as a partner of the farme
-, II has for long years recogni;
''l that agriculture and the land c,
stitute the back kbone OF Ameri(