Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-12-13
It's News
To Me
By 0. ]. Pecord

friend of mine up to last week and taking
into whispered into little pink do you think
there will be depression?"
How could anyone be silly enough doubt what the bank
thing?
OF there will be depression If the bankers
coming and the slightest In predicting
it. who doubt the word of these oaces of the counting
room?
in you're oracle, you little looking
your your upon impend
ing crisis And you don't a
sharp pair of shears All you around
prices and then the skmy In your pay
envelope you'll quickly understand
You don't need college education to that we
heading for trouble but fast Just purchase meat
potatoes fruits and vegetables Remember washing ma
chine wanted during the and couldn't sets Well you
get but look into your purse you
afford on the get after paying try
ing to eat regularly.
can't purchase that washing machine refrigerator
radio think of thousands of other people
And while you thinking about them consider
what happening to the washing machines refrgeraors
and other things which png store
waiting to be sold to people who scarcely afford
buy them.
UNEMPLOYMENT
You realize don't you that refrigerators washing
chimes radios and other things can't be sold fast enough that
they will accumulate and surplus will exist?
You recognize don't you that when surplus of anything
stuff which only adds to the surplus?
You must know by that your can't sell all
the stuff which have made that they will overproduc
ton lay you people don't have enough money
to buy the stuff get the from somewhere take the
to sell 1t in another country which sometimes
loan the money to buy the stuff we can't afford
Surely you know that when surplus of all kinds
of goods that get unemployment When produce
homes much food that starvation and malnutron hold
Of the nation and prepare generation of children for rejection
from the many refrigerators can't pur-
chase them many washers that can't then
get Unemployment want IN the midst OF plenty soup lines and
bread lines and sometimes when the unemployed get too in
sistent headlines.
IT'S SIMPLE
Simple isn't it? You being exhorted to produce so
much that can't possibly all
employers that high wages depend upon high productivity
the time know that surplus is accumulating
that reward for high productivity will be unemployment
compensation freedom to job for
thousands of others will also be looking.
And all of this insanity, this plenty
isn't because you don't want and need lot of hings-food
clothing COAL refrgeraors washing machines radios automo
bes comfortable homes and the other things which life
worth the while but because of little entity which is known
profits.
You have laboring under the impression that the
farmer produces food to eat the clothing manufacturer apparel
wear the automobile manufacturer automobiles ride
of the industrial world things Don't be silly
Your boss doesn't employ you to make things to He
employs make things to SELL He purchases the cheap
est market and sells on the dearest He doesn't only want to
make fair profit his investment but all the profits the
traffic will bear and he regards labor just another
modify into the thing which he hires you
for him to sell at the highest possible profit
WHAT is LABOR?
your boss considers your labor you not
digned human being but commodity which he
in order to produce the products which
SELL Every time he sells article he is selling your
and the price he extracts for labor far in of what
pays for it. His profit only
but also the thing put into the productyou labor
And because employers do regard their workers
his needs require they do particularly care
although there employers who have social
consciousness.
Because labor regarded commodity to be bought and
sold barganed labor unions which given the work
children the with whom employer claims
knhp have to be regarded by employers not only
prise"
(To Be Contnued)