The sub., 1946-01-17
4 Dangerous Course
By EUGENE MITCHELL

By EUGENE MITCHELL
 As every Union member knows by this time the press of this country is conducting welorganized campaign against Organized Labor With their expert editorial writ ers paid columnss and cartoonis they plainly call ing the working people greedy hogs Perhaps not In such ugly terms but that is what adds to- Hardly day but what any newspaper you pick has editorial or cartoon depicting Labors demands for increases or farmers demands higher prices running the try batterng the public into nsensbty tearing plnv (eleven new BILIONAIRES during the war Amer can Industry apart Having almost complete monopoly the moulding of public opinion the newspapers are cer tanly very grave to the working peope-their readers, by the way!
 Their editorials articles and one-sided methods of porting labor disputes not only encourage natural ponen to do their worst but they aenag thousands of the simplermnded among people, Worse than ths they gleefuly driving great wedge between those other millions who like ourselves work and work only to others get most of the moneyhe farmers
 Let's look into things and if really hogs the newspapers claim angrily.
 needless to go into the details here of the great and growing increase in the cost of living Everyone even the newspaper people, knows about and we working people, least know only too well that incomes have not in creased much have necessary expenses.
 you noticed the tremendous gap that exists the the producer gets for his product what you pay the retailer for it? The retailer may make excessive profits but not in general But nearly every product passes through four nine hands before appears behind the counter profit extracted each time is bought and sod of course Some handling necessary but much of this seup deliberately planned give of the boys chance at cut all III the name of "wel organized distribution"
 We all have to eat and of food comes from thousands of miles away good share of has to be cessed in way another necessary addition to it's final cost But if you buy ten dollars worth of food in store can safely figure that the people that did the work of pro- ducng that food about three dollars less out of it. This old story to those interested in agriculture which has always suffered in this way small portion of this 70 gap filled by transportation costs and indirect taxation but most of it is sacrificed to the wholesaler the distributor the ober and other mddemen that appear between producer and They have perfect tenn worked out and it pays toobut not to the who the physical and mental work of producing it in the first place.
 The same system is eaboraey in force in just about every lne hardware clothing fue furniture building teria and any other necessity of life.
 The writer's personal opinion that this stranglehold that the middlemen-a four six nine of them-have on each product that you and buy the principal why the working people do not and cannot receive REAL income for their labor Some changes must be made
 It is strange thing that this angle of the economic pictures receives little attention from either Labor Man agement It would be the advantage of both to cooperate in smashing this system that robs both producer and consm CT and to set up instead system of selling directly to the retailers With the wonders of modern transportation and communication available you cannot tell me that couldn't he done If the manufacturer could receive decent ropOr ton of what the has to then he could and probaby would pay higher without increasing tail prices cent.
 The supposedly we-informed newspapers never say a word during their rantngs against working people about If tho rpt9i Of