The union times., 1947-09-27
Would Further Lower Living StandardsOfU.S.
Senator's Attitude Called 'Callous' As Profits,
 Prices Increase
GAEL. News Service)

Washington, D. C. = "Eat less" Senator Robert A. Taft's advice to the American people on how to combat the high cost of living, promises to go down in history along with Marie An toinette's advice to her French subjects, then starving for bread -"Let them eat cake"
 The Ohio Senator's Presi- dential aspirations suffered a severe blow as his campaign train was flooded with protests from all over the country from American citizens who resented his cruel and caIIous attitude.
 LOWER STANDARDS
 Labor leaders were quick to point out that the basic philosophy in Senator Taft's statement was a de- sire to reduce the American stand ard of living and that this same philosophy permeated the Taft Hartley Act, of which he is co-au- thor. Through that law, Senator Taft sought to for\e American live ing standards down by weakening trade unions.
 Meanwhile, official concern over mounting prices became epidemic in the nations capital as politicians began assaying popular revolt against dollar pound butter and a dollar a dozen eggs in terms of the l948 elections.
 With an imitation crisis at hand, Government officials were forced to admit that the future looks even more dismal and that food costs, especially, were destined to go even higher.
 In all parts of the country, the price spiral whirled up and around again, taking additional foods and basic com modities on its dizzy ride.
 In Chicago, grain prices strained against the Board of Trade limit on daily advances, setting new seasonal highs for September corn and all de- liveries of soy beans. Soy beans jumped 8 cents a bushe1, July wheat was up 10 cents, corn was up 6 to 75s cents, and oats prices rose 1T to 21z cents. Operators in the grain markets expressed the belief there would be no return of Fedrea1 price controls be- cause opposition by farmers would be too strong.
 CONTROLS OUT
 With cotton prices soaring $3 a bale, it was estimated that the in- crease alone in the price of that commodity, corn, wheat, soy beans, and oats would, projected to the estimated l947 crops of those farm products, add more than $35O, ,OOO,- 900 to their base price, to say nothing of the additional increases and mark-ups every step of the way from farm to consumer.
 The wholesale price of Maxwell House coffee went up one cent a pound. Two of the major refners of corn products raised corn syrup prices 40 cents a hundredweight, starch 25 and 30 cents, and feed products $6 a ton.
 The livestock and butter and egg markets reflected, in the form of some weakening of wholesale prices, dull trading that was at- tributed by some merchants to the Jewish holidays and by others to an increase in consumer resistance.
 While choice steers sold in Chicago at $35.60 a hundred pounds, the high est price since Dec 5 and the highest September quotation on record, other grades were unchanged to 25 cents hundredweight lower. Butter whole sale prices in Chicago were from 2 cents lower to half a cent higher, while in New York the range was from unchanged to 1 cent lower. Egg prices were unchanged from Friday.
 The Birds-Eye frozen food conn pany announced that prices of most of its products would hold at l946 levels this winter and some items would be priced lower. How ard F. LOchrie, marketing direc- tor, said the concerns output of fuouo. 0n 0E