The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1949-07-08
BOSS PUBLIC
(By Maurice r. FrankS)


the billions and billions of dollars that business is
squeezing out of the public in the form of profits
Government statistics show that the national income in
1913 1920 900 and that business both large
and small, received profit of twenty billion, go Of
the total national income
superficial glance this report would indicate that
the American public is being taken for ride by bust
ness especially big business In of the word at
least perhaps being taken for ride-a ride in
the finest automobiles from the finest homes to the fin
est food and department stores in the word-al made
possible only by American enterprise blowing back into
business lions share of these $40 billion in profits.
Let's suppose that these billions instead of being left
the job doled out to you and me in proper
tionate share the messiahs of Marxsm would Or
dain. Perhaps of might clap pattes at the
thought of hitting the jackpot and pocketing something
for nothing. The wise man, however, would shake his
head and remind that All is not gold that glitterS
Because you and were to be handed our proportion
ate share of these twenty billions of dollars that bust
using to give better transportation, finer
housing more luXurieS and the greatest general stand
ard of living known to man, should each receive
just a little S137, about 38 cents per day.
If this S137 were tax upon us-the cost to us OF
maintaining American business in all its phases-We
ought as sensible human beings to be than willing
to pay it because of what it yields individually and
collectively the way of everbeter standard OF v
ing But it is not something that comes out OF our pock
ETC. as the MarXiStS would have belleVe-lt is some
thing actually created by incentive savings and invest
ment. Under an economic system offering reward,
these twenty billion would never have come into being
IN the first place. that there could not even be talk OF
''propOrtiOnate shares.
The real answer to more solid economy, to better
way of life for all of is not to be found at the point Of
satiscians pencil because all he produce is
more figures which be juggled almost at will The
all of seeking is to be found at the start of
every working day-at the point the production line
where the economic life of this nation begins The cha
enge contained therein is effort-dilgent efor-from
every man the industrial team, from the company
president the fellow who sweeps out Called for the
Willingness the part of all hands to deliver afull days
production High production is salvation, our only
salvation Only by producing the most Of the best for the
least hope to bring prices down and Thereby
enable the American worker along with his fellow
sumers purchase goods out of actual earnings
The final test is not how labor management figures
but how the public figures And right now John O. Pub
lie is figuring he's taken just about all the kicking around
he intends to endure. He's sick and Disguised with all
the qubbling in which labor and management indulge
while Judging each others performance, and in un
certain terms is beginning to call attention to himself
as the real boss of both of them.
Labor and management may have learned whole lot
about collective bargaining in the last few years but
j. Q. Public knows today, he has known right along
how to bargain collectively He doesn't require the
ices of satscian, figure jockey, auditor guide
him To the market which affords him most