Big Incomes Got Maior Share of Inflationary Dollar/ OPA Shows
EVERETT, MURRAY
Big Incomes Got Maior Share of Inflationary Dollar/ OPA Shows 60% of People Make$100Mo., Taxes Take 1/4 By MURRAY EVERETT Special to The New Leader Washington, d. a — The wageworker who is...
...One other reason—the need for women workers to stay home occasionally—is unavoidable...
...from the near central front of Russia: "In Moscow I visited the famous Vladimir lry-itch factory, which had...
...That this first group (2,865,000 people) gets a total of 39.6 billion dollars of the national income while the lower group (25,065,000 persons) get only $0.2 billions...
...There is no sharing," he replied...
...This strengthening of the civilian forces in the severe tug-qf-war between Wilson and Gen...
...note...
...Who fires you if you fail to make the grade?' " 'The commissar who appoints me is my board...
...Senator O'Daniel (D., Texas) is now touring state legislatures urging the passage of similar laws...
...says the Bvllrtm of the International Federation of Trade Union*, According to its analysis, Himnrier's protege, the Minister of Economies, Wahthar Punk, has been defeated...
...New Leader dispatches in the past four months have constantly emphasised the incompatibility of Eberstadt and Wilson as WPB vice-chairman...
...This policy call...
...The men who are asking that the formula not be retiaed are the men who have the bulk of the "inflationary dollars...
...It is interesting to notice that while the number t of trade unionists is growing, and growing at a rapid rate, the number of trade unions is actually decreasing...
...Smuts Faces Native Pressure ForNewReform Special to The New Leader CAPETOWN, South Africa...
...The presidential veto will then become the successful rallying cry of conservatives in a score of state legislatures such as Texas where the House is about to pass a bill outlawing strikes, picketing and taxing union dues...
...Later he spent a whole year visiting American factories...
...Survey Shows Management Causes Labor Absenteeism DETROIT.—The large section of the American press that thinks the war is being fought against labor and only incidentally against the Axis has been indulging in vicious editorials, jlanted news stories and distorted cartoons aiming to show that absenteeism in war plants is due to disregard by labor of the stakes in the war...
...Count Bethlen, a friend of Horthy's, is reported in Switzerland seeking to negotiate with the Allies to become the leader of a "Free Hungary Movement...
...A single example may serve to indicate it In the widely-read Farmers Weekly the follow, ing advertisement (and variations of it) has been appearing off and on for years:—"FOR SALE: Large, savage dogs, guaranteed to guard your stock and homestead...
...Both outlined plans for full employment with Wood declaring that the Government stands committed to a plan advanced by John Maynard Keynes for maximum production and distribution of goods within the framework of the private enterprise system...
...The total 1942 income was 111 billions, of which 16.2 billions was an increase above the 1941 figure, constituting the inflationary dollar...
...It found that absenteeism runs from three to more than six per cent of the total working force...
...They will then bring pressure on the White House, which then will be forced to decide whether or not to jettison labor support...
...Labor Unrest May Follow Refusal of UnionWage Demands Special to The New Leader WASHINGTON, D. C—There is considerable worry here in Labor circles that with the White House's strategic retreat before conservative demands in Congress, the President will refuse to consider labor demands for wage increases and-union representation on the vital war boards...
...2.8 billions to »2,600-$3,000, and 1.3 billions to $2,000-$2,500...
...real Kaffir haters P South Africans who hare been seeing this sort of thing all their lives and have not been moved to comment, are now viewtffg it in- a new Tight...
...The AFL has asked for an immediate Federal investigation of the organization "and all its works...
...The eleven main reasons for absenteeism, it was found, are: 1. Illness...
...One Editorial—and Two Foofnofns FROM Max Lerner's discussion of Arthur Koestler's Sunday Times article in PM of February 16: "There is, moreover, the fact of Rusma...
...9. Lack of pood su5. Wage* and war- perrisum...
...employer's work to _ , , . the finished product 2. Job shoppmg and ^ tKf impe] ft^ ^ V*racy- the product in icrnninv 3. Lock of vnforma- the WOr...
...Not only Peter the Great, but Ivan the Terrible (now called only Ivan the Fourth), has become a national hero...
...The Pope and the Kremlin ^ENEVA sources of the New York Pott and ^* Chicago Dotty News report that the Pope has agreed to receive a special Russian diplomatic mission to the Vatican and that the Fascist government has already granted the necessary transit facilities in accordance with the Lateran Treaty...
...1.3 billions to $4,000-^5,000...
...I asked...
...Thus 9.1 billions of the inflationary 16.2 billions went to families or persons with $5,000 incomes or over...
...How do you share your responsibility for factory administration...
...December (By Mail).—General Jan Christian Smuts is scheduled to return home now any day, and after all his lectures on the liberty and freedom for which we are fighting, he will be asked to translate some of his ideas into new social reforms at home...
...These men <tre waiting only for sufficient sentiment to be raised by men such as Ridtenbaoker...
...New taxes have been placed on them of such severity that the total government take is perhaps more than a fourth of their income...
...Rightly or wrongly, too, there is a feeling in the city that had he not been a Negro soldier the man would not have been sentenced to be hung...
...The next few weeks will tell the story of the next few years of Labor history...
...Clippings and Comment &iramd crffd de Goalie F:ENCH politics is a wonderfully confusing thing...
...For that matter, neither does a good board in America interfere with their manager, and kthat's why you have efficient factory operation Pthere...
...The amount of money going to incomes below 18(006 a year dropped 4.3 billions...
...It means that Prince Alexander Nevsky...
...He point out that those who have spend most of their income on food, clothing and shelter have experienced a reduction -of more than a sixth in their meager budget...
...there is no worker advisory council...
...No,' he said, 'they have other work to do...
...As part of his campaign, he has spent most of his time away from Washington, appearing before state assemblies...
...Labor had decided not to put up a man...
...in the Glasgow Forward, says that if the election is not contested the Tory party will sneak over a man committed to the reactionary 1922 Committee and the "Imperial Policy group...
...The combination of a White House refusal to abandon the Little Steel Formula and the exploitation of consequent unrest among union labor will focus attention on John L. Lewis next week...
...The Vladimir Ilyitch factory had a farm of its own, and Director Georgi Alexvandro-vitch Pregnesky told me it was a grand thing for morale...
...On February 12 : "On the political side" it cannot be emphasized too vigorously that Russia has been going Russian more and more all the tfm* Every military leader in Russian history, whether czar, prince or count, has been lifted to the pedestal of national glory...
...This will mean, it was said here, that the resulting wave of strikes, absences and demonstrations for cost of living increases will provide the anti-------------------——--------labor bloc in Congress with the propaganda material for their ' campaign to incorporate unions...
...We find it neither necessary nor desirable...
...with which Koestler scarcely deals: a powerful fact in the world and in men's consciousness...
...The Vatican kept Chicherrn's proposals more than a year, and in 1927 k Market refusal was sent to all further negotiations...
...time prosperity...
...Prof...
...The figures show that 2,805,000 persons or families make more than this $t>000 a year while 25.065.000 families and persons make less than $2,000 a year...
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...Pregnesky was only thirty-five and had just been awarded the Order of Lenin when I met him...
...Never under the Romanoff*, was this czar so lauded and glorified...
...who ie the representative of the Wehrmaeht and heavy industry, has won the day...
...Although King Boris was the one who swung Bulgaria into the camp of the Axis, efforts are now being made by Boris's friends to convince the British that only he can keep a post-war Bulgaria stable...
...Kreps: "In addition.they have been hit by far th^hardest b...
...Negro Soldier Special to The New Leader GLASGOW, Scotland, January (By Mail).—An American Negro soldier has been sentenced to be hung following upon his trial for murder as a result of a brawl hejjfiF in one of the city streets...
...They cannot interfere with my management in any way.' "'But who are your directors...
...secretary to the General of the Jesuits in Rome...
...that 3.2 billions went to incomes between |5,000-$10,000...
...The 983 unions existing in 1941 had at the end of that that 5,718,000 male members and 1,372,000 female members* Scots Protest Hanging of U.S...
...The Nazi party district economic consultants have been sacked...
...some workers stay away because they are not in pressing need of the money...
...The petcent of their - income that goes for food is relatively low...
...can queror of Germans in the thirteenth century, rouses deeper and more natural esaotions than the founder of so-called scientific Socialism...
...Bat that is only part of the story...
...the recent increases in the cost of living...
...Father Tacchi-Venturi later negotiated the 1928 Concordat between Mussolini and the vatican...
...Yon think yon have every factor neatly pigeonholed when—poof—the piece* have gone flying again...
...The War Manpower permission has just completed a preliminary study of the basic reason* for absenteeism...
...labor hucrditig) or both...
...The situation is highlighted by a letter to the Wall Street Journal of February 14, by Theodore Krepa, Professor of Economics at Stanford, who presents the chart data...
...All the more significant, therefore, is an editorial in the Wall Street Journal of February 8 which lam-basts British post-war plans that call for a managed economy and ends, curiously, with a note that several leading Britons who favor managed economy plans axe in this country today using their influence in that direction...
...In order to squeese the maximum possible out of men and materials, the Speer organization (formerly the Todt organization) pushes rationalization to the extreme...
...The situation is complicated sby the existence of two opposition groups to Premier-dictator Anonescu...
...Keynes at present is in this country as economic adviser to the U, S. Treasury...
...The average income in the $10,000 bracket rose $700, and 200,000 more persons reached this salary level.—Ed...
...These 25 million families and individuals, constituting more than 60 per cent of our population, are compelled to live on about $100 a month...
...Where did this extra money go to...
...This outfit—mysteriously financed—helped O'Daniel put over a vicious, anti-union bill in Texas last year and induced the Mississippi legislature to pass a'similar one...
...Little is known about the object of the mission...
...The IFTU reports that the war industries are raking in tremendous profits...
...Pacelli, now Pope Pius XII and then Papal nuncio in Germany, and Jordansky...
...The Negro afterwards stabbed the Pole with a knife...
...Hitler's Balkan satellities, the Hungarians, Roumanians and the Bulgarians^ And more signs point to the fact that the regimes in power in these countries are seeking to dicker with Allied forces for a "Darlan solution...
...Probing for Pregnesky's secret of success, I asked if he had some kind of workers' advisory council helping to run the plant...
...All along the line the new Minister of Munitions...
...for four consecutive months, won first place in the munitions industry competition against all contenders in the Soviet Union...
...Their average income is only slightly higher than it was in 1941, being $1,240 instead of $1,220, or a $20 salary rile...
...There is strong belief here that the Captain speaks for conservatives in the Army and high government circles...
...It is very rarely in the last twenty years that anybody has been sentenced to death in Glasgow, and nobody has been hung here for many years...
...Grave malnutrition is known to exist among greet sections of white children here, but the "poor white" problem almost pales into insignificance in comparison with the plight of the non-Europeans...
...Such proposals will undoubtedly pass the House, find tough sledding in the Senate and be vetoed by the President if the Senate passes it...
...Prof...
...Union pickets have pretty well surrounded him as soon as he got set in Oklahoma and Minnesota, but he remains a national menace to the Labor movement...
...But he doesn't tell me how to manage the plant either...
...is breaking the election truce and upanshag she Tory candidate...
...Klan' Group Backs O'Daniel Drive on Labor Special to The New Leases HOUSTON.—Not that he is particularly wanted or needed in Washington, but Senator W. Lee O'Daniel, Texas' celebrated "Pappy," has been barnstorming around the country, beseeching legislatures to pass anti-labor legislation...
...And men will not easily forget that...
...Rumania, too, faces the enmity of Hungary which desires to regain territory lost in the last war...
...AU the nine other reason* can be tats directly at th* doer of management and the war agendo* of the government...
...Funk's district economic offices will be li-iked with the "armament rings" of the High Command, in effect put under their control...
...Admiral Horthy's main trump is a World Hungarian Congress, organized by him, and its American subsidiary the Hungarian-American Federation which, well-financed, has sought to capture most Hungarian Americans...
...They show that one oat of eleven reason*—"wage* and war-time prosperity'—may be charged to labor...
...The workers do their jobs and I do mine.' " 'Do the labor unions have no voice in the direction of your plant...
...There have been many Scot appeals to President Roosevelt to compute his s e n t e n c e. Nobody doubts that the murder was committed...
...Indeed, the death penalty in Scotland has been virtually abolished...
...He was a great admirer of America, and especially of American efficiency...
...Its a nice game of musical chairs, or as Richard Armour must have once observed: "If I cuuftaue yon and you convince me, then we're as bad off as ever we be...
...Russia has broken what used to be the last bastion of the primitive*—the myth that socialism is against human nature and that no coflectfvist society wtft work...
...Big Incomes Got Maior Share of Inflationary Dollar/ OPA Shows 60% of People Make$100Mo., Taxes Take 1/4 By MURRAY EVERETT Special to The New Leader Washington, d. a — The wageworker who is asking for a retision of the "Little Steel" wage formula in order to meet the already risen cost of living Is not the" man with the "inflationary dollar," an opa study made by its Research and Statistics Bureau discloses...
...Now O'Daniel is trying to get state lawmaking bodies throughout the country to enact identical restrictive legislation...
...South Africans are angry with the Maize Control Board for a muddle which has resulted in natives actually dying of starvation in the Transvaal last month because (owing to red tape) they were refused seed to plant...
...might...
...It surveyed 45 plants employing 210,000 workers in Michigan...
...The editorial concludes ominously: "Perhaps a Congressional Committee would be interested in the fact that there is in a war bureau which has considerable power over business in this country a Briton who is distinguished as author of an economic plan, one feature of which would be the elimination of smaT...
...Kreps points out that rents have doubled in the last two years in many areas, while many in the larger brackets own their own homes...
...On March 3 he is scheduled to venture into Scranton, heart of the anti-Lewis hard-coal area...
...Such an effort would drive the Bulgarian people into the Soviet camp, if the British accept this story...
...From Edgar Snow's wireless to the Saturday Evening Post of January 30...
...British Elections A^E of the most interesting British by-elec-tions is on in England where Jennie Lee is running to gain the Bristol seat...
...The Jesuit faction within the church vigorously opposed any rapprochement...
...4 billions to *8,OOO-$4,0O0...
...Ohio and Kentucky...
...Labor circles everywhere, knowing Lewis' agility in negotiations, the power of miners, and their slogan that "bayonets can't mine coal," believe that Lewis will win his demands...
...Speer...
...Eddie Ricken-backer is calling for the abandonment of the 40-hour week, overtime and unrestricted union organization activity...
...Orphaned in childhood, he had been progressively a soldier, technician, student and factory foreman...
...The opa figures show that 5.9 billions extra went to 'incomes over $10,000 a year...
...Observers here agree that if the Allies accept these men — and British propaganda from the middle east indicates that Bulgaria's ' Boris might be acceptable—it is feared that the mass of people, lacking an outlet for their democratic aspirations, might turn to the Soviets for protection...
...It does seem that a good deal of color prejudice is being destroyed in the furnace of War...
...But last week General Giraud freed 27 Communist deputies in North Africa, while with full ceremony, General de Gaulle awarded a Croix-de-Guerrt to General Mfkhailovitch whom the Communists have smeared as working with the Axis...
...And there is a growing determination that something will have to be done...
...The Rickeiibacker tour is only the first to popularize the rather "tainted' efforts of Representatives Howard Smith and Clare Hoffman...
...The war, and particularly the gallant part played by Native soldiers, has vividly brought home to South Africans the disabilities under which the 8,000,-000 non-Europeans live...
...Eberstadt's resignation was sharply asked for, and it is expected that the former Dillon, Read banker will now join the Marines in active service...
...As this column pointed out some months back, the Vatican and Russia carried on extensive negotiations in the 1920's on diplomatic relations and possibly a Concordat...
...Various "planted" stories appearing in "neutral papers" indicate the Regent Horothy of Hungary and King Boris of Bulgaria are seeking contact with Allied diplomats seeking to convince them that they can break from Hitler...
...I am solely responsible for the operation of the factory...
...Accumulation of 7. Lack of carefully finished goods, leading planned production...
...business...
...Brehon Somervell opened up two new perspectives in planning U. S. war output...
...tion on the relation of 4. Long hours and excessive overtime...
...The by-election is being watched keenly in England as a test of anti-Churchill sentiment In the North Midlothian Scottish by-electionJ the Common wealth movement, led by Tom Win-* tringham and Sir Richard Acland...
...U.S...
...Sergei Eisenstein, Russia's noted motion picture director, has been at work more than a year on a #b> dealing with the life and reign of Ivan the Fourth, whom the Russians now regard as one of the greatest statesmen in their history...
...Alexander NevskJ".' said a British observer in Moscow...
...Balkan Darlans Seek Allied Recognition Special to THE NEW Leader -^LONDON.—Signs are multiply-irtfck as to the war-weariness amolhj...
...Wolf SfVu^f Worf?#a f^REAT BRITAIN stands today conrmitted to some form of "managed economy" in the post-war world...
...Army-Navy spokesman in the production set-up, and pushed to the fore Charles E. Wilson as his executive assistant...
...Already Capt...
...The total of 7,090,000 recorded at the end of 1941 was concen-* trated in 983 unions, including those of salaried and professional workers as well as the organizations of manual wage earners...
...On their part, the Russians have long sought a diplomatic exchange of emissaries with the Vatican...
...Six persons are in the race, but three are vaguely on the "Left...
...That, too, is clearly shown...
...The defeatism is more widespread in Rumania than any other country...
...Such crimes following quarrels .are not unknown in Britain in war-time, but had the Negro been tried by the Scottish High Court, it has been pointed out, the charge would have been reduced to that of culpable homicide, and the sentence imprisonment...
...Petf-Wor Planning ¦I'flfi National Association of ManM.factu.rert, * which every day and in every way expresses its fierce and undying devotion to the principles of "free enterprise" has printed-and is beginning an extensive distribution of a British big business post-war policy, signed by 120 of the biggest industrialists, entitled A National Polity for Industry...
...This is the first en"ort to get at the subject of absenteeism by discovering the facts...
...Before last week, a lot of liberals had most things straight: Girand was a "rightist" allied to the industrialists and Conservatives and de Gaulle was a "leftist" who had completed a full alliance with the Communists...
...They are shocked at the disclosure that the Government's veterinary services for cattle are infinitely superior-to the medical services for natives...
...At the end of 1939 in the thousand and more unions in existence, there were 5,258,000 male workers and 972,000 female members...
...There he is expected to tell the country that the miners must get $350,000,000 in annual wage increases...
...His backers—which on the face of it includes the notorious race-baiter and New Deal-hater Vance Muse, who heads the "Association"—are remaining in the background, but there are several moves to bring the sources of the vicious anti-labor propaganda now flooding the country out into the open light...
...One is led by Horia Sima, Iron Guard leader who is being played by the Germans off against Anonescu, the other is peasant leaders Julius Mainu who is opposed to Germany but whose prestige is so great that the Nazis dare not kill him...
...Both attempts were of little avail...
...for large-scale amalgamation of businesses, compulsory member ship in trade associations, and a nationwide Council of Industry which would be given powers "to make regulations and enforce decisions," powers which have hitherto been exercised only by Parliament...
...And it also pushes the prospects for the Tolan-Kilgore-Pepper bill, which would place all war production and procurement under complete civilian control...
...The Newspapers here have been courageously taking up all the leading social issues, and there seems little reason to doubt a substantial public support for Government reform measures...
...Backing O'Daniel in the driv\ is the so-called "Christian AmeiV ican Association," which has been branded in Labor circles as "another Ku Klux Klan...
...After that Philip Murray, R. J. Thomas of the CIO Auto Workers and the leaders of every large defense union in the country will be faced with revolts within their own unions...
...Nelson Bounces Eberstadt in WPB Shakeup Special to The New Leader - WASHINGTON.—The long un-der-cover battle for production between civilian and military forces for the wartime control of the U. S. economy came to an open crisis this week...
...Germo* Profits •I'HE fight for the control at German industry * has been decided once for aB...
...British Unions List 7 Million Official figures just published by the British Ministry of Labor show that the aggregate membership of the trade unions stood, at the end of 1941, at over 7,000,000, which is not far short of the peak point in trade union organization reached in the year 1920, when the accumulated increases of the war years brought the aggregate membership of all unions up to 8,348,000—a total which was literally halved in the depths of the slump in employment and trade in the years between the two great wars...
...Although Jennie Lee is running on a vigorous oppose-the-government platform, the Independent Labor Party has put up John McNair to run against her, cutting her chances of election...
...foreign affairs eommisisar, and Father Edmund Walsh, of Georgetown University, then in Russia as a Vatican representative...
...It is probable that the question of the Roman Catholic church in Polish areas likely to come under the sway of the Soviets will be thoroughly discussed...
...Donald Nelson, WPB chief, unceremoniously dumped Ferdinand Eberstadt...
...Two final efforts were made in 1925 when Chicherin spoke with Msgr...
...This week Donald Nelson, in several fiery on-and-off-the-record blasts, suggested that the battle of War Production was going to be fought out, on his part, to "the last ditch...
...Continues Prof...
...Hiring in excess 6. Inadequate hmat- of immndxaJr vreds in$ or transportation...
...and the Government may move ahead...
...a greater hero hi Rbmi* than Karl Marx.' This does net mean the Russians have abandoned Marx...
...The crime was the result of a quarrel, over a girl, with a Polish soldier who struck the Negro first with a chisel...
...This is clear in the statements last week of Hugh Dalton and Sir Kingsley Wood in the Commons debates on post-war economic planning...
...Even before the outbreak of war, they paid out directly and indirectly more than a fifth of their income in local, state and government taxes...
...Professor Kreps says: "There still remain some 25,000,000 in-eome recipients (17,469,000 families and 7tt million single individuals) who in 1943 continue to hire an income before taxes of lets than $2,000...
...People in the high income brackets are bit moderately affected by-inflated prices far meat and groceries...
...workers to assume er8. Women workers ronexmsSy that what remaining home to per- they are making i* form household duties, not urgently needed...
...The trial was by an American Arm Court-Martial and if the sentence is ratified by President Roosevelt the Negro soldier will be hung, probably in one of the city jails...
...How powerful that prejudice was among large sections (and probably still is in certain quarters) has always been difficult to convey to liberal people...
...400,000 casualties in the Russian campaign and an apparent German plan to use Bucharest as a behtnd-the lines seat of operations will cause further un-^ rest...
...From Maurice Hindus's series on Russia ha the Herald-Tribune, after returning from a seven-months tour...
...Discussions were held in 1922 between George Chicherin...
...First, the possibility again comes up that elder statesman Bernard Barnch may be installed by the White House as a new executive head...
...Soviet ambassador to Italy, conferred with Father Tacchi-Venturi...
...Kreps point out that productivity of labor is sabotaged by-such tactics...
...Wintringham...
...Any new taxes, such as sales taxes, would Wreck havoc on workingclass incomes...
...Within a few weeks an important group of Representatives will introduce a bill calling for the incorporation of unions, to match the proposal of Robert Reynolds-' in the Senate...
Vol. 26 • February 1943 • No. 8
