Washington and the Nation
Washington and the Nation Lincoln on Labor's Rights "IN the early days of our rare, the Almighty said to the first of our rare 'in the sweat of thy fare shall thou eat thy bread,' and since...
...These official government figures, put the Little Steel U% formula behind the eight ball for 8% without •a argument...
...To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as nearly as possible, is a worthy objert e>f any good government...
...Jim Crowism in the Armed Forces Every Negro trainee arriving at the Naval Air Technical Training Center, Memphis, Tennessee, is given the instructions reprinted below, the Lynn Committee to Abolish Segregation in the Armed Forces reports: "Lows Concerning Separation of the loeos 1. "The laws of the State of Tennessee require the separation of races on all public transportation systems ia this State...
...Tell your Congressman to vote YES for renewing the OPA—YES for making the OPA • stronger...
...President Roosevelt said to Congress, September 7, 1942: "It is obvious, however, that if the cost of food continues to go up, as it is doing at present, the wage earner particularly in the lower brackets will have a right to an increase in his wages...
...We need stricter enforcement of price controls to smash the black market...
...The number of American firms declined from 3,274,000 in 1941 to 2,734,000 in 1943...
...it may be the result of opportunities in new fields...
...Right this minute some Congressmen have their knives out for the OPA, which expires June 80...
...When Chester Bowles, OPA Administrator, says ¦» official statement that housewives today are Paying $1,200,000,000 as tribute to the black market » food alone, we can see how the actual money we 9*7 out differs from "scientific" averages...
...They want weaker enforcement...
...That would be essential justice and a practical necessity...
...4. Tsxstion reform to fsvor crestive economic forces as sgainst sterile weslth, to eliminate inequalities snd to rationalise and simplify the municipal, state and federal system aa a whole...
...While wages were frosen, Congress punctured alf sorts of holes in the price ceilings...
...They saw the butchers feigning in the fat and charging for meat...
...And . . . this fuss about the Bureau of Labor Statistic* is all theoretical stuff anyway...
...J. "The conductor or other person In charge of the street car or has shall have the right to Increase or decrease the spac* so set apart for either race, or he may require any passenger to chsage his seat when or so often as the change ia passengers may make such change necessary...
...C. Comprehensive plans...
...wages haven't...
...You want stronger enforcement...
...Rut it has so happened, in all ages of the world, that some have labored, and others have without labor enjoyed a large proportion of the fruita...
...Before the war, eating and drinking establishments, filling stations, radio repair shops and beauty shops proved particularly suitable to small business enterprises...
...But...
...Profits have gone up tremendously...
...We need higher taxation on war profits and higher bracket incomes...
...i Both the AFL and CIO fix the actual rise in living •est* for worker families at 43...
...what has happened to the cost of living T The Bureau of Labor Stastics says that the cost •f living has gone up 23% since January, 1941...
...But no matter what they are, they have nothing to do with the question...
...Lunula in 1847...
...The whole theory of the 16% Little Steel Formula was that the cost of living could be held to 15% and the workers would come out even...
...When a worker earns extra money by putting in extra time, he's producing extra goods...
...Washington and the Nation Lincoln on Labor's Rights "IN the early days of our rare, the Almighty said to the first of our rare 'in the sweat of thy fare shall thou eat thy bread,' and since then, if we except the light and air of heaven, no good thing has been or ran be enjoyed by us without having first coat labor...
...They ^kecked mail-order catalogues and newspaper ads, ¦aflced that all cheaper lines had disappeared . . . fcew all egga suddenly became "large...
...Write your Congressman personally...
...Yet the increase may not occur in the old fields of small business...
...have your shopmates and neighbor* write...
...2. Member* of the colored race a pea eatoriag a street car or bus shall occupy those seats which are located at the rear portion of street ear or has and whenever seats in the has or street car become vacant, which are to the rear of any member of the colored race, sack person shall vacate th* aaat which he then oeeapios and move back and occupy the rear seat which i« then vacant...
...4. "All passengers on street cars or bases are required to take the seats assigned to them, and any persona refusing to do so ahall leave the street car or bus, or if they remain in the street car or bus after having been asked and refase to take the seat assigned to them ahall be gailty of a misdemeanor and fined not more than twenty-lve dollars ($25...
...I*ts of newspapers love to talk about high "take home" wages...
...And inasmuch as moat good things are produced by labor, it follows that all such things of right belong to those whose labor has produced them...
...Those statistics do not pretend to accurately represent the •rtual increase in YOUR living costs...
...CREEDOM House advances a liberal program that includes advocacy of international collaboration, an amendment to the Conatitutlon to give Congress treaty-making power by concurrence of a majority of both houses, and the following domestic program: 1. Competitive enterprise ia all gelds except natural monopolies, recognising that all enter prise exists primarily to servo the people...
...J. Greater and more equal edaeationsl and economic opportunity for all Americans, regardless of race, color, creed or economic status...
...It doesn't smell like pork chops cooking...
...Despite wage increases, millions of workers received wage cuts because the money they get actually buys less...
...That means that there's goods for every dollar he gets and thus does not contribute to inflation...
...They're an average for a limited number of prices checked in tary 84 largo cities...
...They tested the clothes which wear put faster...
...Federal and State, to encourage an expanding healthy population and protect the American home and child as the bulwark of the nation, and the hope of its future...
...YOU CANT EAT AN AVERAGE WaGE increases are frosen...
...We know that their figure : *f a 43% increase in our living costs just about i Wts things on the nose...
...The view expresed in the publication of the Department of Commerce is that after the war the small enterprise can reasonably hope to increase its numbers again...
...This will involve housing programs, school feeding programs, extended dental and medical care, better organized and more appropriate cultural actfvitiea, vastly improved physical training, a radical improvement in all atates of mothers' pensions, and extended and rationalized plana for family security...
...Ton can't eat an average for Sunday dinner...
...This ia wrong and should not continue...
...They looked over tat bills for people like us...
...5. Better Federal administration through a more responsive cabinet system continually in touch with Congress, with strict definitions of the frontiers of all departments to end overlapping and to increase responsibility...
...There's more to it...
...1 Fall peacetime employment of Americaa resources, machines and men, with government aid where government aid is aeeeaaary...
...Tell your Congressman you're watching him...
...They aren't so high in the first place and by the time the taxes and deductions are taken out of the envelope, they've shrunk way down...
...This represents a reduction of about one-sixth in the total number of enterprises...
...SMALL BUSINESS DEATS RATE HIGH IN U.s KATE HIGH IN U. S. A recent publication of the United States Department of Commerce—Survey of Current Business, March, 1944—gives striking figures on the decline of small business in the country during the war...
...Statement distributed by the I.L.G.W.V...
...The number of business firms operating in the United States has decreased since 1941 by more than half a million...
...i. "The laws of the State of Tennessee also give to the owners and their employees of hotels, inns, theatres, public houses, moving pictare shows, restaurants, places of amusement, or other business the right to determine for themselves the kind of patronage, customers, or guests they desire to hare, and to exclude from their premises or business any person or persons for any reason they think necessary...
...But things didn't work out that way...
...The 15% increase allowed nearly two years ago over wages in effect In January, 1941, was supposed to give workers enough to tie their earning power to the cost of bring...
...You can't boil an average like *¦ egg...
...We need subsidies to prevent the cost of living from going up further...
...They checked movie and cafeteria prices and ¦adical and dental bills...
Vol. 27 • May 1944 • No. 21
