A BASIC ISSUE
A Basic Issue THE bitter battle now raging in Washington over disposition of the 8,000,000 acres of land acquired by the Federal Government during the war emergency illustrates one major phase of...
...The valve labeled "iu relation to volume of business" was pushed The Last Dror>~ New York Times down...
...The Secretary of Agriculture's declaration on this issue came after the alert National Farmers' Union had exposed the machinations of the Clayton-Jones team...
...It found that during the war years, 1939-43, corporations showed a grater increase in earnings after payment of taxes than workers and small businessmen were able to show before paying their taxes...
...Manufacturers who hope to recapture this market, which with other penny gum business amounted to more than $18,000,000 a year, would do well to keep their trade names alive, even though the gum itself is not available...
...We are fighting for all American citizens, and when we die for them, we don't ask what kind of blood they have...
...The survey charged that the Administration's wage policy, which the totalitarian liberals so frequently acclaim as a document handed down on Mt...
...The Clayton-Jones partnership has proceeded to prepare for disposition of the land in such a way as to throw large chunks into the hands of wealthy speculators and powerful real estate interests...
...But don't touch one of them just because he has Japanese blood...
...Wiekard has demanded that disposal of the surplus land be handled by agricultural experts after study of its best long-term uses, and that the land be divided into family-sized farms and disposed of in accordance with the principles of the farm tenancy program authorized by the Bankhead Act and administered by the Farm Security Administration...
...That's what happened when the Department issued its most recent report showing that corporation profits have jumped from $4,088,000,000 in 1939 to $8,200,000,000 in 1943...
...This is one-half of the Roosevelt Administration's split personality...
...We are fighting for the sacred rights of man...
...This miraculous machine might fool a lot of people were it not that there are a few alert people working for other organizations in Washington...
...Meanwhile, that other remarkable machine which does such sterling work for the NAM— Beardsley Ruml—has come forward with a plan which proposes to do away with corporation taxes...
...James G. Patton, president of the Farmers' Union, issued a statement which charged that a Clayton regulation just issued "had the fingerprints of the National Association of Real Estate Boards all over it," and was written "in the interest of swollen profits for private real estate dealers and against the interest of the farmers...
...Clayton and Jones oi' further responsibility in land disposal strikes us as the most sensible way out of the present mess...
...If Congress lets him get by with this one, we might as well line it up right alongside the Boo-Hoo Comptometer and let it work full time for the NAM...
...We don't want them toyed with behind our backs...
...Though we have done a good job of killing the enemy, I find no sign of organized hate in any of our men...
...Writing from the Central Pacific, he said: "I want to tell you what a group of us officers and enlisted men have been talking about tonight...
...Crisis In Education SOLEMN warning in the financial page of the New York Times: "Because of the absence of bubble gum from the market for the past three years, it will be necessary to educate a brand new set of children to the use of it when the ingredients used in its manufacture are again available...
...We say if they step out of line of faithfulness to our country, punish them severely...
...The demand of the Farmers' Union that Congress act to relieve the Messrs...
...A Basic Issue THE bitter battle now raging in Washington over disposition of the 8,000,000 acres of land acquired by the Federal Government during the war emergency illustrates one major phase of the deep-going issue of reconversion of the nation's economy...
...First preference in selling the family-sized fa cms would go to former owners and war veterans, under Wickard's plan...
...In other words, the farmers' condition was so incredibly wretched in the pre-war days that any change at all was bound to be an improvement...
...W. L. Clayton, President Roosevelt's Surplus War Property Administrator, has turned over to his fellow Texan, fellow Tory, and fellow millionaire, Jesse Jones, the responsibility for disposing of the 8,000,000 acres of farm land no longer needed by the war agencies...
...The survey points out too that although farm income has jumped 204 per cent, as against 329 per cent for corporations, the average has only risen from $691 to $2,103...
...Darrell Brady of the American Air Forces, who wears the Air Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster...
...And that isn't all the AFL found in the report...
...The other half, personified at the moment by Secretary of Agriculture Claude Wiekard, has dared to stand up against the powerful Clayton-Jones combination...
...Warning From The Front PRESS and radio are heavy with hate these days —hatred of whole peoples expressed by stay-at-home commentators.That's why we especially appreciated a recent letter in Time Magazine written by Capt...
...Sinai, holds down workers' pay while incomes of the corporate groups are allowed to rise Without restrictions...
...Whenever the United States Department of Commerce issues a report on corporation war profiteering, the alert NAM agents grab it, rush it over to headquarters, and insert it into this remarkable machine...
...Out came a report showing that corporate profits, in relation to volume of business, dropped 3.1 per cent in 1939 to 2.8 per cent in 1943...
...They push the first valve down and the figures go down and around and come out showing that America's fat corporations are waddling over tha hill to the poor house...
...The American Federation of Labor, for example...
...The Boo-Hoo Comptometer was called into action...
...Control should be vested with an agency like the Farm Security Administration, which is charged with the task of rehabilitating family-sized farms in America, and not with a.team of Tories, who are adherents of the scarcity school of econortiic thinking The NAM's Boo-Hoo Machine V\ 7E have never been there, but we are almost ^ ? certain that in the Washington headquarters of the National Association of Manufacturers there is a machine known as the Boo-Hoo Comptometer...
...To the last man, our group is not in accord with what some people in the States are trying to do with some American citizens, namely the Jap citizens...
...The AFL analyzed this same Department of Commerce report and they found what the report plainly shows: that net earnings of corporations after the payment of taxes, were still 101 per cent higher than the prewar earnings...
Vol. 8 • August 1944 • No. 34
