Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 April 1941 — Page 4

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PRICE RISE HURTS

FIXED INCOME 1ST

Defense Boom Increases Wages for Some Workers but

Leaves Millions Helpless to Meet Higher Living Costs; There's No Sound Reason for Upswing.

This is the third of a series of articles on the cost of living and its relationship to war. Bv E. A. EVANS

Times Special Writer

WASHINGTON, April 2.—The national-defense boom thus far, though accompanied by a moderate rise in the cost of living, has helped many wage earners and only slightly, ee

For hundreds of thousands who were unemploved a few H OD i e y an ii | k i e | |; rR e an Sn e ~

hurt the rest.

months ago it has meant jobs and wages. ’

For many workers in the rushing defense industries it has meant steady work, much overtime pay, and in some]

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cases higher wage rates. Their incomes have gained| more rapidly than the prices per man-hour has gained, or wil they pay, and buying power 8ain, enough to offset

Hel pay scale need not increase an em-! Ay 3 1S ap ployer's labor costs and need not og . tT J . (

But millions have had no wage increase the cost of living.

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facts showing that production

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boosts and no overtime pay. They| wage raises not accompanied by a Vy be ge y i Each A “4=-Star”> Feature

are suffering—not very badly so far |gain in man-hour production, or| —because their incomes have been |qgemanded in anticipation of higher stationary while the cost of LIVIng|jjying costs which as a matter of has risen a few percentage POINis fact are not bound to come, are a

since war began in Europe different matter.

Let the cost of living begin s0ar-| They are what economists mean of 1 A dur the 1 | Yel a Ing again, as did during the 1ast ighen they speak of wages as one war period, and that relatively 800d | fantor in a vicious spiral up which hat will dal; ' | I: ¢ | y 11 chante I Iv Ne , 5 2 A als ki will Qelil ht vou at |! Leadin hela! cOIOrS 10 state of affairs will change rapidly | g,o wages received by some and the) ; W ght $ Pring colors

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for the worse. Living Standards yyyees that must be paid by all chase | Ca Wh match or accent your Easter costume. cloths, percales and poplins. Sizes

will pay the penalty each other to dizzy heights, as in|

People on fixed incomes will De | the last war period.

hurt terribly | Wage earners are also price pay-|

People whose incomes grow slowly | -—white-collar men and women, un-

: if use of the strike as a pricechin | raising weapon is restricted, whether Compelled Wage Increases {by voluntary co-operation of man-|

Some organized wol Kers., espe- {agement and labor under President

cially in the manufacturing tries. beat the game last time obtaining or creases that Kept thei

by by law if that plan fails, few wage-

by no means certain that they Ever since the disastrous expericould do it this time ence of the last war there has been Many wage increases in the last fear that, in another such emerwar period were won by strikes, gency, the Government would unwhich mean periods of idleness and dertake to “freeze” all prices and loss of income for the workers con- (all labor rates. That should be recerned. And it is probable that sorted to only if it becomes the sole labor cannot depend on the strike method of avoiding a still greater as a wage-raising weapon to ihe evil extent that it was used then { Would Straitjacket Industry Industrial methods have changed | It would mean a straitjacket for greatly. Mass production 1s mOre jpquctry. with cumbersome and general. Steady output by many costly Government controls For more plants 1s dependent on A Hapar jt would mean that even thorsteady flow of parts irom Other oughly justified wage increases plants. A strike mvolving a IeW ‘would be difficult if not impossible workers in a small factory making ‘to obtain. vital parts can stop production ©l | Wise industrialists will resist the finished planes, tanks or guns bY temptation to seek excessive profits numerous large factories Hence from the defense program. Wise the growing public feeling that NO | wage earners will resist the temptasuch wave of strikes as in 1917-18 tion to seek unjustified wage incan be tolerated now creases. Certainly if industry makes huge | Anqd all wage earners can exert a profits labor will have a right to mighty influence for preventing in demand its share—although, if the | ordinate increases of the cost of Government levies such taxes as jjving will be needed to pay for any large | They can do this because they are part of the defense and aid-Britain consumers, free to bargain for adprograms, there will be few huge lvantageous prices, free to demand

profits to divide. ithe reason when higher prices are

asked, and free to buy on the sound assumption that most prices can be And certainly if the workers’ rate kept within reasonable hounds of production—the man-hour out- Meanwhile, the Government can put—Iis increased, hourly wages can do and is doing many things to help and should be increased. That consumers and merchants resist unwould mean an improving living necessary increases in living costs. standard for labor, but only if the | iii ; cost of living does not at the same| NEXT—Government and the cost time rise more rapidly ‘of living.

Should Not Raise Costs

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