Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 September 1941 — Page 36
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Prices; Most of Those Quest Poll Think Pay Is Fair. By GEORGE GALLUP Director, Amercian Institute of Public Opinion. . PRINCETON, N. J., Sept. 12.—A sizable majority of wage and salary earners interviewed in a nation-wide survey are ready to have the Government fix wage and salary rates | at the present level if the Government also freezes prices to prevent the cost of living from going any higher. Among economic experts that fact is likely to be re-
garded as news of the most far-reaching importance. The success of failure of any price-
fixing or wage-fixing measure
ch seeks to control inflation will depend, in the long run, on just one thing—the willingness of the American people to cooperate with the program. The evidence from the survey shows that the American public is apparently willing to accept the more or less radical step of fixing : ceiling over wages — something ‘that. has never been attempted on . any. large scale in the history of the country—as a counterpart: to the fixing of prices. i. The Administration’s Price Con“trol Bill; which seeks to force the eountry to “respect prices” as they were on July 29 of this year, is liketo be the next big thing on the endar of Congress. . . Urges Frozen Wages Sonie economists, notably Bernard ‘Baruch, believe, however, .that ce-fixing alone will not stop ination, that :wages must be regulated or frozen as well, in order to prevent excess money in circulation from upsetting’ the stability of the whole price structure. : “As one way to prevent prices going up- rapidly, would you ' be willing to have the Government . ‘keep your wage (salary) rate where 4 ‘now is, if the Government also Keeps ‘the prices of things which Jou buy where they are now?”
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A second question irr the survey “Indicates one possible reason why sentiment is favorable to wage fix-
TE reveals that a substantial ma- . Jority of wage and salary earners ‘polled consider that they are now being paid a fair wage. / _. “Do you consider that you are now being paid‘ a fair wage (salary)?” = The wote is: {Consider Wage Fair cies 049% Consider Wage Unfair .. 33 ‘Undecided Among those who consider that their present pay rate is fair, senti- © ment for wage-fixing is, as might expected, substantially higher among those who are dissatis- - Sentiment by income groups is in@icated in the following table: Favor ’ ‘Wage Op- UnFixing posed decided
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BENAGUM RAPS U. S. LEADERS
Our People Opposed to Meddling, America First Meeting Told.
“The present American disunity is the, product of “international meddling upon the part of our leaders,” Clarence E. Benadum, Muncie, told an America First Committee meeting at 40 N. Pennsylvania St., last
night. He said that 80 per cent of the people of the United States believe in all-out defense for ourselves, but that the average citizen b not internationally. minded “He cares but very little about royalty and secret meetings upon the high seas or elsewhere,” Mr. Benadum said. + “For most part he believes inthe doctrine of - George Washington that we, the people of America, should not become entangled in old world disputes.
Puts Defense First
“Defense of our own country should ‘always receive first consideration. Nazlism, Fascism and Communism are forejgn to Americanism, and any effort upon our part to establish one against the other weakens our nationalism. “During the past 150 years, situations like the present one in Europe have arisen, during which time, except for our participation in the last World War, we, the people of the United States, paid attention to our own business and developed the greatest political and economic system the world has ever known. “The further independence and freedom of the American people depend upon the disposition of those in authority to keep us. free from. foreign entanglements.
_Fears for Liberty
“America is losing its independehce in a tangled wilderness of internationalism. Judging by the conduct of many jn the present Ad-
ministration, one might well believe that the American people have become so listless, as to need a foreien guardian. < “Uncle Sam has been so manhandled during the past os years that he is now little more than a watchman over the kennel of the British bulldog.- Tomorrow he may betoxte a butler in the King’s house0! “That brand of Americanism which has carried us safely over the rough spots of our. yesterdays is rapidly diminishing. And unless the common people are able to stem the tidal wave of foreign interference, those today, who boast of individual liberty, may omorrow be numbered with a dictator’ s minio:
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