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again, - : is | -1f-unemployment-rises another able to -clatm that price, (Sel a3 30 Senta hishes and veal- REG After all, the recovery from |,,0n “Congress and the Presi-| At the same time, lamb prices “pL ty hg dditionall OMAS the recession of 1049 had hardly |dent will surely try to do some- broke sharply from a $28.50 top a og B Ces were a onally MI begun when the coal strike in- thing about it. Far better would!and cattle encountered a dull 2Tected by a slow declining pork CO | fervened and steel and other |i; po it business could turn the Week-end trade. trade. Barrows and gilts Friday industries had to throttle down. |ireng itself without government Lambs dropped $1 after ad. 0d 35 to 75 cents below the Since the issue is bound toad. vancing 50 cents and more to a Previous Friday with the most

“markets,” which would make pos- strike. Sales in the week ended closed 50 cents to $1 lower, with ‘Hogs: A load or so Friday [ws

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ruary, 47 million people were out of work. That consti-| tutes 7.6 per cent of the labor force, the highest proportion,

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. . tually, these improvements begin | It's not because new jobs to pay off. Fewer men or less haven't been created. It's yme is required to do the same! mostly because post-war techno- job. : i logical improvements are coming The industrial downturn during home to roost. 11949 accelerated the trend toward

You can understand what has efficiency. As companies had less! Mr. and Mrs. Bradley L. Komers and family moved into this three-bedroom brick veneer home

happened, Ever since ili ead of Wark 0 So, Shey lala of tae Jest at 5153 Caroline Ave. last month. They purchased the: dwelling from Orville Smith, the builder. . y - 0 rs, union. rules : jo i salers and retailers have been In- permitting. Then, when business! To Haynes Realty Service handled the transaction. Mr. Komers is employed by the LaPlante stalling new equipment. Ditto picked up again and companies Moving Co. : the railroads, the public utilities, rehired, they took back the more! CR and the telephone company. Grad- efficient workers.

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in manufacturing and mining between January, 1949, and January, 1850, dropped 6 per cent. But Rroduction during that same period declined only.4 per cent. Thus manufacturing -and mining coms: panies were ‘able to reduce their work forces faster than their out- * put, as the following table shows: ig ’ January, January, Pet tributable to newcomers to the

Fmolorments 1.8000 18/7 ame” 0 labor force--college and high re metionts and ur 2 school graduates seeking jobs. **Federal Reserve Board Index. The other half is attributable to

- Another way to look at it is higher output per worker, this. According to the Bureau of The hoon of technology is Census, 50,730,000 . persons were bound to force politicians, labor at work in February in nonagri- leaders and businessmen to take

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of more than 500,000 over Feb- them. How can _they deal with Tuary,” 1949.7 Yet unemployment the problem? Will increased efwas up 1.5 million. : ficiency raise heil with full emOf the increase, only half is at- ployment? "eon

: John L. Lewis is only too well aware Coal an Extreme of what technology is doing to his United Mine Workers’ Union. Production per miner per day has risen from four tons in 1920, to five tons in 1930, to 6.3 tons in 1048 and perhaps to 6.5 tons last year. :

8 * os During the recent coal negotiations, Mr, Lewis demanded a cut . ra ‘ &) from eight to seven hours at the creasing mechanization. A a -: wa SS 5 | same rate of pay. He finally pr a Ba "or weeks Among top sales in February by Carl G. Seytter, this three-bedroom house at 1225 N. Lin.

dropped the demand, but it's likely could well become a. pivotal labor] wood Ave. was purchased by Mr. and Mrs. Leonard E. Hull. A recent graduate of Purdue Unito come up again. He got in- jssue. In 1048, 1947 and 1948, versity, Mr. Hull bought the dwelling from Aciel A. Hamilton, Post Office official. Mr. Seytter said stead a higher wage. Presumably unions went after higher wages. the transaction was completed early last month. Mr. Lewis hopes to get wages up Last year pensions were the big :

to where miners will make a living issue, And this year and next. Lib i $ k S ¢d Pp o bs. at $15. Most good and choice on three and a half to four days labor leaders may eall for shorter i era oC S en : rices {sows under 450 Ibs., sold at $14.50

a week. For coal consumption .is work weeks presumably at the to $15.50 with comparable 475

declining while production per same rate of pay, so that workers’ Of Hi D £ / WwW k- {to 600 Ib. kinds $13 to $14.25. man 1s still rising-—hecause of in- purchasing power won't decline. on ogs own or ee : Sheep: The closing top on highi Labor leaders may well CHICAGO, Mar, 11 (UP)—Liberal supplies late this week re-8°0d and choice 100 Ib. fed ColoBusiness Must Face It demand Increased wages 4,ceq4 hog prices to an average on barrows and gilts which was "dos sold for $25.50 while good

at the same time. They might argue that increased payrolls are low this month's. federal support level here of $16.65 a hundreq 8rade handyweight native and necessary if production is to expand and sufficient new Sr Bp i PPO $e h fed western lambs closed at $27 ment created to offset technological disemployment. Bus had th er hand fr Thursda followi the down. Sheep were steady with By no means is that the sole solution, however. Conceiv ably, Uyels oa e ur ap om ursqay on following the Industrial production and em- | 6; oT __be! for butchers. was. cut. from. $17.50 ploy t may start expanding | f one thing they can be! for butchers. 7

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arise sooner or later, business) Meanwhile, department store new high on fed crop slaughter 1088 on weights over 270 Ibs. | must get ready for it. They can sales reflect the rise in unemploy- lambs of $28.50. Compared with Sows were 25 to 50 cents lower. | lower prices, thereby widening ment and the effects. of the coal the - previous -week, —the—market —-A- review of prices foltows: ||}

sible Increased production and Mar. 4 finished in a dead heat the extreme loss on big weights, | topped .at $17 but the bulk good | |™= employment. They can increase with the corresponding week of Slaughter steers and heifers and choice 190 to 230 1b. butchers | wages and thus enlarge demand. 1949. And at that time the retail Were 50 cents to $1 higher at the were $16.65 to $16.90. Most 230 | They can shorten hours. Or they business was fn A slump from the Week's best selling on Wednes- to 300 Ib. weights were $16 to | can use any combination of all'1948 high and near the low point day but the close was slow and $16.75 with 300 to 340 1bs., $15.50 three, of the year. only steady. Bulls were weak to ito $16.10 and a few around 400' [®

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