Editorial
THE nURLOTTf LABOR JOURNAL
VND DIXIE FARM NEWS
.„,,ed at Charlotte, North Carolina __
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H. A. Stalin. Edit. d Publiaher W. M. Witter, Aaaociata Editor
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By rollY CDISOH for L-I.P. E.
COST OF LIVING
It looks now as if most of your
prices will go on up for s while
yet, even if two or three price
ceilings ere in effect by the time
you reed this. A complete con
trol job, apparently, is going to ‘
take longer then it did lest time
force it. For the record: gen
and require more people to en
eral price controls during World
War II went into effect in April,
1942, and then it took 14 months
to build OPA’s organiation to the
20,000 persons needed just to
work on price controls alone.
Food, as usual, will be the
toughest price control job. It
means more to more people and,
according to sme thinking, price
ceilings n food really need ra
tioning to back them up. Even
if the food being controlled is
plentiful. It's hard to enforce
a price on meat, for instance, un
ess there’s a rationing system to
prevent overbuying by persons
who have the most money.
LAMB AND STEAK
Lamb is our scarcest meat and
probably will stay the scarcest
even though we now plan to Im
port some from New Zealand.
Rasiing sheep, evidently, is some
thing Americans don’t particular
ly hanker to do. Flocks get
smaller and smaller. We’ve im
ported some shepherds since the
last war ended, but it se'-ns that
even foreigners don’t like to be
shepherds in this country — not
after they learn their way around.
This shepherd situation is partly
responsible for our wool short
age, too.
Steak is somewhat different.
We have great herds of cattle,
but beef has become so stylish
that many women had rather be
caught in a 1914 dress than not
have it on the table—particular
ly if she has company. It is sort
of like white bread. Americans
just have to have it. The nu
tritionists talked their eye teeth
out trying to ell us dark bread
, was beter for us, but we paid no
earthly attention. They finally *
got wise and started enriching
white bread, putting back the nu-'
trition which making it white had
taken out of ft. Maybe some
body will think of something to
do about beef — but that seems
unlikely. The meat companies
have spent fortunes since World
War II proving to ns that a high
protein diet is what every good
American needs. They’re right,
of course, except that you don’t
have to eat meat to get proteins.
Run down the list in your cook
book some day and see how
many sources of protein we have.
Dried beans and peas are one.
rrs FUNNY
How many styles we have in
the food field. Just about as many
as women have when it comes
to hats—and nothing much can
be done about it. We might re
member, however, that many a
vegetarian has lived to a ripe
old age and many a worker has
done a “full day’s job” without
any beef in his lunch basket.
“Survival Under Atomic At
tack” is the name of a 32-page
booklet written in everyday
language and intended for every
body. Copies can. be bought for
10 cents each from the Super
intendent of Documents. Wash
ington 26, D. C|—in case the
pamphlet is not yet being cir
culated in your area.
Among other things, the book
let says that more is known
rbout atomic warfare wounds and
after effects than is known aboajt
the common cold. In other words,
there’s much that can be done to
cut down on the damage which
.n atomic bomb could do.
' WORKER
with
1,000 JOBS
tint* REDDY KILOWATT
Your Servant of the Century
Yes, Reddy has a hand In a
everything you do today, folks. He
helps with your housework, runs the
factories, works hard on the farms,
and aids the storekeeper in hundreds
of ways.
Hours? Twenty-four a day, including
Holidays and Sundays. Wages? In
any kind of budget, home, business,
or industry, the low figure goes to
Reddy Kilowatt—
YOUR SERVANT OF THE CENTURY
DURE POWER-COMPANY
“tit* J&Ummt? CZo&uh
THIS KIND OF DICTATOR
IS KIN TO JOE STALIN
Havana, Cuba.—Maurice Baez,
a founder of the Dominican Con
federation of Labor and loader of
Dominican Republic’s unionists, in
exile, is reported missiaf from
his home here. He disappeared
soon after he presented a memo
to the International Labor Organ
ization asking for an investiga
tion of suppression of union lib
erties unoer dictator Trujillo.
C. I. T., meeting here adopted
a resolution supporting the right
of asylum, commending die Gov
ernment of Columbia for giving
asylum to Victor de la Torre, Pe
ruvian democratic political leader.
SEEK 5,000 LOCALS
Washington.—The AFL Nation- '
al Federation of Post Office Clerks j
began its annual Bring-a-Brother1
Campaign January lb with a goal'
of 125,000 new members and 5,-'
000 locals by May 15. The clerks!
now have 4,795 locals.
Buy Union and fight the ag
gressors who would destroy
American labor standards.
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