THE NOME DAILY NUGGET
GEO. S MAYNARD. Editor
RUSSELL G. MAYNARD, ’anager.
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PRICE FIXING IS MONOPOLISTIC
The principle enunciated by Federal Judge Davis of St.
Louis in an adverse decision on coal price fixing is logical
consistent and bound to prevail in the end—which should
be soon. Judge Davis finds that the recovery act prohibits
“monopoly or monopolistic practices. He finds that price
fixing is monopolistic and therefore contrary to the identical
act under which it has been permitted not only in the coal
rode, but in reality or effect, in numerous other codes, He
finds specifically, in the case at issue, that "underselling is
not unfair competition as the term has always been under
stood.’
When the recovery bill was debated in Congress twenty
months ago Senator Borah contended that its passage, with
the relaxation of the anti-trust laws permitted, inevitably
would mean price fixing. There were efforts at assurance
to the contrary, and the country was given to understand
that consumers would be protected in the matter. But many
of the codes submitted by the various trades and industries
carried provisions for price fixing or its equivalent and, in
most instances, such codes were officially accepted. Just
this month the NRA gave permission for continuance of the
coal code and the price fixing it contained. But if the re
covery act is to be extended at this session of Congress, price
fixing will have to be reconsidered.
EXPORT OUTLET DESIRABLE
There is one phase of the Alaska salmon packing indus
try, and a very important one which we have inadvertantly
overlooked during the last month in which time The Seward
Gateway has been endeavoring single-handed—with no as
sistance nor cooperation from any Alaska newspaper—to
present the other side of this so-called problem in our fisher
ies, which politicians have kept aflame.
We have reference to the desirability of an export out
let to take care of any exportable surplus that might develop
from time to time.
It is true that there is a protective tariff with reference
to salmon produced in British Columbia, Japan and Siberia,
and while importations from those countries have in the
past proved a very serious menace, the greatest problem is
the dealing with trade in other countries.
With the increasing costs of both labor and material
due to codes and the voluntary payments for wages which
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in many instances is considerably above that paid in other
countries, salmon packers are automatically barred from
meeting prices in world trade circles. This means that they
must be dependent entirely on the distribution and consump
tion within our own borders, irrespective of business condi
tions or prices obtainable.—Seward Gateway.
THE NATION GAINS
When the Chamber of Commerce of the United Stales
admits that business is getting better there must be some
thing to it. The conservatism of this organization, and its
consistent opposition to administration policies, effectively
prevent it from unwarranted optimism.
In the past four months, according to estimates of this
organization and the American Federation of Labor, about
700,000 men have been added to industrial payrolls. With ]
unemployment figures near the 20,000,000 mark, there’s still j
a long way to go before anyone can be proud of the record j
but a start seems to have been made on the road to recovery. ]
Labor leaders lament the fact that prices are rising more
rapidly than wages and that incomes, which have remained
stationary, are actually less today than they were at the bot
tom of the depression. This is a condition which, given
time, will be corrected; strikes and violent measures right
now might give the nation a set-back in which all that had
been sained in the first Quarter of the year would be lost.
Bremerton’s participation in a return to better times
for tlie nation will be slight. Prosperity for this city de
pends on factors which do not directly affect the nation at
large. Fortunately, present naval policies insure good busi j
ness conditions to parallel improvement in the country at 1
large.
Better times for the nation will help Bremerton by pro
viding jobs for workers who fail to find a place here. Jobs
anywhere mean fewer men on relief rolls, and the city can
spend its money more effectively if the hundreds existing by
public support are taken back into industry.—Bremerton
Searchlight.
DID YOU EVER STOP TO THINK?
By Edson R. Waite, Shawnee, Oklahoma
This is an old story, but true today as always.
The success of a city is measured by the prosperity of
its citizens.
When the citizens work as one for better business to
build the city, nothing can stop its progress.
When the merchants stop advertising, the citizens stop
buying.
W7hen people stop buying, the merchants stop selling.
When merchants stop buying, the manufacturer stops
making.
When the manufacturer stops making, many people
stop working.
When many people stop working, they stop earning— j
and when they stop earning, nearly all business stops.
Merchants should advertise and people should buy.
When they buy, the manuafacturers can sell.
When the manufacturers can sell, many people can earn. 5
When people can earn, they will have money to spend.
LET’S HAVE BUSINESS AS USUAL !
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