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Eight-Ninths to Labor
(Christian Freedom Foundation, Inc.)
UNION LEADERS have pushed for government intervention
with the hue and cry that the workers create the wealth
but do not get a fair share of it.
The facts are that out of every dollar available for workers
or owners of American corporations, the workers average 89.7
cents and the owners average 10.3 cents.
Machines furnish about 95 per cent of the energy used in
American industry yet the owners of these machines, the people
who have saved money to buy them, get only about one-ninth of
the dollars that are available, after expenses are paid, with which
to reward labor and owners.
On the other hand, workers supply about five per cent of
the energy used in industrial production in our country and are
rewarded with about eight-ninths of the wealth flowing from these
industries that is divisible between owners and labor.
Socialism has spread, not only in our country but around the
world, on the basis of the great hoax promulgated in literature,
published in all leading languages, proclaiming the gigantic error
that of the dollars available for owners and workers, owners get
four-fifths and labor one-fifth. If this were true, every fair-minded
person would be a socialist. It is because multitudes believe this
error that socialism is winning.
When advised that just the opposite is true, that owners re
ceive one-ninth and labor eight-ninths, fair-minded people can no
longer be socialists.
Internal Revenue reports show that during the past 45 years,
45 per cent of American companies "on the average have shown
losses.” Only the better managed and fortunately situated com
panies have shown profits.
Profit is the very lifeblood of a prosperous, self-governing
society. Tyranny and slavery will be the lot of those who reject
the profit system or who force profits down so low as to dis
courage saving and risk-taking in enterprise. The margin of safety
is already very slender.
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Khrushchev
Is Slated for a
Tough Year Ahead
MOSCOW OP—Premier Khrush
chev has just finished the worst
year he has had since Stalin, and
he is due for a tough year ahead.
The thing that made 1962 so bad
for him was the same island —
Cuba — that made 1961 bad for
President Kennedy.
Cuba put Premier Khrushchev
on the defensive in the cold war
and in the equally troublesome
battle for leadership in the Com
munist camp.
In the Soviet Union he put the
best possible light on the Cuba
fiasco. It has been pictured not
only by the Premier himself but
in dozens of newspapers and maga
zines as a victory for Khrushchev.
They say he saved mankind from
a nuclear war the Americans were
ready to force on the world if the
Soviet Union had not acted.
The story is believed here, to
some degree, but not completely.
One of the troublesome items is
the split with China. Soviet people
don’t know much about it yet, but
they are beginning to understand
that China is challenging the So
viet Union for leadership in the
Communist camp.
But after all — China is far
away. What hits closer to home
is the continued difficulty with
the economy.
Every Soviet citizen knows that.
He meets it across the counter in
the butcher shop, where fresh meat
is extremely scarce. He sees a few
tomatoes on the open market. A
pound can costs a skilled mechanic
a day’s wages.
Soviet authorities have not been
able to conceal the hard fact that
while production is increasing, it
is not increasing as fast as it
should. That is especially true in
agriculture.
The top party leaders bewail
lack of enthusiasm for hard work
on the part of farmers and shop
workers. The zeal to work for the
revolution has diminished. When
things get bad people may pack
up and quit.
All these things put new troubles
on the back of Premier Khrush
chev, and it can’t be forgotten he
is approaching 70.
Bulgarian Pilot Freed
Of Espionage Charges
BARI, Italy Uf) — Milusc Soakov,
a Bulgarian pilot whose camera
equipiped jet plane crashed near
a North Atlantic Treaty Organiza
tion missile base in southern Italy
a year ago, Thursday was ordered
released from jail. Charges of po
litical and military espionage were
dropped.
An investigation Judge, acting
as a one-man grand jury, ruled
that the 23-year-old Bulgarian lieu
tenant had committed no crime.
The young Bulgarian crashed
near this southern Italian city on
Jan. 20 after flying over a NATO
base at Gioi Del Colle. He suffer
ed fractures of a collarbone and
arm.
Since the crash, he has been in
the Bari jail.
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M7hea* War If Farmers
Tnm Down Control Plan
PALM BEACH, Fla. Wh — Secre
tary of Agriculture Orville Free
man told President Kennedy yes
terday that if farmers turn down
a wheat control plan in a referen
dum next June the result will be
heavy overproduction and a post
war low market of $1 a bushel.
Freeman said a massive inter
national wheat war could result.
This was the prospect held out
by Freeman in a report he handed
Kennedy during a conference at the
holiday White House.
The question in the referendum
will be whether to accept stiff
production controls or go along
with much lower supports and no
controls.
Freeman contended that defeat
of the referendum would lead to
1964 output of 300 million more
bushels than the nation could con
sume or export.
On the domestic front, Freeman
said, heavy wheat production
could lead to increased livestock
—particularly hog—production and
to serious price deterioration in
feed grains, soybeans, poultry and
other commodities.
Freeman gave his views in a
year-end report which, in places,
had political overtones.
Legislative Council
Considers Changes In
Legal Age Law for State
Legislation that would standard
ize the legal age in the state is
being considered by the Alaska
Legislative Council for recom
mendation to the legislature.
The legal age is 21 for some
things and varies 18 17, 15 and
19 under other laws of the state.
The Council is also considering
the changing of status of five or six
dedicated funds such as tobacco
tax and fishermens’ fund. It is a
touchy problem as under the pre
sent state constitution, if the
dedicated funds are once changed
to the general fund they can never
be re-activated.
Other possible legislative meas
ures being eyed by the Legislative
Council include: Amending the
declaration of taking and eminent
domain procedures; changing court
rules in reference to juveniles; and
bonding and financial support for
schools.
It was Francois de la Roche
foucauld who observed, “We pro
mise according to our hopes, and
perform according to our fears.”
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Gov. Win. Egan
Considers Pay Hike
For Slate Employes
JUNEAU — Gov. Wm. Egan
indicated Thursday the state ad
ministration is considering a pay
raise for state employes to offset,
at least in part, recruiting prob
lems created by a federal pay
raise.
Egan made the comment during
a news conference after being
asked about a statement attributed
to Deputy Highways Commissioner
Robert Sharp that the federal pay
boost had increased the problem
of hiring qualified highway per
sonnel.
“With the budgetary problems
we are facing,” Egan said, “I don’t
think it will be possible for the
state to meet the federal pay in
crease, but a general pay raise for
state employes is under considera
tion.
“Of course, the administration
will work very closely with the
Finance Committee of both the
House and the Senate in this re
gard.
“It poses a real problem.”
Taking note of Secretary of the
Interior Udall’s decision to permit
operation of Metlakatla fish traps
this year, Egan said he “certainly
hoped the traps will be stopped in
1964.”
Egan said he feels as he always
has, “that in the interests of con
servation and rehabilitation and
in the interests of Metlakatla and
other villages, the traps should not
be operated.
“The people of Alaska, and the
people of Metlakatla, voted against
that type of fishery once,” Egan
added. “It should not be permitted
to continue.”
OVERHEATED . . .
SYRACUSE, N.Y. Ufi — When
temperatures plunged in this up
state New York City. Richard Valle
put a 150-watt light bulb under
the hood of his auto in the hope
it would warm the engine.
It did.
Valle told firemen today that
the heat from the bulb ignited a
blanket which also was under the
hood. The blazing blanket set fire
to the car.
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