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...slum of almost medieval squalor. Its name was Sackville and it consisted of 60 rickety shacks squatting around a woolen mill. Sackville was settled 135 years ago and has stood still ever since. Its streets are unpaved. It has no running water, no sewers, no electricity. Almost every wage-earner among its 300 residents works in the mill. Last week the cry of "Anthrax!" prompted Rudolph H. Sack, owner of mill and town, to advise a general evacuation of Sackville...
...messages to Congress: "At times like the present, when the evils of unsound finance threaten us, the speculator may anticipate a harvest gathered from the misfortunes of others, the capitalist may protect himself by hoarding or may even find profit in the fluctuations of values; but the wage-earner-the first to be injured by a depreciated currency and the last to receive the benefit of its correction-is practically defenseless. He relies for work upon the ventures of confident and contented capital. ... He can neither prey on the misfortunes of others nor hoard his labor. . . . All history warns...
This point is important and must be made clear. It is important to the laborer, for he wants a voice in the economic government of his life. It is important to the Administration, for its whole philosophy has been founded on the boosting of purchasing power of the wage-earner; and unless a second and third set of codes are to be enforced on industry, that boost to keep consumption up to rising prices will have to come from union pressure in each business. And the difficulties which would face the imposition of more codes are too obvious to merit...
Though the cost of living has gone down 20%, the National Industrial Conference Board computes that the U. S. wage-earner's weekly pay envelope has shrunk 27.3% in real purchasing power. Despite this shrinkage the wage-earner has been able to buy more meat for his platter. Last week the Institute of American Meat Packers announced that total meat consumption was up for the first half of the third Depression year. Though less beef and veal went on the U. S. platter, pork consumption was up 152,000,000 lb., lamb up 13,000,000 lb. Last year...
...Such cases as tumor of the brain, acute hemorrhagic pancreatitis, hypertrophy of the prostate of Raynaud's disease may demand consultation with specialists or their technical services. . . . But to the wage earner who is attempting, with his family, to subsist on $30 a week, a pain in the epigastrium is just cramps and not allergic abdominal migraine...