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...enough to bring in more ordinary scrap than ever before, they are not high enough to give the most essential scrap collector of all, the small junk dealers, an adequate incentive for abnormal effort. They are not even high enough, in fact, to keep a lot of small junkmen in business...
Young (27), ruddy-faced Frank Block, St. Louis adman, last June began thinking about a national wastepaper drive. The plan called for the use of regular collection channels (i.e., junkmen), and payment by the industry of all expenses...
...boxboard industry's chief raw material is wastepaper-old newspapers, discarded wrappings, magazines. Only 28% of the nation's paper is now recovered. About 50% is lost in furnaces and rubbish heaps. Last year the junkmen collected about 5,500,000 tons-about half 1942's needs. The defense bite alone (boxes for Army shells, etc.) is expected to take two-thirds of the industry's output...
...Scrap dealers consider it an insult to be called junkmen, have their own national trade body, the Institute of Scrap Iron & Steel, Inc. Nonspecialist dealers who are equally touchy are organized in the National Association of Waste Materials Dealers...
...down last week to $13.41. These melancholy facts trouble everyone in the junk business.* In Chicago the junk business is especially troubled, for retail junk shop owners for the last two months have been having trouble with the men who collect and sell them their scrap. About 1,500 junkmen, members of the United Junk Peddlers' Association-a C. I. O. affiliate -struck against the retailers for union recognition and a closed shop. Retailers promptly had peddler pickets clapped in jail. Chicago's Judge Michael Feinberg refused an injunction to restrain the police, told the junkmen they were...