New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 6, 1917, Page 17

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The retail prices of food jumped 39 per mt, in 1916, as compared with 1907, according to the investigations of the Bureau of Labor Statistics in the U. S. Depdrtment of Labor, as reported in the April Monthly Review of the Bureau. Despite an ayerage increase of 19 per cent, in wages per hour in the same period, and a reduction in hours worked of four per cent, the rising | cost of foods has operated to cut the pay of the American workingman about 16 per ccent. expressed in terms of food his wages will buy. A work- fhgman who made three dollars a day ‘in 1907, working sen hours, in 1916 worked nine hours and thirty-six minutes a day and drew $3.48 for it; but it cost him $4.17 o buy the same quantity of food his $3.00 would cov- er in 1907; so” he really was 69 cents worse off. ‘ The Bureau of Labor Statistics gathers figures from forty-eight lead- ing gitigs of the United States, on union scales of wages, and from 46 cities on food prices. In these cities live about one-fifth (twenty millions) of our people. The wage returns come from eleven groups of organized workers. These. fisures are taken from two bulletins, giving scales of wages and hours of labor, and retail prices of food. 1Index numbers, pef- centages showing proportionate rates of increase or reduction, are sho for each year. The department h. learned that the abnormal increase ln fodd prices shown in 1916 is still further increased in January, to 56 per cent., wuniform. wére -made on the average measurements of the soldiers it would their average wouldn’t fit one.of them. Many Idic Hands in 1907. A vital fact should be. considered here, however; those figures’ do not account for idle time. Ul\til recently the department could not get satisfac- tory figures on this point. /But it is a matter of common knowledge that In 1907 size, but Jobs now are chasing men. there were no jobs to dodge. The land was’ crowded with idle men. At a conference of workers held at the Department of Commerce and Labor in 1903 to discuss the problem of un- employment, Samuel Gompers, pres- ident of the American Federation of Labor, stated that “since October, 1907, nearly 2,000,000 workers were out of jobs,” who had been working steadily prior to that time. Other estimates placed the number of men then idle af from three to four mil- lions. Nowadays every. man who wants work can find it—and that is a very important fact. To make the différence In living costs plainer, ‘take {he experience of Denny O’'Xeill. Denny worked on the railroad in 1907 for $1.40 a day ten hours Denny is a steady man and he kept his work right along. H got $8.40 iy 1907. Denny’s pay now— on the averages found by the Depart- ment of Labor—is $9.76 a week. He works about twenty-odd minutes less each day than he did. In 1907 Denny paid five dollars a week for food. 1916 Denny had'to pay $6:95 a week } for the same quantity of food. Denny's living was actually cut during these nine years of rising wages. loses 60 cents a week, not counting rent, which has not Denny, nor counting clothes, cost him more. The averages of food and of pay changed which reductions , worked rose at about, thy same rate from 1912 to 1915, so that during that time wages would pay for about even quantities of food each year. Actually, workers enjoved better con- ditiens in 1915 than in 1912, becanse they “had more and' steadier work. But war losses got into the equation in hours Jfin 1916 and pushed up food- prices uring Car $360 Runahout $345 Coupelet $505 Sedan $645 Delivery Car $445 f. 0. B. DETROIT Nearly 2,000,000 Now in Use--- A Guarantee of Their Quallty ABOVE PRICES FOR IMMEDIATE DELIVERY ONLY Eimer Automobhile Co. 22 Main St., New Britain and in February, to 62 perI cent.. above the average cosy in 1907. Of course, all these figures are based on averages, and may not apply exact- 1y to individual cases. If an army | faster than wages. There were some crop shortages also, which contributed their share. Besides this, ‘however, there is reason to fear that other ele- ments are conspiring to rdise prices. Cold storage, rebilling, reshipping and withholding of commodities from mar- ket are suspected to contribute to the present abnormal rise in the prices of to such an opinion, viewed in the light of conditions revealed by a comparison of figures through a range of years. ENGEDAND TAKES TO CHICORY. London, April 6.—For the first time in forty years, chicory is being raised on a large scale on English farms, The. initlal crop from a large market gardener in Lincolnshire yielded twenty tons to the acre. “TOMMY” CAN'T HAVE BLANKETS, London, April 6.—The British mil- itary authorities have found it neces- sary for military reasons to forbid the despatch of blankets to British prison- ers in Germam Tooth paste can still be sent. (‘LF“K.Y\IEN GOING TO \" AR. (‘n.peto“n April 6.—A party of fifty clergymen, including every reme.lning clergyman of military age in the Pre- toria diocese, will leave shortly after Easter for war service at the French front. food. Whether some perséns have conspired to engross the markets the Department of Labor cannot state. |’ But the reports of the Bureau of La- bor Statistics seem to lend some color R —— Whether you spend Easter in town or up state you can wear no more stylish, good looking suit and topcoat than you’ll find in right priced MONROE CLOTHES. The fresh, attractive distinctive smariness of MONROE CLOTHES ' appeals to young men no less than does the modest p pnce. . Always correct in style, faultless in fit, and sahsfymg in wear, MONROE CLOTHES pay back in faithful service every dollar invested in them. The quality that our policy of selling ‘economies* has | permltted us to put into MONROE CLOTHES has attracted thousands of New Bntam people well al)le to\ pay much more than the Monroe pnce of $15. 'Monroe Spring Suits and Topcoats are ready for you in so liberal and varied a selection that we know we have just what you'd lke. At least come up and see. . « This Sprmg dress up in MONROE CLOTHES. Come up today and see wlnt 315 “will buy in clothes satisfaction. N MONROE America’s Largest Upstairs Clothiers. , 25 Asylum St. ‘Suits; Overcoats; Evening . Clothes, Upstalrs Open Saturdays Till 10 HARTFOR.D PV BLOCKS SHELL WITH HAND. London, April 6.—One of the most reckless feats of daring reported dur- ing the war is recorded in a list of military awdrds just issued. Private Daniel Hall, who woil - the distin- guished conduct medal, “put his hand over the muzzle of a trehch mortar as it was fired in order to prevent the shell from hitting a man who had in- advertently stepped in front of the gun.” The same list mentions awards to six men who picked up live shells and threw them over the parapet. TWO DOLLAR WHEAT. Chicago, April 4—Two doHar wheat became an actuality today. The grain for delivery next month sold at that price at the opening of the board of trade today. It is the highest price ever paid on.a normll market. e RESTRICTING FARM WORKERS. Berlin, April 4—To _prevent any further exodus of agricultural work- ers from the farms to highly paid jobs in the munition factories, the follow- ing appeal signed by the director of civil and military supplies, General Groener, has been '’ placarded in all the rural districts: “Agricultural work is a patriotic auxiliary” service. Qur brothers at the front and in’ the factories at home rely on you. 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