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Losing 8 Million a Month
(The Fargo News)
There is a trite, but nevertheless true, saying that "it doesn't pay to cry over spilt milk." Much as we try to refrain from doing this, and because of our belief in the right of collective bargaining between labor and industry, we cannot help but shed a few tears over spilt milk, when that milk is $96,000,000 worth.
A recent report from the National Industrial Conference Board shows that during 1934 more than two million man days of work were lost through strikes.
Calculating these man days at an average of 50 cents an hour rate amounts to the loss of $8,000,000 a month to the breadwinners of the nation. Worth crying over don't you think, when the national and state governments are stretching their budgets to the breaking point to provide increased buying power to the people of the country?
We know that an additional $9 million dollars would not be a large enough increase in buying power to end a four year depression, however, while we have no figures available at present on what the total loss of man-days for the four year period would amount to, it is a fair surmise that, could the benefits be restored to labor in a lump sum at this time, they would go far in bringing back prosperity.