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Newspaper
Troy Record
Location
Troy, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1943
Page
12
Peter Edson reports broad strain in service trades from broken laundry services to barber shops and hotel staff. Lower pay, lack of Fair Labor Standards Act coverage, and war-time regulations draw workers to manufacturing, squeezing service employers who cannot deferments or recruit easily.
War Manpower Commission advised on stabilizing help while War Labor Board maintains wages. Service trades face shortages as piracy by war industries reduces available workers and equipment. Laundry and shoe repair machinery scarce as production shifts to essential war materials, risking increased absenteeism in plants as women work longer hours.
Washington reports that war workers with little experience earned wages near top Army officers’ pay in 1942. Rep. Engel detailed payrolls from GM, Ford, Chrysler, and GE totaling over 2.3 billion dollars for 850 thousand workers, averaging 2,725 dollars yearly. He criticized government wage policies, noted high machine gun assembler pay, praised overall production, and warned taxes from excess wages will fall on servicemen and low-wage workers. He highlighted several extreme cases and contrasted civilian wages with military pay.
Newburyport Mass. A 13 year old, Edward Dow, was sentenced to 14 to 20 years for manslaughter in the death of Lydia Cook, a 72 year old "egg woman." Judge John V. Spalding noted the option to transfer to a youth corrections program. Prosecutors criticized the jury for sympathy toward the youth. The case marks the youngest Massachusetts murder indictment verdict.
A speaker cites wages from a store ribbon clerk earning 3380 for six weeks, an Army major base pay of 3000, and farmers turned clerks earning 120 and 220 every two weeks. Engel questions who should defend payrolls funded by taxes from sons sent to war, especially if borrowed money is needed for wartime pay.
Washington reports the federal government spent more than 380 billion dollars in the fiscal year ending today, with war costs at about 71.5 billion. Nonwar and debt costs ran near 6.4 billion, while RFC and CCC operations posted losses around 2.1 billion versus a 5.041 billion budget gap. Government outlay roughly five billion under the original budget, totaling about 80 billion, far above last year yet below the planned 80 billion to 109 billion for the coming year.
The revenue collectors fell short by nearly 1 billion while posting a record high in total receipts surpassing 12 billion dollars the previous year. The shortfall was blamed on many taxpayers paying only minimum quarterly installments on March 15 and June 15 instead of full year payments. The year’s deficit funded by war bonds and drove the public debt from about 76 billion to over 140 billion dollars.
London dispatch says Gestapo forces machine gunned 180 Dutch Jews in Turak Poland and burned the town, following the Lidice atrocity.
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