◆ SpookStack

ther. It's a Jump from 5 lbs. for 45¢ to 5 lbs. for gag. | called the locat opa and protested in my dest "You can*t do this to me" voice. | was surprised at the answer they qave me. It ran semething like: *tady, you aren*t any more upset than we are. we have appealed to the nase tional oPa to put oranges back on the cottrol list. This whole or.age deal is a oot) crime against the people, rersetrated by the California Fruit ororerg* Exchange, There is really no excuse for the present price of Orences. The =xchance applied heavy rfocsure until they got the ceiling Prices removeo and then they pegged the price up, That's easy for them to “% They*re oractically a monopoly in Catifornia. ney control B58 oF the crange ond Temen acreage in the State® ch ver, # remembered. Fhe Frult Grower’ cxchange is the cent racted selling outlet for orange , growers. Trey cet tne cne price for asg of the Urahzes arewn ‘ia @alttarata, st They tousther with other big manufac- turers, have oces decrying the contro} af orices, arguing thst the law of juprly and demand was the fair control, ‘hey fad assured Chester Bowles that sranae prices would remain low for fore vas mo shortage, But the day after controls were removed the price increased by 97% and still remains up adout S98 even after Florida oranges have been Drought Into the market, ECEMBER 1945 PAGE 12 D FAIR FACTS at orn IED FAIR FACTS INFLATION AT THE BREAKFAST TABLE (Cont. } This ts pare of the entire national Picture of the Withholding of produc- tion untill price ceilings are entirely removed, or until higher prices are granted manufacturers by the OPA. the price - and not strikes ~ {ts what Is holding up your refrigerator, your car, and your. washing machine, Blg busi- hess 1s out to destroy forever the OPA. It ts another way of lowering the Lliy- ing standard, of reducing the real value of yeur wages, of removing all nolds ‘on ousiness, — a Well, Callforn! fFrutt Growers? EX = change, I want you to imow that £ can*. afford to buy oranges at your monopolist, inflated price. what is more, even If cost were not a factor I would not Day oranges now, We did not win a war against fascism only to per~ —~ mit a wild inflatton (of which your action 1s & good bulldup) to send us to the depths of a depressian, the ex- tent of which can only be liked to the horrors of an, atomic war. -_ 1 'don’t know about the: rest of you: readers of Fairfacts, but [ am surely banbarding Senator Downey and the na- tional OPA to return oranges to the control list. Oranges are a g00d Start toward even greater inflation than we have now Next Step might de to remove turnips from the control list. Runaway pricea can threaten cur existence as dangerously as runaway fascist demagogues. Let's make oranges ° our front line of defense in the cur rent price war, ckabe