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I Le 8 (i) I also pointed out that from the country stores this lack ot buying At that time, I pointed out that this reaction generally started in small country stores, where farmeri refused to buy, or.' bought in limited quanti- ties, the high' priced manufactured goods, after the price of their own farm products had fallen in the mar- ket y - . An Unavoidable Result. h In these co'umuns I recently spoke ot the reaction that often comes when the price ot manufactured goods has been forced to a high level 'by the excessive cost ot raw material and labor. t r",g/" who will continue to carry on a first-class business. We wish to thank our many customers for their splendid patronage and trust that game patronage will be given' the new firm. All accounts now owing, must be paid hot later than August 20th. Issued every Wednesday from the Oak Streets, Grimsby. THE PEOPLE'S PAPER JAS. A. LIVINGSTON a us. t . M. Steivart Drug Co. Limited TWO MESSRS. IRVIN & McFARLANE, OF HAMILTON A WELL DRESSED YOUNG MAN h THE INDEPENDENT They mrk M. D. E. KITCHING & co: PHONE 3 S2 The Furniture and naturally and form no habits 0 'txoXtxexqyE)CoXoDCoDCoDCeM9)ti', 3etReetCRyRRrkétCRétété1ti1e 0'" 000000 q q A been taken over by Member Canadian Weekly Newspaper‘ Association. Member Selected Town Weeklies oCOntario. naturally anthrifi no habits, JAS. A. LIVINGSTON, General Manager J. A. M. LIVINGSTON, Business Manager J. ORLON LIVINGSTON, Editor TO THE PUBLIC Grimsby Funeral Dealers and Undertakers GRIMSBY LES PAPER ESTABLISHED 1886 LIVINGSTON & SONS, Owners and Publishers. GRIMSBY, ONT. TELEPHONE 36 Undertaking Busine W‘- We feature the latest fashion ideas and choicest patterns. Each suit is insured by its perfect work- manship. _Giveu 's a Clothes. that' we sell appreciate good Clothes. The best obtainable fabrics, skilled tailoring and experienced supervision are all points in the _ This enormous manufacturing con.- cern closed down its works a short time ago and issued a statement to Little did I think, when I was writ- ing that article, that within a few days my words would be proven true by the closing (town of one of the largest manufac uring industries in the Ilorninion,ot Canada,---' Mas- sey-Harris Company of Toronto. spread to the larger city stores, then to the wholesale houses, and finally back to the manufacturers where goods would pile up on their shelves until they would he forced to stop manufacturing, or at least limit their output. Office of Publishers, Main and They. work natmalfy and . form nahabie, Ontario CLOTHING trial when in need ot MAIN STREET conducted bv t)l , CE t 6) (i) ii) G 8 It was not, therefore, the high price of the implements that stopped him, . The price of all these goods, during the early part of 1921, went so low that they bumped the V farmer thor- oughly and brought him.to his senses ---and consequently he immediatly commenced to retrench and the result was the falling off in the pUrchases of farm machinery. In the fall of 1920 and the early winter of 1921,conditions did not im- prove tor the farmers, for; the very articles which appeared as it they were going to hold to their high standard of prices dropped-and these were pork, butter, eggs, hay and potatoes. C In 1920 not only were there" shox crops in many lines, but prideis. be gen to decline and decline consistem 1y until almost all farm l product were back to normal conditions, whil the price of manufactured articles -re mained as high, or went higher, tha ever. This condtion continued into 19 when the manufacturing. indugtri all got back to their legitimatetms ness of making farm implements, ‘ai although the, prices were veryhttth ti farmers, still with plenty ot ‘mone continued to buy and ‘pay tht his prices; but it took 1920 to bring'the to their senses. ‘ a shortage of farm 1yiletg,r,ti; was more the result of , sup (rtit of cash in the hands ot the farmer brought about by the fact that, fa products had advanced in price fr fifty to two hundred per cent, In 1917 and 1918 and. part oti,1 there was a dearth of farm in! Tents-npr implements eou1irattar 1y be obtained at any price, 'oa count of the tact that the big 1mm facturers had turned'their attent to the making of war Pf,t,ni'tliu: the result was that even old and S ond-hand farm implements advam rapidly in price and often sold 'for high as new implements had form ly cost. , 't I No one but a deep studenw - economics of farm produietiiii lation to the manufacturing . implements can realize the; ing condtipns which has; about a state of affairs su , . exists. .) q ten have bought when the 011 have, and consequently 't kept the manufacturers' mec- busy at high Wages, turi ng 10‘ plements for the farme when tarmers' themselves of n Itt pinch and scratch to pa for P/ priced implements which tpt?, bought on credit. -q Farmers, as cautious or ty intr--rthey are over.bu¥, on' it credit which the nacf may.“ many ag freely t1 The real cause is his inabi buy, along with his vision of" ture which appears to hing? present time, to be very dad It is not the c.autiousness, farmer-it is not his desim stingy or eeonomieal--it lsr desire to worry along with implements instead of gett ones,"--), it is "not any) things which prevented the . 1921 from buying jug; as' he did in 1919 on 1919. i t By a close analysis of ca i feet, I have come to the l, that it was not the slight a the price dt farm implem stopped the selling of them, er words stopped the tar buying-the real cause liet fact that the farmers' buyl has been practically reduce. hundred per cent in the g years. . 'l, And thus the capital ' the Massey-Harris Compani tain a very severe bump bd tions right themselves and turing can be carried on " ‘ normal, or nearly normal,1 the difference in price between 1920 and 1921 that it would really mere nothing in the lit --yet the farmers tsirmi and the Company's war where, are full not on] tut ot othér farm imp] kinds, unsold, which at held and will eventual] sold away below cost t be gotten rid of at all. The statement poiI ing to the continued 1 material and the con of labor and tran were compelled to at ot their farm imhle: slightly, direr the prit This advance Company deem feet the selling the difference In this statement it was that although a dropping l buying power of the tarma anticipated as early as lad yet the Company had, no td falling off in trade would", ' as to force them to close , in the following July. _ 'NI The reason for this; W shortage of farm ‘im‘ I employees and to uers, as a Yule, are notrf'f Ir IS or econdmical in th , my are, rather, incli _ ' 5, on account of the sy . ' . f. THE 2y2,?ey.iiN-ii'ii'ii.i'uMsBv, ONTARIO W ot transpor *’ to advan I mNement as, tux-lying out farmié when as of! n had to pay for the h tha ont so s1idlll ll" as , slight/ttrd ' it wonky; Ill iPplemiriiii' , 3 on a? A, It [ Iva8ao , amoii)it" 2’: MII fe orttliLii I ply (muggy 5 rehoms, r,8g F, ly 'll',.!)'), T4" “9,1119%; 3:: Bi re tit)) f i , 1y ham , I betore2t bi S outtha. ", 0h a i. or i a - \. i ot 1920 not pxac tatioii, "'il'Uf ‘St November idea that m be So gr'iiiit' their shop's 1bility to f the lib he prices for 1921, at the eith‘er 111 and lore of- not It, la' j n d 0 If these, people rettrce to buy the high priced labor arid the high priced raw materiel, the manutacturirig of them must cease eventually-toe-se the law of supply and demand has en- tered and forced a stoppage of pro-. duction' because ‘there had been a Every mechanic who enters a shop in the morning should realize that the price for the high priced raw material and the high priced labor that he is putting into a\manufactured article nfust'eoartrom Somewhere- and that the only place thae it can come from is the pocket ot the con.- sumer; the pockets of the great mass- es ot the people. Tturgreat" thing that employers and employees should seek to bring about is the, readjustment of prices, not on- ly ot raw material, labor and trans- portation, but of brains-so that all of our people may be,kept busy,, and that a' panic may be averted-because a man is far better working at an ordinary wage than he is walking the streets idle, hoping for an extraor.. 'dinary wage. "This condition brings about a new state of affairs-mlm men cease to work' either through a strike or through being laid off by their em- ployers, they swell the ranks of the unemployed; and then there comes a time when men, in desperation. come to the conelusion that they must have work, let the 'pay be what it will. So that the men will be forced to faces'aisituation like this-wages are high we know they" are high, but they areinone too high to meet the require- ments of mechanics and laboring men in their desire to live properly and o Thus we will have before us, in Canada, for the next year or more, a 'gtruggle between two classes of mechanics and laboring men-one class willing to continue. work at a reducecl rate, lost-another, class stand- ing’out tor' the continuance', of .the presént high wages. It it were only the matter ot the opinion of the one class against the Symon of the other class, there is no doubt that the opinion of those stand- in out for higher' wages would win-- bu: the_la.w ot supply and demand corks in and complicates the prob- lenLV . right; but ithay come to a choice of work at high wages or .no work at all; i, If he is prepared, in his own mind, 'tt accept a smaller wa.ge, he has not the freedom to dd so-he must take in tisuonsideration his fellow mechanics, and as' he and all his fellow mechan- ics are bound together in a union, the whole union must come to the conclusion to accept reduced wages, or r'wages cannot be reduced. 'i', lt the farmer declinds to buy a bin-l; (dir, or a plough, it is his own busi-.l Bless" and nobody comes to him and! gays 'Ybu. must buy'; but with the] mechanics it' is entirely different. ' This brings the working men and here we come to broblem of all--.., br'::13h,e farmers hhvir, by their action in 'thiftrt,hg to buy, safeguarded them- ltfItisst to a certan extent-mo doubt .myfwill by economy ind frugality in gilt','?,),:)?) strive tty further safe- gjlajrd thermse1ges. . for a time tpnt-thus the aim of ditions am And if a state ot unemployment ast's long” enough, throughout the ountry,r this class of men who seek mp1oyment at any price, grows in Lumbers so rapidly that it finally ontrols the situation and all rules nd regulations are broken town be- ore the pressure brought against hem. and men will seek work atdow- 1' prices in spit'e of unions or organ- zations of/thy kind. F,itlher.manatactuaterss, as a matter iiitt protection, will cease to apex 'rt, {'3' yet matters have not come to ai, llmirhs, amHt is to be hoped that men‘ ,,11.'use good judgment and endeavor fighting about a remodelling and re- arstruction of conditions so that'the . lttAthand commerce of the country Ill?tr.o, on again without any part of , acommunity suffering severely. l llir22,t-,a, lessened demiind for the {fled mechanic, and the laboring bt; the supply has become so great Brtst,ntm are now, and probably later Jairmgreater numbers will be, walk- lit/tlit, streets in our big cities. a--' &ti' ity" farmers, in turn, cease b'tiringm.psmants.---thus the ttt igis line of goods was Ilh0t"ttie supply. EWtieit the demand ceased, the sup- It 14til1 “continued to Tile up , the 5:31: and the manufacturers had to ‘gltheir shops, thus affecting an- Illlltvr,, great portion of the industrial B.t8iftilmity, the laboring men. _ _, hidemand-for farm products fell [1ilow the supply, thus giving the 'tttiris a small income. FiThmg Itave'.we proven to us once l'iihrts that it is' the immutable law of {ply and demand that governs the fade and commerce ot the whole . " 9! _ a ll When I this condition is brought out the manufacturers will take the IS on the godds manufactured at high ices, will sell them at such prices will create a demand,'and will re- me operations under new conditions d will produce cheaper goods to 11 to the public .who will again mmence buying atithe lower prices. again or operate to a limit veducing the Suppl: bringing about new matter up to the the mechanics, and the most difficult as tar less limited ex- Apply with matter ot _.,:trtiijBusiinessr Directory I to buy lg demand on , O. K. Bond Printing. The Inde- pendent. F. HANSEL L, Dentist ' Ottiee and residence, " Sherman ax enue south, between King and Main streets, and five doors north of the H., G. & B. railway line. Hamilton " . " Ontario , . Dentist ottiee--Corner Main and Mountain Streets, over Canadian. Bank ot Commerce, Office hours--9 to 12, 1.3010 5.30 Phone 127 , Grlmsby, Ontario EPHUNE 239 - - - - - GRrMsBY,ON'r.f,": 'immmmmmummnmmmmmmmmmmummmmmmmmmmmmmmii til G) LE E CE IE F, LE E E O O E LE O O F, E LE O o F O CE r!Pumiumuiumummmmummmmmmmnrrmrmmmmummmmmomm 8 ti) To) ii' Extraction with gas 'Phone 92 for appointmpnt _ Office - - Farrell Block PR. VANCE R. FARRELL DENTIST Phone 36 for O.K.B. Stationery We print 0. K. B. Stationery. toooooooooooo. PHONE 239 Store "Phone 320 BIRDS STORE ', DR. D. CLARK re cheaper this ve We'also carry paints and varnihsuitable for in- terior decorations. Freshen up the wood work and floors with our durable paints in harmonious color- ings and then try restoring some of the worn furni- COAT OF PAINT? HOW ABOUT THE HOUSE Wouldn't a few cans of pain: steps and Vverandah, if the wh need a good preservative NOW DENTAL w they . FARROW of paint improve the doors the whole exterior doesn'; LAND SURVEYOR MacKAY, NgacKAY & PERRIE Dominion Land Surveyors, Ontario Land Surveyors, Civil Engineers James J. MacKay, Ernest G. MacKay, William W. Perrie ' Phone Regent 4766 72 James St. N. - Home Bank Building . Hamilton On real estate security. Both private and company-funds. Valuator for the flamilton Provi'dent , and Loan Soeiety. . 2nsuranee and Real Estate. Office-Brain Street, Grimsby. Phone No. 7 W. B. CALDER Barrister, Solicitor, Notary Public " Federal Life Building Hamilton Barrister, Solicitor, Notary Public Money to loan at current rates - ottiees---Grimsby and Beamsville THE OLD BOYS AND GIRLS ARE COMING HOME Wednesday, August 10th HENRY CARPENTER "Billy the GlassMan" MONEY TO LOAN G. B. McCONACHIE LE GAL Says:- Ontario y 1921