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Consumer activist Stuart Chase was a director of The Labor Bureau 1922-1939, although no articles bear his, or anyone else's, name. (Notes: Labor, Credit, Data as Product.)April 1926 issue (7 p.)
As part of an oblique critique of the consumer culture represented by the serial, the issue includes an article on installment buying (pp. 2-3) of "unproductive luxury goods," with projections of a number of potential dire economic scenarios involving a business depression if easy credit continues and there is no increase in real wages. There is a regular "Review of the Month" (pp. 3-4); two "Wages and the Cost of Living" charts (pp. 3-4), and the admission that "More wage increases were recorded by The Labor Bureau, Inc. during March this year than in any month since June, 1925"; a chart and discussion of "The Job Market" (p. 4); and another on "Production and Sales" (p. 4). The Industrial High Spots feature evaluates economic conditions in several industries: paper and printing, building construction, fuel, iron and steel, railroads, and textiles.
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