The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1912-02-22
IS AGAINST UNIONS
U. s. STEEL DIRECTOR SAYS DE.
MAND FOR CLOSED SHOP
is A MONOPOLY.
MEMBERS WERE AIDED
BY the Agricultural Department by
the Loan Of Experts to Accom-
pany Them on Campaign
Tours.

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Washington, d. C.-Percival Rob-
erts, Jr., a director of the U. S. Steel
corporation, told the Stanley steel in
pany would like to see labor unions
under the same government control as
corporations. Trade unions in this
country he denounced as "un-Ameri.
can"
Il see no reason Mr.. Roberts said.
why men should not combine to dis
pose of their labor just as men com
bine to use capital, provided that both
are under government control and that
full liability is imposed on labor or,
CARNATIONS for all their undertakings
and that neither side has any monop-
olistic tendencies. The difficulty with
labor organizations is that their re-
quirement is. monopolistic. They de-
mand the. closed shop, which is q
monopoly, and there is no law in this
country to prevent the closed shop.
Neither is there any law providing
liability upon labor unions regarding
contracts"
Mr.. Roberts made an exception of
railroad labor organizations, which, he
said, were entirely different from the
manufacturing organizations.
Says Congressman Were Aided.
The house inquiry into the Florida
Everglades vas enlivened by testi-
mony to the effect that the depart
ment of agriculture in times past had
sent some of it's experts on campaign
tours with congressman seeking re-
election.
j. o. Wright, formerly in the de-
partment, but now chief drainage en-
gineer of the state of Florida, called
to explain his reports on the Ever
glades, said that in 1908 he was de-
tailed to accompany Representative
John H. Small, of North Carolina,
Democrat, to Washington, d. c., dur
ing a campaign. Four other agricul-
tural department employees, he said,
went along. There was an expert on
soils, one on plant industry, a corn
expert and a cotton expert. The gov-
CA pdlu IAC SApCHScb, MI.
Wright said.
Pension Bill Report Is In.
The majority and the minority re-
ports on the Smoot general pension
bill were presented in the senate.
Senator McCumber for the majority
reported that the Smoot bill would
carry an average annual increase of
$106.50 for each pensioner and that
for the first five years of it's opera
tons it would cost the government
respectively $4,000 00, $500, 900
(Which would carry the %arrears), $780,
100000, $54,b00,000 $50,000,000 and
$50, 500, 900.
The minority report signed by Sena-
tors Curtis, Brown, Shively, Poindex-
ter and Johnson favored the Sher.
wood bill on the ground that it would
give to a large body of soldiers a dol
lar q day, while the Smoot bill would
give a dollar only to those who had
served three years o. more and were
70 years old.
Democrats of the house in caucus
Idlll1Cu IhC new NnCIilSdi d IL oSIcu-
ule which is calculated to increase
revenues from chemical imports more
than $4,000, 900 a year.
The bill was approved Just as it
came from the Democrats of the ways
aud means committee. An effort OF
some members to cut down the pro-
posed increases on morphine and 9th.
er habit forming drugs was voted
down. The bill will be reported to
the house on Saturday by Chairman
Underwood.
Hill on Government Control.
James j. Hill remained in Wash.
ington after being excused by the
Stanley steel committee long enough
to state his emphatic opposition to
government regulation of corporations
as proposed by some of the captains
Of industry.
IF the government ever attempts
to regulate prices it will pass out OF
existence he said. 1T will be sue
ceeded by confusion and then an
archy. OF course, we would have an
other government in time.
IF there is any sin in modern day
corporations it is to be found in those
that are organized to sell securities
rather than conduct business. Son.e
corporations are merely for the benefit
of promoters who wan to sell paper
for real money. 1t is important that
the laws dealing with corporations
shall require their capital to be paid
in 100 cents on the dollar. There
should be an assessment once a year
to make certain that the capital is
kept up to the required standard.
THE size of a corporation is not
menacing to the country or the bust
ness of the country. But II prices are
to be controlled by the government
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