The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1913-06-07
BOOSTS AND SLAMS
ON CURRENT EVENTS
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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VOUNG, Mr.. Rockefeller, resting
= from his labors in searching for
the cause and cure Of commercial
lied vice, repaired to the Sunday
school of the Baptist church, where
he is erfntendent. s@.ssS + a4s-,3
Urging upon the Bible class the
efficacy of prayer, superintendent
Rockefeller was moved to the rapt-
urous exclamation: Think Of the
great sums paid to lawyers and doc
tors for advice! Then reflect that the
advice Of God is free" .
1t is g. beautiful thought, COM
n1ents the Milwaukee Leader. Gods
advice Is free, excepting where eccle-
siastics and stheologians have organ
lied a religious trust, and by elm
mating competition, fixed monopoly
prices. If one desires to appeal di-
rectly to his maker, the cost is moth
ing and Bibles are to be had in any
language very cheaply.
When God created the earth ana
the fullness thereof, He created It
for the benefit of man. It is tue that
a Justice Of the supreme court of
Wisconsin, since retired, expressed the
opinion that the citizen who obtains
title to surveyed portions Of the
world has an inherent right therein,
and that many of our conservative
Journals, including The Sentinel, have
rallied at the vice president for hav-
Ing asserted that the privilege to de-
wise and bequeath and inherit Is
created by law and is not natural
or inherent right, but the assumption
is strong, nevertheless, that the in
herent right to the earth lies in the
race rather than in the Individual.
In it's natural state, the earth is as
free to mankind as Gods advice. But
think Of the great sums of money we
have to pay to Mr. Rockefeller Tor oil!
Then reflect. When we pay the doc
tor and lawyer for advice, at least
they give us something OF their own
creation. They have not fenced in
anything Of Gods that was free.
...::ra -.o- .
AFTER THE COAL TRUST.
EROM Washington comes the well
Il come news that the administra-
ton is going after the so-called hard
coal trust.
Those reports say that Attorney
General McReyholds is to start three
suits against coal companies and coal
roads to- enforce the commodities
clause, to break the combination and
to try to give the people a chance.
This is indeed, good news. The
II o+t rYf0 -
''get" that gigantic mbfnation have
been futile-indeed it has seemed -
it there was no earnestness in going
after any of the big corporations that
really hurt the consumers. Now +
the Wilson administration can DO
what the Taft and Roosevelt admin
istration failed ingloriously to do
break that trust and give that great
necessity to the people at reasonable
prices-it will win tho good will and
favor of the people regardless Of the
tariff bill -. sav>sz. . E4<zs#55ss-*A .~-:z
It IL unnecessary, TO repeat all the
iniquities Of the hard coal trust. Not
only does it fix prices almost d year
In advance, control output and, on the
plea of the cost of g. strike and high
er wages, advance prices SO it makes
27,OOO,0OO For itself while paying
only $4,000, 900 of the advance to it's
workers, but it. is charged with doing
much to Influence the Republican ad-
ninistrations to adopt an alleged
conservation policy that has proved to
be a great injustice to Alaska and the
west, solely because it does not want
competition.
As said before, il the present adj
ninistration can break 1t once and
for all, and bring about conditions in
the hard coal market that will give
the people that great necessity at
more reasonable prices, q great serv-
ice will be done.
HAYWOOD AND HIS BLUFF.
G. IMPLY as a matter Of record, 30
~ that future generations need not
| misdirect their energy In searching
! for the facts, it should be noted that
| the general strike ordered by w. D.
Haywood for Patterson, N. j., last
week Monday and then postponed un-
| til Monday, according to reports, was
just as effective as the general school
strike few weeks previously or the
| national strike called by the same
gentleman during the Lawrence con-
test, or a few other similar walkouts
that were announced by him from
time to time, says the Cleveland CIT
izen. ~ .-.- 81. Re-
It has become a fixed habit with
! Haywood to order working people by
the thousands to cease work when
| ever somethinE C1ispleases him, and
1t has become equally the unvarying
! custom. Of these workers to. do aa
they please after taking orders from
the mighty man, who. true enough.
manages to thrust himself Is the fore
after strikes are begun by workers
! driven. desperate BY capitalistic OPP
pression. But that ii usually the end
OF the strike, let alone in increase
Of it, size: and power. l., 4. ~. -
Nevertheless, considering the
strikes as 4 whole II, which Haywood
officiates and regretting the unspeak-
| able suffering to which many work