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The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-02-23
Will
NOT REPUD|ATE
ATLANTIC Il: i PACT
Expect Agreement With Sea.
mems Union For Merchant
Marine viii Be Observed,

WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.-Despite
all the press predictions to the con-
trary, it now appears certain that
President Wilson will stand by the
agreement made by the Shipping
board, the Navy and War departments
last summer with the International
Seamen's union for the manning Of
the emergency fleet and all other
American merchant vessels on the At
1antic during the war;
Andrew Furuseth, president of the
union, conferred with the president
on Feb. II, and gave him a statement
of the folly and wastefulness of try
ing to man these ships with naval re-
serves He showed that it would waste
man-power, cargo-space. and the skill
and the loyal enthusiasm of the IS per
cent OF the mariners who could not
be enlisted in the naval reserve.
Furuseth made no>reference to Sec
retary Redfield except to quote Red
fields hostile Interpretation of the
language clause of the Seamen's act.
The president is consulting with Sec
retaries Daniels, Baker and Wilson,
and with Chairman Hurley of the
Shipping board on the whole situa-
ton. Meantime, the commercial in
terests that are trying to kill off any
government operation of ships after
the war, are yelling that the Seamen's
union is 40 per cent alien," and hence
should not be trusted to operate the
governments ships.
The seamen's representatives from
both coasts were heard on the .ques-
tion, Thursday, by the house commit
tee on naval affairs. The five or six
members Of the committee who at
tended were apparently unfriendly, to
the seamen. Whatever the president
decides to do, in the long run, will be
accepted by congress-. ...
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-02-23

Business as usuar' is an impossi-
BILE idea. Every interest of every in
dividual in the warning nations is in
some degree affected by war condi-
tiOns. The business of the nation has
become of paramount Importance
That business is to make war, and to
make war in such a way that there
shall be less danger of future wars.
Success in that purpose depends upon
efficiency. Efficiency is conditioned
by material resources and ability to
utilize those resources in the most ef-
fective manner with all elements. con-
cerned working in tho relations in
which they can best use their per.
sonal ability
: Organization for the business of
war becomes heir to many of the evils
and mistakes of organization for
peace. In time of peace, when there
was present no actual menace Of ply
sical danger, other things were
thought more important than the de-
termination of wisest plans and
methods. Because it was possible to
muddle through in some way and Sc
cure apparently satisfactory results,
the nations business was m re or less
neglected for the business of indivi-
duals. In private business the guild
ing principle has generally been indi-
vidual profit Individual profit may
mean national waste. Organization
for war is dependent primarily upon
effective management, and bring out
in a startling manner mistakes and
stupidity of peace times.
In order to organize for war we
have tofind out what was wrong with
the organization of peace, and have
had to open many closet doors con-
ceahng industrial skeletons Unless
we needlessly sacrifice the lives of
many soldiers and sailors and endan. .
ser the success Of the whole war
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MANY COMPENSATION
CASES ARE HANDLED

ST. PAUL, Minn., Feb. 21.-The
volume of compensation work han
died by the State Labor department
shows no signs of decreasing, accord
ing to the report for January just
made public. During this month 50
new cases and 12s old ones were taken
care of by employees of the depart
ment. In the course of the work 189
Investigations and conferences were
required. Three court orders for
additional medical allowances were
secured and three cases were con-
tested in court.
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through failure in production, we
shall have to open many more doors
and disclose existing evils, and listen
to many voices long ignored telling the
story of Industrial inhumanity.,
The first outstanding problems were
control, over, food supplies and trans
portation. Legislation to eliminate
speculative prices in food essentials
and to facilitate equitable distribution
of supplies was early enacted by con-
gress.
Under existing practices transporta-
ton had become seriously congested
Antitrust legislation had prevented
railroads from pooling their resources
and combining roads into a. continent
tai system. To secure some measure
of protection against railroad greed
legislation prescribing these restric-
tions had been enacted. Y Time and
time again the attention of the ma
TONS legislators had been called to
the necessity of formulating q nation
al railroad policy that would enable
the country to secure the best service
and at the same time prevent exploit
tation. Consideration of this diff
cult problem had been deferred, from
time to time until war necessity forced
immediate action. : Movement of
troops, war supplies in addition to the
needs of the civil population make a
continental system an. imperative ne
cessity. The president took ove-: the
railroads and appointed a director
general. = r., +
The coal situation has also convict
ed federal legislators Of lack of vision
and inactivity. The fuel problem
would not be so serious If :: -ovisions
had been made for utilizing natural
power found all over the country.
In the labor situation we find the
I. results of stupidity in autocratic
power. As the labor problem has now
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SHOULD JAIL ship!
PRoF|IEE|Rs, Il Il ! SAYS
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SEN.: vARDAMAN
Indifference Of Labor Due to
Grating By Capitalists,
Asserts .So|on.

WASHINGTON Feb. 21-If ship
building labor were indifferently in
these times it would be the logical re-
suit of policy Of flag-waving pa
triots who have robbed the govern
ment through ship deals, declared
United States Senator Vardaman, in
denouncing -scandalous conditions at
Hog Island, near Philadelphia.
IF labor lags," said the law maker,
"and if wilfully done, it is highly rep
rehensible. But am inclined to think
that the conduct which .manifests
feeling of indifference to results on
the part of the >laboring man is due
very largely to the grating, the mer-
cenary, the criminal profiteering on
the part Of capital, the possessors of
which vie with each other in their lip
service to the government. While
these patriots for pelf are standing in
the limelight of publicity, proclaim
ing to do and to die if need be for the
flag, they are receiving enormous
profits from agencies which they
themselves had put into operation and
which are concealed from public view
II have no sympathy with the prop
osition to conscript labor. If the in
genuity displayed in the matter of de-
vising ways and means to get money
out of the public treasury which has
been shown by some of these pluto
cratic patriots of the Hog Island en-
terprise was displayed in the matter
of building ships, we would have had
an entire fleet constructed by this
time
Would Stimulate Patriotism.
The speaker insisted that If some
of these profiteers were Jailed it would
stimulate patriotism. - -.
The matter referred to by Senator
Vardaman is the result OF an inves-
tigation into the affairs of the Ameri-
can International ship building cor
poration, which undertook the Hog
Island shipbuilding contract with the
understanding that the government
was to furnish the money and the cor
poration was to receive profits ap-
proximating $6,000,000 for possessing
the "know how of ship yard and ship
construction. --. 80 3,
= The American international cor
poration, of which the Ame1ican in
ternational ship building corporation
is a subsidiary, ID officered by c. A.
Stone Of Stone & Webster. president.
and Frank A. vanderlip, New York
banker, chairman Of the board Of di-
rectors. 1t is shown that these men
know nothing OF shipbuilding, no more
than do these other men OF the board
OF directors: VI ss -s >.*:
So - z,-s - s
J. Ogden Armour, meat packer:
VIM. q Cory, steel magnate; Theo-
dore N. Vail, teleph ma agnate, and
Otto II. Kahn and James a. stillman,
bankers. rs ssss
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PUBLIC |SL0SER
IN RAIL CON NT|||R|0I[|,,,,,:>: :: +.
CUMMINS STATES
People Loan Money to U. S. at
4 Per Cent Roads Draw
10 to 20.

WASHINGTIN, Feb. Ex-senator
Cummins, Republican, Thursday again
attacked the proposed standard of
compensation for the government con-
trolled railroads, which he declared
excessive by $20O,0OO,000.
While the public is being asked to
loan money to the government at 4
per cent, it is proposed in the bill, he
said, to guarantee to railroad secur-
ity holders returns ranging from 10
to 20 per cent-a "monstrous pro-
posal.'
In opposing the bill Cummins de-
clared he was actuated only by pa
triotic motives and would yield if he
knew the president knew more about
compensation than the senators. He
added many members of tho senate
have passed years studying the trans
pOrtatlOn question.
Cummins approved President Will
sons action in taking over control of
the railroads, but said it should have
been done sooner.
He deplored the uncertaint. which
he said now prevails among the rail-
roads of the country: over the ques-
ton as to what roads have been TAX
en- over, the status of the. 100000
persons employed in the operation of
these properties, and of the millions
Of dollars now being paid into the
various railroad treasures.
Employees End Testimony.
Representatives of union and un-
! organized labor who were asked to
present reasons for increased pay to
the railroad, wage commission COM
pleted their testimony Ind the COM
mission adjourned subject to call of
the chairman, Secretary Lane. Wit
nesses called by the commission in it's
independent investigation are now
being heard.
Recommendations. to be made by
the commission will concern only
! wages and hours, Secretary Lane told
James A. Hennessey, who asked that
stewards, who work about 13 hours
be placed under the eight-hour law
and that $3.50 month instead of $100
to $125, be paid.
Union molders on the Southern rail-
way asked an increase of 33 1-3 per
cent.
w. G. Ebey, Hamlet, NJ c., said
train dispatchers should be paid from
$2l5 to $235 a month instead of $3.50
to SITS.
Negro helpers and laborers of the
southeastern district asked a 20 per
cent increase,
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become largely a national problem, an
essential element has been emphasized
more clearly than ever before-that
all elements concerned have RESPONSE
bilities. ..>.-.
When all parties concerned in the
problem attempt to deal with it in
full realization Of their: responsibility
more equitable solutions will be grad
ually worked out, but it must be al
ways remembered that this is a COM
mon problem in which both workers
and employers are concerned, and in
which both must have a. determining
voice. A satisfactory working adjust
ment can be reached only when rep
resentatives of all parties s-,sit around
the table to discuss their common
problems on terms Of equality.
The same principle which our ma
tion is fighting to establish in interna-
tional relations must exist in indus
trial relations at home. There must be
a basis of justice for all whether weak
or strong. ( = t.t~
It may be that the Christening ex-
periences of war were necessary to
make US heed these weaknesses ine ma
tional organization and. to make us
search out the master facts Of life.
These are voices warning us against
achievements secured through waste,
against ill-based concepts of relations
between man and man which reward
exploitation. They direct the way to-
ward paths of peace, human justice,
and a: new freedom. 49, .-.,.S
America is at the dividing Of the
way between the old aad the new
where the determining standard is
service. The world is suffering the
travail and pain for, a new birth for
Justice. freedom. and humanity
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SOUTHERN PACIFIC WILL
NEED NO RATE INCREASE:
MAKES OVER $34,000,00o

CHICAGO, Feb. 21.-The Southern
Pacific railroad made $34,S22,197 net
earnings in 1917, an increase of $13,-
o30,9S1 over the net income for 1915.
The corporations excess war profits
for 1917, that is, profits over and
above those made in average pre-war
years, were $11,665,969. Senator La
Follette's proposal to tax excess war
profits so per cent would have yielded
the government $9,332,776 to carry
on the war. This excess profit now
goes to. the stockholders.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-02-23
MARE ISLAND SETS NEW
SHIP BUILDING RECORD

WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.-A new
/. record in ship construction was an
nounced Friday by Secretary Daniels
on advices from Mare Island that the
United States steamer Taylor was sue
cessfully launched after having been
66 per cent completed within four
months after the laying of the keel
The shortest time in which warship
ever was constructed before the war
was 20 months, the secretary said, and
the average time two years.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-02-23
IRON WORKERS WIN,

MONTREAL, Que, Feb. 21.-Over
500 structural iron workers employed
by the Dominion Bridge company
have won their strike for better con-
ditions. The solidarity of these en-
ployes forced tie company to abandon
former antagonisms.
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Wanted Uniform Scale. :. .>
The boilermakers. machinists and
the rest Of the crafts took 4 chance
on negotiation with the government,
and on: arbitration Of their demands.
The first award made to men in the
yards on the Pacific coast was -un-
satisfa ctory, and the protest raised
against 1t brought about an upward
revision of the wage scale. Then
there was proposed a scheme Of 1fix-
ing standard wage rate for each
'shipbuilding region in the country
ten of them-and this scheme is still
supposed to be in process of being
carried out. Yet since the carpenters
membership in, various plants had
gone on strike it is said that the
labor adjustment board Of the. Ship
ping board is going to set a wage
scale that will apply throughout the
whole country. This seems to be
what the carpenters were fighting
for. >-,
To the extent that the carpenters
are demanding that the government
take over the shipyards and empoy
the men on its own account, they are
in line with a rapidly growing agita-
ton throughout the East There is
deep Indignation, everywhere, against
the big-business magnates who have
earned the nickname of 'tHogiteers'
through their attempt to graft huge
profits from the wasteful: and in ef-
ficient Hog Island shipyard venture.
Want Public Control.
President Wilson has ordered the
a.
Hog Island graft. with a view. to Grim
1na1 prosecutions. But the govern
ment is still not employing the men
In the yards, and the carpenters dis
covered that the chance Of getting a
union agreement with the "Hogiteers''
in other parts of the East is unfavor-
able. So they join the cry that is
coming from the general public, out
ragged at the inefficiency and graft
THUS far revealed, that the yards shall
be taken into direct public control
and operation. -: :,
Two other things have to be re-
membered in connection. with this
strike. One is the, resentment Of
every trade union man at the de-
cision by the United States supreme
court in the United Mine Workers
case, that unions have no right to at
tempt to: organize men in, non-upion
plants who are under personal con-
tract. They feel that this decision sis
not only unjust but intolerab1e.
Differ on Closed Shop.
The agreement of, the wage adjust
ment board adopted last Saturday,
providing for an increase in wages,
definite working conditions and over
time pay for all shipyard workers in
the so-called Delaware yards, com
prising about 50 per cent of ship
workers on the Atlantic coast, al
though not affecting the striking car
penters, is expected to exert a. ben
eficial influence. >.-. ~
The only irreconcilable difference
in. the dispute between the carpenters
organization and the Shipping board
is the closed shop. S
J The government is! preparing to
!: launch a. program to prevent future
walkouts. TX n
The policy followed will be general
wage increases, q basic eight-hour
day, time and a half overtime on reg
ular week days, double time on. holi-
days and Sundays ana the open or
closed shop to be maintained accord
ing to conditions prevailing in the
shops before the war. -.
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OPERATORS STRIKE.

COLLINSVILLE, ILL.,. Feb. 21.-Un-
organized girl operators, employed by
the Bell Telephone. company have sus-
pended work to secure better condi-
tions. S%.l"
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STRIKE CAUSES MEAT WASTE

SEATTLE, Feb. 21.-Federal meat
inspectors have condemned several
truck loads Of hams, and nearly 100
beef carcasses because of improper
dressing by strikebreakers employed
in the Frye and other packing plants.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-02-23
CITY FIREMEN UNITE.

OAKLAND, CAL, Feb. e1.-Munici-
pal firemen have formed a union and
affiliated with the A. F. of L.
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REFLECTS HIGH LIVING COST

1tEFIECIS HIGH LIVING COST
WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.-The in
creased cost of living is reflected in
a deficiency estimate of $736,723 for
the national soldiers homes, submit
ted to congress: by the Wan depart
ment. >:-as.# as. .>,sF,. A.
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Commissions Recommendations.

Commissions Recommendations.
/. While competent former en-
oloyes are available, the Twin City
Transit company should not take men
rom the farms or war industries.
.. The Twin City Rapid Transit
company should not employ men now
engaged in other industries while
available and competent ment just as
skilled are idle.
3. The company should prefer en-
oloyment Of men skilled to those who
nave had no training in this particu-
ar line.
4. The company should not dis
;riminate against any of the men be-
cause of union affiliations.
- 5. All Of the men should go back
% work with their old standings
(This in substance reiterates the rul-
ing of the public safety commission.
g.. The former employees of the
Twin City Rapid Transit company
should offer themselves for reinstate-
ment by the company as rapidly as
vacancies occur.
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Want Group Reinstatement.

"ufV UIUUP ItcI1Istdt11ncHI'
ST. PAUL, Feb. 21.-Members of
the St. Paul local of union carmen,
meeting Friday afternoon in special
session to consider the report and re-
Communications of President Wilson'S
labor mediation board on the Twin
City car trouble, unanimously voted
mot to return to work unless the
street car company reinstated the
union men in a body.
It was the contention of the union
men that they were locked" out in
a body on Nov. 25 by the company
and should be reinstated in a bunch.
Evening journal., 1918-07-27

turned out in three days. Uniforms.
shells, bombs, alrplanes, shoes. are
pouring to the sesboard to be moved
across TO France.
America Is letting nothing interfere
with the winning Of the war. She Is
accepting the advice Of the most ex-
perienced European leaders. The allies
are giving America all credit for what
she is doing, but President Wilson. al,
though hailed as the worlds leader in
ststesmsnship, is pronting by every
failure Of the allies, and Yankee genius
is taking the view that II has many
things TO learn. It is cocksure onaonly
one polnt-that the war must be won
Evening journal., 1918-07-27
Just One "SOldierS'
Home" if1 All Canada!

he may be sent into a technical school
maintained by the department, or pri-
vately-owned shop or factory, and kepl
under careful supervision by vocational
officers.
He is paid for his work and his fam
lily is also maintained during the period
Of his instruction and for a month aft
erward. In addition, he gets his pen
sion whether he consents TO take train
ing or not. His artificial limb or other
appliance is maintained free OF charge.
II he needs further hospital care the
department furnishes II free.
When his training is completed the
department helps him get job. Thou
sands Of employers are listed by the
department as giving preference to dis
abled re-educated men. Dominion, pro
vincial and municipal governments give
them preference In civil service employ
ment.
In many cases the man earns more
than he did before his disability.
One man, a farmer, lost a leg; now
he is an expert farm tractor operator.
His knowledge OF farming added to his
newly knowledge OF mechanics
makes him twice as valuable as he was
before.
Low paid laborers, who have lost
legs, get courses In English, civil serv-
ice, commercial work, mechanical draft
ing, arithmetic and take Jobs as clerks,
stenographers, bookkeepers,
earning more money than
before they were disabled
Another disabled man, a Greek, who |
could neither read nor write last jan
lary. has learned TO read and write |
English very well and expects soon to
open his own fruit business.
Evening journal., 1918-07-27
BY FREDERICK NJ. KERRY
ne. A. STAR Correspondent.


OTTAWA, Ont. July 27.-There Il
only one soldiers home in all Canada
and it has accommodation for 80 In.
mates, but there are only 20 men In IL
That IS the way Canada has solved
the problem Of the returned ano
wounded soldler-the problem Americs
soon must face in a four or six times
multiplied form.
"All the handicapped man needs is the
kind Of job he is best fitted for and the
training to Mt him into it," says 2. II
Scanned, secretary Of the new depart
ment Of soldiers civic re-estsblishment
THAT Is our job. We don't want
soldiers homes; we want civilians
homes"
This new Dominion government de,
partment is one Of the most remarkable
machines ever made. Into one end Of
II are fed disabled fighters from the
Canadian forces overseas, and from the
other end they emerge able-bodled, fine
men, capable Of resuming
their places in the social and indus
trial life of the country.
Since the beginning OF the war ap-
26,0O0 invalided soldiers
have been returned to Canada Every
man was met at the dock and inter-
viewed by a representative Of this de-
partment Tor its predecessor. the mill
tary hospitals commission) to get all
the facts about his previous work, edu-
cation and mental and industrial status.
The first job is TO get the returned
nan physically well, or as nearly so
Is possible. II he has lost an arm or
eg, or both, physical reconstruction
ZONES first His artificial arm or les
S fitted with view 10 his future place
n civil life.
As soon as he is able 10 SIT up in bed
sometimes before that-light bedsld,
work is given him both for its value
n helping on the cure, and as a start |
I vocational training When the man
J out OF bed this preliminary training |
increased. Workshops covering |
very imaginable kind OF occupation,
art OF the military hospitals help TO
sgain the power OF lost muscles, or
zach artificial arms. legs or feet the
ork formerly done by natural ones.
AS soon as the military surgeons and
,ctors have done their best for him.
e soldier comes under the sole Gus
dy Of the new department. Then. II
} has agreed to follow the vocational
education course prescribed for him.
Evening journal., 1918-07-27
THIS NAVAL OFFICER
JUST LOVES THE SEA!
INV Newspaper Enterprises Assn

IBY newspaper tnterprIse MSS nlI
LONDON, July 27.-Here's the latest
American naval yarn. a naval officer
was asked what he was going to do
when the war was over He replied
I'm going ashore and buy an oar,
put u on my shoulder, and start to
walk inland. When / reach a place
where a man stops me and says: What
the hell's thst7' ! Gm going TO settle
down there for life