Denver labor bulletin., 1918-08-31
PUTTING FORWARD WORLD FREEDOM

be turned into another channel of pro-
test.
Possibly more effective means of
dealing with anti-democratic bosses
can be found than have ever yet been
developed. The war labor board, for
instance. has shown that n boss can
be publicly discredited and made ridic-
ulous, and the workers can be officially
formed into sort Of vigilance society
to protect industrial justice in the
plant. And with each step taken in
educating the bosses, the labor move
ment discovers more Of its own abil-
ity to run things on n cooperative
basis.
Run Roller Over EN-.
Up in Minneapolis there is n steel
company that has denied its employees
the right to organize. The war labor
board has investigated. The local
agent of the Burns detective agency
made an appointment with Organizer
Abbey Of the Machinists. leader Of the
strike, and tried to buy him off. The
company has the backing of the en-
ployers and the political gangsters in
Minneapolis and st. Paul, while the
workers have the backing Of the Min
nesota labor movement and the Or
gnnized farmers, who are becoming
an biE POWtI III tilat ItkiOu. Al uu0
time the war labor board will roll that
company out very fat. Industrial de-
mocracy will be established in Minne-
apolis, even in the steel industry.
Meanwhile, the company officials are
trying to excuse bad war materials
turned out by their scab force by say
ing that the government inspectors
Of the work are 'pro-German"
Post Coming to Denver.
This Minneapolis situation, and
some others of general interest to the
department of labor. will come under
the eye Of Assistant Secretary Louis
+. Post, during trip around the coun-
try which he began this week. Ac-
companied by his private secretary,
Hugh Reid Of Chicago, Mr.. Post goes
to Seattle, then to San Francisco and
Los Angeles, and come eastward along
the Mexican border. Later he will
be in Denver and in Minneapolis.
On the Pacific coast and along the
border he will be chiefly concerned
with immigration and deportation
matters. He will also take up with
the local officials Of the United States
employment service the problem of
seasonal labor supply during the war,
and the application Of the rule against
employment in non-essential indus
tries.
Packers Have Society Lobbyist.
Mr.. Post has been the leader of the
development which has wiped out the
whole system Of private employment
agencies in the United States, and has
pooled our man-power for the period
Of the war. II he had his way, the
dollar-power would be pooled in much
the same way, and the profiteering
which the federal trade commission
and the treasury reports have recently
disclosed would be killed off in an
hour.
Speaking Of profiteers brings up
the question Of the big meat packers
once more, just as the word monopoly
used to bring up the names Of Stand
ard Oil and Rockefeller. The federal
trade commission has shown that the
government must run the Wholesale
meat selling houses, as well as the big
stockyards, II tho packers are to be
controlled. The packers are increas-
ing their expensive lobby in Washing
ton to prevent any action by Con-
gress to bring this about. Their chief
lobbyist Is in the society columns Of
the papers almost every day, with en-
tertainments given to big politicians
and to officials Of various kinds. The
families that pay the excess profits
on meat are not giving these dinner
parties to men who can put the brakes
on Congress.