The producers news., 1919-11-21

tie, would try to lay. aside their
habits Of a lifetime, as they did
IN North Dakota, to fight the
radicals" And, just as hap
pened in North Dakota, they
would fail to pull together or to
agree upon any policy that
would be effective in rounding
up the vote.
Republicans are quite aware
that they will have to fight out
the issue q tocs sm versus ln.-
gressivism inside their own
ranks next summer; the Demo
c,ats viii Aaya to do the sane.
If the Tory element wins in
both parties, then the progress
sive forces will decide whether
or not to run a third ticket in
the November elections.
But there will be no fusion of
the old parties on q national
basis. The leaders of each are
too sure that their party will
attract the larger proportion of
the conservative vote.
Miss Bondfeld Here
Miss Margaret Bondfeld, one
of the two women leaders of the
National Women's Trade Union
league of Great Britain, who is
here as technical adviser in the
official international labor con-
ference, is mentioned as a prob
able member Of the first Labor
party cabinet, when one is
formed at Westminster. She
has carried her membership card
in the retail clerks union for 25
years, and is equally at home as
a trade union organizer and q
debater on issues Of world poll
ties.
She secured the adoption by
the international congress of
working women, in session here
during the past week, of q reso-
luton demanding that the hun
ger blockade against Soviet Rus
sia be abolished, since it has
brought death to many thous-
ands of innocent women and
children and is unsupported by
any declaration of war.
Carriers Oyerworked
Chicago letter carriers, ac-
cording to reports made to the
national headquarters Of theil
organization here, are now com
PEELED to carry 80 per cent more
pounds of mail per day thar
they did five years ago, while
the number Of men engaged lr
carrying this mail has actually
decreased 4 Pc cent.
It is to management Of this
sort-overloading the men
that they credit the surplus ol
100000 which the parcel pos
service is announced to have
earned during the past year.
, A Farm Atlas
, A remarkable farm atlas Il
, now being prepared in the Office
Of farm management, depart
ment of agriculture. The sec
ton dealing with cotton ha'
) Just been published. It shows
: the soils, water resources, th'
{ past development of acreage IN
: der various conditions, and tn
: character of present condition
: under which the acreage is In
creasing or decreasing in eacl
: locality. It deals also with tn
, tenuncy and racial factors Il
{ cotton growing, and with tn
7 market facilities.
: Similar sections, yet to be is
2 sued, will deal with wheat, corr,
: potatoes anl ot-2c- crops, unles
: congress refuses to supply tn
c necessary funds for the work.
2 Baer Would Take Mines :,
CONGRESSMAN Baer OF Mort
Dakota. who introduced in tn
t house a resolution calling upo
the president to take over tn
coal mines and operate them III
: der voluntary agreement Wit
: the coal miners, pending agree
4 ment being reached between tn
e miners and the private opefa'
l ors. has not yet secured a heal
4 inc on his resolution.
.. However, he has received tn
: compliment of imitation.
member from Pennsylvania, al
ter Baer's measure had been b(
: fore the house several days, Ii
: troduced resolution alnlo@
1 | Identical with it. This secon
Il resolution received just as Iauc
( press notice as did the or1glnat'
: Anti-Strike Bill Protested
:, Among the protests Wh-c
= CONGRESSMAN Sinclair has Il