New Ulm review., 1919-12-17
World Forces Forcing Fight.


World Forces Forcing Fight.
The world war has brought the in
sdustry, the commerce and the politics
of this country into connection with
world commerce, world industry and
world politics. Il can not help but
bring out labor movement into close
touch and ultimately into coop peration
with the labor movement OF the world
s The labor movement of the world is
nos longer group Of workers fighting
for concessions from their enemy en-
ployers. 1t is that, but it is vastly
more It has been taught by long and
bitter experience that in every COM
fict Of labor with the oppressors of
labor, the final resort Of the oppres
sor is found in the misuse of the pub.
lie power What they have won in an.
increase of wages, they lost again in.
the losses recurring from an increase
in the cost of living.
A New Alliance
The workers have discovered that.
through public ownership they can.
use our own Cove, nment to establish
mills and elevators, to exempt from
taxes farm improvements and put the
burden of government where it be-
longs, upon speculative values, to es-
tablish bank and provide credit for
merchants, farmers and home-builders.
at the costo providing the credit.
They have discovered that they can
establish coal mines, transpo portation lines,
packing plants, flour mills and bakeries,
and that in all these enterprises they can
at the same time increase the incone Of
the workers and cut the final selling.
prices, which they pay for the means
by which they live, in the public markets;
Getting Into The Swim.
The American Federation OF Labor,
SO long voting to stay out OF politics,
has at last adopted program which
can only be carried out by getting into
politics. The Plumb plan excludes
private ownership from the railways,
and just as the private owner goes
out, introduces into railway manage
ment. the voice of the workers in. the
railway service. The miners have fol
lowed suit" have determined upon a
similar plan for operating the mines.
It is reasonable to expect that the
steel workers, the packing plant en-
ployes, and all the other workers in
the great. monopolized industries will
make similar demands, each Of them
within their own territory
What Of the Future?
The Nonpartisan league has led the
way. The same N monopolies which rob
the farm ers in the prices paid them.
for the products and in the prices charged
them for their supplies, are the very
monopolies which rob the workers in.
the wages paid them for their services
and in the prices charged them for their.
supplies. Because the enemies Of
each are the enemies of both, they
belong together.
The fighting program ofethe Labor
parties, as proposed in this country
and as they exist in other countries,
and the fighting program OF the Nom
partisan league, are SO near alike that
whoever could support the one could
not Withhold support from the other,
While the spokesmen for the old
political organizations wransiillg
over the forms Of an impossible IN
ternational compact, the workers in
all of the countries are supporting pro-
grams within their own countries which,
if once adopted within the leading
nations Of the earth viii 1rake an end
of the possibility of war between any any
of the nations The. world war lIst
fought. Mr. Wilson tells us, and he
tells us very truly, was not political
war but an Industrial war, a CONNER
cial war, "a war for trade advantages,
war for markets. a:5
There can be produced within the
boundaries of the United States all Of
the things needed for the fullest life
of all Of the people. If the prices paid
catarrn Cannot Be Cured
by LOCAL APPLICATIONS. as they
cannot reach the seat of the disease
sCatarrh is a. local disease. greatly infiu-z
enced by constitutional conditions. HALLS
CATARRH MEDICINE will cure catarrh.