Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1919-05-28


pair account has begun to evaporate
under the heat OF the profane com
ment which hundreds of officers are
directing at the secretary's decision. &
Now the secret is out-the Republi-
can floor leader OF the house. Repre-
sentative Mondell of Wyoming, served
notice upon Secretary Baker that
either he must stop the joy-riding or
congress would stop It, Baker yielded
to that argument; he did not issue the
order Of his own free will.
The officers are not yet reconciled
to tie street cars.
Capital Schools Under Fire..
A resolution calling for an investi.
cation by special committee into the
affairs of the school system Of the
District of Columbia, will be intro
duced by Senator Jones of Washing
ton, and will probably be passed with
in few days The purpose Of this
inquiry Is to get at the truth of the
charges made by the representatives
of virtually all of the 100000 members
or organized labor in the city, that
the board of education is using it's Of
fetal power to suppress favorable dis
cussion of labor union principles by
teachers in the schools.
The immigration Question.
Senator Kenyon, speaking on the in
dustrial sitaletion before the recon
struction conference of the American
National Woman Suffrage associa-
tfon, calls for a. two-year embargo
against immigration. The depart
ment of labor reports that the general
movement of aliens from the United
States back to Europe is steadily in
creasing in volume. It appears that
many hundreds of thousands of wage.
workers from the steel plants, mum.
lions plants, coal and iron mines and
logging camps are packing UP their
personal belongings and going ''home"
to the new Europe.
One of the obvious effects Of this re.
duction in the supply of common labor
In the industrial states will be fur
Their migration of the negroes from the
South to the North. Wages in the
South will rise further. Agriculture
in the South will of necessity be re-
organized to meet the higher cost of
help. More white men must work In
the fields.
A Program for Progress.
Edward Heating, the former con-
gresham from Colorado, who is chair
man of the government commission
which is now reclassifying the great
army Of civil service employees of
Uncle Sam, says he thinks he knows
what the American working man wants
in the way of reconstruction pro-
grams. He specifies federal enfran-
chisement of women, recognition of
the right to organize, federal laws
with constitutional amendments If
necessary-fxing hours of labor,
working conditions and minimum
wage for women and children in in
dustry; a national land policy which
places the land in the hands of those
who cultivate it, free from landlord.
ism and speculation: drastic legisla-
ton to end profiteering in necessaries
of life; wiping out of illiteracy; rails
ing state and federal revenues through
taxes on inheritances and incomes, and
not on necessaries Of life; government
ownership of railways, express com
panies, telephone and telegraph lines.
Baer and Sinclair Back.
John M. Baer and James II. Sim
clair, the Nonpartisan league mem
bers of congress from North Dakota,
have returned to Washington. With
in an hour they were in a conference
at the Farmers National council office,
discussing the legislation to be sup.
ported this session by the organized
producers and consumers, dealing with
! the stockyards and the food marketing
problem.
Baer brought word of the complete
collapse of the campaign made against
the North Dakota economic legislation
by enemies of the League farmers, and
predicted sweeping victory for the
farmers at the special election in June
Sinclair was equally pleased with the
situation at home. He expressed no
enthusiasm whatever, on the other
hand, for the progressivism Of either
Mr.. Mann or Mr.. Gillett in the house.
MAJESTIC.
A story more thrilling than when
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