The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-10-03

Inch Speculation on oo,iee
auI By Wilson for October g
Plumb Plan Stops Rush to r. Return 1
pl"ads-DeIegates Gather Tor In
NO@a at;onal Labor Meeting Under
Isl "e Of Nations-LOdge Quotes
L LINERS as Against League.
oton, D. C.-All observers
w. Fast consider the steel strike
% Wv aront of first magnitude. The
~ world of eastern industry holds
SnO rroath over the possible outcome.
1 Ia a special sense it is a struggle be-
L ~ y the old order and the new.
w. Tho GREAT steel trust broke up the
.1. Of American workers over a
aoration ago. Native labor was
sssdoaIly replaced by workers lured
srom the farms and towns of south
i r,,rope. With this raw material
60 trust has been able to exercise an
rtocracy over the livelihood of its
n,oves comparable to nothing
s.,nd in mere political forms. At the
Two time the trust fastens its ten
.acIes on the federal government and
he government of every state where
4onorates from Pennsylvania to Min
Kesota.
Rapidly increasing costs of living
,ovo forced these ordinarily docile
o,onloves to challenge this old order.
:. the farmers of Minnesota have
challenged it with a tonnage tax on
;ron ore. They have tried to organ
10 and now they strike first for the
riobt TO organize and bargain collec-
tivalv and beyond that for better con-
ditions.
The organization has followed ira
d;+;onal federation of labor methods.
Consequently observers see in 1t a
test of these methods and the spring
;np I'D of different types of labor OF
rar;zations in case of failure. Labor
n.rticipation in politics will grow; so
also will the one big union sentiment
As preached by the I. W. W.
PRIVATE WARFARE ALLOWED
Dispatches from Wilson's special
train declare he has decided not to
act, feeling that he has done every
thing possible to prevent the break
The fact that the United States Con
st;tution, however, is being violate
in Pennsylvania by refusal to allo"
xorkmen he right Of assemblage ane
b. brutal assaults of .1nmen on Ut
armed workers, would indicate thai
the administration is not so neutra
as supposed. It is not enough to pu
the responsibility on state authorl
ties. If workingmen were rlotlng J
would not take the federal govern
ment long to see that the law wa
upheld, as in the case of the Chlcag'
riots in 1892
If. on the other hand, the worker
had voted for men of their own KIN
instead of old-party politicians, thel
ballots would not now be coming Dac
to them in the form Of clubs, bullet
and suspension of law. 1t almos
passes understanding that even Ole
party oficeholders can allow pr1va1
warfare to be waged by the great COZ
porations.
CAPTTAL-LABOR CONFERENCE
What will come of President WI
sons industrial conference, which NJ
been called to meet here on OctoDe
g.
Speculation in this rich field
warming up, as big business men al
leaders of the more powerful lao'
xnions mysteriously come ana
from their conferences with Berna
Baruch, the man who has the ana
in charge for the president.
The first guess Of four-fitths OF u
observers is that the men picked
comprise this conference will p
through a resolution declaring tn
the senate should Immediately ratl
the Paris treaty in its present Tor
without amendment or reserVaIio'
in order that industrial peace may
secured.
Beyond that point the estima'
vary widely. Some very weii-ln1orii L,
men declare that the administratl
has determined to insist upon
tionwide reorganization of indus'
upon a proft-sharing basis, as
possible safeguard against the spre
Of the craftsmanship idea g
tanned in the Plumb plan for
railroads. Others maintain that
Wilson has in mind only an appear
the conscience of the big employ
to permit the complete organlzat
of their workers, and the recogmt