The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1919-05-01

WASHINGTON, u. C.-Faul war
burg, former member of the federal
reserve board, who has been engaged
recently in seeking to bring the or
ganized railroad workers to agree
with the organized railroad stock
holders upon a plan for returning the
roads to private control, has failed at
that task.
The labor spokesman, after several
weeks Of parley, have refused all Of
fers Of compromise. They stand pat
for public ownership and for the
scheme Of democratic management
through a commission of nine men
which was outlined in the Plumb plan
before the senate committee last Jan
uary.
Glenn E. Plumb, chief counsel for
the four brotherhoods of train oper-
atives, is about to open a publicity bu-
reau here, to reach the voters through
out the country with the argument for
straight public ownership and opera
ton of railroad transportation.
The railroad employees undoubtedly
know better" than the outside public
what tricks have been tried to dis
credit government ownership. Their
interest is primarily that of railroad
operation; whereas the men who con
troll the railroads and are now pushing
for return to private control are chief
ly financiers and are interested in rail-
roads as a fertile field for f~nanciering.
Denounces Riot Makers.
The department of labor, through
Secretary Wilson, has called upon the
postmaster general and the attorney
general to take steps, if they have
legal authority to do so, to prevent
a moving picture producer from stag
ing ~riots-actual street riots-through-
out the country, as a method of adver,
Using a so-called anti-Bolsheviki movie
film.
The movie producer, advertising in a
trade journal, sets forth in great
detail how the movie theatre manager
in each town should put up red flags
around the town, and then hire men
preferably soldiers-to tear down
these flags and stir up local sentiment
against the Socialists. Then the man
ager is urged to connect up the So.
cialists with the B~olsheviki," in some
way, and arouse public indignation
all rs a means of bringing crowds to
see the ~infammatory film play, and
increasing profits of the business.
Secretary Wilson, as an old trade
unionist, realized that anti-labor in.
terests would probably use this game
to create mob violence against labor
organizers in towns such as McKees-
port, Pa, while anti-farmer interests
might use it against organizers of the
farmers in the West. He denounced
the advertisement as an attempt to
| commercialize the breach of public
order.
. The CourtsmatiaI Fight.
Royal G. Johnson of South Dakota,
one of the younger members of the
house who served in the army during
the war, is pushing his fight against
the existing courtmartial system re
CARELESS Of the attitude of the general
staff. His latest statement deals with
the discovery that the general staff
has installed Colonel John H. Wig.
more of the judge advocate generals
department in a set of offices which are
devoted to defending the position of
the general staff in opposing any
change in the military courts. Colonel
Wigmore has been sending out great
quantities of mail under government
frank, and this mail is found to be
Colonel Wigmore's defense of the old
courtmartial system. Senator Cham
berlain and Representative Johnson
agree that this letter is not frankable
under the postal laws, and that the
general staff is therefore defrauding
the postofice department out of thou
sands of dollars in postage.
"It is bad enough" says Johnson,
Ito see a fghtless colonel, from a
comfortable swivel chair in Washing.
ton, attempting to defend a court.
martial system which the secretary OF
war has ceased to protect, without
having the defense flooded over the
country in franked envelopes from the
war industries board" s,.
The document in question, had it not
been carried free, would have carried
IL cents in stamps. About 10000 Of
them are said to have been sent out tt
the lawyers throughout the country.
Cannon Addresses Portoricans.
The spectacle Of "Uncle Joe" Can
non addressing a Joint session of thu
Porto Rican legislature, defending {
Democratic appointive official agains
Porto Rican resentment, was witness
ed by Representative Young Of Nortl
Dakota and other members of the con
gressional party visiting the island
Dispatches from San Juan, the islam,
capital, say that when Representative
Cannon reminded the Porto Rican
politician-was perhaps not perfect
but "there is nobody who cal max
everybody in Porto Rico like every
body that Is elected or sent here by tn
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