The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-05-30

signs showing that they ran from
one army office building to another
! over a course of perhaps a mile OF
TWO. In them young officers waited
or older or ranking officers stepped in
with the magic word that secured
instant departure.
But, alas! All this free-ride sys-
tenn has been suddenly overthrown
secretary Baker has issued an order
forolddlng the use of army machines
Tor hauling ofticers-except that one
machine is at the disposal of the
chief of each bureau of the depart
ment during the working day. Scores
perhaps hundreds-of caramel-col-
ored machines have gone into retire.
| ment, and small army of chauf-
feurs has been disbanded. The gaso-
line and repair account has begun to
eVaporate under the heat of the pro-
fame comment which hundreds of
officers are directing at the secre-
tary's decision.
Now the secret is out-the Repub-
llcan floor leader Of the house, Rep
resentative Mondell of Wyoming
served notice upon Secretary Baker
That either he must stop the joy-rid-
ing OR congress would stop it. Bak-
er yielded to that argument; he did
not issue the order of his own free
will.
The officers are not yet reconciled
| to the street cars.
CAPITAL SCHOOLS UNDER FIRE
/ A resolution calling for an inves-
tigation by a special committee into
the affairs of the school system of
the District of Columbia, will be in
PRODUCED by Senator Jones of Wash
ington, and will probably be passed
within few days. The purpose of
this inquiry is to get at the truth OF
the charges made by the represen-
tatives of virtually all of the 100000
members of organized labor in the
city, that the board of education is
using its official power to suppress
favorable discussion of labor union
principles by teachers in the schools
THE IMMIGRATION QUESTION
Senator Kenyon, speaking on the
industrial situation before the recon
struction conference of the Ameri-
can National Woman Suffrage asso-
citation, calls for two-year embargo
against immigration. The depart
lf1ent of labor reports that the gen
eral movement of aliens from the
United States back to Europe is
steadily increasing in volume. 1t ap-
pears that many hundreds of thous-
ands of wage workers from the steel
| plants, munitions plants, coal and
iron mines and logging camps arc
packing up their personal belongings
and going "home" to the new Eur
ope.
One of the obvious effects of this
reduction in the supply of common
labor in the industrial states will be
a further migration of the negroes
from the South to the North. Wages
in the South will rise further. Ag-
riculture in the South will of neces-
sity be reorganized 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
chairman of the government com.
mission which is now reclassifyine
the great army of civil service EN-.
ployes of Uncle Sam, says he thinks
he knows what the American WORK.
ingman wants in the way of recon
struction programs. He specifies
federal enfranchisement of women
recognition of the, right to organize
federal laws-with constitutional
amendments if necessary fixing
house of. labor, working conditions
and minimum wage for women ane
children in industry; national lane
; policy which places the land in tht
hands Of those who cultivate it; free
) from landlordism and speculation
drastic legislation to end proiteering
) in necessaries of life; wiping out o.
illiteracy; raising state and fedora
revenues through taxes on inherit
ances and incomes, and not on neces
saries of life; government ownership
: of railways, express companies, tele
phone and telegraph lines.
John M. Baer and James FL. Sin
clair, the Nonpartisan league mem
} bers of congress from North Dakota
: have returned to Washington. With
in an hour they were In a confer
ence at the Farmers National coun
Gil Office, discussing the Legislation
to be supported this session by thu
organized producers and consumers
dealing with the stockyards and thu
food marketing problem.
| Baer brought word of the com
plete collapse of the campaign mad
against the North Dakota economi
legislation by enemies of the League
farmers, and predicted a sweeping
victory for the farmers at the spe
) cial election in June. Sinclair wa
; equally pleased with the situation a
nome. He expressed no enthusiasm
whatever, on the other hand, fo-
/ the progressivism of either MI
: Mann or M. Gillett in the house.
WESLEY
: Private Lars Rude of Fairview j