The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-06-17
LABOR UNIONS WANT GRAFT.


served.
LABOR UNIONS WANT GRAFT.
The federation of labor has gone on
record as favoring government con-
troll of all public utilities, including
railroads, telegraphs. telephones, cable
and all means of transportation or
communication. OF course the labor
the language of the English cop, ivy
hin ell shouldn't they?" Government
control has been a pretty soft snap
for unionized labor and Postmaster
General Burleson has just given post
al employees the right to organize, form
union, and, we suppose, to strike and
tie up the mails as other Industries
have been tied up.
Let us review the past few years
of government control or supervision
and compare it with the years before
In 1911, so we are told by railroad
statistics, the operating expenses of
American railroads averaged $5250,00
per day, of which $3,311,0 90 per day
was wages Six years later, the last
month of private ownership and con-
troll of the railroads, the operating ex-
penses had grown to $S,120,000 per
day, of which $4,940,00O day was
wages paid to railroad employees. This
was during the great world war when
every available man was working and
wages had been increased and hours
reduced by President Wilson, which
act is believed to have done more than
any one thing to reflect him presi-
dent in 1916.
But in January, 1919. operating ex-
penses of American railroads had in
creased to $11,300,000 per day and rail- |
road employees got $7,5O0,OOO a day in
wages. This is an increase of con-
siderably more than 100 per cent in
wages paid railroad employees under
government control, as compared with
he wages paid them under private
control.
The four great railway brotherhoods
BOAST that they control about 1000. 900
'otes. That is a great asset to a DO
ltical party. If all public utilities
we're placed under government control
wages would be increased, hours de-
reased and service would deteriorate.
ne American people cannot afford
, pay nearly $4,000,000 per day to buy t
otes for the democratic party. 1t is 0
20 expensive. The returns are not i
'orth it.
The federation of labor and the $
rotherhoods of railroad firemen and <
lglneers, went on record as favoring n
e release of Mooney, the murderer. OF
Id Debs, the disloyal socialist leader. q
'th of whom are in the penitentiary1 a
r crimes against this government. h
e cannot trust the Affairs of this gov sa
nment to men who favor disloyalty. g
1rder and graft. Government con-
d of the railroads has already cost -
American people too much. 1t is =
expensive luxury q
"a "a ~ to'
THE PEACE TREATY ON 1874 six six
= LOW ka
Back in the 1905, a newspaper foi
respondent who got hold of the 70 10
atty of Washington, and published g.,
in violation OF the secrecy imposed No
the senate upon all of its members. TO,
arrested and put through a course ~
discipline by the outraged upper To-
mber. Times have changed The mil
ate now bawls for the full text of a IVES
aty that isn't even a treaty in the 90
lotest legal sense, for it is not yet ter
lpleted and signed by the negotia- il e
: What the New York bankers Of
wed to Senator Lodge wasn't the one
ty; it was nothing but the pro- low I
'tus OF the treaty. The senate. as $3.50
mate, has certain rights under the mile
'titution and its right to have ac- len
to the full text of treaty ap- corn
forty
TO a treaty that is near enough B. \
cling treaty to warrant the senate t fhip
,tffying it or refusing it.-Spring- Rams
Republican. fourt
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Soutl
r. .JOHNSON'S RESOLUTION. ner .
ther the state department nor Nortl
resident can strictly comply with ton ion
ohnson resolution requesting that S SortL