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Evening star., 1919-10-11
As to Strikes and Lockouts.

A feature Of the declaration OF
principles submitted to the Presidents
industrial conference by assent of
the employers group and represent
ing the views of capital and manage
ment is its treatment Of the right to
strike or lock out. The employers
make a sharp distinction between the
! employment relations in the field Ga;
Of private industry, (b) of public
utilities and (c) Of government serv-
ice, federal, state or municipal. They
deplore the strike or lockout in pri.
vate industry, but concede it as a
right when other means of adjustment
fail. In public utilities and govern.
ment service they deny that such a
right exists and would have strikes
and lockouts made unlawful.
No one should quarrel with the en-
ployers because Of their attitude as
to strikes in the public service. Only
the radical and irresponsible among
labor leaders will contend that police
men, fremen and other employees Of
government, bound by oath to make
public duty their first consideration
have right to organize strike and
bring government to a standstill. But
their declaration that strikes and lock
outs in public utilities should be Oil.
lawed, while remaining permissible in
private industry, will not stand The
test Of logical analysis.
The theory Of the employers is that
modern social life is SO dependent
upon public utilities that suspension
Of their operation is An unbearable
calamity. That is sound, SO far as it
goes, but it does not 60 far enough.
There are private industries upon
which modern social life is equally or
more dependent. The telephone is a
public utility. The distribution Of
milk and ice is classed AZ private
business. Yet, of the two, suspen-
sion Of telephone service would be
much less ealamitous to city than
suspension Of the delivery of milk and
ice.
Another objection to the program
Of the employers for keeping public
utility employees at their tasks is its
futility. No law could be enforced
which forbade men to quit work if,
after . sincere and exhaustive effort
to obtain justice, justice had been de-
MED them. The practical thing for
the employers in the industrial con
ference to do is to join with the other
groups in setting up some workable
machinery through which it will be
assured that justice will not be de-
MED, either to workers or to- those for
whom they work. They will thereby
reduce to q minimum the danger of
serious strikes in public utilities, and
in private industry Us WELL,
Evening star., 1919-10-11
Public Interest and the Treaty.

In the Senate and out, the peace
treaty remains the best bet as re-
spects public interest. Crowds gather
whenever and wherever it is adver.
tissd - topic for discussion. The
Senate galleries have not been 50
filled in years. Time after time in
the past few months they have proved
too small to seat the people who
had assembled to hear q speech for or
against the treaty.
And quite as great interest has been
shown elsewhere. The Presidents
tour across the continent was marked
st every stop by . throng that received
the speaker with enthusiasm, and sat,
or stood, to hear his last word. Large
crowds have Likewise greeted sena.
tors johnson, and Reed, and Borah
wherever they have appeared in oppo.
sition to the treaty.
This interest has not been stimu.
lated BY any artificial means. All nee.
essary has been to give the name Of
the visitor, the date fixed for his ar.
rival, and the subject Of his discourse.
Everybody had heard Of the treaty,
know Of its importance and the con.
tentions about it, and wanted ill the
information obtainable from high
tousees.
n uis MY. - in other wsys, q
Evening star., 1919-10-11

1t would be but natural for orators
to resent Vice President MarshalPs
ruling against applause. Some Of
them regard it as a scarce article
that should be encouraged and not
suppressed.
Evening star., 1919-10-11
Minimum Wage for Minors.

The discussion Of the wisest mini
mum wage for minors before the mini
mum wage board is Of interest and
importance to the public. It affects
both the welfare of the child and the
stability of business conditions.
The minimum wage board has fixed
the minimum wage for minors will,
one years experience. at the same
figure as the minimum wage for
adults.
The merchants and manufacturers
Of Washington, through their associa-
tion, contend that it is economically
unsound and hurtful both to en-
ployer and to child employees to pay
the same minimum wage to minors as
to adults. They propose . graded
scale of minimum wages for minors,
.reating them like apprentices.
This provision of the regulations in
the discussion before the board has
been defended as vigorously as it has
been attacked. The most striking of
these defenses is based upon consid-
GRAFTON for the child's welfare. 1t as
sumes that the wage is too high to be
paid to the minor by the employer, that
its practical effect will be to bar
minors from employment and to keep
them in school, where, it is contended,
they ought to be.
While not admitting that the lavish
offer to minors Of as high a minimum
wage as is paid to adults will tend to
keep the former in school, the me-
chants argue that the purpose of the
law is to assure fair compensation for
such minors as are permitted or COM
PEELED to work, and not by indirection
to set up an additional prohibition
against the employment of minors at
all.
There is force in the contention that
the minimum wage for minors should
be based upon what that service Is
reasonably worth, and upon what the
working minor absolutely needs, and
not be put 80 high as to constitute a
prohibitory tariff and to exclude him
from employment. If such exclusion
il desirable in the child's interest, it
should be accomplished by direct and
certainly effective enactment. The
merchants contend that the dangling
before the minors as q minimum wage
of more money than now constitutes
the maximum wage will entice them
from school and will fail even to work
the expected compulsory school deter
tion.
Whether one agrees or disagrees
with the views Of the merchants, one
must give them credit for sincerity
and public spirit in their contentious.
They have the unique distinction
among employers of favoring and help
ing to enact the minimum wage law,
and they do not now protest the mini
mum wage fixed for adults. These
facts give additional weight to their
practical objections to the minimum
wage rate fixed for minors.
The minimum wage board has heard
the issue ably discussed from many
angles, and sitting as court of
equity will doubtless decide it with
perfect fairness to all the interests in
voived, to business Washington, to all
employers, to the working minor aul
the minor at school, with the welfare
OF the child the paramount considera-
tion.
Evening star., 1919-10-11

King Albert could spend the rest of
his life in this country If every city
and hamlet desirous Of entertaining
him could be accorded that privilege.
Evening star., 1919-10-11

A supply Of oil would doubtless be
gladly donated by John D. Rookie
feller, jr., if some reliable means could
be found of pouring it on the troubled
waters.
Evening star., 1919-10-11

1t appears that a considerable quan-
tity Of able bodied production talent
is being wasted in ways Of devious
and belated propaganda.
Evening star., 1919-10-11

Information Of great interest would
be abundantly available if Col. House
were as easy to interview as a newly
arrived dancer or prima donna.
Evening star., 1919-10-11
Never Gratis,

~ want freedom of Speech" yelled
the soap box orator.
"No, you don't" retorted the impul-
sive auditor. "You never made a
speech in your life without taking up
collection"
Evening star., 1919-10-11

Germany is beginning to wonder
Ludendorf is not proving
himself the literary genius Wilhelm
thought he was.
Evening star., 1919-10-11

Occasionally the farmer asserts
himself as if he were about ready to
assume the higher sounded title, Gland
Cd proprietor"
Evening star., 1919-10-11

Some treaty scrutinists are com
planning that while Germany prom
ised she did not 60 far enough in
promising to keep her promises.
Evening star., 1919-10-11
The Real Grievance.

IL don't mind yer mean disposi-
tion," said Farmer Corntossel when
the COW kicked over the milk bucket;
"what 1 complain of is yer extrava-
gance"
Evening star., 1919-10-11

Tfansportations have gotten away
beyond the old-time discussion Of
methods of providing greater comfort
and convenience for the passengers.
Evening star., 1919-10-11
Still More Economical.

If the climate holds out we won't
have to wear last winters clothes in
order to be thrifty. We can 20 on
wearing last summers clothes.
Evening star., 1919-10-11

Russia has not yet gotten along with
the work of reconstruction far enough
to have the debris cleared away.
Evening star., 1919-10-11

Capital and labor have ut least sue
seeded in becoming better acquainted.
Evening star., 1919-10-11
Reminiscence.

When ardent speech pours forth too
fast
Beneath the billowing banners,
We say, 14et US forget the past,
Lest we forget our manners"
Evening star., 1919-10-11
SHOOTING STARS.
By PHILANDER JOHNSON.
An Indication.

"What makes you so sure Trotsky
is a more prudent man than Leninf 3"
"He doesn't get shot at so often"
Evening star., 1919-10-11
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I pledge allegiance to My Flag
and to the Republic for which it
stands. One Nation, indivisible;
with liberty and justice for all.

"V. INVEST" greets one at every
turn in Ely these days, and it is the
sign from Uncle Sam that he wants
to borrow a dollar from US with which
to pay his honest debts. 1t is the
Fifth, and no doubt the last loan.
Possibly never again will we be able
to loan our dear Uncle a nickel-and
let US hope so if war is to be the
cause of the loan. And this Fifth
Loan is as much needed as any of the
previous loans. Simply because we
have won the great struggle is no
sign that the loser is going to pay
the debt incurred. There are a lot
Of our boys over there to come home
yet. There are a thousand and one
bills to be met. They MUST be met.
America has never repudiated a debt
yet. Let US "come across" we who
did not go across and wipe the slate
clean of all obligations. The money
is here and the loan safe one. If
our government goes bump-our
money goes bump with it. 1t is up
to US to unloosen and buy that Ford
next year.
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prisoned for treason. In addition to
this are the widows and the aged
and infirm parents whose sons were
by this means destroy the semi-inde-
pendent status Of Finland, making
of it a Russian province, much after
the fashion of the Germans in Ger
man Poland. The Russian soldiers
were permitted to act most arbitrari-
ly toward the Firms, commit rob-
berries, and impose severe punish
ment for the very slightest offenses
on the part of the people of the coun-
try, on the ground that they were
dangerous to greater Russia. In short
the German system Of punishments
and deportations in Belgium was re-
sorted to by the Russians in Finland.
When the revolution occurred in
Russia, the little discipline remain
ing among the Russian troops sta
toned in Finland, was overthrown
by reason of the Bolshevist agitation
which has been secretly carried on
among them by the agents Of Lenine,
These Russian soldiers murdered
their officers and began to incite
the Finnish working men to revolt,
to overthrow their own recently won
independent government, and take
the power into their own hands and
organize it along Bolshevist lines.
This caused the civil war in Finland,
during which time the country was
isolated from the outer world. The
food supplies became exhausted, for
the revolutionists together with the
Russians, robbed the food supplies of
all parts of the country in which
they were operating or which they
had under their control.
When this red revolt was over
thrown, the food supplies of the
country were merely nominal. The
bread in use contained ground lichen,
ground pine bark, and other addi-
tions containing even slight amount
of nourishment. Dreadful hunger
prevailed in the country and many
deaths resulted from diseases brought
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COMMUNICATED
Editor Miner:

Editor Miner:
My Dear Sir:
1 am writing you in the interest of
road connecting the Mesaba Range
with Two Harbors and the Grand Ma
rais-N North Shore-Port Arthur road.
St. Louis County and Lake county
have for some years been fussing
around with the proposition of put
ting a road through connecting the
old Vermilion Trail which runs from
Biwabik to Duluth, with Two Harbors.
Every time that this matter came to a
focus, one side or the other was not
in position to act. There are twenty
miles of road in each county to be
built or repaired. The twenty miles
in St. Louis county, extending from
the point on the old Vermilion Trail
about thirty miles south of Biwabik
over to the Lake county line, has all
been laid out and the road at the pres
ent time is fit for wagon use. Mr..
George Harvey of Virginia, is the
present County Commissioner in the
district in which this road is situated.
On our part in Lake county, we
have twenty miles of road to put in
condition, nine miles of which will
have to be newly made and another
eight miles surfaced. We. are ex-
pecting to spend about $50, 900 on it.
Every wide-awake man, as see it,
must be in favor of this proposition.
This connecting road, forty miles
long, will let out of their prison some
eight hundred settlers. These people
living at Fairbanks, Toni, Crimson,
Rollins, Wales and Highland have
settled up this country along the
county line between st. Louis and
Lake counties, with the understand
ing that a road would be running
there to let them out in some direct
ion. At the present time, all their
roads have blind ends and they can
not get out west and north to the
ranges, nor south and east to Two
Harbors. That either county should
have let all these settlers be shut in
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LEGISLATIVE Letter
BY r. w. HITCHCOCK.
Representative Goth District.

convincing and persuasive, and there
were bursts of imprisoned warning
and appeal that thrilled the house as
the speaker rose again and again to
the heights of real oratory. He held
the attention of the house and a
crowded gallery throughout. Ben
dixen of Redwood spoke briefly for
the bill, most of his talk being con-
fined to defense of the purity of the
motives of the people of Southern
Minnesota. The only other advocate
of the bill to speak was Carl Iverson,
a young farmer-Nonpartisan Lacquer
from Grant county, who is said to be
only rs years only. He declared that
the "steel trust" made $75,O00,000
in mining Minnesota ore last year,
and further exercised his imagination
by describing what the state could do
with ten per cent of that amount
if it could get it.
When the roll was called, and re-
called-and only "a responded "aye,' -
the maddest man in the house was a
pestiferous old fellow named Buell.,
an indefatigable lobbyist for the Non
partisan league. Buell. sat in the gal
lery and bit his nails and cursed
everybody except Townley. The
"Cornfield Philosopher"-he of the
Bolshevik whiskers-was pretty mad
too. Ever since January he has
been dropping pleasant little remarks
about chow we are going to rub it in
to you steel trust fellers this time"
Since Tuesday he has been special
izing in post mortems.
The maddest of them all, however,
was the st. Paul Daily News, which
does not carry the red flag at the top
of every column for the one and only
reason that it doesn't dare to. In lieu
thereof, it gets out pink sheet every
evening. The News ragged up one
column and down another in wild
riot of capital letters, italics and black
faced type. It hung Grape on "The
Acid test" on every page. 1t wept
and moaned and screamed and tore
it's hair. 1t cursed the steel trust,
the church, and the Nonpartisan
league with enthusiastic impartiality.
Pledges were broken and constitu-
ents were betrayed all over the first
and second pages. In its rage it dis
covered that every member elected to
the legislature last fall had then SOL
emnly pledged himself to vote for the
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tonnage tax. All but Ga of them
proved faithless on the roll call. Labor
did it. The vets did it. The league
did it. Warner of Aitkin did it.
priests and pastors" did it. Frank B.
Thompson-whoever he is-did it.
Burnquist did it. Wilkinson of Wash
ington did it. In fact the News had
everybody doing it-that is, every
body except the man who did do it,
Murphy of Aurora. Monday night,
said the News, 90 were pledged to
vote for tonnage tax. Tuesday noon
"a of them Topped. It gave the "a
this cute little head line: "The Shift
ty Twenty-four," and followed that
up by printing the names of the whole
"a in nice fat black faced type.
If you haven't seen copy of this
paroxysm, pawn your clothes, beg
borrow or steal-do anything that's
necessary short of murder, but get
copy and read it It's worth serv,
ing time for. Besides your letter will
surprise the News-it doesn't know
that anybody but the steel trust lives
in Northern Minnesota.
The other Twin City papers were
almost as much dazed as the News
but they had better control of thei,
passions. Or perhaps they preferred
not to make such a show of them
selves. The Journal says the Non
partisan league did it on purpose 81
that it can have the tonnage tax fol
campaign issue in 1920. The Pioneer
Press says it was ''the masterful at
tack of the opponents of the tonnage
tax" that did it," and naturally en-
ough, even those of us who had :
very slight part in doing it, prefer thu
Pioneser Press theory to all thu
others.
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And another thing: Why did our
government discharge the conscien-
tious(?) DIRECTORS at once and hold
our $500 and $1,000 a year real
Americans over there along the Rhine
to crush rock at $50 per month? The
slackers who objected to fight ought
to have been shipped overseas as
soon as the war was over to relieve
our boys who are needed at home
and have earned the right to live in
America.-Albert Lea Tribune.
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Ely is one vast wood yard. Lots
are covered with great stacks of wood
for fuel. The gasoline propelled buzz
saw has about visited every home in
in the city, but is still making saw
dust up the alley. This is as it should
be. Why ship coal from Pennsyl-
vania when there are acres and whole
square miles of fuel on every side of
us? Nature, when she laid out this
country, put iron ore and timber here
in great profusion, but no coal supply.
This northern country needs fuel and
what we have here should be con-
served to the fullest extent. Ely ap-
parently is safe from a coal famine
for some time to come.
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An explanation made at the re-
quest of various individual officials
of the American Red Cross.
RED CROSS HELP NEEDED IN
EINI AND
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It is a safe bet that our boys will
make that transatlantic flight first.
No country yet has put anything
over on US. We are there with the
goods either in fighting or in times
of peace. The Huns set us to using
our wits in the wrong direction for
a time but we beat 'em to it along
every line. No wonder they quit be-
fore they were annihilated as they
would have been had they kept on.
Their 65-mile gun was made to look
like kids squirt gun when we up
and turned out an airplane that all
it needed was serch warrant and the
name of the man wanted-and then
turned loose without a driver. Some
heads on our boys.
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The columns of The Miner are
open to the public for the discussion
Of affairs of a public nature. Any
thing tending towards the personal
or slanderous will not be published
under any condition. We invite COM
munications of a public nature and
only request that you ssign your
name-not necessarily for publica-
ton but as a guarantee of good
faith. Write and get it to this Office
not later than Thursday morning.
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Old Man Winter has been taking a
sneak during the last few days and
everybody is handing him his hat and
asking him-"What's your hurry?"
The small boy has been at his age old
game of marbles, the bike riders have
dug up the old machine, the ball bats
and big mitts have come out, the
streets are drying up and the snow is
fading beautifully. There has been
feeP in the air like as if New Or
leans was just around the corner
there and the crows on the hill over
there are haw-hawing about it all as
if Miss Spring had come for good.
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all these years, trading with Sears,
Roebuck. and Co., shows poor bust
ness judgment, to say the least. Last
night, was talking with settler
living near Crimson in st. Louis
county, a man who has 120 acres of
land under cultivation and he gave
me the names of the following cars
around Crimson: One Studebaker,
three Overlands, one Maxwell, one
Ford, two trucks. This man said a
neighbor of his had thirty-five Hol-
stein cattle, five horses, twenty-one
sheep, one truck and complete cleo
trio light plant of his own. Is it any
wonder that these settlers want a
road connecting up with their own
local roads so that they can get out
to the south and to the north? What
community would be so foolish that
would not want to run a road up to
tap such a wide-awake bunch of set
tiers and a fine farming country?
At the present time, when Range
automobile parties want to take in
the finest drive in the state, the North
Shore road, leading from Two Har-
bors one hundred miles to Grand Ma
rails and another hundred miles to
Port Arthur, Canada, they have to
go around by Duluth to get on to it.
The proposed cutoff makes the dis
lance much shorter.
If you feel that this matter inter
ests you, and I certainly expect
it will, am sure you could do both
counties a great favor by giving it
notice in your paper.
Thanking you for the space in this
matter, am
Yours very truly,
! DIR. R. L. BURNS,
President Two Harbors Auto Club
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Launch owners this year will be
doubly taxed as compared to last.
The smallest boat with a fixed en-
CINE in it cost $500 to own last year.
This year it will be ten. The tax is
not placed on it according to it's value,
but merely to round out the amount
needed to pay governmental bills
with. If you operate your boat you
must pay the tax. If you do not op,
crate it and leave the engine in it
you must still pay the ten. This sum
applies to the smaller sized hulls and
as the length of hull increases, the
tax follows up.
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Sometimes when we see a blind
man feeling along the walk with his
stick to find the way, the thought
comes to us that we are whole lot
better off than we imagined we were.
It could be whole lot worse for a
lot Of US, and it's pretty good old
world after all. Let US try and be
content with our lot. Remember, it
could be ten times worse than it is.