The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1919-01-11

State Governor Announces All Sol
diers Get Old Jobs Back.

l The governor OF the state OF lnui-
ana comes to bat with the announce
ment that the boys who donned the
khaki from the state OF Indiana will
not have to depend upon some pattern
alistic scheme OF the government TO
get TO earning their own living. In
diana employers OF labor have solved
the problem that the war department,
the department OF the Interior and
several other federal branches have
been worrying over for months past.
After reviewing the several pro-
posals which government officials
haze made for the purpose OF placing
tie returning soldiers in the ranks
OF the producers such as draining
swamps or pulling stumps to provide
land for soldiers. many OF whom have
no knowledge OF farming or no In
clinatIon TO take up that branch OF
industry, the Indiana governor. says:
Immediately after the armistice
was signed we held largely attend
ed reconstruction meeting, as we
called in it Indianapolis. We invit-
ed employers or labor and laborers
from all around the state We desired
to accomplish three filings;
First. we desired to- obtain an
agreement, and wesobtainsd it, amons
the large employers, thafsthere. should
be no.reductiene IN wages so long as
! the cost otHving remains at it's pres
emf level, or until the cost goes
ffowny ..s So y, Il. ~ S.
Second, we desired TO- get manu-
fsctpnne plants that ohaye been do
ing war work fesdJusted 20 peaceful
pursuits with the minimum loss of
time; end third We. wanted 10. pro
mote statewide sentiment in favor
of persuading the employers to give
the returning soldiers their old posi-
tions
I'VE worked through Major Bait
cell, the governments draft agent
and he asked each draft board to 60
over the QUESTIONABLE of each sol
der ana then he wrote to each en-
ploytE asking il the absent soldier
W. Id have his job awaiting him when
he returned, and also II he had work
for ether soldiers. In the country
| aiSfrsrto uya Nrnr,ntI,, .n,ot,,o1 -
plies, assuring us In SO per cent. OF
tile cases that the returning soldier
would have his old position as soon
40 IN returned.
I'm the manufacturing districts the
cd jobs are awaiting the men TO the
extent of 90 per cent. The per cent
is accounted for on purely natural
grounds, as many OF the employers
said that since the beginning OF the
war they had gone out OF business
In cases where the soldier gave the
name OF an employer who had dis
charged him, we suggested to said
employer that army discipline might
have made a better man Of the form
err employee, and We asked that he be
gwen another trial. In each case the
Dnsw~ was favorable SO, as / said
before in Indiana we have no problem
like the one pictured by Secretary
Lane
Acknowledging that no selfish state
interest should prevent national ae-
ton which will contribute to the gen
eral welfare and Is consistent with
the underlying principles OF our Gov
eminent, Gov. Goodrich declared that
aggressive opposition must be main
tanned toward all endeayors which
seek to transform the free people OF
our republic into mere Instrumental
tiles OF a materialistic paternalism.
Nothing" said he, would do more
TO bring about the restoration of nor
NAL conditions and the rehabilitation
Of the country than a definite and i'm.
mediate announcement that ii would
be the policy OF the government e
restore as soon as possible to thl
owners the properties taken under the
war emergencies act under such lin.
itations and with such measure Of
control Ps will fully protect the public
interest.
Little has been gained If by de,
stroying Prussian autoeracy we are
to set up a America under the guise
Of democracy an irresponsible. auto
cratic federalism"