The producers news., 1919-11-14

floor who can justify his posi-.
ton by saying that the wage OF
the laborer has increased 7C
per cent"
Finally, cornered by the La
Toilette amendment. Townsend
and Thomas agreed to strike
out all reference to the coal
strike, and simply have the re-
solution pledge full enforcement
of legal rights in "the present
industrial emergency"
So, meaningless and futile,
the Thomas resolution was
adopted.
Domain Bill Amended
One victory, at least, has been
won by Representative Baer of
North Dakota and few asso-
ciates in the house, and by Sell
ator La Toilette in the senate,
in their continued fight against
the mineral lands bills. The
measure that has now passed
the senate, and which with
some amendments has passed
the house, does not permit the
sale or giving away Of any lands
in fee. The public remains own
er. although the party holding
the lease for 20 years with the
privilege Of renewal will be able
to get most of the mineral
wealth out of the land without
getting patent to it.
This shift from a patenting
bill to Il leasing bill is due SOLE
ly to the fight made by the
handful of rrogressives in con-
gress. It's effect is to make
possible, when an administra-
tion opposed to big business is
finally placed in power, to so en-
force the terms of the leases as
to recover for the public great
share of the natural resources
which for the next few years
will be handed over to private
plunder.
Facts en- Lynching
an appeal to congress for an
Investigation of the problem of
mob violence and lynching has
been issued by the National AS
sociat!on for the Advancement
If Colored People. It points to
four consequences of lynchjng-
race riots, industrial depression,
the degradation of the moral
sence Of the community, and
the lowering Of the position of
the United States in the eyes of
the world.
Among the cities where race
RIOTS have recently occurred are
Washington p. c.. Chic ,co,
Onaha. knoxville. Tenn. Long
view, Texas, Norfolk, w. Va.
Philadelphia. Charleston, S. c.,
and Bisbee, Ariz. Lynchirg ac-
counted for the deaths of 43
negroes and four white men be-
tween January l and Scptem-
h"r II, 1919. Eight negroes
were burned at the stake. and
one Of the victims was a 72-year
old man who defends two color
ed girls from attack at the
hands of two drunken white
men. From the year 1889 to
1919 there were lynched in this
country 1921 persons-2,472
colored men, so colored women,
691 white men and II white
women. Less than "a per- cent
Of these lynchings We're ascrib-
ed to attacks upon women.
Selling Government Ships
Fourteen hundred vessels
built by and for the government
Of the United States are now
being Cpeiatud by' the United |
States shipping board. This
does not suit the shipping trust,
nor it's friends in congress. A |
senate resolution recently pass |
ed demanded Of the board al
as to what efforts it |
Was making to sell these ships
to private operators. A majori-
ty Of the board is anxious to
sell at almost any price, but
Vice Chairman Stevens has kent
50 consistently on the job with
his demand that the govern
ment get a square deal, that the
majority had not dared to over
ride him. Hence bids for more
han 100000 tons of these
.;hii>s have Just been rejected as
being too low.
World Labor Meet
In the international labor con-
Ference summoned under the
'ea"ue cf nations section of the
Paris treaty, and now sitting in
the Pan-American building, the
most significant figures are