Republican farmer., 1919-08-15

only to other great industries but contemplates the inclusion of banking. Acecrdirz to information reaching Senators tEe present movement for Soviet" c,a' ol of transportation is only the beginning in a comprehensive plan to develop this arrangement in sequence, favored by opportune con ditions.
 The first general warning of the program aaid to have been adopted fer widespread standardization was given by Senator King. He received his information from labor leaders Of prominence in his own state of Utah. Similar advtces subsequently, came to Senator Bereh and others. One Sen etor at<eady has been approached on the subject. It Is indicated that a general drive may soon be in pro- gress along well defined lines that have been approved heretofore by la bor leaders throu ghout the country.
 It Is intendsd, according to the pro- gram as related to Senator King and some of his associatee. that any fe-up of transportation, possibly followed by eufYerins and hardsfdps of all kinds, will result in GovernmeTt ownerehfp of the railroads, if some method of joint domination by the Government, the employees and the public is not made operative.
 When winter comes on the nation aiisation of all local mines will be de- mandcd. presumably heralded by proposed strike of miners. A sus- geStion will be offered that the Gov --nment assume full control of the mines. This proposition differs tri- fie from that connected with the rail- roads in that it is contsnded that the management and operat ton of coal mines must he left to those most fla rniliar with such work. Iris rnaars that tbe taking out oS coal woUh he supervised by the United Wine Work CTS of Amer.ca.
 The third step would come in the spring. IL is intended then to insist that the Government take over ell the banking facilities of the country and manage them for the people and in their interests. The idea is that all the profits nov coming 10 the ba nls CTS would fall to the government. tEeT e'oT lcseeriu% the cost of living and more equitably distributing all the various benefits that come from enjoymeut of the privileges cxtenied by the banks.
 The fourth step in the chain of na- tionaiizaton has not been indicated, IL merely is explained in connection with tho three pending propositions indicated that the standardization of land would not be taken up until other matters have been adjusted. It is inferred by Senators that the al lotment of land is not abandoned as a workable idea. but indstence upon that feature Is postponed to some more favorable opportunity. after the thrce matters at issue have been sat Lsfaotoriiy arranged.
 The Plumb plan to have the Gov ernment buy the railroads and turn them over to the workers promises to become a national political issue. A call for a mass meeting of the advo- cates of the proposition in October has been issued. Realizing that they have struck a snaG in Congress the PIumbites will retreat from the capi- tai and return with a larger army In the fall.
 Chief Justice Clark of the Supreme Court of North Carolina, whom Will liam Jennings Bryan named a few years ago satisfactory candidate for President of the United States. has been adopted as the leader and spokesman of the now cult. HI, first act was to blow the horn for all the radicals of the Nation to assemble here the first week of october to i'm press upon Congress the force behind the demand for the Plumb plan.
 A striking feature of the present camp meeting is the speed with which the radicnls and professional friends of the people came together after they heard of the Plumb plan. Every state in the nation sent its coterie of egitators. Many serious minded ad- vocates of government ownership of public utilities came here to press for action. but they wero soon out numbered by the Populists.
 A canvass of the Republican lead ers of Congress indicates that they will have nothing to do with the Plumb plan. Government ownership ? and employees' operation of the rail- roads is too risky experiment to make in the present time of unsettled afbatrs with the biggest industry in xhe world. in the opinion of Chair man Esch of the House Interstate and Foreign Commcrce Committee MT; Esch also stated 1t should not be con- fused with 'indtlstrial democracy" ai instituted by some plants. providing for a government patterned after that of the United States. with representa- ton for employees.
 "I do not see any resemblance tC industrial democracy in the Plumt plan." said Mir. Esch. The latte, simply provides that the Government shall own the railroads and that they be operated by a directorate of fifteer
 
 employees, and tho employees share tho profits"
 Mir. Esch does not believe thu Plumb plan is the Ruasian Sovie plan of running industry. Th' Plumb plan corresponds to that onl, in so far" he said. "ns labor Is called in to operate the roads. ownership being in the roads. In Russia prop erty ls condemned for tho whole peo pie. and land in the same way"
 Other members of Congress believe the Plumb plan goes further than So ciansnn, because 1t provides that th1 Government shall buy the propert.ei and turn them ovor to a certain clas' of operative, virtually setting then = :n b,1sins=5. Irs supporters. in ciuding officials of the American Fed sration of Labor, eventually would 2ako over other industries.
 Representative Small (Dsmocraf
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