The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-10-02

IALL PEUPLE WANT
/ QUICK ACTIONON
| HUN PEACE TREATY
cs1ed lslla trolA psnuluoa,
haps there might be an opportnnity -
20 SO after the Republicans hsd wan
| me next presidential election ard ron.
| .goHeq sll branches Of the eovsrnrnent
Penroses argument Il that HE
| 2ep9blcan majority In the senate IL too
| sender 70 attempt tariff or taxation re-
vision until 1899. That il realiS oniv
another way or saying thai Il might
nave been better for the Republiesg,s
| 7 they had not iwon the senate al All
the last election unless they could
, nse Won substantial majority Of
VOTES thereln, For at present skeptics
are going. 70 hold the Republican ma
Jonty strictly accountable for what Is
dohe m both houses Of congress and II
| 4 gong TO be the difficult task Of the
Repnohean managers to convince the
business men Of the country that real
~ they couldn't do anything In The
present senate and cpmpaisn eontribu-
lions must come for the 1920 campaign
y they are 70 get remedies held ont
20 them by Republican orators last au-
Business men talked freely about the
league OF nations and, looking at IL rs
business proposition, prae(icaly an
q tnose who have had any trade in
Ioreign markets viewed the league a.
the beginning OF 4 commercial expaf-
son that America had long needed
They have for many years been elamor-
| ing for 4 merchant marine and a for
eiEn policy that would expand foreign
trade, and II the league Of nations IL 10
| W the vehicle they are ready to ac-
cept the League for that purpose. IN
American enterprise during the war
into fields hitherto untouched ana WITH
the expansion OF facilities for Quantity
production hitherto unrealiged, the de-
SIRE 10 get the world markets Is very
S Sssn' x,l " noticed that whenever Presi-
its relation TO foreign niarkets and
enthusiastically.
Prober Queried.
But Il was aiFfIeult to net a lima on
whether business men generally thouRht
me fall ana winter months were going
70 pe nard on America or whether the
storm season in the economics al reooT~
struction would come later M Tiemaii,
an inquirer found himself asksd
question, what do you think viii be
the. labor situation six months hence5
Len US that and we viii make predlc.
Out on the coast the labor situation
oxists somewhat different than IN the
East. The l. w, WIS are moi the oiIly
extremists. Foreigners, with Al idsa
that the plight Of Russia today ID to Be
preferred to industrial oppression such
as they imagine they are poweriess to
remedy except BY fofceful means havs
made greater headwav than most b,,sl-
ness men like to admit, Union labor
isn't always blamed On the Pacific
coast. One finds big hnaINesa man at.vs
ious and willing to 60 -opefate with smch
an organization, for Instance "a the
American Fedefntion az T,ahor IA "A az
fort to destroy the influence and power
OF the extreme radicals who prev unon
the laboring masses with literature and
newspapers all their avn.
Ii there ever was CONFIRMATION ~ of
Secretary Lanes statements concern
ing the need Of Alnericanization. esue
clally among the rank and file Of labor.
the situation on the Pacific coast DEM
onstrates II conciusively. AEitators
Tshgn tnVuShnUS upon tn0uSands or Ia
borern with perniclous doctrines about
the power Of physical force and direct
action. largely because the same masses
have. been ignored BY the people who
could educate them 10 the contrary.
Much OF the industrial disorder spread
Ing In the. west is due 70 sheer ignor-
ance or the clever f1anipulations and
maneuvers Of radical leaders who do
not fail to use every utterance and ev-
cry action taken BY employers else
where nimical ~ organized labor as
PROOF of their contention that II Is USE
less % wy g VII down ana reason with
the employing CLASS.
mess men fairly burning WIN indiGna-
tiOn ~ he way. they said. employers
naa neen treated " the matter 81 con.
trscts Wth thelr employees. again ana
again labor DETERMINATIONS had refused
Without lsr Sehap pay TOT A ssv +
whole union was unable 70 break its
oo l the men woula resign as indl-
viuuals " suCn sIeat NUMBERS ~ 70
In is tne vaiue oil the contract nesi-
s'ple Sauan.g' .,..a ..,.
80 mere we're I've weaknesses evident
part Of re enpioyer class . prevent
many 81 iis number from doing the ex-
IRENE tnlnBs aGaihst iaoor when gave
We Iauicai ieAuers tne HAin Loou on
WHICH, 70 iced and theW man pfopa-
sahua anu on me otner nand lnapihsy
on tne part OF conservative LABOR lead
ers ~ me head Of me NATIONAL organi-
zauons % hcid IN ieash the local leaders
OF orNAnisaIions ~,
so.operauon Dy the leaders OF capital
ama ianua.ustry nes pscome hot merely an
atfulsuc or ethical anar' put CUES
uon OF abso!ute necessity t.n
suspicion u being fostered locally py
many radical labor leaders against the
industrial conferences soon TO pc held III
washington. The men who think
isuc interests have begun building a |
IRE beneafh samuel Gompers' subordi-
mates IN the hope Of destroying his IN
fluence with his following or with the |
idea OF claiming credit for having |
prodded him into such advantages for |
labor as he might eventually get out OF |