The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-04-25

ference Changes Labor Plans At
ter Gomper Leaves-Judge Ami
don's AUGMENTATION Widely {
Quoted - Congressman Fuller
Fights Against Pork and Abuse of
ranking Privilege-A Land Tax
Movement Among Farmers-Farm-
ors' National Headquarters Would
Make Business Costs Public.
Washington, D. C.-Since Presi-
don't Wilson has persuaded the peace
conference to write a guaranty Of the
Monroe Doctrine into the constitu-
+;o of the league of nations, his ad-
n,;ring baciers in Washington claim
+bat he Borah-Reed-Lodg opposi
tin has been knocked into cooked
hat. Even Senator Lenroot must
emile cnviously at the spectacle of
tho president telling the European
ord Asiatic diplomats that any dis
elimination against the doctrine will
-. .on,lpd upon in America as a
throat of militarism and imperial
;cm or that has been the Lenroot
argument against the presidents
whole plan.
Republican members of congress
have read with deep concern the
results of straw votes taken by news
Gamers in all parts of the country
chewing huge majorities in favor of
Mr. Wilson'S league. At the same
time they feel that the amendments
thus far made, since they threatened
~ Dro,rnn+ ratification of the treaty,
Fan safely be claimed by them to be
triumphs over the administration.
When congress meets, a few sena-
tors will argue against any treaty
that may be made in Paris, but a
far greater number will content
themselves with saying: "See how
much | have improved i'll"
PARIS FOOLS GOMPERS
Samuel Gompers landed in New
YORK the other day, rejoicing in the
fact that the commission on inter
national labor legislation, created by
the peace conference and headed by
himself, had agreed upon the univer-
sal eight-hour day and WORLDWIDE
standard minimum wage to solve the
problem of coolie competition with
white labor. Ways and means fol
bringing about this seemingly i'm
possible improvement in the stand
ard of living of the swarming mil
lions of India, China, Japan ant
MALAYSIA were to be gradually de
termined through the permanen
bureau and the annual meetings o
the labor conference. The frst con
ference will be held in Washington
in October, with four men represent
ig each country in the league Of ma
tons. They will be chosen by tn
governments, although one IN eac
delegation will be an employer, on
trade union official, and two Will
chosen from the general pubic.
The day after his arrival M
Gompers was astonished to learn tia
the Paris conference had virtual
nullfed the standard wage prlnclpl
by adopting an amendment onere
by Barnes, the conservative Brltls
labor delegates, to the effect tn;
anv International agreement as
standard minimum wages should
drawn with due regard to tho:
countries in which climatic cond
tons, the imperfect developments
industrial organization, or other sp
cial circumstances, make industrl
conditions substantially different.
Of course Mr.. Gompers cabled
vigorous protest against tMS su
render of principle, but it appear
to be too late.
AN EDITORS DILEMMA
When William Allen White went
Furope some months ago, to
named by the president as one
the two American delegates to I
proposed conference of Russian I;
tons at Prinkipo, the Kansas eol'
had been introducing to liberal
viewers in the East new no
from his pen, in which he mayed
cruelty and hypocrisy OF the al
labor sentiment among small-cl
business men in the Middle We
His hero was tortured and tlna
shot down by machine gun IN
hands of A "Law and Order leagl
mob for the crime of having cal
! strike.
Friends of Editor White in the
tonal capital are specializing,
what he will write in his next be
His press correspondence is mar
bv such statements as "The shat
Of Lenine falls darker and dar
across the peace conference,
that the world must choose now
tween orderly specialization of the
custries and disorderly bolsheyl
WOMEN FOR AMERICANIZATl
The remarks delivered in the te!
al court at Fargo by Judge Ann
last year, rebuking a certain Geri
clergyman who had opposed
Americaniaztion of his parismon
have been widely quoted through
the country, particularly IN the
cational journals. His demand fe
real characterization has now
developed into a definite program
the League of Women Voters, W
is starting a big educational
paign from its headquarters her
But how the League OF Wo
Voters proposes to enable all
children of immigrants to Sc
needed schooling, up to the ag
1G years is a question in ia
income which several millions of
migrants will very naturally
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