The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-10-17

EethVu0 md Employees - fenrose
0rners anG Compulsory Mill
Frite5 an Sterling of South
ary ,t t''' Has Remarkable be A egd.
i eatol' for steel Trust1BaeT n LEADS
gents n lU' Vicious Public DOMAIN
Il Fight Oh Bill to Label Feeds Pro-
i pssd'
i D C.-Any number
4 Bs5nnass are aaoat in government
/ i t,s0a as to the presidents nervous
ssskio~35. N. one side you hear the
From the ~, o' collapse is directly due
,og ''1 nnr,esidont's anxiety ! lest st the the
70 the p nations be defeated and the
esq g1e . o. , thrown into even more
fsFId In1 warfare than is now gong
ain hul Upptber source you are posi-
From . slIr that his illness has no
ssely t assDl with any fear about the
c'n1 .st;on Of the league covenant:
s1nccatlJhno i beartbroken because so
tat taat hi bic former friends feel that
s'i E[.+ o. ed the IA points. 49,
be 49, 49, still other persons comes the
From ovnression of belief that the
hrll eIont t IS simply worn out, and that
preSldeno - are merely jaded, and that
<.s "a little rest he will be MS 0lo
,4f again. 70 he some truth
i %a theory that the present attl-
'he Great numbers of his former
nne " has made a deep impression
.oon the presidents m pT1 Az
,,.,;ke many of his predecessors in
On Wb;+e House, Mr.. Wilson, has
he " haen able to throw aside the
ae'el ~ his Office. Whether ne has
S are able to act promptly on publ,
ga G IS another matter, but the Wor,
ahaIfo Is thousand problems has stayed
a. him or trailed after him, from
l'A h no to the end of every
n .r Gradually the weight of thu
a"s has pulled him down. Ioda!
y Is below the poin~ of beng able e
;" SnIy his mind to any one public mat
'ppi ion 70 enough to deal with it.
'Si priands and foes alike-politicall.
a.,sifed-are hoping that the presl
Jem may quickly recover his norm
y strangth. Regardless of politics o
.sbIc business, everything that an
ana in public life ii Washington ca
.~;ratplv do to hasten the recovery .
h. chief magistrate will be swift
and eagerly done.
~ STEEL PRICE FIGHT
# one-ffth of the total steel outpu
Al the country is produced in the chs
vtct centering about Gary, Ind, al
sontb Chicago, why should raw ste'
manufactured there be loaded Wit
81 additional price equal to til
sreipht from Pittsburg to the Gan
distTict? Why this "Pittsburg baS
mice" graft for the United State
Steel corporation! j..
That question is put up to the te'
eral trade commission by five d
.teel-consuming interests the Yves
an Association of Rolled Steel Co
mrers. the Birmingham Steel ASS
cation, the oJint Committee of Civ
Associations of Duluth, the Southel
Association of Steel Fabricators, al
he state of Minnesota. The Sout
ern interests ask also why their PR
for steel should not be fixed on e
cost of production of the steel tn
actually use, which is largely made
Birmingham, Ala.
Direct parties to the Pittsburg ba
price game are the United Stat
Steel corporation and four Of its su
a1arv compenieS illinois Ste
Minnesota Stesl Ca nes;c Itccl> q
TeLlCssee Goa, Iron and kailro
company, the Steel Tube compa
and the Gulf States Steel company.
COST LOWER IN GARY
1t appears that steel is produced
lower cost in the Gary region,
the foot Of Lake Michigan, than
PittSburg. 1t gets its coal from clt
by, while the iron ore is moved to
steel mills directly by water tr'
Duluth. The ore for Pittsburg M
De shipped by rail from the near
port on Lake Erie, after its voya
from Duluth. Yet the steel tn
daimS the right to force a manu-
turer Of hayrakes, in Chicago, for
ample, to pay for steel produced
tn lower cost within As miles OF
factory the full Pittsburg cost, p
she freight rate from Pittsburg,
miles away, plus the profit that wo
be taken by Gary's corporation
steel delivered to the trade at n
Surg.
The farmer, who is the real c
sumer Of steel, may find a way to
iat0 this fight. He pays the frel
II this case, both figuratively
literally.
CUMMINS BILL FRIENDELS
Senator Cummins of Iowa, fat
81 the subcommittee bill for regu
mg the private operation of rallro;
wien is now stalled in the sen
committee on interstate commerce
vEeh he is chairman, gets conn
from nobody. Even the elabora
busy press bureau of the RAN
Business association. of which 4
g. Johnson of the Baldwin Loco
tive works, is president, has tut
Hpon him. They offer : suggest
dat would 4I~o ~.oro Of the