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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-02-06
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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-11-07
Labor Sued for Organizing

The John Deere Pillow Company has
brought suit against the International
Association of Machinists for $4,on0,-
600
In the suit the plaintiff charges con
vpiracy to uniOnize its factory at Wa
terloo, Iowa. change the hours and
terms of labor and working conditions.
as we'll as breaking of contracts by in
dividual employees.
If the plaintiff wins in court. it will
mean that organization Of workers Is
unlawful. for the only purpose OF or
ganization is the very things alleged
in the case. More likely the suit is
brought with little hope Of success bu:
with the plan Of exhausting the union
funds In long. costly court action.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-11-07
No Goucinq Allowed

According to d report OF the Amer.
lean Trade Commissioner at Mel.
bourne. Australia, to the Department
of Commerce. dated June 7. 1919. the
Australian Wheat Board bias an
nOunced that al. sales of wheat and
-four to foreign countries will he made
by the Board alone and that charter.
Ing of ocean tonnage for full carsoes
will continue to be made for the Wheat
Board by the Commonwealth charter.
ing agents. This arrangement is ex.
pected to Offset the demand of ship
owners for higher freight rates and to
decrease the competition between the
States for ocean tonnage.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-11-07

CLIFFORD c.. HELLO
Clifford c. Held is the peace time
executive Of the Northern Division Of
the American Red Cross. He is now
engaged in putting over the Third Red
Cross Roll call, November 2 to II.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-11-07
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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-11-07
GOVERNMENT SELLS
NITRATE PLANT

Secretary of War Baker has
offered the great government nj
trate plant at Nitro, w. Va. for
=" sale to the highest bidder. This
plant including all the machinery.
warehouses, land and a city able
to house 10000 people will be sold
= as unit. and the number Of posi-.
BILE buyers is therefore very linn
tied. Only the largest corporation
would be able to pay fair wreck
age price for 1t not to mention
its value as a going concern.
The secretary of war thus
throws on the scrap heap two
principles which have the support
of all liberals OF the nation:
l. The use of the government
owned plants to break the power
of the nitrate trust over our farm.
ers.
z. Government manufacture Of
munitions Of war to abolish the
greatest vested interest in war and
the vested interest most concerned
In promoting wars everywhere.
With regard to the latter point
1t is interesting to note that the
first draft Of the league of nations
contained a plank looking toward
removing the manufacture OF nit
nit1ons from private enterprise.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-11-07

the parasites who add nothing to the
worlds wealth but appropriate,
through the power of monopoly, many
millions Of dollars worth of the
worlds neutrality-suspicious. vastly in
excess OF whit the monopolists can
use and for which no buyers can be
found, because the very process by
which the monopolists obtain these
products exhausts the purchasing
power OF those who otherwise could
furnish the necessary markets"
Mr.. Mills declared that the way to
get balanced production is to do away
with monopoly and waste and the only
way to do away with monopoly is
through public ownership. Wage
earners and farmers must unite to
secure the political power to do this.
privately owned monopoiies," said
Mr.. Mills, put a premium on charg.
ing more than the cost of the service.
Publicly owned monopolies offer the
most rational basis for price-fxing.
1t is always the actual cost of the
service.
"The principle which runs through
them all is this: Pubic ownership of
those great industries which. in their
nature, are unavoidable monopolies
and which must be either private
monopolies or public enterprises.
These monopolies are the enemies of
the farmers. They are the enemies
of the workers Of the towns. 1t is
they who push down the prices of the
products from the land. 1t is they
who push down the wages of the work
manufacturing and storage, in the final
market and through the power of the
private banks.
A New World leadership.
"America's leadership of the world
must not be a leadership which itself
is led by the exploiters of labor
Americas leadership of the world
must be a leadership vested in the
useful people of America--not in its
useless parasites.
The farmers and workers are fight
ing for the same things.
divided they can continue to de.
feat each other
United they can deliver them.
selves.
They can push down the cost of
living. They can increase the earn.
ing power of labor. They can make
an end of unearned incomes.
"Thcy can deliver our country from
the graft of the grafters.
They can establish justice.
They can achieve world leadership
on that foundation. and in that way
they may lay the foundations for a
just, a world wide and a lasting peace"
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-11-07

Farmers! Bring in your cream. We
are the agents for the Northern Pro-
duce Co., Minot, N. D., who pay the
highest market prices. PLENTY
WOOD BAKERY.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-11-07

We pay the highest market price
for butter fat. Bring or ship your
crea m to the BRENTWOOD
BAKERY, Agents for Northern Pro-
duce Co., Minot, n. D.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-11-07
Farmer Representative Chosen
to Make Leading Grafton
on September !
NEBRASKA TOlLERS UNITE
Walter Thomas Mills Shows That
Farmers and Workers Can Solve
Great Problems Only BY EIimi-
mating Private Monopoly.

passed." declared Walter Thomas
Mills in great Labor Day address
given in this city, "when rational
people among the farmers in the
country and wage.workers in the
towns can any longer be persuad-
ed that they will serve their own
interests best by leaving in pos
session and control Of the great
private mcnopo'ists the governing
powers Of the state and nation"
Mr.. Mills, we'll known as a lead
ing reformer throughout the world
and more recently as popular
lecturer for the Nonpartisan
league, was chosen by labor for
the Grafton Of the DAY to show that
labor in Omaha was awake and
that it was ready to join hands
with the organized League farm
ers Of Nebraska to restore the gov
eminent to the people.
After pointing out that some diff
ferences naturally arise between town
and country worker. because the first
soils his labor and the latter sells the
products Of his labor Mr. Mills con-
tinued:
Great Gap Between Producers.
THE products Of the farmer are SBld
to the final consumer for 70 cents on
the dollar in excess of the 30 cents
received by the farmer, but the town
workers receive only the mcrest rrac-
ton Of the 70 cents.
The difference between what the
consumers pay and what the pro-
ducers receive, creates Il great sur.
plus ear by year. which the workers
in town and country have been able
to produce with their labor, but which
they are unable to buy back for their
own use with the incomes they re-
ceive
within every country. as well as
between all countries. the greatest Of
all problems as RELAXED to those at
home or those abroad, is involved in
the disposal OF these surplus goods.
created by the Industry OF the work.
ers, but beyond their purchasing pow
or.
The Only Solution.
I'm justice and in mathematics there
is but one SolNt ion. That solution in
wolves in no way nor to any degree
any injustice to any one 1t is this:
The final selling prices Of food prod
ucts must be lowered The selling
prices OF farm products received by
the farmers and the wages Of labor
must be raised until the rewards for
service in production and the final
selling prices OF things produced shall
equal and balance each other.
Then every producer in town or
country will be able to possess him
self Of all the wealth he may be able
to create. Then any worker in town
or country can buy out of the market
with his income, values as great AS
he has put into the market with his
labor. Then every service on the farm
or in transportation, in manufacture,
in storage, III final distribution or in
the credit ser> ices OF the banks. will
be amply rewarded.
Abolish Monopoly.
The only persons to suffer will be
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-06-09
POPULAR SENTIMENT AMONG SOLDIERS AS WELL AS ALL
CITIZENS Is FOR CELEBRATION OF JUBILEE WEEK" NOW

will
Jubilee Week
H. the first the signing Of the ar growing Already
in
coming The
their protests
defer
be o
November
considerable
for
The advanced with
o the
the had
change from all a
opin
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-06-09
S0uD|FY MOVEMENT
FOR COOPERATION
American Federation OF Labor Seeks
Better Feeling Between En-
ploye and Employer.

Atlantic City. N. J.. June s.--With
America first" as a paramount issue
the American federation Of labor to-
morrow begins its first annual con-
yention since war ceased with Ger
many.
Headed by President Samuel Com
pers. great majority of the more
than 500 delegates are determined to
blaze the way for postwar policy
that will eradicate all possibility of in
dustrial despotism of few or 'po-
litical tyranny of IA majority"
They are exercising themselves to
solidify the movement for complete
corporation between employer and
employe.
President Gompers, though by no
means as sturdy physically as of yore.
is to proclaim the keynote in open
ing the convention tomorrow. 1t Will
be a ringing appeal for stamping out
anarchy and fighting shoulder to
shoulder for American ideals. The
delegates will be welcomed by Cover
nor Runyon OF New Jersey.
plans OF a group Of supposed red"
revolutionaries to invade and, II pos
sible. stampede the convention, VIII be
frustrated II the committee on cre-
dentials,. hard at work tonight. turn
ing the searchlight upon past per-
formances in their records. finds the
report OF n-Amcricanism TO be well
founded. II Gompers and the execu-
tive council control, few II any UNI
American delegates will be on the
convention roll y
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-06-09
NATIONAL wOMAN'S PARTY
RCsHES AFTER STATES

Washington. June s.--The National
governors of twenty-eight states
where women now have full or partial
suffrage to summon special sessions of
the legislatures to take action toward
rat a cati on of the constitutions
amendment. permi TT ne nationwide
suffrage. The plea to the governors is
as follows:
with the passage by congress OF
the constitutional amendment granting
suffrage to women. the struggle for
women's enfranchisement Is trans
ferred to the states.
This struggle has already taken
forty one years Of sacrifice on the part
Of the nation. Believing that you
earnestly desire it's speedy termination
and inasmuch as the legislatures of
thirty seven states will not meet in
regular session before 1891, we appeal
to you to call a special session of the
legislature at the earliest possible date
for the purpose Of ratification.
1--WE ask this on behalf of our mem
bers in your state and in order that
there may he conserved to the nation
the outpouring of strength. effort. time
and money which is the daily tolls of
the prolonged effort for woman's en-
reimbursement.
"Win you let me know II we can
count on your active support"
The communication is signed by Maud
Younger chairman OF the lobby COM
rnittee of the party.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-06-09
Discuss Deyolution
Fear of Bolshevism
Parliament Appoints Commit
tee to Investigate and Make
Full Report.
Br Robert .We.Ies Rltchie.

London. June 3-From members
of parliament with whom I have con-
versed. / have gathered clear idea
that more pressing reason the
crush OF business has inspired the re-
cent discussions OF revolution or fed
eralization of the functions Of parlia-
ment--that reason is fear of Boil
sheyism.
Call it under any more pleasa mt
name IL you wish-la Dor unrest, I'M
employment. discomfort among dis
charged soldiers and sailors. or the
necessity for wholesale housing.
The other day in demonstration
by discharged and unemployed SOL
diers, | saw banner with the inscrip-
tion.
'lsi4, for king and Countrywide,
scrap"
There is deep significance In that
terse banner which parliament can
not ignore.
Under the present system. paflia-
ment IS so choked with business tina,
many matters which ought to receive
the consideration of the full house
are left In charge OF the minister who
happens to be responsible for them
and many other slipshod short cuts
have grown up.
AT the present moment with the
necessity for the extension Of the I'M
employment dole for thirteen week s
more because 400, 900 men are still
unemployed. with the housing prob
lem unsettled. with a coal shortage
threatened for next winter because Of
the curtailment Of the working hours
Of the miners and above all, In view
of the steady drift of the masses TO-
ward discomfort. she same type OF
parliament that ruled Britain under
Cromwell cannot rule the empire un-
der George Y. \ change is inlpera-
tive.
In order to forestall mplaint from
the unionist ranks that the revolution
plan is merely a camoufiaged move to
free Ireland. Ma ior Woods resolution
for the appointment Of a psrliamen-
taly committee to investigate and re-
port on the possibility of devnlution
in England . Ireland Scotland ard
possibly Wales adds that this shah be
without pre- iudice TO any propose s
the government have in mind towards
ireland.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-06-09
FOREIGN PRESS IN ]. 5,
MUST Be ABOLISHED
Rr Justin McGrAth.

Washington. June s.--Leaders of
the Americanization movement are
understood to have reached an inter
es-ing and important conclusion
Their conclusion Is that the foreign
press in the United States should be
abolished. or at least greatly curtailed
great mass of proof that this for
itself with the elements to which it
appeals. has preached treason against
the government Of the United States
has been gathered by government
agents. This proof which Is said to be
startling in character. will be submit
ted to congress for its consideration
The baneful influence of the foreign
press in the United States on American
life, 1t is asserted, has not stopped at
un-American preaching There is
said to be proof available that many
an active influence in corrupting
American politics.
It took the experience Of the war to
reveal how great had been our failure
of assimi lation.
At Camp Upton, New York, it was
necessary to translate military laws
into forty different languages Every
camp in the country had to start spe-
cial schools to teach foreign drafted
men to read and write in English. This
condition. il is asserted was fostered
largely by the foreign press. If these
foreigners had not been able to get
papers in their language they would
have felt compelled to acquire the
English language.
I understand the subject will be
presented in sue ha way. and with such
an array of facts. that congress will
not be able to evade full consideration.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-06-09

The responsibility for the strike war
ptaced upon congress in statement
by the telegra piers. It says:
Ielegraphers. the private sec1S-
taries OF all public men. because ok
The nature of their calling, handliug@
their private correspondence over fl10
wires are well qualified to pass judy
ment on the acts of many OF thAsa.
We are given an insight to their
characters, motives. ETC.. known only
TO the individual and his confidenttat
secretary. With the knowledcos
gained in this manner the telegrnphera
has decided 1t is time to call : hall.
We assert that the responsibility tor
the present teiegraphers strike sanAse
Whatever may follow, rests with k,S0sl
congress and not with the owners az
the wire systems of the wire workers.
We demand the right to Organise
and enter into working agreements
with employers.
We reassert statements made by
us at various times to the effect that
the present telegraph systems are In
adequate and do not meet the reduir0.
ments of the business needs OF the
country that the arrangements un-
der private ownership, profits being
the first consideration, Is woefully In
efficient and a continuation OF thi1
inefficiency during the period Of re-
construction means ruinous losses to
the business concerns OF the country.
large and small.
We demand Of congress m impape
tial investigation Of the whole CUES
ton with a view to permanent Eovefu~s
ment ownership. failing In thia tn
compilers of this statement expr4
the conviction based on knowiede9k04
| the unsettled conditions throughouE
/ the country. not alone among t41o%s
graphers, but among all cFafteYuen.
that a menace threatens the peace o.
our industrial life"
Reviewing the telegraphers strike
situation, S. J. Small a former inter.
national officer, and now q prominent
local leader. said:
The buck was finally passed
to the telegraphers. The senate
missed a hole when 1t voted to
return the wires forthwith to
private ownership. The evident
intention was to return the buck
/ to Burleson He didn't want it SO
he returned the operating power
of the wire systems to the owners
and retained for the government
all the financial obligations. in
Guiding any abnormal expense
strike. In short he said to the
Western Union. I'll return operat-
ing control to you and you fight
the strikers. I'll retain financial
control and obligate the govern
ment to make good any losses
sustained by the owners"
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-06-09
k0NENKAMP SAYS
90 PCT. WILL STRIKE
Head of Telegraphers'
Union Plans for Ma
tionwide w a Tx out
Wednesday.

ChicaEo June SIS j. Konenkamp,
president of the Commercial Telegraph
ers Union Of America. arrived In
Chicago today from Washington and
began plans for the nationwide strike
which is called for Wednesday morn
complete tteup of commercial COM
panics. Canadian telegraphers, he
added. had issued instructions that no
business originating in the United
States would be handled in the Do
minion or on the Atlantic or Pacific
cables
According TO Mr. Konenkamp, 81. 900
telegraphers will Quit their keys. rep
resenting about 40 per cent OF the
Postal and Western Union employees
Although there was sentiment. he
said, among the men TO call out opera
tors of brokers' wires, il was decided
that they would remain at work for
the present American Telephone and
Telegraph employees will foin the
strike. Press associations, Mr.. Koner-
kan1j said, would not be affected at
this time The policy towards press
associations. he added. had not yet
been determined,
Messages reaching Mr.. KonenSamp
from locals throughout the country
showed unanimous support Of the strike
cali A majority OF the locals met to-
day to formulate plans for the walk
OUT
Mr. Konenkamp denied statements
o. Western Union officials which re-
ported but few men out in the South.
According to union headquarters re-
perts, 5000 men already have struck
in the Southern districts in sympathy
with the walkout Of the Southern Bell
Telephone employees in Atlanta.
This strike will mean paralysis OF
the entire telegraph industry of the
country" Mr. konenkamp said. I'VE
have tried to prevent H. but we could
not get a hearing any other day. We
found there was no board. commission
or person in Washington with power
to carry out the labor policies an
nounced by President Wilson, We are
dehting for the right to live. the right
to organize"
The Immediate cause Of calling the
strike now. Mr.. konenkamp said. was
the return OF the wire management into
the hands of the company officials by
Mr.. Bur!eson. All efforts to gain
recognition or hearing from the
Western Union management had proven
futile over course Of several years,
he said. and the only course open was
to strike.
There was hope among union ofYi-
ctais tonight that the Postal company
might sign an agreement with the
union before the strike was called but
Mr.. Konenkamp said he had no definite
inform alton to this effect