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The Chicago whip. (Chicago, Ill.) 1919-19??, 1920-01-03
LESSON IN NEW. YORK STRIKE
Recent Walkout Of Lonsshoremen
Costly In. More Respects Than In
the Amount of Money Lost

At fne rates OF pay prevailing before
the strike, the New York longshore-
men have returned to work. What
they lost in wages is estimated at S.
100000. The losses TO which they sub
jected others were many times that
amount, those sustained by the steam
ship companies exceeding S35OO,o0O.-
This insensate demonstration" last
ell month. II establishes n0sprece-
dent In that self-assumed obligation
were repudiated--that has become
commonplace, but 1t was otherwise re-
markable, if not without a parallel in
the history OF labor disturbances.
Foremost among those who de-
nounced it were the leaders OF the or
ganization to which the strikers be-
long. When the men walked out. they
left every obligation behind them. 10
the sacrifice of the final yestige. Incl
dental 10 their financial rehabilitation
should come the cultivation of self
respect. Its loss Is beyond computa-
tion.-New York Times.
The Chicago whip. (Chicago, Ill.) 1919-19??, 1920-01-03
Saws Worlds Need Is Production.

Referring to the demand of striking
coal miners In this country for 30
hour week +. N. Parsons of Canada,
an employers delegate, told the in
ternatlonal labor conference at Wash
ington that there Is greater need for
minimum limit Of hours Of work, to in
sure increased production, than for a
reduction in the maximum number of
hours.
The world is not suffering on ac-
count of long hours" he said. ut Is
suffering on account of lack of food
and cl0thing. There are a hundred
million people in the old world ON the
verge of starvation. Not one-third OF
the Industries of the world are produc-
ing to full capacity. Since the intro
duction OF the eight-hour day In France
there has been 20 per cent reduction
in production"
The Chicago whip. (Chicago, Ill.) 1919-19??, 1920-01-03
Hjoher WAGES for Railway Men.

The board of Cancellation appointed
TO consider The demands for higher
wages and better working conditions
presented by tie employees of the
British Columbia Electric Railway
company. which owns and operates the
street railway systems of vancouver,
Victoria and New Westminster, and
several interurban electric lines. has
handed down unanimous report. In
brief the award recommends a general
increase of : cents an hour and some
changes In working conditions. Some
Of the latter We're asked for by the
company and some by the men. The
award will probably be accepted by
both sides A peculiar feature is the
fact that the company offered as good
terms as the award provides for some
time before The Cancellation board was
appointed.
The Chicago whip. (Chicago, Ill.) 1919-19??, 1920-01-03
Labor Party to Reoruanize.

Recent victories of the labor candi-
dates in the Ontario elections have
given u great flip 10 the Independent
labor party IN Canada. While it has
been ia existence for few years, It
has taken little or no part In politics,
hut at recent meeting it was decided
10 reorganize the party aud 400 men
made application for admission. An
additional 1000 application cards have
been distributed among labor unions
In the city. Permanent quarters are
to be obtained and the organization
Is preparing TO enter the fields of
municipal, provincial and federal cleo
tIons.
The Chicago whip. (Chicago, Ill.) 1919-19??, 1920-01-03
UNIONS RIGHT
TO AMALGAMATE
President of Carnegie Institute
at Pittsburgh Takes an
Extreme View.
WOULD MAKE IT UNLAWFUL
New York Newspaper Points Out the
Fallacy of His indictment of Labor
Leaders - Centralized Control Has
Worked Well.

1t Is an extreme view that Samuel
Harden Church, president of the Car
negie institute at Pittsburgh, takes in
relation TO trade unions. Speaking OF
their leaders as the idle rich of the
country" who are seeking To gain
complete control of all the sources of
production and distribution" he says
the time has now come when the
American Federation of Labor ought
10 he dissolved" by the same authority
that checked capitalistic combination
in the Northern Securities case, and
that "it should be made unlawful for
two or more unions to amalgamate."
AS Mr. Churnhs strongest indict-
ment OF organized labor applies 10 its
leaders, often mistaken and sometimes
violent, probably he will admit ON re-
fiection TINT The multipli alton Of lead
ership cannot be regarded as remedy.
But fedora ton does much more than
eliminate n great variety of subord-
mate bosses. 1t simplifies and stabll-
ICES industrial conditions; places EN-
ployers as well as employees upon
common ground; operates as check
upon INSCRIPTIONS competition, and
when honorably enforced makes for
justice, equality and peace in wide
areas.
The right and the desirability of la
bor organizations and collective bar
gaining being conceded. ii is evident
that the greater their scope the more
serylceable industrially and economi-
cally they must be. Nearly all pioduc-
tive enterprises today deal with sew
eral labor unions. Although il has
failed grievously at times. federation
as rule has harmonized and disci-
plined the old independent shop organ
cations that once were very uncer-
tain law unto themselves. With labor
ms with men generally, leadership is
the most important consideration. The
more centralized that control becomes
the easier It will be to do business
with II when it is well disposed and to
correct It by law when It is at fault
New York World.
The Chicago whip. (Chicago, Ill.) 1919-19??, 1920-01-03

Paul II. Blanchard, former congrega-
tional minister of Boston and Tampa,
Fla, was fined sfto and sent~4 ed TO
so DAYS In jail by Justice Crouch In the
New York supreme court
The judge held Blanchard, who Is
nm organizer of the AmalgaTated Tex
tile Workers who have been on strike
mt Utica for ten weeks, was guilty OF
contempt of court for violation OF an
Injunction order restraining the
strikers from plcketing one of the
mills. Blanchard was charged with
inviting strikers TO picket with view
to intmidate after such proceedings
had been restrained by court order.
The Chicago whip. (Chicago, Ill.) 1919-19??, 1920-01-03
DECLARE DALLAS OPEN SHOP
Business Men or Texas City Decide
Unions Are Menace to the Wei.
fare Of the City.

Declaring CONTINUED and uereason-
able demands of labor unions menace
TO city's welfare" and that they will
no longer ''dealwith men who fragrant
ly break their contracts" business
men and industrial heads OF Dallas
CTex.) adopted the ''open shop plan.
This means In future unlonists must
work With nonunion men II they work
mt all. Labor leaders declare this
means general waikont and tienp in
the industrial world, but business men
say they are prepared TO meet the
emergency and viii fight the matter
out. Public opinion in Dallas IL said
to be behind the business men in the
open shop move.
The Chicago whip. (Chicago, Ill.) 1919-19??, 1920-01-03
DENIED CITIZENSHIP
PAPERS TO STRIKERS

Five striking coal miners ap-
peared in the United States Dis
trict court at Pittsburgh, seek
ing citizenship papers. Judge
Charles +. Orr refused TO grant
their applications. He said the
government had ruled the coal
strike was Illegal and added,
"You could not faithfully take
the oath OF allegiance and re-
main on strike In the existing
circumstances"
The Chicago whip. (Chicago, Ill.) 1919-19??, 1920-01-03
Wages Up Without Strike.

Five large trades of Great Britain,
having taken their grievances TO the
court of arbitration without recourse
TO strike, have obtained Il raise in
wages of Sl.25 II week.
The trades benefited are the en-
gineers, the shipping industry. rail
way shopmen and heating and domestic
engineers.
The increases were granted for the
reason that considerable increases
In prices will take place during
the winter.
The Chicago whip. (Chicago, Ill.) 1919-19??, 1920-01-03
offered Voice in Management.

Premier Lloyd George has offered the
rallwaymen's union membership in
committees management of the roads
with railroad directors and government
officials. according to statement by
J. IL. Thomas, general secretary of the
British National Union of Railroad
men.
Mr.. Thomas announces that the gov
eminent also has made definite of
fer of new machinery TO deal with
wages of railwaymen and settlement
OF disputes. Both offers were made at
n conference of the premier with del
ignition from the National Union Of
Railwaymen.
The plan will be submitted TO the
executive of the union for decision.
The Chicago whip. (Chicago, Ill.) 1919-19??, 1920-01-03
New York Labor Troubles Costly

Strikes In New York have cost work
ers so far this year over S23,0o0,0O0
I'm wages, not including the shorter
strikes lasting few days to week.
Cigarmakers, returning to work
after four months strike with only
10 per cent increase, lost $10000,00o
In wages Workers In longshoremen's
strike, returning to work on n pre-
strike basis Of 65 cents an hour and
81 overtime, have lost $S,000,OO0, while
wage loss to clerks, teamsters. and 9th
ers connected with tieups is $1,000, 900.
The Chicago whip. (Chicago, Ill.) 1919-19??, 1920-01-03
Build Toilers' Home in Rome.

Forty million lire, or approximately
sS,000,000, has been appropriated by
the Italian council OF ministers to be
given as mortgage TO the real es-
tate union for the construction of cot
tages and other living quarters for The
lower middle classes. There is a
great dearth of living quarters In
Rome, while building is made impos-
sibIe, ewing to the prohibitive price of
materials.
The Chicago whip. (Chicago, Ill.) 1919-19??, 1920-01-03
$4,000 Idle In Germany.

Approximate. 100000 persons
throughout Germany are now drawing
the benefit insurance Of the unem-
ployed says an official labor bulletin.
Since June. it Is stated, the number
Of voorhees, has gradually decreased.
the largest proportion of them being
in the big cities. In Berlin they aver
age forty-two of every 1000 Of the
population.
The Chicago whip. (Chicago, Ill.) 1919-19??, 1920-01-03
To discuss Mine Naturalization.

A special congress composed OF
representatives of all organized labor
was called 90 meet In London in De
cember to discuss the nationaijgat ion
OF the mines. 1t viii consider what
action might he taken to compel the
government to bring into effect the
recomme idation of the Sankey com
mission that naturalization be ef-
fected.
The Chicago whip. (Chicago, Ill.) 1919-19??, 1920-01-03
Police Surrender Union Charter.

The Knoxville (Tenn.) police, The
first In the country to affiliate their
organization with the American Fed
Grafton of Labor, by a vote of to l,
have decided to surrender their union
charter. The decision TO give up the
charter, il was said, was due to criti-
cism of the police activities in disor-
ders in connection with the street car
strike
The Chicago whip. (Chicago, Ill.) 1919-19??, 1920-01-03
Avoid the Lash
Of the Whip.

VIM Jones, Pres. Kid Caldwell. Sec'y
Walter Luney. v P. Jack Green, Bus. Mgr.
THE JONES ATHLETIC CLUB
AND BOXING SCHOOL
zs1e South State Street
One of the finest and most complete Gym
nasiums in Chicago
CLUB OPEN DAY AND NIGHT
tific Bouts and Interesting Battle Royals
We make specially of Furnishing scen-
for all occasions
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Rock Island Argus., 1920-02-23
|MuRMANSK IN
HANDS OF REDS

London, Feb. 23.- Bolshevik
forces have seized Murmansk and
shipping in the harbor there, fol-
lowing a revolution, which broke
out at that port Saturday afternoon,
according to Lloyd's dispatch
|, from Vardo. Norway.
News of the capture was brought
to Vardo by a Russian steamer from
Murmansk in charge of two British
and four Belgian officers. 1t was
the only vessel to escape seizure
but was riddled with machine gun
fire and the captain was wounded.
Murmansk is situated on the Muir
man, or Kola, peninsula, jutting
eastward from Finland and north
of the White sea. 1t is northwest
of Archangel and across the White
sea from the district which was
taken over by the bolsheyiki late
last week.
Delegates In Esthonia.
Reval. Esthonia, Feb. 23.-Two
bolshevik delegations have arrived
here, one to administer the provi-
sions of the peace treaty between
soviet Russia and Esthonia, and the
other to direct the reopening of ex-
port trade with western Europe
through the Russian cooperative So
cieties. Both the delegations are in
wireless communication with Mos
COW. Their members will enjoy
the same privileges that Esthonia
extends to diplomatic representa-
tives of other nations.
Rock Island Argus., 1920-02-23
naval HoN0RS
PAID TO PEARY
Remains Of Explorer Ride 10 Grave
Under Flag He Carried to
the North Pole.

Washington, Feb. 23.-The body
of Rear Admiral Robert f. Peary,
discoverer Of the north pole, was
laid to rest in Arlington cemetery
today with the full naval and mil
itary honors and with the high Of
ficials and Off GERS of the govern
ment and the diplomatic corps pres
ent to pay last tribute to the world
famous explorer. Because Of the
high naval rank bestowed upon Ad-
miral Peary, with the thanks of
congress, the ceremonies were in
charge Of the navy department and
Captain Carroll @. Wright, chap
lain at the Washington navy yard,
conducted the religious services.
The casket was carried to the
cemetery on gun timber, draped
in the national flag which Admiral
Peary raised at the north pole. A
troop of cavalry and a battery of
artillery formed the military escort
which led the way to the grave. At
the cemetery, company of blue
jackets fell into line with the army
escort and three volleys of the last
salute were fired by a squad of
sailors from the presidential yacht
Mayflower. A navy bugler sound
ed taps"
Rock Island Argus., 1920-02-23
STATE And US. CLASH ON PROHIBITION
British Press Out for
Peace With the SOUietS

depriving the rest OF the world Of
the Russian grain supply? Surely
there is only one answer, peace.
which would be altogether better IL
it could be obtained on the proper
terms" -
Opposition Political.
Similar views are taken by the
Daily News, which says:
"Since there is not to be war with
Russia, there must be peace. BY
what right does a handful of poll
ticians condemn their democrasies
to needless hardships and the de-
mocracy of Russia to hardships
four-fold more acute, by prohibit
irg natural and beneficial ex-
change Of needed commodities?"
I'VE have to make up our minds
frankly to a resumption of rela-
tions," says the Express. There
is only one government with any
authority in Russia. The, choice
has become one between ramming
ones head against a stone wall and
overcoming prejudice"
Rock Island Argus., 1920-02-23
FINANCE HOLDS
STAGE Center
FOR TEACHERS

Cleveland, Ohio, Feb. 23.-Eyes
OF the national school teachers and
the educational world were
focused on Cleveland today when
5000 delegates of the so school
organizations affiliated with the
National Education association
opened a five-day convention to
deliberate on American school
problems.
While the main sessions OF the
associations convention will not
open until tomorrow various allied
departments and organizations be-
gan conference today.
Chief among these was the meet
ing of the Association of College
Teachers Of Education at which DR..
George D. Strayer of Columbia uni
versity, Dean william B. Burris OF
Cincinnati, spoke on the Smith
Towner bill. which proposes a ma
tional secretary of education and q
federal subsidy of $100.000.000 for
public schools. DR.. Strayer de-
Tended the bill and Dean Burris op-
posed it.
This afternoon Philander c. Clax-
ton, United States commissioner Of
education, is scheduled to address
the school gardens section.
Rock Island Argus., 1920-02-23

London, Feb. 23.-Premier Lloyd
George and Premier Nitti are 'be-
lieved to favor resumption Of reia-
tions with soviet Russia. although
Premier Millerand of France is not
inclined to agree to any immedi-
ate action. according to the Daily
Mail. The newspaper says this
problem must be considered by the
supreme allied council at its ses-
sions. which begin today.
1t is maintained by the Chronicle
that "all candid minds must recog-
nize that. as no anti-bolshevik Or
ganization exists any longer, soviet
Russia is now Russia"
Need Russ Help.
do we want peace?" it asks, cor
do we want to continue the block
ade, with the risk of incurring the
hostility of the Russian govern
ment, and military reprisals against
the Let's, Poles, Rumanians, India
and Mesopotamia, at the same time
Rock Island Argus., 1920-02-23
LEAVING ARMY
AT SURPRISING
RATE OF LATE
Many Officers Quit in Is
Months As in 20 Years
Before.

Washington, D. c., Feb. 23.-Of a
total of 4,502 designations of officers
of the regular army during the last
seventy years, 1892, or Sill per cent
have taken place since the armistice
was signed, Nov. IL, 1918. The
number of regular officers who
have resigned since the armistice IS
% per cent Of the total in service
at that time.
At the beginning of the civil war
277 regular army officers, or 27.6
per cent of those then in the serv-
ice, resigned, most of them to join
the confederacy.
Between Jan. l, 1850, and Nov.
II, 1918, period of nearly sixty
nine years, 2,200 officers of the reg
ular. army rendered their resigna-
tions, compared with 1902 resigna-
tions during the 16 months since
the armistice.
Rock Island Argus., 1920-02-23
BILLION MORE
IN TAX after
AUDIT IS MADE

Washington, Feb. 23.-Collection
of at least one billion dollars addi-
tional income and war profit taxes
is expected by internal revenue Of
ficials to result from an audit of
the consolidated tax returns of
affiliated corporations. Seven hun
dred expert accountants and 900
clerks will be employed.
Revenue officials say no fraud is
involved, that it is simply a case of
errors in calculations.
Already 200 of the 14,500 returns
of this class have been audited and
show additional taxes Of SAL SOC, 900
leading the revenue collecting ofic-
ials to believe that their estimate
of at least a billion dollars is con-
servative.
Rock Island Argus., 1920-02-23
END MARTIAL
AT LEXINGTON, KY

F., Lexington, KY, Feb. 23.-Martial
law, instituted here following riot
ing Feb. 3. in which six persons
were killed and many wounded in
a mob's vain attempt to capture and
lynch William Lockett, negro. end
ed yesterday at Z o'clock.
OF the several hundred troops or
iginally sent here only four officers
and 20 enlisted men remained.
They entrained for Camp Taylor.
Lockett, who was. convicted of
the murder Of 12-year-old Geneva
Hardman, is at Eddyville prison,
awaiting execution of the death
sentence.
Rock Island Argus., 1920-02-23
join CRY FOR
EXPULSION Of
TURK IN ASIA
Morgenthau Agrees With British
Church Opinion, but Premier
Is Firm.

Philadelphia, Feb. 23.-Henry
Morgenthau, former United States
ambassador to Turkey, declared in
an address that the Turks should
be driven from Europe and urged
Americans to make strong protests
against Outrages which he said
were continuing in the near east
Protest in Churches.
London, Feb. %. - Protests
against the Turks retaining their
hold upon Constantinople were
made in several churches here yes
terday and the subject continues to
be conspicuously featured in Brit
ish newspapers A=number of the
most prominent people in the Coun-
try, including the archbishops of
Canterbury and York, other lead
ing clergymen, university profess
sors, literary and scientific men
and politicians, have memOrialized
Premier Lloyd George, earnestly
opposing a policy which would
leave Constantinople in Turkish
hands.
A strong attack is made upon the
government by the Times, which
alleges that the present reversal of
policy which Lloyd George and his
colleagues have adopted was not
the mere result of French pressure,
but was British decision.
Lloyd George Firm.
Lloyd George is not likely to alter
his opinion that the Turks should
remain in Constantinople, according
to the Daily Mail, which says he
considers. himself bound to a
pledge to that effect, given in 1915
in the course of a statement as to
war aims before members Of the
labor party. Moreover, the Mail
says, he considers dispossession OF
.. the Turks would have a serious eff
feet upon Moslems in India, Meso-
potamia and the near eat He is
said, however, to have prepared a
compromise by which Turkish in
fluence would be restricted to the
city of Constantinople.
Rock Island Argus., 1920-02-23
NEWbERRY PUT
$500 IN FUND
FOR ELECTION

Grand Rapids, Mich. Feb. 23.-
After several unsuccessful attempts
to get in the record the fact that
Senator Truman H. Newberry gave
the Republican state central COM
mittee $1,000, the government ac-
complished its object at the close
of today's morning session of the
big election conspiracy trial. Colonel
Fred w. Green, treasurer of the
committee in 1918, gave the testi-
mony and fixed the date as Nov. 49,
1918. He was asked only three
questions by Frank C. Daley, as
sistant attorney general, and was
not crOss-examined.
The government also read into
the record a bunch OF deposit slips
from the Commonwealth Savings
bank of Detroit. They showed de-
posits to the credit Of the Truman
H. Newberry senatorial committee
of $176,856 between March % and
Sept 6, 1918, with $73,456 Of this
deposited on the fourth and sixth
Of the latter month.
Rock Island Argus., 1920-02-23
SOCIALISTS OF
FRANCE PROVE
THEIR LOYALTY
Propose to Read Slackers
During War Out. of
Their Party.

Paris, Feb. 23.-Members Of the
Socialist party who at the last
election declared their opposition to
members of the organization who
had voted in support of war meas
ures in the chamber of deputies
have been excluded from the party
in a resolution adopted by the
executive committee of the Social
list Federation Of the Seine. This
decision must be ratified by the So
cialist congress at Versailles before
il becomes effective.
Rock Island Argus., 1920-02-23
LABOR LOSES
RAIL BATTLE.
I'm CONGRESS
Fights on After House
Passes Bill and Senate
Vote is Near.

Washington, Feb. 23.-President
Wilson's proposal for settlement OF
the railroad wage controversy and
the railroad bill. pending in the
senate, were bitterly assailed IN
the conference here today OF the
railroad union officials and griev-
ance committeeman who were call
ed to Washington to discuss the
settlement policy laid down by the
president.
Back Protest to Wilson.
Indications were that a strong
element perhaps a majority of the
union leaders, would demand that
railroad labor stand together in an
appeal to the president to veto the
Cummins-Esch measure because OF
it's labor provision. Some regarded
it as destroying all progress made
during the negotiations with Di-
rector General Hines towards
settlement of their demands for
higher pay.
Representatives of the Is organ
izations concerned in the settle
ment proposal met in secret ses-
sion in as many different halls
Their purpose was to formulate
their own views by majority rule
and later meet in a general confer
ence.
Senate Ready TO Act.
Washington, Feb. 23.-The con-
ference report on the railroad bill
passed Saturday night by the house
was called up in the senate by SEN
atOr Cummins, chairman of the in
terstate commerce committee, who
obtained unanimous consent for its
immediate consideration. Its speedy
adoption was predicted.
Presenting the conference report
Senator Cummins emphasized thai
the rate guarantee section did MOI
take dollar out of the public
treasury.
"In order to prejudice it among
the people it has been termed {
guaranty of income" he said. This
is not true. There is a guaranty il
the bill of the standard return ant
against deficits continuing for si1
months after the railways are re
turned to their owners; but it's ne
icessity is obvious.
Carries No Obligation.
"The rate making section is no
a guaranty. Not a dollar is to bt
paid from the treasury on account
| of its provision and no obligation
whatever on the part Of the govern
ment is created"
He said the bill merely directed
the interstate commerce commits
sion that insofar as was practica
BILE, it should make rates tina
would yield net operating income
Rock Island Argus., 1920-02-23
TALK SENSE NOW;
ARMY TO PAY FOR
NEWSPAPER SPACE

New York, Feb. 23.-Because of
the acute news print shortage, the
recruiting publicity bureau of the
army announced today that it had
decided to discontinue temporarily
its syndicate service to 2,400 news
papers and rely entirely upon its
paid advertising.