Great Falls daily tribune., 1920-01-08
r. r. Control Backed by
Brotherhoods is Devel-
oped Into Structure for
Shops and Farms.
Industries Divided Into
Four Classes; Freedom
Only for Individual
Business, AS Tilling.

Washington. Jan. by The AS
sociated Press) A Plumb plan for all
American industry, modelled after the
plan of the same name for the railroads
has been prepared and is expected to be
announced soon.
Copies of the plan. captioned "An
unindustrial porgram by Glenn f.
Plumb are being circulated in Wash
ington and some Of them have been
received in government circles.
Briefly. the plan proposes for all Am
erican industry the system of tri-
patrite railroad control advanced some
time ago with the backing of the great
brothe erhoods. and which, it has been
announced. will be made an issue at the
elections. II proposes virtually the same
division Of representation for capital,
labor and the public.
Industry Classified.
Industry is classed into four divisions
in this way:
One-Those individuals in ownership
and operation. including the farmer and
the small contractor and manufacturer
who is both capitalist, laborer and CON
sumner"
Two-An industries formally in
dividualst. but which. through organiza-
ton. have 50 developed that ownership
is separate from labor and concerns it
self only in direction and supervision of
production, in which it engages the eff
forts of others who have no share in
ownership"
Three-Industries based upon a
grant from society in the shape Of a
franchise, grant Of privileges or mono
poly" In this division are included all
public service corporations except those
engaged in interstate commerce. and
all industries engaged i'll exploiting
natural resources"
These latter are described as includ-
ing mines. gas and water power.
Railroads and commercial
transportation facilities. The plan ex-
plains that there nre considered sepa-
rately from the public service facilities
embraced in the third division because
the former are under local control
created by local authorities and subject
to local regulation"
Public Interest Fundamental.
The fundamental interest in these
industries, the Plumb plan declares. ''is
the need of society for the products of
that industry or the service which il
renders. that calls the industry into
being. In the first two classes. where
society has made no grant the free
WI hli- VI tht law oR bNpplS aihl
demand protects the public interests"
Public interest is defined in the plan
as follows:
1T is the right Of the public to obtain
better, cheaper or more products or
service as the progress of the arts
permits the making of more or better
goods or service at lower cost of
production. The constitution denies the
power of the public so to exercise its
power of regulation as to deprive the
owner of the property of his instru-
ment, actually honestly and prudentally
made, or of fair return on such in
vestment II society pays more than
this amount the owner retains as n
profit. society pays more than it law
fully is required to pay and the owner
receives more than he is lawfully en-
titled to receive
True Conception Of Wages.
Under the heading. Rights of labor
the plan declares that the measure or
what a workman shall receive depends
entirely upon the amount in value OF
service which he renders. He is entitled
to receive an equivalent amount in value
of the services of others. The wage
system disregar1s this human right"
In its conclusion. the resume declares.
"the existing industrial system is
crashing around our ears: that wages
bear no relation to the value of services
rendered and that profits are wrong
fully exacted.
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