Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1920-09-01

Guam, as well as Haiti, are absolutely
ruled by naval officers, and the local
people who have anything whatever to
Say about government are those will
ing to say "yes" to anything which
pleases the said naval officers. The
great island of Porto Rico, with its
more than 100000 people, is ruled by
broken down Kentucky politician.
This kind of colonial rule, which harks
back to the earliest days of English
and Spanish colonization of America,
has as it's chief motive the seizure of
sugar and fruit lands and Of public
utilities by great American corpora
troubles for these same corporations
through the use of outside military
force
Since 1915 large sugar syndicates
and the American Fruit company have
been acquiring the lands of the small
farmers throughout the West Indies,
Including Cuba, because governments
maintained by American military pow
er have made it practically impossible
for the small farmers to continue as
independent producers. During the
last year these sugar interests have
repaid the American people for assist
ing in their robbery of the West Indies
with 80 and 35-cent sugar.
And these naval governors do not
neglect acts of petty tyranny. His
democratic majesty in Guam has for
hidden whistling in public. A native
of San Domingo who wrote patriotic
verses is under sentence of death.
A "FRIEND" OF LABOR
How little the fine words for labor
uttered by politicians actually mean
lis indicated by the retention of Will
bur W. Marsh, president of the Iowa
tDairy Separator company, Waterloo,
iowa, as treasurer of the Democratic
party. Marsh is a notorious labor hat
er and has fought labor organiza
ton by all possible means, even to the
extent of disregarding the laws of his
own state. At the present time his
factory is engaged in an effort to break
up the machinists' union, and Frank
IN. Shelley of the Iowa District Inter.
national Association of Machinists is
touring the country to put the local
facts before labor bodies.
In the Democratic Manual in 1918
page As, we find: "The right of work
|ers to organize into trade unions and
TO bargain collectively through their
chosen representatives is recognized
and affirmed This right shall not be
denied, abridged or ;nterfered with in
ANY manner whatsoever" Again on
page of booklet issued by the ma
,tional Democratic committee, entitled
Progress Of Labor in Wilson Admin
1stration and Democratic Congress" we
find: 1.-THE right of laboring men tc
form unions should be upheld by gov
eminent authorities" News reports
of the San Francisco convention, on
ton of Wilbur Marsh of Iowa called
for ringing applause from the conven
ton floor Marsh is deservedly popu
lar"
Marsh, it should be said, has as his
! primary motive political career;
manufacturing is only a side issue tt
provide pin money for the family. II
would seem as if organized labor
should take care that he does not
smite labor with one hand while be
achieves his political ambitions with
| the labor votes on the other.
A RAILROAD BLUFF
For over month publicity men fol-
the railroads and employers in general
have been enlarging on how the Penn
sylvania Railroad company proved the
federal railroad administration had
employed too many men by dismissing
10000 of its employees Perhaps the
reader will recall editorials drawing
from this fact the conclusion of how
labor had to get busy when the eff
cient railroad tinanciers got back or
the job.
It was on July 8 that the announce
ment of the dismissal of this huge
force was made, and IL days later the
company issued an order placing an
embargo on the movement of freight
This order, known officially as Sup
plement No. 81 to Embargo No. $3.50
| Sheet No. 20,031, Extend Item No. 49,
reads as follows:
Account labor shortage and to re
duce accumulation, embargo all less
carload freight, including ferry cars
for movement to or via central region
of the Pennsylvania system via any
junction point in any region of the
Pennsylvania system.
Central region is defined as ex
tending from Altoona to Renova, Pa.
on the east, to Rochester, N. Y, Buff
falo;' N. Y. and Lorain, Ohio, on the
north and Columbus and Mansfield
Ohio, on the west.'
In other words, before the much
praised suspension order had beer
more than started, the railroad com
pany had to stop taking new business
and the order will never go into effect
as publicity men announced that 1,
would.
ENTHUSIASTICALLY companies
operating passenger and freight boats