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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-09-28
San Juan. Porto Rico, Bishop Here

The Right Rev. W. A. Jones. O. =.
A.. bishop Of the Roman Catholic dio-
ccsc of San Juan. Porto Rico. is spend
ing the week at the Augustinian mon
astery at Villanova. Bishop Jones was
formerly professor of languages in
Nillanova College.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-09-28
Thomas Potter, Jr., Better

The condition Of Thomas Potter, Jr.,
Of Chestnut Hill, seriously i'll IN the
University Hospital as the result of
according to his physicians.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1920-02-28
FROM EARTH TO MARS.

The railroads are to be insured a
return of S y per cent for two years;
Kansas has enacted her anti-strike
law; the treaty is still in the do1d-
runs with Ledge still lodged against
it,: central Europe is no less hungry
than it was six months ago; the Ital-
ian Socialists have discovered that
ink wells make good missiles; for
eign exchange is growing sicker
every day; congress cares more about
getting itself reelected than about
anything else in the world, (Which
woald be good reason for not re-elect-
ing most congressrnen;) and the cost
OF living has not suffered the slight
est relapse. In view Of all Of which.
perhaps the man who volunteered to
make the jump to Mars wasn't such
d mutt after all.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1920-02-28
PECK Of OATMEAL AND
TWO POUNDS or YEAST

A shocked hush desce.-ded on the
magistrates court as Policeman Lar
jen Roomy led In the eirst case Of
intoxication since the descent Of ma
tional prohibition.
This man." said Policeman Roomy
releasing the prisoner and delicately
wiping his hands With his bandanna,
misunderstanding man sang five
songs in t same tune in the middle
Of Main street, attracting a large
crowd, spreading discomfort by the
smell Of his breath"
"For shame!" reproached Magis-
trate Trigger.
"For shanne!" echoed the court at
tendants and spectators.
And furthermore" went on the
magistrate, II demand to know by
whatsillegal means you came by the
liquor. Who sold It to you?"
Nobody" replied the prisoner. Il
made it. A peck of oatmeal, nine
raisins. a bottle Of Coozigan's tooth
wash and two pounds Of yeast
"stop" roared Magistrate Trigger
solemnly taking out pad and PEN
Gil, he commanded, Repeat that
slowly"
And as the prisoner did SO, every
=: man in the court room, jotted it down
feyerishly. /. IN. ;.s r.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1920-02-28
BLANTON CAN BLEAT.

Congressman Blanton arose in
the house the other day and said
that he wasn't a liar. He intimated
broadly that he had been called a
liar by Samuel Gompers and he
wanted it understood that on that
point he and Gompers didn't agree
Blanton then went on to discuss
Gompers; saying, this radical wolf
has been posing too long in sheep.s
clothing"
So Gompers is a radical wolf "
At last the secret is out. And that
soft black hat and long black over
coat--sheep's clothing. Which ia 70
pay them the compliment-the coat
at least-of being all wool. which
Is something not to be snoozed At IN
these days.
But seriously, what's the matter
with this man Blanton?
BlAnton remarked that in his
state 1.-THE rules of fair play nre-
vented a personal attack on women.
Did men and cripples," but the pur-
pose OF his statement is not made
clear by the press dispatches, slnca
Mr.. Blanton undoubtedly is a. man
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1920-02-28
BUSINESS UNIONS ALL
RIGHT, BUT NOT LABOR

God: What God hath joined to-
gether, let no man put asunder. And
the twain shall be one flesh.
Country: The Union Of our states to
form the United States is also a sacred
Union for which we mutually pledge
to each other our lives, our fortunes,
and our sacred honor.
Politicians: The governors of the
various states Of the United States:
have their national union to perpetu-
ate themselves in office, and further
their political ambitions land 50, like
wise, have the other state officials
their national 1ions, as. well also, for
like purpose. have the officials of
the counties and the municipalities
their unions.
Teachers: The school teachers, too,
have their unions, local, state, and ma
t1ona1, to elevate their profession, and
incidentally to get more pay.
Professions: The doctors, the law
yers, and the monsters all have their
local. their state, and their national
unions to further their own interests
90 nS1a1iSI I11S1E ClAcALS.
Manufacturers: The makers of all
kinds of things have, likewise, their
unions to control buying and selling.
Mining: The producers Of minerals,
like the 1nanufacturers, have their
unions to control production. Increase
dmand, and fix prices. fl
Business: All classes Of merchants
and dispensers, promoters and inves-
tors, capitalists and bankers, publish
ers and editors, also, Live their unions
to fix prices to their patrons.
Transportation: All the transporta-
ton companies, both by land and sea,
have their gentleman's agreement.
All these are. in tt cir very nature.
trusts, good trusts, in the name Of
God, Country and berry; tu., beyon
this, union becomes myth, de-
fusion, a heresy, and a crime, for we
tlllers always should have remained
serfs, and we toi!ers slaves.
Unions are right only: far as they
enable others to reap where they have
not sown, % eat the bread they have
not earned, and to grew rich on labor
they have not performed; and, even
to imagine unions among the work.
ers, OF the workers, = the workers,
for the workers, like imagining the
death Of the king, is treason, against
which the Country, the Politicians, the
Teachers, the Professions. the Manu-
facturers, Mining, Business and Trans
portation may all obtain 1njunctiOns.
Topeka, Kan. A. A. GRAHAM,
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1920-02-28

principle, Christianity is mistake,
characterization an error, the aboli-
ton OF slavery a crime.
"The memorial is evidently an out
growth Of the hysteria that produced
the indianapolis injunction proceed
lngs and the effort On the part of
the attorney general and others to
re-establish the inquisition under the
name Of sedition laws.
America has drifted far from her
moorings when such memorials are
seriously submitted to congress by
men assumed to be sane Americans.
"F'reedom to quit work is the es-
sence Of mans ownership of his own
body. The. right to combine with
others for this purpose is sane, pro-
gressive, constructive individualism
its denial is not Individual freedom,
but individual isolation
such attacks upon Fundamental
|Americanism are dangerous when II
is done in the name of the disinher-
tied by organization. no matter what
name they give themselves. It is
more dangerous when it is the work
of respectable citizens calling them
selves law and order leagues, or by
some other name.
1T is most dangerous and revo.
lutionary when clothed in the ,toga oil
the legislator or the ermine of the
Judge"
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1920-02-28
Editor'f Bluff and Threat Did
Not Phase Organizer SCHNEIDER

gates do not have the interests of
the men at heart They are hired
to stir up trouble and whether the
men get any benefit or whether they
lose by the conditions they try to
bring about does not matter to
them.
"In page ad in the Record-Her-
aid last week the manufacturers Of
these communities stated to- the. pub
lie their. position in regard to the
closed shop principle and came out
f1at-footed for the open shop. We
certainly commend them on the STAND
they have taken and hope to se~
the obnoxious parsonage routed OUT
Of the cottnty and his schemes along
with him. If he should see fit 70
visit Mosinee and attempt to stir UP
committee Of our citizens escort him
out Of town On a rail and see to it
that he does not return
This threat and warning only
served to strengthen the deternina-
ton Of Organizer SCHNEIDER. When
he could spare the time frocl the
other towns he mounted a train for
Mosinee and issued a call for mass
meeting Of workers. More than 400
attended, including many business
men. They declared themselves as
opposed to the sentiments expressed
in the Mosinee Times. The next day
the paper and saw mills announced
an increase In wages to its employees.
But Mr.. SCHNEIDER has not per-
mltted this concession to stop his
work at organizing and two local
unions will be chartered from Mosi-
nee before he completes his work
there
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1920-02-28
ACQUIRE GERMAN THEORY
THAT STATE IS SUPREME

Answering a. request by the New
York World for common: on all anti
strike memorial to congress by several
so-called farmers organizations, 4. F.
Of L. Secretary Frank Morrison re-
Piled:
Excerpts of farmers memorial
which you include in telegram Of Feb.
ID indicates an efter-war frame Of
mind many citizens are acquiring, and
which logically leads to the German
theory Of life that the state is supreme
and that no cherished American in
dividual rights can obtain if they in
terfere with the people as whole.
From 1913 to June, 1919, the ccst
Of living increased over IS per cent.
Workers engaged in the operating de-
partments of railroads have been adj
vanced 81 per cent during that time.
No specious pleading for the ri hts
Of the public can disguise this; low
cred living standard of 100000 citi-
zens.
"None will deny that the public has
rights. 1t also has duties and obliga-
tons, and it does not come into court
with clean hands when it evales its
obligations and insists on its rights
When the public INSISTS on justice to
those who serve it in as emphatic a
manner as it now insists on Its rights.
the cry. of the public's rights will nc
longer be heard, for then workers can
successfully appeal to the public con-
science instead of being forced to ap-
ply that unsocial method known as
the STRIKE"
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1920-02-28
Michigan Merchant Points out
How Railroad Man Is a R0bber

Advertisement Of Sidney Goldstein
in Gladstone. Michigan, Delta: I hear
that So often from everyone who is
not a railroad man that, being a busi-
ness man, shall do my best to show
YOU that lie is a + 5ber.
am a small merchant in small
town, sell dr.. goods, clothing and
shoes. A good share of my customers
are railroad men In effect, / am their
purchasing agent
In 1913 the switchm>- brought in
their eight-hour wage % me, $3.50,
"Give me a suit of overalls, Sid
took his days wages and rave him
back $40 in change. Overalls, $1.oO
the suit. Today he is robbing the pub
lic-he gets IS for eight hours work.
He comes in today and be buys over
all from me this way: Here is my
days. wages, Sid, gimme a suit of
overalls." 1 take his da, wages and
tell him that overalls have gone up.
He counters with the TACT that "he
should worry, he is getting more
money"
So l give him his suit of overalls
and tell him that they have jumped
from $3.50 a suit in 1913 to Sc a suit
now. I tell him to go b; k and work
over an hour and a half the next day
and bring me that dollar, to-, and we
will be square with one another. His
wages We're raised about 40 per cent
and his oy:ralls $50 per cent Some
body gave him 40 cents and somebody
took 23O cents from him. Ar ! he is
the 1obber you kear SO much about!
His wife bought IS yards of 10-cent
muslin in 1913, for her husbands
days wages. When she comes in my
store today with the wonderful in
crease to pay to get the 35 yards of
cotton, tell her to go back hcme and
wait until her husband works almost
Two days more, then ring me his three
days wages. and I will give her the
35 yards and 81 in change!
Somebody let him work one day in
1918 for that IS yards. Now some
body lets him work almost three days
for that IS yards.
And lie Is ont working the extra
two days in weather that is 16 below
zero for that cotton. Weather that
you would not have your pet cat out
doors for an hour. And he and his
fellow workers are the poor simrs
that are Robin gthe public.
Ii he is a condnt>tC:. fireman, engi-
neer Or rakeman, it is just the same
He gets more money, it is true, but
the same percentages hold good.
Why? Because every u,llar that that
class earns has to La earned away
from home--on the road-and It costs
him SO extra per day to live on the
road: And don't you think for min
ute he has room with a bawth!"
And I am the fellow that has to
buy for them. How am going to buy
for them when they are not making
enough money to afford the goods
that have for sale? I must have at
least seven, per cent net profit. Il am
& entitled i It'll to 10 per cent Those over
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1920-02-28

bers OF persons may put into effect
systematic saving, thereby increasing
individual financial responsibility.
"Ranks throughout the district are
enthusiastic over the new plan and
will carry ON a campaign of pub
licity to awaken interest in govern
ment securities. War Savings Stamps
may DC exchanged for Savings Ger
tlficates and incidentally the banks
OF the district are being urged to
establish minimum Of the sale of
four rs cont thrift stamps every bus
mess day and If this average is
maintained, the years increased sale
VIII amount to approximately
S2,5O0,0O0 in this district
THE partial payment plan is SIM
plicity itself.
"The person who decides TO put
his savings into these iutercst-aear~
ms government securities nes1 only
to convey this information to bis
banker whr will hand him a small
Cardboard contract on whi:k the
p'r"haae: agrees TO tax, TRASHY
Savings Certificates in a. certain
amount and That he will make pay.
ments of not less than 81 meekly,
81 semi-monthly or So monthly"
1t is explained that the partial
payment plan for the Savings Ger
t1hcates in no way affects the sale
OF Thrift and War Savings Stamps,
these securities being on sale at all
postoffices, banks and many other
business institutions and the public
schools.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1920-02-28
Banks viii Sell u. s. Thrift
Securities ON Payment Plan

Now You can buy U. S. Savings
securities on the partial payment
plan.
AS the result of a plan being
adopted by banks throughout the
Ninth Federal Reserve District, it is
possible for the public to obtain $1O0
and $1,000 Treasury Savings Certi-
f1cates-known as the big brothers
OF the Savings Stamp-by paying as
low as 81 a week.
Also, the bank agrees to place an
additional dollar to the credit Of the
purchaser when the full amount of
the certificates has been paid in. In
other words. he gets his certificates,
which actually pay four per cent in
terest, compounded quarterly, and q
dollar pickup.
The plan, which was successfully
used in the sale Of Liberty Bonds, Is
meeting with unanticipated popular
ity, according to E. c.. Kibbee, di-
rector of the Ninth Federal Districe
War Savings organization, in an
nouncing the adoption of the plan in
this district, composed of Minnesota,
North and South Dakota, Montana
and parts of Wisconsin and Michi-
gan.
while the partial payment plan
is exclusively in the hands of the
banks and no obligation on the part
Of the government arises until the
Savings Certificate is delivered to the
purchaser" said Mr.. Kibbee, "our
organization Is interested in the move
because it opens a new and con-
venient channel whereby large num-
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1920-02-28
Advocates of Auti-Strike Laws
DO Not Differ From b0]SheViki

Collectivism gone mad, with Rus
sian bolshevisn1 masking as Ameri-
ca1lism is the comment Of Andrew
Furuseth, president of the Interna-
tlonal Seamen's union, in reply to
the New York Worlds request for
a statement on an anti-strike me-
mortal issued by representatives Of
several alleged farmers organiza-
lions in this city when newspapers
were talking about a railroad strike
President Furuseth forwarded this
wire to the World:
Telegram about farmers memoir
ial received. Among other express
sions it says: The welfare of the
people must ever remain superior to
that of any class or group of people,
This is not Americanism. This
is bolshevism. 1t is exactly the
philosophy upon which the present
Russian government is based. 1t rec
ognizes no. right of the individual,
but makes the individual subservient
to the people as a whole, which I
suppose to mean the state This is
the philosophy of Trietchke Ameri-
canism, as I understand it, makes
every individual free within the linn
its laid down by the Declaration of
independence, the bill of rights and
the later amendments to the con-
stltutlon Of the United States.
IF the memorial is correct in
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1920-02-28
talk OF AMERIClNISM
IS SORT or side Line

school Life" issued by the United
States bureau Of education, reprints
an indictment Of present-day "Ameri-
canization talks and plans by Miss
Ruby Baughman, in her annual report
as supervisor Of Los Angeles (Cal)
evening schools.
"Anericanization," says the report,
lis a side line. an adendum, an after
thought, a compromise, In too many
different departments of educational
society and, governmental activity.
There Is not even a philosophy of
AUGMENTATION or decentralization,
much Of the stuff bearing that label
being concerned with what shall be
done for or to the immigrant by in
struction or. philanthropy and very
little tor ourselves SO that the thing
he sees and knows and experiences
and these constitute by far the greater:
part Of this Americanization-m be
constructive factors in that process.
There are many cities which are
talking about what they could do
for the foreigners, when the best thing
they could DO for these people would
he to make themselves clean, decent
communities.
Elemental and almost overwhelm-
ing is the necessity for an awaken
ing the entire educational force: Of
the countrysto q comprehensive, con-
certed and effective attack upon the
detailed problems of adult elementary
education.
"The present almost hysterical ex-
element over characterization must
be established into a democratic,
steady, Intelligent, concerted educe-
tional attack upon ignorance, litter
acy, social isolation ana their con-
conitant evils"
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1920-02-28

Down in Mosinee.. Wis.,, there is a.
paper mill and saw mill. There is
also a weekly newspaper that is a
willing servant Of both industries.
over in Wausau, Brokaw and Roths-
child there are a number OF indus
tries and the employees therein have
asked the Wisconsin State Fedora .
ton Of Labor to send an organizer
there to install several unions.
Acting On th's request the Wis
c:r sin state organization sent George
j. SCHNEIDER Of Appleton, former
first vice president Of the Interna-
tiona1 Brotherhood of Papermakers
to the three towns to do the, job.
Mr.. Schneider is an experienced or
ganizer and an excellent man to
make union contracts with employ
ers. He no sooner got down to work
when the 'Mosinee Tines sent him
this warning in an editorial entitled
'The Closed Shop:
During the past two or three
weeks a union agitator or walking
delegate has been making his head
quarters in Wausau, and after the
regular program of that kind Of in
dividual, he has proceeded to stir up
trouble: He is trying to rouse up
the workmen of Wausau, Brokaw
and Rothschild to join the union and
create the closed shop in those
places SO that no man can work
there unless he belongs to the union.
"Unionism in the past has done
much for the benefit OF the workmen
OF the country, but in a community
like these precincts of Marathon
county where the conditions for the
workmen are above the average
where the Unions prevail, the union
is not needed. These walking dele
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1920-02-28
The COURT HOUSE UNION

MY goodness, gracious, is it true
The noble Courthouse, grand to view
Has traitor turned and Joined y
union?
1t makes us shudder when we think
That every lads and lassie's wink
Might mean a Bolshevik COM
n1union!
And therefore, we, with wisdom's
voice,
Shout loud our screams of grim
defiance;
we are the chosen, and our noise
Comes from the Citizens Alliance
shall stones and marble now be made
Like common labor, guilds and trade
AS members of some federation ?
shall clerks in petticoats and pants,
together work like busy ants,
On Schemes to ruin, DESTROY the
nation?
How dare they thus our wills DEFY
we. whom the Lord above in
tended
10 rule all things beneath the sky.
In whose square heads all wis
dom'S blended?
we are the salt of this good earth,
AND pre-destined before our birth
10 Keep the rabble in submission
we ,)uggle food and real estate.
ana hlre some lawyer, up to date
10 give his learned and wise do.
cision;
and to this point we have arrived
NO union shall be tolerated,
"4ehout some power from us derived
And by us sanctioned. proved ,na
Iney call US names, and claim that RIO
ihou:h with advice we're ALWAYS free
When In our warm chairs wa O m
seated,
IN tricks most foul and crooked wavs.
Demurrers. motions, pleas and stays
Go all the imps and dex,;1s
cheated:
But none like us can we'll afford
TO criticise. correct q neiabhor
Anu we're appointed by the Lord
TO supervise all things that 1ahor
CHARLES LINE.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1920-02-28
WATCH AMERICA!

One Horatio Bottomley,. member
Of parliament over in England. and
editor Of a weekly spitfire called
"John Bull" wrote a piece for Mr..
Hearst's paper the other day. Bot
tomley was no less than insulting to
America, which it is some trifling
satisfaction to note in Wow of the
frequent charges Of bad manners lev
elled at Americans by Europeans.
Bottomley says, Uncle Same filled
his pockets before he filled his cart
ridge belt" Other little bits Of Bot
tomley are here set down:
"The Yankees engaged in high
sounding talk about making the
world safe for democracy. What
they meantw as making the world
safe for America"
1T seems popularity of the full
blown Yankee that he cannot be civil
in any company that respects the
memory Of George Washington"
THE suggestion that in any sense
America won the war is an insult to
the brave lads who persisted while
America sacrificed it's honor on a
cross of gold.''
do you want America to take
up her duties, sign peace and un-
ravel the economic tangle? Quite
simple; show her twenty per cent"
Bottomley winds up with the ex-
hortation watch America!"
This is rough stuff. But the temp
tation to reply as roughly is lesened
by the knowledge that BottomIey is
no more representative Of British
opinion and British character than is
Hearst of American opinion and
American character.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1920-02-28

:: alls cost me $7.25 when I figure my
net profit and cost of doing business
and I am selling them to him for six
dollars.
; l read an awful lot of cuff about
the common laborer going into the
store and buying half q dozen shirts
of pure silk, in nonchalant manner,
just a wave of the hand and a "Gin-
me them six, at SIS each.''
The railroad man in this town Of
Gladstone, Michigan, would wave his
hand a heluva long time efore he'd
get any silk shirts In this store in half
dozen lots. I'm too busy trying to
sell him the old 50 cent shirt at $500
and he is too busy trying to set
enough money to buy them, to try
any Of this handwriting stuff that
read so much about.
And if you think that I am picking
on overalls and sheeting alone, just
try me. I'll tell you about shoes,
gloves, silks, ginghams-any old thing
you want to know in my line of dry
goods clothing md shoes.
But don't call the railroad man q
rober because you won't be able to
prove it when l ask you to. He brings
me his check for two weeks work
and netwee himself, myself and the
grocery man, we figure that somebody
ought to pay him just :.Dout 100 per
cent more and then he would not be
in the same class by at least so per
cent as he was in 1913.
And don't blame the retailer-if you
do I'll let you look over my books, or
I'll sell you my store and bet you SO
to / that you cannot buy me out and
reduce his cost of living three per cent
and made a decent living (by :: decent
living I mean, figure seven per cent
net profit for yourself).