The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1920-07-15

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if the latter is an administration man.
LABoR'S NEW POLICY
Years will have passed before the
old-style statesmen realize the i'm
portance of the vote-29,000 to 5000
by which the Montreal convention
of the American Federation of Labor
committed their 100000 members
to the Plumb plan of government
ownership and democratic operation
of railroads. There was the crossing
of the Rubicon for the movement
which had been so carefully shep-
herded by Samuel Gompers, through
40 years, away from the idea that Ia
Dor could control the political state.
One of the biggest men in the con-
vention-Secretary Green of the
United Mine Workers-declared that
the time had come when labor must
take it's share of political burdens,
and that he welcomed the program of
government ownership because it gave
political work by the organized work
ers. Democratic operation meant self
reliance and training and initiative.
The workers must develop their full
faculties to solve the problems in
volved in railroad operation. They
must make the operation of the roads
democratic in fact, and this meant that
labor must be in politics as a unit,
and for it's own program.
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DISABLED SOLDIERS sTUNG
Disabled soldiers who have under
gone vocational training are the latest
class to be made victims of joker in
an act of congress.
These crippled and injured veter-
ans were led to believe that the new
law would give an increase of $40
month in pay to those who were in
training under the vocational educa-
ton board. That was what the law
was drafted to give them. But after
it had been signed someone discover
ed that it had been changed some
where in it's route through congress
so as to limit this payment to such
men, in course of training, as are
living where maintenance and sup
port is above the average and COM
paratively high
The board announces, with regret,
that as the new law does not give it
any means Of determining what is
comparatively high" or of getting
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payments must be delayed until it
has arranged some rough and ready
way of determining these points.
There must first be made a nation
wide survey of the cost of food and
shelter, and this will have to be done
through district officers. Then the
board will have to guess at whether
congress meant Comparatively high"
to refer to localities or to times.
There are 365 lawyers in congress
and only dozen farmers.
SHIPPING TRUST MOVES
A conference has been held here
during the week between the ship
ping board and private advertising
agents, to prepare for big adver-
Using campaign for the sale of gov
eminent ships to private corporations.
A director for this advertising drive
has been appointed. The game is to
get the American public, and especial
ly the chambers of commerce in the
cities, enthusiastic over the profits to
be derived from shipping companies,
and to induce them to form such COM
panies, buy ships from the board on
partial payments, and go out and de-
velop trade routes to Asia, Africa and
South America.
At the same time, the big shipyard
owners have been in town, talking
with the shipping board and refusing
to continue the uniform national
agreement as to wages and hours and
conditions of labor in the shipyards.
The industry is slumping, and the
shipyard owners have decided to
break away from union agreements
and each try his luck at breaking down
the conditions secured by the unions
during and since the. war. 4
AS there is a fairly close bond of
sympathy between the trades that
make ships and those that load and
sail them the advertising campaign
may yet prove very necessary indeed
to persuade canny investors to try
their fortunes in the game.
THE COOPERATIVE BILL
The department of agriculture does
not want to have any administrative
control or judicial power under the
Capper-Volstead bill, if and when that
measure is passed. That was deter
mined at conference of bureau heads
the other day. The bill has had two
forms. One provided that the decision
as to whether a cooperative associa-