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Evening star., 1920-02-23
WANTS ARSENAL RETAINED.
Secretary Baker Advises Keeping
Government Propertv,

Secretary Baker has recommended
to Congress the retention Of ten
arsenals, three proving grounds and
seven general ordnance depots.
The arsenals are at Erie and Tully-
town. Pa; Hammontown. N. j.: Jack
sonville, Tenn: Chicago: Rochester.
n. Y; Sheffield. Ala: Muscle Shoals,
Ala. and Raritan arsenal at Metuchen.
n. J. The proving grounds are at
Aberdeen, Md: Savanna, ILL.,, and Port
Clinton. Ohio, while the general
ordnance depots are at Charleston,
S. C.; Pig Point. Va; Sparta. Wis.
Middletown. Pa; Augusta, Ga. and
South Baltimore, Md, and Pedrick-
town, n. J.
Evening star., 1920-02-23
Woman Shot Through Leg.

Ruth King. colored. twentysix
years old. 80 Jackson street northeast.
was shot through the left leg last
night about 1890 O'Clock while on the
street near her home. Size told the
police the shot was fired by one of
several men engaged in dispute over
d game Of craps She was given first
aid at the Office of physician and
later removed to Freedmen's Hospital.
Evening star., 1920-02-23
Goes From Siberia to Manila.

Lieut. Col. Robert l.. Eichelberger.
general staff, attached to the Ameri-
can forces in Siberia has been detail
ed as assistant chief of staff for mil
itary intelligence, Philippine Depart
ment, with station at Manila
Evening star., 1920-02-23

Tell your grocer you want genuine
imported Pompeian Olive Oil and take
no other-AdvertiSem
Evening star., 1920-02-23
Cant. Knox to Command BROOKLYN.

Capt. Dudley W. Knox of the Navy
has been detached from duty at the
Naval War College, Newport, r. l.,
and ordered to the command of the
U. S. s. Brooklyn.
Evening star., 1920-02-23
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BreAkfasta and Lnneheons. A h Oarea.
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Aoderate monthly ratsa -

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address
Box 1AE, Star Office.
Evening star., 1920-02-23

State Commander f. Lester Jones
will address the meeting of the Lieut.
James Reese Europe Post, No. 5.
American Legion. tomorrow night at
the Colored Branch of the Y. w. c. A.
Evening star., 1920-02-23

G. w. Harris will speak ON "Stories
of People 1 Photographed at the Peace
Conference" at the Y. w. c. A.. 1888
F. street, tomorrow evening at 1870
o'clock.
Evening star., 1920-02-23

..The Old Homestead" i'm Aim will be
shown at Hamline M. f. Church, 9th
and p streets. twice tomorrow: for
children in the afternoon at 3:15
o'clock and for adults at o'clock in
the evening. Admission free.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1920-04-03
GOMPERS RIGHT

In his recent statement regarding
the proper settlement Of industrial dis
putes, Mr.: Gompers, among other things
brought out what seem to us to be in
controvertible facts
He said, there can be no advance
mont in this country toward industrial
understanding without the frank receg-
milton Of organized labor by the en-
Ployers, as the party to be conferred
with. To attempt to ignore organized
labor, wherever possible, is to turn the
clock backward. Organized labor should
be recognized, before conference be.
gins, as the representatives of labor. \
He brings out, also, that confer
ences or commissions of adjustment
will not get far, if they attempt to deal
with labor shop by shop; for this would
make it possible to play one shop over
against another shop.
Not only the welfare, of tho work.
e1s, but the best economy Of the nation
demands that industry insofar as pos
slble be viewed in T.: national light and
that the workers be united into oreaui
cations covering whole Industries as is
now the case. with the 1920 national and
international trade unions.''
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1920-04-03
THE GREAT LAKES ROUTE

Whatever may be said for and against
the through ship route from Duluth to
the ocean from an engineering and bus
mess point Of view, the chief opposition
will arise, not from difficulties in the
plan itself, but from New York and
Chicago interests which dominate the
railroads.
The one difficult place, short pas
sage on the American side of the St.
Lawrence river, would give tho plan
heavy overhead expense, something
over $1o0,ooo,ooo, to remove it. But
former Secretary of the Interior frank
lin Lane pointed out that the electric
power to be derived from the develop-
ment would pay good return on the
cost.
New York and Chicago, however,
want the business Of the northwest
come their way by railroad, as most
OF it has to do. No matter how good the
plan is, therefore, it will have against
it this money group, the ruling interest
in the country.
Readers will recall how, during the
war, this group kept freight piling up
in New York until there was 50 much
of it there that little could be moved,
They will recall how, in the fall Of 1917,
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1920-04-03

Pennsylvania coal Was Moved by rail
around the Great Lakes to the north
west instead Of going by boat.
After the government took hold Of
the roads it stopped lot Of this profit
eering nonsense, but not in time to pre-
vent the, voorhees, days in the following
February.
Now that the roads are back the
financiers are planning to undo all the
economical routing the government
worked out, more especially the use Of
southern ports which are nearer the
middle west than the Atlantic ports.
And conservative hackers of the Du-
luth-to-t he-sea route should know that
when they shouted for return Of the
roads they were driving large nail
into this possible advantage for the
northwest
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1920-04-03
SQUATTER SOVEREIGNTY

In new lands before the surveyor has
been along with his chain; in other
words before things are civilized, title,
to- land is often obtained by souattine
on 1t. The first Corners, the pioneer
stock, arc frequently squatters.
70 show that in international affairs
the nations have not reached a civilized
state, we have only to remind ourselves
that squatter sovereignty is today the
chief title to land.
What did England do, but 90 into
Egypt and squat? What have France
ana England done around Constantine
opie, but to exercise the right of squat
ter sovereignty!
The world yet awaits a civilized or.
der i'll the disposal of land.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1920-04-03
REVERSE ENGLISH ON MEAT

There are a lot Of crooks and turns
in economies that operate in the most
unexpected ways to defeat the success
of we'll intentioned plans.
For example, Attorney General Pal.
mer initiated a cheaper meat campaign
designed to hell the little fellow. One
feature Of it was agitation for using
the cheaper cuts.
The house committee on agriculture
was holding hearing OH this matter a
few days ago. On the stand was L. D.
H. Weld, former professor Of economies
at the Minnesota University and now
economist for Swift & Co. Questioning
him was Miss Jessie Haver, legislative
agent Of the Consumers League.
And this is what has develsped: that
by pushing the market for cheaper cuts
the demand for them would increase
and the price would inevitably rise. On
the other hand the same process would
tend to decrease the demand for porter
house.: pork loins. and the more expcn-
sive cuts and PRICES on them would
logically fall.
Thus a campaign to help the little
fellows to cheaper meats would have
the opposite effect and the real bene-
fieiaries would be those who don It need
to be helped.
Which demonstrates that the suspi.
cion that Mr.. Palmer doesn t always
take clear look in various matters
| may have some foundation.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1920-04-03
Probers Favor Company Unions
Long Contab Brings Puny Results

After discussing the question for
over three months, the Presidents
second Industrial conference has made
a report. Alleged n1oldere OF public
opinion cheerfully predict that it is
the last word" on the question of
capital and labor" and that. It will
be incorporated in political platforms.
Large numbers of industrial en-
gineers appeared before the confer
ence and the net result is "ceoapany
unions" and a board Of eight members,
only two members Of which are to be
directly. selected by the workers,
The conference favors collective bar
gaining through shop unions or
COMMITTEES, which it suggests be
called "employe representation"
The proposed arbitration mediation
plan is elaborate. Over 1000 words
are used to- explain it in the briefest
manner. Details are to be worked out
by the controlling board. The plan
has no element, of compuision and it
only applies where existing arbitration
or Cancellation machinery fails. And
even then only when. the chairman
agrees that the public interests will
be furthered.
The plan provides:
Appointment by the President of a
national Industrial board Of nine MEM
bers with headquarters in Washington.
The country shall be divided into
regions and the President shall ap-
point regional chairmen ''representa-
tive Of the public interest t."
The President shall appoint a num-
Der of employers and employees in each
region to constitute regional boards.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1920-04-03
the VILLAGE GOLDSMITH
Under the spreading family tree
The village magnate stands.

Under the spreading family tree
The village nagnate stands.
In truth, mighty man is. he,
With stocks and bonds and lands.
He has no need of brawny arms,
For he has factory hands.
Ills hair is thin and so is he,
His brow is knit with lines.
His eyes are like a fox, his ears
Are like two dollar signs.
He never earned a cent because
He owns things, chiefly mines
Week in, week out, from morn till
night,
We see his figure bent.
Ills good right hand cuts coupons
= While the other counts per cent;
Singing in glee Ger what he's saved,
Lamenting what he's spent.
Talking, advising, harvesting.
Onward through life he goes.
And while the common people work,
His credit balance grows.
He always has his reaper out
When anybody sows
Like music sweet unto his ear,
Is clink of yellow gold.
1t makes him feel that with the gods
His presence is enrolled.
The devils that he curses are
Reformers bad and bold.
Ellis 0. Jones'
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The secretary of commerce and the
secretary OF labor shall recommend
these names to the President after
they have. conferred with the employ
ers and; employees of the respective re-
zgions. It is optional with the two sec.
retaries whether they be guided by
the views Of the employers and en-
ployes.
When a regional chairman'is satis-
fled that existing arbitration and con-
Citation machinery can not settle a;
dispute, he may take cognizance Of
same, if both parties agree. Both par
ties will select two names from the, list
of members of the regional board, and
each party shall directly choose two
representatives. These eight, together
with the regional chairman, (who
shall have no. vote), will constitute
regional adjustment conference to
hear the evidence and make an award.
The makeup OF these boards, then,
is as follows: A chairman appointed
by the President, four representatives
of the employer, two representatives
of the workers appointed by the Sec
retary> of labor and two representatives
Of the workers. selected by them.
If either party fails to accept the
regional adjustment conference ma
chtnery board Of inquiry shall be es-
tablished and its findings made public.
These latter boards shall consist of an
equal number from. both sides who
are members of the regional board.
!; When a regional adjuAment con-
ference is unable to make a unani-
nous agreement, the parties may re-
fer the dispute to an umpire.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1920-04-03
HENRY TURKISH THINKS
WORKERS ARE oVERPh|D

Henry furnish, Well known northern
Minnesota lumberman, is now in: the
west on business trip. He was in
terviewed by the Spokane Spokesman
Review on labor conditions and he
gave out a choice bit of enlightenment
for the benefit OF the working people
of the Pacific coast
Mr.: furnish laid stress On a false
statement that riveters in Duluth were
earning as high as $24 day. He also
had something to say Of the "good
things" enjoyed by the timber workers
Of northern Minnesota, with "every
day wedding feast for them 1t, was
q. choice piece Of rhetoric and we re-
produce it for the benefit of our read
ers- who appreciate it is, an odd bur
lesQue on real labor conditions in our
camps.
American workingmen, who are
enjoying record high wages today
and are spending most Of it OH lux
uries, had better save their money or
experience a, rude awakening when
the heavy European immigration be-
GINS" is the opinion of Henry furnish,
prominent ;, lumberman of Duluth;
Mimi, who was a Spokane visitor yes
terday. Mr.. furnish is extensively in
terested in timber holdings in the
Potlatch district and in Oregon.
Every war has been followed by
heavy immigration" he said. II look
to see a big movement to America
from the British Isles and Scandina-
via and literally millions from Italy
and central European countries. The
labor situation. is not always going to
be what it is today. Things are going
to settle back to normal.
I'm Duluth we have riveters in the
! shipyards earning s24 a day. Their
wives have bought all the diamonds
and silks in the city. These fellows
are buying silk shirts by the half
dozen. They are saving nothing.
I'm our western camps, the men
! have their pockets full of money. They
are doing for $135 month work I
used to do for SIS month. They have
baths, driers, electric lights, gymna-
Sums, Y. M. c. A., libraries and every
| meal is wedding. When I saw these
/ fellows pitching quoits for a little, ex-
ercise after their, days work, I said,
This isn't numbering
! THAT is why lumber is high and it
will continue high. The lumbermen
haven't had, their inning yet in the
general prosperity and they have had
IL pretty lean years."
Mr.. furnish is of the opinion that
a big resumption of building opera
tons will begin soon He believes it
will take many years to catch up on
the construction work that should
have been done the last five years.
Building costs are not so much a
matter of material costs as of labor
Lumber is still the cheapest item in
building COSTS" he said.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1920-04-03

sedttion law advocates no longer in
sist-publicly-that it should be un-
lawful to change our form OF govern
ment, or to elect. for instance, judges
of the United States supreme court.
The sedit1onites now say they want
to protect the government against
violence
Opponents of sedition legislation in
slst that present laws are sufficient,
and they make the point that if the
contrary were true it is not necessary
to pass a law filled with jokers
against free press and speech.
Sedition bills now pending in con-
gross make it unlawful to write or
speak. words that tend to incite." The
Davey bill, which is being urged by
Attorney General Palmer, makes ille-
gal "any act of terrorism, hate, re-
venge or injury
Under our form of government
penal law is laid down with clarity.
It is stated definitely, ard when a man
is charged with crime it is clearly de-
fined in the Indictment. Sedition law
is based on opposite principles, and the
prejudices of federal Judges and dis
trict attorneys have full sway in de-
! filming what is meant by terrorism"
! "hate'' or tending to incite.'' AS there
can be no fixed rule for these terms,
government by law is replaced by gov
! eminent by men. Any strike of wage
earners could be held seditious by a
federal court where the public press
has developed a feeling against the
workers as in the steel and Goa
strikes.
Testifying before a. house commit.
tee, Alfred Bettman opposed seditior
legislation in any form and insisted
that: it's adoption would have: an effec'
contrary from that intended. Mr.
Bettman was special assistant Unitet
States attorney general and was il
immediate charge of the espionag
cases in. Washington until last May
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1920-04-03

served, not for the people Of today
alone, but for the people of all time
to come. Should the plan offered by
the Hibbing delegates be adopted by
the people of Minnesota there would
be created a fund in SO years of from
$500 100000 to $500,000,000. This in
vested in government securities would
yield a permanent annual revenue to
the people of Minnesota of from $15,-
100000 to $25,0oo,000. The plan is
scientifically perfect, morally sound
and logically unassailable. 1t is the
only kind of tonnage tax that is JUS
tifiable. Only cheap politicians will
turn it down. Honest statesmen will
recognize it in both justice and merit.
"After Us the Deluge."
1t may be argued that it will be
well enough to change the cohstitu-
ton to provide for a permanent. In
vestment fund later, and the first
thing now to do is to pass tonnage
tax law. Experience has too we'll
proven that if the people Of southern
Minnesota now living once enjoy less
taxes as the result of a tonnage tax
law they will never vote to release
any part Of the money derived there
from for the people of coming gen.
! erations. After us the deluge.''
However, The Labor World is not
disheartened. While the labor con-
vention went wrong on a tonnage tax
its declaration thereon by no means
commits the labor men of northeast
ern Minnesota. They will continue to.
fight for right and justice in taxation
| as in all other things. They will do
nothing to promote sectionalism within
Minnesota. They will vote for men and
measures favorable to their interests
! and the interests Of all the. people.
And they will not be found wanting
whenever any labor issue Is involved,
be it In the political or industrial
field. &: s3.t.s ss}. ;@. !. HI
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He declared that the history Of
every country proves that repressiye
laws have failed OF their purpose.
"Personally," he said, II think it is
Psychological or physiological fact
that suppression increases the rebel
lious feeling, so that there is q certain
safety in not tnstituting a policy Of
suppression. 7 am not now talking
about acts against the state. am talk.
ing about the man who commits any
act against the state The man who in
cites riot-and riot means; that
somebody attacks somebody, or some.
thing-the man that incites that thing
should be held guilty. and should be
punished accordingly. i quote one Of
the favorite quotations., and one Of lthe
best ones is from the speech Of Lord
Erskine to the jury in the famous
case Of Thomas Paine. Thomas Paihe,
during the period that I am describe
ing to you. was indicted in England
under the seditious libel act for Book
Second of the Rights of Man. Frs
kline said:
when men can freely COM ;.
sufferings, real Or imaginary,
their passions spend themselves
in air. like gunpowder scattered
upon the surface. But pent up by
! terrors, they work unseen, burst
| forth in a moment and destroy
| everything in their course. Let
| reason DO opposed by reason, and
f; argument to argument, and every
good movement will be safe. Thus
| have maintained, by English
history, that. in proportion as the
press has been free, English gov
! eminent has been secure
"And think that" said Mr.. Bett-
man, lis true in Am erica, and that
it is true Of all countries. That in
proportion as speech is. free, every
GOOD government is safe.''
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1920-04-03
CANADA'S COMEBACK

Canada has been quick to capitalize
the recent heavy exchange rates
against her.
1t is exceedingly simple.
The exchange rate is Is per cent, that
49, $50 in currency of the U. s. A. is
worth 800 in Canada.
50 Canada is seeking to attract still
more settlers from this side of the line
oS advertising that they can save SIS
on every 500 they invest in farms
there' On section Of land at 500 an
acre, this saving would amount to
1890.
IL an Ill wind that blows nobody
good.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1920-04-03
A GOOD FRIDAY pRavrp

y Merciful God, who hast made 81,
men IN Thine image and whose love
VIII let none go, give to us a new
v:sion OF Thy Son whose death on
calvary we today recall. Grant to
men everywhere a new Appreciation
o. the meaning Of Christ:s sacrifice
1or the world. Forbid that men ana
nations again release the Barabbas Of
seit,shness, and cruelty anew the
Chr'st. Lift up their eyes today to
see tne cross that towers DER the
*recks OF time. Give to the world
who said IT I be lifted un viii
draw all men unto me-: that a. ue
90 today to self we may pass on
Easter Day into the joyful resurre:.
ton OF a life that is hid with Christ
in God. And this We ask in Jesus
Name. Amen. -
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1920-04-03
TAXES AND GOVERNMENT BONES

Former Secretary Of the Treasury
McAdoo is out with a propCsa; that
congress shall reduce taxes end meet
government expenses through the sale
OF bonds Mr. MeAdoo suggests that
this bond issue should be abou: $780,
100000 year for at least two years.
Secretary Of the Treasury Houston
opposes the scheme on the ground that
the United States government could
not dispose Of bonds to any consider
able amount without forcing the inter
est rate to about six per cent.
These statements, coming from two
such distinguished gentlemen. are
worthy OF more than passing notice.
When Mr.. McAdoo talks about ere
ducing tsxatioA' he has in mind, Of
course, a re-. Iction in the income tax
and the inheritance tax, and when he
SAYS that "the people of this generation
Should act be burtlened with the total
cost c.: the war; he means that, those
who Gre now paying income tax and ir-
heritan e tax should be permitted to
keep tho money. instead Of turning it
over TO the government.
In vic;f Of the fact that we created
$4,000 new mi!lionaires during the war,
no argument is necessary to show who
would be the chief bencficisries Of Mr..
Mc.tdoo's suggestion.
President Wilson once publicly de-
cared that any man who made for
tune out Of the war would be disgraeed
for all time. A great many high toned
gentlemen were willing to sacrifice
they regulations in order to fatten
their bank accounts And row they are
insisting that they shall be permitted to
retain every dollar of the money thus
secured.
The Labor World confesses A very
sincere admiration for Mr.. McAdoo, but
it caanot go with him on his latest ad-
venture. The tax Oh large, incomes
should be increased rather than de-
creased, and the Inheritance tax should
be used to break up the vast fortunes
which have become serious menace to
the republic.
Secretary Houston s objection to Mr..
MeAdoo's plan confirms statement
which has been made in these columns
on a number of occasions In opposing
the enactment Of the Cun,mins- Esch
Dill, returning the railroads to private
ownership, The Labor World pointed
out that the government was guarantee.
ing return Of 515 or 6 per cent on
fA'!. os.d securities, and that the frs,
effect would be to reduce the value OF
Liberty bonds and to increase the value
of the watcred stock of the railroads
That is exactly what has happened
and now the Secretary Of the Treasur,
tells US that if Uncle Sam needs to Dor
rev Il little matter Of billion dollar;
ne Will be compelled to pay per cen
year for it. The only reason for ask
ing the government such all cutrageou
rate OF interest is to be found in tn
fact that we have foolishly guarantee,
the securities Of private enterprise an.
we cannot expect capital to invest il
government bonds at AZ per cent whe,
1t can secure stock with a cocsiderabl
speculative value which is guarantee
by the same government TO produce a
least 54s per cent.