Arizona republican., 1920-05-24

There must be an overturn in con gress. Enemies must be defeated; friends must be selected"
 Presenting an itemized list of cor poration profits. similar to that re- gently adopted by Senator Capper of Kansas. MT. Gompers declares that while 21 enumerated corporations last year received profits averaging 435 per cent above normal. the average cost of living increased 96 per cent and the average union wage 55 per cent.
 Outlines Deep Cutting" Policy
 The deep cutting measures" which Mir. Gompers writes will be necessary ito guard the nations distributing ma chlnery against assaults from the pi- rates of trade and commerce. follow: Immediate adjustment of wages both in private employment and in government service. to at least meet the living costs that have outstripped incomes by reason of this era of fren- zied profiteering and gambling.
 Immediate effective action to pre- vent continued increases in the cost of living.
 An end to the kind of legislation typified by the Esch- Cunmins railroad law and the Kansas court of industrial relations law. There must be an end of legislative repression. restriction and coercion. Not only must there be an end to the enactment of legislation of this character but there must be repeal Of legislation already enacted. The congress will do well to give immediate and effective consideration to the proposal of the American labor movement that control of credit capital be taken from private financiers and placed in the hand of @ public trust, to be administered upon principles volun- tary and cooperative in character. This will strike vital blow toward eliminating the abuses of profiteering and exploitation.
 Congress should provide imme- diately for publicity for income tax returns.
 Asks Equalization of Wages
 There must be immediate steps tor ward equalization of wages and cost of living and effective steps to prevent a new margin from replacing the one to be dissolved. This means that there must be a permanent remedy for the nigh cost of living.
 'sThe working people of the United States continues MT. Gompers, "are speaking in mandatory terms. If those in control of the legislative destiniss of the country do not understand the needs of the workers. at least tho workers themselves understand. They know the restraint which they have practiced. They know the limit to thei1 endurance. Their demand to be heard Is a. demand which comprehends the
 
 President Wilson proposed meas ures for relief" NIr. Gompers writes but congress gave no heed" and since the signing of the armistice, ''the American political and industrial bour- oons laid a source of plunder, restric ton and coercion
 The recent unsanctioned strike o railway men, MT. Compers character fzes as "a symptom of what is th matter with America Their method he deplores as foredoomed to fa1lur and in contravention of the diseiplln of the trades union movement but, h argues. their appeals for relief from in creased living costs were of lon standing and that they suffered post ponement after postponement"
 Gives Specific Cases
 Mir Gompers deyotes some or III statement to specific cases of profit eering and gambling Aside from tn increased corporation profits listed h gives three ei1lustrations derived fror authentic sources:
 A Chicago speculator bought quan titv of webbing and without havin seen in or having any knowledge of it nature or use, sold 1t at pfoIl
 4 carload of live chickens shippe fo Chicago from Omaha, was returne eventually to Omaha and sold n tn retail market. after passing throus IT ndHuS- eAA4
 Of profit"
 A New York warehouse broker, buy ing warehouse re1ipt for ~seVer' thousand yards of silk, sold lt at profit of S1O,0O0. He performed' T service in getting it from proaucer. ,oneuu1er" writes Mr Gompers. bought a. piece of paper and sold It.
 If congress had seen fit to respoof 10 the wishes of the president wrll' MT. Gompers, and enact some or T legislation suggested by hln Y Wou lsa,-o been DossibIe to curb. at least -oroe extent. this unlicensed plunde ing in the necessities Of life For cor erezs to deny that relief it possible