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The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1920-02-07
WILL ASK SQUARE DEAL
OF SOUTHERN MINNESOTA

TIL. tonnage tax question is no
more a sectional issue than is the
Babcock highway plan-both are
matters Of the most vital impor-
lance to all of the people of the
state.
The Babcock road plan is pretty
generally known as plan that will
provide the state with system of
hard-surfaced highways second to
none in the United States, and it is
a proposition that appeals to every
one.
A tonnage tax on iron ore is a
thing that will work to the injury
Of all the people of Minnesota, and
would be the stepping stone to the
creation of an iron ore monopoly
the state does not want.
The sole object Of the Minnesota
Fair Tax association is to show the
people just what an iron ore tonnage
tax means and what would be the
result were such a law placed on
the statute books. It would be a
law that would operate against the
development of the states richest in
dustry, and therefore hinder the ad-
vancement and commercial growth
of the whole state.
It is not a sectional issue, using
the very longest stretch of imag-
nation, and it is the aim of the
association to keep the question clear
Of ali entanglements, political and
otherwise, so that it can be pre-
scented in it's true light and discussed
upon it's merits.
The people of the southern and
western sections of the state are al
ways willing to give the square deal,
and that is all we are asking for
and we will go to them with clean
hands and an honest account of our
selves.-Mesaba Ore.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1920-02-07

merely punishable by the loss OF two
days pay. E'<<
A close student of conditions on the
high seas believes an attempt is being
made to deceive the public into the
belief that the act encourages anar-
chy aboard ship, when, he insists, it
merely frees this class of serfs.
The main question before the Su-
preme Court is the attempt to prove
unconstitutional Section of the act,
which gives crews the right to de-
mand half wages while on foreign
ships in American ports. Courts TINS
far have upheld this section. Under
it crews have demanded half wages,
received them, left the foreign ships
and shipped on American ships in the
same port at the higher American
wage. The foreign ships have a hard
time to full up their crews unless they
have voluntarily raised their wages to
the Americal level. Foreign shipping
interests say this section is unconsti-
tutional because it deprives them Of
property, and that contracts made in
their ports should not be invalidated
here. 1t is replied that the section
doe snot invalidate the contracts, the
courts merely holding that they need
not give force to them in American
ports when this would conflict with
public policy.
The real objection to the La Fol-
lette Act, it is said, is that it gives i'm
proved conditions which the merchant
marine of other nations neither offers
nor favors, and which the shipping in
terests of those nations are not yet
ready to grant to their own crews.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1920-02-07
RADICAL MESSAGE FROM
GOVERNOR OF new york.

Ne" York papers like the Times,
Tribune and Sun, which have had SO
much to say about "bolshevisn" in
North Dakota had better give the
governor of their own state some
attention. In his annual message to
the legislature Governor Smith re,:-
o1nmends the following:
!. A. minimum wage law.
. The eight day for wc-
ren workers.
.. Maternit.? insurance for ex-
peCtant mothers
a. Extensi Of workmen's eonl-
pensatlon to fovcr occupationr! ILL
ness and accide,.ts.
5. appointment of state pi1ysi-
:'ans and nurses for rural conlrou:1:-
les now destitute of medical ail. ,
.. ownership, development and
operation of all waterpowers by the
state.
z. state-owned and operated
gram elevators in three states after
the manner of the Nonpartisan
league experiments in North Dakota.
3. Recognition Of the production
and distribution of milk as public
utility, subject to control in all de-
tails,
9. Municipal operation of public
utilities.
Curiously enough the big New
York press do not attack the pro-
FOUNDER of this "un-American" plat
form as they do Governor Frazier.
Perhaps they know that the New
York state legislature is sufficiently
reacttonary to kill all popular lesis-
iatlon and they are willing to let
the Tammany governor gather a lit
tie harmless popularity.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1920-02-07
SACRIFICING AMERICA.

People may differ as to agents
and motives, but there is no doubt
that America is being sacrificed and
her fundamental interests disre-
garded. The effect is as if some
European country had conquered US
by force of arms and had mapped
out comprehensive program of
exploitation.
With the rates of exchange pre-
venting European buying here, we
ought to be doing all we can to make
Dur prices low and to make freight
rates to Europe low. We would
;hen be able to recover our foreign
trade the sooner. But we are Going
The opposite. We are sacrificing our
yovernment-owned ships with the
obvious result that they will fall
INTO the power of the English ocean
freight combine. We are turning
back the railroads to private exploit
sation with provisions for large loans
and big rate increases to enable pri-
'ate ownership to make a profit. We
Are allowing the monopolists of all
basic resources to keep supplies
down that prices may be high. All
OF this operates to the benefit of
Europe in the days to come.
While many in close touch with
washington hint at dark agreements
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1920-02-07
KANSAS ADOPTS PLAN :.
TO TRY LABOR CASES.

Kansas legislators have established
what they please to. call an indus
trial court, and we shall hear much
about this great progressive STEP
in the big newspapers and maya
zines. Their praise is enough to
raise suspicion, and a reading OF
any one who follows labor matters
that labor is expected to yield all
and receive nothing.
The governor is to appoint the
court of three members. If labor
had any political voice this would
not be so bad. but. inasmuch as the
governor of Kansas is put in office
by machine politics, representing
large interests, it will mean that
labor will be tried by its opponents.
A governor hostile to union labor
can not be expected to appoint a
court fair to labor
And if labor does not abide by
the decision Of this court the court
will have power to take charge of
the books, records, strike funds and
any other money Of the union, Dust
1t from the state, take away what
ever property it has, and put the
leaders in prison and the members
in Jail and collect fine in addition.
This, terrible power is sugar-coated
by provision for taking over the
property and similarly Furnishing en-
ployers who do not agree. The leg.
islature also recognizes collective
bargaining and the right to quit
work. That these provisions are
mere sugar, however, is indicated by
the fact that it is a~conspiracy for
laboring man to ask another Ito
quit with him and criminal Of
Tense to urge another not to take
his place.
IT the labor unions in Kansas and
elsewhere don't get into independent
politics. in double-quick time the old
party politicians will make effective
organization we'll nigh impossible.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1920-02-07

NEW YORk,-Twelve of the 10
members of the United States trans
port America, who, according to the
press. were under arrest on a charge
OF mut.ny on the arrival of the ship
On Sunday, were released yesterday,
all investigating officer having de-
c1ded that their three weeks in the
brig was sufficient punishment for
larceny and disorder, the offenses of
which, 1t now appears, they were ac-
cused. The other man was held for
hearing on larceny charge.
In the publicity given to the So
called "mutiny," friends Of the La
Toilette Seaman's Act see an evidence
Of propaganda against that law. They
point out that on December argu-
1nents were made before the United
States Supreme Court with regard to
the contention Of opponents Of the act
that certain parts of it are unconsti-
tutional, and that the court now has
the question under advisement.
Proponents of the La Toilette Act
believe it's opponents favor exaggera-
ton of troubles aboard ship in an ef-
fort to make is appear that the in
creased measure of freedom granted
to seamen under ,the act is injurious
to discipline and that, therefore. the
act or parts Of 1t should be replaced.
They say the first story about the
America "mutiny' was ridiculous on
it's face. since the trouble vas report
ed to have occurred in port and mu-
tiny cannot exist except on the high
seas. They add that courts have
ruled that refusal to work while in
port cannot be called mutiny, but is
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1920-02-07

Railroads. The people have bought
and paid for them twice over; the
people should own and operate them.
Then follows statement setting
forth that-''The people of this nation
have invested 5000, 900, 900 in rehibili-
tating the railway system that private
ownership had so exploited and plum
dered and mismanaged that it was ut
terly inadequate
The people have invested another
s975,ooo,o0o in improving labor condi-
tions and pulling the railroads out of
an impossible situation that private
ownership had created.
1.-The government has rehabilitated
the dilapidated system, unified it, ef-
fected numerous economies, and guar
anteed the private owners their usual
dividends. And yet they are not satis-
fled. They want the railroads back
again for further exploitation and
plumber.
I'VE protest. Now that the people
have been called upon to put so much
into the railroads. we insist that they
should be owned by the people and
operated for the people. The tire
and conditions are ripe for pubic
ownership.
IF you believe in these things
speak up; act now. Let your thought
and your will be known in Washing
ton.
Under the caption, Nerve" is a
cartoon, representing Uncle Sam. as a
big freight handler in overalls, being
rrSVy AoAA
white-vested and spatted individual,
labelled "Private Ownership" who
says: "Sam, get the railroads out Of
the hole; I'll run 'em" he stands on
the brink Of a chasm.. into which has
tumbled a mass of broken rails, loco
motives and cars. Uncle Sam Is care
fully picking up the cars and setting
them on the HIN ground.
Beneath the cartoon Is the state
ment: Uncle Sam built the railroads
in the first place with loans. land
them going by paying exorbitant rates,
enduring poor service and bad labor
conditions; and finally has had 20
invest over billion dollars for better
ments, raise wages and guarantee divi-
dends in order to get effective service
and transportation system out Of
the wreckage wrought by private
ownership. And now, after all this.
the private interests come forward
with the demand that the roads be
handed back to them again. We call
that NERVE!
1T is time for the people to be
heard
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1920-02-07

ceived of the conditions where unde:
the supposed paternal guardianship OF
the great corporations countless thou
sands Of toilers had been laboring for
them five to 20 years without learn
ing the rudiments of American ci:izen-
ship or the language Of the country,
bearing close relationship to beasts
of burden as it were, through long
hours of toll MAXIM: it impossible to
even observe, let alone cultivate. the
customs Of our country, will prov. Of
more benefit in the years to come than
all the other losses combined:
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1920-02-07
LABOR ANE EDUCATION.


Next to life and liberty we con-
slider education the greatest blessing
bestowed upon mankind THIS is
how general meeting of mechanics
and workingmen expressed them
selves about education way back in
the year 1929. The meeting then
passed the following resolutions:
"Resolyed, that the public funds
should be appropriated Ito a reason
able extent) to the purpose of edu-
cation upon a regular system that
shall insure the opportunity to every
individual of obtaining a competent
education before he shall have ar
rived at the age of maturity"
At that time, the only free schools
were pauper schools. Workingmen
and women would not send their
children to pauper schools. mo sys-
tenn of education which a freeman
can accept has yet been established
for the poor" declared a meeting
in Philadelphia in this same year
1929. Moreover, it was a good many
years before it was generally seen
that the school tax sis not imposed
on the rich for the benefit of the
poor; but imposed on the whole state
for the benefit of the state.' This
statement was made in 1880 by the
supporters of the school law of New
York. Between 1926 and 1850
waged the battle for public schools.
Side by side with labor fought the
humanitarians, rightly distressed by
the spectacle of idle children roam
ing the streets of Boston, of num-
bers of women and children at work
in the cotton mills. Among the
leaders of the humanitarians were
Emerson, Thoreau. William C. Chan
ming, Horace Mann. Humanitarians
and working folk together urged this
cause Of public education. By 1850
the fight was practically won AL
most all northern states then had
their unsupported, publicly con-
trolled and directed, non-sectarian
schools. But labor had not finished
its fight for education. In 1908 the
Denver convention of the American
Federation Of Labor create special
committee on education headed
by the late John Mitchell. The COM
mittee made a survey of the educa-
tional situation especially as it af-
fected industrial workers. The re-
suit was the drafting Of the Hughes
vocational education law, on Febru-
airy rs, 1917. This law provides for
vocational education for boys and
Girls of IA and over still at school.
And labor is not through. 1t is
now awaiting the passage Of the bill
providing for the rehabilitation of
persons disabled in industry. The
senate bill, known as S IS, PASSED
the senate without dissenting vote,
The house bill (H. R. 4438) passed
the house Of Representatives October
II, 1919, by a vote of 1876 to 1O5.
There were minor differences be-
tween the two bills which are await
Ing adjustment in conference.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1920-02-07
RECENT Steel STRIKE
HAS VALUED LESSON

President Tighe, Of the Amalga-
mated Association of Iron, Steel and
Tin workers declares that the lesson
organized labor can learn from the
steel strike will be invaluable, for 1t
has given them an opportunity to sin
gle out real friends and sympathizers
from the multitude of professional
hypocrites, political and otherwise,
who are proficient in lip service and
nothing else.
1.-THE fact" he says, that the work.
ers' mighty protest was unheeded, as
in days Of old, and that every agency
and power of oppression and repres-
sion was put in operation to crush
them, does not settle the question in
volved, nor will it bring that peace
and harmony, as we'll as good will.
which every true lover Of our coun-
try's progress DESIRES
1.-THE failure to secure that for
which the workers in the steel mills
ceased work is not a. defeat in anv
sense, for unless history reverses it.
self every failure OF like character
have been stepping stones to ultimate
success.
"Statisticians will. no doubt, come
forward with an array of figures
showing the monetary loss. as we'll as
the loss OF time and production which
will run into enormous sums by their
calculations, but upon the one all-im-
portant factor, more beneficial to gov
eminent and people than any losses
maintained there will be no mention.
for money. time or production cannot
be measured.
The information that the govern
ment and the world at large has re-
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1920-02-07
BOLSHEVIKS, HIGH AND LOW.

Two statements which appeared in
print simultaneously the other day
cannot fail to be of particular inter-
est to organized labor.
One was the statement of Isaac
E. Ferguson, general counsel Of the
Communist party, and editor of it's
official magazine
During test proceedings held by
Secretary of Labor Wilson on the
platform and principles of the Com
munist party, Mr.. Ferguson said:
1--WE are quite frank about our
revolutionary purposes. We want a
new social system
He added later that securing of
this new social system involved the
overthrow of the American Fedora
ton of Labor and the abolition of
it's system of organization of labor,
j. O., the one big union. The Ameri-
can Federation of Labor, he said,
was mot effective" "too shallow
without general political view
point" He favored organization of
all workers into general industrial
groups, and ultimately into one
union. This one union could then
run everything to suit itself. But
the American Federation had to 60.
He was sure Of that.
The other statement comes from
another kind of Bolshevik-a cor
poration president: Said Samuel
Harden Church of Pittsburgh, pres
ideht of the Carnegie Institute, in
letter to Attorney General Palmer:
''The time has now come when
the American Federation of Labor
ought to be dissolved, and when it
should be made unlawful for two or
more unions to amalgamate. Not
until this is done can the life and
liberty OF the nation be made Sc
cure
1t is noteworthy that the aims and
methods of the Lenine Bolsheviks
are identical with the steel trust
bolsheviks.
Both demand the disintegration Of
the American Federation of Labor.
Both overlook the fundamental
principles of freedom of action and
opinion which are the bulwark of
our democracy.
Both deny the glorious part that
American labor played in helping
to win the war for world wide de-
mocracy
And both do it in the name of
protection Of life and liberty. Mr..
Church says mot until this is done
can the life and liberty of the ma
ton be made secure For the word
"nation' substitute the word "pro-
letariat" and you have the Commun-
; list or Bolshevist program complete.
American labor cannot but look with
scorn and aversion upon the declara-
| tons Of both.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1920-02-07

How can America claim to be 100
per cent American when 100000
children who ought to be in school
have to work for their daily bread?
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1920-02-07
''hutiny'' tory Seen As
Aid To Campaign To Kill
Law Protecting <<:eamen

Following the appearance Of highly sensational newspaper
Of muny United States transport the
following story the Christian Science Monitor Of especial
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-06-10
n. f. O. p. TREASURER
100000 SHORT
Supreme Warden Scott Says It Is Lost
In observation-disclosures Organ
ization Will Not Lose.

BOSTON. June 10. - Investigation
into the finances of the New England
Order of Protection has led to the dis
covery of shortage in the funds in
the control of Hon John p Sanborn
of Newport, r. l., supreme treasurer.
According to Judge II. Williams Scott
of Barre, VT, supreme warden, the
amount involved is 100000 OF this
amount it is alleged that $4,000 in
bonds and $4,000 in cash is missing
Judge Scott says that the organiza-
ton viii suffer no loss and that its
soundness has not been impaired in
the least as any losses viii be covered
hv Mr. Sanborn's bond, which is fol
100000.
Judge Scott said he believed The
money had been lost in stock specula
ton and that the bonds had been useC
as collateral in stock transactions
Some of these bonds have been trace,
to brokers' officers, according to Judg
Scott. and he expressed the hope tina
some of them would be recovered.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-06-10

ing would appear to be Philander Knox
if Senator Johnson viii agree to run as
vice president and Governor Sproul OF |
Pennsylvania, if Senator johnson refuses
to agree
Considerable Of furry has followed the
militant move by which Frank Hitch
cock. leader Of the Wood forces, secured
control of the credentials committee This
veteran politician quietly went to work
| in each delegation three days ago and
saw to it that one Of his own men was
selected bv each state to sit on that ere
dentials committee. With a majority OF
/ 30 out of As members, Mr. Hitchcock
would be able to unseat many Lowden del
egates who had been previously seated by
the national committee. But while he IS
Worrying Tobias Hert, the Lowden gen
eral. the latter will surely carry the fight
To the floor Of the convention if Hitchcock
does attempt rudely to throw out London
I deIegatcs Nevertheless blow has been
suffered by Messrs. Hert and Win HAYS
(which NAV affect their prestige in the
convention and correspondlngy Mr..
! Hitchcock stock as a leader has gone up.
! Parallel with the strategy whereby the
Wood forces routed the Lowden man
/, ayers m the ttNNtbitdlS tpiIiilbttt - al
lother move the significance Of which viii
be apparent as it is unfoded. VIII Haye
who is suspected by the Wood forces OF
being too friendly to Lowden was de
serted at the last moment in his at
tempt to make State senator Ogden
Mills chairman of the resolutions commit
tee which drafts the platform. That old
guard veteran, Senator Jim Watson Of
Michigan. took fan out of his rival VII
Hays. by rolling Mills overheard with z
vote Of 30 to g. Now where did Mr.. Wat
son get such an overwhelming majority
and how did win Hays come to have Sc
little influence ia the choice Of chair
man Of resolutionstaommittee? The ans
wor is simply that Frank Hitchcock threw
1.-THE support Of all the Wood delegate
Ion the resolutions committee to Senate
+ Watson Mr.. .Mi]s,abaA cannted on TIL
help of Leonard Wood delegates but h
WIS beaten hv the old guard withou
trouble. For back Of Senator Watson. in
deed. back of every senator in tins fight
Is Senator Penrose If Pcnnsy lvauia VIII
through the medium Of a long distanc
wire and trusted heutenants IS simpl
spanking the new "od guard" and teacl
ing them lessons in practical politics whic
~ win not soon forget.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-06-10
with his daughter, Mrs. Charles Laugh

with his daughter, Mrs. Charles Laugh
ton.
Miss Edith and Miss Ruth Dutton,
Blanche Newton, Ruth Walker and
Fannie Wilder went to Mortified Sun
day.
Mrs. Robert Walker entertained the
teacher and pupils of the North dis
itriet Thursday afternoon, Refresh
,ments were served and all had happy
time. i
|. Certificates have been received by
Thomas Calvin, Hazel I.NMiller and
Robert Miller from the director of the
agricultural extension service for mer-
itorious service as members of the
Boys and Girls Garden club in 1918.
Hazel ]. Miller has been awarded by
the committee on agriculture of the
Vermont State Bankers ASSOCIATION,
50, which is the first prize in Windham
county in the Garden club project, and
81, which is the second prize in Wind.
ham county in the Calf club project
| lnclnding the premiums received at the
Valley fair this makes total of $75C
| for prizes from her club work during
The season of 1919