Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1920-08-18

lSh situation result in new Euro
pean war, America would take no
part, probably means peace for us
until after the next election at least.
Inasmuch as western Europe would
be dependent upon the United States
for financing the war against Rus.
STA as we'll as furnishing fighting
troops, this probably means in turn
that both France and England will
avoid general war even at the sac
rifce of the Polish buffer state
In England such a policy is made
the more necessary by the opposition
troops. And aside from the aid so
far given to Poland by the allied ma.
lions, which is far greater than the
general public supposes, the strong
est action taken so far is the renewal
of the blockade.
But since the blockade has never
feen really lifted, this abandonment
OF the negotiations to lift it can hard
ly Introduce any new element into
the Russian situation. Rather it is
an effort of the allies to find something
to bargain with in further dealings
with the Soviet government.
While specifically it would appear
that general war has, for the time
being, been averted, it should be re.
membered that state department of.
ficials give to the public only what
they believe the public should have and
that actual arrangements may be
quite different. Perhaps we have Tx.
en- a neutrality stand temporarily be
cause the peace negotiations have not
given our great corporations all they
would like to have
There can be no doubt that the
great financial interests of all coun-
tries would like to make war upon
Russia and that the only factors PIE.
venting such a move are the military
strength of the Russians and the Will
of the allied peoples against war.
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BURLEsoN AGAIN
There is humor in the sudden de-
termination of Burleson to discipline
or dismiss the officers of local unions
OF postoffice employees Republican
administrations tried that, years a 60,
and the La Toilette anti-gag law was
| passed to protect the postal workers in
their right to appeal directly to con-
gress, through their union officers, for
justice. That Burleson should try to
reverse this action as a campaign man
euVer. or simply to satisfy his h tired
OF uniCnis'n is absurd in view OF the
anxiety of the politicians to keep pub
lie employees from feeling resentment
at congress-
If the Republicans were to permit
Burleson and the Bourbons to outlaw
the unions in postal service, thew
would thereby create far more DOW
erful organization of postoffice en-
ployes than now exists. Unions thrive
on persecution, although it does not
improve their temper.
6A6SoN ON NEW PARTY
Babson's confidential bulletin to en-
ployers, dealing with the FarmerLa-
Dor party, warns big business that it
is issues such as those set forth in the
platform Of this new party that are
going to hold the center of the politi-
cal stage for the next 20 or 80 years.
what is more, the expert adviser to
hnanclers gives it as~his view that this
chicago Farmer-Labor platform is con-
servative when contrasted with the
platform of the British Labor party.
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step IN the path upon which the mas
ses OF American labor are now enter
ing. He says that the rank and file
OF the convention were not radical, but
were hard-headed railroad men, min
ers, machinists and others, who knew
exactly what they wanted, and why
He thinks the men who did most of
the talking for the Committee of For
ty-eight were out of place at Chicago
MILLERs ACCUSED
Alfred W. Mccain, the pure food
specialist, has been reviewing in the
New York Globe the choking off of
the whole wheat bread agitation that
was started in scientific circles early
in 1917, when Hoover and the depart
ment of agriculture were rivals for
control of the national bread supply.
This failure to make whole wheat the
standard bread flour he describes as
a tragedy.
Back in May, 1917, after the de-
partment had announced program of
honest bread similar to the standard
adopted by the Danish war council"
he says, 'the millers began to flock to
Washington in droves
Dean Russell of the University of
Wisconsin Informed the house COM
mittee on agriculture, May 2, 1917, in
my presence, that six of the biggest
-four millers in the Northwest had ar
rived in Washington on the same train
with him. While Professor Alonzo
Taylor was urging the house commit
tee to discourage the movement for
whole grain bread, the millers in per-
son were appearing before the senate
committed"
He makes the comment that "Our
officials at Washington knew better
(than to prevent the adoption of the
whole wheat standard) \but they were
then under the domination Of the mil.
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