Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1920-12-08

WASHINGTON, d. G. - Senator
Cummins of,@Iowa, reelected BY, 200'
600 less votes than Harding p01led. an
nounces that be will bring forwa1dsfhe
anti-strike provisions which were
eliminated from tho -Cummins-Esch
law.
The public throughout the country
IL pretty generally discouraged with
the transportation service = we have
been receiving since the return to
private ownership, and it is not bard
to see that the railroad financtFa
would regard new drive on organ
lied labor as being likely tos~add
good deal of convenient mud to the
water and so turn aside some, at least,
Of the public wrath. Twill give the
railroad: publicity agents and the kept
newspapers q chance to do great deal
of talking against labor and to convey
to the public mind that If 1t werent
for the bad actions of labor, rail ser"
vice would be all right.
Another phase of the situation is
the fact that the railroad f1nanciers
are among the leaders in the open shop
campaign, and inasmuch as the rail-
road Unions are comparatively strong,
laws which would prevent the railroad
workers from defending themselves I'm
this open shop campaign would be very
acceptable to the fnanciers.
Sc ~
men who fight for progressive ideas
for time, and then appear to make
a complete reversion Of principle. It
is long distance from Cummins, the
opponent of machine politics in Iowa
Of several years ago, tojCummins, the
political spokesman for the Railroad
Executive association and the Secur-
ity Owners committee.
TRUSTS FORCE RADICAL VIEW.
Efforts of the big employing monop-
olies to push their open shop fight by
every possible method is tending rap
idly to a fundamental change in the
objective of labor.
The old unions are organized and
work on the theory that the relation
of employer and employee is going to
endure and that labor will protect it.
self by organization and collective bar
gaining.
Big employers, by fighting this con-
servative idea, are causing labor, in
self-defense, to turn to the hope Of
abolishing the employer system as we
know it today. If the employers are
unwilling to hold up their side of the
conservative arrangement which has
hitherto existed they can not expect
the conservative labor leaders to carry
on the fight for existence and against
more radical remedies at the same
time
Relative to the new situation Grand
Chief Stone of the Locomotive Engi-
neers said recently:
AFTER being classed for II years as
an ultra-conservative, l have arrived
at the point where am through max
ing excuses to the men,"
EQUAL OIL RIGHTS ASKED.
The oil fight keeps getting more i'm
portant in international affairs Right
on the heels of the Standard Oils pur-
chase of the oil fields in Sicily and
of its purchase Of the leading news
paper Of Paris, came the demand Of
our state department that Americans
have equal rights in owning and In
trade in Mesopotamia.
People who live in the clouds on in
ternational matters may be panied to
think that we would have to ask for
such rights. But the plain truth il
that a mandate is not worth anything
unless it denies them England and
France are not spending money and
lives in cutting up Turkish territory
to reform the Turks or to save the
dear Armenians.
The allies now contend that Amer
lea Is not entitled to anything in the
Turkish mandate territories because It
is not contributing anything toward
occupation and pacfflcation. -
But America can reply in behalf Of
the Standard OIL that the World war
came largely because of Germany's
plan to build the Bagdad railroad lWfl-
son called it threat along the flank
of industry and America certainly
helped to put a crimp IN. that railroad
building.
JAP QUESTION SERIOUS,
Newspapers and magazines of a GER
tain kind appear to be using every Dos
sible opportunity to promote feeling
against the,Japanese among the Amer,
lean people. News from -everywhere
and nowhere harps on the necessity:
of forcing a new treaty on Japan and
on the plotting and hostility of Japan:
itself.
This may pass for patriotism with:
many Of the readers of the kerr;
PRESS" and If We should have a war
with Japan the editors will crow about;
how they prepared us for it. But the
plain fact Of the situation would be
that the kept press" and the inter
ests it represents will be responsible
tor making the war, five have one. !:
Many observers here's feel that there,
b 2 swell-defined conspiracy ~ certain;
foreign powers to produce war be-:
tween America and Japan They do;
not wish orsexpect to Sc Americaade- j
eeated by Japan. But they do expect;
to zee her position Is 4. Nor1d power:
greatly weakened by 4 war of this!
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