Willmar tribune., 1920-02-25

WASHINGTON, D. Cor all the
topics which are being debated and
decided at the All-American Cooper
ative congress in Chicago, at which
for the first time the big labor organ
izations and the producers co-opera-
tives are getting together for business
dealings, none is more interesting to
the outside public than that Of daily
labor press.
Plans are under consideration for
the establishment of daily papers in
some 80 industrial cities, to be locally
financed by co-operated associations
of trade unions.
All OF these papers would be served
by a central cooperative supply, and
they would presumably take as their
own news service the new Federated
Press, which has been established by
the existing labor and farmer papers
that are interested in getting news
now suppressed or neglected by the
profit-making news agencies.
Each of these labor papers would be
started through the efforts of a COM
mittee of the national leaders of the
movement, who would send their rep
resentatives into the towns with cre-
dentials to take the project up with
the heads Of the local unions and to
canvass the entire labor movement of
the town for support both for the
stock in the paper association and SUBJ
scriptions for the paper itself.
Need for quick action in this field
is seen by the railroad men especially,
since they have apparently been de.
feated in their fight for two-year
extension of the period of government
operation of the roads chiefly for lack
OF daily newspapers with which to get
the ear of congress. They want to
acquire this weapon for the next bat
tie.
GRONNA'S WHEAT BILL.
Senator Gronna; who has introduced
a bill repeating the wheat price guar
anty law, asserts that at least two bill
lions of dollars have been lost to
American farmers because of govern
mental interference with the price and
marketing of wheat.
In a sensational speech in the senate
on February 2 he declared: ut is not
the price of manufactured wheat
which is the cause of the high price
of bread. If the farmers gave the
wheat to the miller for nothing, if
they would haul their grain to the
mill and not charge a single penny per
! bushel, there could not be difference
of more than 2 cents on a pound loaf
| of bread, based upon existing prices.
"On the list Of November, when Mr..
Barnes, director of the grain corpora.
| tion, announced that the embargo was
to be withdrawn, the price Of wheat
! was 2.9O a bushel. On the 18th of
| November, when the embargo was
| withdrawn, the price was So bushel !:
| OIL the 18th of December it had ad-
| vanced to $3.40 bushel, and later
| to S3.55 bushel, showing that the
| embargo did affect the price of wheat
| 1t is not true that wheat will decline
on June l when the law expires by
Limitation"
| He quoted kilograms from grain
elevators begging for cars for the
shipment of grain, and circular from
the Grain Bulletin, urging that such
| kilograms be sent, because, as the cir.
cular claimed, 1.-THE large quantities
OF high-priced wheat at country
points, the declining markets and the
short time left of government control
all tend to heavy financial loss to in
dividual owners" -
| No such loss is likely, Senator Gron
ma maintained, and the sooner con
gress repeals the law and sends MIR
Barnes back to his private grain
brokerage office, the sooner the farm
ers will begin to get higher price fo1
their wheat.
MILLIONAIRE WORRIES.
~ A prominent official in the nationa
capital was recently guest at social
affair in Minneapolis, where he met
among the guests the wife of mil
lionaire -four miller.
These are very anxious times fo1
our people," said the woman of mil
lions, when the talk turned upon pub
lie affairs. "You can't realize how
disturbed conditions have become
here in Minnesota. Why, these Non
partisan leaguers have begun to come
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