Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-06-09

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 before and after three months r~"1|
 may be reduced and that the govern ment may carry out it's sacred oblga-
 tion to the people to maintain it's
 liberty and victory bonds at par. Curb PrOfiteers.
 "Co-operation should be encourag-
 ed as an effective menas of curbing
 profiteering. To stimulate rapid de-
 velopment of co-operatives the feder-
 al farm loan act should be extended
 so as to give credit to all properly
 organized co-operatives just as cred
 it is now given to individual farm
 CTS. Cooperation is no less vital
 and worthy of support than are the
 railroads, which were given hundreds
 of millions of dollars and an area
 of land equal to New England to fac- ilitate their esta blshment There
 should be legal enactment to protect
 co-operatives against discrimination
 by manufacturers and wholesalers.
 Control of credit capital by those
 whose chief interest is the cumula- tion of profits results inevitably in
 the open door for profiteering. We
 repeat an demphasize the demand or
 organized labor that control of cred it be taken from the hands of pri-
 vate financiers and placed in the
 hands of a public agency to be ad-
 ministered by voluntary and co-op- erative methods.
 "We urge that the United States 1 a rf of 1o hoy
 sue monthly statements of the cost
 of manufacture to those staple ar-
 ticles which form the basis of cal-s culation in fixing the cost of living
 sAs a means of adding these and other anti-profiteering measures the federal government should be au- thorized to establish permanent boards for the prompt investigation of profits and prices. All income and other tax returns should be available for inspection.
 eve do not demand, nor do we desire, precipitate collapse in prices generally, for in such collapse there would be the greatest danger of national calamity. The program we have here laid before the nation is constructive and is practical. Be- cause it is constructive and practical because it contains measures native to American life and American thought, we urge and demand for it the immediate and effective con- sideration of the people and of the authorities of our country.
 "The cost of living must go no higher. Wages must be advanced in every case to point at which the American standard of living is se- cure. The life and the productive capacity of the great farming com munity, now stricken sorely, must be brought back to the richness that has marked it, above the agriculture of all other nations. This will be possible only when the vicious forces | that load the values of the farm with r fictitious and fabulous profits have been curbed and made powerless.
 Finally we can call attention to the vital fact that the present non- partisan political campaign of the A. F. of l.. offers to the people every edial measures with their ballots. The enemies of the workers are up- on the platforms of the nation seek ink political preferment. Defeat them. Defeat enemies everywhere Let righteous wrath and indignation find it's xpression in constructive ef- fort and in the intelligent use of that \ greatest of democracy's weapons, the ballot. Press upon every candidate everywhere the wisdom of labor's program. Defeat ene- mics. Elect friends. The national future is in the devoted keeping ofijI the working people,"
 In summary of the "the essential facts of the present industrial situa- I| ion," the report. efers to the momentous loss of life. nd productive power and the rapid of many basic materials. t asserts that these are responsible or much of the shortage of commodi- ies now experienced.
 Evidence in possession of the Trade Union Movement is that work rs today are as willing to work as yer and that their productive capa- ity is as great if not greater than ver," the report states. It declares hat the influences which have oper- ted since the war to check produc- ion "are under the control of em- loyers and not of the workers" and adds:
 "In so far as possible employers lostile to labor have sought to rein reduce autocratic control into indus ry, making necessary a resistance on he part of the workers. Labor has the principle that the yorkers are entitled to an effective oice in the management and control
 industry. To larger degree than yer before, this principle was agreed Q by emplovers during the war. It vas found that it produced results f great value in the winning of the ar. It made industry more produc- ve."
 "Industry today requires these rem iial measures:
 "It requires greater democracy in rder to give to the workers full k