The Tomahawk., 1920-09-30

ment of the men. The roads could
well have afforded to give this small
number of men so vital to rail opera
ton a square deal and so settled the
matter before it started. Rail execu'
tives acknowledged that the switch
men were not fairly paid. Perhaps
the failure to do so, if properly trac-
ed, would lead into the inner Offices OF
high finance. The rail congestion
stopped production and kept up trust
prices. It also enabled the railroad f.
nanciers to get "everything."
Gruneau and 40 other leaders were
indicted under the war time food law
clever act), charged With "interfer-
ing with Interstate shipments Of neces-
stiles of life" This act, Of course, has
been interpreted as applying only to
interference by labor. Eighty carloads
of potatoes dumped into the Delaware
river recently and like tricks have
brought no indictments. Labor only is
still at war with Germany.
LIPToN's ADVERTISING
Frank Harris, well-known English
author and now editor of PearSoh's
magazine, advances the idea that Sir
Thomas Upton may not have beeh es'
recially interested in winning the re-
cent yacht race. The reason he as
signs is that the tea merchant needs
another race next year. AS an adver-
Using stunt the world probably has
nothing to compare with the Upton Ell.
forts to win the cup. For the price OF
a yacht and a few weeks expense
Lipton's teas received 1ront-page men,
ton for over a month in the papers
of two continents.
Harris points out that Upton lost
his chance for the cup when he al.
lowed the last race to be called Oh
because of a 2O-knot wind-merely a
good breeze for a boat which had
crossed the ocean under its own sail.
"This idea that it was all cleverly
planned advertising" says Harris,
"came into my head when saw Lord
Dewar prominently featured beside
Upton. Lord Dewar used to be Tom
Dewar, head of a whisky producing
firm. Very like Sir Thomas Upton,
not noted for producing the best stun,
but the cheapest. Haig & Haig make
better whisky, but Dewar sells more
of his cheaper article"
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HARDING's 1oLsHEVIsTs
We might as we'll give up hope OF
ever getting rid of the wicked So:
cialists, Bolshevists and other fellows
of like character, for it seems that
while it takes million dollars or
more to make good American, the
merest trifle of opposition to monopoly
business harbored in the human heart
makes the possessor thereof Bolshe:
visit.
Z. In his Labor Day speech, Candidate
Harding showed the whole Democratic
machine into the Communist class be-
cause during the war Wilson and the
Democratic congress took over the rail-
roads. Experts tell US that we can
never hope to see the negro race dis
appear in America because while it
takes 100 per cent white blood to
make white man, it takes only 1 per
cent of negro blood to make a negro.
It looks as If about the same thing
were true of the wicked Bolshevist and
the 100-per-cent American. .- +
49, ~: .
HARD COAL MINERS STRIKE !
President Wilson was in his best
rhetorical form the other day in talk
ing back to the anthracite coal min.
ers. After the miners officials, opera
tors and government representatives
had fixed up a contract, the miners
throughout the whole region refused
to accept it. -. , ~vs- 100. z-.,ss. +.
It~was a raw deal on the whole. The
men were not allowed, for instance, to
submit carefully prepared statistics on
costs Of mining and profits. The lead
ers probably thought it was the best
they could do. Common people, on the
other hand, are likely to fail to see
how the cards are stacked against
them and to strike out blindly at injus-
tice suddenly realized. ~. 3. !
~ Remembering that coal operators
throughout the country in 1916 tore up
the contracts they had with consumers
to force higher: prices, listen to this
from the pen Of our chief executive:
eve could not look the world In the
face or justify our action to our own
people and our own conscience II we
yielded one iota to the men in the an
thracite coal fields who are violating
the contract so recently entered into
between themselves, the coal operators
and the government of the United
States" - - IL. =
He reminded the miners that we had
fought the last war to end such prac-
tice but did not mention that nearly
every public utility franchise in this
country has since been torn up"
Last April the anthracite coal oper-
ators added 81 q ton as insurance
against wage increase and the COM
mission allowed the workers 80 cents
a ton. The 81 q ton remains in opera
ton and consumers In Washington are
paying from $50 to IS ton more.