The Duluth rip-saw., 1920-03-06
WEAKLY LEADER ASSUMES
TO SPEAK FOR UNION MEN
Official Organ Of Bngoand Bunch Undertakes to Play Role
Of Lion in Drama Of Lamb Lying Down With the Lion
Against Natures Laws for Oil and Water to Mix.
Organized Labor in Superior Has Been Progressive While
The Leader Ever Has Been Reactionary and Side of
Big Corporations and Bob Shields Pie Counter Gang.

support of the proposition. 1t carried
with whoop.
Where was the Weakly Leader at
that time7 It published lengthy warn
ings from jeremiah, the Weeping
Prophet, alias "Silver Joe" Konkel,
against the proposition. Large numbers
of the Weakly Leader weres scattered
over the city for the purpose Of defeat
ing the wishes Of organized labor and
mayor Baxter. Mayor Baxter and the
people again won out.
Afterward, it was explained, the op-
position Of the Weakly Leader was a
cold -blooded business proposition, for
which it and it's editor had been well
paid.
Only last fall, the lawless Bingoland
bunch, the public service corporations
tand few disgruntled and discredited
politicians camouflaged a recall of
mayor Baxter by means Of movement
to change from the commission form
Of city government to the old, anti
quated ward system. That sinister
undertaking wofully failed, as every
Superior citizen we'll knows.
But where was the Weakly Leader,
this Moses now seeking to lead labor
through the wilderness?
The Weakly Leader, then under it's
present management, not only assailed
mayor Baxter, but organized labor, as
well. Of course that was consistent for
the Weakly Leader, since the work
ingmen were pleased with the Bax-
terian administration, the mayor hav-
ing been true to every pledge to carry
out the policies of the unions and hav-
ing worked long and hard to better
the moral conditions Of the city.
The Bingoland bunch, which then
controlled the Weakly Leader, the
same as today, worked on the sly for
the public service corporations, they be.
ing especially desirous of getting rid of
the mayor, the first official to give
them real opposition. Had Superior
gone back to the old ward system, ii
would have been goodbye and not au
revoir to the idea of municipal owner.
ship Of public utilities.
It was not a better form of gov
ernment and it's administration that the
Weakly Leader, the Bingoland bunch
the politicians out of jobs and the pub
lie service corporations wanted. They
preferred no government at all, there
by being free to gouge the patrons OF
the public service corporations and tc
permit the Bingoland bunch to peddle
booze, gamble, deal in hope, ruin young
girls and maintain redlight dumps fo1
the defilement of young manhood. Easy
jobs and occasional dips into the public
treasury also appealed to the discredit
! ed pie-counter boys.
The vote on election day showed
plainly where and how the rank ani
file of the unionists stood.
The laborites of Superior have re-
peatedly gone on record against disrep
utable conditions in municipal matters
They were against wide-open policy
they were opposed to the booze traffic
they stood for cleaner city morally
they got behind mayor Baxter in his
determination to own the public util
tiles.
During all that, no matter how much
the Weakly Leader has spouted against
! any labor leaders, the rank and file