Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1920-12-08
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& WASHINGTON, D. c.. - Senator
/ Cummins of@Iowa, re,electeds.hJ ZOO,
900 less votes than Harding polled sn.
nouncas thathe will bring forwl she
a1tt.str1ke proyisionl which were
eliminated from the -<;ummins -Esch
law. >
The public throughout the country
h pretty generally discouraged with
the transportation service 3 We have
been receiving since the Return to
private ownership, and it Is not bard
to see that. the railroad fpanctlEn
would regaru a new drive morgan.
ICED labor as being likely to- add a
good deal Of conV enient mud 7to the
water and so turn aside some, at least,
Of. the public wrath. twill giyeethle
railroad publicity agents and the kapt
newspapers q chance to do great deal
Of talking against labor and to convey
to the public mind that IL At werent
for the bad actiops Of labor, rail ser.
vice would DO. all right,
Another phase of the situation Is
the fact that the railroad hnanciers
are among the leaders in the open shop
campaign and inasmuch- a. the. rail.
road Unions are comparatively, strong,
laws which would prevent the railroad
workers from defending themselves IN
this open shop campaign would be very
acceptable to the fnanciers.
Senator Cummfns is one Of those
mon .uho A0hf tow T,p<<vroco}vo i6ooa
for time, and then appear to make
complete reversion. Of principle. It
is a long distance from Cummins, the
opponent Of machine politics in Iowa
Of several years ago, to Cummins, the
political spokesman for the Railroad
Executive association and the Secur-
ity Owners committee. =
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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 fundamental, change in the
objective Of labor. -
The old unions are organized and
work on the theory that the relation
Of employer and employe IL going to
endure and that labor win protect it.
self by Organization and collective bar
] Big employers. by fighting this con.
servative idea, are causing labor, in
elf-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 AZ
an ultra.conservative, l have arrived
at the point where am through max
ing excuses to the men,"
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+: EQUAL OIL RIGHTS ASKED.
The oil fight keeps getting more i'm
poFtant in international affairs. Right
onst the heels Of the Standard Oils pur-
chase of the oil fields in Sicily and
Of its purchase of the leading news4
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 10
think that we would have to task for
such rights. But the plain truth h
that . 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 tho 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 paciacation. ~ :. =
But America can reply In, behalf Of
the Standard Oil that the World war
came largely because of Germanyn
plan to build the Bagdad railroad IWil.
son called it threat along the dank
Of industry and Amertc9 certainly:
helped to put ascrimp a. that railroad
building. ia r. ~ &
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JAP QUESTION SERIOUS,
Newspapers and magazines of q Ger
tain kind. appear 70 be using every POS
sible opportunity to promote feeling,
against thasJapanesea among tie Amer
lean people. News from 4evslrrywhdre
and Nowhere: harps. on the necessity
|of forcing g new treaty on Japan and,
on the plotting and hostility Of Japan
itself. - -, =. = : 7:
s This may pass for patriotism viii,
many of the readers Of the ..ketk
press. and Il We should have WI