Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1920-12-08
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{ Cummins ofsIowa, reelected y 200'
!. 900 lass votea than Harding pofed M
nouncas thatshe will bring forwa ne
antfstrfke provisions which were
eliminated from the <ssummins -Esch
law -,
The public throughout tho country
In pretty generally discouraged with
the, transportation service 4 We have
been reeeiving since the |sreeurn to
private ownership, and it Is not bard
to see that the RAILROAD fip1nctla
would regard a new drive on7organ.
ICED labor as being likely to- add
good deal; Of > convenient mud tp the
water and so turn aside some, at least,
Of the public wrath. twill gtYestae
railroad publicity agents and! the kapt
newspapers chance to do a great deal
Of talking against labor and to convey
to the public mind that II At wersnt
for thezbad actions Of labor, rail scr:
vice wonld DO, all right
Another phase of the situation IL
the fact that the railroad sdnanciera
are among the leaders in the open. shop
campaign and inasmuch7 A. the rail.
road Unions are comparatively. strong,
laws which would prevent the railroad
workers from defending themselves III
this open shop campaign would be very
acceptable to the financiers.
Senator Cummins is one of those
men who fight for progressive ideas
for time, and then appear to make
complete reversion Of principle. It
is long distance from Gummins, the
opponent Of machine politics in Iowa
Of several years ago, to Cummins, the
political spokesman tor the Railroad
Executive association and the Secur-
ity Owners committee. :
TRUSTS FORCE RADICAL VIEW.
Efforts Of the big employing monop-
olies to- push their open shop fight by
every possible method is atending rap
idly to fundamental, change in the
objective Of labor. ~
work on the theory that the relation
Of employer and employe Il going to
endure and that labor win protect it.
self by5organization and collective bar
gaining. s - =, = :.
J Big employers, BY fighting this con.
servativeazi idea, are causing labor, in
self-defense, to turn to the hope Of
abolishing the employer system as we
know it today. II the smnloyerse 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 AS
N ultra.conservative, I have arrived
at the point where I am through max
ing excuses to the men,"
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z=s: EQUAL OIL RIGHTS ASKED. =:
The oil fight keeps getting more i'm
|poFtant in international affairs. Right
on the heels of the Standard Oils pur-
chase of the oil fields In Sicily and
Gifts purchase Of the leading news
paper Of Paris, came the demand Of
our state department that Americans
have equal rights in owning and IN
trade in Mesopotamia. Z
!, People who live IA the elouds on IN.
ternational matters may be panied To
think that we would have zto ask Tor!
such rights. But the plain truth Ii
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. ,,. :, J..
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 pacitlcation. - =
But America can reply I'm, behalf Of
the Standard Oil that the World war
came largely. because Of Germany.
plan to build the Bagdad railroad 1WIl-:
son called it a threat along the, dank
OF industry and America certainly
helped to put ascrimp H. that railroad
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JAP QUEsTloN SERIOUS,
Newspapers and magazines of q Ger.
tain kind: appear TO be using every pos-
sible opportunity to promote feeling
against thssJapanese among tie Ainefs
lean people. News from 4evsllrrywhdf1.
and Nowhere harps~ on the necessity!
OF forcing q new treaty on Japan ana
on the plotting and hostility Of Japan.
ITSELF - - - n
8 This may pass Tor patriotism witS;
many OF the readers Of tho 4.kete;
press. " and II We should have a Wi.
with Japan the editors will crow about;
how they prepared MS for It. But the.
Dl8in fact NJ fho a4$uo <3o,, 5-o,,1a