Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1920-09-08


ers to agree not to become members
OF any union or to admit union Or
ganizers to their homes The men
had been discharged and had secured
work as section hands on a railroad
While going to the pay station to get
their first pay checks from the rail
road, Baldwin-Felts operatives beat
them over the heads with guns and
blackjacks, while others stood by with
high-powered rifles to be used if the
victims offered resistance.
LENROOT VS.. LA TOILETTE.
Wisconsin has the distinction of
having two senators, one of which is
the reverse of the other. The records
show that on 10 important rollcalls
during Irving Lenroot's brief term
there, Lenroot negatived the vote Of
La Toilette in every case.
Lenroot said Ives" to the Wads-
worth army bill providing for auto
matte CONSUMPTION, to the Esch- Cum
Minis railroad law and mo- to two
La Toilette measures checking the
Oil monopoly. He voted against all
of the La Toilette reservations to the
league covenant, which reservations
abolished CONSUMPTION, limited annexa-
tons, gave peoples referendum on
war and insured the right of self.
determination to small nations.
On the other hand, his campaign
literature contains letter OF warm
congratulations" from Franklin K.
Lane, ex-secretary of the Interior and
now enjoying a salary of $4,000 a
year with the Doheny oil interests.
In the coming primary Wisconsin
or fowl.
THE FERRY COAL PLAN.
Experimental government-operateo
mines in both the anthracite and the
bitum1nous coal fields have been pro.
posed to the presidents anthracite
| coal commission by Thomas Kennedy
president Of District No. 7, United
Mine Workers of America.
Kennedy, who is one of the big
liberal leaders among the coal miners
said that he was merely putting for:
| ward officially the Ferry plan, so.
| called, which was drafted by the
miners and was suggested at the an.
thracite miners conference some
months ago by Neal Ferry, who is now
the miners own member of the three.
| party commission. The anthracite
miners approved this plan, and it has
become as much part of their i'm.
mediate program as the Plumb plan
for government ownership and demo
cratic operation of railroads has be.
come the immediate program of the
16 railroad labor organizations.
In the anthracite controversy the
anthracite mining companies were
shown to be merely the cover agents
or stool pigeons of the anthracite rail
roads, which were in turn owned
through interlocking stockholders, by
a small group-of capitalists dominated
by J. P. Morgan & Co. and the Ma
tional City bank crowd in Wall street
Seven coal-carrying railroads form
the anthracite trust, and they all take
orders from Morgan
w. Jet Lauck, the famous indus
trial economist, had presented figures
showing that the profits of the an
thracite coal business were covered
up in the profits of these railroads
and their selling agencies. The law
yers for the companies fought bitterly
to exclude all of this evidence from
the record. Lauck argued that unit
the actual profits of these railroads
and their selling concerns were made
known by an exhibit of their books
the facts as to the profits of anthra
cite coal production could not be prov
en-, and hence the commission could
not know whether an increase in the
retail price of anthracite would be
necessary when. wage increase was
granted the miners.
AS final means of prying loose
the facts as to the profit in the Goa
industry Kennedy brought forward thu
proposal approved by the anthracite
miners-the Ferry plan.
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CHECKING IDLE CARS.
The Illinois Agricultural association
has completed survey of the alleged
freight car shortage and Secretar,
Thompson of the association says:
"This survey shows pretty clearl,
to the farmers Of Illinois the excuse
of car shortage is largely camoufage
given to cover up some real, deeper
reason for the present transportation
|inefficiency. And to search for tina,
reason will be the next Job of the
farmers business organization"
Members of the association made
daily records of the car initials ant
numbers of all cars at 494 station,
located in 46 different counties fo1
seven consecutive days. OF these 40.
stations, LAG, or 1915 per cent, report
ed some of the same cars on tracks
the last day of the count as were O,
the tracks the first day of the count
! "At~ all stations" says Secretar
Thompson, "9, 294 cars were listed tn
:. first day, and Of these cars 93S GU
4 of 8, 294 ears had not been moved fror
4 the country point for seven coniec,
tive: days. This is just a little Ave
Il ao per cent ot the cars at such noisIt,
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