Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-01-08
ALLIANCE WITH
 THE FARMER,
BrOt herhoodS Reach COnclus ion That Wage Demands
 are Ineffective
SHOPMEN ALREADY
 BUYING FACTORIE
Four Clothing Factories From Whit Goods Will he Sold at Big Reduction Are Pur-
 chased
lBY The Associated Press l

 obtain satisfactory relief from u high cost of living either throue further wage advances by the raj road administration or from the ant Iprofiteering campaign of the depnr ment of justice, officials of the fol big railway brotherhoods and q railroad shop crafts affiliated vii the American Federation of Lab, have decided to seek solution fl themselves through cooperative bul ing, production and distribution. IT step was construed in some qua ters as indicting that demands N further wage increases would not pressed pending outcome of the pertinent.
 Details of the cooperative sche have not ye3 been completed, h plans have been under consideratiI since the farmer-labor conference Chicago in November. The farm of the All-American farmers, Ia ! cooperative commission, an "A growth of the conference, was nounced today at it's offices hf4 Another conference will be held 8 Chicago February 12 to 15. flv
 Warren $. Stone, grand chief { the Brotherhood of Locomotive Ei gineers, and one of the organizei of the Chicago meeting, is geneIl treasurer of the cooperative co mission and other officials of ts railway employees organizations aS officers.
 Representatives of the four brotherhoods conferred during r day with Howard Figg, special a14il ant to the attorney general and charge of the campaign against q high cost of living.
 After the meeting, MT. Figg n that the brotherhood representatt5 had come to obtain first-hand infN nation regarding results achieV by the department of justice and N informed him that their organi1 tions planned to solve their q problems of living costs throughs operative methods.
 ---- Direct Dealing. t
 Indications that pressure IN railway workers for increased VII might be lessened was seen if statement by Bert NJ. Jewell, ad president of the railway employn partment of the federation of that "an increase in pay vii solve the problem" Jewell as that higher wages accompanied proportionate increase in pric suits in q "vicious circle" leaves the railroad man no off after the increase in pal x he was with the smaller salarl A CT officers of railway worke1 s ganizations, as well as Jewel &1 no hope for relief in prosecuI M profiteers and delcared the on. to deal with an economic situatt with economic factors.
 An alliance of the farmers, th ganized producers on the one with laborers or organized col CTS on the other hand, is. tho pose of the cooperative cd Jewell, who is a membe{ commission said. It aimA tf # vigorous campaign for 6s~4 ing between farm producers consumers, and, as soon asS between city producers an consumers"
 Inauguration of extensive tion schemes among the
 brotherhoods membership in ly after the Chicago confel { February was predicted b: Wills, executive reprcsentati& locomotive engineers. PlansIE l( organization of co-operat4 authorized by the Brotherl . Locomotive Engineers bef war, may soon be pushed z' pletion, MT. Wills said, m taken to establish co-operatf2ks and distribution facilities bers of the brotherhood wits saries of life at a reasonAhla
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