The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-10-28
MINORS SAID TO
SUBMARINES
|NLASKER Plan
Will Refuse TO Accept Reorganiza.
don Scheme Unress for Radical
Changes IN Code, Is Belief.

New York, Oct. 2S.-The minor
leagues will refuse to }. become a
party Of the reorganization Of base
ball under the proposed Lasker
plan, unless real radical changes
are made in the scheme, it was
learned here today.
Minor league officials who have
been investigating the Lasker plan
for the appointment Of q new ma
tional commission. claim the sys-
tenn provides for government with
out representation and restoration
Of the draft which the minors have
been fighting for Fears.
Several conferences have been
held in various parts of the coun-
try and it has been informally de-
cided to oppose the plan unless It
is altered before offered to the
minor leagues at their annual meet
ing at Kansas City Pext month.
Puts Gag on Minors.
1t is claimed that under the Las
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which control more players and ter-
ritory and have more money in
vested in baseball than the majors,
are literally without voice In the
proposed government Of the game.
regardless Of the apparent effect
on the game.
According to q prominent western
minor Lacquer, the plan as dis
closed during an Informal confer
ence between major league club
president and himself, requires the
minors to accept a representative
on the commission already selected
by the majors. While 1t was init
mated that the minors must &C
cept this representative, there was
q fiat refusal to name either the
major league prospective represent
alive or the chairman Of the COM
mission, he said.
Fultx States Views
When the matter was called to
the attention of President David l.,
Fultz OF the New international
league, he said:
THE Lasker plan contains the
same fundamental error OF govern
ment as the one upon which the
National agreement rode to its fall
1t provides that minor as well as
major leagues shall be controlled
by a board of three commissioners
who are to be chosen by the major
leagues. The minors may offer sug-
gestions, but the voting power rests
entirely with the majors. This board
is to have complete control, not only
over the relations that exist be.
tween minors and majors. but over
their internal affairs as well. In
other words, we are expected tc
subscribe to a government in whose
election we have no voice and tc
which we must submit for Is years
no matter how unfair it may be-
come. 1t is necessary only to poini
out this error in the plan to show
why it can not be accepted by the
minor leagues.
! Hears No True Ring.
The Lasker plan, insofar az Il
affects the minor leagues, does mo-
ring true. II the majors Yish Il
re-establish relations with thu
minors, they must come clean ant
submit some proposition which
gives US full control Of our own AZ
fairs and an equal control OF oul
relations with them.
THE statement is made that
majority Of the minors are in favol
Of this plan. This must be takes
with q grain Of salt. We know O.
eight league presidents who are un
alterably opposed and. while We d.
not speak with authority for al
the minors, it is safe to say tina
at the Kansas City meeting the.
will pass q resolution wishing tn
[majors every possible success il
cleaning house and pledging thei
cooperation in every way. excep
where 1t affects their right OF self
government. But this right the.
| will rot surrender under any con
sideration."