Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-06-07


other -prof1teering measures the
federal government should be author
lied to establish permanent boards
for the prompt investigation of profits
and prices. All income and other tax
returns should be available for in
spection.
1--WE do not demand. nor do we de-
sire, a precipitate collapse in prices
generally, for In such a collapse there
would be the greatest danger of ma
tional calamity. The program we
have here laid before the nation is
constructive and is practical. Be
cause it is constructive and practi-
cal, because it contains measures ma
tive to American life and American
thought, we urge and demand for 1t
the immediate and effective consider
alton of the people and Of the author
tiles of our country.
THE cost of living must go no
higher. Wages must be advanced III
every case to a point at which the
American standard of living is secure.
The life and the productive capacity
of the great farming community, now
back to the richness that has marked
it. above the agriculture of all other
nations. This will be possible only
when the vicious forces that load the
values of the farm with fictitious and
fabulous profits have been curbed
and made powerless."
In a summary of 1.-The essential
facts of the present industrial siua-
tion," the report refers to the mo-
mentous loss of life and productive
power and the rapid consumption of
many basic materials. 1t asserts that
these are responsible for much of the
shortage of commodities now expert
enced.
Evidence in possession of the trade
union movement is that workers to-
day are as, willing to work as ever.
and that their productive capacity is
as great, If not greater than ever"
the report states. 1t declares that
the influences which have operated
since the war to check production
ARE under the control Of employers
and not of the workers."
As to Boishevism.
On the subject of bolshevism and
other extremist propaganda, the re-
port has this to say:
During the year just passed the
labor movement has stood it's ground
solidly and maintained the progress
i've, constructive policy which has
marked it apart from most of the
labor movements of the world thru
out the whole period of the world
war.
But the nation has witnessed
sporadic outbreaks of extremist SEN
timent. and has been compelled to
deal with extremist propaganda in a
number of cases since the war period
ward unreasoned conduct and unreal
soned thought has been most unfor-
tunate for the nation and still more
unfortunate for those who have been
the participants.
"Bolsheyism has been lure for
some Of our people, and its doctrines
have been propagated with great
vigor. This hideous Z doctrine has
found converts among two classes of
people principally-those intellectu-
ais. so-called. who have no occupa-
ton save that Of following one fad
after another. and those so beaten
In the game of life that they find no
appeal in anything except the most
desperate and illogical schemes. The
rank and file Of the organized labor
movement, as was to have been ex-
pected, has given no countenance to
the propaganda Of bolshevism, but
has, on the contrary, been It's most
effective opponent in America.
"The propaganda Of revolutionary
thought has not been limited to the
propaganda of 'bolshevism. It has
taken other forms. The 'one-big-
union idea has had it's adherents.
despite the disastrous results of the
experiment in Canada with it's
treacherous machinery during the
year preceding our 1919 convention.
1t is gratifying to note that every
where the ostensible strength of this
propaganda has been lost and that
Its fallacies are daily becoming
clearer to It's former victims.
"Of more Importance than the re-
suits of studied propaganda Of revo-
luton and extremism is the feeding
Of unrest among our people, which
Is due to abuses in our political and
industrial life, and which seeks re-
lief and freedom, and not revolution
and catastrophe.
The written and spoken propa-
ganda Of unreason and extremism
can be met and defeated by truth.
BUT legitimate unrest, growing out of
conditions Of Injustice. can be met
and overcome only by intelligent
dealing with conditions. Those who
drink from poisoned well will be
poisoned until the well itself is
cleansed"
, Covering nearly $50 closely printed
pages, the report makes reference to
almost every phase Of the organized
labor movement.