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The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-07-09
COOPERATION IS next
STEP IN MANS PROGRESS

The term ''co-opetation' is derived
from two Latin Workshop" mean
ing together, and "opero." which
means work. says the All-Americau
cooperative commission, in it's week
ly news service.
Incorporation is working together.
That is very simple, and yet it con-
tains a truth so profound that men
have not yet fathomed it's possibil:
tiles. The great institutions Of civ
ilization are all based on co-opera-
ton. Without it there. could be no
family life, no churches, no schools,
no government; society would be
plunged into the abyss Of hopeless
anarchy, and human progress would
be impossible:
But what if we carry co-opera-
ton to it's logical conclusion, and in
slst that there is no more reason why
men should not work together for
the common good in industry and in
ternational relationships than in the
home. the school and the mainte-
nance of government?
What would happen to Industrial
autocracy, to privileged monopoly, to
war? The crucial issue before world
civilization today is just this: Shall
we cling to the jungle law of COM
petition and continue to cut each
others Threats, or shall. we strive to
construct civilization on an enduring
cooperative basis? This is not a
dream. It is hard-headed realism.
Unnitigated competition is leading
straight to more war, more industrial
strife, more social ruin. BY cooper
alton alone car men work happily
and peacefully together to create a
higher civilization
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-07-09
HE'S A RAILROAD PRESIDENT

When railroad officials are forced
to get down to |Fbrass tacks'' on the
question of railroad workers. wage:
they find themselves in a ridiculous
position. Answers given by a presi
dent who was being examined by an
attorney for the Railroad Administra.
ton are TYPICAL:
Railroad president; elf we had had
control of our own property, we would
not have raised wages during the wal
as much as the government did,
The Attorney "were wages raised
more than those in other industries9'
HYes.o
'Were they raised more than in the
Steel Corporation?'
''I do not know
"Can you name large business in
which they were raised lesss'
IT cannot.'
"Can you, from your own observa.
ton in the neighborhood where you
live, say that any class of labor-tae
bricklayers, for example-were raised
less?'
II cannot say.'
"Will you be good enough to ex
plain, if you know nothing whateve,
about the subject, how you dare come
here and charge that the American
government raises were unreasonable g:
"That is my impression.'
That is the sort Of testimony that i;
being heard by every public agency
that calls railroad officials before it tc
gain information on the railroad nroh
lcH1.
They are glib with statements thai
the workers were overpaid and did no,
give satisfactory service, but none i!
able to give proof Of his contention.
During federal control of the car
riers the wages Of workers were in
creased about 100 per cent. During the
same period the increases in the stee
and iron industry were about 1oO De,
cent.
In other industries the disparity with
rail workers. wages was even greater
AS a matter Of fact, as former Directo.
of Transportation Hines clearly point
| ed out, the men who contributed 10y
! ally to the winning of the war wer,
| very badly treated in the matter o.
wages.
Some day the public will learn tn.
truth of this wage question and ther
| it will know that men who are presi
dents of railroad corporations either
| were ignorant Of matters that were o1
common knowledge or they deliberately
distorted the facts to suit their owe
purposes.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-07-09
BLAME UNITED STATES
FOR WAGE REDUCTIONS

There are indications that tho
wage reduction stunt and other
schemes associated with it for max
ing the workers bear. the burdens
thrown upon the community by cap
italism's failure to meet the needs Of
the times have their origin in the
United States" says the Daily Her
aid of Adelaide, South Australia, in
referring to the anti-union movement
of American employers.
mo such attack has been
launched in this country" continues
the Herald, "but it may be expected
in the not very distant future un-
less the organized workers are alert
and active in the protection OF their
rights.
1T is evident that a direct attack
is being directed against American
trade union organization, so that the
unity Of the workers may be smashed
and the wage earners thus compelled
to accept whatever terms the en-
ployers like to offer. Curioutly
enough the capitalists do not happen
to have the argument all their own
way, and as showing how live and
important the issue is. it may be
mentioned that the churches are dis
cussing it with animation and from
the point Of view Of the working
man.
"All this is of particular interest
to the Australian worker who may,
unless he is very careful. be carried
along into the whirlpool Of industrial
may become an easy prey and victim
to the schemes of exploitation"
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-07-09
A SOLEMN FARCE.

The packers control bill which has
been approved by Congress reverses tho
legal axiom that ignorance Of the law
cannot be successfully urged as a de-
Tense Of it's violation. That rule will
continue to hold good so far as the
average small-fry criminal is concerned,
but it won t go with the great meat
combines that retain a battery of law
ycrs to advise them on legal matters.
The legislation that Congress yields
in response to the long-delayed demand
of consumers for relief from the exac-
tions Of food mani pulators and monop-
olisss is not going to seriously interfere
with the activities Of anybody. AL
that it does was stated by Senator
CaraNav when it was before the senate:
It gives the government chance
- ascertain the facts. It gives bust.
ness inst what the senator from Maine
pleaded for tod oy-notice without be-
coming liable to prosecution. The sen.
40 pleaded for the opportunity to be
given to business man to know Ill
a,(z ance if his act is violation of the
law, and not. as the Federal Trade
Commission now does, come along after
ward and prosecute him for doing that
which he had previous knowledge was
a violation of the law.'
One is warranted in believing that
the senate was enjoying itself at the
expense Of the public when it was go.
ing through the solemn farce of plac-
ing upon the statute books legislation
that leaves the food situation exactly
where it has been for. nearly a score
Of years Here is what will happen to
those who deliberately deride and trans
gress the laws of the nation, as stated
by Senator CaraWay:
1.-The bill saves the honest business
man that possible trouble (arrest ana
conviction). 1t first provides that
after his acts shall have been 'inves.
tlgated and shall have been found to
he violation of the law, he shall have
a written notice of that fact and a
command that he shall desist from thas
practice.''
That is ALL A gentle admonition
from the government that lawbreaking
must cease. A tap on the wrist and
the culprit may go and sin no more!'
Perhaps it is as much as the public
had a right to expect. Congress during
the past few years has given no evil
dence that it cares a tinker's dam
about what the people may think Of
its acts. 1t treads lightly so as not to
Inconvenience big business. When the
clamor becomes onlinous it throws a
miserable false pretense to the people
and then proceeds blithely about its
masters affairs.
1t IS terrible thing to thus DELHI
erately destroy the confidence Of the
people i'll their legislative bodies. Sam
uel Cntermyer, commenting upon this
very question, gravely declared that if
those who constitute the government
continue to "fiddle with the grave peril
While the people of the country ara
being day after day worse exploited
they will have the house tumbline over
their ears before they get much farther
on that line.''
Farmers and consumers are going IN
be deeply chagrined when they appre-
clate exactly what Congress has done
to them. They plead long and earnest
ty for relief and Congress gave them
the horse laugh
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-07-09
FREEDOM rs FIRST DEMAND.

No other group Of citizens discuss
and pass judgment on such variety
of subjects Of interest to the people
as do the organized workers.
Declarations by the Denver A. +. OF
l.. convention, just adjourned, are in
line with the usual policy of labor
These are sufficient answer to phrase
makers, cultists and self-styled Glib
erals' who affect patronizing atti
tude toward wage earners while de-
ploring that "labor has no constructive
program.
These critics take themselves quite
seriously. They talk of "serving the
public They class themselves with
educators, physicians, surgeons, engi
neers, investigators and other scien
lists who give their lives to their fei
low men without hope of plaudit o,
reward.
They cannot understand when labo,
talks Of liberty. "What does labo,
want9'' they innocently inquire, while
wage earners thunder against industrial
autocracy, labor injunctions, judicial
usurpation and legislative encroach.
ment.
10 these critics, democracy is a yes.
ture, pose; thing for crowd rousine
and vote catching.
The right to organize, to have a
voice in working conditions and be
represented by persons Of their OWE
choosing, is of first Importance to the
workers.
IT labor's only gain was the voice II
industry it now possesses it can pre-
sent a constructive program incompar
able in history.
NO other movement, no other pro
gram, raised the workers from thu
status of serfs. Through their efforts
they have fought upward, establishing
new standards and new life relation.
while dragging with them the yer,
men who talk of constructive pro
grams.'
Labor's voice in production and dis
tributlon must be universally accepted
This is labor's foundation and i
cannot be swept aside while the caus;
tor its existence remains.
Fundamentally, labor has presented
no new program during the long exist
ence of the A. F. Of L.
Demands on secondary matter
change with developed public opin
ion, but labor places industrial freedom
through organization of the workers IL
the front rank.
This is its major note today, as i
was in 1881.
This disappoints the seeker for move
| things. It is irksome to sensationalist
and publicity seekers who shun tn
drudgery of combat against entrenchet
wrong.
The organized workers know Their
is no royal road to freedom.
Only through unity and mental de
velopment will the workers win. L
they will not help themselves, no on,
| else will.
Agitate! Educate! Organize!
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-07-09
DAUGHERTY'S BIG JOB.


large sum will be required to inves-
tigate war contracts as a preliminary
to prosecuting all who took advantage
Of the government. 1t cannot possibly
be so large that Congress will hesitate
for single moment in providing it.
If even one proiteer is compelled to
disgorge the Federal Treasury will re-
coup the most extravagant outlay. The
attorney general says, and nearly
everybody agrees with him, that bill
lions of dollars were improperly ex.
pended i'll injudicious contracts, made
by men who were serving the govern
ment at dollar year while they had
their arms up to their elbows in Uncle
Sam s strong box.
No better test of Congress concern
for the public welfare will be had than
its treatment Of the request for funds
with which to clear up fostering war
scandals. Terrific pressure will be
brought to bear against it by powerful
interests that were periodically rob-
blng the people who were sacrificing
their lives and dollars, and if Mr..
Daugherty really intends to go through
with his project and actually imprisons
the highly placed grafters he will have
accomplished the seemingly impossible.
The public will not be content with
the indictment and punishment of an
occasional profteering retailer who
aped the ways of the big fellows and
laid heavy hand upon his customers
because that was considered the proper
thing to do. It will be satisfied with
nothing less than the exposure Of the
great trusts that rated their tribute in
billions, and in pursuing them the at
torney general has his work cut out
for him.
John Shelton Williams, former comp.
troller Of the currency, has charged
that the United States Steel Corpora.
ton was guilty Of unreasonable
profteering during the war. Mr.. Gary
has had ample opportunity to refute
TINS arralgnment and has not done so,
Perhaps he has remained silent because
ne had no reasonable defense to offer.
Quoting from the official report OF
the United States Steel Corporation
MI. Williams points out that it could
have cut the price Of steel in half and
still have earned all the profit it, was
entitled to have, in war or peace.
1t could have doubled the wages of
every worker and the salary Of every
on1c1al and still have surplus suffi.
clent to meet every decent dividend
and surplus requirement.
Mr.. Daugherty might also. in hi:
hunt for profteers, inquire into tn;
Affairs of the Schwab concerns and e.
tablish definitely just what truth there
IS IN the charge Of Perley Morse, an
accountant of national reputation, tina,
preliminary audit of the schwat
company revealed more than $50 mis-
applied ltems' that cost the govern
ment more than $1oo,ooo,ooo.
Ihe attorney general has undertaken
tremendous and doubtless unpleasant
DUTY, but it must be done. He will
nave back of him and supporting hin
puollc opinion that has been OUTRAGED
oy the too-long immunity enjoyed b,
the grafters.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-07-09

The Society for the Encouragement
of Obscurity will soon be sending IN
vitation cards to q number Of states.
men who are trying to fix up things
for the railroads with too little regard
for the remainder Of US.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-07-09

Germany intended to make the
United States pay the cost Of the war
and failed. We wonder if, MI. Morgan
will be more successful. - l1.<. )
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-03-19
ACTION NEEDED.

Again the Journal feels constrained to speak of
the desirability yes, the imperative necessity, of
sabilizing building Albuquerque for the year
1921
Our interest is not that the building trades shall
less To prevent earning less a policy must be
inaugurated to encourage building, Otherwise, stag
nation will force all labor to earn less per week
idle If it is to be in position to protect itself Idleness
compels aborers to bid against each other for work
Wages can not be maintained in the face of com
petition which is compelled by the necessity for food
and shelter.
Labor should not be the only one to make
cessions to stimulate building. The owners of vacant
property, the material men and the prospective
builder should all join hands
The man who contempates building can go
ahead stop as he elects If conditions suit
him he will do nothing. With nothing doing,
terals will not SELL labor will not be employed and
stagnation is invited.
Albuquerque needs buildings The demand for
all manner of structures is pressing. Especially
are apartments and rent houses needed. There is
for all that be constructed But the cost must
not be prohibtive the work will not go on.
Albuquerque be kept prosperous and content
ed while other cities in slump if all act in con-
cert The welfare of all is at stake
We again suggest joint committee for general
discussion of conditions and possibilities. No one
will be bound so no one can be hurt and all may be
helped ...
We have suggested conference committee of
five each from the labor unions material men, real
estate prospective builders contractors and the
general public.
Labor can show its good intentions by taking the
initiative in such a conference No one with sense
win construe it weakness 1t will show strength,
initiative and vision.
Why not shake off our lethargy and get action?
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-03-19
BRADsTREET'S REVIEW.

New York, March 18.-Brad-
streets tomorrow will say:
Excellent spring weather and
the near approach of Easter has
frightened up jobbing and retail
trade. Collections are a shade bet
ter and the automobile and build
ing and kindred trades have shown
more life and have bought more
freely of materials. Trade as a
whole is fair. best reports coming
from the northern half of the
country.
But when this is said. 1t is con-
coded that industry still lags. that
employment, though widely diff
fused, still lacks heavily of afford
ing full occupation for millions of
workers, that signs of reaction are
common, that the general industrial
and commercial movement is very
irregular. and that the pessimism
voiced last week still finds express
sion in complaints that the revival
is not as great as expected,
Weekly bank clearings, $7,402,-
43S,000, 1868
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-03-19

Mary Watkins was setting on her
frunt steps looking exter CRATE,
and me and Pubs Simkins was set
ting there tawking to her, and she
sed, o boys, / jest thawt of per-
feckly lovely game for you 2 to see
witch one can tell me the biggest
compliment.
Witch we started to do. Pubs say
ing, G.. you look so wonderful to-
day its wonder you don't carry a
big mirrer erround with you to get
the benefit of it yourself.
o that's a perfeckly bewtifill one,
now its your tern, Benny, sed Mary
Watkins, and l sed, You look so
wonderful today its impossible to
realize it.
That's PERFECTLY lovely, now its
your tern agen, Pubs, sed Mary
Watkins, and Pubs sed, You look as
cute as berd setting on a cloud
way up in the air.
o how PERFECTLY sweet, your tern
agen, Benny, sed Mary Watkins,
and / thawt awhile without think
ing of enything better than Pulses
berd, and then / sed, You look as
eileen as Sid Hunts fox terrier Ted
dy jest after Sid gave him bath.
Well of all the perfeckly terrible
things TO say, Benny Potts. I'm SER
priced at you to insult lady like
that, sed Mary Watkins.
Wat, how? l sed, G WIZ / CESS
you never saw Teddy rite after he
had bath, he looks CRATE.
i don't care how he looks, its a
insult and l don't wunt to look like
q dog any time, sed Mary Watkins.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-03-19

and wasted 1t on shows and feeds, all benefit there
from would have disappeared the next day But if he
would put in his money to help buy musical in
strument and would go to work taking lessons It,,
he would eventually acquire resource that would
give him pleasure, satisfaction and perhaps profit
all his life.
boy who has been taught to look to future re-
suits, will often buy few chickens, and soon have
little filled with valuable poultry This will
able him to start bank account that eventually
will be the foundation Of the successful business.
Some day the boy who put his money into little
enterprises of his own will be leading business
in Albuquerque, with good house and an important
position in the life of the city. The fellow who
spent the ten spot pleasure trip will be work.
ing for meager day wages. The girl who put her
gifts in useful of study, will attract the
interests of some capable fellow, and. a matron
in her attractive home will be of the social lead
ers of the community. ....
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-03-19
BOSTON WOOL

Boston, March 18,--The Com
mercial Bulletin tomorrow will say:
"The demand for wool this week
has been within rather narrow
limits and interest has centered
more especially on the situation IN
washington than on the textile sit
uation itself. There Is some de-
mand for wooden goods reported In
the New York market and this de-
mand is being reflected to a mod
crate extent in the market here on
secured woods, both fine and me-
dunn. There is a little demand
also for fine and fine medium
staple woods and something Is done
now and again in medium grades,
but prices show no improvement;
If anything, they are still in buy
ers' favor.
1.-The foreign markets have been
generally dull and prices are on
the easy side. Some further buying
for America is reported from the
foreign markets. The earliest share
Arizona woods have been shipped
forward on consignment again this
year, although no large weight is
yet shown"
Secured basis:
Texas-Fine IL months, 20 a 75c;
fine months. 55@58c.
Territory-Fine staple choice, IS
@90c; half blood combing. 70 q
soc; three eighths blood combing,
53@58e; quarter blood combing,
'45@4Sc; fine and fine medium
clothing. SIS @70c. tG
Pulled---Delaine. 90@95c: AA,
SIS a 90o: A supers. 70@S0c.
Mohair-Best combing, $50 soc;
best carding, % M25c.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-03-19
THE COLOR SCHEME OF YOUF
LIVING ROOM.


In deciding upon the color
scheme of your living room, the
first consideration is the rooms
exposure. A cream. buff or warm
colored wall paper is necessary for
a living room which does not get
much sunlight. Bright, sunny liv-
ing rooms, however, require a sub
dued color scheme; their wall pa
per may be of cool grays and
greens or a dignified old-blue. Old
rose is one of those colors which
are appropriate in either bright
or dark room. 1t need hardly be
said that bright yellows and pale
pinks, blues and lavenders. are dis
tinctly bedroom colors.
SHALL / have a figured or a plain
living room wall paper?" ask so
many Of the letter receive from
column readers. A figured wall
paper is not restful. 1t also tends
to make a room seem smaller than
plain paper would, AS the walls
serve as a background for every
thing in the room. a neutral tone in
plain oatmeal paper is an excellent
choice. A simple striped paper is
also good for living room if in
conspicuous in color and shade.
Living rooms should have quiet,
restful atmosphere-and effect to-
ward which a tasteful wall paper
contributes much,
The floor should strike the dark
est color note of a room. Rugs or
carpets should always be darker
than the walls, especially in a liv-
ing room. In a bedroom one may
have the light-colored rag rugs to
match colorful walls; but in a live
ing room a gay floor-covering is
not permissible.
"What color woodwork should /
have in my living room?" ask other
reader-friends in their letters. Red
mahogany furniture does not look
well with brown woodwork, so in
q room furnished in mahogany a
white woodwork is generally used.
in rooms furnished in the new cot
tage furniture (painted in light
colors) or with the French gray
paint or stain generally used on
furniture made in North Carolina
ash 'Ithis is especially appropriate
for a bedroom). But a brown
stained woodwork goes with al
most any other kind of furniture.
1t is especially effective with fumed
oak, with willow furniture stained
brown, and with walnut. and brown
mahogany.
The following color scheme, for
instance, is an appropriate one for
a sunny living room: Floor borders
stained a deep shade Of walnut
brown then shellacked and rubbed
with wax. A two-toned carpet
rug, large. covers the floor-tan IN
the center and deep brown around
the border. A buff-colored plain
oatmeal paper covers the walls.
The ceiling is cream white. Brown
stained willow chairs and daveil-
port, have cushions Of tapestry in