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The labor world., 1921-12-03
LIND FOR THE SENATE.

There is talk in southern Minnesota
/ of booming John Lind for the, Demo
cratic nomination for United States
senator. Frank 4. Day, private secre.
tary to the late Gov. John A. Johnson
and Editor Of the Fairmont Sentinel.
believes "the times demand a man cf
Lind's mentality and habit Of think
ing
John Lind is the one big Democrat
in Minnesota who should he the party 5
candidate for United States senator.
Gov. Lind represents the best thought
in the Democratic party. He is a
statesman of rare quality and ability.
lie is for the people all Of the time.
He is tolerant and sympathetic. He
would not impr;son men for intertain-
ing opinions opposite his own. He
would not conspire to personally in
jurc persons in organizations opposed
to him.
Above everything else John Lind is
an American of the type we honor and
respect. His conduct as member Of
the state public safety commission
during the trying days of the war is
sufficient to bring to his support every
lover OF justice and liberty in the
state.
We want John Lind as our candidate
for the United States senate in pre-.
ference to any other man in Minnesota.
and in making such declaration We
are not forgetting number Of other
very good men. John Lind has been
tried and he has not been found
| wanting.
The labor world., 1921-12-03
Labor. Unrest healthiest Sign Of Times

made a fixed quantity.
I want to know what. the meaning
of this sudden demand on the part OF
those who used to talk so bravely
about the battle to the strong, the sur
vival of the fittest, God helps those
who help themselves, and so on.
But, unfortunately, the laboring
man is beginning to help himself, and
so that law is not SO popular as it
used to be.
We used to hear. a. good deal
about might being right, but the COM
Portable man Of today seems to have
a sudden revulsion of feeling in fav-
or of the principles of the Sermon on
the Mount.
I am very much afraid those es-
timable persons who are demanding
that labor shall cease from troubling
and that the world shall become a
comfortable place where the COM
Portable man may rest, are in for
bitter disappointment.
Labor has got to be considered as
we'll as capital.
I myself regard labor unrest as the
healthiest sign of the times. If the
laboring classes showed no sign Of
discomfort with their present condi-
tions, it would mean that human
vitality is flowing to it's end.
I am not afraid Of labor, at whose
moderations I marvel
Social revolution has got to come.
and it is the duty of every man with
brains in his head to help prepare tho
way for it that it may come upon us
when it does come, not armed with
anger and hatred and envy and un-
reason, but. with promise in its hand.
The labor world., 1921-12-03
WANT HALLAN TO REs1GN

Judge Oscar Hallam of the supreme
court of Minnesota is a tentative candi-
date for the Republican nomination for
the United States senate against Frank
3. Kellogg. He is being groomed bv
goodly number Of weekly papers
throughout the state, and while judge
Hallam has not announced his candi.
cacy he refuses to say that he is not 8
candidate.
His attitude is alarming the friends
OF Senator Kellogg, and Twin City
papers are fomenting demand that if
Judge Hallam entertains a yearniuy
for the senatorship he must resign his
position as a supreme court Justice be:
fore giving the yearning chance to
express itself. 1t is believed that
such demand is made fol the pur
The labor world., 1921-12-03
MAN AND THE AUTO.

We do not know whether to discuss
in this editorial the "rights Of man.
or the "rights Of the auto.' Maybe
since the auto came man lost his rights
on the public streets, just as prohibi
tion has taken away ones Godgiven
right to drink himself to death if he
so choose, or to tear up the town.
In the days Of old dobbin things were
different. Traffic regulations weren u
so stringent Dobbin knew man was
his master and he respected his mas
ter's rights. We guess that 8 why most
people loved him. Haven't we hun
dred times got behind his wagon and
given him helping push up a hill
when he was straining every nerve to
make the grade. Who ever heard Of
anyone giving lift to an automo-
bile?
!. When we crossed the street in the
: days Of dobbin he had sufficient re.
spect for our rights and weakness to
stop or check UP and permit us to pass.
Not SO now. It's get out Of the way
and do it quickly or be run down. It =
funny what a difference it makes in
a fellow when he gets car. As a
pedestrian he is: a great sticker for
rights, for 'his rights" but as tho
man behind the wheel, we'll ho thinks
he has carried his pedestrial rights
with him, and the man who is still
walking can take tho .hindmost.
1t is said that if one wants to as:
certain the true attributes of another
all he has to do is to observe how he
conducts himself in his auto. Meet
him on a narrow country road anS see
whether he is willing to go fifty. fifty
with you, and if he is. sympathetic
enough to slacken up while passing.
The automobile is truly a great in
stitution- It assumes rights never in.
tended for moving vehicles. 1t shows
up the character of it's driver when he
has: elsewhere successfully concealed it
from the world. ltrulcs by brute forcs
like tyrants Of old. We are going to
buy "tank'' some day to-. challenge
Its supremacy.
That's what we.: think Of. the auto:
mobile. We wonder if we have any
company in such thought?
The labor world., 1921-12-03
NEW GERMAN AUToCRAT

A serious situation is developing in
Germany-one which is little under.
stood on this side of the water.
Under the terms Of the. treaty Of
Versailles Germany must pay the
allies about one billion dollars each
year, in addition to meeting the cos:
Of maintaining the allied armies of oc.
cupation. This would be, heavy, but
not necessarily a crushing, burden if il
were not for the Unparalleled condition
Of the exchange market.
Getmany's debt must be paid in
gold and. it requires about sixty 4,
Germany's paper marks to purchase
the equivalent Of one gold mark.
So the payment Of one billion dollars
in gold means about sixty billion dol
The labor world., 1921-12-03
WHAT IT: COST.

i: Addressing a gathering Of railroad
officials few days ago Director Gen
eral Davis said that twenty-six months
of Federal control Of the railroads had
been "a costly experiment''-that the
people would be out Of pocket two
billion dollars when all the bills were
paid.
Opponents Of government ownership
will make much Of the. director gen
erals statement and yet it is, at best,
only half truth.
The deficit Of two billions covers. the
rental of $9oo,ooo,ooo a year paid the
roads by the government and which
Senator Cummins declared was $780,.
100000 in excess; of fair figure; the
sabotage of railroad officials, anxious
to discredit public operation; and the
hundreds Of millions presented to the
roads under; the guaranty provisions Of
the Cummins- Esch bill.
No one should use these criminal ex.
penditures of. public funds to discredit
the principle of government owner.
ship and operation of public: utilities:
Such excesses would be impossible un.
der any kind Of administration in nor
NAL times.
And no one, especially the director
general, should brand Federal operation
"a costly experiment. without direct
ing public attention to this all-impor-
tant fact:
IF FREIGHT AND PASSENGER
RATES HAD BEEN AS HIGH UN-
DER FEDERAL CONTROL AS THEY
ARE TODAY UNDER PRIVATE
CONTROL, INSTEAD OF A DEFICIT
OF TWO BILLIONS THE RAILROAD
ADMINISTRATION WOULD HAVE
HAD A SURPLUS OF AT LEAST
ONE BILLION.
That means that the people are pay.
ing very much more today for freight
and passenger service than they did
under Federal control, even if we in
clude the two billion contributed from
the public treasury.
The labor world., 1921-12-03
BY JEROME X. JEROME.

There is abroad at the present
time among the lower orders a re-
prehensible spirit which is generally
alluded to as labor unrest. From
Hodge, in his damp and dilapidated
but nevertheless picturesque. cottage,
rearing his brood on $3.50 a. week,
to the miner. the plutocrat Of labor,
who by eight hours labor a day under
conditions which might have inspired
Dante to add an extra circle to his
inferno. and at the ever present risk
of his life, earns as much in a month
as would pay the annual subscription
of. a decent golf club, labor is moving
in unrest.
Labor, to put it bluntly, is becom-
ing bit of a nuisance.
The comfortable man is being irri-
tated and annoyed, and something
has got to be done. The community
those persons with incomes of three
or four thousand dollars a year.
demand that labor unrest shall be put
an end to. I cannot help being re-
minded Of the story of King Canute
and his couriers and the Atlantic
Ocean.
The, comfortable man demands that
he shall be- protected against labor
combining for it's own ends. 1t is
rather pathetic, this sudden demand
of the comfortable classes for an age
of rest and security.
The world is to be made into a
safe place for tn comfortable man.
The wage Garner must be content
to submit to the fluctuations of the
labor market, but the comfortable
mans gilt edged securities are to be
The labor world., 1921-12-03
ars in Germany's deprecated paper

lars: in Germany's. deprecated paper
money.
It is quite out Of the question for
the German government to continue
to raise this sum each year. 1t must in
some way get financial assistance from
the outside-must negotiate loan with
the international bankers.
These gentlemen seem willing to ad-
vance the money but apparently they
| will deal with the German government
only through the German captains Of
industry.
Twelve hundred Of these so-called
"industrialists met in Berlain a short
time ago and submitted to the govern
ment the terms on which they would
agree to use their "pull'' with thu
international bankers to save their
country from bankruptcy.
They must be consulted about the
way taxes are levied. Railroads and
other publicly-owned utilities must he
handed over to private enterprise. The
eight hour day for workers must be
abolished.
That is not all but it is enough to
show what the Morgans and Grays ot
Germany have in mind. They propose
to substitute for the militarism Of the
Hohenzollerns an industrial autocracy
of the most obnoxious and oppressive
type.
WESTERN CIVILIZATION CAN
NOT AFFORD TO PERMIT THEM
TO GAIN THEIR OBJECTIVE.
The existing government of Germany
is the most democratic that country
has ever had. President Ebert and
Chancellor Wirth have apparently dis
played the utmost good faith in their
efforts to execute the terms of the
treaty of peace. Lloyd George of Eng.
land and BRAND Of France bear witness
to this.
Their sole offense is that they have
granted the workers a measure Of JUS
tice, have endeavored to curb the mill
tarists, and have sought to compel
wealth to shoulder reasonable part
of the burdens Of government. For
this the captains. Of industry would
punish them, even to, the extent Of
plunging their country into the finan:
cial abyss.
The world has. nothing to fear from
a democratic Germany It will be con
stant}y menaeed by an: autocratic Ger
many, whether tho leader be- a Krupp
or Kaiser.
The labor world., 1921-12-03
LITTLE CHANGE IN FOOD
PRICES. SINCE. OCTOBER

WASHINGTON, Dec. 1.-Average
food prices in 81 important cities were
practically the same in October as in
September, reports the bureau of la
Dor statistics. Throughout the entire
country these prices decreased but
three-tenths Of per cent. or about
one-third of cent on every dollar ex.
pended for food.
OF the 43 food articles on which
monthly prices secured. % re-
ported price decreases and IS arti-
cles advanced in price, with NO change
Of wheat, canned corn, coffee.
The labor world., 1921-12-03

grab Of. the principal Alaska coal fields:
The deal was exposed by. Clifford
Pinchot, then chief Of the Forestry
service, and Norman Hapgood, editor
Of Golfers Weekly. Ballinger was
forced to resign and for a time the
Guggenheim plans were shelved, but
not abandoned. =
Now they are to be put through
under the pretense Of "opening up"
Alaska.
Where is the valiant Pinchot? Is
he sleeping at the switch?
The labor world., 1921-12-03

terfere with labor's activities Under
the pretense that they are enforcing
law and maintaining order.
1t is not a bad thing to keep tho
police near the people. Until recent
times the Federal government and the
states were content to reply upon the
military forces to maintain order, and
in the beginning the intent was to have
them used only in the event of great
emergencies. The founders of our coun-
try recognized the danger of stand.
ing army in any form. 1t is not the
way to assure the permanency Of
democracy.
A state police, in the last analysis
and stripped Of every other name, is
but a standing state army. 1t is q
menace to human freedom. It can
trample over all rights but property
rights, and this it will not do, for
property interests will depend upon it
for protection, although they are now
getting all the protection they need
from the courts, the sheriffs, city
police, village marshals and town con-
stables.
The city police are capable of pro-
tecting life and property in the or
ganized municipalities Of the state. If
they are not it is not the fault of the
system but Of the men responsible for
the appointment Of chiefs Of police
and patrolmen. Properly organized
and with reasonable intelligence and
integrity they can meet every situation
that arises.
The sheriffs are elected by the peo-
pie of the several counties. They are
the peace officers for all territory out.
side the cities, and may be called to
assist or to take the place Of the police
in any crisis. They have deputies to
aid them, and in emergencies they may
swear in as many more as may be
necessary to compel law and order. IT
they feel that they can not control
a situation they may call upon the
order the militia to the scene of dis:
turbance. That is and has been the
American way from the beginning Of
our government.
Why depart from that time -honored,
Gberty~protecting custom7 Why state
police7 Oweing no direct allegiance
to the people and responsible to none:
save the governor who appoints them,
they browbeat, ride over and trample
down the helpless as has been; brutally
done by the cossacks of the three
states named above, We want none
Of that in Minnesota.
The voters of this state who adhere
to the traditions Of our Republic amt
who believe in liberty and justice ars
advised to wake up and stand guard
before it is too late. 1t is the duty
Of every lover Of right and justice to
see to it that none but honest, know
ing, sympathetic ana fearless men and
women are sent to the next legislature.
Privilege and agreed are having their
day just now and they are getting all
they can while the getting is good. An
awakening Of the people is imminent:
but it will be without avail unless the
right sort of representatives are sent
to law making bodies to voice thei:
sentiments and will.
The labor world., 1921-12-03
WHO KILLED COCK BOBINo


Under the above caption the WASH
ington Herald makes this editorial COM
ment on the defeat of Senator Smoot IS
sales tax plan:
cit is said that Senator Smoot is
wondering who killed his cock-robir,,
in the form of sales tax. This is
not hard to tell. It was put to death
before born by the same men and in.
interests, all over the country, who
fathered it. They belong to that larger
and widely distributed class of the pass.
along -the-tax with the multiplication
table. The folks outside the circle arc
heartily tired of that sort of tax which
can be passed on to them double, treble
or quadruple.
"The proposed sales tax was tho
oretically unobjectionable. But it was
distinctly a consumption tax and no
power under heaven could keep its
addition to price being no more than
the principal.
"Other forms Of taxation might tc
worse, but had not been so industri
ously advertised. There was perhaps a
chance that some Of it would be collect
ed from them only once, or that even
part would be paid but once and that
by the person against whom it was
originally assessed. It is one blessing
Of even nuisance taxes that those who
pay know the exact amount, pay it, and
that is the end of it.''
The labor world., 1921-12-03
YES, THEY'RE FOR AMERICA,

The charge by United States Senate,
Ransdell that American railroad owners
have contracts with foreign steamship
companies, while American vessels arc
idle, is a hard blow to rail owners
who have spent vast sums to develop a
public opinion favorable to them.
Their raids on the treasury, their
wage-cutting, and their general anti
union policy do not square with their
statements that they are "trustees OF
public utility,' that they are only
serving the public, that they are &C
tuated by patriotic motives, ETC., etc.
Now it is shown that they have
pledged British, japanese, scandina.
vian and German ship companies "to
make every effort within reason' to
secure the necessary amount Of freight
required by the foreign ships, to aid
these companies against all competitors
(American ships compete with these
foreigners) to use their influence to
secure tax exemptions and harbor dues
for the foreigners, give them fres
wharfage and other concessions and
deliver coal to them. below the market
price and never over S. ton.
The law provides that the railroads
shall file copies Of every contract re-
lating to traffic with the Interstate
Commerce Commissions. It is now dis
covered that the contracts referred to
by Senator Ransdell have not been
filed. The commission has ordered the
railroads to comply wit tn the law, and
the senate, on molten of Senator Jones,
of Washington, requests the commission
to furnish it copy of these con.
tracts.
Officers Of the National Merchant
Marine Association state that there Is
no record Of an agreement whereby an
American railroad is pledged to Sc.
cure trade for shipping under the
American flag.
"With the government turning over
many millions of dollars to American
railroads, with the railroads utilizing
their resources. to secure business fo.
foreign steamship lines, even to the ex.
tent of employing solicitors to get
eargoes, remarkable situation is de-
veloped,' these business men declare.
"For, while the government is forced
to tie up hundreds Of its vessels for
lack Of freight, American railroads con-
tinue to turn over cargoes to foreign
steamship lines, and these lines con.
tinue to gain steadily in the percentage
Of our ocean commerce, which they
carry, while our vessels transport less
and less.
"Thus the government, by its pay
ment to the. railroads, is using. it's
money to foster competition with ita
own shipping and thereby: add to the
heavy burden of .loss.''
Some of the largest railroad systems
have entered into these exclusive agree.
ments with foreign companies.
The labor world., 1921-12-03

The failure of the public to become
excited by an exposure of the railroad
conspiracy to drive the American flag
off the seas may be explained on the
theory that that is exactly the kind
Of work the public expects the rail-
roads to be engaged in.
The labor world., 1921-12-03

Scientists who have figured out that
more than 200 substances are made
from petroleum have taken no account
OF presidents, senator's, congressman,
judges and various other public officials.
The labor world., 1921-12-03
TAMPA CIGAR BOSSES
DRIVING WAGES Down

TAMPA, FLA. Dec. 1.-For bru-
tality and unsatisfied greed, cigar
makers in this city will back their
employers against the world.
These workers resisted wage cuts
over a year ago. and after 10
months strike went back to work
under a promise that wages would not
be cut again. Notwithstanding this
agreement, rates were cut last July,
and now a second cut is proposed.
Newspapers and business men are
preparing an "atmosphere'' for the
bosses by heralding riots, police calls
and arrests. This was the policy DUR
ing the 10-months' strike and during
a strike several years ago, when trade
unionists were ordered to leave the
city by: mob Of business men.
RIG SYJ1T SAFE
The labor world., 1921-12-03

Some bright young man in govern
ment should rise and explain why the
cost Of living goes up while the cost
OF wheat, corn, hogs and cattle is going
down. H. N, s1,r
The labor world., 1921-12-03
BAKERS WILL ARBITRATE

JERSEY CITY, n. j. Dec. IAN
arbitration agreement. has averted a
strike of organized bakers, who were
asked to accept IL per cent wage
cut.
The labor world., 1921-12-03

+ BIG SUIT SALE.
All prices greatly reduced at tho
Big Duluth.
Glas svobode., 1921-02-04
1zREDNo JUNAsTvo.

Belgijski kralj Albert Sc naha-
ia ma obisku pri Spanskem kralJu
Alfonzetu Madridu. BelglJskl
krali Albert je napravil nekaJ, kal
lie presenetilo YES svet. Pomisllte
vstal ie zarana nekega dine, ma
taknil na sebe plebejske hlace In
civilni "reklc" in odkorakal ma
ulice Madrida povsem sam, tudi
mrvice telesne straze nj bilo
MIN. Ko je malo pozijal ma eni
bliznjih ulic Sc je obrnil nazaJ in
povsem sam prikorakal zopet "
spansko kraljevsko palace =
zdrav in neskalpiran!
Pa maj reee lzaksen takozvani
cinik, da nj vec junastva ma sve-
tu!
Glas svobode., 1921-02-04
CMRLJI so KORISTNE
zIVALICE.

Gotovo ie, da cmrlji nimaJo so,
vraznikov. So krotke zivalice in
brenGijo okoli ko tlepobarvni toi-
ST ocvirki.
Otroci imajo veselje nil
mi, ker jih veasih poskusajo o
grebsti.
Zdaj poroea professor W. T.
Flint IL illinojSkega vseucillsca,
da so Sc experiment umetniml
gnezdi 6mrljev izkazali Ma detelJ-
nih poljih kot jake uspeSni.
Rdeea detelja Sc namree sama
od sebe ne more oploditi. Cvetnl
prah ne more sam Cd sebe dosecl
globoko V cvetu sc nahaJaJocln
plodnic in radi tega he bo dala ta
detelja nobenega semena ee Sc ne
pasejo DO njenem cvetju eebele,
metulji, Gmrlji in druge zuzelke.
Kjer Sc prideluje semensko de-
teljo Sc, je po poljih namestilo u
metna gnezda kjer 50 potem cmr-
iii napravili svojega zalege. Cmr-
LII so cd jutra do vecera brencail
cd cveta do cveta in nevede delall
veliko korist lastnikom detelJis5.
Professor Flint pravi, da Sc je pri-
delek detelnega Semena V vSakem
stieaju, kjer sc je namestilo umet-
Ma 6mrljeva gnezda, znatno pove-
cal.
"V nekaterih dezelah', pravi
professor Flint, "kot je Ma primer
Avstralija, je bilo potreba impor,
tirati Gebele, ce Sc je hotelo pride
lati sploh kai deteljnega semena
Farmarji bi morali storiti kar o.
mogli, da bi Gmrlji napravljali
svoia gnezda blizini deteljist
Nikdar ne bodite tako nespamer-
nj, da bi razdrli cmrljevo gnezdo.
Cmrlji in tebele ne pomagalc
samo detelji do semena nego tud'
add in mad vsem Sc sadju Cmvej
cebel in emrljey sc bo paslo re
cvetju sadnih dreveS temvec pri
delka DO.
Glas svobode., 1921-02-04
CUDNA ROMANTIKA.

Atlantic, la. = Floyd Hart je
postal bogatemu farmerju j. IL
Bartonu grozilno pismo (zakaj nj
porocano). Barton pa, ne zmenivS
Sc "a pretnje, je odkorakal MIN
ma sodnijo in vlozil ovadbo. Floyd
Hart je bill pri obravnavi spoznan
krivim in ohsojen ma sest mesecev
jeGe. Pozneje ga je governor Ken
dali oprostil. Naizanimivejse je
pri TEN, da je obtozeni Hart zad-
MO sredo, to je, na 2. feb, t. !. po-
rocil gospodicno Zolo Bartcn.
heerko bas tistega farmarja, ki GA
je dial radi grozilnega pisma "a
preti. aoa9ss
Glas svobode., 1921-02-04
NEMCI v JUNO AMERIKO.

Buenos Aires, 3. feb. = Nemci.
ia napravlja nacrt, da poslje 90,
600 Nemcev V Chile V JUNO A
meriko. To Sc je izvedelo danes,
ko je dospel sem parnlk Argent
ma, last Hamburg-Ameril1a crte.
To je prvi nemski potniski par
nix, XII je dospel sem liza vojne.
NemSka vlada je vpraSala narod-
nj delavski biroj, da dozene koli-
ko stane zivljenje delavca Chile
tako ola bo zamogla napraviti po-
trebne korake, ola poslje svoje de
layee tie. Nemeija hoee odpomoei
nezaposljenosti V svoji dezeli $
tenn, da bo poSiljala svoje drzav-
ljane V JUNO Ameriko, kjer bodo
nasli kruha "a sebe in tudi "a one,
ki ostaneio donna.