The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-04-23

Called to "MOscoW.'' >!
2 Word comes to- The Labor. World.
that Mr.. Harris last week called to
his Moscow" headquarters certain
Duluth. employer who had withdrawn,
from the. Builders Exchange and
proceeded forthwith: to issue
":i4kase.' to- that employer. that would.
sf1aFe made Trotsky look like a. ,tWo-
spot. He was threatened thatsif he
ssisned up with the union he would
be: driven out of business. #
7. The contractor comes from a race
that led all of Europe in the strug-
gle for freedom. He has inherited
the independence of his forefathers,
and it is said that he lost no time
in telling Duluth's ''Trotsky'' to 20
to- the place in the internal tormento
where he and his autocratic kind be-
long. - - -
Isn't it strange that the wage re-
ductions in the building. crafts are
being pressed in st. Paul and Duluth,
while no attempt has been made to
fcrce the issue, in Minneapolis? The
building industry-is dead. in st. Paul
as it is in Duluth, but in Minneapolis
the buzzing of saws and the pounding
of hammers resound throughout the
city. s..:=: -.
Their "Closed" Shop.
Isn't, it also strange that the ''open
shoppers" in Duluth want the open.
shop for labor and the closed" shop
for themselves? There is no more
closed, shop institution on earth
than that of Dulut. lumber dealers
Every dealer has the same price,
which is fixed by an association: A
mill owner not far from Duluth, from
whom the local dealers will not buy,
has Offered to furnish lumber to Du-
luth people direct at one-third the
price the local dealers are charging,
t. o. b. at the point near his mill.
: The "open shoppers will have
sweet time disproving the statement
made by w. Jett Lauck made before
the railroad labor board this week
at Chicago. Mr.. Lauck charged that
a capital combine headed by IL
New York financial institutions
inaugurated policy of nationwide
shut-downs. He named about 100
men who through interlocking direct
orshfps centered in these dozen fnsti-
tutions, control the majority Of the
country's important railroads, and Of
basic raw materials, He charged
that:
This interrelated capital group de-
liberately deflated the farmers and
then undertook by precipitating In
dustrial stagnation, to deflate labor = i.
Lay Off Repair Men.
8 The railroads, he asserted, were the 4
chosen vehicle for this labor drive.
Layoffs of repair men on railroads
In recent months, he charged, were
made deliberately, while much OF the
repair work was let to outside com
panies who charged the roads about
twice what the same repairs would
have cost In their own shops. One
purpose, he said, was to get this por.
tion OF railroad labor out OF govern.
ment jurisdiction by forcing it ia !.
work for. the outside concerns. These
concerns, he said. were largely under
this same financial control 40 ths /.
roads. 3s s.
The document that Mr.. Lauck pre-
sented made about 125, 900 words. II
was prepared by the American Fed
Grafton of Labor bure. .Sof research
railway employees department., and en-
titled Human Standards and Rail-
road Policy. z
The dozen. New York financial in-
stitutions as named were: ~
3 Mutual Life Insurance company Of
New Yorl
Eirst Nationa1 hank OF New FORK.
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