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The Alaska daily empire., 1921-11-19
VATICAN DECIDES COLOSSEUM IS A
 PUBLIC CHURCH !l
Ancient Monument of Imper- ial Rome Declared to Be
 Place for Public.

ROME. Nov. 19-The question whether the Colosseum, that ancient monument of imperial Rome, where the Christian martyrs suffered death and men fought wild beasts to make a Roman holiday, is public church has again been raised and decided. A proclamation. attributed by some Vatican, declares that the famous building is a. public church.
 The point was raised recently when the Roman. police prohibited the delegates to convention of the Italian Catholic Young Mems Asso- citation from congregating in the Colosseum and holding a parade from that point to the Vatican.
 The public announcement of the decision on this point recounts the history of the Colosseum from early times. It states that Popes Clement K, Plus V. in their pontificates pro- hibted further profanations of the holy ground sanctified by the blood of the martyrs" Benedict XIV. in 1756 declared it to be public church
 From 1756 to 1870, masses have been sung regularly in the Colosseum but when Victor Emmanuel H. took possession of Rome in 1870 the prac- tice was discontinued.
 During the war the custom of hold ing religious services in the Colos- scum was again revived. After the war a requiem mass for the soldiers fhprp
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-11-19
Train Hits Funeral
 Procession; ' Dead

CHICAGO. Nov 19.-Seven are known to have been killed and d funeral limousine in which the seven were riding was demolished this aft ernoon when Santa Fe train hit the machine during a snowstorm. Not even the license plate. by which to identify the car, was left intact. While the railroad officials reported only seven dead. witnesses say they counted II bodies along the track.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-11-19
TWELVE KILLED
 IN Z T0RNAD0ES
One Entire Family of Eight Wiped Out of Existence
 by Storm Tn Arkansas.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark, Nov. 19.--- Twelve are. known to have been killed and at least 30 injured, with heavy property damage, by two tor nadoes in widely separated parts of the state Thursday night, according to advices received here during last night. One storm near Mena killed family of eight. Four others were killed near Philadelphia and Nal yern.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-11-19
Gigantic Liquor Plot Unearthed; Many Involved

CHICAGO, Nov. 19-A liquor plot which involves bribes of $50.000 to public officials, suitcase full of liquor permits for whiskey worth $2,000,G GOO and with which is linked the names of several prominent New York and Chicago men with the boot logging trade has been uncovered by Federal agents here. This Is the announcement made here this after noOn
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-11-19
SUPPORT FROM LABOR.

LONDON, Nov. 19. - The Labor Party has issued manifesto in be- half of the whole British Labor movement promising to support any steps necessary to make American disarmament proposals effective and calling for an extension. of proposals of all forms of armament.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-11-19
Negro Assaulter Shot
 To Death; Body Burned

HELENA, Ark. Nov. 19.-Wnl Turner, a negro charged with as sauting a young white woman, was taken from a sheriff's posse last night and shot to death. The body was brought here and burned in the city park.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-11-19
IRREGULARITIES ALLIANCE.

TOXIC, Nov. 19.--Leading news papers in Japan, in editorials on the Far Eastern situation say they would not look unfavorable upon the cancellation of the Anglo-Japanese alliance provided general assurance is given on continuation of friend ly relations
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-11-19
Overpower Manager of
 Store; Big Haul Made

ST. PAUL. Minn., Nov 19.-Three robbers overpowered the manager of the Gittelson Jewelry Company store last night and compelled him to open the safe. They escaped with Jewels worth at least $100,0O
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-11-19
Mexican Revolutionists
 Are Caught and Executed

MEXICALI, Mex, Nov 19.-Gen eral Adelardo Rodriguez, commander of the Mexican Federal troops. an nounced today that 13 revolutionists had been killed in a battle and four more executed after summary courtmartial. The conflict occurred 20 miles west of here
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-11-19

NEW YORK. Nov. 19.-New wage and working agreements between the International Longshoremen's 8 Association and steamship lines in deep sea trade at New York anl vi- cinity have been signed. The Ship ping Board was a third party to the agreement.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-11-19
ACTION IN JAPAN.

TOKYO, NOV Iy.-It IS uhuer' stood the Cabinet and Council have approved the amendments to the American proposals submitted by the Japanese delegation in Washington. subject to further approval by the diplomatic advisory council
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-11-19
Seattle Is Covered by
 < Three Inches of Snow

SEATTLE Nov. 19.-A heavy fall of snow covered the downtown streets to depth of three inches this morning. The snow fall is gen eral throughout the entire state.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-11-19
Marines Guarding Mail
 Shoot 2 Suspicious Men

CHICAGO, Nov. 19.-Two mea have been shot during the past six days by United States marines guard ing mails from Chicago. It is an nounced both men shot were train riders, acting suspiciously. Neither were seriously hurt.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-11-19
Murder Two; Makes Confession; Sentenced To Life in Quick Time

SAGINAW, Mich. Nov. 19- Richard Champlain, aged 22, who last night confessed he shot and killed his father and stepmother, pleaded guilty today and was immediately sentenced to life prisonment.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-11-19
High Living to Be Punished; Fine, Imprisonment

MUNICH, Nov. 19.-A pro- posed statute would punish with heavy fine and also imprison- ment drunkenness, gluttony and other manifestations of high living"
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-11-19

Ex-Emperor Karl and exEmpress Zita of Austria-Hungary, who re- gently reached Hungary seeking to regain the throne. Karl was report
 ed at the head of an army of 12.000 which marched on Budapest. With ex-Empress Zita he entered Hungary by airplane from Switzerland. Later the Allies demanded his arrest and expulsion from the country, which was accomplished and the monarch and his wife was Danished. Admiral Nicholas Horribly Regent ofHungary, fled as Karl neared the city but later returned f''ll
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-11-19
JAPAN'S POSITION QUESTIONABLE
Former Emperor Charles and Empress Zita Arrived Today
 i'm Madeira; Begin Life Exile

FUNCHAL, Madeira. Nov 2 = Former Emporer Charles and ex-Em- press Zita arrived today to begin a life of exile here.
The Alaska daily empire., 1921-11-19

,Continued on rase TWO. :
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-08-06
Millions ARE SPENT.
ON AMERICAN FRILLS

Approximately $1s,00o,oo0 a year
is being spent OH luxuries, recreation,
movies and other amusements and
personal finery, federal tax receipts
show.
More than $1,000. 100000 a year in
taxes now is being received by the
government as a result Of purchases
of foibles. This is almost a quarter
of the total ordinary receipts Of the
government.
Sporting goods. automobiles and
motorcycles, amusement parks. fan
cy bathing suits. summer hats for
women and pananas for father al e
netting the government thousands
daily. Cigarettes, cigars and candy
bring in millions each month. The
pennies paid with the purchase Of
soft drinks and soda water are helping
to pay the annual interest charge Of
$900,000,000 on the national debt.
Battleships are being built with the
tax on motion-picture films, sporting
goods, face powder, cosmetics and
other beautifiers.
Chewers Of gum in the last II
months have contributed moro than
100000 in taxes to the federal trea-
goods paid almost 100000.
Summer furs alone cost approx
imately $5,o0o,0oo and. Melted the gov
eminent the tidy little sum OF IS, 000,-
600 in tax money. the report shows.
Toilet soaps and powder brought
more than 100000 in taxes into the
governments Golfers in the fiscal year
just ended. indicating total purchases
of these articles of about $4,000, 900.
Bankers in the last year paid in
excess of $232,000,000 in taxes.
More than $23,00o,000 poured into
the governments pocketbook from
taxes on engagement diamonds and
other jewelry, including total pur-
chase of taxable jewelry approxima-
tely 10 times the tax collected.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-08-06

and an additional cent on every ounce
Of first class postage.
The poor man owning Ford would
be forced to pay the same federal
license tax that is to be paid by the
rich man owning a handsome limousine.
How will the farmer and the city
worker like that's
The poor man who deposits his wages
in bank and who pays his grocer,
butcher, landlord and other creditors
in checks, all in small amounts, would
be compelled to pay the same tax on
every check that is to be paid by the
rich man who write his checks in the
thousands. Will not the passage Of
such a law discourage thrift savings?
In business postage is necessary
item of expense. It is ultimately paid
for by the consumer. An increase in
the rate Of postage will be felt mostly
by the poor who can not pass it on
to others. In hard times it would tend
to lessen rather than increase personal
| correspondence. The Post Office de-
partment would in all probability with
hold considerable portion Of the reve-
nue. that would be derived from an in
crease in the postage to meet its
rapidly rising expense, and little would
be turned into the treasury for other
governmental purposes.
! Strange, ism It it, that no one seriously
considers a federal tax on land, tax
that would serve double useful pur-
pose. 1t would furnish sure, GER
tain and accurately determinable rev.
enue to the government on the one
hand, and it would discourage specu-
lation and encourage improvement on
the other. It would strengthen our
government financially, tend to equal
lie taxation and at the same time il
would promote production and stimu-
! late building. Idle land would he
put into use, if not by its present OWL
ers, then by others who would be will
ing to pay all the taxes on it for the
privilege of putting it into use.
But there will be no federal tax on
land for very patent reason, The
administration is more interested in the
speculative side of our business life
than it is in the productive side, a
fact disclosed in the present invcs.r
CATION of the federal reserve system IS
credit policies, by which it is shown
that the spectators in New York city
are favored at the expense Of the pro.
ducers of the south and west.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-08-06

nonunion labor.
[ I'VE have offered to work with nom
unionists, we have offered to arbi-
trate other differences, and we have
at all times. and now; agree that 4 man
can belong to a union, or not 40 he
sees fit," said Mooney
Fred Ingram. negro, testified that
he worked in the mines for so years,
was discharged and evicted from a
company house when he joined: the
union. His wife is g. school teacher
and he. was denied permission to visit
her in the mining town. The witness
said that the sheriff told him he could
| not communicate with anybody but
God and" you'd better hurry if you
! want to do that"
In answer to the coal owners attor-
neys that it is possible for miners to
earn from $500 to 500 a month in
that field, witnesses for the union pre-
show that the highest. yearly average
| wage was $1,066 in 1918.
| W. E: Hutchison, miner said en-
ployes were forced to patronize com
pany stores, which charged higher
prices than similar establishments
owned by private individuals.
| 1T is an open and known fact that
union men will not be employed: in
that section. then, and this is the real
issue in West Virginia ~ Senator Ken
yon asked.
I 1T isl replied Hutchinson. The
mine owners tell US the moss can grow
in the tunnels and the mines lay idle
forever before they will employ union
men,
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-08-06
Brazen Autoefaey Of West Virginia =
Coal Owners Show By Senate Probe

"Organized mine workers are q
band of robbers and the Baldwin eltz
detective agency in an angelic insti-
tution," was the song of attorneys for
West Virginia coal owners before the
senate committee on education and
labor that is investigating the Mingo
county CIV. Va.) lockout.
In answer to these wild generaliza-
lions the miners prove that when they
joined the union they were discharged,
although state law prohibits
such action by the coal owners. The
law was further violated by the I'M
portation of gunner who boosted of
their "arsons and killings" The state
law requiring coal to be weighed and
the placing of check weighman on
each tipple have never been obeyed
in this field.
r. H. Kirkpatrick. former mine
foreman for the Eurnwell Coal and
Coke company, testified that mine
owners framed up" shootin.. episodes
to procure proclamation OF martial
law by the governor and SO they could
break the lockout. The witness ex.
planned how he and his superior Off
GERS went into the hills around the
mine entrance and shot back and forth
to impress new mine worker.
| brought into the field and to justify
calls for troops. =
| Fred Mooney, secretary-treasurer oil
miners district No. II, testified tina,
the miners were ready to go back tt
work if the coal owners would EN-
ploy them without prejudice, ant
would not insist upon employing onl!
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-08-06
SHIFTING THE BURDEN.

The Republican party is learning
nothing new. 1t is and always has
been the party of and for the rich.
Only that portion of the poor have
been satisfied with it who are willing
to accept "the crumbs that fall from
the rich mans table.
True to habit the Republican admin.
stration proposes to take away that
portion Of the burdenof taxation which
was placed during the war by the
Wilson administration on those most
able to pay, and load it on the backs
Of the poor.
"Relieve business and burden tho
people," is the new slogan, as if the
people are not already too heavily
burdened. It was at first intended by
the Harding administration to adopt
the so'called sales tax, but when the
people came to understand it they set
up q howl that frightened Congress
and forced the administration to look
elsewhere for public revenue. .,.$.5
Now It - proposed to levysa 90
federal license ~ Oh III autonsbilss, !
t~e.ssat stamp tax s. u baal checks
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-08-06
DARING THE HEIGHTS.

"A needless tragedy. That is ant
to be the first thought when one reads
OF the death Of DR.. Stone, president
OF Purdue university, and the narrow
escape Of his wife on Mount Assini
boine. Why will people venture where
there is no need9 Why run into dan.
ger where no good is to be gained,
Why throw life itself on the gaming
table for momentary thrill at a
camping party!
Hot on the heels Of tho question
comes the answer: because men are
men, not animals. That Viking spirit
that divine unrest, that demand TO,
mastery over the unknown, is the quail.
ity that links men with gods.
10 see, to feel, to master. To fathon,
the unknown; to scale the heights: ia
ride the wave and air; to have domin.
ion over all things. That is the spirit
that has scored every advance in man .
condition.
Better the loss Of 4 life than the
loss Of that spirit. Better to lose life
g, than to save il supine on matinee
s.s|sts md auto cushions u. !,
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-08-06
WHY WE ARE BROKE.

Garet Garrett, a well-known econ
omist, has some fun with reactionary
economic ideas now afloat in the couu.
try in the current issue Of the New
Republic.
"Why is everybody ruinedl' asks
Garrett. And the answer is, "Because
the country is rich.'
"How shall the country impoverish
itself in order that the people may
prosper again?' is the second ques.
ton. And the answer is "We must
sell our surplus abroad to people who
cannot pay
"That is lending. When the for.
cign countries pay US back we shall
be truly riche' The answer is emo, in.
deed. We cannot afford to let them
pay us back for we would then be
worse off than ever. We already have
too much Of our own. That is why
we are ruined.'
"And this,' remarks Garrett, His
the stuff that rules the world!''
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-08-06
HELPING GERMANY PAY.

1t has taken France all this time
since the signing Of the peace treaty
to realize that if the Allies are to get
any considerable part Of their indem.
nifty from Germany, they must help
Germany pay. France has finally de.
clded that she can take from GERMANY
only what Germany has to offer On
the Preparations account. The French
lmperlalists have been defeated IN
their effort to demand the impossible,
from Germany as an excuse for ex-
tending the French frontier across the
Rhine.
france is now willing to permit Ger
many to manufacture locomotives.
passenger cars, freight cars and other
factory products for frances account.
to write off part of the indemnity. The
uermans will make houses and send
them to the devastated areas If
france in sections for erection there.
Germany, in fact, is now we'll on the
way to proving whether, in the long
run, it will be possible for France to
continue to accept all of the indemnity
Inc manufactures from Germany
must soon begin to come in conflict
with Frances own home products. For
a short time, while Germany continues
to make good the devastation Of the
war, French workin,; men will not feel
the competition. But when this work
IS finished, as it will be shorthr
frenchmen must decide whether to use
French manufactures or German mann.
features. If they take the latter, thew
Will have their indemnity, but French.
men will be out Of work. If they take
the former, Frenchmen will be EN-.
ployed, but there will be no more in.
demnlty. That is, unless a genius
among economists arises to show the
Allies how to eat their cake and have
1t, too. No such genius is now IL
! sight.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-08-06
Laws MADE BY JUDGES
BASED ON MANS WHIM

Most dangerous Of all judicial law
is that by which we have been given
the injunction" say President Com
pers, writing in American Federation
list, current issue.
THE injunction is the edict Of
judge. Though. the injunction the
judges, speaking not out Of the booGs
wherein are written the enactments
Of legislatures, but out Of his own
mouth, ordains what men and women
must do and what they are forbidden
to do.
John Smith, standing upon 4
street corner. proclaiming to the peo-
pie commands and prohibitions, could
be no more out Of harmony with the
letter and spirit of our fundamental
law and our constitution than 10 the
Judge, doing the same thing from hs
bench under the cover Of robes Of Of
flee.
THE injunction does not rest with
ordering abstinence from doing those
things which are in Themselves un-
lawful. Thus, judges, through the. in
junction. make law where Their was no
law. /
MEN are denied their freedom.
They enjoined not to do the things
which they have a lawful right to re-
frain from doing. All Of this is done
not upon a basis OF law. for the law
provides against such abuses. but
upon the basis of judicial decision
based upon precedent. at the heart OF
which. is the germ Of dissolution Of
which Jefferson warned 49,
1.-THE time has arrived when free
dom can not afford to suffer longer
under the encroaching tyranny Of tud-
icial unsupation.. It must be stopped.
The germ of dissolution must be des-
troyed. America can not afford to
remain passive unless all shall have
been usurped.'. Too much has already
been usurped--taken without right
or authority or law"
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-08-06
Catching up With Liars

For the past two and half years
ever since the signing Of the armistice-
much has been said and printed about
the alleged inefficiency Of workers-of
their indisposition to produce the goods
with which the war-ravaged world was
to be reconstructed.
When business began to SHAKEN and
storm signals of coming distress were
unfurled we were told that producers
were not producing. High wages were
eating us up, the manufacturer said, and
his favorite newspaper took up the cry,
set it to music and dinned it into our
ears until many good citizens whose
sympathies are all with the man who
tolls were convinced against their will
that perhaps there was some truth in
the charge and attempt to justify it on
the ground that there was general let.
ting down after the nerveracking ten
sion of the war period.
All lies, we now know. The cry #
"more production" had no more reason
or justification than any Of the many
slogans devised by big business to pre-
JUDGE public opinion against the
| workers.
Truth, travelling on laden heels,''
has over taken those who have been
| bearers Of false witness.
Not only did workers produce album
! dantly-they produced until it hurt
them-forced them out of jobs and
placed many of them in the bread lines.
Here is what the American worker
was doing in 1919 while he was being
abused and slandered by his enemies:
He created manufactures valued at
5000, 100000, two and half times
more than he produced in 1914, before
the war;
He took his share Of this enormous
wealth less than ,00o,000,00O, about
10 per cent of the value he created.
He was not Stacker, and he was not
profiteer.
His increase wage Of 100 per cent
compares favorably with the 200 per
cent taken by those who supplied the
materials, and the 1913 per cent taken
| by the manufacturer as his profit.
That is the census story OF what was
happening for 1919. Doubtless when
we have the records for 1920 a similar
situation will be disclosed. During the
war and after the American worker
| gave the best that was in him, and gave
it cheerfully, in spite Of and not be.
cause Of the heartless abuse to which
he was subjected.
Eventually the public will realize the
shameful wrong that was done great
body Of useful citizens, when greedy
profiteers were shouting "stop theft
! to cover their own dubious PROCEEDINGS
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-08-06
THE PATH TO NOWHERE.

President Harding has not answered
Hamilton Hollis inquiry as to what
sort of an association of nations he
wants.
He does not want the matter dis.
cussed. What the President wants from
the people Of this country on the ques-
ton Of league or association of ma.
tions, is nothing but complete silence,
and as the country teacher once said,
as little Of that as possible.
He has repeatedly said in his public
speeches that the United States can
!, best help other nations by being loyal
to herself, not by selfshness," but
by "seeking no moro than our own
and looking out for our own interests.
; Is this "normalcy' in foreign af-
airs?
! 1t is exactly the state of things out
If which wars have grown throughout
Ill the ages.
No nation, not even Germany before
the war, would confess to anything
like selishness, or seeking what was
not her own. She wanted a place IN
the sun. Even if she conquered the
world, as many Germans thought she
might, how much better it would be.
they thought, for the British, the
French, the Italians, the Russians, and
the Americans, to come Under the sway
Of German kultur!
| No, Mr.. President, this thing will
not bring any new security to the ma
ton. It will bring no new security to
US. 1t is the same old game.
You seem to have too much conf
dence in the old game, at home and
abroad. Wickersham and Ballinger and
the Taft administration, generally,
thought to make domestic peace by
letting big business do as it pleased,
assuring US that it "would not seek
more than it's OWN That path leads
nowhere.
And it leads nowhere in foreign af-
fairs.
Nowhere, at home and abroad, except
to ruin for the people here, the old
game of war between nations, and to
deep, deep failure for your admins.
tration.