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FUTTRE DAHA.
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FUTURE DAYS.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-02-26

a board be created to investigate the
immigration question with power to
amend immigration laws whenever a
statement of conditions is presented
which may make it appear necessary
or expedient.'
This board would consist Of five
cabinet officials and four other citi-
zens. appointed by the president, one
Of whom should represent labor.
Unanimous consent of the men,
bers should be necessary to any action
by the board to exclude certain classes
for a period or, to limit the number
of immigrants of any race, class or &C.
cupation of any economic, industrial
or other condition temporarily exist
ing in the United States
The above statements indicate the
desire of big business-the creation Of
a supergovernment that would have
sole charge of. immigration and the
placing of these aliens in attacks on
trade unions and a lowering of living
standards.
Thrifty immigrants" are desired so
their money can be USED by capitalists
"for new enterprises"
This is what big business is pleased
to term scientific immigration regu-
latiOn."
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-02-26
Biz Business and ti-unionists
Want Immigrants to Smash Strikes

Big business wants immigrants to
aid in its ''open shop" campaign. is
the frank statement by Miss Frances
Kellor in her book Immigration and
the Future"
Miss Kellor is the organizer and
vice chairman of the interracial coun-
Gil and has reorganized the American
association Of foreign ..nguage news
papers. The interracial council in
Guides representatives of the largest
corporations in the country.
1.-The United States,' writes Miss
Kellor, sis now bent upon increasing
production and lowering it's cost, upon
an open shop contest. and to further
this it wants immigration man power.
1.-THE United States needs immi-
grants with habits Of thrift and fru-
gality who will accumulate savings
and thus increase capital for new en-
terprises, and for this it needs immi-
grant wage earners. In word, If
the incoming immigrant does not con.
tribute some or all of these things
Americans do not want him because
his coming will be a failure for him
self and for this country"
In New York financial paper last
December Miss Kellor suggested that
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-02-26
which has just spoken 50 forcefully in

which has just spoken 50 forcefully in
behalf of the workers, the Federal
Council of Churches in Christ, repre-
senting 81 denominations, has also de-
nounced the campaign of Big Business.
The Methodist Episcopal church and
the Protestant Episcopal churches also
take forward position in this conflict
between progress and reaction.
The "open shop" campaign is all
money and no soul. 1t is made up en-
tirely of those who place material con-
siderations above human and moral con-
siderations. The philosophy is as brutal
as the methods employed to advance it.
It is not matter for wonder, there
fore, that churchmen have spoken out
in denunciation of what they interpret
to be an insidious assault upon the
foundation principles Of democracy, I'M
dertaken with no other object than the
enslavement Of millions Of producers.
The "open shop' campaign takes
rank with chattel slavery and has as
much chance Of succeeding as would a
proposition to restore an institution
that was wiped out with the blood of
our people.
The callous confession of the Manu-
facturers' association that it seeks to
take from men and women a funda-
mental right damns it as brutal and
malefc force that must be suppressed
if this nation is to remain what the
fathers intended it to be.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-02-26
BIG BUSINESS WARNED
AGAINST open SHOP"

Are We Facing Industrial War;"
asks the Catholic Standard and Times
in a leading editorial on the anti-trace
union campaign of employers in this
country.
This drive says the editor, ~
considered by the unions, and that not
without very good reason, as an at
tack upon unionis1n, and as a deliber-
ate attempt to undermine the organ
lied labor movement. 1t is regarded
by them as a challenge and a declar-
alton of war. Naturally this will
arouse resentment among the labor
ers, for they are we'll aware that most
of the advantages they at present
enjoy are due to the concerted efforts
of the unions. The unions are dear to
them and they have pinned their faith
to them.
I'm this attempt the employers may
overreacn themselves and conjure up
ghosts that it will be difficult to lay.
1t is certain that labor is not in the
mood to tolerate coercion and to give
up the standing it has achieved.
Before entering upon their cam
thrust labor back into it's former help
lessness. big business will do we'll 70
ponder gravely the possibilities that
may arise out Of their ilI-advised ef-
forts"
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-02-26
BIG BUSINESS TO SHIFT
PROFITS TAX TO PEOPLE

If the excess profits tax can be
shifted, why does big business want
this tax abolished? is the pointed
question asked by the department Of
social action, national Catholic well
fare council.
THE excess profits tax is claimed
to have increased the cost of living.
Because of it, profit-takers are re-
ported to have raised prices and low
cred wages so as to get enough profits
to pay the tax and still not suffer any
loss in their normal profits. The ex-
cess profits tax, according to this, has
been an incentive to profit takers to
raise prices and keep down wages so
that other people will pay their taxes.
They have even made higher profits,
it is said, through tn operation Of the
excess profits tax.
1T is not known whether this ar
gument should be accepted because
the organizations which are advancing
it are composed Of profit-takers, and
newspapers recognized as the mouth
pieces Of groups of profit-takers If
they have forced others to pay their
excess profits tax, it is not clear why
they are now confessing to this prac-
tice unless it is that they want to pay
their own taxes in the future. Their
statement is also confession that
their power over prices. wages and
salaries is practically unlimited as
| long as the consumers can or will
buy goods"
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people-there is no real news in these
revelations, for every consumer of fuel
knows to his sorrow what has been
done-is the scheme employed by coal
men to make exploitation simple as we'll
as profitable. According to their own
testimony, they buncoed the public into
believing, at time when there were
few orders for fuel, that serious fam
inc impended and started competition
in buying that sent prices higher than
ever before.
Congressman Huddleston of Alabama,
presented to the senate committee on
manufacturers, considering the fuel con-
troll bill, confidential report of a
meeting Of the board Of directors of
the National Wholesale Coal associa-
ton, held in Cincinnati early last year,
at which national "educational''
campaign was mapped out. At that
time the industry faced one Of two
alternatives-a reduction of price or
the closing down of many mines that
were without orders. To adopt either
of these plans would have been embar7
RAISING, the directors declared, for once
prices went down they could not easily
be increased, and to slow down produc-
ton would call attention to the fact
that something was wrong with the
industry. So it was decided to stimu-
late demand by playing upon the fears
Of the people. A million dollars was
said to be available to "educate'' the
press and bamboozle consumers.
Secretary Peabody, Of the publicity
committee, offered program that got
immediate and hearty approval. He
said that he had persuaded number
Of editors to print alarmist stories OF
an imminent fuel famine, and that Mel
vile E. Stone, "my dear friend,' man.
ager Of the Associated Press, had al
ready tried out the plan with gratifying
success. The publication Of four arti-
cles BY the Associated Press caused
rush Of buying orders that paid the
expenses of the campaign in one day.
Industries that had been holding back
for lower prices fell over themselves in
"gettint u.>ier cover.' The public re-
spondcd and prices went up until some
operators were ashamed to accept them.
The Cleveland manager Of the Asso-
ciated Press, the manager Of the pub
licity department later reported to the
directors, sent out thousand-word ar
ticle written by the publicity experts
of the coal association, without chang
ing word and assuming full RESPONSE
bility for its statements "This gave
it very good effect the publicity
man stated, "because the public could
not see in it. any propaganda.
That is the story of the "famine'
that was held menacing(x before the
nation last sumner and fall. There was
absolutely no warrant for it. There
never was any danger Of famine.
The public was jobbed by the coal man,
with the assistance Of the Associated
Press and thousands Of gullible news
papers that were also taken in by the
publicity sharps.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-02-26
AMERICAN PEOPLE BuNcoED.

Congressional investigations are tire
tome and frequently futile undertake.
fngs, but occasionally they develop in
formation of real value.
For many months senate committees
have been probing into the methods of
coal operators and have revealed a
mass Of material that stamps these
business pirates as the greediest, most
merciless Of all our crop of profteers.
It has been proven, quite beyond rea-
sonable question, that they took more
than a billion dollars to which they
had no legal or moral claim. They
looted consumers right and left, through
manipulation of prices and supplies.
When they were placed in positions Of
public trust and confidence they en-
Ployed them to their personal profit.
But even more important than the
knowledge Of what has been. done to: the
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-02-26
OPEN SHOPPERS SMOKED OUT.

Further efforts to camouhage the 50.
called "American plan'' or "open
shop movement will be unavailing.
The interests back of it can no longer
plead that they are fighting for shop
that will; admit on terms of equality
union and non-uuion men, for they
have been. forced to admit that this is
not their purpose.
The social action department of the
Catholic National Welfare Council for
several months has been inveighing
heavily against the "opcn shop cam
raign as dishonest and dangerous, while
defending collective bargaining as the
salvation of industry and essential to
peace and permanence. It invited an
attack from the National Manufacture
ers' association through it's organ, In
dustry, copies of which have been dis
tributed to clergymen throughout the
country. Now the social action depart
ment has returned with a statement
that strips the ''open'' shop movement
Of all pretense and exposes it for what
it really is.
Spokesman for HE National Manu-
facturers' association were Informed
that if that body would make public
statement to the effect that the Hopen
shop is inconsistent with proportional
| representation by union employees in a
system of collective bargaining the So
cial action department would withdraw
| its statements against the ''open shop
Here was offered every opportunity
for the ''open shop advocates to prove
the sincerity of their claims, if they
really are sincere. What they actually
did was to refuse to make any state
ment covering the ground laid out by
tie social action department.. They
were compelled to admit, however, that
they were waging warfare against labor
! organizations and that their so-called
Americanism' was intended to hide
IAelI Ilue PuipOSo.
Thus, by those who are backing it,
was established what workers have al
! ways contended-that the "open shop'
is a shop closed against organized
workers. It is an attempt to deprive
| the workers Of opportunity to protest
against iatolerabls conditions first
l step dwonward in the direction Of in
| dustrial slavery.
The "open shop'' campaign involves
a moral problem and tho church has
been quick TO- recognize it. Great re-
lgious organizations are on record in
opposition to the attempt Of large in
terests to subjugate and. degrade the
workers Of the nation. In addition to
the National Catholic Welfare Council.
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to prison is not always tho best way
to reform them. But we cannot refrain
from pointing out some of the possible
results Of the general acceptance of the
doctrine which the learned jurist has
laid down.
If an underpaid bank clerk is JUS
tilted in robbing his employer, what
would the thousands Of underpaid EN-.
ployes of the wool and cotton trusts
be justified in doing9
The naked query is sufficient to indi.
cate where the judge is drifting. Being
an old-fashioncd trades unionist, with
a good deal Of respect for the Ten Com.
mandments and the constitution of our
country, we feel that our social ills
are not to be remedied by encouraging
the oppressed workers to steal. but
rather by showing them how, through
the use Of their political and economic
power, they can prevent others from
stealing from them.
The trades union method is the
method Of democracy The Lands
method is the method Of autocracy and
bolshevism. And we prefer democracy
to either autocracy or bolshevism.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-02-26
A QUESTION OF MORALS.

Judge Kenesaw Mountain Lands,
federal judge in the Chicago district,
is in trouble.
He has publicly announced that he
will not send to the penitentiary a
young bank teller who stole $67 900
from the institution in which he was
employed. In the course Of the trial
Judge Lands discovered that the young
man was receiving 800 month, that
he was the sole support Of goodsized
family and that the bank in which he
worked was paying it's stockholders 20
per cent dividends.
Judge Lands held that bank which
refused to pay its employees a reason
able wage had no right to complain
if the employees robbed it occasionally,
and he made it quite clear that, in his
judgment, in the event Of loss the direc-
tors of the institution, and not the
thief, should be held responsible.
This is a new and somewhat startling
doctrine, and it has aroused the ire Of
Senator Dial of South Carolina, 4 gen
tleman who has maintained profitable
relations with southern cotton mills,
where dividends are stained with the
blood Of little children. Dial believes
Lands should DO removed from the
bench, and Lands declares quite jov-
tally that he doesn't care = rap what
Dial thinks about him.
In the meantime Congressman We1ty
of Ohio has impeached Lands because
he is holding two jobs-federal Judge
at $500 = year and Arbitrator Of big
league baseball at $42,5oo = year. But
that is another story.
We are not disposed to quarrel with
Judge lands because he did not send
the young man to prison. Sending mon
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-02-26

The attempt to reduce wages by ap.
pealing to the workers. sense of fair
ness reveals the hypocrisy and cant of
those who talk about "a square deal.''
The workers are told that ''capital
(meaning capitalists) and labor must
both sacrifice in this period of read
justment.
Coupon clippers and money lenders
favor the plan, as do editors and So
called economists who talk about "nat-
ural' laws and publicists who wag
their heads in owlish wisdom.
When these modern sages and seers
say ">,pital (capitalists) and labor
must make sacriice,' they would have
folks believe that when the capitalist
abandons wartime profits, his living
standards are lowered.
These profits have been so stupen-
dous, especially in the basic industries,
that the ingenuity Of the most skilled
accountants have been tested to con-
ceal them.
Despite a nation wide propaganda on
high wages, government figures show
that wages today, or at any time during
the war, has not made pre-war living
standards possible.
A large portion of the press ignores
this fact, while it prints crude editorials
on Substituted workingmen; econom-
lists with an eye on the Carnegie pen
sion fund assemble figures to plead the
cause Of those they would serve, and
university presidents, hoping for a
million dollar endowment, attack
''high' wages. But in no instance is
the government s figures challenged.
| When a capitalist talks about less
| profits this does not mean less whole.
some food and warm clothing for him.
self and family.
But less wages mean instant lowering
of the, workers. living standards.
To the capitalist profit does not near
interest OH the money he invests, which
is a charge on the industry, and il
guaranteed by: lien on the plant o.
business in the form of a mortgage
called bonds. Profits are exclusive O.
interest.
There is no comparison betwee,
wages and profits.
The virtuous, unselfish pose of biz
business and it's defenders is one of tn,
humors of the hour.
The attempt of this element to b.
impartial when they plead with work
ers to lower living standards would b.
comedy if the workers. wives an,
children were not involved.
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Rents for $1O,OOO,OOO.

Ten million dollars in rent from
one building will be received by
Capt. John Jacob Astor during the
next 20 years, under the terms Of
a lease signed up last week in
New York city. The property is
the Hotel Astor and site, Broad
way between Forty-fourth and
Forty fifth streets. The block is
part of the old Eden estate, which
originally sold for $4,000.
Ten Live in One Room.
Ten persons were found living in
one room by housing inspectors Of
Grand Rapids this week. They all
eat standing and sleep in shifts.
Occupants are a man and his wife,
five children, the grandmother,
grandfather, and boarder. Three
small beds served the whole group.
Some wag Of a printer, who had read
Progress and Poverty must have
placed tho items together so the effect
would not be lost on thinking readers.
In no other way can we account for
tho appearance in a landlords paper
Of such q powerful argument against
land monopoly.
Ten Of Gods children forced to live
in one room while ono man makes OF
with $1o,0ooooo Of "unearned incre.
ment!n
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The indications are that congress Is
not going to be any bigger, but that
doesn't mean that there il not room for
some Of its members 70 grow. !. .y.,es5..
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-02-26

Edison declares that the world is on
the eve of a great invention. A self
filing federal treasury would be some.
thing worth talking about.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-02-26

The Fourth Commandment might with
propriety be written into the bill that
Senator Calder has offered to regulate
proiteers in the coal industry.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-02-26

Tho situation in Ireland seems to
Substantiate the Freudian hypothesis Of
what will happen if carly instincts are
suppressed.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-02-26
COLLECTIVE BARGAINING
UPHELD

The "open shop'' campaign is not
making the headway that its sponsors
anticipated. 1ts fatal defect 10 that
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-02-26
PROGRESS AND POVERTY

Shade of Henry George! The fol-
lowing items appeared in recent issue
Of the Washington Star, stupid but
consistent defender Of things as they
The daily Alaskan., 1921-05-19
Elevator Rope in Coal Mines.

One of the most impressive things about a cOlliery, to an outsider. Is the mammoth drum which winds the rope which brings coal up from the pit. This monster drum may measure l5O feet In circumference, and weigh about POO tons, and it will wind in the rope with Its load at a speed of nearly 60 miles an hour. There are miles of the rope, when the pit Is a deep one, like the Yorkshire Main colliery's, whose yer tical shaft holds the record for depth by going down nearly 1000 yards, and for long distances horizontally. The rope costs $l0 yard and Its maximum life Is three and one-half years. Every inch of It passes each day through . mans hands for examination Shaft accidents are very rare.
The daily Alaskan., 1921-05-19
TO GROW OLD GRACEFULLY Desirable Condition That Greatly De- bends on Ones Habits of Mind
 Formed in Youth.

The most inevitabIe-and one of the easlest-Of the things We do is to grow old. Yet what a difference there is in the way different people do it!
 You probably know, for instance, some little old lady who, although she may not be beautiful or brilliant, Is just 'nice"-which Is apt to mean that instead of bOssing or sCOldlng, she tries not to be troublesome or unrea- sonable 10 those around her. Or rath- CT, she does not have to try, for !t Is characteristic of elderly human 'belngs that they seldom try very hard to form new habits. Youth is the period Of endeavOr, and old age of results. This Is the reason for the futllity of young folks displeasure at their parents "Old-fashloned" ideas. Such ideas are fixed; they will not change.
 Yet not all elderly people are age bound in their thoughts; many can be tolerant of innovations, and few can even adopt them. Such flexible con- dltiOn of the elderly mind Is, like the rigid, IntOlerant sort, q product of earlier life and habits; 1t Is not likely to indicate any particular good or evil trait in the person possessing 1t.
 If the young man or woman who feels impatient at the old folks mo- tions will cease to shrug shoulder and eXclalm: "I hope' I'm not like that when I'm old," and will turn his attention to the younger generation, starting with himself, he is likely to do much more for human progress. When he himself has reached the age of fixed ideas hls character will de- pend on his previous habits of mind; If he has kept himself free from preJ- udice and cocksuredness and has been always willing to learn better ways of thinking and doing, he will be likely to remain correspondIngly more ration al with advancing years, and will, in truth not be "lIke that" when he Is old.-Pendleton East Oregonian.
The daily Alaskan., 1921-05-19
.DIGGERS TURN UP TREASURE
Sewer Workers Find Collection of Rings and Watches in a Ros-
 ton Si.me~Pit.

BOston.-A sewer gang quit work at noon the other day with valuable treasure tro.r. h the slime of an old pit uca. the Quincy house they had found three guId rings, coins, watches and other valuabieS.
 Hotel employees suggested that the hotel had claim on the articles, aS the property probably of guests of by gone days. The police suspected that they were part of the loot of thieves. But when the men showed coins dat ing back tu lTsI. stamped with pine tree on one side and Massachusetts on the other they insisted that the statute of limitations made the prop erty theirs.
 With the ancient coins they found beer checks. which the foreman of the gang said he intended to keep with Il "pine tree shilling" as d souvenir of the past. The foreman estimated that the deposit of mud ill which lEe valuables were found had not been dis turbed in Ij years.