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The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-04-23
Another Appeal to Our Subscribers

This the third appeal overdue subscribers
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ing SPELL when let subscription money failed
in had hoped.
Now dislike take this Of urging
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The labor question the and crying issue of
We want readers behalf of the workers
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The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-04-23
ONE TINE IT FAILED.

Among certain type Of employer it
has come to be a habit that whenever
a group Of workers asks for something
more than starvation wages and sweat.
shop conditions to rush into court and
ask for an injunction. Recently there
has been added bill calling for "dam,
ages" and dissolution of the workers
organization.
Decisions such as the recent Duplex
Printing Press Company case, where
damages were awarded against the Ma,
chinists' union, have lent comfort to
those enemies Of labor who would use
the courts to destroy unions Of work
ingmen.
J. Friendman & Co., Inc, Of New
York attempted to use the courts to
penalize the Amalgamated Clothing
Workers Of America to the tune Of
100000 damages and asked for an in
junction against strike activities and
then wound up its modest demands by
asking the court to dissolve tho union
This suit was intended a. q sofa,
plexus blow that would take all tn,
steam out Of tho Amslgamated ani
permit of unconscionable employers K
exploit the clothing workers to thei,
hearts content.
In the light Of recent court decision.
it is rsfreshing to record the decision
Of the New York supreme court deny
ing the petition Of the manufacturer,
and Diminishing the casa. 49,,
For once, let It be recorded tho court,
&ailsd to function a. union. destroyin,
agencies.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-04-23
CONSCIENTIOUS scRUPLEs.

II believe in unions, but no NAV
should be forced to join union if
his conscientious scruples are agains!
such actions.' How often do we hear
such statements from well-meaning
friends of labor, statements that are
overworked by citizens alliances and
other enemies of union labor.
Let us analyze these more or less
mysterious scruples.
The non~union man, by accepting
lower wages and longer hours, sets up
the standard Of living for the entire
craft. He may degrade the men who
required years Of hard work to bring
themselves up to their present social
and economic level. 1t is because Of
this fact that workingmen object 81
strongly to Chinese and Japanese i'm
migration. But what about the non.
union man who demands and receives
everything that the unionists ask forg
True, it may be said, he is not de,
grading the workingmen. That may
be so, for the present, The time may
come, however, when the workingmen
of his craft may have grievance
which will require united protes,
against the unfair treatment Of tht
employer. Outside of the organization
that non-union man may become a
menace to the interests of all his fol,
low workers even though he is receiv'
ing union wages and working union
hours. He may be- and, in his disor,
ganized state, usually is used against
his fellow workers.. Yet, he is all the
time receiving the benefit of the years
of sacrifice and hardship Of his fel
low workmen without assuming any OF
the obligations Of the union. He i:
quite willing to have others fight his
battles, without subjecting himself to
the perils Of the warfare, and in nearly
all cases on record his conscientious
scruples'' against joining the labor
union consist simply in an unwillingness
to assume these obligations.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-04-23
STRONGER THAN EVER.

Mass meetings Of labor are being
held everywhere. The labor press and
unions breathe deeply the spirit OF
fraternity which has been awakened
in the heart Of organized labor. Work
ers understand the motives Of the OPP
ponents of the labor movement. Under
standing, they are firm in their devo-
ton to it's principles. They know what
the destruction of the labor movement
would mean to them and their FAM
lilies.
It is idle, therefore, for any set Of
employers or hired attorneys to endeav-
or to deprive organized labor of such
elementary rights as moral suasion, the
giving and receiving Of information,
the use of the public highways, and,
in short, just as idle as it is to seek to
abolish the right Of labor to. choose
employers and associates and to make
union shop contracts.
So long as the country remains free
these rights will be exercised in one
way or another. Injunctions will not
avail; absurd bulls and dicta will not
avail. They will be enjoyed practi-
cally in spite Of illumination and legal
sophistry. Common sense will prevail
in the end; reason and consistency will
reassert themselves in the courts. If
not, there will be constitutional re-
form to curb the judicial legislators
and conGne them to their proper func-
tons.
No doubt there was a time when the
short-sighted, bigoted employers though
unionism could and would be crushed
by injunctions, damage suits, denuncia-
ton, and similar weapons.
They ought to know better now
What have they accomplished Labor
is stronger than ever.
The unions have not dissolved; the
policy of labor has not changed.
Mistakes have been made, and they
will be avoided.
But all the essential features of the
unionist movement have remained I'M
impaired.
The assaults have failed; they have
been repulsed.
Would it not be wiser and more
profitable for employers to abandon f,-
tile methods and try the policy of fair
play, honest dealing, and friendly rela.
tions with their organized employees
| and the latter's duly elected representa-,
tives?
Sooner or later this course will have
to be adopted by them, and our effort
is to bring it into full and general oper.
alton at the earliest possible time and
thus avoid many unnecessary contro
versies and contests.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-04-23
CLOSES FACTORIES.

twenty-five thousand acres of the
best sugarbeet land in Colorado will
be planted to wheat, corn and other
crops this year because the sugar COM
bine which controls the factories in
the Arkansas Valley will not pay the
farmers fair price for their beets.
A ton of beets will produce about
ESQ pounds of granulated sugar and
certain valuable byproducts. The sugar
sells for at least 8 cents a pound at
the factory. This enables the trust to
realize approximately $40 on every ton
handled, plus the byproducts.
The farmers felt they were entitled
to one-half the value of the sugar ex~
tracted from the beets, but the trust
refused to pay more than Sc ton.
1t is estimated that since the Euro
pean war began in 1914 and the price
Of sugar commenced to soar every
western sugar factory has earned close
to 100 per cent year on the capital
invested. If the farmers had accepted
Sc for their beets and the price of
sugar had remained in the vicinity of
8 cents the trust would have made a
similar cleanup this year.
Rather than sacrifice any part Of itq
unconscionable profits the combine pre-
fers to close down its factories in the
Arkansas Valley.
Before the year is over we will prob
ably be told that the price Of sugar
must be advanced because Of ffshort' -
crop and our statesmen will be urged
to increase the tariff 80 as to encour-
age home production.
The United States can produce at a
reasonable price all the sugar it needs,
but that result cannot be attained SO
long as producer and consumer are lef,
to the mercy Of tho combine which
controls the sugar factories and re.
fineries.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-04-23

democracy or Dictatorship. 1t il but
the introduction Of democracy in in.
dustry.
What Mr.. Gary wants is the continu'
alton Of autocraey in industry. He
! wants all to say about wages, hours,
conditions and ahop rules, even to the
extent of determining where the work
ers shall live, how they shall conduct
themselves away from their jobs, and
to what social, political or economic
organizations they shall become identi-
fed with. He would have himself be-
come, as he is, the absolute monarch
Of the lives, destinies and hopes of the
corporations employees.
Is there any doubt about its If
there is, read an application for en-.
ployment in any Of the steel mills Of
the corporation. The applicant must
give fully all such information. If he
admits that no is member of labor
union, or if it is found later that he is
such, then there is no place for him 10
the realm Of the big trust, except on
it's railroads.
MIR. Gary dismisses the subject in his
own mind when he declares: admit
ting that unions may have been justi-
fed in the long past, because workmcn
were not treated justly, there is now
no necessity for labor unions, in the
opinion Of large majority Of both
employers and employees
About the only thing left for the
workers to do is to wind up their union
business, send their charters to some
institution Of antiquity from which the
|"Gary thought" halls, and then trust
to the mercy and justice Of their en-
ployers to do the right thing by them.
Wouldn't that be pleasing news to the
industrial .autoerats Of America and
tho world:
But the workers will not give up
their unions, either willingly or by force.
There will be need for unions 40 long
as there is left on earth one mortal
who assumes mastery over another. Mr..
Gary admits that there was once need
for them. There is more need for them
now, and particularly in an industrial
institution that works its employees IL
and Is hours day, denies them on
the job every semblance Of human free
dom and assumes the whole say as to
what their wages shall be, to bob a
trifle up and down with the price Of
pig iron and steel.
The worker is made Of no such stuff.
He is living, breathing mortal, and
his struggle for many years to come
will be to combat the fossilized ideas
Of Gary until his industrial freedom
is given absolute guarantee by the law
and the constitution.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-04-23
YOUNG MIR. 0oMPERS.

The announcement OF the marriage
Of Samuel Gompers comes as a dra-
matte evidence of the rugged, vivid
vitality Of the man. The public has
known him as the sturdy, resourceful
fighter who never found himself
blocked in one endeavor that he did
not instantly plan another and more
effective method Of attack.
His objective never varied-fullar
and more satisfying life for tho masses.
No man can fight in that way in whom
the current of life does not run high
and strong, tingling with all the human
instincts that are springs Of human,
life.
The power Of Gompers as a fighter
lies i'll the great humanness Of the
man. The key to his character is love
that eternal power that is timeless.
Sustained by tho inner spiritual. force,
Gompers has maintained a massiveness
Of power that has amazed the world
through decades.
Those who know the inner man
watched with apprehension tho blows
that have Of late years stripped him
Of home life and the sustaining love
Of daily companionship. Then there
came a change-something like re-
viving of life power-something to be
sensed and traced to its source.
Gompers is speaking from keen,
alert mind, dealing with the problems
of the day and the hour, using the
language Of current work and thought,
aware Of tendencies and able to dis.
criminate the constructive. You find
him today sought by the engineers, by
the constructive fnancier, by states
men Of his own and foreign countries,
by those who are trying to meet the
problems Of today and tomorrow with
the sureness Of complete understanding
Gompers is not an old man, he has
simply been using 20 years Of lifl
crowded with a multitude Of aetivitie:
which have fitted him to do his work
Of each year bit better than the
past year. Instead Of growing old, he
has grown into the fullness Of living,
When Arthur Henderson charged
Gompers with being SO years behind
tho time, Gompers answered with an
aeroplane flight from Buffalo to Roches
ter to keep IN appointment a. part o.
the days work.
! When the usual prs-conveution ru
mors started this spring, voiced BY. tn
naive Hearst who says Gompers is ii
old that no should be retired by th,
labor movement with "some dignitei
ex.title" Gompers, responds BY quietl,
taking unto himself \ wife and thu
beginning = new chapter in tho bool
Of life.
Az spring brings = thrill Of life creep
ing into Ill nature, 70 like the pro
verbal eternal youth, Gompsrs still
seeks Joy in living and working.
i Good by, "youns man.; eous.atu
lstions, III tho happiness in the world
!, and many more years sf ussfulssss W
Wish tor yea. i. ID & II: ,:s
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-04-23
THE CITY ATTORNEY.

Labor did not so into the recent
municipal campaign to find jobs for
any OF it's favorites. 1t fought for
the triumph Of certain ideals. It wants
nothing for organized labor as such.
It is merely interested in getting good
government that will rebound to the
benefit Of all the people.
There are two important legal con.
tests in which the city must enter to
protect the interests Of the people. The
commissioners should cooperate with
the forces now at work in St. Paul
and Minneapolis which are protesting
against the recent federal court award
permitting the Northwestern Bell Tel
ephone company to increase its rate.
The other has relation to the street
railway situation. The city should
carry to the last court a protest against
giving the state control over the local
street railway company. The legisl:,-
ture has passed law, it is believed,
which has impaired the obligation Of
contract so far as the city's part Of
that contract is concerned. The ISSUE
should be fought out in the courts.
Realizing the situation confronting
the city, authorized representatives ct
labor interviewed certain we'll known
Duluth lawyers to urge each in turn
to become candidate for city attor-
ney. Mr.. Frank Crassweller was iE-
tervewed, but he declined to become 3
candidate. J. B. Richards was asked
to announce his candidacy, but he said
to the committee that he would not do
so unless the salary was raised above
$4,000 year. The commissioners have
always been averse to raising the sal
airy Of any city employee above their
own. So A. G. Mcknight was next
seen. He said his law practice paid
him more than he would receive in
salary as city attorney, but he would
willingly become q candidate if he
could in any way assist in carrying OIL:
the ideals held by labor.
At & meeting Of the Federated Trades
assembly held week ago last Wednes-
day evening Mr.. Mcknight was unan-
ilnously endorsed for city attorney be-
cause he was the one man then willing
to accept the office who stood for the
things labor and all the unprivileged
people seek from city government.
He has the zeal, knowledge and heart
interest necessary to carry on the big
legal fights in which the city is to be
engaged. His public record squares
exactly with the program the city
should work out in opposing the tele.
phone and street railway companies.
Labor has nothing against Leonard
MoHugh, the present very congenial
and earnest acting city attorney. His
youth and lack Of experience are
against him. He should be retained as
assistant city attorney, a position he
has ably filled, but we insist that the
qualities of zeal and heart-interest in
the cause for which we stand are moro
important, in the last analysis, than
the cold knowledge Of the law. Mr..
Mcknight possesses both, and the fruits
of tho election will be lost to labor
and tho people if man such as he is
not elected city attorney by the com
n1isaioners.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-04-23
JUDGE GARY AGAIN,

Gilbert n. Gary, chairman of thu
finance committee Of the United States
Steel corporation, has very clearly, very
forcibly and unequivocally stated what
the policy of that corporation will be
with relation to ito treatment of the
labor problem, and the unionizing Of
its steel mills.
Mr.. Gary's chief fear of union labor
is expressed as follows: cit seems to
mo that tho natural, if not necessary
result of the contemplated progress Of
labor unions, if successful, would bc
the control of shops, then Of tho gen.
eral management Of the business, then
of capital and finally the government"
It is conceded that such fears
are grounded on some facts, for wa
have within the country, even in the
labor movement, any number Of men
and women who proclaim just such q
program, but they are not in tho ma
jority as Of yet, and it is not likely
that they ever will be. Nothing that
we can conceive, vhowever, would add
to their number more than the sort of
opposition MI. Gary sets up to such
an organization a. the American Fed.
Grafton Of Labor.
Union labor does not seek control
Of the shop. It merely asks that the
workers through their unions be given
an equal voice with tho employers, not
all tho voice, in determining tho rules
and conditions under which they s1<
obliged to work. .Th&t ii not Industrial
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-04-23

Former service men, says Chairman
Good, of the house appropriations com.
mittee, should forego a bonus because
OF tho honor that attaches to the scr.
vice they rendered the nation. Con-
gressmen will take their compensation
in cash, AZ uaual. II. ~.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-04-23

Those who have been worrying
about the high cost Of living may now
Do treasured. Tho price Of chops has
dropped until : pound can be bought
Tor few cents more than the farmer
resolves fef The whole ii is. 81 4 b.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-04-23

PEoatiag BY tho experience Of Charles
Hapsburg, the kaiser has oiled thu
tlusty erosseut and the business Of
saving who'd Soss nsrrily O. i:
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-09-25

Continued from page one)
or this treaty in its ambiguous clauses
Will not be the beginning OF our
entrance into the league
YanlIs Needed in Germany.
Sen. Lodge replied that he saw no
such danger ard that congress had
10 be trusted 10 decide whether
America should join the reparations
commission.
Discussing withdrawal Of Ameri-
can troops from Germany Sen.
Borah said that the preserce OF
troops was requisite TO execution Of
the Versailles treaty. Il am in favor
OF Withdrawing American troops. "
he continued, but I am not in favor
Of claiming rights and benefits under
the Versai- les treaty which French
troops secure. If we are TO have
their ADVANTAGES then every moral
sense insists that we shall do our
part in the execution Of the treaty.
Sen. Reed said he though treaty
Of peace was 10 settle the difficulties
with Germany, the Knox resolution,
he argued, having ended the state Of
war.
This treaty" added Mr.. Reed,
settles none Of these questions. It
leaves us in the same position as the
Knox resolution. except that Ger
many accepts"
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-09-25
Sponge Squad to
Tackle Bar Cases
of Bootleg Trust
Protective Association Latest
Among Dealers, Agent
Saws.

WASHINGTON. Sept. "a The
American BootIeggers Trust and ROY
A. Haynes. federal prohibition com
missioner. are settling down for a
finish fight.
Haynes is busy perfecung a ma
uon-wide prohibition enforcement
machine with Sponge squads" every
where
And the bootleggers are organiz-
Ing for self defense.
BoOtleggers are systcmatizing their
business 20 an extent never dreamed
of before They're divided into inn
porters. manufactures. jobbers
wholesalers and retailers And-in
the larger cities-the bootleggers
have mutual protective organiza-
tions. These In turn cooperate,
forming a huge trust, according 20
reports reaching here.
Pay Dues For Needy.
Bootleggers turn in certain per-
centage OF their profits as dues This
money IS used 20 administer first aid
10 Ieggers caught in the tolls.
Liquor is sold moro or less freely
over tho bars in Chicago and New
York. say officials. In all other
large cities it can be had If some
kind friend introduces you 10 the
barkeep.
The Bellvue hospital in New York
city announces there are more cases
Of drunkenness in New York than
ever before and that the cases are
much more serious than in the past.
Haynes says that despite his small
appropriation and small stan, he's
going to make the prohibition law
as generally respected and obeyed as
any other law.
"WilI stamp Ont Defiance"
Right now we're building a foun-
dation for our work" Haynes said.
We're founding nucleus Of pro-
hibiuon enforcement officers in every
state.
1--WE already appointed commits
sionersI for every state but Alabama,
Missouri. Georgia and New Hamp-
shire.
These men will appoint a num-
Der Of local operatives, the number
varying with the population of the
state or other local conditions.
you ask me whether We'll stamp
out Illicit liquor altogether. Have
they stamped out murder and rob
berry? Wen make prohibition rul-
ings iust as respected and widely
obeyed as any other federal or state
laws
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-09-25
SENATE BLOC WILL
FIGHT FOR PASSAGE
OF GROWERS BILL
Third of Senate May Oppose
Part of Administration
Tax Plans.

WASHINGTON. Sept. 24.-Neme
bers OF the senate agricultural bloc
Saturday served notice that they will
not permit the administration to
sidetrack consideration of farm Leg
islation.
Besides an extensive program of
it's own that threatens to increase
the legislative jam in the senate the
administration may find the "bloc"
soHdly arraigned against important
features Of the tax bill.
The meeting Of the bloc which
now includes nearly a third of the
senate membership to determine its
course. viii be called by Senator
Kenyon OF Iowa.
The principal measures Of the
bloc" are:
IA cooperative marketing bill,
which has been passed by the house
and reported to the senate.
Provisions for the appointment
Of a report of agricultural interests
Of the federal reserve board.
"a rural credits bill so farmers
can obtain long term credits.
A truth in fabric" bill to stop
fraudulent sale OF shoddy clothing
at wool prices.
Members Of the bloc" during the
congressional vacation found a uni
versal demand for a reduction OF
freight rates. The transportation
taxes in the revenue bill will be at
tackled as one step TO this end. The
railroad debt funding bill is expect
cd 10 open up the whole question
of freight rates.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-09-25

GRAND RAPIDS. Mich. Sept "a
Welfare societies Friday commended
Superior Court Judge ~. l. Dun
hams expose Of automobile Washers
in Grand Rapids while city officials
emphatically declared they have been
attempting for some time to rid the
city OF such conditions
Judge Dunham's expose came fin
a decision in hich he held the city's
ordinance. designed 20 regulate the
operation Of taXi-cabs, as illegal
scored city officials who severely
critized him last June when he held
the former taNi-cab ordinance void
and declared police court judges
have exceeded their authority by
adding costs 70 fines imposed on
those convicted OF violation Of city
ordinances