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vo|steading in City Of Churches
Gets Isadore in Pile Of Trouble

tonisher. For vat should vatt?"
he said. -
"Gimmee' it hack!" said 1sador~
''Vy?" said the Polish gentleman.
IVY you want it back?"
April FOOL" said Isadore. smiling
genially.
IVY April fool" said the Polish gent,
"venn it's Chuly?"
Il fooled you alright" said Isadore,
smiling even more genia1ly IT fought
mabbe you vass prohibition officer.
L put wasser in ter pottle. I sold It
1t you. Ton't hev to pee careful?
Sure, I do. Venn I see you 20 oud
that way I know you vass all righd.
Gimme it beck. I Gift you hooch,
now
"Oh." replied the Polish gentleman,
hollified. He handed over the bottle.
1sadore expeditiously refilled it.
The Polish gentleman received the
second bottle. I'm goink to look"
he said. shaking finger at Isadore.
"How do know you ain'd April tool
ingk me again?'
'Ha, ha," replied Isadore Look
all you should wish"
Tho gentleman looked and smelled
and tasted. "Now fool you," he
said. II am 1ssy Einstein, the bro
hipition achent. I put you in arrest
And that's how Commissioner Nc
Cabe OF Brooklyn came to hold Isa-
dore Pokoloski in $1,000 bail for vio-
latlon Of the prohibition law. NJ.
Allison In Ctcinnati I1mes.star.
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FORDNEY AND SUGAR.

If the Fordney bill passes imposing
tariff Of two cents a pound on sugar,
Cuba will be put in a very serious
financial condition. This is the verdict
Of Thomas Walker Page, chairman Of
the United States tariff commission,
after that body had made an investiga-
tion of the Cuban protests.
Mr.. Page thinks that not only Cuba
but other nations to the south Of US
will be greatly affected that the evil
effect will not be all on their side. We
have begun to enjoy profitable trade
with many spanish-American countries
and with Brazil. We have been buy.
ing from them as we'll as selling to
them. We must buy if we sell. Al
ready Argentina has started retaliatory
agitations against our anticipated pol
icy. The plate glass and the automo.
bile industries in this country are es-
pecial]y menaced by the mere prospect
Of the Fordney tariff wall. Germany
is going back after her old trade, which
we got away from her during the war.
Apparently the Fordney group are
helping Germany in this. Many South
American orders have been cancelled.
In his inaugural address, President
Harding laid down the maxim that
"we cannot sell where we do not buy
But that was away back in March.
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CUYLER IS CERTAIN OF
GREAT RAILROAD CRAFT

The railroad lobby is confident that
the half billion dollar railroad sub
sidy will be shortly approved by
Congress. Thomas D. Culver, who
does the talking and great deal Of
the lobbying for the Association OF
Railway Executives, has been sound
ing out lawmakers and declares that
he is not worried about. what they
propose doing with the peoples
money.
So certain are the railroads and
their big financial hackers of the re-
sponse Of Congress to their demands
for money that the banking institu-
tions which have kept shy Of railroad
securities for more than three years
are now taking, them in large blocka.
Nothing has happened to improve
railroad credit except the confidence
of prom oters that the government is
coming across with funds that will
safeguard investments in securities
that have been thoroughly discred-
tied.
with the exception 'of the shop
crafts" Cuyler says, Il do not look
for any railroad strikes"
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In the quiet recess behind the pre-
scriptton counter Of q drug store in
Brooklyn, Isadore Pokoloski was at
work compromising medicaments. And
who, answer. me, had a better right
than 1sadore to compound medical
ments? Was he not q drug clerk?
Outside the Polish residents OF the
section were having q parade-au
anti-prohibition parade. to be exact.
There was much enthusiasm ana
cheering. The band was playing the
Rakoczsky march.
A stout painting gentleman rushed
into the drug store. He had all the
characteristics Of Pole-of Pole
who had just been in the parade. A
handkerchief was draped around his
neck. "Gimme a pint o'hooch," ne
said to Isadore.
Isadore pierced him with a glance.
"Vat for?" he asked.
Amt I just been in this anty-pro-
hibition parade?" he replied. 'Ain't
gona have stroke O. something
right away if 1 don't get a pint c.
hooch?"
"Oh,' said Isadore. "You are
seeck. Thas ees all right. Wait a
minute" He raised a reassuring hand
and disappeared with bottle already
wrapped in yellow paper. -Four dol
lar" he announced.
80" said the Polish gentleman
'Everywhero thaas iss the price, He
took the pint and started out.
WATT" commanded Isadore.
The Polish gentleman turned. as
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DEMOCRACY IN INDUSTRY
SOLVES LABOR PROBLEM

The only satisfactory solution Of
Japan's labor troubles. according to
Viscount Takahashi, Minister Of FL
nance, is a profit-sharing system
and joint participation Of workers in
management. His plan is that the
profits Of joint stock companies
should be equally distributed between
the management, the shareholders
and the workers.
The finance minister is quoted by =
Toxic paper as saying that while "the
present troubles must be attributed
to the introduction of foreign ideas
Of the relationship between labor and
capital, certain share Of the respon-
sibility must lie with the capitalists
who have not yet learned to appreci-
ate the true value OF labor, but work
inconsiderately for the promotion Of
their own interests"
The workmen, the Viseount
thought should be made more IA
miliar with the circumstances under
which the employers business is be-
ing conducted and that meant that
they should actively participate in
managerial affairs.
This high Japanese official states
that the day is past when workmen
"can be treated as cogs in machines" !"
The war, he AYERS, changed all that.
and employers will do we'll to look
forward and draw their eyes from \
"past that is gone, never more to re-
turn"
The labor world., 1921-10-01
PACKERS REVERT TO FORM

Chicago packers have decided not to
deal with trade union representatives
OF their employees. That is all that can
be made out of their recent pronounce.
ments, cleverly worded az they were to
give the casual reader an entirely dif-
ferent conclusion
The packers, in common with other
employers, are not going to deal with
union representatives because they find
1t ever 50 much easier to exploit their
workers when they lack intelligent rep
resentation: The hostility that exists
against unionism has no other ha.;a
than that it minimizes somewhat the
inequality that must be present when
highly trained experts retained by EN-.
ployers are trading across the table
with unorganized, uninformed and nm.
directed workers in the mass. e.
An agreement that was negotiated BY
the Prssident's mediation commission
when = strike was threatened in tho
packing industry has been allowed to
lapse. No complaint against its work.
Ing was ever made public. The ar.
rangement was supervised by Federal
Judge Allschulsr and Il seemed to So .do.
ing substantial justiee.
81 un1ons hozsys h.ys y never d, bssn
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NOT TOO Low TO SCAB

Yes, I am an outcast, a tramp and a
bum,
Pm shifrless and dirty. to boot:
your froWn,
Nor ;jolc for your praises or your
hoot;
l live like beast, SO you say in your
scorn,
I'm a flaw in society's plan,
And you are right-l'm all these and
then some, to boot.
But never scabbed on a man.
III steal when I'm hungry. and fight
when l must,
And lie when it pays me the best;
I'm lazy and shameless, and drink like
fish,
And ia murder, perha ps, if hard
pressed;
I'm a vagabond, worthless, a curse to
the race,
I admit it, so just save your CAB:
I'm crusty with dirt, but I've got TO
go SOME
TO be dirty enough to scab.
LIN low and degenerate, scarce fit 10
live,
I admit, and don't care rap.
The ash-barrels my banquet, the gut-
ter my bed.
AS 1 travel the face of the map;
You can call me scroundrel, hound
or a cur,
They all fit, so just take a. grab
I won't squirm at the dirtiest name in
the bunch,
But I'll shoot if you call me scab
-UnknoWn
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popular with the packers. They felt
that labor had secured IN advantage
when it compelled recognition Of its
unions. Now that times are slack and
tho need less driving, tho packers are
making use of their opportunity to re-
gain their original autocratic oppres-
sive and inhuman power.
Autocracy in industry as elsewhere
succeeds best when it disesmbles. The
packing industry in the past has not
been conspicuous for temporizing poll.
cies. It has been ruthless to the point
Of brutality. Conditions in the stock
yards have been, among the worst in
the country Wages were low, work ir.
regular and employees were defenseless.
1t is reasonable assumption that, hav-
ing sought to des troy the machinery
that at least partially corrected these
unsatisfactory conditions, the packers
propose to restore low wages and irreg-
u1ar work and reduce their workers to
state Of utter helplessness.
But they cannot do it. For time
they may imagine they are succeeding,
but in the end they will go smashing
up against the hard fact that it is i'm
possible to capture the awakened con.
sciousness Of their employees and recon-
fine it in the rotten system which hap.
PLY they for time escaped.
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LET WORKERS BE HEARD.

Wage earners should keep in mind
the announced purpose Of the limita.
tion-of-armament conference on Novem-
ber II and refused to be sidetracked
by manufactured issues.
Some of the worlds most cunning
minds and sharpest publicity agents
will be in Washington at that time to
mold public opinion for imperialists,
militarists and commercial expansion.
lists.
These forces-skillful, resourceful
and unscrupulous-would barter a
worlds ideal for their selfish purpose.
Wage earners must be alert to the
methods Of this sinister group, whose
leading cards are national and racial
prejudices, foreign concessions, high
society and political influence.
For the year ending June so, last
year, congress appropriated $5,686,o05,-
6o6. OF this amount 92.s per cent was
voted for recent and previous wars and
navy departments
One per cent of the $5,6S6, ,005, ,606
was voted for research, educational and
developmental, including the public
health, labor, agriculture, federal edu-
cation, bureau of mines, women Is and
children 3 bureau, bureau of labor, sta
tistics, bureau of standards, library Of
congress, etc., etc.
In other words, congress voted more
than five and one-half billion dollars
for governmental purposes, last year,
and out Of every dollars of this vast
sum 90 $40 cents went for war pur-
poses while one cent was devoted to the
are and processes of peace
Militarists will pile their back-break-
ing debt on labor as long as labor per
mits.
Labor has made repeated protests
but let every man, woman and child
join in such thunderous protest on
Armistice day against war expenditures
! that even the most hardened militarist
| will be affected.
Ninety~thre cents for war and one
cent for peace is not a healthy condi.
tion. It is menace to democratic life
Join with the A. F. Of L. in its pro
gram OF mass meetings and parades on
Armlstice day against SO cents for wa,
arts and processes Of peace.
Interest every other America loving
citizen in this anti-militarist, anti -jingo
movement that is eating up the peo
Pies sustenance, and retarding the de-
velopment of q fuller life.
The time has come to disarm''
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wages unless there has been corre'
spending adjustment Of prices''
Well, prices are adjusting themselves
The department of labor an
nounces that the August retail food
prices are ~ per cent higher than
those Of June. Potatoes are up 26 per
cent, eggs 20, butter Is.
We suggest that the only possible
way Of reconciling Judge Gary's wage
cuts with his ideas on the "adjust-
ment" Of prices is to induce his en-.
ployes to subsist mainly on cabbage,
which is 8 per cent cheaper than it was
in June.
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IMMUNITY FOR PRoFITEERs.

Promises made by Attorney General
Daugherty that he intended to hun:
down and prosecute war profiteers en-
couraged hope that outraged Justice
was to be vindicated.
To date not one profiteer has felt
the heavy hand Of the law. Mr.. Daugh-
erty's bold statement was a mere thun-
dering in the index. And the chance
that any will be prosecuted has gore
glimmering. While prosecuting Off
cials dawdle along the statute of limi-
tions is running its course, and after
November II the whole tribe of shame.
less creatures will throw their hats in
the air and give three cheers, for then
they will have reached the promised
land of legal immunity.
The congressional investigating COM
mlttee on war expenditures recon-
mended for prosecution a number of
the worst offenders. Among them was
the Standard Steel Car company. Sec.
retary Of the Treasury Mellon was for.
merly director and stockholder in this
company This fact is mentioned only
a. showing that those who took ad.
vantage Of the government and the
people during the war emergency are
not lacking in influence A complete
roster Of all offenders would read like
= "Whos Who" in politics, finance
and industry
Representative Graham of Illinois,
introduced bill in the House extend.
ing the statute Of limitations from,
three to six years It was reported out
favorably by the Judiciary committee,
but failed Of enactment before the re.
cess There is little chance that it will
pass before November II, and perhaps
not until the regular session in Decem.
8ber Practically I'll contracts in which
pseaf tasering wa pract cticed were made s.
|. WI. md { - 8 aisSsd 81
Z
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SUGGESTS "A DIET.

On May 49,, the United States Steel
corporation cut its wages 20 per cent.
On July Is, the elimination Of time and
a half for overtime amounted to a fur.
ther cut Of 9.5 per cent, says The News
Republic. August 10 came a third cut,
OF ls.9 per cent. This last reduction
: brought the wages Of unskilled labor
down TO 80 cents per hour, ths level of
Nay !, 1917. IS
' II q, hss boon Judge policy 4,
e saay Y y u rednss
The labor world., 1921-10-01
POOR ECONOMY.

The stingiest man was scoring a
hired man for his extravaganza in
wanting to carry a lantern when 60
ing to call on his best girl.
THE ideal" he scoffed. when I
was courtin' I never carried no Ian
tern; went in the dark"
The hired man proceeded to fill the
lantern. YES" he said sadly, "and
look what you got"
The labor world., 1921-10-01
ESCAPED FROM DICTIONARY,

Japan must be satisfied about tho
"agenda" at the peace conference.
Many, seeing the word in print, wonder
if it's a. drink.
"Agenda" is the plural of "agen.
dum,' which means a program or
schedule. Japan, inquiring about IT,,
simply wants to know what questions
will be discussed at the conference.
An old word. Few except diplomats
and lawyers ever use it. Now, after
dissuse for years, it jumus out of the
dictionary and sails off into general
usage.
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after November II, when the war ter.
minated, all the war eougers will be
immune, since the law could not bs
made retroactive
And thus will close one of the most
discreditable chapters Of what was done
to Uncle Sam when he had his hands
tied
The labor world., 1921-10-01

The appointment of Hughes, Root,
Lodge and Underwood as United States
representatives at the disarmament
conference has not disarmed suspicion
that the conference is to be something
entirely different from what it pur-
ports to be
The labor world., 1921-10-01
DAVIS DRAGS THE HERRING

Secretary Of Labor Davies belated !
attempt to function as the head of hi.
department has had some startling re.
suits. For one thing, it has pretty thor
oughly convinced the public that he is
wholly out Of place in his environment,
being fitted neither by training, expe-
rience nor temperament to deal with
problems that 90 deep into the lives of
human beings and involve the well-bs.
ing and safety Of the nation.
Mr.. Davis seeks to meet the acute
problem Of unemployment by crawling
around it. His most recent contribu.
tions to it must have been as discon.
certing and painful to his admirers as
they are discouraging to all men and
women who sincerely are trying to res
cue large section of our people from
the horrors Of starvation.
Any effort to conceal or to exagger.
ate the extent Of unemployment is q
disservice to the nation. For the first
time the Federal government is consid-
ering measures to counteract unemploy-
ment, and, no matter what the real OBJ.
ject Of the forthcoming conference may
be, those who will compose it cannot
expect success if under tho suggestion.
Of Pollyanna politicians the impression
is spread that few million idle work.
ers are not really in need. Deception
OF this sort is shameless politics and
worse economics.
Secretary Davis statement that con-
ditions were worse in 1914 may or may
not be true. He does not know whether
they are true and there is none to ad-
wise him. Certainly there is no statis-
tical basis for asserting that seven mil
lion were idle in 1914 as compaerd with
six million now. The United States
Employment Service, through which the
recent figures were assembled, did not
exist in 1914. Estimates were made
seven years ago by number of state
labor commissions and by the Federal
bureau Of labor statistics for definite
number of trades But no national
reckoning was made and no standard
OF comparison exists between the years
1921 and lola. It might with equal
reasonableness be stated that ten mil
lion workers were idle in 1914. Nobody
counted them, and in the absence Of
knowledge any kind of pronouncement
will serve as propaganda.
Whether more men are idle now than
IN 1914 is of absolutely no Importance.
Whatever number may be agreed upon
as approximating the out.of-work is too
large. 1t may console Mr.. Davis to
think that but three or four million are
disemployed and thereby gravitating
surely and irresistibly towards starva-
ton, but the great heart Of humanity
10 not 50 easily comforted. Only tho
cynical and calloused can contemplate
starvation as relative term.
If Secretary Davis had been alive to-
the situation for months his department
would have been engaged in an active
propaganda in the interest of fastening
the resumption of work that would
have modified if it did not cure this
national blight. Had the Department
OF Labor been awake to its opportunity
and obligation it would probably have
escaped the humiliation Of seeing the
Department Of Commerce take the mi.
tlatlve in the formation of a national
program for the recovery of prosper.
ity.
The labor world., 1921-10-01
A PROPHECY COMES TRUE.

FreSldenC harding IS quOLeQ ny SYM
pathetic newspaper reporters as being
upset because certain senator's and rep
resentatives are voting on legislative
proposals as representatives of agricul'
tural and labor interests rather than as
Republicans and Democrats He con.
siders this disregard of party lines as
another blow at sacred traditions.
It has been the fashion lately to ex-
tol the virtues Of partisanship and Pres.
ident Harding has probably been car
ried away by the enthusiasm and exu-
berance of those who put the organiza-
tion above all other considerations. Be-
fore he embarks upon campaign to ex-
terminate the insurgents, an undertak
ing that may be attended with un-
looked for complications, he might find
George Washington's farewell address
profitable reading. The Father Of His
Country said:
"This (party) spirit is inseparable
from our nature, having its root in the
strongest passions Of the human mind.
Tt exists under different shapes in all
governments, more or less stifled, con-
trolled or repressed; but in those Of
popular form it is seen in its greatest
rankness and is truly their worst
enemy.
"The alternate domination of ono
faction over another, sharpened by the
spirit Of revenge natural to party dis
sension, which in different ages and
countries has perpetrated the most hor.
rid enormities, is itself frightful des.
potism. But this leads at length to 4
more formal and permanent despotism.
The disorders and miseries which result
gradually incline the minds of men to
seek security and repose in the absolute
power Of an individual; and sooner or
later the chief Of some prevailing fac
tion, more able or more fortunate than
his competitors, turns this disposition
Of his own elevation on the ruins of
public liberty
These words are truly prophetic in
their description of a sitpation that is
very rapidly developing in our own
country. Senators who are appealing
to Mr.. Harding to throw his great
power against free-thinking and free.
acting law makers are seeking ssseeur.
ity and respose in the absolute power
fbf an individual"
Having faithfully forecasted the log.
:s4cal working out Of the party system
Washington indicated some Of the
things that would grow out of it. He
Ataid:
;: 'The common and continued mis-
;ehiefs' Of the spirit Of party are suffi
bient to make it tho interest and duty
of wise people to discourage and re-
strain it It serves always to distrac.
The public councils, and enfeeble the
public administration. It agitates the
community with ill-founded jealousie.
!ond false alarms; kindles the animositz
o. ono part against another; foment.
occasional riot and insurrection. I,
opens the door to foreign influence and
ieorruption, which finds facilitated
,hccess to the government itself through
i4he channels of party passion"
President Harding should take thi,
wise warning to heart. Instead Of at
ftempting to put down manifestation
bf independence he should encourap,
ehem. They may save his administra
zion from the evils that first President
.ainerringly pointed out as inevitably
ip"hen partisanism is carried to the poin
;;bf despotism.
The labor world., 1921-10-01
SHOCKING REPORT

= History Professor-"How was Alex
ander /. OF Russia killed 90 ....2 4 355 81
q Student (vaSuely : = = bomb. =
Il Professor '.Be q little more sxpli-.
5oit please. 8
ss student. dsspsra ation
you ~ ss
The labor world., 1921-10-01

It is right and proper to insist that
those who are coming here to discuss
matters having to do with war shall
carry nothing on the hip. n :,
The labor world., 1921-10-01

A friend in need is one who picks
you up in his automobile when you've
missed the last car that gets you 20
work on time.
The labor world., 1921-10-01

It is easy to learn the character OF
a mann who runs his own auto BY the
way he passes you on the road and
how much he lets you have Of 1t.
The labor world., 1921-10-01
SEEKERS AFTER GRACE.

.Wife-"Did you notice the chin
chilla coat on the woman sitting in
front Of US this morning."
Husband-"Er-no.- Afraid I Eas
doing most of the time"
Wife--"Um. A lot of good the SER
vice did Jou."-Chicago Tribune.
The labor world., 1921-10-01

The average worker is bettes
posted on public questions and cur-
rent events than many Of our business
men.
The labor world., 1921-10-01

One thing the incubator chicken
can never do is to talk back to its
mother.
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1921-10-26
FEE LOOKS FOR
TRAVEL To CAL,
HEAVY WINTER

SAN FRANCISCO. Oct. "a. -
That business conditions In the
Pacific coast states are better than
in the middle west and the east
is the opinion of Chas. s. Fee, pas
senger traffic manager, Southern
Pacific company, who has Just re-
turned from an extended trip which
took him to all parts of the United
States. Mr.. Fee believes that travel
to the Pacific coast this next win
ter will be heavier than last.
II have Just returned from a
$4,000 mile journey covering a ten
weeks period" says Mr.. Fee, dur
ing which time I visited all of the
Southern Pacific general agencies
In the United States. This journey
embraced visit OF from one to
four or five days In some twenty
five Of the leading cities of the
country.
Il returned from this trip with
the impression that general busi-
ness conditions on the Pacific coast