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The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1921-09-30
TIINNEI

Mr.. and Mrs. H. N. McGready and
Mrs. Gibson and mother, Mrs. Nc
Gready of DeSoto, visited at the home
Of H. c. Carter Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Voss, of Sill
yer Springs, who has been visiting
friends and relatives in st. Louis, re-
turned to their home Tuesday.
j. W. Ellis was Bonnie Terre Wis
itor Wednesday.
Misses Mae and Pearl Carter and
little brother, Ray, visited their aunt,
Mrs. Frank Hammock, of Silver
Springs Thursday.
Chas. Buscher was Bonnie Terre
visitor Saturday.
visited at the home of ]. J. Thurman
Sunday.
Elmer and Homer Moon, of Rooster,
were French Village visitors Thurs
day,
J. w. Ellis visited his mother at
Marquand Thursday.
H. c. Carter motored to Vale Mines
Thursday.
W. A. Carter visited his daughter,
Mrs. Frank Hammock, of Silver
Springs, Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. A. Frazier, of Vale
Mines, visited friends and relatives in
Festus Saturday and Sunday.
Pete Harverstick, of Vale Mines,
was Tunnel visitor Saturday.
Otto Mickeral was guest at the
home of Chris Stated Sunday.
Theo. Stated was a Plattin visitor
Saturday evening.
Miss Hattie Appleberry was Flat
River visitor Friday evening.
Mrs. j. W. Ellis and children, who
have been visiting relatives at Mar
quand, returned to her home at Sill
yer Springs Sunday.
Oscar Richardson was Bonnie
Terre visitor Friday.
Pete Parker made trip to- Bonnie
Terre Thursday. -.
Edward Voss motored to DeSoto
Monday.
Roy Richardson made a trip "
Bonnie Terre Friday.
S. P. Cole and c. l.. Buscher visited
at the home Of H. C. Carter Sunday.
Miss Hattie Appleberry was Tun.
mel visitor Saturday.
Steve Sykes was Bonnie Terre Wis
itor Saturday.
Those entertained at the home of
J. j. Thurman Monday were: Misses
Mae Carter, Ethel Whaley and s. P.
Cole of Vale Mines.
j. w. Ellis and Lee Douglas, of Sill
yer Springs, were Bonnie Terre visi-
tors Monday
Misses Mae and Pearl Carter, Chas.
Buscher, Pete Parker. Oscar Richard
son and James Douglas attended
church at Vale Mines Sunday.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1921-09-30
day here with relatives.

day here with relatives.
Mrs. Earl Madden took her Sun
day school class on hikeing party
last Tuesday evening. They roasted
weiners and had a most enjoyable
time.
VIM. lain, of Desloge. spent Sun.
day with his son, Walter lain, and
family.
Mrs. Clifton Conrad is spending a
few days in st. Louis, visiting rela-
tives.
Miss Mildred Goodman spent Sat-
urday and Sunday in Desloge with
her parents.
Mrs. Ethel Stockett spent the week.
end in St. Louis.
Miss Frances O'Connor, of the NJ. R
g. B. T. Ry. office, is spending her va
cation in st. Louis.
Misses Irene House, Frances Piazza
and Albert House spent Sunday in
Desloge.
Mr.. Higgins, of st. Louis, is here
this week attending meetings of the
A. o. U. W. lodge.
Misses Ruby Johnson, Moreno Bar
ker and Miss Schadt and Jessamine
Fite spent Friday evening in Desloge'
Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin Murphy, of Sill
yer Springs. were visitors here Sat-
urday.
Miss Anna Overall spent the week.
end in Pennington with home folks.
Shelton Horn was visitor in Farm
ington Saturday.
W., DnrLinc cnapt Tuae.lay in
Flat River.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thos. Dempsey, of
Flat River, spent Sunday here with
Mrs. James O'Connor and family
Lloyd Davis, of Texas, arrived
here to visit relatives this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Homer Baugh spent
Saturday and Sunday in DeSoto with
the formers parents.
Miss Katherine Cooney left Sunday
for st. Louis, where she will visit
with friends.
Philip and Frank Wheelehon have
returned to their homes from a visit
with their brother, George, and fam
lily.
Walter Dempsey, of Flat River,
was business visitor here Sunday.
Miss nellie Hoskings, of st. Louis
spent Saturday and Sunday with her
parents here.
Miss Sidney Boyer spent Monday
in Rivermines, visiting her sister.
Rev. Peters, of French Village, was
visitor here Wednesday.
Wyman Buckner, of Elvins. spent
Saturday and Sunday here.
Mrs. C. C. Klughert and children
spent Thursday in Ste. Genevieve with
relatives.
James Son, of Festus, is visiting
his father, DR.. 7. A. Son.
Misses Maud and Leota Son spent
Monday in Flat River.
Mrs. Susie Timko died at her home
I in this city of paralysis. Funeral ser,
vices were held at the Catholic Church
Sunday and interment in the Catholic
cemetery.
Mrs. Richard Rowe is very i'll al
this writing.
Mrs. Lawrence Thomure spent
Thursday in Ste. Genevieve, visiting 6
sister. =,
The labor world., 1921-06-11
REACTIONARY LAWS.

The present is no time for the federal
and state governments to even consider
reactionary laws. No drastic, restric-
tive, reactionary laws should be placed
on the statute books at any time. The
people Of our country or Of any other
country have not recovered from the
horrors Of the world war or the hystetia
which always follows great catastro-
phies. In cur day and generation an
enlightened public sentiment, stripped
Of its hysteria, which il temporary and
artificial, is for advancing civilization,
progress, Justice and greater liberty Of
thought and action Individually and col
lectively: Restricting or seeking to curb
the inherent, natural rights and liber-
ties Of the MASSES is dangerous to prog
ress and development along constructive
lines and dangerous to our institutions,
our democracy and our representative
form Of government. Those who seek
leeislation Tor private gain o. profit and
bigger fortunes, are moro dangerous to
Our ihstitutions than the so.cal1ed f.
i. 1s'eo'! 1a'aea4A ..4.sx,21l l..asa4sa {
The labor world., 1921-06-11
BANKERS OVERLOOKED
IN FIGHT ON UNIONS

Writing in the Wichita. Kan, Plain
Dealer, L. A. Zarus says that in his
state 1--WE have been particularly ex-
ercised about striking miners refus-
ing to supply a public necessity, like
coal, and we hastened to provide an
industrial court as a part of the pro-
cess Of running down the striker and
loading him with fines and ir11pris.
onment, but now comes Senator Cap.
per who charges that deflation is re-
spo11sible for 'subtracting from five
to eight billions from our farm in.
dustry through strike Of the bankers
in refusing to furnish the country
With an adequate monetary supply
with which that Of coal pales into
Significance
The statement referred to by the
correspondent is in a letter written
by Senator Capper to President Hard.
ing. which also states:
During the financial strihgency
last fall there appeared to be plenty
of money for such purposes az fis
nancing, in five Minutes, a new COM
pany for General Motors, with
$5,00o,000 capital, ,r for Wall street
bankers, within "a hours. to supply
Belgium with a loan of $30,o00,000;
while all American wheat. cotton Or
cattle farmer ca11hot borrow enough
money to pay his grocery Dill or his
takes
The labor world., 1921-06-11
Italian War Profits Are Being Confiscated

that the decree confiscating all war
profits went into effect on April 2.
mo other nation has ventured to
confiscate all war profits. But Pre-
mier Giolitti, faced with the problem
Of an enormous deficit, announced
that those who had profited by the
war must pay for the war. The new
law. provides that before assessing the
war profits the following deductions
are to be made: Ordinary income.
based on the average for 1913 ana
1914, but in no case Jess than s per
cent Of the capital invested; all taxes
and super-taxes paid on profits and all
other payments to state, provincial
and municipal authorities; expenses
incurred in Incorporating: income tax
paid on interest due to stock and
bondhOlders and on salaries of em-
ployes; amounts due on social insur-
ance set aside for welfare work among
employees or paid out Of net income
for charitable work, besides a general
exemption Of 10000 lire. A single
return is to be made for the period
August /, 1914, to June 80, 1920. AMI
payment is to be made in bi-month,v
instalments.
What sum will be realized from
this extraordinary tax it is, of course,
impossible to guess, but legislation Of
this type explains much Of Giolitti's
popularity, as we'll as the rapid rfse
IN the value OF italian, money
The labor world., 1921-06-11

The New York World prints this
editorial. which will send cola chills
down the spine Of American profiteers
who are worried lest labor unions ss.
cure the right to bargain collectively,
and whether courts may continue tn.
use of the illegal labor irjunction:
italian lire are worth today nearly
double what they were worth four
months ago, having risen more rap
idly than the money of any other ma
tion in Europe. The reason for this
phenomenal stride in the direction Of
a. return to prosperity in a. country
that is among the poorest, which has
few natural resources, few articles to
export, is to be found in the courage
with which its statesmen have faced
the financial situation. In the inter-
view which Premier Giolitti gave to
the Associated Press he pointed out
that if the present taxes were dis
tributed throughout the entire popn-
1ation every man, woman and child
in Italy would be paying $40 q year
to the government.
'"There is. however. another tax to
which Giolitti made no reference, be-
cause it is as yet ,uncollected, and ono
that illustrates better than any other
the daring Of the government. United
States Commercial Attache II. C. Mac
Lean writes from Rome to the de-
partment of commerce in Washington
The labor world., 1921-06-11
PROTECTING MONOPoLtsTs

Secretary Of State Hughes announces
that it will be the policy of this gov
ernment "to inquire and make repre-
sentations to foreign governments wher.
ever it appears that monopolistic petro.
leum concessions might be granted to
the possible detrimeft of American cit
izens.''
That means that the American! state
department. is to become the agent of
the Standard Oil company and its asso-
ciates. All the power and prestige of
this government will be used to secure
special privileges for few petroleum
magnates.
We are to protest against any foreign
government granting ,nonopolistic
concessions to its pet trusts because
such grants may be to "the possible
detrin1ent of American citizens.''
What .pifflc! Here at home our oiti.
zens are at the mercy Of the American
oil monopoly, and no one connected
with the federal government is show
ing any disposition to protect them.
The United States produces 70 per cent
Of the worlds oil supply. If we safe
guard that in the interests Of our peo-
pie we will have no occasion to worry,
Why not regulate our own monopolies
Or, better still, destroy them--beforc
we undertake to cajole OF ceerse foreign
governments concerning their treatment
Of American Spectators who are seek.
ing Investments under foreign flags?
The labor world., 1921-06-11
A ROUGH ROAD.

The road toward "Norma!cy'' is
rough The going is slow. Many OBJ
structions mark the way and we find
bumps more in evidence than smooth
riding.
What is being done on ii general
scale to better the road2 A serious,
though i'll advised, effort is being made
to lower wages which, however. will
have the effect Of lengthening the trail.
The obstruction in the way is not the
wage of our workers. They must need
spend all, or nearly all, they get at any
time to live in modest comfort, so the
less they are paid the less they will
have to buy with.
The cost Of living remains out Of all
proportion to the cost Of production and
distribution and it is not *'wage cost'
that holds it to its present unholy level.
Take bread as all example. Wheat that
was selling for 1886 a bushel is now
selling for $1.00 per bushel. Bread re-
tails at from 10 to IL cents pound
loaf. We had $l0O wheat years ago
when the cost Of milling and baking
were higher than at present from the
fact that there was no such improved
machinery used in the making Of bread
or the milling Of the grain as we have
today, yet bread sold at profit at 5
cents or less for the pound loaf
This same principle Of cost applies to
coal and most Of the necessities Of life.
Modern machinery has cheapened pro-
duction, yet the price to the consumer
is almost prohibitive under any wage
scale.
To smooth the road and to assure a
safe journey we must pay more atten-
tion to the boulders That block our
progress and not pick and quibble with
the small pebbles that the vested inter
ests are trying to make such mountains
from
The labor world., 1921-06-11
THE RUDDERIEss SHIP.

Unorganized workers have no voice
in fixing the terms Of their labor. They
have two alternatives: Accept the
terms laid down by organized employers
or get along as best they can.
In our time, we are not called upon
to deal with individual employers. In
dustry is so developed and wealth SO
concentrated that we are confronted
in nearly every avenue Of employment
with the associated interests Of the en-
ployers.
Workmen as individuals in our dav
are as much at the mercy Of the en-
ployers as is the rudderless ship at the
mercy of the waves.
The labor movement, however, cen.
fronts each new economic situation a.
it arises, ready to give succor 70 the
weak and defenseless, and ready TO
speak for them with the voice of or
ganized power
Labor is defenseiess, is weak, has no
voice only SO long as it chooses to re-
main in that condition. The labor move
ment is open to every mar aud woman
who works with hand or brain. 1t rec
ognizes no aristocracy among the toll
ing masses. Born Of a CONF on inter
est, it welcomes all on terms Of equality.
It's strength is limited only bv tie
strength Of the men and women who
compose it.
All the economic advantages which
the anorganized> worker enjoys is a
mere reflex Of the activity Of the men
and women Of the labor movement.
The standards Of hours, the rate of
pay, the working conditions--all are
graduated from the trade agreements
prevailing in the organized trades. Th.
man or woman, then, who holds aloof
from the union Of his OF her craft. while
accepting the benefits which accrue
from that organization, is not only TAX.
ing something for which no service ID
rendered, but is checking a movement
which can give greater benefit to all in
the trade were all engaged in the trade
a part Of it.
Unorga2ized workers gain everything
And lesc nothing by attaching them
selves to the trade Union movement.
BY remaining unorganized they retard
their own development as freemen and
check Tho progress to = better life Of
all who labor.
The labor world., 1921-06-11
CANNED INTERVIEWS
USED BY Employers

AS part Of a campaign against the
44hour week now being enforced by
the printing trades unions, employers
have organized the national forty
eight-hour league. and are issuing
canned Interviews to their l11em-
bers with instructions to insert the
name Of Some prominent business man
and hand to newspapers.
This publicity method has been
worn thread bare by press agents for
prize fighters, razor blades, barb wire
fencing and patent medicines.
The Typographical Journal prints
the first CANNED interview" which
is the USUAL argument against bet
tering conditions that is SO we'll known
to organized workers.
Accompanying the *'canned inter-
view are the Instructions to all league
affiliates:
1--WE are sending herewith copy Of
a strong interview for your local
newspapers.
''l1 order to give it a local news
value you will please arrange to have
a prominent man in your member
ship agree to give this interview to
the press
"Have the manuscript re-cepied, in-
serting his name and the name Of his
firm. Then call in the reporters,
hand each one an original copy (not
q carbon copy) Of the talk, and good
publicity will result.
1T would be advantageous to have
this interview appear ON a day when
you are not running a. paid display
advertiser ent.
"Attend to this at once Other I'M
terviews. which are to be handled in
the same way. will come along later.
But lose no time in arranging for
the publication of this matter.
"Every line of publicity obtained
now is most valuable in that it will
influence public opinion now-when
such effect will have the most good"
The labor world., 1921-06-11
DEMOCRACY VS.. AUTOCRACY.

Government exists to protect the life.
liberty and property of its citizens, as
we'll as to establish their claims for
justice.
Industry exists to feed, ylothe, shell
ter and to give comfort and conven-
ience to the people who constitute the
government. Its elements are natural
products, labor and in some form a
directing force, be it capital or cooper
alton.
Democracy in government is predi-
Gated on the principle that those gov.
erned should have the right to say what
laws are to be enacted under which
they must live, work and play.
Democracy in industry demands the
same general essentials as democracy in
government, insofar as the laws Of work
apply.
Autocracy in government is one man
law, one man rule and one man domi-
nation.
Autocracy in industry carries with it
the same pernicious factors Under it's
regime we find Que man, the employer,
making all the laws under which the
workers toll. He sets the hours they
must work, the wage they are to receive
and makes the conditions Of the work
shop what he pleases. Under his auto
cratic rule the workers have neither
voice nor hope. Their subjugation is
complete and their future is void. Even
their rosterity is foredoomed to the
same grilhng serfdom.
We have passed the day Of ausocracy
IN government. That menace has been
washed away in the blood Of the count
less thousands who have died that de-
| mocracy might survive.
The abolition Of autocracy in indus.
try is just as essential to the welfare of
the tolling masses as was the abolition
OF autocracy in government.
Democracy in industry will come. r.
is the step forward in the evolution of
civilization and we will travel the road
toward the goal Of our ambitions with
the measured tread of the thousands
trained for the journey in the school Of
trades unionism. The education Of the
workers. the training necessary to at.
tain their hopes and aims, their very
savlation lies within the organized labor
movement. Its program is grounded on
the elements that assure success. Be-
come part Of this valiant army fight
ing the battle for right and Justice by
becoming member Of the union Of your
craft.
The labor world., 1921-06-11
they are pleased to call t'consress,,'
composed Of senators (foremsn) and

they are pleased to call Congress, 2
composed Of senators (forenen) and
representatives (the ordinary worksrs)
It seems, however, that the employer
is the "Supreme Court and has the
firnl say. This quite naturally hampers
the enactment Of any law or rule that
might be passed by 4 Congress- should
it not meet with the employers idea
Of government. One thing at least is
absolutely unconstitutional, and that is,
the right to strike. It logically follows,
then, that no matter what "Congress
does it is at loss to enforce it's man
dates.
In none Of these hand made employ.
ers' unions have the workers been able
to protect either their hours of labor,
their working conditions or their wages.
1t was never intended that they should.
In fact, it was with the aim Of destroy
ing collective bargaining that these
various schemes are countenanced. It
is to crcumvent real trade union activ-
tiles that even these shams are per-
mitted to live and have being.
When the workers realize that COM
pany union is only for the company's
protection and that any hopes they may
have as workers to better their eco.
nomic conditions must necessarily be
predicated on membership in the regu.
lar organization OF their own particular
trade, the sooner they will be able to
solve the age long problem of the strug-
gle for existence.
The labor world., 1921-06-11
COMPANY UNIONS

In their efforts to establish the open
lshop and with the hope Of beating lea;-
climate trades union organization. sew.
eral of the larger employers of labor
nave instituted company unions.
4 There has been much said in the nuh.
nc press as to the ''Industrial Dennoe.
racy' that was SO willingly beinr dis-
Pensed by these employers and the vari.
ous plans were heralded a. something
much preferred and far superior to the
antocratic' trade union.
s st# As soon as any indication pointed
coward a desire on the part Of thu
workers for organization the employer
raw the need Of union ana procesded
at once to organize it. Elections wore
he held and Representatives (t) Of ths
workers were elected to sit III council
with their employer.
Various high sounding but nasAnins,
less names were given these souAeils
- vt least ono concern they have whA,
The labor world., 1921-06-11
LABOR BUREAU GIVES
TRUE LIVING COSTS

Wages in the building trades
should be maintained at their present
level" says report prepared by the
Labor Bureau, Inc, which has re-
Gently compiled a study Of wages and
cost of living among members Of the
Cleveland building trades. The report
is in three sections: the first dis
cusses wages, the second tho cost Of
living, and the third the economic
condition of the country. The bureau
finds that compared with workers in
other industries the building trades
worker is relatively worse off than
ne was In 1914. The report con-
cludes with section showing that
virtually all authorities agreed that
the fundamental situation Of the
country is sound and that a busi-
ness revival is certain to appear be-
tore long
''Organized labor the conpilets OF
the report state. 'Inust insist upon
reaching at least the minimum .eveI
Of health and decency set up by the
United States government. It now
costs $2,3S5.27 to maintsin a family
In Cleveland at this minimum level.
No family can fall below this level
without danger of grave physical and
moral deterioration. When prope: al
1owanee is made for IRE gularity OF
employment, wages in the building
trades are below the minimum living
wage level. Wages in the building
trades have never reached this mimi
mum standard Of health and decsncy.
For this reason it is unjust and 50.
cially inadvisable to reduce wages q
this tine.'
Wage increases, in the Cleveland
building trades of AZ per cent sInee
1914 are compared in the report with
the following increases in other union
scales in Cleveland: 10A per cent for
street car employees; 149 per cent for
bakery trades; lis per cent for the
metal trades. and III per cent for
the printing trades.
The labor world., 1921-06-11
A CHANuE

j. I. Fletcher, vice president of the
Fort Dearborn National Bank Of Chi.
eago, in an address in which he said
he favored the "open shop which
means non-union shop, stated:
~ want to quote you a few figures.
have tried to prepare them in such
form that they will be brief but vet
may picture to you the financial posi-
ton OF this country. At the present
time the United States is far and away
the richest country in the world. The
aggregate deposits Of our banks are bill
lions more than the combined deposits
OF all the banks in the world but to-
gether outside of this country, We
have more actual cash than any other
nation, and in the last few years have
attained almost unbelievable supremacy
in trade. More than half the gold in
the world is held by the United state,
at the present time. With but five ner
cent OF the earth's population, possibly
between i've and six per cent Of tho
earth's population we have subjected
to cultivation more than 25 per cent Of
the cultivated lands Of tho earth, pro-
ducing an annual yield that has aroused
tho envy and admiration of the world.
"Ffom = national wealth of about
seven billion dollars At the time of the
civil war our wealth has Increased until
today it stands At practically es25 5,ooo,-
100000 net, tAa* IL, deductinx our rs
billion dollars Of government oblira-
tions.
"W> produce. In this country two
things Agricultural products and man
ufaetatsd products. OF the earth's 10.
til psoduetien We contribute in. this