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The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1921-12-08
COMBINATION CASH STORE CO.
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Cranberries; Mince Meat Pumpkins; Sweet Pota-
toes, lbs. for 25c lbs. Popcorn 25c; New Soft Shell
California English Wanuts 40c h.; Brazil Nuts zoe
h.; New Paper Shell Almonds 10c h.; New Fiberts,
30c h.. Pecans 35c b. New Mixed Nuts, SOC h.. Not
a-Seed Raisins, 25c pkg. Seeded Rasns 20c and 25c
pkg; New Currants 2Oc pkg. Best Grade Citron SOC
h.; Candied Orange and Lemon Peel 25c h.. Large
Cocoanuts, 15c each New Malaga Grapes and Red
Emperor Grapes SOC h.; Nice Grape Fruit for 25c;
Lemons, soc doz Oranges, all sizes; Nice Eating
Apples and Pears Italian Chestnuts 25c b.; Spanish
Onions, 10c b. Domestic Onions $3.50 bu for No. Is;
Comb Honey for 25c and Soc a card; also Strained
Honey in pints and quarts; 2-b. box Pure Ribbon
Candy, 44c; Ribbon Candy in bulk zoe h.. good sized
bottle Stuffed Olives for &c. small bottle for 15c Best
Imported Olive OIL $125 qt; French Peas 25c per
New Dates, New Figs, Orange Pekoe Tea in bulk, 45c
h. Green Mixed Japan Tea at 35c h. worth SOC; Circle
w Coffee 25c h.; Red Mill Coffee, SOC h. Chase < San
boln's Good Fellow Coffee 33c h.; Chase Sanborn's
High Grade Coffee, 40c b. Broken Rice, &c h.. lbs
Blue Rose Rice for BE; Keoggs Toasted Corn Flakes
l0c pkg Post Toses Toe pkg; Best Rolled Oats, DC
b. Cream Lunch Crackers, TO- for l4c b.; Sailed
Soda Crackers, lie b. Dot Oyster Crackers lie b.;
Best Ginger Snaps, 15c h.. Buttery Pantry Cookies,
18c h., and 81 other kinds; Best Cane GRADUATED
Sugar. &C h. in 100 h. bags the very best Bread Flour
S4 88 in one-haf barrel cotton sacks; Swift Co.'S
Pure Silver Leaf Lard, 15c h.; Swift & Co.'S Jewel
Shortening lie b.; Lettuce and Celery, Tups and all
kinds of Vegetables.
Everything but Turkeys for the Thanksgiving din
ner at the table supply house of
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1921-12-08
CANDY

"Whitman's. What more
need We say? The packages are
8s attractive as the contents are
good. Bulk Candy, too.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1921-12-08
TOYS

A new lot Of joy-bringers for
the children. Dolls and games.
All at lower prices. Santa Claus
i'm person presides over the toys.
Narcissus Bulbs in Attractive
Dishes. Baskets, Bargains in
China.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1921-12-08
TOILET GOODS

Powders and Creams, Soaps
Hudnuts Toilet Waters and Elk
tracts in artistic packages.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1921-12-08
T. j. HEALEY
THE CPoCEp

Telephones: so and 51-Call Either Phone
Manchester Depot, Vermont
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1921-12-08
Ethan Allen Coffee

Is just the very best Coffee obtainable. 1t costs
more, goes farther, and when it is made and
right, you have a supreme cup that cannot be e
in any other blend.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-04-02
that nothing short Of an act of con-

that nothing short Of an act of con-
gress will be sufficient to break them
away from their sources Of private
graft. 1t is charged, with what appears
to be the fullest justification, that
nearly billion dollars are now being
taken from the treasures Of the roads
through manipulation Of contracts
That little consideration was perhaps
an obstacle that Warfeld overlooked
when he was shaping up his purchasing
company.
Now he is coming back to congress
with a request that his company be
given official status. He has presented
to Senator Cummins a plan to create
what is to be known as the National
Railway Service, which in turn will
take over the Delaware corporation and
clothe it with the tremendously impor-
tant power to supervise and regulate
the following features of railroad op.
Grafton: ,
Normal equipment requirements of
each railroad additional equipment to
be leased from the National Railway
Service); Standardization Of equip
ment; useless expenditure incident ia
wasteful competition; a study Of joint
use Of terminals; yards and shop ia
cilities; surplus property not required
in legitimate transportation; cost OF
carrying purchase of fuel and supplies;
application of a standard Of efficiency
in railroad operations; working condi'
lions and wages.
The organization proposed by. War
field is so complicated that it cannot
be adequately discussed in a newspaper
article. It's general idea, however, will
be gathered from the salient points
emphasized. It is another Of thos,
prodigies that spring perenially from,
the brains Of men who know what they
want and how to secure it.
If the Wartield plan is approved
there will he another period Of promise
and hope, to be followed by another
crash. Finally, after the quack doc
tors have exhausted their panaceas, the
sober minded part of the population
will demand the; only solution Of this
chronic 'problem-government owner.
ship of. the roads and their operation
for service and not for profit.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-04-02

nents is makeshift remedy, that it
does not strike at the real roots of
industrial unrest. What is the cause
Of strikes? The time has come when
we must think in terms of causes,
and subject any suggested remedy to
this criterion: will it helpl solve the
problem of industrial unrest by re-
moving the cause? If it does not it is
worse than futile, it is a positive evil
In that it delays any real settlement
of the problem. and only serves to ir-
ritate the sore of industrial unrest
compulsory arbitration would de-
prive the Workingman of the power
to work out his own destiny and give
that power to small body Of men.
This is not democracy. Our govern
ment might be operated with less
friction If the management of it was
taken out Of the hands of the people
and placed under the control of ex-
perts. We have always believed, how
ever, that democracy means letting
the people work out their own des-
tiny, that the justification of govern
ment is found not so much in ability
as in the increased power and ability
it gives the people in solving their own
problems. Whatever may be said to
be the advantages of compulsory arbi-
trat1on, it certainly can not be said
that industrial democracy is one OF
them. It leads straight to industrial
~autocracy, not democracy.
democracy must come from within
and be the self expression of the
whole working class. 1t can never be
handed down from above and given
to a class deprived of its economic
power and chained to industry under
an economic system that recognizes
1t only as commodity.
1.-THE labor movement is living,
vital thing. To cement it into. one
status decreed by governmental au~
thority is to destroy irretrievably the
whole movement
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-04-02

that permits democracy to function
among his employees.
To say that the company t:union"
will develop into bona fide unionism,
is to say that judges will voluntarily
cease issuing labor injunctions; that
courts will surrender usurped power to
pass on the legality of laws, or that
democracy can function when ballot
box suffers are permitted to count the
votes.
Autocracy in every form is HISTORICAL
ly cunning, resourceful and alert. When
cornered it will use the forms of its
opponents, but never the spirit. 1t will
give the shadow but not the substance.
1t will profess to yield, but yields moth
ing until compelled to.
Nowhere in history has autocracy
surrendered power, but there are count
less instances where men have been
tricl1ed into believing it would.
The company "union' is intended
to drug the workers.
There can be no democracy, when a
string is tied to it.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-04-02
College Boys Strip Anti-Strike Sophistrv

In a joint debate between teams rep
resenting Princeton and California
universities on anti-strike legislation,
the Californians, who opposed the
plan, showed that anti-strike advo-
Gates offer nothing but we'll wishes to
workers who have lost their rights.
The question was: Resolved, that
congress should pass laws prohibiting
strikes in essential industries
The claim that fair wage will re-
place labor's right to strike, was rid
died by California, who was declared
victor in the contest.
What is a fair wage?" asked the
westerners. ''Without an answer to
this question the whole plan resolves
itself into one of mere platitudes and
generalities. We have analysed the
reports of many wage adjustment
boards In an effort to find any state
ment which defines a living wage
with any degree of accuracy. We have
found none. In most Of the decisions
the judge has frankly admitted the
impossibility of giving a wage award
upon any scientific basis. Judge AL
schiller says: Budgets are of very
little assistance. all rejecting the
point of view of those who compiled
Them
THE proponents of this law, before
they have established a semblance OF
case, must show that it is desirable
to change the labor movement from
one of vital dynamic growth to one of
static repose: Impossible of sdetermin-
alton, with no basic economic assump-
ton for either a living wage as q minj-
mum or a fair. wage as a maximum,
how will, the commission, be able to
guarantee the workman a. fair ~ex-
change for depriving him: Of the
strike. The enactment Of this law
would only take from labor its only
effective weapon and give it nothing
in return.
I'VE have pointed out continually
that. the plan presented by our oppo-
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-04-02
BREAKING CONTRACTS,

The nationwide fight the anti,
unionists are making against labor il
one of the tragedies growing out of
the war; The fine work done by the
A. F. of l.. unions during the war has
been forgotten, while those who coined
dollars out Of that awful conflict are
engaged in an effort to destroy the
very organizations Of labor that solidi
fed the American workers and brought
them staunchly behind the government
In Duluth the matter of wage re-
auctions is but an excuse to force the
"open shop:'' No union has refused
to take a reduction, but all have re-
fused to 60 back to pre-war conditions
They insist that they shall be given 9
voice in determining the wage scale
to obtain in each trade:' The con
tractors, bound by an agreement they
made with the ''open shop' crowd
:havc refused to confer with their union
employees.
One branch Of building contractors
the plasterers. have actually broker
their agreement with the union. That
agreement was indeterminate and could
only be altered, amended or abrogated
on 80 days. notice. The agreement
contains such a clause. When the
union, during the war, asked for ar
increase in wages, 90 days notice was
given to the contractors. When the
contractors concluded to abrogate the
agreement the union was given less
than so days. notice.
What does union contract amount
to when the employers have the upper
hand such as they have when employ
ment is scarce? They are mere scraps
Of paper. The autocrats of industry
who deny democracy therein are nc
different in their methods than that
political autocrat now an exile in Hol
land, who some Of the American papers
are attempting to restore to popular
favor by publishing his co1ored account
of the war and the conditions leading
up to it.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-04-02
NATURALIZATION OF MINES,

In our Old schOol biographies 1T was
called Bohemia. 1t was a part Of the
Austro- Hungarian empire then. Now
it is the republic Of Czecho-Slovakia
and in many respects it is the brightest
spot on the map Of Central Europe.
While its neighbors have been vast
ing their substance on wars and the
maintenance of ambitious military es-
Establishments, Czecho.slovakia has been
minding it's own business, laying the
foundations Of representative democ-
racy and quietly developing plan for
naturalization Of essential industries.
A bill to nationalize the mines has
been placed before parliament. It con-
tains many interesting features.
The mines, as we'll as the enterprises
pertaining to them, such as plants for
the manufacture Of coke and natural
dyes, are to be mathematical.
The owners of the properties are to
be Unidentified in the following man
ner: Properties with value Of 500, 900
crowns or less will be paid for in full.
The indemnity on properties valued at
more than 100000 will be reduced by
5 per cent as the value increases by
100000 crowns, so that enterprises val
ued at 100000 crowns will be indem-
niied only by IS per cent Of their real
value. Owners whose confscated prop
erty exceeds that sum will be indemni-
fed to 50 per cent Of its value. These
! indemnities will be paid by the state
over period Of so years.
The mines will be managed by two
administrative organs-a mining coun-
Gil and general management coun,
Gil. The mining council will be com.
posed of IS members, IS being selected
by the employees, Is by the consumers,
Is by parliament, and 10 by the min
istry of public works.
The general management council will
be the real executive board and will
be composed Of members. Two thirds
Of them will be selected by the mining
council and must be members of the
mining council.
This executive board of nine mem
| bers will carry out the policies outlined
by the mining council, which will have
complete power to control the entire
industry.
1t will be seen that this plan is a
near approach to the scheme for gov
crnment ownership and democratic con-
troll advocated by railroad workers in
this country. .->
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-04-02
"DEMOCRACY'' WITH STRING.

After violating their agreement with
employees and the government, the meat
packers assume virtuous pose and
announce that they have established
"industrial democracy in their plants
The plan is the usual company
"union Joint committees, represent.
ing employees and employer, with the
latter controlling the former. The en-
ployyes will vote secretly for their rep,
rescntatlvcs, but every petty boss, su.
perintendent and manager will see that
the 'right'' candidates are nominated
If the packers favored democracy
they would permit employees to organ
ize trade unions and recognize trade
union representatives.. Instead, they
set up machinery that they can control
and their publicity agents dub the
scheme industrial democracy.
1t is possible that future opposition
to organized labor will take this form
Industrial autocrats and their advisers
are realizing that the "open'' shot
sham has lost it's charm 50 they start
counter movements that have the
shadow Of democracy, but not the sub
stance.
The plan is smoother than avowed
hostility to trade unions. 1t is what
is known in business circles as E'slick. -
1t does not arouse the resentment
caused by cossacks, gun men and the
injunction judge. It permits autocracy
to capitalize popular phrases, a trick
of it's political agents and editors, and
substitutes chloroform for brute force.
The company "union' lacks the first
democratic essential, because it is boss
controlled. Its purpose is to- perpet-
uate the employer 3 power. If this
We're not the employers object he
would recognize the one institution
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-04-02
LIVING COMING DOWN?

Living cost coming down; decrease
of T.; per cent in Duluth from De-
ccmber | to March H. Such were
the head lines OF an article appearing
in the Duluth Evening Herald Tues
day evening last on a statement given
out by the Ninth Federal Reserve bank
of Minneapolis.
According to the statement the prices
at retail Of food, clothing, rents, fuel
and light and gas, the chief necessi.
ties of life, were reduced to consum-
crs during the three-month period just
7.3 per cent in Duluth. In Minneapo-
lis there was reduction of lis and
in St. Paul per cent.
The Federal Reserve bank is man
aged by conservative men. They keep
in close touch with the financial, in
dustrial and business life and activ-
tiles of the three states comprising the
Ninth district. Their statement as to
facts cannot be ignored or denied with
out proof.
Where did the Duluth Builders Ex-
change get its figures that prices had
fallen here so per cent? They were
manufactured figures given out to JUS
tify a reduction in wages Of 90 per
cent to building workers.
Has sympathy, justice and reason de-
parted from public opinion in Duluth
In view Of the statement given out by
the Federal Reserve bank how can any
person justify a 20 per cent reduction
in wages at this time?
Wages followed advancing price:
during the war. Now it is proposed
that they shall prccede falling prices.
1t is expected that labor shall take
the loss coming and going.
Here we have the Commercial club
endorsing legislation that will give
higher rates to the local traction COM
pany. 1t lends silent approval to the
proposal to increase the salaries of
public officials. It endorses plan to
increase school taxes, but it and its
allies encourage this cruel and ruth
less movement of contract breaking
employers to reduce the wages Of the
building workers 20 per cent.
Was there ever anything more un-
fair? We have stated time and again
that the trade unions have not said
they will refuse reduction in wages
when reductions in the cost Of living
warrant such, but they must have some
thing to say as to the amount Of the
reduction they will take, just as the
employers have an equal voice with
labor in determining increases in
wages.
Autocratic business is sitting on 4
powder key, and if it does not know
now it will learn when it is perhaps
too late. There is another day coming
and when it does come there will be
retaliation such as will make us all
tremble
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-04-02
WHEN KANSAS NO STRIKE
LAW" DOES NOT APPLY

The Santa Fe railroad has dis
charged over 500 shop employees in
this city and the Kansas Trades
Unionist says:
j.. Had this number of men decided
that they were underpaid, and quit
their jobs, the state industrial court
and its attaches would have rushed
wildly to the newspapers3along with
our open mouth governor, to tell
the world what was going to happen
to these men for leaving their jobs,
the same as they did when the miners
of district No. IA, who had gone on
strike for and did make the mine
operators pay some 5000 which they
this amount coming to him for work
done in the mines. In this case, as
with the Santa Fe railroad, this court
will tell you they have no jurisdic-
ton.
I'VE acknowledge that this state
has no more right to tell the en-
ployer that he must keep more men
employed than he needs than it has
the right to chain a man to his
job.
1.-THE law of the state tells this in
dustrious' court that it shall guard
the public welfare, and one Of the
things incorporated in this wonderful
law is that the employer must con-
suit the court before it reduces its
force Here is corporation laying
off men and it has not shortage
of work, but the reverse is the true
situation. In the Topeka yards, TAX
ing up trackage space from here to
Tecumseh, is more than 1,40O bad
order freight cars and some 30 pas
senger coaches
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-04-02
. GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP.

When the American people begi1
to think clearly on the railroad prob
lem, they will demand that the rail
roads be taken over and operated by
the railroads, William Gibbs Meade
recently declared. This is the only
course that will stop the RAILROADS
wading into the federal treasury fol
all they can get.''
Going from bad to worse, the carrier!
cannot be saved by the Cummins-Escl
bill, which Mr.. McAdoo says is tn:
"greatest piece Of bunk' ever per
petrated on the American people. In
sidious propaganda disseminated by tho
railway managers sought to discredi1
federal operation, and succeeded so wei
that congress was able to enact tbs
most distressing laws in the interest;
Of the roads and to the detriment Of
the people.
The prediction is made that during
the next few months the railroad prob
lem will assume commanding impor
lance in political discussion. When il
is clearly established that private own
ership is impossible and destructive
the logical next step will be govern
mept ownership. Then, and not until
then, can the nation hope for any per
manent prosperity.
Efforts to make the workers assume
the full burden of railroad inefficiency
is denounced by Mr.. McAdoo. Public
opinion, if intelligently formed, would
not consent to reduction Of wages
until the wages Of capital are also re-
duced. He regards the guaranty pro
vision of the transportation act as per
haps its most Objectionable feature and
is sure that it is going to force a reac'
ton that will upset all the fine plans
of railway managers for the extension
of their opportunities for loot.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-04-02
:R..R. ISSUES ORDER TO
EMPLOY NO white MEN

Officials of the Phoenix division Of
the Atchison. Topeka & Santa Fee
railroad have ordered section and
gang foremen to cease employing
white men.
This logical development of the So
called american plan" is found in
Circular No. 629, which notifies fore.
men:
when you need men for your gang.
write the Home Supply company.
railroad mail, addressed to them at
Prescott, Ariz.: tell them how many
men your gang is allowed; how many
men you need Estate whether single
Or men with families fanted) and
state where you want these men sent.
when man is discharged or
quits, the Home Supply company
nshould be notified Immediately, Civ
ing the mans name and the date he
quits or is discharged.
"Relative to using white men on
sections, please be advised that any
white men now in the service will be
allowed to remain in the service, but
under no consideration should any
more white men be hired by you,
even if you are authorized by tho
Home Supply company to hire men
for your section.
"These instructions appear to be
very definite and concise but they
must be followed closely. Failure to
comply entirely and exactly with
these instructions will result in Sc
we're discipline to the foreman con-
cerned."
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-04-02
PROTECTED PROTITEERS.

The other day the United States
district attorney walked into the fed,
eral court in Boston and announced
that he wanted to quash indictments
against Earl D. Babst and several d.
rectors of the American Sugar Refining
Co., which is the legal name of the
sugar trust.
It developed in the course of the
hearing that, although the indictments
had been returned by a grand jury
almost a year ago, and were based on
the charge that the trust had violated
the Lever law by compelling its Gus
toners to pay 201@ cents a pound for
sugar which cost 8 cents, not hint of
the proceedings had been permitted to
reach the public.
When asked why these wealthy prof.
teers, who had robbed the people Of
tens Of millions of dollars, had been
handled so tenderly, the district attor-
ney said ''publicity had not been given
to the indictments because the depart
ment of justice had explicitly directed
that they be held up
They were "held up'' until the su-
preme court had conveniently declared
the Lever act unconstitutional. But
there was no "holding up when the
same law was being used to shackle
labor and there was no attempt on the
part Of the department Of justice to
curtail publicity.
Now Mr.. Palmer has opened law
office in New York We wonder if
the sugar trust will be among his
cientss .u.-.. j.. .@&s. +
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-04-02

Constant demand for the union
label, card and button means ultimate
success for. our movement.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-04-02

President Harding cries out against.
early criticism Of his administration.
#, a few pointless barbs get1under his
skin, what will his epidermis be like
when the anvil chorus gets into aetionf'
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-04-02

Some politicians still 5 regard the
tariff: as cure for All our; ills and
some people still believe in witches. ...s
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-04-02

Mr.. Atterbury, it now develops, was
merely bubble on an; ocean Of rail
road thought. ],