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The labor world., 1922-09-30
THAT TEAPOT DOME GRAB.

Charges by Independent senators
that the Teapot Dome oil grab Sc
cretly engineered in April by secre.
taries Fall and DENLY was a Stand
ard Oil coup toward complete monop-
oily Of the petroleum industry in the
. United States, are substantiated this
week by quarter-page advertisement
in the New York Times, offering $685.
10000 worth of bonds in the Sinclair
Pipe Line company. The principal
sales argument of J. s. Manion, presi-
dent Of the Sinclair Pipe Line COM
pany, follows:
"Tho Standard Oil company Of In
diana has contracted to purchase, for
over '$16, 100000 in cash, one-half Of
the outstanding stock Of the Sinclair
Pipe Line company = Based on
the price at which the Standard Oil
company Of Indiana will purchase
one-half interest in the Sinclair Pipe
Line company, the capital stock rep
resents an equity Of more than $32,-
100000 over and above these bonds.''
The, full facts regarding the Tea
pot Dome deal were not only kept Sc
cret by the government, but were
The labor world., 1922-09-30
SACREDNESS OF PROFIT
IS TAKEN FOR GRANTED

when our. former attorney gem
era1, Mr.. Havner, says the coal own
ers must be made good for their
losses, multitude Of people. will
take it for granted that he is right
and pay the advanced price for coal
without so much as asking how it
happens that the coal owners are in
position to make themselves good"
says the Des Moines Evening Tribune
in a leading editorial.
"A farmer is hit by hail storm,
but he is not able to say that he
must be made good by raising the
price. "/
"A worker is thrown out of en-
ploymept all summer, but he is not
able to say that his lost time must
be made up to him.
But let anything happen to steel,
or oil, or coal, or California fruit,
or tobacco, or sugar, or to any of a
lot Of the commn things, and i'm
mediately everybody gets ready for
higher prices,
1T is an interesting query, why
We take it for granted that in one
case the man must expect to pocket
his loss. while in the other we ac-
tually become worried for fear the
money invested in the business will
not be kept good in profits"
The labor world., 1922-09-30
THE COMMUNITY FUND.

"No one in the city can afford not
to help his more unfortunate fellow.
man,
With this motto in mind, about 500
volunteer men and women win start
out Oct. 10 to raise the money nc.
cessary to maintain the % charitable
and welfare organizations Of Duluth
for the coming year.
The whole city's heart will be
opened at that time to the great needs
Of these splendid institutions which
are doing everything in their power
to relieve suffering, shelter the home
less and make better citizens.
The money collected at this time
will be divided among the following
in monthly installments: Aftenro So
ciety, Americanization committee, As
sociated Charities, Bethany home, Hu-
name society, Milk Fund of Federated
Teachers association, Free Dispen-
sary, Linnaea society, st. Mary's hos
pital, st. Luke's hospital, Y. M. G.
A., Y. w. G. A., United Jewish So
cial Agencies, st. Anne's home, BIZ
reau of United Catholic Charities,
Goodwill Industries, Bethel society,
Light House, Public Health associa-
tion, Occupational Therapy, Home Bu-
reau, st. James orphanage and Girl
Scouts.
Every amount given to the Com
munity Fund for these organizations,
no matter how small it may be, will
be appreciated and the donors may
feel assured that every cent will be
spent efficiently and economically and
will do much to help the unfortunate.
All these organizations in the Com
munity Fund have been investigated,
their budgets Of expenditures been
checked and have received the en-
dorsement Of the committees of the
Fund. All are worthy institutions and
should be supported by the public of
Duluth.
The Community Fund gives every
one in the city, whether merchant,
housewife or laboring man, an oppor-
tunity to give. at one time to help
those who are in need, as every gift
goes directly to those who are in need
Of help.
The orphans and aged persons who.
have no home, the sick who have no
money for medical attention, the
tubercular, the families who have no
funds to keep them from freezing or
starving, the blind and handicapped,
arc all calling fer 1hslp from these %
organizationA A Agift to the Commu-
nifty Fund allows these institutions
to "carry on. - +
The labor world., 1922-09-30
, Z
JOHN P.EREY WRITES
= =. BOOK ON INJUNCT|ONS

y John P. Frey's magnificent work
entitled, "Injunctions - Whence,
Why. What For?" will be issued in
book form, ready for distribution
within week or two. ~
Frey's articles ran through the
American labor press during the
spring and d~early summer and Gre
-ated a profound impression. Publi-
cation Of this series OF, articles was
one of the first achievements of the
International Labor News Service
which made possible their simul-
taneous. publication throughout the
country. :.--.=.tz-r. . =
Frey has elaborated upon those
articles, adding to them and per-
fecting them. =, r. -" - !. g..
The book will contain what prob
ably will be the most complete pre-
sentation available Of injunctions
used in labor disputes, including the
recent Daugherty Injunction. 4
The book will serve as an au-
thoritative explanation of the in
Jupctton, its source, its scope, its
false basis and its trespass upon
law. and it will serve as q veritable
encyclopedias and reference work.
America has had nothing like it.
In an excellent, durable binding,
printed on good paper, the book will
sell at $3.50. Those who desire COPS
ies- may secure them direct from
John Frey, Lock Box $50. Gin
cinnati, Ohio. For that amount the
book will be mailed postpaid,
The labor world., 1922-09-30
GET READY TO COUGH UP.

The coal operators say that the
consumers will be the chief losers in
the coal strike settlement.
We haven't any doubt of that-but
we should say it is something the op-
orators would do we'll not to crow
about.
Undoubtedly, if they cannot squeeze
some more profits out Of their work
ers, by reducing wages, they will try
to squeeze some more profits out Of
the consuming public by raising
prices.
But it isn't going to help them any
to brag about it. The public might
get onto the facts Of the situation.
The public might get spunky and in
sist upon the public ownership and
operation of the coal mines.
For tho public can do that thing
whenever it wants to. A general pub
lie demand for the permanent public
ownership and operation Of the mines
would compel the authorities at Wash.
ington to take them over for good.
And that is what will have to be
done before the consuming public will
get any app.eciable relief from the
high cost Of coal. The cost Of coal is
one Of the prices the consumers pay
for their stupidity in electing 70 pub
lie office men who are pledged to the
maintenance Of private ownership Of
the basic industriea.
The labor world., 1922-09-30
1.-THE KING FORBIDs.n

Listen to the news from Memphis.
Jacob Cohen, editor of the Memphis
Labor News, wrote an editorial about
scabs. He wrote it before the Daugh-
erty injunction was issued.
But Cohen was arrested. He has
been sentenced to- serve six months
in prison and to pay a fine Of $1,000.
The district attorney says that Cohen
was prosecuted under local injunc-
tion, but anyhow he has been SEN
fenced to prison for violating an in
junction by the publication of a news
paper editorial expressing an opinion
about scabs.
Gold V. Sanders, editor Of the
Memphis Press, of the scripps McRae
League Of papers, published the edi-
torial that sent Cohen to Jail.
Now Sanders has been arrested.
Both editors were charged, in the
citation, with holding the federal
courts up to ridicule.
The editorial in question denounced
scabs in rather emphatic terms, ex-
ercising what was believed to be a
constitutional right Of freedom Of the
press.
They didn't believe that it was un-
lawful or unconstitutional to say that
scabs were "industrial scavengers"
and "economic degenerates.
When Cohen was arrested the Mem
phis Press, published an editorial en-
titled, "rhe King Forbids." And
that is exactly what happened.
The king had forbidden. Memphis,
according to the map, is in the United
Statas. But the constitution, it seems,
applies only in spots.
The labor world., 1922-09-30
THE WHOLE GOVERNMENT.

Attorney General Daugherty, in one
of his numerous attempted. alibis for
his injunction and his anti-union ex-
pressions before Judge Wilkerson, de-
clared that "samue1 Gompers has cri-
ticised the government Of the United
States" ~.
That is a statement that can not be
sustained by the record. It is all
against the attorney general and in
favor Of Mr.. Gompers.
President Gompers has not criti-
cised the government. He has, how
ever, taken sharp issue with lobby
lists and secret agents for big business
who are so often placed in high po-
litical position and who then imagine
they: are. the go6ernpent.
To criticise any office holder is a
far different proposition from criti-
cising this government, cot, by and
for, the people. go
Mr.. Daugherty is not the govern
ment:: His office is one Of the divi-
sions Of the executive branch Of the
government, which consists of two
other branches, the legislative and the
judicial. All together they represent
the government, but not Mr.. Daugh-
erty or his division alone. \
The attorney general assumes TOO
much when he charges that criticism
Of his course and conduct is q 'criti-
cism Of the government Of the United
States" Surely we have not retufhed
to the days when the king can do
no wronR.n
The labor world., 1922-09-30
A FAIR DECISION.

The principle Of the profiteer and
the religion Of Wall street is to drive
the wedge Of ':Profit'' between
wages going into an article Of manu-
facture and the cost Of that commod-
ity to the public. That wedge forces
down wages and forces up prices.
OF course the public suffers from
this operation, but labor is squeezed
both ways. Instead Of the wedge Of
"profit" we need and must event.
ually have, the medium Of Service. (
Wall streets cry is pure selfishness
GA limit to wages and no limit to
profits' Wall street has the dollar
e . I'll ~ - 2 ! E +
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largely suppressed by the daily press.
The proposal for an investigation by
the government resulted in the ap-
pointment of a committee, but little
work has yet been done. In it's issue
of June 10, 1922, The Labor World
said Of the proposed investigation:
''The deal will be Investigated to
death. The cat will be killed with but
ter. Truckloads of data will come from
the office of the secretary of the in
terror to the senate committee. The
conservation policy will be replaced
by a conversation policy. Meantime
Standapl Oil will have buried its oc-
topus feelers into the ground far
enough and long enough to suck out
the petroleum.
Apparently Standard Oil is doing
its utmost to get its "octopus feel
ers" into the ground as quickly as
possible. Its $16,00O,OOO cash invest
ment, which is revealed by the COM
pany's letter., is to be supplemented
by $25,oOo,ooo capital to be. raised by
the public.
Apparently a congressional investi-
CATION does not worry the oil people
and only constitutes an incentive to
hurry the process Of cleaning out the
great oil supply reserved to the Unit
ed States government by Roosevelt,
a conservation policy now completely
shattered.
The labor world., 1922-09-30
WALL STREET PROFIT POLICY IS
Dealt BODY BL OW BY ENGINEERS
Report Of Work kPerods Comm tee Declares Better and More
Production May Be Had In Eight Hours in Steel Plants.

ing good relations in industry-co-
operated with the American engi-
neering council. The field Of the sur
xey included practically every indus
try in the country that operates con-
tinu0usly "a hours a day.
AS presented, it consisted practi-
cally of two reports. One inquiry
was directed by Bradley Stoughton
of New York. former secretary Of
the American Institute of Mining
and Metallurgical Engineers. and
former adjunct professor of metal
lurgy at Columbia university. This
embraced the steel and iron indus
try of the country. The other inquiry
was directed by Horace B. Drury. a
widely noted economist, industrial
investigator and former member of
the faculty of Ohio State university.
This was described as general sur
vey of all continuous industries. with
regard to the comparative results of
two-shift and three-shift operation.
DR.. Howe's associates on the work.
periods committee were J. Parks
Charming of New York, one of the
leading mining engineers in the
country and a large figure in the
copper world, being vice president of
Miami Copper company and associ-
ated with Adolph lewiston & Sons,
one of the big copper groups of the
country; L. P. Afford Of New York:
Fred J. Miller and Dwight T. Farm
ham of New York; Morris +. Cooke
Of Philadelphia. industrial engineer
and investigator, and L. w. Wallace
of Washington, the executive secre-
tary Of the American Engineering
Council.
The labor world., 1922-09-30
Wall STREETS. SOVIET
BY j. M. BAER,

The Ex-Congressman Cartoonist.
From among the numerous yelps
which emanated from the late de-
ceased "open" shop movement, was
one howling about Minority Rule"
Now we have it. A majority in
both houses of the United States
congress passed the bonus bill. The
president vetoed the bill.lIt was sent
back to congress; the house over
rode the veto by a vote f,258 to 81:
but the senate upheld the president
by vote of ~ to 2S. cit requires a
two thirds vote to pass a bill over
the presidents veto.)
'Tis true the senate has refused to
override the presidents veto before
in history, but this was SO delib-
crate, so well planned and plotted,
that it is significant. The members
of congress who are up for re-elec-
ton wanted an opportunity to go
on record for the bonus,t but the bill
would never have been allowed to
go on the floor of the house by the
leaders if they had thought there
was any show IF its passing.
A little group of leaders who aHo
radically reactionary form a minor
lty group to block all legislation for
the benefit of the people az a whole,
the soldier, the farmer and labor in
particular. They are class-conscious.
self-seeking and serve selfish inter-
ests. They had better, be called the
Soviet of Wall Street.
This Soviet of Wall Street can
muster and manipulate under the
guise Of party loyalty" to pass any
bill Wall Street wants. It passed the
Cummins-Esch bill which guarantees
a six per cent profit to one class
namely capital.
It passed a tariff to protect the
profiteers.
1t has figured out another bonus
for the shipping trust and wants it
passed at a special session.
It appropriated billions for the
grating war profiteerss
It voted away about all the ma
tural resources that are left in the
oil leasing bill. In fact, it has given
special privilege monopoly on
everything but the wind and now it
would like to pass a law to enslave
labor and to force it to develop these
resources.
o shame! Did the founders of our
great nation ever think that this
wonderful-government would rest in
the hands of selfish minority? II
It is a soviet of Wall Street now.
But not long.
Register, -'ote and then watch the
election returns!
The labor world., 1922-09-30
OIL COMPANY DECLARES
200 PER CENT DIVIDEND

The Gulf oil corporation an
nounces that it will distribute a 200
per cent stock dividend as part of
a. plan for ''readjusting its capital,
ization."
This means that instead of giving
stockholders 200 peri cent profit,
new stock will be issued which Will
increase the capitalization from $780,
900, 900 to $120,000,000. Then, if OBJ
jections is made to the high price
Of oil in the future the company
can claim that its profits only pro-
vide a fair return" for it's capital
iZatiOn.
The labor world., 1922-09-30
LABoR's CREDIT aooD!. .

Why was the United Mine Work.
ers Of America able to borrow $780,
900 early in July from the Hartman
National bank without collateral Sc
curity, and $150,00O from other banks
in order to tide them over the coal
strike?
Because, as stated by Harry B. Ro-
sen, a director of the bank, "the in
tegrity Of 100000 miners and their
families, contend, is equal in credit
to the wealth Of Rockefeller" and
because Gin the history of banking
not penny has ever been lost through
loan to organized labor"
eff they should come into this Of
flee again and want $5,ooo,ooo they
could have it in an hour" he added.
The loan from the Hartman bank
was obtained on the personal notes
of John L. Lewis, president; P. H.
Murray, vice president, and William
Green, secretary-treasurer, Of the
United Mine Workers of America.
With the 100000 in the miners
treasury and the $25O,OO0 borrowed
from the banks, the twenty weeks
fight cost the national body $500
When the mines are open and running
the income of the national organiza-
tion runs from $2,5oo,oo0 to $3,Ooo,OOo
a year. 49,.
How long could the United Mine
Workers maintain their strike at the
rate Of $95o,ooo for twenty weeks
with credit Of $5,ooo,ooo available
at an hours notice in one bankg
Arithmetic answers more than two
years!
The labor world., 1922-09-30
A BANKER EXPOSES KELLOGG.

Senator Frank B. kellogg is seek
.ng reelection and he is telling the
farmers that he is their friend.
Now comes John F. Sinclair Of Min
acapolis, successful banker, but clear,
progressive thinker, to puncture Kel-
logg's pretensions.
Sinclair tells how Kellogg destroyed
the Norris bill.
This bill, presented by Norris of
Nebraska, provided that the federal
government should relieve the agri-
cultural situation by purchasing and
exporting farm products. The scheme
was to sweep aside the middleman
and deal with the farmer, giving him
every penny Of profit that accrued
from the transaction.
The bill was before the senate with
good prospects of passage, when the
lily Kellogg stepped in and presented
substitute. The substitute provided
that the government should assist the
bankers, not the farmers.
What was the result of the switch?
Sinclair, the banker, who understands
finance, explains:
cit did not make less debts and
ess interest to the farmer. If any
hing, it resulted in more debts and
more interest.
"I think it is streach herous that the
farmers are getting IS and so cents
for wheat, while the government,
through the War Finance Corpora
ton, acting under the terms of the
Kellogg bill, has been assisting the
big banks to unload their frozen
:rcdits.
Will the farmers of this state re-
elect Frank B. Kellogg in the face of
that indictments? If they do they
will be entitled to what Kellogg will
hand them for the next six years,
which will be whatever the big cor
,rations Of this country may sug-
,,st.
The labor world., 1922-09-30
ANOTHER WAR THREATENS,

Humanity is facing another world
war. Why'
Instead Of attempting to give an
! .nSwcr to that all-important question
/ hid newspapers fill their columns with
4 shocking stories of atrocities -
titles lootedr children butchered, wo-
mep outraged. But you can't have
/ war without atrocities any more than
YOU can have pneumonia without
fever.
The ruler Of the world-the kings,
the politicians, the bankers, the dip
lomats-like to have the press de-
vote itself to atrocities at a time
like Fthis in the hope that the people
viii be so Mortified by the gruesomo
| Sxales that they will forget to ask en-
barrassing questions.
- What's back Of this row in the vi
cinity of the Dardanelles? What g
the issue between the Greeks and the
Turks and between the Turks and
The Allies-Great Britain, France and
[taly9
It's long tale, but it can be boiled
70 aown to few paragraphs,
The primary cause is the struggle
between the financiers of Great Bri-
tain, France and Italy for control of
tho tremendous natural resources in
the territory formerly governed by
the Sultan.
. The three nations named agreed on a
livision Of the spoils when they signed
tie Treaty Of Sevres, after the Great
War, but the bankers Of Franco and
Italy complained that their diplomats
mad been out-gcneralcd by the Brit
ishcrs, and they attempted hy devious
. methods to :oree q new deal.
The Turkis', National;sts were en-.
eonragea ~tc ffiiShs the Greeks and to
DEFY the British With the understand.
ing that if they won the French Anl
italian bankers would set the con
LESSONS they wanted. The Greeks were
urged OH by the British because their
success meant protection Of British
interests. -
The munitions makers of Europe
and America reaped a harvest. They
impartially supplied Christians and
IMoslems with the engines Of DEATH.
Us The Greek defeat has become q
trout. The Turkish Nationalists, intoxi
Z Gated by their success, are pressing
Con Constantinople. The British are
digging in.~ France, alarmed, pleads
for peace. The Soviets may place
millions Of Slavs back Of the Turks
sThe world is facing an appalling
Scrisis.
SS And all because international bank
ers could not agree upon a division Ct
a 33concessions and because civilization
The labor world., 1922-09-30

tolerates the munitions makers damn
able trade.
The thing may be patched DIP. Prob
ably the youth Of the world will not
be sent to the trenches tomorrow, but
they will go eventually unless men
and women everywhere seriously ad-
dress themselves to the task of de-
stroying the causes of war.
The labor world., 1922-09-30
so close to its eye that it can't see

so close to its eye that it can't see
beyond.
The Wall street idea has permeated
industry. It is failing, it is sickening
men. The swing the other way has be-
gun. Wall street feels it and 'cries
"Wolf.'
Organized labor wants fair de-
cision, because it is not interested in
either a French revolution or, Rus
sian debacle. It wants perpetuation Of
American democracy. It is building
for humanity as a whole, not for the
God of Profits.
The labor world., 1922-09-30
PLAN TO SAVE LIVES.

Judge Gary, of the steel trust, is
chairman of group of business men
and others who will inaugurate a
safety week from October 8 to IA.
ITO save a human life is worth
striving for" said Chairman Gary,
whose steel mills still force a large
percentage of its employees to labor
IL hours a day.
The labor world., 1922-09-30
READ THEM and WEEP

Senator Watson of Georgia: We
are going to lend or give $5,0OO,O0O
to $4,000 negroes in Liberia. I would
rather give it to the negroes in Wash
ington City. I would rather give it
to the negroes in Alabama or the
negroes in Georgia, whose needs for
it are much greater. In Liberia the
negro does not have to wear any
thing in particular, except, perhaps,
a pleasing expression of countenance.
He can live on the natural products
of the soil. lie does not have to build
a house to live in unless he, wants
to put on style. He can live on the
broad bosom of nature and draw his
nourishment from it as child would
from the bosom Of its mother.-Con-
gressional Record.
The labor world., 1922-09-30

Some men are almost human and
others are more human than they
ought to be. .sls.z
The labor world., 1922-09-30
HOD CARRIERS ON STRIKE.

HOD CARRIERS ON STRIKE.
Trenton. N. j.. Sept. 14.-Several
contractors are facing a strike Of
hod carriers because of refusal to
pay the 'going'' rate of s7k cents
an hour.
The labor world., 1922-09-30

The alleged achievements Of this
administration remind me of Pony
Mopps. Pony was a candidate for
president of the town board in his
village on {. platform of normalcy,
prosperity, and many reforms. At
the end of a year he announced he
had made the following reforms:
A talked-of swimming pool.
New courthouse steps contemplate
ed.
A reduction of taxes in the back
ground.
Four new lamp posts proposed.
A budget system suggesteh+
A party split almost ironed. out
Congressman Thomas in the Con-
gressional Record.
A Lawyers Motto.
I once heard an able attorney die
tate reply to a threatening tele-
gram, using the words, "Let litiga-
ton thrive, lawyers must be ,fed."-
(Letter-of G.. L. Holmes to Rep. 'Ra-
ker, introduced in committee on
mines.) 80
The labor world., 1922-09-30

House Concurrent Resolution 66:
Resolved by the house Of representa-
tives (the senate concurring), That
the architect of tie capitol be, and
he is hereby, authorized and direct
ed to make a. contract for the ex-
termination and Punishment of in
sects from the house office building,
the capitol, and the senate office
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Record. IAN
Impeachment proceeding that
Worked.)