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The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-12-09
|. w. w. GAINING MOMENTUM
AMONG THE RAILROADS

The general convention now assem-
bled in Chicago went on record in fa-
vor of placing a general railroad or
ganizer in Chicago and vicinity. 1t
also voted to recommend to all indus
trial unions to contribute or lend what
financial aid there is in their power
to the railroad workers industrial UNI
ion in order to enable it to make a
successful membership drive in the
railroad industry.
The Importance of these decisions
can be realized only by reading the
Nov. issue of The Railroad Workers
Bulletin. published by Railroad Work,
ers' Industrial Union No. $40, of the
Industrial Workers Of the World. This
bulletin publishes letters from railroad
workers all over the country. from
New York to California, reflecting the
existence of favorable |. w. w senti-
ment among railroad workers. Indus
trial Solidarity.
The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-12-09
PLUTE PRESS LYING
AS THEY USUALLY ARE

Labor-hating papers are publishing
articles alleging that Il. W. W. mem
bers are passing through Sacramento
in large numbers. en- route for Fresno,
where a convention of the organiza-
ton will be held, and rumors of a
reign of terror by radicals are reach
ing the local police, who are exercising
the utmost vigilance to prevent any
disturbance.
Needless to say these "rumors' are
purely inventive, a product of a re-
porter's lying imagination. We know
of no such movement of our members
here. We are aware of the great ar.
my of unemployed that is roaming
around the country in search of mas
ter.
Gunner are moving in the direction.
of Fresno, hired by the Southern Cal
ifornia Edison Co. and the S. P. Rail-
road. Industrial Solidarity.
The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-12-09
GARMENT WORKERS ORGANIZE
COOPERATIVE SOCIETY

A hundred thousand dollar cooper
alive garment factory, with stock to
be held only by union members. is be-
ing organized BY the Cleveland locals
Of the International Ladies Garment
Workers Union. Unlike most produc-
tive co-operatives, the union co-opera-
tive plans to share its profits with the
purchaser Of cooperative goods. I'm
ion officials in charge of the organic
alton of the factory announce that the
company will make medium-priced
cloaks, suits, and dresses for wage
earning women. Workers in the coop
erative shop will be paid slightly above
those paid in organized shops in the
city!
In the face Of probable, strike in
the garment industry in this city on
January LIST, when the present agree
ment with the Manufacturers Associa-
ton expires. the union intends to care
for any locked-out members in Coop
erative factories. The union is putting
up stiff fight to prevent the return
Of sweatshop conditions in the private
shons. and'will prove to the employers
and the public that it can run good
factory at higher wages and sell gar
ments Of good style at lower price.
Although this is not the first CO.
operative TO be organized by a gar
ment union in this country, the Cleve-
land organization is the first to set up
a ladies garment factory.
The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-12-09
PICTURES OF COOPERATION

The attention of nearly everybody
is arrested BY striking picture. This
fact is amply demonstrated by the null
duplication of places where large audi
ences spend long periods gazing at pic
ture after picture. Cooperative en-
ployees and cooperative members are
not different, in this respect. from
other people; and if in their work and
at the meetings they attend, greater in
terest can be evoked and therefore bet
ter results be produced, by a picture
display, the responsibility rests with,
those in authority to provide such dis
plays-or in other words, to adopt the
pictorial method of presenting what
are too often looked upon as dry and
undressing statistics, if the greatest
psychological effect is desired in hav-
ing the actual conditions of co-opera-
tive venture understood by the specta--
tors.
The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-12-09
BELGIAN BUILDING
CO-OPERATIVES FEDERATE

A monster cooperative building So
ciety, combining all the many cooper
alive building societies now acting SCI
parately, is being formed in Belgium,
on national scale. The new society,
which is TO be known as the National
Labor Cooperative Building Society,
will have a capital Of one million
francs with which to commence bust
ness. Building trade unions and COOP
erative societies will support the new
National society, which plans not only
to undertake work on its own account.
but to give the smaller affiliated soci-
cites technical and supervisory aid and
to make possible huge savings by
wholesale purchase of supplies from
material men.
Cooperative building in Germany,
Switzerland, and Austria has
grown enormously with federation in a
strong central organization. This for
ward step by the Belgian co-operators
is in the direction Of increased useful
ness and efficiency. There are num-
Der of successful cooperative building
Guilds in the United States, notably in
St. Paul, Milwaukee, Boston, Jackson.
Mich, and Reading. Pa; but no move
has yet been made to concentrate their
forces in national organization.
The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-12-09
THEORY AND PRACTICE OF
THE AGRICULTURAL CLASS

The agriculture students at New
llano were split up into two divisions
on Friday evening. December /. Some
of them were down at the cane mill
extracting the sweet juice Of harvested
ribbon cane and turning it into syrup,
while the others gathered at the school
house, discussing the subject of ter
racing the rolling lands Of the Colony
to prevent them from washing when
cultivated. Comrade Coleman spoke
of the terracing work thus far done
in the Colony and the lessons learned
by experience. He expressed the opin-
ion that broad terraces would prove the
most desirable. Deep tillage would also
prove great advantage in permitting
the rain to soak in to greater depth,
thus preventing the loss Of much mois-
ture that would otherwise flow away.
through books we learn of the won
derful work in terracing done by the
Filipmos in the Philippine Islands; they
are raising rice by irrigation on steep
sides. Those so-caIIed Sc
people evidently have
good engineering experts in agricuI-
ture. even though they do lack inven-
tors in poison gas and machine guns.
Maybe wesciviIized people could learn
something from these supposed infer
lors. The subject of terracing was con-
tinued for consideration at the next
Friday meeting, when it is expected
that Comrade Lindsey will lead in the
discussion. He is leader in the farm
ing operations of the Colony and is
to be supplied with all the
latest data on the subject.
The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-12-09

We are in receipt Of proclamation
from President Warren G. Harding
making the week Of December 3-9, in
elusive an Education Week whose gem
eral Observance is solicited. The pre-
sident very truly says: Our educa-
ton should implant conceptions of
public duty and private obligation
broad enough to envisage the problems
Of a greatly distraught world. More
than anything else, men and women
need the capacity to see with clear eye
and 10 contemplate with open, unpre-
JUDGED mind, the issues Of the time.
Only through properly motivated
and generously inspired process of ed
ucation can this be accomplished"
We fully endorse the foregoing SEN
timents and are surprised that the pre-
sident himself fails to live up to these
sentiments.
The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-12-09

Cooperation, as 7. E. Ellison says in
the Cooperative Official, is undoubt-
eddy the most efficient system for sat-
isfying human needs-the needs for
food, clothing, and shelter, together
with those comforts and means of ex-
preston which are essential for the
higher development of the human soul.
The preachings and writings of our
theorists are satisfactory evidence of
the possibilities of cooperation; but
the perversions of human instincts in
the present state of society make it
difficult to carry out always in prac-
tlce what is proved to be right in the
DRY. The co-operator, therefore,
should form a clear conception of the
cooperative ideal as the goal to which
he aspires; then, starting from the pre-
sent, his aim should be to make ard
consolidate the path to that goal. Like
Blowning's grammarian, he should
image the whole, then execute the
parts. 1t is futile to fret and fun,e
because cooperative practice is not
wholly in line with the co operative
ideal. The better plan is to examine
our administration, eliminate errors.
and strengthen any weak places that
might be found Let us cooperate.
The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-12-09

Under the existing system. every po-
itical organization has inherent evils
which. sooner or later. will develop In
to partisanship. spoils privileges. If a
new party promised to be successful, ev-
cry broken-down. discredited politician
in America would rush to enlist.
Likewise special privilege would
come, first to tap, and then to batter
down, its doors.
The only permanent safety for AM
erica lies in the education and organic
alton Of sufficient number of her
voters TO insure, not one clean party,
but a wholesome political system.
Do you agree that this must be done?
Then put your hand and heart to work
upon the problem Of ways and means
Of its accomplishment. The Search
light
The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-12-09

A new kind of freedom is what
French diplomacy has in store for the
German Rhinelands. Commissioner
M. Daniac. sent by the French pre-
mier to investigate the industry and
economice of the Rhine provinces, out
lines in his report the following plan:
I A custom barrier placed on the east
facing Germany and RACED on the west
economics Of the Rhine provinces, out
course Of action which little by little,
wll detach from Germany free (?)
Rh1neland under the Military Guard
OF France and Belgium" Some ele-
ven or twelve trusts dominate the
Rhinelands industrially nd politically,
and the French politicians expect. thru
pressure upon them, to make their an
nexation Of the German Rhinelands
good. There is open diplomacy for
you and shining example of the self
determination Of small nations cen
cedeo under military guard
The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-12-09
WAR ON WAR

Under the above title, the first cam
paign textbook for workers in the
world peace movement has just been
issued by Frederick ]. Libby, Execu-
tive Secretary of the National COun-
ell for Reduction Of Armaments in
Washington.
I'VE Must End War Now or PERISH =
we Can End War Now if We Will. z
"Eow We Can End War Now, and
Answers To Skeptics'' are the four
chapter headings which indicate the
scope Of the material in this 74-page
pamphlet and also the ringing chal-
lenge which it contains to men and wo-
men everywhere TO enlist in the war
against war.
The spirit of the book is Best embod-
led in the quotation on the cover:
"The American People can end war
in our time if they get on the job. Let
US wage peace, Maj. Gen. John F.
Organ.
The program proposed in the book
is intensely practical. 1t is three-fold:
First. world organization under any
name; second, worldwide reduction of
ornaments to police status; and third,
Worldwide education for peace.
The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-12-09
THINK FOR YOURSELF

Nowecomes an editorial. Think for
Yourself" in the Chicago American
for October 10, 1922. Copyrighted by
The Star Company. we are unable to
produce it entire without permission.
but it is pretty good stuff and would
make a splendid nationalist leaflet. At
ter much sound advice about and along
the thinking line, it quotes this from
Bolingbfoke, Doubt is the key Of
knowledge. He who never examines
never discovers anytime. He who dis
covers nothing is blind and will remain
so.
There ii no dishonor II honest
The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-12-09

and violence as weapons when deemed
necessary in industrial strife.
Both Of these weapons are discon-
tenanced by the l. W. W., which off
cially declared against them more than
four years ago, on the grounds that
force invariably defeats itself.
Mass action, advocated by the Com
munists, is considered fallacy by the
!. W. W. Its spokesman say that. the
Communist program is unscientific
when it seeks to take in everybody re-
gardless of the class in which he moves.
1t is seen as mob-tactics, the attempt
ed herding Of humans into a great
wedge combining classes which have
nothing in common, and which would
break apart under strain. And the
Communists cry for political action, at
which the |. w. w.. membership SCOTS
as being futile.
As contrast to the avowed methods
Of the Syndicalists and Communists,
the |. W. w. contends that labor must
stand by itself; that labor has greater
weapon than is offered by either of the
other groups, the weapon of sheer ec-
onomic power-the ability to shut off
production of commodities through
complete solidarity when it is being
kicked in the neck. Organize on the
job is the rallying call of the /. w.
VI industrial Solidarity.
The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-12-09
GET MORE MONEY FOR YOUR WORK

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The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-12-09

According to the daily press in Eng
land, the farm at the Buckinghamshire
County Mental Hospital made a profit
of $500 last year. Ii is worked BY
lunatics, who appear to till the soil to
better purpose than most consumers
cooperative societies. The CORE
spondent who sends the cutting giving
this information says. Evidently what
we need is more asylums''!
The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-12-09
Classified Section
=sSs7 -. 49,
TO EXCHANGE FOR COLONY
rrTNoTy

TO EXCHANGE FOR COLONY
STOCK--lI2 acres of land in Cecil
County, Maryland; II acre wood-lot;
I acres permanent pasture; 90 acres
low under cultivation; two miles to,
shipping point; one mile to school;
fine big stone house; barn and other
out-buildings; land suited to the rails
ng Of wheat. corn. oats, clover and
white potatoes, particularly. Price,
$500. $4,000 of this can remain as,
a mortgage at go. For quick action.
will take Llano stock for the $1,000
payment. If you want bargain, write.
at once to Geo. I. Pickett. Llano Col-
ony.
The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-12-09

No election during our own person.
al observation Of over fifty years has
ever prevented organized capital from
getting what it wanted.
The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-12-09

"Your enjoyment Of the world is ne
yer right" sang Traheme, till every
morning you awake in heaven, see
yourself in your Fathers palace, and
look upon the skies, the earth, and the
air as celestial Joys"
The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-12-09

Harmful habits and anti-sociaI ine-
quitabTe business practices have de-
stroyed every nation that INDUCED and
persisted in them.
The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-12-09
j. W. w. OPPOSE VIOLENCE

Il is al matter Of tactics. At their
preliminary conference in Berlin a few
months ago. the Syndicalists went Oh
The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-12-09
TRADE FOR LLANO STOCK.

TRADE FOR LLANO STOCK
100 ores in Minnesota; fair buildings:
drilled well and windmill; mail and
Phone; s miles to town; mile to
school. About 40 acres wood; 30
acres fenced; SO acres in tame grass
balance natural meadow. Lime-clay
soil. Price $35 an acre ($5600.0O).
Time on $1,000 at 10: balance I'M
cash. Will take Llano stock up 10.
$4,000 as cash. par value &C. J. S..
care Llano Colonist 147.
The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-12-09

Boost Universal Cooperation by
getting subscribers for The Llano Col
onist.
The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-12-09

FOR SALE. r. Al acres of land.
4-room house. and barn. 100 peach.
trees; 20 apple trees; 20 grape vines;
strawberries. blackberries, and dewberr
ries; some figs. Well improved
terraced. Price. $ll0O. Main road.
A; E. WELDON, Rte |, Box 90, Lees
vile, La.
SELL OR EXCHANGE $40 acres
finest farm land in New Mexico With
improvements. Trade for good timber
land, or what have you? w. H. Lind
sey, Llano Colony.
FOR SALE 500 acres; so n cult
walton; lots of good timber on ball
ance; good house: two tenant houses.
$lOl500 for all, See G. i. Pickett
The Donaldsonville chief., 1922-03-04
USJA1 l-kNE ACREAGE.
Prices wiz Be Low But Planter VII.
Make Money Says James.

II a staten Ell. issued recently,
Aio', el L. .ianes oe the Dure:.r u
Crop Estimates y! the federal GO.
ernn?ent made th@ assertion that
despite he recoll slump Of sugar
prices in 49o,. Louisiana planters
arc expecting C SCI ou1 288, 900 aces
III cane about he SAM acreage as
last year.
Mr.. lanes l,ointed ou. LA :.u1.-
lEeds Of planters an setting ou2 their
cane although i2annpered by rain and
cold weather Cane plan led las not
been damaged b. tt" ole r,eather
lie declared.
-'Ir. James be..ey.s iouis: ana = anc
7lanvers "i'l make money his ,~ear,
although the prices receivcG will be
co1lpa eat;vcE.- low j!e asserts that
1arm labor vii 'e half what it wos
in 1920 nd considerably less thar
= 921.
Mr. yanry viii Ieavo toI q touf Of
thn rice belt he las Of next month,
having .e,'eive3 scores o. Inquiries
from Louisiana planters rs 70 the
proper acreage. ,Ir. James expects q
slight Increase in ice acreage.
Mr. lanes :lnds a tendency among
cotton planters to dec ease the 1922
ac-oage, expecting higher prices be-
carse oI th2 law # supply and de-
.nand. lie believes That many will
sc. ou1 slightly larger acreage be-
cause of the upward creme shown IN
cotton prices in recent months.
The Donaldsonville chief., 1922-03-04

with the public, A man Of limited
education, but Of good Judgment
and full Of energy and activity. he
soon became as clerk the drawing
card Of the business. Polite, afFable,
Jovlal and attentive 70 the passen-
gers, he soon became very popular,
especially with the women and child.
ren; 50 much SO that at every Christ
mas time he was the recipient Of
boxes Of cigars from his lady friends.
The "old man was unique char
EaeteF ithoaaE moving its hessoa-
sessed streak of nor. Far iirl-.
stance, d man, al ppnaad to ba u rich
sugar nlarlt se aE
Point Hournas and asked for tick
ct to Baton Rouge, the price being
s1.05. He . rendered the .ierk q
check for $4,000 in payment, and
was told to take the boat for his
change. On another occasion, .
business man, q stranger. on his hrst
visit to Donaldsonville, inquired
about the best hotel, and whether il
Waa run on the European 0: Anleri
can plan. His prompt answer was
that there was only one hotei-.--the
ANiCflOlis-~-tail4 tIlat ~ WAS KUN DY z
Dutchman. Capt. ). G. Davidson,
who retired four years ago after ser
wing fifteen years as master and pilos
Of the Virgie, contributed much to
the success Of the business. He Is,
now living in Baton Rouge and is r.
years old.
The veteran Capt. Cary. who com
n1anded the Oracle Kent for five
years, has been the master of the
ferryboat Ruth for twelve years.
George II. Chapman, who began a.,
fireman on the Virgies has been ner
capable and efficient engineer for the
past twelve years.
All in al! the company has made .
wonderful success in the preservation
Of its steam boat property: in the
handling o. over 100000 passenger
without g single loss o. life, OF IN
jury to limb or body ans: in having
kept its stockholders satisfied WITT
dividends. Of course, now it is
sharing in The universal; depression.
and slump in the revenues q a11
business.
The Donaldsonville chief., 1922-03-04

sustains the allegations Of the peti-
ton and that the ballot used in the
election in this case was not legal
ballot, the same not having been
prepared in conformity with the
mandatory provisions of the law.
1t stands that every ballot voted in
the election, having been of the
same character, the entire election
is null, not a single legal ballot hav-
ing been cast Hart vs.. Picou, supra.
"For the foregoing reasons and
the further reason o1 tho law and the
evidence being in fasor thereof, II IS
therefore ordered, at iH Iced AND de-
creed that there De JUG nlent herein
in favor Of the plaintiff, r. J. Eche-
verria, declaring the said election
held in the city Of Donaldsonville on
May 7, 1921, to be null and void. It
is further ordered adjudged and de-
creed that the defendants pay all
costs.
"Thus done, read, rendered and
signed in open court, parish of AS
cension, Louisiana, this 9th day Of
the month Of February, 1922"