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COUNTRY MUST INSIST ON ECONOMIC CONFERENCE

Mr.. Hughes and his colleagues
have deserved will Of the country,
but. the private citizens also are to
be. congratulated. There has never
been a more striking case of demo-
cratic control Of foreign policy. The
date for the converting Of the con-
ference was advanced because Of the
pressure Of public j opinion. The
success Of the conference has been
largely due to the sustained, enlight-
ended and insistentf interest of the
country. There has never been any
doubt that the people Of this coun-
try wanted 'less armament and no
war" }r--s III .ssEsz.s A. T. &
Any lawyer will tell you how much
it helps him to know Exactly what
his client wants. !; The administra:--
tion is our attorney. q It has been
helped, at every stage OF the confer
ence, by: this flood Of petitions, maxi
Ing it very clear what the clients
wanted. q .l.l;5 S., ,S
/, The president and the. secretary
Of the state have both recently ems
rhasized the necessity of future con-
ferences.s Public attention has begun
to focus on the next conference. II
public opinion Is as insistent and as
EN- pfatfc for, ah International Econ
oinlc conference az 1T. was in regard
to the Limitation pf Armament con-
ference the adminIstr ion will s.'take
.the case' and prepare a brief
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just as readily and as ably. =
It is happy circumstance that this
first conference succeeded. so well
in quieting the one serious rumor of
war. We can now turn our atten-
tion wholeheartedly to the works
of peace. /, The dominating problem
Of peace. lis the restoration of the
economic machine. - s,s..7 .:. rs 81
The blight on American prosperity,
which is caused by the economic
chaos In !, Europe is tremendously
more grievous than the burden. Of
taxation for the maintenance OF a
great navy. :, The disease Of. Europe
has infected all the organs Of our
life with a creeping, sleeping sitk-
ness Export merchants have been
ruined ahds forced TO .cancel orders.
Factories have closed in n{consequence.
Four million Of our workera are I'M
employed. I Agriculture Ii IN distress
because Europe Is too poor to buy
our food stuff. Cotton rots on the
wharfs, because the Englislt mills
can not find solvents buyers for the
products of their looms because
German mills can find no real money
with which tosbuy raw nfA teerial to
keep their looms busy. In the
economic, more than IN any other
phase Of Internal tipnal fel6tions, it
10 evident that the naitery 81 one In
evitab1y spreads out Is tfeamlsery OF
all. 53ss,. Il; 81
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SMASHED | TRUST
ls''P''RoSP ! s ! J SPE|R|||ouS:
Various STANDARD OIL compan.
: les Make More Money Than
EwF;;. Cut Juicy Melons.

." NEW YORK. Jan. 5.-Being
"smashed" by. the United States su.
preme court has: not affected the
prosperity Of the tandard oil trust.
This corporations is now operating
in units, which report a. combined
profit for. the year 1920 Of $405.-
916,545, after alls taxes have been
paid and liberal deductions made
for depreciation, etc. The combined
earnings in 1912 were $17s,272,047.
This increase for all companies of
'$227,642,49S in 1920 represents q
gain Of $50 per cent.
The Standard oil company of New
Jersey shows the = biggest profits
It earned more than any other cor
poration, Standard oil or otherwise
in 1920. Its profits of $164,461, ,4O9
in 1920 were but $4,000, 900 less than
the entire Standard oil group in 1912
They were 40 per cent greater than
the $35,1o7,ss7 profits reported BY
the New Jersey unit in 1912.
>, Standard oil Of California was the
second largest Garner Of the group
in 1920. It's $41.65s,254, compared
with $7,106,156 in 1912, is. an in
crease Of over 480 per cent. .
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America has more gold than any
other nation, in the world. But that
does not keep our factories open. Fl
does not give profit to the employer
nor wages to the worker. The Trea-
sury does not eat, no matter how rich
sita is;s it can not furnish a market
for the harvest Of the farms. ..@s
p Gold locked up in. vaults does no
body any good. Money is. like loco
motive. It is'not really wealth while
It sits idle in q round house. It is
only valuable when it is out in CIR
culation--hauling the commodities OF
commerce along the routes OF :ex-
change. The accumulation Of gold is
good for nothing but jewelry and
dentistry, un1ess It 4: runs current
throughout the world, as 1t did before
the war. III 3. & ly5s 5.s AZ !. =
( We also boast OF being q creditor
nation. ."s In credit paper as well as
in gold we have q practical m monopoly.
Promissory notes are even more
5valuelesst than yellow metal unless
they are easily negotiable. The Job
legations @of Britain, or France. ..sor
Italy are not worth a cent more than
we can sell them for on foreign stock
exchanges It the debtor goes iIito
bankruptcy they are notswortii any
thing atsall. Il t5s
We will never again ii, sour .life-
time enjoy the easy prosperity of
/ Continued on Page 81 ssi
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Twin City Gets ceut Order Re-
stlaining Employers From
Breaking Contract.

ST. PAUL, Jan. 5.-Union photo
engravers won the first battle of
their Twin Cities strike today.
They got a temporary injunction
from District Judge F. M. Catlin in
st. Paul, restraining the employers
from breaking contracts and order
ing that they; take. back the strikers
for the present under the old wage
agreement. pending a hearing be-
fore. him Saturday. .-.r
:, According to the strikers. they
called the strike Saturday after the
Minnesota Association. of Photo En-
gravers served notice Of an ,immedi-
ate 20 per- cent wage cut and Of a
4S hour week. The employers de-
clare the contract runs to Dec. 81,
1922 and provided for: revision Dec.
3D., 1924. that business conditions
forced them to ask the longer week
and lower wages, and; that the, en-
ployes refused, to consider any re-
vision unless given IS a: keew more.
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MEAT \ Il. ! S'TRI|kE.IS. 4 I !: !. |
eAuSEoFR u | Raise
Packers Promised Reduction 4
Wages Could be Cut, Bit
Have Boosted Price.

SIOUX City, Iowa, Jan. 5.-Meat
packers assure the public that prices
will be cut If they can, enforce q
wage reduction, but this claim is not
sustained by a salesmen's. bulletin
issued by one local firm.
The salesmen are informed that
"you should. be able to secure fully
2 cents over prices listed in the last
bulletin
I'm a good many cases." it is
stated, I'VE have been obliged to
make ,substitutions at advanced
make. Remember that competitors
with the exception Of one, or pos
sibly two, are working under the
same difficulties that we are.
Advance your list on pork loins
butts, shoulders, picnics and raw
leaf lard cents pound. Hold for
full prices and secure averages where
possible. Our sosts have been ad-
vanced and we do not want any
cheap business" 49,.
These orders to gouge the public
come from employers who have Or
ganized company unions to aid
them in enforcing wage cuts. The
public is told that these unions
have been formed to establish; Sin.
dustrial democracy"
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This International conferhnce IN
the Limitation of Naval. A A1mament
and the Pacific problems has al
ready achieved notable results.
1t; has forced sweepink reduc-
ton OF naval armament.
1t has stopped further building for
ten years. {.
These two proposals. al d even
more sweeping ones, have been dis
cussed before: This is the first
time any thing has been id ne. >;
Treaty has been drawn up bv the
four principal powers Of The pac-
ific. which is ihdisputable a. pace
treaty. It relieves tension, it re-
ouces the prospect Of future fric-
tion and renders more pr acticable
the reduction Of naval establish
ments. : =
tits too early to assess the finafre-
suits Of the conference in regard. Ito
the Far East The Asian. as dis
tinct from tie Pacific, discussions
have not progressed to point. where
we, can foretell the outcome: 8
But China has been given ;the
1cliest opportunity publicly to pre.
sent her side Of all the controversies.
II China does not at once get ali an
asks for,F it will not be because she
was not given fair hearing ani
the Anglo-Japanese alliance. abro-
ta.sa, y fwse<>ra'1tify s!''t>', the Four Powers
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Senate. Inquiry Reveals Con.
splracyto. .DrivelAnlerIca .
Ships. From Sea. ::

/ WASHINGTON, Jan: .5.-Comp1y-
ing with a request by the senate the
Interstate CONNIE cree commission has
complied a list Of contracts between
American railroads and foreign
ship companies. j
:: These contracts show: why millions
OF tons Of shipping are carried in for
eign vessels, while. ship subsidies
are favored and certain Americans
sagely discuss ''the need to revise the
La Toilette seamen's law that the
American merchant marine can be
built up =.
In the far northwest prominent
trunk lines agree with Japanese Ship
ping companies to: represent each
other in their, respective countries.
The Chicago. Milwaukee.Mz st. Paul
railroad pledges the Osaka fnercan-
tile steamship company that it will
mot become Interested in any other
steamship company. that might be in
competitions with; the ,Japanese. con
cern,' while the earnings from JOINT
through freight business will Ebe .diyi-
ded between the two partiess ,%..,
/, The Great North thern railway. com
pany agrees with the, :Nirpoh steam al I:
! shlH ea apspya TINT. tsothsss shel lkl.
to their m ttnal 4 % advantages and the
Jap ships shall be given preference
on freight to- the Orient. The rail-
road company also agrees ITO exerr-
ciseSits best. endeavorssto secure ex,
.emption from orreduction: in part,
pilotage, lighthouse dues: etc, that
steamship companies pay"
T; These agreements show that the
american railroads and Jap shipping
companies. are working as one, to
the, disadvantage. OF, American ships
that would build up.a trade in the
Orient. :,,, 4 II
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HOWARD ADMITS
SERIOUS CHARGE
Farm Bureau Head Confesses
Deal With Railroads, BlhSays:
Meetings Were Not Secret

Il will not call Senator LaFollet-
te's charges false, but charges based
on false information" said j. R.
Howard, president American Farm
Bureau federation, just before ad-
dressing the state meeting of the
Minnesota Farm Bureau federation
at the farm school, st. Paul.
He referred to the charges
brought by Senator La Toilette rel
ative to secret agreements entered
into between Mr.. Howard and the
executive association concerning the
abolishment Of the guaranty clause
in the Esch-Cummins bill.
Dealings Not Secret, He Says.
"Dealings were never secret" con-
tinued Mr.. Howard. "rhey were
attended by the executive committee
of the farm bureau and by repre-
sentatives of the National grange"
AT both meetings we won con-
cessions from the railroad execu-
tives practically securing the princi-
pal terms of the Capper bill, namely:
Adjustment Of guaranteed profits
and the rehabilitation of state rail-
road commissions.
.. We believe farmers have been
Disseminated against, that railroads
and industry have preyed upon the
farmer.
Still Have Hold on Roads.
I'VE secured the 10 per cent cut
in freight rates by threatening to
demand a federal receivership for
the railroads to determine their true
valuation and we still have that
shot to fire, and we shall use it the
minute the railroads continue to
use discriminating rates against the
farmer"
Mr.. Howard added that the Farm
Bureau federation is not in politics..
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D. P''E||:R'A7'Q|Rs1 | |'!II|| ! Q 5
PRODUCING ].uOsf.
0FC0AL. MINING
Senator Freiinghuysen, Says
System IS Shrouded In Smoke
;. Screen Of |nky Darkness :

= WASHINGTON, Jan. SIT is i'm
possible to, ascertain the cost OF pro-
ducing coal. said Senator Freling-
huysen, who declared. in the senate
that the buyer nor the government
can secure this information, which
Is necessary to put the coal indus
try on q stable basis. =.
The whole subject" said the New
Jersey lawmaker. lis shrouded in a
smoke screen Of inky darkness" and
has been ever since the national coal
association in the Maynard case OBJ
Gained an injunction blocking the
federal trade commissions investi-
cation Of costs. q:
1.-THE present situation is strange
ly like that which led up to the
great miners strike in 1919. Then,
as now. there was a so-cal1ed buy
ers' strike; a period of subnormal
production and widespread .unenn-
p1oyment among the coal miners:
The discontentS caused by that. con-
dition of unemp1 1oyment" was, the
direct cause 5of the miners strike,
'Mr. President, the present; wage
contracts in the: union: fields ex-
pire on March 81, 1922 On that
day the~wages to be- paid to over
100000: men come up for. settlement
yet we are doing nothing to fore
stall a. break: We have. not taken
one step to. alleviate the condition
Of the miners. Instead, we have let
the situation drift until the mine
workers have endured the longest
siege of unemployment since the
panic of 1882 ..-.-: % :. -.
In: an effort; to break the jam.
said Senator Frelinghuysen,. it was
proposed to authorize summer re-
ductioh IN freight rates, to encour-
age coal, buying: ..r :,
But tn organized coal lobby
succeeded in recommitting the bill.
This chamber. having before it a
practical plan. to ameliorate the lot
OF the coal min ers. has listened to
the coal lobby and put the plan
by." - '' ~ :~-''
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L0CCERSLEC|0N"
HAS SL0vEF FEAST
Company Union on Coast
Meets, Forgets Wages, and:
Declares Against War.

SEATTLE Jan. 5.-The directors
of the loyal legion of loggers and
lumbermen held their semi-annual
meeting in Portland, and on his re-
turn to this city. George B. Sypher,
local Representative of this company
"union," said:
1--WE did not discuss minimum
wages and working arrangements.
but notified President Harding that
we indorsed the. limitation Of arm
ament conference"
To this announcement, Ray r.
Canterbury, president OF the Inter-
national Union of Timber Workers
replied:
Hot dog! The price Of lumber
Is on the up grade, but they could
not even discuss the matter Of wages
and working arrangements. When
the price of lumber was on the down
grade they found plenty of time to
discuss those matters-in fact, they
created additional opportunities to
talk about them.
Then, it was a case of reducing
wages.
Nov, it might be a case of rails
ing wages and they sidestepped
beautifully. They are lovely refor-
mers when it comes to sidestepping.
Nov. instead of taking up the
issues that confront the workers in
the industry, they seek, to keep their
minds off Of those issues by sending
telegrams to the president. >.
"Well, after all. it was nice tele-
gram, and will be one way for them
to find out just how little they really
amount to. If the disarmament
meeting does not have any better
success in securing international jus.
tice than the Four Is has had in
securing justice for the workers in
the timber industry Of the north.
west. it will be recorded in history
as the big joke of the century,"
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PROBE PACKERS
NOT RETAILERS ! | .
STRIKERS ! I URGE !
Meat Cutters and Butcher
Worknlen Officials Jeef Attor.
ney General Dl,lulhterty's

NEW YORK, Jan. 5.-striking
butcher workmen sjeer Attorney
General, Daughertys announced
probe OF profiteering.
In a letter to the federal official
officers Of the Amalgamated Meat
Cutters and Butcher Workmen say
the probe order "looks like a smoke
screen to cover up the sins OF the
beef trust and the friendly mac
tivity of your department."
The unionists remind the attorney
general that on Dec. II last they
called his attenetion to price raising
methods by the beef trust, but to
date he has\pot even acknowledged
receipt of the letter. r.,
Instead, we read that you have
publicly charged the retail mer.
chants of the country with the guilt
Of high food prices and have order
ed Chief William J. Burns to in
vestigate the iniquities of small
shop keepers: !
Coming. at a time whfn the en-
tire nation is aroused over the at
SSAAPeS VI lAAC P1NhLAk 4RlSI&SIS 10
smash collective bargaining and
make the public pay the: bill in prot
iteering meat prices, your attack on
the retailer looks like a. smoke
screen to cover up the sins Of the
beef trust and the friendly inactivi-
ty of your department..
III action l.; not taken by the. de-
partment, Of. justice. we Ishall be
compelled to conclude thatljustice is
not to be obtained in thia country
through the duly constituted author
ity Of government" /
In a statement ISSUED in connec-
tion with their letter to. the attorney
general the unionists say:
Every one knows that the big
fellows are the worst sinners. It is
big business, not little business.
which levies the biggest toll on the
public. The course of meat prices
In New York during the strike
proves this: Wholesale prices rose
20 per cent, while retail prices ad-
vanced 10. per cent. 4
1--WE have heard a lit about the
packers control Of the federal gov:
ernnlent.. =. This; ca nop.tgt 4pn The. do
partnient of justice against the lit-
lie shop, keepers isn't: calculated to
dispell, any illusions on that score
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POOR WAGES DO
N0:TCu'TCQSTS:
Writer in-kew York Financial
Paper Exposes FaI lacy Of.
Low Wages to llbor..

NEW YORK, Jan. 5.-iigh wages
and increased production; rather
than low wages, is urged by George
H. Bruins, in leading article in the
Annalist, financial paper'tpublished
in this city. 3
1T is no argument in favor Of re-
,duction merely to assert that curs
rent rates are 80, 40 or 81 per cent
higher, as the case may bk, than at
some previous time in the history: of
the industry" he says. =.
$50 long as living cost remain
at their present level drattic wage
cuts, are inadvisable. =:
Building costs must cone down.
This much is indisputable; the means
are to be determined. But low
wages, disproportionate to the ost
Of living, have in the past resulted
In poor physique, lowered standards
and ideals of living, limited &dueation
and lessened efficiency through dim
inished vitality, causing slack work
and restrained production.
Dollars are of value oily as a
medium Of exchange"
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an hour more for st. Paul and Min
neapolis trainmen than Is paid in
Duluth T.
Duluth Wages Lower.
The. same difference in the wage
scales du1s down the 1ine.~ Men in
the: second years service In the
Twin Cities will get 81 cents an hour
and in Duluth 46 cents. an advantage
OF five cents, an hour for, the for
mer. In the third years service
Duluth trainmen will be paid 4S
cents an hour, while Twin City men
will draw SO cents an hour The
Duluth company will give men in
the fourth year and over 50 cents
an hour, while the maximum of So
cents an hour. reached in the third
year Of service. will be- the Twin
City scale. &c.,
: Extra men in Duluth will be given
a. minimum Of 1926 a. day, Twin
Cities extra men will be: paid the
rate of 10 cents an, hour in excess
Of nine hours. Nothing Is said about
extra time in the Duluth schedule.
The Duluth men will accept the re-
duction. with suppressed protest.
They are, not in a position to do
otherwise.
j: All hopes for six-cent fare jim
Duluth seem to have gone glimmer-
ing. Street railway officials; in the
three big cities have been defeated
at every turn Of, the road since the
railroad and warehouse commission
handed them the increased they
asked for on a silver PLATTER. The
courts have. taken in every instance
the side of the people.
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Young Mechanic Of Worcester,
: Mass, Solved Problem That
-. Baftled Best Brains.

The most important contribution
to the e:winning Of the late war was
made by, /: - >. = 4
That is:the judgme ents Of the Amer
lean Society (. Of Mechanical. Engin-
,eers, which las: been to- considerable
trouble to get the information. It
has bestowed its gold medal.of honor
upon Hjalmar G.. Carlson, g. mechan-
ic of Worcester, Mass, and has sac-
claimed his contribution the out
standing factor in bringing. victory
to allied arms. 4 :. "
. Carlson, according to the Amer
ican Society," saved the War. De-
partment from a possible scandal
in the manufacture OF munitions
for use by: the American Expedi-
nouncement OF sshonors bestowed ).
fttonary. Forces. The :ofAbfal: al:
snouncement Of honors bestowed th:
on him states that 'tllis. invention
making possible the t.prb baifctten. 81
80. 100000 drawn steel :bdoster: cas-
5ings used principally as Il compon-
ent OF Z 5 nm. high explosive shells,
and also extensively in gas shells
and bombs, :" was the most note
worthy aid to victory. 4 :2.s Y. sS.. Il
TheWar Department was at It's
wits enr. said DR.. Ira N. Hollis,
president o fthe Worcester Polytech-,
mic Institute. when Carlson solved
the problem that had baffled .'ths
greatest ensineerins minds Of the
country. q s -,ss s. A i55 )
4 Corlsnn fanv - svnd;.r =
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The big cut that the employing
interests attempted to make in the
wages Of the building workers pu,
crimp in the building industry for
1921. Possibly Mr.. Warren is prof.
1ting form. the experience of the
building employers. He will hand
out wage reductions .inpiece-mea1
That's the prediction.
But what has become of the "Com-
pany union" down at the carbarns
the "uniin'' that led. the fight for
the six-cent fare, that new democracy
which was tohave a voice in matters
affecting the welfare and conditions
Of street railway employees?
Where's the "Union,'' .
Mr.. Warren did not announce with
the publication of the wage cut that
It was agreed. to by the Company
union" Down in Minneapolis, where
sas IL percent slice was made in the
Wages Of traction employees, it was
stated that the reduction was made
with the advice and consent Of the
Company union" What has hap
pened to the Duluth organization
We haven't heard a peep from 1t
since it waged the losing campaign
for the six-cent fare.
While the Twin City Rapid Tranit
company has cut wages II per cent
and the Duluth company only 10 per
cent, the St Paul and Minneapolis
employees will still have the better of
it under the new scale. In the Twin
Cities trainmen will receive 4S cents
an: hour for the first years service.
In Duluth the scale for like service
will, be A cents. That's four cents
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OPPOSE WAGE CUT.

Wilmington, Del, jan: 5.-Orgsn-
lied leather workers announced that
the, limit of wage cuts has been
reached. Rates are from one-fifth
to one-third less than the lowest
paid in Philadelphia plants. '.. 3:
The labor world., 1922-01-07
FREIGHT HIGHER RENT.

Washington. Jan. 5.--Landlords
i've announced increases of from
to SIS a month at the expiration
the Ball rent act, next May, and
timent is increasing in congress
extending the life of the act.
be law applies to the District of
mbia, and has been upheld by
United States supreme court,
+ this statute a commission is
Verad to get rents. .....-.
The labor world., 1922-01-07
HUGE EsrRs,Fl'1Tss1I[Nl \ / ICE.

8's5l New York. ,Jas2 sei9ht years
I the American dee e cdn 5 my has ppus
/ back into dts BIZ iness 4 Isufplns prof
ie .aI5. g. q.
.5,; "a go his trust ann ounces ii
sglear ploflt of q IS anda sGrs mr. J:
plus Is 5s. 81. M foftts Ind SIR
lpl,ls excIlsiy ana III
The labor world., 1922-01-07
OPPOSE LOWER RATES.

Washington, Jan. 5.-Railroad
managers postponed their low-wage
campaign long enough to come to
this city and assure the interstate
commerce commission that lower
freight rates is impossible and thai
their stockholders are receiving
small return on their investments.
The labor world., 1922-01-07
WAGE Gu ESHADOWSI0SS
OF lgzG Slx: x:CENTS fare FIGHT
Duluth S fRaiway Company Announces 10 per Cent Wage
RedNt 3Xhafs Become Of company uMon?" Employees
Recr:xe Higher Wages IN Twin Cites Than Rere.

Well what do think of Herbert Warren? He's not an up
shopper is L. c. Harris and building
plowes represents Mr. Warren modest when
reducing He but 10 percent cut while the
employers represented by Harris tried invoke per cent
duction Ito stimulate building operations in Duuth'''
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-: :LONGSHOREA1EN STRIKE i.
: Portland, Me-, ian. -5.--Seyeral
lundred ;lpngshoremen suspended
WORE 1ftsr f61lur agree
ment with steamship companies
The strikers recently accepted wage;
cuts but refused to reducetheir work.
ing conditions. - - r., - :. :