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The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1922-04-07
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The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1922-04-07
FORT PECK AGENCY OPEN
TO RECEIVE GRAZING BIDS

The following letter received from
the Fort Peck Indian Agency announ-
ces the opening of the Reservation
for bids On cattle and sheep grazing.
We print herewith the complete let
ter which is self explanatory:
Fort Peck Agency,
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1922-04-07

Little Hilda Hansen has returned
to her grandmother's, Mrs. Charles
Traxers, north of Hinsdale to make
it her home.
The labor world., 1922-06-17
QUIET OF PRIMARY CAMPAIGN
IS WORRYING STATE NAC;|| Il
keIoggs Shedding May Not Be Easy After Monday; Daily Pa
peTS Say Nothing Of Anti-Machne Candidates.

There is little excitement and enthusiasm the coming
election which will be held Monday Mime
n'other such Pennsylvania Indiana and
Iowa. the voters verify wild in the primary
driving from leading members of the old guard and seriously
crippne their machines
The labor world., 1922-06-17
0RCANI zES FOR
STATE CONTEST
= rne-.f:f-
Farmer Labor Party Holds
Convention at Minneapolis.

An organization Of the farmer
labor party for the impending cam
paign was launched last Saturday at
a state convention held in Minne-
apolis. Delegates from counties in
many parts of the state were pres
ent and state committee was
named, with Fred A. Pike of St.
Paul as chairman an Roy c.. Smell
kcr of Midway for secretary.
There will be ten district chair
men, one for each congressional dis
trict. The campaign will be financed
largely by the sale of unique but
ton, on the face of which will be
stamped a goat wearing a particular
ly Warlike aspect, accompanied by
the inscriptions: I'VE kick like a
Mule Butt Use Our Head"
Initial steps We're ta1>en to make
the farmer-labor party of Mime.
sota a part of national third party
now in process Of formation.
The keynote address delivered by
Frederick A. Pike, following his elec-
ton as permanent state chairman,
Id Il1eu dS real ISSUES Ill the pT6Scllt
campaign the attempt of the state
| administration to fasten upon the
people of Minnesota a state constab.
ulary and overturn the present ju.
dicial system; the domination of the
state by corrupt machine politics
deflation of farm produce prices; the
present drive to crush labor; the
transportation problem, and thu
acute financial problem.
The labor world., 1922-06-17

The Duluth daily newspapers have
put the soft pedal on news from
Minneapolis relating to recent eX-
posures there in connection with the
"secret life' of the Twin City Rapid
Transit company, although the AS
sociated Press sent out detailed
story covering the report of DR..
Delos +. Wilcox, expert for the city
of Minneapolis, who has concluded
an exhaustive examination of the
company's books.
The Twin City Rapid Transit COM
pany, according to the Wilcox re-
port, disbursed s2,000,000 to lead
ing citizens of the state and nation
during recent years. This enormous
expenditure was found under the
head of "Unusual Contingency
Fund" and DR.. Wilcox was not per-
mitted to examine it in detail until
after the district court had ordered
the officers of the company to give
up it's "secret" books to the city.
Lump sums aggregating more than
a quarter of million of dollars were
deposited by the officers of the COM
pany from its funds in Minneapolis
banks for checking accounts, $147,-
900 of which was deposited during
the franchise campaign in 1919, and
$4,000 during the dates when the
Brooks Coleman bill was pending
in the state legislature. DR.. Wilcox
and City Attorney Neil Cronin are
now at the Jersey City office Of the
Twin City company going into. these
expenditures In detail. a
If the Minneapolis branch Of the
The labor world., 1922-06-17

trolley company while he held pub
Tic office, for the record reveals the
fact that he was paid $15,240 from
December 1914 to May 1919.
George ~B. Lockwood, secretary of
the Republican National committee,
shook the company down for $1,000
in 1919, while w. D. Dwyer, coun-
sci for the company and formerly a
Superior resident. was given $751;
$50 in addition to his salary.
Earnest Malmberg, Saturday
Lunch club member, who was direc-
tor of the speakers bureau for the
Peoples Franchise league in the
1919 campaign the record shows,
was paid $1,000. The Saturday Lunch
club is an organization of Mime
apolis liberals and progressives sim
liar to the 'Stirrup" club once in ex-
istence in Duluth. @
Daniel f. Carmichael, another
member of the Saturday Lunch club
and active in the franchise league
that was fighting the company, was
given $4,000 in four payments from
1918 to June 1919. ~. & :.s :*.E. =...su:.
J. R. Mitchell of St. Paul, mem-
Der. of the Federal Reserve bank,
was handed $4,000. why he was
given this money the record does
not disclose. a5
r. F. Pack. Charles Il. Stuart and
w. j. Shield, all officers Of the
Northern States Power company, re-
ceived a total Of $14,40O.. This is the
com pany from which, It is said, the
Twin City Rapid Transit company
- ICOntinue ed On mage + 3 - -
The labor world., 1922-06-17

Twin City Rapid Transit company
expended $4,000 as it's share for
putting over the Brooks-Coleman
bill, the question naturally is pre-
sented as to what amount was taxed
to the st. Paul branch of the same
company and to the Duluth Street
Railway company. An expert is ex-
amining the books of the st. Paul
company. No examination is being
MADE of the Duluth company.
Detailed expenditures without
itemized or explanatory statements
were made to prominent men in
state and nation. Horace Lowry,
president of the company, was paid
in addition to his salary from May
1915 to December 1921, s80,621. A.
M. Robertson, vice president of the
Twin City company and president of
the Duluth company, was paid in
addition to his salary and for serv-
ices and expenses not shown on the
books, $26,661. ...
J. A. A. Burnquist, former COVER
nor Of Minnesota, the man who was
responsible for the precence of the
home guards in the street railway
strike of 1917. was paid $500 in May
1921, and, there. is not a, scratch. of
a pen to tell of the services he rem
dered for that. amount.
The law firm of the chief justice
Of the United States supreme court,
Cadwallader, Wick ershanl & Taft,
was paid $3.50, with nothing to in
dicates what was done to get his
am cunt of money.
State Senator George f.. Sullivan
The labor world., 1922-06-17

of saltwater, leader of the reaction
ary forces in the state Legislature
from 1916 to 1919 drew $24,C63.23
from the Twin City company. It has
been known for years that Senator
Sullivan was attorney for the street
railway company 1t Saltwater.
Former State Senator E. E. Smith
of Minneapolis, "the MAJ behind the
thrown" in Republican state poll
tics, the political boss and adviser
of several Minnesota governors, in
Guiding Governor Preus drew $41,-
900 from 1916 to the present time.
r n. "Dick" O'Conner of st. Paul,
known as 'the C?rdlnal," for many
years leader of the Ramsey county
Democratic machine, pulled down
$4,000 from 1917 to 1921.
W.O. Clure, former publisher of
a weekly paper, manager for w. E.
Lee, the progressive candidate for
governor in 1914, who esame gen
eral passenger agent for the COM
pany in the summer of 1919 when
I it's franchise ordinance was pend
ing, and who before that time was
a prominent member of the Satur-
day Lunch club of Minneapolis, got
'$15,600 and no statement accom-
panies the item to tell what he was
paid the money for. T. j.. "'~. e. .
w. S. Jones, manager Of the Min
neapolis Journal, was given a cool
$1,000 in 1918. and the late w. j.
Murphy, owner of the Minneapolis
Tribune, got $S,462. ;:>.-5 >,-5 :,s
Former Alderman j. L. Kitchli
was evidently on the pay roll, Of the
The labor world., 1922-06-17
STANDARD OIL Gets MONOPOLY
TO SUPPLY FUEL OIL TO Navy
Daily Papers Did Not lint All Facts in Teapot Dome Gab
Side Cor*ss Bottles uplndependents.

Washington, ID. C.h$S Ye 10
Daily newspapers do md dare
not Print all the fact ~ = lc Teapot
Dome case, the Oil 50 act which
Secretaries Fall an Dy secretly
arranged with Il, q sinclair for
cleaning out the 9 IL supply re-
served to the Q. 8 vernment by
the Roosevelt pu- The following
facts have so far been ignored:
4. A complete monopoly on the
business of supplying fuel oil to the
U. S. navy has been established by
the Standard Oil.
?. A secret contract exists which
specifies the price which Standard
Oil will exact from the government
for future supplies of fuel oil.
3. Standard Oil is now able to con-
troll the price of Oil and independent
companies will not be in q position
to compete.
The secret contract referred to is
mentioned in the Teapot Dome con-
tract Of April :, publication of which
was forced by the action of Sena-
tors La Toilette and Kendrick in the
senate, and which reads:
''The maker hereof will deliver
for the use of the United States navy
fuel oil of the specifications and un-
der the terms and upon the exchange
basis fixed in the certain contract
date s. * day of March, 1922, be-
tween the United States government
and the maker hereof"
There has been no statement made
made explaining what this CONTRACT
is, nor with whom it has been made.
Since the leasing law permitting
working Of government Oil lands on
q royalty basis was passed the big
job OF Standard Oil has been to keep
u. S. royalty oil from coming into
the open market where independent
capital Or refineries may bid for it.
The Teapot Dome contract keeps
crude oil off the market and this
The labor world., 1922-06-17
TRUST BUSTING
DON'T BUST EN-
Supreme Courts Disso|ving;
Edict Ignored by Big Biz.

Washington, June 15.-The decree
of the United States supreme court
ordering the dissolution of the trans
portation trust known as the South
ern Pacific and Central Pacific mer-
ger is not expected to bring about
competition between those two COM
panies. This is apparent by the re-
suit Of the supreme courts decree
some years ago dissolving the Stand
ard Oil company as a combination in
restraint of trade. Senator Harris of
Georgia, tells how the "dissolution"
has worked:
Under the dissolution decree the
Standard Oil company did not
change their stockholders; they dis
solved the one big company and
formed several, about 20, and divid-
ed the territory. The same stock
holders own the same interest in
practically all of the companies. and
of course these companies are run
just as one company. About 70 per
cent of all the stock in all the diff
ferent Standard Oil companies is
owned by the same people; about So
per cent of all the stock is owned
by 16 persons. They are today, as
investigation shows, operated as one
company, and there is no competi-
ton. AS long as the same stock
holders control a majority of the
stock in all the companies of course
there never will be any coipe-
tition."
The labor world., 1922-06-17

tends to prevent continuance of in
dependent refineries.
1t is a system which prevents dem
OnstlutiOn of true values and market
prices for crude oil through work.
ing of the law of supply and demand.
1t holds in proper political align
ment powerful individuals and COR
pOrations.
1t creates "rotten borroughs',-
by centralizing industry in a few
hands-which can be depended upon
to deliver votes where needed.
1t permits and invites capitaliza-
tiOn of the profits incident to mon-
Opoly, and thus diyerts the earnings
Of the industry to payment of divi-
dends~ on excessive capitalization go
ing to labor and spent in the local
community.
Add to this the conviction of un-
biased persons that the pipeline
proposal in the contract is pure
bunk intended only to prevent con-
struction of a pipe line by indepen-
dents.
Now where does the U. S. govern
ment get off? Nowhere! Apparently
the contract is legal. The country's
conservation policy could be restor-
cd only by immediate congressional
action. This will be delayed. The
administration cannot afford to have
the deal receive public condemnation.
Nor can it afford to suppress it.
The deal will he investigated to
death. The cat will be killed with
butter. 'Truckloads'' of data will
como from the office of the secrc-
tary of the interior to the senate
committee. The conversation policy
will be replaced by a conservation
policy. Meantime Standard Oil will
have buried its octopus feelers into
the ground far enough and long
enough to suck out the petroleum:
And the newspapers will print
long stories about something else.
The labor world., 1922-06-17
LARSON DENIES
VOTING FOR IL.
HOUR W0RKDAy
But Record Is Against Him;
Gompers Not Mistaken.

"My attention has been called to
letter addressed to you by Samuel
Gompers, president of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor, in which
he says [ voted for bill to compel
seamen on the Great Lakes to work
twelve-hour instead of eight-hou
shifts. I have never favored and I
do not now favor the 12-hour day
for Wage-earners."
The above declaration was made
in a letter sent by Congressman Os-
car J. Larson to the Federated d
Trades assembly last Friday even
ing. Mr.. Gompers had previously ad-
vised the assembly that Congress-
man Larson voted to re-establish the
12-hour day to apply to certain sea-
men on the Great Lakes. The assem-
bly, has referred the congressman
letter to Mr.. Gompers, who in all
liability will have a reply for the
next meeting.
Mr.. Larson's letter continues as
follows: II have not voted for any
bill compelling Seamen to work -
hours day. / am sure that con-
sress would not enact such a law,
nor would President Harding sign
any bill compelling seamen or other
workmen to labor - hours day
THE bill referred to by Mr.. Com
pers was unanim ously reported out
by the committee on merchant ma
rine and fisheries, which was COM
posed of Republicans and Demo-
crafts. The legislature of Michigan
unanimously petitioned congress tc
pass the measure.
ITO find a possible talking point
for his Democratic friend, Mr. Com
pers caused my record in congress
to be searched. l am loathe to be-
lieve that he intended to deliberate
ly misrepresent me. [ prefer to be-
lieve that the person who investi-
sated my record for him, through
Ignorance or mistake, misled Mr.
Gompers."
That is a plausible letter, but in
the opinion of The Labor World i!
will not bear analysis. The bill tc
which Congressman Larson refers is
known as H. r. 6754. It was passed
by the house June Is, 1921, and as
we understand it, is still pending in
the senate. Congressman Nolan
chairman Of the committee on labor
a Republican member, attempted to
amend the bill to make sure that il
would not re-cstablish the 12-hOu1
day to lake oilers, tenders and such
The amendment failed of passage
by a vote, 113 yeas to 1872 nays. Con-
gresham Larson voted against thai
amendment. Mr.. Keller, the labor
member from st. Paul and every
other member who usually votes
right voted for the Nolan amend
ment. Mr.. Larson voted with mem.
bers who have ali along opposed the
seamens' act"
Mr.. Larson not only voted against
the Nolan amendme t, but he voted
for the bill, with the enemies of la
Dor in the house, and against the
on the bill a letter to Mr.. Nolar
from Samuel GomDers was read
That letter contained a resolution
adopted by the Denver convention
of the A. f. of L., which protested
against the passage of H. r. 675t
crease working hours from Sc to 81
hours week and it would increase
the hazard at sea.
The labor world., 1922-06-17
ST1ANDP AT CROWD
AbAND0NS front
PORCH CAMP ) AlGN
Ellsworth for Governor Worries
Old Guard Machine.

- It appears that the campaign of
the thunders of silence which was
announced by the standpat crowd
and their hangers on has been aban-
doned-also Governor Preus' deter
niination to make a so-called front
porch campaign.
The newspapers who sponsor the
convention nominees of the Repub-
>lican party still refuse to mention
the name of former Congressman
Franklin F. Ellsworth who is the
candidate for governor-and the
only one in the Republican primar-
ies-against Mr.. Preus, or his asso-
ciates on the Anti-Machine ticket.
Minneapolis newspapers have re-
Gently set up a herculean cry for the
voters to register and save the state
again from some imaginary foe.
1t is announced now that Mr..
Preus has abandoned his intent to
make a front porch campaign and
will make strenuous campaign
from now until election.
Sixty thousand circulars are to be
sent out by the Lincoln club in Min
neapolis, to guard against the "pos-
sible defeat'' Of Kellogg, Preus and
the balance of the machine ticket.
It is beginnins to look as though
the people of the state have awak
ened to the fact that there is real
opportunity to beat the machine in
Minnesota in the coming primary. It
is just dawning upon the masses
that now for the first time in many
elections there is an opportunity for
support of an undivided field against
the present political machine.
The figures Of the last ~primary
are signfficant-Mr. Preus received
$4,000 votes while his opponents
two years ago-Shipstead, Frank
son, Ellsworth. Iverson and Keefe
received a total vote of about 49,
600. In other words Preus was a
minority nominee by nearly 100000
votes in the last primary. The same
votes cast for and against would
nominate Franklin r. Ellsworth by
IL. 900. -==>'
Many Of the labor members and
workers have hesitated to cast Re-
publican ballot, feeling that they
want to stick in their own party
but the feeling is now growing that
possibly this is the best opportunity
they will ever have to smash the
machine in Minnesota.
After all many men who have
been elected in various states in the
old political parties and especially
those opposed to the old regime have
been among the best friends of la
Dor. Certainly labor has had but
few better sponsors, nor have the
masses of the people, than Robert
M. La Toilette of Wisconsin.
Ellsworth has a good record in
congress and an acceptable one to
labor. No mistake will be made if
Mr. Ellsworth defeats Mr.. Preus in
the primary June 10. It may be the
best bet if We want to dispose Of the
political machine.
The other anti-machine candi-
dates are: Lloyd Ahlstrom for lieu
tenant governor; Margaret M. Kell-
er for secretary Of state; Adolph G..
Lack for state treasurer; George G..
Magnuson for state auditor; John G.
Larson for attorney general and
Gerhard Bundle for railroad and
warehouse commissioner.
The labor world., 1922-06-17
COOKS WANT LIVING WAGE.

Cooks at Olympia, WASH, are de-
manding a restoration of wages they
voluntarily reduced six months ago,
to assist employers in tiding over
slack times. The bosses not only re-
fuse to concur, but demand the an
ti-union shop.
The labor world., 1922-06-17
ERROR IN LABOR LAW.

Bungling drafting of an amend
ment to the workmen's compensa-
ton act of Maryland during the last
session Of the legislature will bar
employees making more than $4,000
a year from the acts provisions, ac-
cording to Attorney General Arm
strong.
The labor world., 1922-06-17
HARDING SHIP SUBSIDY Plan
To Be OPPOSED BY Al. OF |.
Convention DenQunces Bill as Cunnngy Devised Scheme to
s5 Enrich Glasses Of Am eIican Ship Owners.

Cincinnati o. June 5.-The American Federation of Labor
squarey took with President Harding when unanimously
condemned the ship subsidy bill yesterdays called
its defeat The first of the fight the
that President adng with all his has urged upon
gess The Seamens union led the fight the proposal
The Ordway new era., 1922-12-15
ROCKY FORD GETS
NEXT C. T.. MEETING

Next years meeting of the Arh,ns
as Valley District Christian rn,oa.
ohion Will be held in Rocky Ford
according to the decision of deles.
ates to the first annual convention n,
'he district Just held in Lamar. Dec.
ember and 10.
In the business session nlons uou.
'n'uo Tor the field secretary of the
state to travel all over the Arkans,s q
valley District in January and organ.
'ze ~ better. and form societies in
new places. According TO the on
pinion expressed by state officers
sou'nern Colorado has opportunities
'or oeihg the strongest Christian
hhdeavor center in the state.
The Ordway new era., 1922-12-15
.Downey Heads
District Body
Is Elected President of District
Association of County COM
missioners for Coming Year.
Bradley is Secretary

j. f. Downey, of Ordway one of the
county commissioners of Crowley
county. was elected president of the
District Association of County Com
missioners, at meeting held in
Pueblo last Saturday, and B. d
Bradley, county clerk-elect OF this
county, was elected secretary. 1t Is
custom that the president and sec
retary of the association be from the,
same county.
The district takes in eleven count
les in the southeastern part Of the
state and regular meetings are held
for the purpose of promoting cooper
ative county work and more especial
ly to discuss road building and main.
tenance. This association has been in
existence for the past three or four
years and it has been accomplishing
a great deal in the way of benefits for
the individual counties, and each
county has profited by it.
Mr.. Downey has been very active
in the association ever since he was
elected county commissioner, AMI
prior to that time as county clerk he
attended and took part in the meet
ings.
AT the meeting last Saturday the
three commissioners, w. F. Tarbox.
]. H. Cowden and Mr.. Downey were
present, as were also Miss Elizabeth
II. Muir county clerk and S. S. Spill
lars, county commissioner-elect.
The principal matter of business
at last Saturdays meeting was the
distribution of the six million dollar
hond issue as outlined by the state
highway commission.
The Ordway new era., 1922-12-15
OLNEY SPRINGS NEWS

The Ladies' Aid Harvest Home
supper and bazaar last Thursday eve
ming was a social as well as a financial
success. Most everyone patronized
the excellent supper and bought
pretty things at the bazaar.
The members of the Olney Springs
Epworth League are sending gem
erous Christmas box to the children
in the McClelland home at Pueblo.
They also resolved to support a native
missionary in India. Plans are In
preparation SO that this movement
can begin soon.
The Live Wire" Sunday school
class under the directions of Mrs. ].
w. Burke made neat sum toward
their centenary pledge. selling kupies
and candy at the Ladies' Aid bazaar.
The Misses Evelyn and Dorothy
voorhees, were in Pueblo shopping
Tuesday. Miss Dorothy stayed for
a visit with friends.
Mrs. Pearl Griswold and children
motored to Rocky Ford Monday after
noon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thos. Estes were
weekend visitors In Pueblo last week.
The Sunday school will hold their
Christmas entertainment in the
church Sunday evening.
Sam Shaffer, of Pueblo. was iii
Olney Saturday and Sunday of last
week suffering from vaccination.
Mrs. Earle Michel Will give a re-
cital in the Olney Springs school
house, Tuesday evening. December
10. The public is cordially invite 4
to attend.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hiram Linard were
in Rocky Ford attending business
matters last Saturday.
Many people in the Olney Springs
community have suffered with La
Grippe the last two weeks.