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The labor world., 1922-07-01
PENNSY ROAD IS
OPENLY AGAINST
TRAD EUN|oN|SM
President Railway Clerks Union
Reveals How It Works.

Cincinnati, Ohio. June 29.-Evi
dence of the determination Of th'
management of the Pennsylvania
railroad system to destroy trade
unionism among the Pennsylvania
employees is given by G. E. Briceland
vice president of the Brotherhood o.
Railway and Steamship Clerks, II
the current issue Of the Railway
Clerk.
Last year the U. S. railroad labo,
board called upon the representa-.
tives Of the railroad management,
and the employees to get togethe,
and formulate working rules and
conditions.
The Pennsylvania management
raised the question as to whethe,
the Brotherhood of Railway and
Steamship Clerks represented the
employees. The officials Of the clerks
union said they would abide by the
vote of the men and demanded that
the name Of their Organization ap.
pear on the ballot. The Pennsyl.
vania management refused to dc
this, and concocted their own Penn
sylvania family" plan of so-called
employe representation.
This PLAN" declares Vice Presi-
dent Briceland. did no. give to the
employees the right to choose their
own representatives. It did not give
the employees the right to choose
those whom they might desire tc
represent them, not only in confer
ence but in all wage disputes.
I'm spite of our protest, they put
the plan over, and proceeded to
elect so-called representatives Of the
employees. The election from begin.
ming to end was nothing but q
farce.
"In the office in which 1 have been
employed for the past twenty years
$50 votes were cast; 5s4 of them
were cast for the Brotherhood OF
Railroad Clerks. yet they declared
an individual who received only 46
votes was elected to represent those
$50 employees.
"Out of the superintendent'sd divi-
sion, where there were 304 eligible
votes, they declared elected a rep
resentative Of the employees who re-
ceived: but three votes. s.>---~-~7--. - :
Out Of the terminal division 45o
votes were cast, ss5 practically were
cast for the Brotherhood Of Railway
and Steamship Clerks. and so forth
yet they ignored that and declared
an employe elected who received
only a few votes.
"The same situation prevailed all
over the entire system" s..
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Of Wisconsin. Allison of Iowa, For
aker of Ohio, Elkins of West Vir-
ginia and a dozen others vanquished
before the onward march of the
progressive voters The "old guard
leaders in the house of representa-
tives departed in the same manner.
Only a betrayal here and there
stemmed the tide of progress until
Harding came with his catchy slo-
gan of Back to Normalcy," where
he has taken the country with a
rapidity becoming to Twentieth CEN
tury speed.
His Own mark Hanna"
:. President Harding has no Hanna
in the senate upon whom he can
rely. He prefers to be his own Han
ma. He believes in direct action, and
evidently in direct representation. No
Hanna as of old wields his whip.
His is the hand that ,lashes a BEL
ligerent congress and , he is now
Whipping it into line on the ship
subsidy bill. He demands that the
measure be enacted into law before
an adjournment is taken, which of
course may be interpreted as a de
livery of the goods" c. o. D., be-
fore the campaign begins. < ~
If Harding succeeds in putting
over ship subsidy he will outdo Han
ma, for that is the one thing. and the
only thing, Hanna failed to do while
in power. The middle west thwart-
ed his plans then, and should Hard
ing permit delay until after March
The labor world., 1922-07-01
P0CKETvET0T0
Save DAuCER7Y
Chairman Of Rules Committee
Finds New Way to Whtewash.

In order to shield Attorney Gen.
eral Daugherty from an investiga-
ton provided for in resolution in
troduced by two staunch Republi-
cans in the Woodruff of
Michigan and johnson Of South Da-
kota-the Republican majority in
the house established the infamous
precedent Of a ''pocket veto" by the
chairman Of the rules committee,
who had been ordered by his COM
mittee to report the resolution fa-
vorably. Instead of reporting the res
olution as ordered, Chairman Camp
bell put it in his Pocket and refused
to present it to the house. When
Representative Johnson sought to
compel Chairman Campbell to re-
port the resolution, Representative
Walsh made a point.of order against
Johnson's motion and was sustained
by Speaker Gillette. Johnson ap-
pealed from this decision, and Re-
publican floor leader Mondell made
a motion to lay Johnson's appeal on
the table, which was carried by a
vote of 149 to ia.
BY this precedent the house gives
tho chairman Of a committee SUI
preme and autocratic power over all
acts Of the committee. II the COM
mittee votes in favor of any meas
ure the chairman can absolutely null
lily such action by refusing to re-
port the measure. and according to
the ruling OF Speaker Gillette he
cannot be compelled to report it..
This is Cannonisnd run; wild Under
this precedent 4 committee must
register the will Of It's chairman or
it's acts become null and void. The
possibilities OF evil under such 4
system are unlimited. A chsirman Of
committee in league with preda-
tory and corrupt interests can in
sure them protection against any
legislation designed to regulate or
check them or to expose or punish
them.
Such precedent, however, is in
harmony with and a natural out
growth of the ultra-reactionism in
the Republican party represented
and fostered by Hardingism.
The labor world., 1922-07-01
BOYCoTT|NG IS LATEST
MOVE OF OPEN SHOPPERS

A San Francisco union plum bins
contractor has asked tho board OF
public works commissiono0 to grant
him an extension Of time on several
schools as supply companies refuse
to sell him plumbing material be-
causes he employees union labor. He
stated that the firms refused to &C.
cept cash for their goods because he
declines to operate under the anti
union plan. The contractor said pres
ent conditions will force him to buy
goods elsewhere.
Timothy Reardon, president of the
public works board, said several
plastering firms are in the same po-
sition and are buying plaster from
Los Angeles and Salt Lake City.
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ance companies Joined in the plum
der and were later the first to be
tripped up when the pendulum be-
gan to swing back.
"On to Plunder.''
The political cry wars not then
back to normalcy," but the effect
was the same. 1t should have been.
ION to plunder," as it is today. Mark
Hanna had himself elected to the
United States senate from Ohio. 1t
was the time-honored unwritten rule
of that august body that new sena-
tors should remain silent during the
first half of their terms. Hanna ig-
nored all precedent. He tore into the
senate with the abruptness and
bluntness that characterized his en-
try into the national political arena.
In two months he was it's leader and
in another two months he was DOM
mating both houses Of congress. The
president, whom he had lifted from
bankruptcy, was his rubber stamp.
He placed the one black spot on the
fine public record Of the lovable Nc
Kinley.
There is little sentiment in Wall
street. and less patriotism. Service
to the government is rarely recog-
nized. Protection, to permit untram-
meled pillage and plunder according
to certain set-up. self-styled ethics
is with Wall street government S
chief purpose. Everything is busi-
ness. Religion is business. Politics is
business. Big Business. which dom
mated Wall street then as now, dug
The labor world., 1922-07-01
EXPECTED BLOOD
WOULD BE- Split
Owner Of Herrin Mine Admits
He Expected Trouble.

Chicago, June 29.-Accused OF
having broken his agreement with
the United Mine Workers, William
]. Lester. owner of the strip coal
mine at Herrin, ill.,, admits that he
expected bloodshed when he refused
to shut down operations.
II told Governor Small by tele-
phone that hell would break loose
in Williamson county if he did not
send troops" Lester said on his re-
turn to Chicago from the scene of
the bloodshed Of June %.
Urged before the outbreak to stop
loading of coal as he had agreed to
do early in May, Lester retorted to
Colonel Samuel N. Hunter. Illinois
national guard, I'LL be damned if I
will.''
The agreement Lester is charged
with breaking was concluded with
Frank harrington, president, district
No. 12. U. M. w. A,and provided
that the covering earth could be
stripped from the coal veins. during
the strike but that no coal was to
be loaded or shipped.
Edward Green, Chicago, wounded,
also blames the mine owners and
the employment agencies
'The people to shoot are the mine
owners who lied to get US down here
and then made us do scab work" "
he said. 'These union men are on
the square. I'd have done the same
thing myself. Pm no scab. I tried to
leave the mine when I found out
what we'd been brought from Chi
cago for, but the guards wouldn't
let mo"
The labor world., 1922-07-01
TO CUT FEDERAL
EMPLOYEES WAGE
Appropriations Committee Tries
to Reduce Amount Of Bonus.

Washington, June 29.-The house
Of representatives appropriation COM
mittee has introduced bill cutting
$50 a year off the wages of gov
ernment employees receiving less than
$2,5oo by reducing the bonus from
$240 to $3.50. The committee claims
that living costs have slumped and
that the policy of congress is to pay
government workers enough to buy
a living and no moro.
Officials of the National Fedora
ton of Federal Employees contend
that rents are notoriously higher
than during the war" and that prices
of most Of the necessaries Of life
have materially advanced in the last
few months.
= The government will save s13,-
464,12O by the cut
The labor world., 1922-07-01

senator in the shins it would have
been "headlined" throughout the
nation and, provided an hours dis
cussion for the barber shop states
men. That kind of news is "safe."
The steel trust owns a manganese
mine in Brazil and wants the metal
to come in free. There it gets it's la
Dor for 20 cents a day, and Ameri-
can producers say they can't COM
pete and their mines are being put
out of the running.
1t Is Case of Grab.
Senator Nicholson showed that the
steel. trust now is protected on it's
products at the rate of $11.04 per
ton. or 80 1-3 per cent. The man.
ganese rate asked for would have
increased the cost only 16 cents per
ton! But the steel trust fought 1t
to the finish! Therefore, Nicholson
calls the steel trust "selfish!" And
he wants the tariff clapped on man
ganese to protect American work.
ing men and help develop Ameri-
can industry.
This fight among the high priests
Of protection illustrates the fact that
there is no guiding principle in our
tariff making except that of grab,
no longer any pretense that the tar
iff is intended to take up the Diff
ference in production costs here and
abroad. no longer much considera-
tion for anybody but those who have
money to contribute to campaign
funds.
The point in this story, however,
is: Why was Nicholson's speech sup
pressed? A couple of Washington
correspondents attached tv the SEN
ate press gallery were asked about
it. And these wise old reporters re-
sponded: I'VE were afraid of it,"
Which being interpreted means that
they knew if they put the story on
the wire it would no: have been
printed; and they would have been
in for call down from their editors
since as intelligent men they should
have known that the Steel Trust has
..prefereitial consideration" among
knowing editors as Well as politicians
and that too much truth about that
fam mous institution is taboo.
The labor world., 1922-07-01
WASHINGTON COMMISSION
SUES BIG RENT GOuGERS

The Washington Rent commission
has brought suits in the courts here
against over 200 rent profiteers who
owe tenants 100000 in rents COL
lected beyond the figures fixed by
the rent commission. The profiteers
are also liable for $4,000 in fines
for violation of the rent commits
sion's decrease. The landlords gam
commission act unconstitutional,
raised rents right and left in spite
Of the commissions ruling, and COL
lected the unlawful amounts from
tenants who paid under threat Of
eviction.
The labor world., 1922-07-01
keep WAGES uP;
REDUCEPROF|TS
Canadian Cancellation Board
Member Gives Good Advice.

Ottawa, Can., June 29.-"I have
consistently, and I think irrefutably,
taken the position that in periods
Of depression. such as we are un-
fortunately experiencing, dividends
should be sacrificed before the
worker should be compelled to ac-
cept less thap living wage," de-
clared Mr.. McDougall, mine workers
representative on the government
conciliation board considering the
demand Of the Nova Scotia mine
owners for s.~drastic wage cut.
The government and. employer
members of the board. constituting
the majority, disagreed with Mr..
McDougall and approved the wage
cut on the ground that the present
market price of coal docs not give
the mine owners profit"
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up the cash to defeat Bryanism. The
insurance companies contributed
generously of the peoples money
they were holding in trust. They took
mortgage on the Republican party.
The time had come to pay the mort
gage.
Greed Was Rampant.
Mark Hanna undertook to pay the
debt with the peoples money. Every
conceivable form Of privilege was
granted. Greed was rampant. Its de.
sires were boundless. Hanna bossed
congress as he had done his sailors
and stevedores on the Great Lakes.
Ee was the sort of boss that could
handle a hundred men as easily as
one and make them all believe he
was doing them favor. That fac
ulty was his chief asset. with the
aid Of money. Without money it
was worthless. It ceased to be fac
ulty. ~ =
Four years of Hannaism under
Mckinley and two under Roosevelt
were sufficient for the time: La Fol-
lette sprang up in Wisconsin, and
several more of less courage and
steadfastness in other states, to
challenge the rule of privilege under
Hanna. La Toilette toured the eoun-
try, read the. records of the Hanna
vassals to ; the people, and one by
one they were returned to the OBJ
livion from which they came. =
All Were Vanquished.
. Plat and Depew of New York,
Hale Of Msine. spooner and ouarles
The labor world., 1922-07-01
DEFECTIVE mr. BRAKES ..
=, CAUSE BAD ACCIDENT

Cumberland, Nd. June 22-Defec-
tive air brakes on the strike-bound
Western Maryland railroad caused
d serious freight wreck seven miles
from here. Forty box cars were
demolished and automobiles, grain
and perishables scattered along the
track, while telegraph lines were
demolished for nearly = mile.
The strike has been on for sew
eral weeks because the railroad con-
tracted its repair work to 4 concefn
that Immediately cut wages ana re-
duced working conditions
The labor world., 1922-07-01
CHARTER ISSUED
FOR TRA|NMEN'S
NATIONAL BANK
Minnesota Rail Unions to 0pen
Cooperative Bank.

A charter was granted late last
week by the comptroller of the cur
rency in Washington to the "Trans-
portation National bank" in Mime
apolis. The opening of the bank
will occur about Sept. /. 1t will be
owned and controlled by the four
big railroad brotherhoods.
The proposed bank will be pat
termed after the Big Four" bank of
Cleveland. The stock will be sold ex-
clusively to members of the four
brotherhoods. The secretary of the
committee on organization is w. P.
Kennedy Of Minneapolis, chairman
Of the 500 line employees of the B.
of r. T.
Dividends in the proposed bank
to stockholders will be limited to 10
per cent. The remainder of any sur
plus will be used to build up a re-
serve as is required by law. After
the surplus requirement shall have
been met the balance will be dis
tributed among savings depositors
and placed in trusts funds on a pro
rata basis,
I'm other words" said Mr.. Ken
nedy, the depositors of the bank
will be partners in the bank and
will share in the earnings. This Is
one of the principles of cooperation.
Cooperation recognizes that those
who make business profita BILE
should share in the profits they cre-
ate.
According to Mr.. Kennedy. the
bank will do the regular business of
national bank. and later on a trust
company will be organized. He also
stated that the establishment of such
a bank in Minneapolis would be of
great assistance to the various CO.
operative concerns already in oper-
alton. such as the Union Building
and Loan association, the Franklin
Cooperative creamery, the Coop
erative restaurant and the Cooper
ative laundry.
With the organization Of the
Transportation National bank of
Minneapolis. organi: ed labor will
nave five cooperative financial in
stitutions in the United States. Re-
Gently = similar bank was opened in
Chicago. : The original cooperative
bank to open it's doors was that of
tho Brotherhood Of Locomotive En-
glneers Of Cleveland, which has been
IN existence about a year and a half,
with reported resources Of $15,O00,-
600. A corporation allied with this
bank is the Brotherhood of Loco
motive Engineers Holding company.
which has bought control Of the
Nottingham Savings & Banking COM
pany, also of Cleveland, which is
capitalized at $4,000, with reported
resources Of $525,000. It has one of
the Oldest saving charters In north
ern Ohio.
Other Similar Banks.
At their recent convention in Dal-
las, Texas. the Brotherhood of Rail-
wya and Steamship Clerks voted to
establish bank in Cincinnati with
a capital of $500,000.
The executive board of the Order
OF Railroad Telegraphers has OBJ
tanned q charter for a bank capital
lied at 100000 plus 100000 sur
plus. Workers of Birmingham, Ala..
are organizing there the Federated
Bank & Trust company, with a cap
ltal stock of 100000.
The labor world., 1922-07-01

he1lO&S Is Ou1rlcuOly.
Senator Kellogg has done nothing
to help manganese mine owners. The
senate finance committee is no,
friendly, but the manganese inter.
ests succeeded in getting enough
votes to protect their metal from
the cheaply mined foreign manga.
nese, in spite of the opposition of the
financec committe and the attitude
Of Senator Kellogg.
During the debate on the manga
nese provision in the tariff bill Sen.
ator Nicholson of Colorado, a con-
servative Republican, surprised his
colleagues when he made a terrific
attack upon the United States Steel
corporation, in which he denounced
the steel interests method of dictat.
ing to congress tariff rates which
will make their millionaires richer
at the expense Of the rest of the
people.
The Steel Trust" said Senator
Nicholson, 'is dishonest because /,
is impossible to determine the true
annual earnigns Of the corporation
by an examination of it's annual re-
ports.
1t Was Unpatriotic.
1T was unpatriotic because it ex-
hibited the outrageous spectacle Of
a great monopolistic combine goug-
ing the consuming public for enor.
nous dividends, credits to surplus
and additions to property investme ent
at time when the nation is strug-
Cling in the throes Of war to the tune
Of hundreds of millions.
1T is a corruptor Of government
because it seems to be more strong
ly intrenched so far as getting pref
erential consideration than any 9th.
er industry that know of.
Its gross profiteering before
during and since the war, was shown
up by, an array Of figures prepared
by a reliable expert which stuns the
imagination and which have not
been and cannot be denied"
Not single newspaper in thu
United States carried a line of thi,
speech, which filled six. pages in thu
Congressional Record! No press as:
sociatfon reported it! Yet if Sena.
tor Nicholson had kicked anothe,
The labor world., 1922-07-01
UNION RECOGNIZED.

The c. c. S. cigar manufacturing
company Of Boston which dropped
the union label and started the man
ufacture of n1achine-made non union
cigars in New York a couple Of years
ago, has returned to the Union fold.
The company will resume the manu-
1acture Of handmade union cigars
IN Boston and scrap the machinery
bought when it went unfair.
The labor world., 1922-07-01
PORK TO GO UPo

Pork is particularly we'll sup
piled with those mysterious bene-
flcial substances known as vita
mines, announces the bureau of ami
NAL industry of the agricultural de-
partment. It is expected that the
meat packers will capitalize, the dis
covery by boosting the price Of pork
products.
The labor world., 1922-07-01
HARDING HEARkENS T0>APPEAL
OF CHURCHMEN TO END STRIKE
President Calls Conference Of Men and Owners Following Plea
From Jew, Catholic and Protestant Churches

Following made by three representative oreanza
lions including Protestant Roman Catholic and Jewish churches
President Harding has called conference mine owners and
union leaders meet in Washington Saturday talk the
coal and the coal STRIKE The president had an extended
interview with John L. Lewis of the union Monday
The labor world., 1922-07-01
TO WAGE CAMPA FOR four
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS
Of l. Would Limit Power Of Courts In DECLARING Laws h.
valid; to Make Changes Much Easier. >

Labor for changing the constitution of the United
,nd tor legislation to secure the right. the people
udca uspation the important actions taken
the Federation of Labor convention at its closing
son IN Cincinnati last week It adopted
The labor world., 1922-07-01
WAGES MAINTAINED.

Tri-City railway employees union
has renewed the wage agreement
with the Tri-City railway company
of Rock Island, Moline and Daven-
port for another year.
The labor world., 1922-07-01
STF trust and Manganese
FL miners SPLIT ON TARIFF:
Big Corporation Has Manganese Nine in Brazil and Wants
Ore to Come Into the United States Free Of DUTY,

Guyana mining headed by George H. Crosby Of
Duluth intensely interested in the a BILL They duty
The Fodney house bill provides for duty
the Of The wanted
take off that duty. compromise has been affected
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The American Jewish world., 1922-10-13
LENIN AND RADEK FIGURE IN
RATHENAU MURDER TRIAL

Berlin q. C. B.)-"Lenin the Jew"
and Radek, the communist leaders, fig
ured in the proceedings of the Rath-
enau murder trial at Leipsic, when
Ernst Techow asserted he believed the
assassinated statesman was -leagued
with the Soviet leaders. DR.. Rath-
enau was believed to be in communica-
tion with Lenin, he said, as one of the
"Elders of Zion" while Radek is con-
nected through family ties, Rathenau's
sister being betrothed to the Soviet
leader
The President of the Court ridiculed
both allegations of the apparently
half-witted Techow, who was the driv-
er of the murder-car from which the
fatal shots were fired.
Techow was among the first three
The American Jewish world., 1922-10-13

this country are in the vanguard of
the American Labor movement. Let
them also be in the vanguard Of the
movement to emancipate their peo-
pie. Do they regard the national re-
establishment of their people con-
trary to the ideals Of International
ism? That is profound error. Only
after securing justice for yourself can
you go out and secure justice for 9th
ers. Internationalism demands the
cooperation of free nations whose
just national aspirations have been
fulfilled. Internationalism is impos-
sible with subjected, prosecuted and
disinherited nations"
This declaration formed the key
note of the speech by Colonel Josiah
G. Wedgewood, vice president of the
British Labor Party and member Of
Parliament, who was welcomed last
night by over thousand Zionists
who filled the Grand Ball Room of
the Hotel Astor, enraptured by the
lecture" the Christian envoy of the
Keren Hayesod delivered to labor
leaders on the platform and in the
audience.
British labor has the sense to
know that the people who stir up race
feeling against the Jews or against
foreigners are just trying to divert
their attention from the Improvement
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Page seven

Foundation Fund, the Keren Hayesod.
Here is fund which enables the Jews
to pool their national capital for the
purpose Of creating and maintaining
in Palestine national institutions and
service aimed not for the private
profit of individuals but for the well
fare and progress of the community
at large. Your Keren Hayesod makes
me feel that the hopes which the
progressive forces of the world have
lodged in the Jewish Homeland are
going to be realized"