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Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1922-08-25
Rail and Coal Shortages Will Be Reflected in Big Industries

was due this fall If conditions con.
tinued TO improve.
Reports Show Car Decline.
Reports just fled by the carriers
with the American Railway Assoeia-
ton show that on July 81 there were
2S,395 less surplus freight cars than
at the end of June. On July II
there were l3i,267 surplus coal ears
In a week or teo there will be no
surplus coal cars, and the priority
orders Of the Federal Fuel Distribu,
tor indicate that all cars suitable for
coal transportation will be allocated
TO the coal industry.
Coal car ALLEGATIONS and priority
orders of all classes are likely To hil
the building Industry harder thar
any other for time. After dis.
counting all thta&iifienlties which thu
building industry will have because
Of failure of cement plants To gel
coal in large quantities, because oi
failure to get transportation foi
building materials, such as sand
stone, steel, and lumber, il appears
that the result will be a temporary
checking of the extraordinary aetiv.
ity of the building trades at its peak
Building has been so heavy through.
out the United States during the
year that surplus supplies have been
consumed. The Portland cement in
dustry, for instance, has been ship,
ping out more cement than II has
produced every month since April
and has not caught up with the de-
mand. A three weeks surplus is all
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1922-08-25
COOPERATIVE
CAFETERIAS
AND FAKES

From opposite sides of the CONT
nent, the All American Cooperative
Commission reports the founding of
two fundamentally different kinds of
cooperative" cafeterias,-one hon
estly organized in Alexandria, Va,
and the other a simon-pure fake in
Los Angeles. The square cooperative
cafeteria has been founded by the
workers of Alexandria, which is just
across the Potomac from Washington,
" T., In order to provide themselves
with noontime meals at cost. The
cafeteria is operated strictly on the
kochdale plan, rebating to the GUS
toners any savings made. 1t is in
competent hands, and is sponsored by
local lodge of the International
Association of Machinists.
Out in Los Angeles the California
state Bureau of Labor has discovered
new brand of fake cooperative mas
qaeradlng under the title of a CO.
operative cafeteria. The promoters
behind this deal, posing as friends of
the workers, have organized a concern
~mch they represented as a "co-op-
eFsuve cafeteria operated by EN-
pioyes.. They then sold to members
Oh the Walters and Cooks Unions and
otner organizations 169 jobs in this
sdIetera for an average of from $500
70 S9oO each. With this money they
nave opened a small cafeteria, giving
!ooS TO few of the workers, and tell
ing the rest to wait until the busi-
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1922-08-25
ON LABOR GETTING READY FOR MONSTER LABOR DAY CELEBRATION

Only a little more than week-and then organized
labor and its friends going to HE themselves the
f grounds in Urbana and celebrate the biggest Labor
nov celebration attempted in this part of the world
Absolutely no doubt of l. that WILL be the biggest for
the committee has worked faithfully for over five months
lining things up and carrying on publicity campaign
that has acquainted all Central Illinois with the magn
tnde of the doings scheduled for Labor Day.
Our own Labor Day celebration is the topic for
orsaton in nearly every village and hamlet for radius
Of rs miles Nowhere within that territory but what you
an see poster picture card telling of the Biggest
Celebration of Any Earth which the committee assured
the people of Champaign and Urbana in store for
them on Sept A.
Weather permitting it is conservatively estimated
that at least $4,000 10000 people will crowd the
fair grounds on that day Representatives of all the
railroads leading into Urbana and Champaign have visit
ed the committee and informed them of the heavy de-
nands being made for that day and assured the commit
tee they would furnish extra equipment to handle the
crowds
OF the free attractions which include everything but
the worlds championship wrestling match between
Johnny Meyers and Paul Prehn, and the two boxing
hihtons between Jimmie Dale and Frank Edwards and
Sammy Hanne vs. Kid Barton, which bouts prelim-
naries to the big wrestling match it is difficult to tell
which should be featured the most they all top
notchers
Vile concert music by of the best bands in the
try-The Associated Musicians and Roy D. Smiths Royal
Scotch Highanders singing by special sooists with the
Highlanders and the Twin City Quartet boxing exhib
tions and battle royal and stunt flying in which 10
flyers will participate, dancing and fireworks.
Extra precautions are being taken to provide safety
for the visitors that day. While everything humanity
possible will be done that accidents misfortunes
might happen first aid tent will be erected the
grounds in charge of competent nurse There will be
rest tent executive tent etc. in fact with concessions and
all there will be about 25 tents erected for the days cee
bation besides stages for the vaudeville and band
concerts Then in the afternoon the big arena will be
erected in front Of the grand stand for the wrestling
match
charge of only fifty cents plus five cents tax is made
for admission the grounds The grand stand seats will
be free until o'clock in the afternoon when the seats will
be arranged for the wrestling match.
Special bleechers are being erected that seats may
be obtained by all to watch the races vaudeville and
fireworks
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1922-08-25

By international Labor News Service.
Washington, d. c., Aug. 24.--Some
unemployment is likely between now
and January ] as a result of the rail
and coal strikes, but the inyestiga-
tions Of the International Labor News
Service do not indicate any serious
situations unless railroad executives
force postponement of settlement
of the railroad strike.
Now that the coal strike is prac-
tically over, there is no likelihood
that any industrial plants will be
closed down for any considerable
period because of lack of coal. Shut
downs will accur here and there, but
this kind of unemployment is not due
to hopeless stagnation, and therefore
is only temporary.
Substitution of bituminous for an
thracite coal WIN cause Inconvenience
to individual householders, but this
condition should be terminated in all
parts of the country in a short time.
The determining factor in the in
dustrial life of the United States for
the next few months will be the in
ability of the railroads TO supply cars
for the transportation of coal and
other commodities. This condition is
not a result of the coal and rail
strikes-although these will have
tended to increase the acuteness of
the shortage-but it is a situation
which has been inevitable for months.
The renewed industrial activity of the
country has been creating car short
age. An extraordinary car shortage
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1922-08-25
that Is now available.
Protest Priority Orders.

that Is now available.
Protest Priority Orders.
Every organized industry in the
United States has been protesting the
priority orders of the Federal Fuel
Distributor, each industry urging for
itself preferred classification. The
arguments have been similar to those
Of the construction industry, which IL
insisting that unless the orders are
modified there will be q shut down Of
four-fifths of the consiruc.irn pro.
iects under way east Of the Mississip-
pl River, involving probably idleness
of 100000 workers.
The situation demands, however,
that the government maintain ils
priority schedule. Certain classes Of
lcoal consumeFs must first be served
There Ii nothing to prevent any coaI
consumer getting coal after the most
vital needs are cared for. No classi.
fication of the relative importance To
the country of individual industries
has, or viii, be attempted. my job
IS of greatest Importance TO me- is
the point of view of every worker,
and he would object 10 the govern
ment chasing his industry as non
essential. There liz no such clasaifi-
cation In peace times. A scramble
for coal on the part of industries not
given priority is therefore inevitable.
A similar scramble for freight cars Is
also inevitable. There will therefore
be no idleness for either coal work
ers or rail workers for long time To
come
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1922-08-25
BAERFACTS---
By ]. NJ. BAER, The Congressman Cartoonlst.
international Labor News Service)
FOR 600 A YEAR

When cheap notorety- politician wants to get
into the lmeight look outi
to a a
get ms name in the newspaper gossip
Lieutenant Pelham A. Barrows, while acting governor
Of Nebraska, job a strike guard the Burlington Railroad
ne In excellent because most OF the stkebeaKe are
Jahbfds porchclimbers thieves, crooks and gunmen
As this dirty work done for the open
Lieutenant he only SbOO
for his Nebraska and is compelled to
o work
he knew what his when he took the joo Maybe MS
Dig interest friends did not through
1t better Barrows believed setting example by
living his 5000 per year. section hands under the new wage
GUT only receives S56304 maximum income per year: ne oe
honest ne could show how railroad workers and their ahes can i've
on the or less.
But prefers guard Stacker ab strkebeake IN
order little publicity for himself; thus he helps 70 prevent
million honest laborers fromob obtaining living wage.
Governor would the workers and the farmers
Nebraska who robbed the past OF u " r
haonf Barrows the people of his State they "oea
him to could
per year Instead he prefers to the eXpo VINO nave
exists the WORKERS
farmers Nebraska prefers for Mammon and ne gets
ltue money for it. He receives than he is worth
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1922-08-25
OUR BROTHERS, The RAILROAD sHOPMEN
BY MERER GREENE JOHNSON

We have considered the ground. Of this strike
with painSiaking care. We have listened 10 lhe
arguments pro and con. and thought upon them. We
have faced the aglier possibilities Of the strike with
troubled heat And here i eur opinion. fhe
railrQsd shopmen are right Ia the stand they have
taken They strongly in the right ia the stand
they have taken that they would be decidedly in tie
wrong II they had not taken that stand.
NOT ONLY HAVE THEY NOT SiNNEn
AGAINST THE GENERAL WELFARE Rh TAX
ING THAT STAND, But THEY WOULD HAVE
SlNNkD AGAINST THE GENERAL WELFARE
IL THEY HAD FAILED TO rAkE IT.
Ii Was their plain duty, not merely to themselves
of their families but to society, 10 take that stand
and 60 maintain il.
1T Is NOT SOCIAL LOYALTY. IN Is SOCIAL
TRkACnERN NOT To TAKE A STAND
AGAINST THE SOCIAL MARAlDER or TIE
ArTkRRuRY TYPE MASQuERADlNG As 4
SAVIOR OF SOCIETY.
Our brothers, the shopmen are not less worthy
of our love and trust by reason of the stand they
have taken they worthy of them. Aud
this though the stand they have taken may make
serious demands upon the rest of US. The stand was
accessory not only from the standpoint az the shop
men but of the whole social body that the predatory
groups plan to loot the naament its resistance Is
weakened Therefore we must bear with euuanmlts
share Of whai IL costs 10 make the stand. II
at any time tempted 10 feel sick and tired
of the strike. let remember that but for the fact
that we had let our lazy social eonseienees lie abed
and slumher when they should have been up and
doing, there would have beer. strike
'The author is a weknown Episcopal clergyman
and author
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1922-08-25
UNITED NINE
WORKERS WIN
COAL STRIKE
tBy A. Il. of /. News servlee)

Cleveland. Joint conference al
bituminous ooal owners and repreaen'
tatives OF the United Mine Workers
has resulted ia an agreement which
viii temporary continue present wage
ratcs. The settlement means a col
lapse of the opposition 90 the mine
workers in fields controlled by the
union prior TO the strike. The coal
owners that are parties 10 the agree
ment are from West Virginia, Penn
sylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan,
Oklahoma and Washington. This
agreement takes the place Of The old
four state agreement.
The check oil remains, wages have
not been reduced nor compulsory arbi-
tration established, three things anti
unionists predicted would happen.
On October z next both parties
will meet In this city 20 arrange for
negotiating IA new agreement 10 be-
come effective April 1 next, when
the present agreement expires.
A conference will also be called 10
arrange for machinery 10 prevent fur
ther strikes. Another gain by the
miners Is the agreement that a com
mittee of inquiry, or "faet-fnding
commission, be created 90 investigate
the industry and develop facts for
the benefit of all concerned.
The agreement has destroyed all
prospect Of agreements based ON
states and districts. II has also de-
stroyed all possibility of compulsory
arbitration IN the mining industry. In
commenting on the settlement John l..
Lewis, president of the United Mine
Workers, said.
"The settlement Is an honorable
one TO all concerned. it does not
carry any wage reduction, neither
does IL barter away the rights of the
workers by commitment to afbltra-
don. A tremendous drive has been
made against the mine workers upon
both these issues, but they have been
successfully resisted"
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1922-08-25
; Labor Day Program
Observation-Disclosures

3 to 12--Associated Musicians Band.
9:3O--Contest and games.
10:30-Baseball. Painters of Decatur
VS.. !. +. of Champaign.
l2:30--Races.
l:30-Concert. Smiths ROYAL Scotch
Highlanders Band.
2:00--Vaudeville.
3:30--Battle Royal and Boxins.
4:00-Stunt Flying, Is Planes.
4:l5--Labor Day Address and Con
cert by Associated Musicians
Band and Twin City Quartet.
S:00--Vaudeville
7:00--Added Attraction. Prehn-
Meyers Worlds Champion
ship Wrestling Match. Two
Boxing Exhibitions--Jimmie
Dale va. Frank Edwards, 122
pounds, six rounds; Kid Bar
ton VS.. Sammy Hanne, los
pounds, eight rounds. Music
by Associated Musicians
Bank and Twin City Quartet
7:30-Concert by Smiths Royal
Scotch Highlanders Band.
10:15--Fireworks
Dance all day and evening at Flor
al Hall, Fair Grounds, and evening be-
ginning at o'clock in the Pavilion
at Crystal Lake Park.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1922-08-25

Sure they are our brothersl They are mol nle
ehanieal toys to be played WITH broken, and 10 Be
away By the spoiled children Of the hard boied
class
Sure they are our brothers, They not just
hands, To be bought, like gloves by the pair OF
gross. and out and thrown on the trash-rse
and forgotten.
Sure, they are our brothcrs They are net
moukey-wr enehes, mere human wrenchsh
They are not adjustable tools. They not monde
script automatic manipulaters of tools and machines
They men, with all the parts and passions with
all the hopes and fears, with all the loves and loyal
ties OF complete First last and all the tlnas
they human beings. And each one of the 100 -
shopmen strike is just distinct a human being
as your brother, father. husband--with IN<t
about the same proportions of sweet simplicity an
cantankerous eompexity Human all too human
like the rest of Made in the image Of Gsd,
way down yonder in the well-nigh inaccessible depths
OF their troubled hearts, and therefore made after
the very pattern of YOU and me.
Sure, they brothers-hone Of our bone,
hesh of flesh, spirit of our spirit They be
long" And that unbiased brotheriy heart viii
deny.
So We trust that the whole body Of the people
Of country will deal faithfully with brothers,
The railroad shopmen. in the stand they have taken
against further exploitation by those who pretend
to represent the common welfare but who really
represent interests that have always pfeyed that
are this moment preying and devising nsdious
schemes to prey forever more to prey without ceak
ing and without mercy upon the people who con
stitute the backbone and the snew and the hope ef
America.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1922-08-25
CO.OPERATORS SUP
PORT mo MORE
WAR CAMPAIGN

The co-operators Of Europe have
Joined hands with labor and religious
bodies for a united mo More War"
campaign upon the anniversary of
the outbreak OF the world war in Eu-
rope, July Goth 10 August 9Th. Pub
lie demonstrations viii be neld. in
cluding parades, meetings and adj
dresses 10 educate the people regard-
ing the cost of war in blood ano
money and the futility Of securing
righteousness BY appeals to force.
European eo-operators are united IN
demand to the legislatures Of their
respective nations that war shall be
forever outlawed and treaties Of arbi-
tration concluded among the great ma
tions. Postcards, letters, teleQrams
and other means Of appeal are being
used In this campaign. Since the
goal Of cooperation is a world broth
erhood, the "No More War" campaign
IS simply a concrete expression of the
cooperative ideal.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1922-08-25
"CAN'T STRIKE
LAW Is USED
TO CUT WAGES
INV A. +. of 4. News seryico)


Sidney, New South Wales.--The
wage reducing plot 10 pauperixe
Australian workers has been advane-
ed hy Premier Fuller, who says his
administration will ask the passage
Of bin that will empower the com.
pulsory arbitration court to- tiN wages
not on the basis of the cost of living,
but "ai the rate that industry can
pay"
The Fuller proposal means that the
compulsory arbitration courts will be
openly used for the benefit Of employ
rfa.
In calling upon workers TO stop
their ''lnsensate wrangling" and be
loyal 10 one another, the Australian
Worker says;
Before many months elapse waRes
viii be legally fixed IN this country at
any low level which the captains of
industry declare 10 be essential in the
interests Of dividends and profits.
"Up 10 the present basic wage
has regulated the economic conditions
Of the workers. That system Is 10 be
swept away. Employers Of labor will
be asked what they can afford "a pay
and the courts viii then seek TO inn
pose upon the workers the rates the
employers offer.
"a serious crisis looms ahead for
the unioniats Of Australia. There can
be no doubt that an organized assault
Is going TO be made upon them
through the industrial courts and the
standard of living abolished az the
factor which determines wages.
"The exploiting class is fashioning
a new weapon 10 be used against
them, The courts are TO be trans
formed into agencies for the degrada-
tion Of labor. The sweater IL about
10 be invested with the sanction of the
law"
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1922-08-25
WILL PLAY BALL
. FOR STRIKING
RAILROAD MEN

On or about the 6th Of September
the Commercial baseball league will
play an exhibition game of baseball
the entire receipts Of which will BE-
turned over 10 the striking railway
workers of the Twin Cities.
Two picked teams Of the best play
ers Of the league wall be selected, and
there Is no doubt the game viii be
among the best ever played in the
Twin Cities.
Arrangements Of details, time Of
game. etc. are being completed, and
tickets will be on sale iu a few days
II Is expected organized labor VA
turn out in force with "a tWo-fold OBJ
iect in yieW-seeing a ratlllng geoe
ball game and financially helping u
provide for those who are nov hghi.
ing the big fight for al organized
labor.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1922-08-25
GOVERNMENT IN BUSINESS
is BAD FOR PROFIT
TAKERS.

.r An illustration of what hap /.
i. pens when the government goes t.
i. into business comes from New /.
i. Jersey: :
=. Reductions averaging 20 per +.
j. cent in employers liability in !.
!. suranee rates have been an .
i. nounced by the state banking .
=. and insurance commissioner. i.
- The new rates cover policies .
!. now in force as well as those .
y. newly written. 1t is estimated .
>. that a saving Of nearly $1,000 .
=. 900 year will result to the :
=. manufacturers :
\. 1t is further announced that .
=. in the near future it will be pos .
y. sible to increase payments on :
=. liability policies, which will be :
:. helpful to workers. .
!. New Jersey passed up the :
...old-line companies and went into :
>. the insurance business on its .
y. own hook. 1t has managed so .
=. well that it is now in position to :
=. make rates so low that private .
>. company competition is hope .
=. lessly handicapped.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1922-08-25

ness grows. Meanwhile, the workers
have no cooperative voice in the man
agement of the concern. To their
sorrow they have learned too late that
this brand of Cooperation" consists
in removing their hard-eaned dollars
from their own pockets to the bank
accounts of slick-tongued promoters
who sneak under the name of true CO.
operation in order to betray co-opera-
tons friends.
The All American Cooperative
Commission of Cleveland has just is
sued pamphlet on How to Detect
Fake Co-operatives" which will save
many thousands of dollars for work
ers who are wise enough to follow its
authoritative advice.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1922-08-25
intermittent PARLEYS
DO NOT HALT CREEPING
PARALYSIS ON RAILROADS
Chicago Stock Yards Get Only 5000 Cattle Daily IN
stead Of Normal 10000

BY International Labor News Service
Chicago. Aue. "a Striking rail,
road shepmea have not been ehlafa.
formed hs the hteruuttent peaoe par.
ieyS conducted By President nanhnp
at Wsshlnatea daging the past tvs
weeks. Neither were they surprised
when ,he President son,ersaulted aNei
night Ia his position on the question
Of seniority rights, tle apparently
cannot forget big business which
nominated MN at the Chicago con.
venion IN la2o. tic II much los 4
free agent than any failread emploss
on strike.
Thefefe9 while negotiations vert
on, the strikers continued to SInAgth.
en- their pesiuens all along the Inc
Reports coming u the railway en-.
ployes' department here Indicate tina,
= powerful reserve force il ready t.
ba brought up 60 the line af battle
just as soon As More pressure Is ncetl.
ed 60 compel railroad executives e
talk shop in = language that i com.
prehenelhle Ia the Workers.
stock Yards barometer.
Besides. thu equipment Is detelior
ating SO rapidly that the men have ne
ea0se for Worry over the class OF
mechanics being, recruited to take
their places. There is plenty Of evi.
dence TO this effect Ina addition 70 tbs
statement Of Chairman MeChord OF
the Interstate Iommerce Commits
sion thai motive power is on a pro.
gressive decline, with 80 per cent oi
locomotives III an unfit condition. To
day only 1900 head OF cattle reached
the Chicago asoekyar,ls against AN
average of 10000 per day before the
strike. II is sand Ia the local papers
that the yards will Soon be compelled
TO close unless the strike Is settled
Chief Warren s. Stone, of III,
brotherhood of Locomotive Engin
GERS, Is quoted ~ saying that repartl
coming from his men in the cabs In
dieate that 50 per cent of the loeomo
tives are defective aud getting wnrs,
each day. Passenger and freigh
trains start from terminal points viii
40 assurance they win reach theil
destination.
lss,ns Made Clear.
One beneneinl ELECT of the parley
at Washington has been 20 acqnain
the people with the real Issues Ia coa
1,roversy aud guide them iu nsinI
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1922-08-25
STADIUM SPORT SHOP
FURNISHES PRIZES FOR
LABOR DAY CELEBRATION

Manager Stoop Of the Stadium
Sport Shop is doing his part to make
the Labor Day races a success. lie
has voluntarily offered several sub
stantial prizes TO be competed for by
the boys and girls In the different
events.
The Stadium Sport Shop Is a new
venture in Champaign, and caters TO
all forms Of athletics. II fills long
felt want in local sporting clnlea,
and will no doubt prove Of great
benefit to those seeking articles Of
this nature