The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1922-01-05

tar:yy reduction of 10 per cent on all
farm commodities. This 10 per cent
reduction was offered for months
only. unless the railroads succeeded
in reducing wages still further. Thus
an attempt was made to line up farm
ers and other shipping interests In
the drive on railroad labor. The COM
mission, however, has refused to an
null it's order.
~ It is expected that the 10 per cent
voluntary reduction will take erect
on other commodities than those GOV:
cred by the commission order.
There is a rumor that the big ship
pers and the Farm Bureau Federation
and the National Grange have made
a treaty of peace with the railroad ex-
ecutives and that, the executive prop
uganda against railroad labor will be
furthered by this alliance. Farmers
in general, however, will not be taken
in by this railroad plot If they know
the facts of the situation.
If the railroads had used the 400
million reduction in wages OBTAINED
on July 1 for lowering rates, there
might be more readiness in the pubic
mind to accept the promise that fur-
Their reductions in wages would be re-
Elected in lower rates.
But there is great number OF peo-
pie on the farms as we'll as in tho
cities who are unwilling to get few
cents advantage. for themselves by
helping large business to rob any
great class of people.
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ANOTHER TRUST "KILLED"
. Conservatives themselves m u st
laugh at the attempt to meet certain
grave modern problems with the con-
servative policy.
The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion has now become aware OF the
railroad trust and is going to break
it up by an approved method. Will
liam Rockefeller, Harold S. Wander
bilt and George S. Baker are ordered
tn give uD a number of their director
| ships and other railroad offices on De-
cember 81. a.,
These gentlemen are heavy stock
! holders in the corporations they were
ordered to resign from and thus de-"
stroy the railroad trust, and hence
will elect their own men to fill their
places.
We suspect that the gentlemen on
the Interstate Commerce Commission
have good smoker among them
selves over the prospects OF Rookie
feller's, Vanderbilt's, and Bakers
I hired men breaking up their neatly
arranged railroad trust.
This is the only remedy which con-
servatiyes have offered so far for the
trust problem except that of giving
the monopolists greater opportunity
for profteering.
| pEes RELEASE LIKELY
On December % the president had
a conference with Attorney General
.Daugherty on the 1877 political pris'
oners still confined for alleged viola
tions of wartime laws, and it is un'
derstood that many of these are to be
> released before Christmas.
While at this time the list has not
been given out, it is assumed that
Eugene w. Debs, prominent socialist
Il leader, who has been. confined in the
| federal prison at Atlanta for nearly
four years, is among the number.
The attorney generals office EN-
phasized that no general amnesty was
: intended, but rather each case was
; considered on individual merits and
: that executive clemency was simply
extended on larger scale than usual
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PANAMA CANAL GAINS .
J., The traffic through the Panama
|: canal during the past year has beer
} nearly twice that of 1915. The 1927
+ total is greater than that for any o.
, the war years. We thus have another
, illustration of successful public un
! dertaking totally out of the range ant
power Of private enterprise on which
many of our wild-eyed private owner
: ship cranks could devote q great dea
t Of profitable thought. - - ~
I AeoLisHEs SENATE r"
l The state of Queensland, Australia
1 | is the first important state to act Of
Q the agitation for single Legislative
! council, since Great Britain took ava!
3 the major powers of the House o
: Lords about 1910. = ~..-. -.G5
J. Queensland has abolished its uppe
house. s< - =.
i Its constitution provided that tn
e upper house could be abolished onl
: by majority vote Of its members; 8
= the labor government, which dom
r mates that state, swamped the uppe
d house with labor members who. wer
|, pledged to abolish it. The action wa