The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1922-04-15

rely upon secret reports by secretly
freated news services" While op-
lerating under the name of news
(service" or Service" they are really
bdetective agencies whose duties are
% learn what the administration and
Congress are doing or intend to do.
Of9 course, to incorporate the word
detective" In the name of such an
institution would be too glaring an
explanation of it's purposes and also
too plebeian to those who depend
}upon-it for information.
Once in while one of these secret
reports finds its way into the office
OF the $American Federation Of
J Labor. The latest was letter No.
fS7, sent out by the Whaley-Eaton
Service, Columbia Trust Building,
1855 Fifth Avenue, New York City.
! 5t Is Labelled For Clients Only" and
%Conf1dential." Among the start
: ping things said in this letter are the
following:
That in view of certain assurances
given to Lloyd George and Poincare
ny the Soviet authorities. Russia
will within a few months be "yoked
to the chariot of organized, orderly
progress and will be taking "her
part in the reha abilitation of the
, world" with the approval Of the
United States.
THAT this informal understanding
between the United States and the
allies is we'll defined movement to
keep Congress in session until Nov
In
inner circles" is the "conceded in
eVitability Of critical international
decisions being reached during the
summer months"
That at the proper time Congress
Will be asked to recommend an
American official to sit on the Repa-
.rations Commission.
! That the, offer Of Henry. Ford .on
the Muscle Shoals project will be
hsaded off by appropriations for the.
continuance of the work by the gov
ernment. 1t will be contended that
I water power Of such enormous
: military Importance can not proper
iy be turned over to one individual
whose heirs and assigns might for
the purposes Of profit become pro-
Nyokers of war"
Consideration is also being given
70 proposals to develop a system of
government water powers as a meas
-Yure of preparedness and to utilize
at least one great Site in the west
@Roth Of these projects are to be re-
tHined permanently under govern
rnent ownership
That Chairman McCumber of the
SENATE Finance Committee has lost
control to Senators Smoot, Curtis
and Watson, who found enough
votes to defeat the chairman in the
dye fight.
That the tariff bill will not be
passed until after the Genoa confer
ence, and that Congress will consi-
der the principle Of foreign instead
of Am erican valuation as a basis of
rates. An ultimate compromise will
probably be reached in favor of the
Sn1o9t substitute for the Fordney
valuation plan.
That the bonus bill is one of the
least, Of the troubles Of the leaders
in Congress, but the real problem is
how ITO put. over sales tax
That some form of sales tax will
be operative by this time next year.
:, That the Shipping Board officials
wcre tremendously exercised by
report reaching them from New
York that the Standard Oil would
OPPOSE the ship subsidy proposal.
That an effort was being made to
m AXE the coal strike an ''open shop"
battle; that representative of the
&, n an, her of co,p -, oroo ~ CO. E1rop
= cisco was reported. to be in the coal
d fields urging an "open shop" fight
and that large contributions for this
purpose had been rendered. -.
That certain congressman who had
fntroduced resolutions to force the
Presidents hand in the st. Lawrence
waterway project were called into a
private. conference and informed
: that IL the President was to be har-
assed In this way he would hardly
ARE to move independently on that
question. The congressman there
fore laid down. and tre President
will follow his original plan to make
the project an administration meas
IRE by going ahead with diplomatic
negotiations in connection with the
matter.
That signs of closer contact be-
tween the Interstate Commerce Com
mission and the Railway Labor
Boa rd means that the wage and rate
questions will hereafter bear a closer
relationship in-'their solution.
Much Of the Information given by
the Whaley-E Eaton Service and by
other Services" is known to be true.
The following from Il the former
shows the methods being used to lull
thsepeoplesinto false security:
%"It is the policy OF leaders to let
1.-THE impression get abroad that Con-
gress is undisciplined and out of con-
troll. 1t would not be wise to ascribe
-. to present leadership to6:great a de-
gree Of subtlety, but clients can as
sure themselves that the adminfstra-
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