Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1923-07-06
COMMENT AND CRITT-
CISM ABOUT THINGS
DOING IN THE WORLD

The Employees Association OF
Chicago breaks into the Chicago pa
pers with big ads in an effort to fight
the electric railway employees. OF
course the employers didn't succeed,
but that wasn't their fault. That
was because the workers in that oc-
cupation have solid, fighting union.
But the employers said this in their
paid advertisements:
'In behalf of our thousands of en-
ployes we appeal to an indignant pub
lic,," etc. .
Now where do these employers get
off at appealing 'in behalf of our
thousands of employees" to an 'indig
nant public ?"
Did the employees Nelegate these
employers to act as spokesman They
did not
Did the public authorize the en-
ployers to say that the public was i'm
dignant? II did not.
1t was all pure bluff and bunk.
Not single union of employees
registered any protest against the
just demands OF the carmen. On the
the carmen. And the public, which
is largely composed of union work
ers, has registered nothing but salts
faction. =
How long will organized reaction
AIRY employers try to get away with
taking and n1isrepresenting and spe-
cial pleading?
Capital always has the interests of
the workers at heart Yes, likell it
does!
If unions and public sentiment per-
mitted it we should still have peon-
age, dungeons deep and dark, the
galley slave and the indenture of
youth.
{ We've just had an exposure of
| peonage in Florida lumber camps.
Now comes another good old game
releasing prisoners for private en-
ployment.
The International Seamen's Jour
nal calls attention to this good old
game, quoting from a description in
the Fresno tCal.) Bee:
| Twelve men, serving sentences in
the Fresno County Jail for offenses
ranging from plain drunk to grand
larceny, were parolled yesterday and
started on their way to fish Gamer
les in Alaska"
The Alaska Packers Association
| has recruiting agents combing Cali
fornia jails for recruits-and 1T gets
them. The prisoners go under con-
tract to spend six months i'm Alaska,
| wheer they~will arrive shortly before
President Harding reaches that ter
ritory. The Alaska fishermen are or
| q pizpH hitf 70 oap,,a,a,t MY, "A. III
| decline the benefits of unionism,
| wherein there seems to be a lesson
too obvious for repetition.
/ As the Seamen's Journals says, the
same practice used to obtain in man.
nlng ships, but when the seamen
became organized and voiced their
protest against such disposal of
criminals that practice gradually went
out of fashion," as
| There are those that don't like to
have unkind words said about the
bolsheviks or their American agents.
So be it. Truth, however, will out.
| The soviets have set out to cap
ture the world wheat market and they
say they'll do it if they have to sell
wheat at half price. Starvation in
Russia? Oh, let American charity
take care of that!s
| Another matter comes along. The
communist party has come to the con-
/ clusion that the anti-religious cru
SADIE has been going too far" and
wrong methods" have been used
The campaign will be fixed up to look
a little different and then business
will go on as usual There must be g
little diplomacy mixed with the
smashing; that's all.
| Gov. Aliens Kansas court got it il
the neck with a supreme court de
cision the very day Allen landed OF
his return from Europe, where he tolt
the statesmen how to solve theil
problems.
| President Gompers, after reading
the supreme court decision, re
marked, Il wonder whether Gov. AL
len would now care to resume the
debate we had on the Kansas court.
Aliens scheme meant compulsory
labor, which is forbidden by the con,
sitution. The supreme court decide:
that Labor was right this time.
Another reactionary idea is cooked
The world moves.
| Theirs a good joke on Mrs. Hard.
ing and Mrs. Lasker. They didn't
know the Leviathan ioy-ride "trial
run" was to be stag party. They
invited women friends. Then they
learned the sad truth. Only men on
board
This may seem hard on the women
but let them console themselves with
the thought that the men are monop-
ohzing something of which nobody is
going to have any right to be very
proud.
The Leviathan's trial run isn't a
TRIAL run. 1t is joy ride, pure and
Simple-a huge waste of public
money, which, of course, will not
worry the MASTERS.
Schenectady has an ordinance which
forbids men having less than two
weeks of experience to operate street
cars. | strike the city seeks to
enforce the ordinance. That would
keep out most strike breakers.
The state supreme court steps in.
Justice Angel issues an injunction
which prevents the city from enforc-
| ing the ordinance.
On the Schenectady text Elihu Root
ought to be able to write wonder
full essay about the infallibility of the
courts.
Judge Scores Diplomacy.
/ Washington --"Ordinarv dinlor,a ~,