Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1923-05-25
B0ycOtting Sugar.


President Harding has appealed to
all Americans to boycott sugar. A
boycott is a method of striking. In
this case it is against the corporations
that own the factories in which sugar
is produced.
President Harding has therefore
really called for a nationwide strike
against sugar manufacturers. His
appeal and public declaration in eff
| feet. calls for, all in one, strike, a
sympathetic strike, a boycott, and a
secondary boycott.
1t is an act for which his admins
tration has particularly distinguished
itself, in eondemning and furnishing
working men in our country. The
only difference being that they 1.-THE
workers. practice it for the purpose
of protecting their hours of labor,
wage standards, which determines
their standard of living for them
selves, their wives and children; their
condition of labor, which means their
health, their lives and limbs.
Thinking people are wondering how
it can be right and lawful for the
chief executive of a nation and his
entire administration to do these
things (for political purposes) and
at the same time, be wrong, viola
ton of lava criminal offence, pun
ishable with fine, Jail sentence or
deportation, when working men take
that same action for purposes enum-
Grated above.
There Is another angle from which
this matter is being viewed, that is
exciting deep concern and wonder on
the part of thinking American people.
President Hardihg's administration,
through Attorney General Daugherty,
head of the Department of Justice,
and w. J. Burns, head of the Secret
Service Department (so-called) en-
ployed Federal Judge Wilkerson, and
the previous administration, through
the same departments, employed
| Federal Judge Anderson, and through
them, got out injunctions and de-
| clared they would use the army and
navy of the United States If neces-
sary, to reduce the waves of, or pre-
vent wages being increased, by work
| ing men and women in the coal mines,
and in the railroad industry.
The Federal Reserve Bank Off
Gals under the present administra-
tlOfip iCiu a nitttiIiR w dSIliflRtUfl Ou
the 18th day of Nav 1920, and de-
flated agricultural labor, reduced the
wages of the farmer mot only what
he would receive for the work he was
going to perform, but for what he
would receive for the labor that he
had performed, for year back.
They restricted credits--increase
freight rates-decided to raise rates
of interest-to refuse to accept gov
eminent bonds as security in order
to further restrict credit and raise
interest charges. They stated BADLY
that their purpose was to debate labor
Industrial and agricultural) they
bankrupted and ruined hundreds of
thousands of farmers-reduced the
value of their products on hand and
prospective, over fifty percent--they
shut down industries by the thous-
ands-threw over five million working
men idle, and out into the streets, all
for the purpose of debating labor
every kind of labor, and now these
same officials, say they are powerlexs
to debate prices of commodities.
They Debated the price of the labor
of human beings, but now say that
although armed with the same law,
they can do nothing to debate the
price of the products of that human.
labor, the inanimate objects, coal,
service of the railroads, sugar.
They say they are powerless under
that same law, to protect the people
from robbery by the profiteers who
| control these commodities. And, be-
cause the people are angry at being
| robbed by the sugar barons, and they
| (these government officials) are
afraid to treat those money barons,
as they did the farmers and other
workers, they publicly advocate the
| boycott Ia national strike) against
the sugar trust, the very thing for
which they have condemned the
workers in almost every avenue of
life, branded them as criminals, put
thousands of them in Jail and spent
millions and millions of dollars of the
peoples money, out of the treasury
of the government In doing it.
Many of our people are dazed and
wondering what it all means. How
it can be, under a government of the
people, for the people and by the
people, rendering equal justice to all
special privileges to none.