Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1923-08-17
COMMENT AND CRITI-
CISM ABOUT THINGS
DOING IN THE WORLD

Henry Ford is a howling success
at making what he makes. bat he
strikes out when he tackles other
matters.
Ford says Of trade unions that they
are fine for speeding up loahngs aud
that they are also good for interrupt
ing work.
The five million Of more trade
unionisiS in America would like 10
know where Henry gets that loaf
ing" stuff. In view Of his remark
ahleu lack Of even the simplest truths
about labor, Henry's announcement
that he doesn't want to be president
isn't SO very disappointing.
Friends of the railroads have pro-
duced figures 10 show that the rail.
road business is picking up, car load.
ings are heavier, average car move
ment per day is longer, and alto
gether everything looks perked up.
including the old bank roll
This is said 70 be due to higher
efficiency Of management and reduced
operating costs, part Of which Is re.
duced wages.
Labor long ago said that railroads
needed more brains in management.
The present recovery proves what la.
Dor said. Wage cutting hasn't con-
tributed TO railroad recovery--it
never does, but all manner of man
agement devices have helped nightly.
There still Is plenty for manage.
ment TO do--and IL Wall Street will
keep its hands off management prob
ably will deliver the good.
The Iron Age, introducing that
good old act entitled Labor and the
Farmers, shows that Iron Age has
lost none of its editorial cunning.
No group of workers can get any
thing, except at the expense of an
other group, says this good old stand
by magazine.
We are to infer from this. of
course, that the profiteering outfit has
got its loot nailed down where II
can't be touched or damaged or In
terferred with for the future.
That assurance will be received
with relish by the profteers, and they
will no doubt be greatly comforted.
But just why is Ii that nobody can
touch the tremendous margin that dis
appears between the farmer who
raises wheat and the worker who
finally buys the wheat in loaves Of
bread?
Mayhap the Iron Age is giving us
a glimpse of the Sacred Bull.
The Worker. organ Of the Com.
,,,ttnict rarfr nnpftpnac Ia foam and
rail. This outfit Is expert at foaming
and railing. II assails Gompers reg
ularly. Wall Street isn't nearly as
hateful to the communist crowd. We
learn from The Worker that "Sam
Gompers is face TO face with the la.
Dor party idea" and that he can't
dodge il or get away from IL" and
we find also that Gompers Is in
league with Hughes to prevent reeog-
milton Of the soviets.
Ii is satisfying to see The Worker
carrying on in, this manner. If there
had been any let-up in bitterness,
nastiness, perverseness and general
hatred for the trade union movement,
ii could indicate only that The Work
er's staff was i'll or off its feed or In
JAIL As it is, we have the assurance
that the whole staff is in the best OF
health and entirely satisfied with the
world.
Morris Hillquit said a few days
ago: "The average organized work
er Of America is politically genera
ton behind the workers Of the ad-
vanced countries of Europe :"
Mr.. Hillquit fails to point out what
it is that the workers Of Europe have
got through their superior wisdom
and tactics that is so much better
than that which American workers
have secured.
Those who are a generation ahead
of us surely should have something
wonderful to show the world. In our
Observation-Disclosures, however, we fail to
discover in Europe anything. political
or otherwise, that we exactly banker
for.
The truth with Morris is that he
is a disappointed salesman Of social
ism.
II is disclosed that West Virginia
coal owners have been substituting
correspondents. The most
discouraging feature of it all is that
some of the newspapers don't seem
bit concerned. But after all, why
should they inasmuch as they agree
Al