Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1923-07-27

labor party, which is merely another
communist organization.
Why Ruthenberg wants to be sec
rotary of another political party may
| be mystery to some, but If he can
gum up the works for somebody else
that much is gain for him. The freak
federated farmer labor party is just
another communist party and it isn't
even well camouilaged.
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| Gary says he is going to use south
ern negroes in the steel mills in order
to abolish the 12-hour day. He nc
doubt thinks he has found a new
brand of slave labor for his furnaces
The last thing that occurs to the
steel barons is to pay fair wages
Payment of fair wages on an S-houl
basis would have settled the stee
problem long ago, but, gentlemen
there must be nothing put in the way
of dividends.
That enormous Steel Corporation
surplus must keep piling up and the
dividend checks must keep going out
| Yes, by all means,-until the work
ers organize and humanize the great
steel industry.
| What a few workers of limited fl
naneial resources can do in the way
of cooperative banking is shown by
| fifty employees of the Homestead
Printing Company of Des Moines
Iowa.
Starting with a capital stock Of
$S50.50, the Homestead Savings anc
Loan Association, organized last De
cember by the printing company.
| workers, has launched d miniature CO
operative bank. 1t began with 1
capital of $l70 raised by the EN-
ployes themselves, and after paying
all expenses for the past six month
shows undivided profits of $70,49
loans totaling $1,000, and $70.9'
cash on hand. In other words, it ha
turned over its funds so skillfullv tina
| X has loaned six times az much u
the original capital subscribed.
| The Homestead Savings and LOAF
| Association is primarily savings in
stitution which everybody is welcom
to join, although thus far shares hav,
pbeen sold only to members of organ
lied labor. Cashiers checks draw
ing 8 per cent interest per annun
are issued on the basis of the note
of members, who can secure eithe
personal emergency loans or shor
time credit for productive purposes.
~
Paris evidently is not afraid t
punish profiteers. Recently nine Pari
sian master bakers were convicted TO
shutting their doors in December II
an effort to force the authorities t
increase the price of bread. Tw
were sentenced to four months eacl
and fined / 1000 francs and seven wer
fined without imprisonment. Tw
were acquitted.
| Executives of American cite
where profiteering is rampant nigh
wel follow the example of Paris an,
actually do something toward punish
ing profiteers, instead of telling tn,
newspapers what they are going to d,
in the sweet by and by. That "goinl
to do" stuff doesn't worry the pro
fiteers in the least. ..
That was a deserved wallop tina
Bishop Francis j. Mcconnell, heaC
dist Episcopal Church, handed Judge
Gary in recent address.
Bishop Mcconnell made a spirited
attack on the 12-hour day in the stee
industry and declared that capita
needs spirit. not a spirit of Liz
service which tells us what a fine
book the Bible is, but a real service
which recognizes in industry the
ideals of justice and humanity of the
Bible.
The Bishop didn't mention Judge
Gary but he evidently had insmind the
Judges address when he told what
fine thing the l2-hour day Is anC
how the workmen love il with their
whole heart and soul. Then the
Judge, who had just returned from
a trip to Palestine, praised the Bible
and urged a greater interest in re-
ligion.
Bishop Mcconnell recognizes that
Faith without works is dead" and
that it's a bit homogeneous to plead
for religion and the Bible, while at
the same time defending such a bar
barous and anti-religious thing as
the l2-hour workday.
Some of the Undertaking news.
papers tried to stir up big rumpus
over strike in a West Virginia mine
owned by the Brotherhood of Loco
motive Engineers.
They pretended to see in the trou-
BILE a fight in the ranks of organized
klabor and wrote all sorts of lurid
tales about the walkout. While they
We're talking about the strike as if
it was a thing of vast Importance, the
miners returned to work pending an
investigation and report by a Joint
committee representing the Brother
hood and the United Mine Workers.
The matter was soon adjusted and the
mnies are to be unionized. And now
the papers haven't anything on which
to base wild yarns of war in union
| ranks" Too bad
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