Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1924-04-25
: Comment and Criticism
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Just when the newspapers get go
| ing good on the time that the people
are tired of the oil scandal" blam!
comes a piece of stuff so hot the
papers have to crack open the front
| page and smear it mile wide.
The scheme to freeze Teapot Dome
out of the news is foiled by the very
magnitude of the mess. Some scan
das can be suppressed part OF the
time, some can be squelched all the
time, but a big enough scandal can
be cracked wide open sooner or later.
Ii took two years to get Teanot
Dome onto the front pages. 1t is not
so easy now to sink it in the inside
pages.
And the newspapers betray their
hand when they say the people are
tired of it in the same editions where
in it is given first pare position.
The people will be tired Of getting
to the bottom of Teapot Dome after
the bottom has been reached and the
mess cleared up-AND NOT BE-
FORE.
London Justice hands the Londan
Daily Herald a shot that hits home.
1--WE believe" says Justice, that the
main cause of the failure of the Daily
Herald to grip the workers Is that
while it processes to be British Labor,
its tone and its news have too often
been colored with Leninism. We were
opposed to Lenin not because he was
insincere-we believe he was sincere
but because he was wrong"
! Justice says the Daily Herald can
not much longer serve two masters.
This caustic comment is called forth
because w. N. Ever, foreign editor
of the Daily Herald wrote for that
paper what Justice regards as "a
glorification of Lenin" that would
have read more tremendously in the
pages of Communist Journal JUS
| tice pointedly calls attention to the
fact that British Labor is affiliated to
the Second International and not to
the Third.
"Boring from Within" as exempli-
fled partly by Mr.. Ever and the Daily
Herald, is not confined to America.
The Steel Trust reports the greatest
profits in its history, the biggest pay
roll of any year since 1920, the great
est stability and general prosperity
and at the same time it boasts that 1t
has entirely abolished the twelve-hour
| day.
Strange are the ways of adversely.
Once the Steel Trust looked upon the
eight-hour day as curse and the
forerunner of ruination. Now hav-
ing this terrible thing within its
house, it brags about it and makes
more money than ever before.
1t has been ever thus. Those who
scoffed and damned came back to sing
praises and wonder how they ever got
along without it.
Maybe some day the Steel Trust will
have the grace to admit that the
eight-hour day yields more "roduc
ton per man than the old twelve-hour
day. And then, maybe, the Steel Trust
will have the decency to pay the steel
trust workers the wages they earn.
These are maybies, of course, but
they may bloom some day.
Fake collective bargaining finally
gives itself away everywhere. Charles
M. Mills, described as industrial coun-
sellor to a New York legal firm,
writes in the Iron Age "a surprising
place to print such things) the fol-
lowing somewhat understanding COM
| ment:
''The final test of industrial repre-
sentation and the shop committee lies
in the development of real collective
bargaining. The man in the ranks
must come to feel that he deals with
management on essential issues not
as an individual or as a single repre-
sentative with limited powers, but as
delegate with the full strength of
the group. Today the average shop
council offers a most restricted and
mild form of collective bargaining.
Few industrial representation plans
permit arbitration on disputed ques-
tons to go outside of the company.
The power of collective bargaining as
established by groups of men in diff
ferent plants of the same company or
different industrial plants in the same
locality is practically absent. En-
ployes are not generally brought to-
gether in large and diversified groups.
The opportunity for collective thought
and action is absent. Future
progress in industrial representation
will come largely in making employees
and their delegates feel that they are
not sharing in a mere old-ladies sew
ing circle but in powerful, vital. red
blooded conference where essential
issues are discussed"
| $50
! Alaska's salmon Gamers will have
to do some tall explaining to meet
the charges that are piling up against
them.
Reputable investigators have stud
led the Alaskan salmon industry and
have found a large part of it want
ing-in honesty, sanitation, justice
morals and common decency. The
Gamers have apparently set them
selves up as Cars of Alaska and are
running their canneries without re-
gard for the rights of their employees
and the almon-consuming public
They are after the coin and everything
else is secondary. Doubtless there
are Gamers in Alaska who are doing
the square thing but as long as the
present bad conditions endure, the
decent Gamers must suffer for the
msdeeds of all and be perforth
a looked upon with suspicion.
Il To set themselves right before the
nation, the Gamers must at once
remedy the bad conditions which have
been exposed by numerous investiea.
, tors and laid before the people bv the
labor press through the medium of
International Labor News Service
The sooner the Gamers start on the
right road, the better, as they have
a long way to go.