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Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1925-11-13
Labor to Make Big Rrive For Laws to Limit
Equity Courts to Fields Of Property Rights
Tade Unions Are Many
Sided. Says President
VIM. Green of \. L. of l..

There are many questions of pollt.
leal. social ana economic character
which eeeupy the publie's attention.
but none Is mote vital than that og
organized labor. Ii is associated With
industry and nermeates the social,
civic and economic life Of all eommuni.
ties Is Importance can not b uNrl-
mlzed nor can its influence upon our
national life be accurately measured
or correctly appraised
The Voice Of organised labor, in
ereaSing in volume and paNer Is heard
IN the councils Of the nation and the
Judgment OF lis administrative agcus
eies is sought by those Who direct the
affairs Of government and by the ofll.
GERS Of organizations engaged in pro
noting various humane organizations
This great movement. As represented
by the 4. +, of l., assumes To speak
for all working men and women II
speaks directly for the millions Of un-
organized workers whose voices are
inaftieulate aud whose standard Of life
ate greatly influenced by the success
OF failure OF organized labor
The 4. +, Of l. is constantly carry
ing the message of organized labor 10
the millions of workers in all Voca-
tions and eallings who are outside the
fold OF organized labor, To-day i; Is
launching campaign of organization
and education through which 1t hopes
not only TO arouse great public inter
est In the work Of organized labor but
In addition, 10 increase It's numerical
strength and economic power,
The workers seek for comfortable
and happy homes, They seek whole
some food, proper clothing and the
ownership OF their homes. They seek
TO promote cultural life through the
protection of children and through
education and the application of those
refining processes which come through
education and understanding. They
seek to enhance spiritual values an !
10 promote spiritual welfare. not, per
haps. in a literal religious sense, bu,
in the development of the spiritual
side of the natures of men and wom'
en-, so that they will aspire to reah'
cation of their purposes.
The dreaming OF better day and
better life, the aspiring toward the
enjoyment Of higher and better things
the yearning for the unseen and th,
unrealized and the elevation of life {,
higher and nobler standard are AL
developments in the spiritual natut,
Of working people.
There may be those who charge OF
gppized labor with being matefialisti
| and With seekig only the promotion
of material things. They are enter
tanning mistaken idea. TO the con
trary, organized labor emphasizes th,
idealistic side of life, using only tn,
materialistic for the purpose of al
vancinR and promoting the cultural
the spiritual and the recreatiouaI
phases of human life.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1925-11-13
Anti Union Employers
Profess Lofty Ideals

st. Louis, Mo, Nov. 1.-THE Ma
tional Association Of Manufacturers
has joined the happ'' throng whose
only object in life is to serve their
fellow men. II seems but yesterday
that these anti-unionists were con-
demned by a committee of the United
States senate for corrupt practices to
defeat remedial legislation.
But this is ancient history. The
manufacturers have turned over new
leaf They scorn profit and personal
gain-they love their employees and
the public At their convention in
this city they announce the new rev.
elation:t
"The highest function in American
industry is not to make profit but to
bring betterment of conditions to the
worker as well as the owner and to
make its product available to the pub
lie at a cost "a low as possible.
Hereafter the health and safety OF
the worker will be guarded, and he
will be "given incentive for advance
ment along lines suited to his ability"
These beautiful sentiments must not
be connected with the manufacturers
stereotyped declaration against collec-
tive bargaining, the child labor amend
ment and the right Of workers to cease
their employment.
The right of the individual worker
to bargain as an individual with the
steel trust, the harvester trust and
other combinations of capital Is re-
affirmed.
This is IAN essential part Of our
national heritage Of liberty says
these recruits to the Service" brigade.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1925-11-13
Low-Wage Employers
Like Wage Statute

Seattle. Nov. 1.-THE organized
EMPLOYERS of this state announce that
they will not take advantage Of the
United states supreme courts decis-
ion in which the Arizona minimum
wage law for women was set aside.
The Arizona act provided for a
wage of SIC a week. The Washing
TON minimum is $500 a week.
There is no need for anti-unl n
employers of this state to assure US
they will not oppose our minimum
wage law" says the State Labor
News, official paper Of the state fed
Grafton Of labor.
THE state has been rendering these
emplovers all the service needed 20
proivde a starvation wage for our
women workers without any aSsis-
lance fro mthe United States supreme
court.
.sThe decision has served as COCO
lesson 70 wage earners.
There Is but one tried and proven
method Of providing proper protect u
for the workers Of either seX-orgar-
izarion within the trade union move
ment."
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1925-11-13
Bankers Set Aside
Owners of Industry

New York, Nov. ll.-Bankers dls
gree with Prof ". I. Ripley's claim
before the Academy Of Political
Science that the drift Of corporate
management is toward irresponsible
cotrol BY intermediaries-most con.
monty banker, sO-called-in place
of the former responsibility for duee-
ton which, theoretically at least
rested upon the shoulders Of the
actual owners"
The statement is Of especial inter,
est 70 wage earners who are assured
when they buy stock in the corpora
ton that employs them that they vii
eventually control the establishment
and that in the meantime by pooling
their stock they can secure repres@f'
tation on the board Of directors,
Prof Ripley says large corporate
financing by banks have placed then
in control Of these corporations 9int
By naming the directors they can die
tate policies.
The present plan Of having the pub
/ lie buy stock in public utility corpora
tions difFuses this ownership and heip
the few to more easily coniro., n
said.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1925-11-13
so ITGOES!

Washington, ID. C., Nov. 1.-THE
Federal Trade Commission upon
recommendation of its chief counsel
mas dismissed without prejudice ten
complaints against a number of
tobacco manufacturers and tobacco
jobbers' associations. The COM
plant charged the respondents with
entering into combination TO fix
md maintain standard resale prices
at which tobacco products were TO
De sold.
Commissioner Nugent and
Thompson dissented, and will file
memorandum of dissent.
The respondent manufacturers
are: The American Tobacco Com
5any, p. Lorillard Company, Inc,
Of Jersey City, N. j.; Tobacco
Products Corporation, Lggett &
Myers Tobacco Company, of New
York City; Larus & Bros. Co., of
Richmond, Va, and Scotten-Dillon
Co., of Detroit, Mich.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1925-11-13
Hindu Caste System For
America Urged by
Trucking Educators

Chicago, Nov. Organized lahoi
| i. iubllant over the A. Il. of l.. con
lsention's Endorsement of It's opposition
10 the intelligence test that u beinR
urged in ChieaRO's public schools
That advocates OF ths theory favor
the Hindu caste system Is indicated 10y
one of It's defenders, Dr &, II. Gutleni
president of Colgate university, Ham
lton. New York:
ut may be interesting 10 speculate
concerning the effect Of mental tehts
upon the problem Of democracy. II
the present hopes and expectations
are realized they will result IN a
caste system as rigid as that of India,
but on "A rational aud Just basis.
"V9hen the testa for vocational guids
ance are completed and developed
each boy and girl in schohol viii be
assigned 10 "A vocation To which he -
fitted, aud pfesuminR that the test
are really efficient. he will IN the
future not attempt any work TOO ad-
anced for his ability and hence make
a allure Of Il, neither will he BE- iouhd
in any occupation too elementary Tor
his ability and hence be DISSATISFIED,
Economically nothing could be
more desirable.
''Those Of high intelligence will be
directed into lines Of occupation which
call for leadership. Those persons
will naturally be placed IN the pro-
fessiong, aud in leading positions IN
industry, commerce and politics. bden
person will then be directed on Il scale
ef intelligence down TO those "nose
work Is Of the most routine character
of which an imbecile is capable.
But what effect will this have on
our so-called democracy II mult
inevitably destroy universal alu.t
suffrage by cutting of at least % per
ccntage of the adults, those whose -
teIhgence is 20 low az 10 be lneafabie
of comprehending the Agnilieance u
the ballot. -, d..
con the other hand, II viii throw
the burden and responsibility OF tne
government where it belongs, on those
of high intelligence and Ne come
hack again 10 the rule Of the a1r'to,,
time the real and t"A1i
aristocracy. -.
"For its own salvation the "t;''e
must assume the obligation and re-
spongibility Of selecting this ihtel'fe5,
tual aristocfacy, aud having selec'es
il. seeing that il Is properly tial"'''
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1925-11-13
binations of capital.

The commission is under Senate Or
ders to investigate the:
!. General Electric Company.
,. Movie industry.
3. Bread combine.
In all of these cases combinations
are alleged. In addition there are:
i. Great railroad mergers.
). Super-power mergers.
s. Banking mergers.
While Congress has ordered railroad
mergers, there is no doubt that some
contemplated mergers may run coun-
ter to the antiquated Sherman law.
Mergers Have Dangerous Feature
But perhaps the most dangerous
feature of present proposed combina-
tions or mergers is the practice of
mortgaging the whole previous face
value of the combined or merger cor
porations and the issuance of non-vot-
ing stock as shares in the mortgage,
these non-voting shares being sold to
investors who thus own but do not
control.
Organized labor has demanded re
peal of anti-combination laws in order
that natural economic processes may
continue. This means monopoly. But
labor has demandedw that if there be
monopoly there be a democratic meth
cd of control within the industry.
War Within Commission
The Federal Trade ommisson ma
jority, Commissioners Van Fleet,
Humphrey and Hunt-the Coolidge
majority-have sought at every turn
to carry out the Coolidge campaign
slogan, Tess government in business,
while the minority, Commissioners
Thompson and Nugent, have sought
consistently to restrain protiteerlng
practices which go with uncurbed
monopoly.
The war between the majority and
minority has reached the point where
the two sides are firing statements at
each other through the newspapers.
Business Backs Majority
The organs of Big Business support
the majority. The minority struggles
against a double handicap, being
faced with the inevitable trend toward
combination and having no place to
turn to find an effective means of con-
trolling or curbing destructive or un-
fair practices. 1t is bowling vigor-
ously up the wind.
Meanwhile the organization of mer-
gers continues, with the inside groups
continuing to gather in the tight little
groups Of voting stock, while the great
groups of small investors buy shares
in mortgages-represen caDltallza-
tion to the limit-without any voice
in the control
Majority Supporters Anti-Union
The National Association of Manu-
facturers and the United States Cham
Der of Commerce, chief supporters OF
the majority members of the commits
sion, favor the so-called open shop as
a further means of keeping their great
combinations free from regulative IN
huence in behalf of public welfare.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1925-11-13
Eight-Hour Law Void,
Rules Wyoming Court

Cheveune. Wyo., Nov. 1.-THE leg
is,atn5e can pas an eiRht-hour la"
for labor on public "ofks, eul I,.'
present act Is "uneniofceapie, s"y
the Wyoming state supreme court
The decision was made in the case a..
Of paving contractor in thl5 CITY
The court say. the act can not De en-
force5 ,C "becagse Of the undefniteness
and uncertainty Of il penal pr9,Ellsl,
,nrso which conflicts with The ieaeiaI
and state constitutions. -, ..,l.
Until the law Is amended puplg
.,,orLa contractor, will have "A free
Gs1d IN enforce the long work day
although eight hours ha- been 1,t -. a
cepfed .tandafd in Wyoming iof many
wears.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1925-11-13
'Steenth Revolution
Postponed in Chicago

Chicago, Nov. 1.-THE American
negro labor congress, widely heralded
by the communists, developed into a
handful Of persons who could be
crowded into a street car Of the one
horse type.
The pathetic little gathering lis
tened to appeals 70 race prejudice and
condemnation Of the A. F. Of l.. Cen
eralities we're the order Of the day.
The regulation collection was not over
looked, newspapers were furnished
columns Of publicity on the latest
revolution, and the gathering ad-
journed.
The collapse Of the so-called con
gress is due in large measure to Pres
ident Green's warning against this
movement.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1925-11-13
Will Foreign MOnopolies
Force World Trade War?

Erie. Pa, Nov. 1l.-Will the United
States government avowedly abandon
its traditional handS-oif attitude to-
ward business to meet an international
trade war?
This possibility was suggested by
Herbert Hoover, secretary OF com
merce, in an address to business men
here on the new trade policy OF FOR
eign governments.
These countries are fixing the price
of raw material of which they have
a monopoly. The system is a develop
ment of war times when government
control checked boarding and proilt-
eering. As an aid to their business
men. the foreign governments nave
established themselves in certain IN
dustries and increased prices and
limit production of their monopollzed
raw material.
These combinations, said Secretary
Hoover, exist in coffee, silk nitrate
potash, rubber, quinine, iodine. TIN
sisal. some dyestutFs, quicksilver,
certain extracts for tanning leather
and other raw material not produceu
in the United States. This country
spends $S00,000,00O annually Tor I'M
ports Of material controlled by Tor
/ eign governments. o..
Secretary Hoover said that if 1t
were necessary to adopt retallatory
measures this country could revise Its
traditional policy of competition on
the basis of production and encourage
the establishment Of combinations
with the view of getting back COM
nensating amounts from helpless con
snmer nations" Or, in other words
gouge those nations that insist on
gouging Us. -. Lou.
The speaker gave an insight. OF now
International business Is braided up
with international politics and dlplo-
macy. =. -. nos,
wear our government has received
Complaints from American business
men against the policy Of othef gov
And at once" said Secretary
Hoover. we have higgling Of meI'
chants lifted to the plane Of intefna'
tional relations, with all Of its spa"f
If criticism and hate
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1925-11-13
Collection Costs
Offset Small Taxes

Washington, Nov. 11-Congressman
Garner denies Secretary Melons
claim that small income taxes exceed
the cost Of collection. The Texas
lawmaker says the collection costs are
higher than the total payments cf
900 900 small tax payers and that it
would be good business for the gav-
erument TO annul all taxes on incomes
lower than $1,000.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1925-11-13
Stereotypers Gain.

Sioux Falls, S. D., Nov. 11.-Ne~S-,
paper publishers and the StereotypeIs
union have signed a new contract. Inc
rate is S43 week for foremen and
S9e for jqurneymen. This is an ad-
vance Of 50 and -.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1925-11-13

Humboldt. Cal. editor conducts pa,
ner from cell while in jail for alleged
contempt Of court. , 400
Accidents at quarries killed l8Ss
,..lr.teys in 1924. L. 5. Bureau Of
Mines reports. go.
Wexican organized labor lifts boy
.otf agai1st Aguila Oil Co, following
decision of arbitration committee emu
ing strike.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1925-11-13
CAMPAIGN TO MARK CHANGE
IN FIGHT AGAINST INJUNCTlONS
Organized Workers Propose 10 Require Law Courts 10
Adjust All Disputes Arising Out of Industrial Disagree.
ments, Assuring Accused Right of Trial by Jury.
u, CnrSrER NJ. WRIGHT


N"tt'NiN0'aA' Il't"H''oN"I I"0't
Washington, u G.. Nov i1.-labors new policy IN the
fight against nuncuons puzzle To most delegates 10 the
recent A. + of l. convention after they had voted
unanimously for lis adoption, cleared up in inter
view today by Matthew Wol chairman of the convention
committee which proposed the new policy.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1925-11-13
BY international Labor News Service.

Washington, d. c., Nov. 11.-With an admitted fever
of great mergers raging through the business world and
with consequent ping up of complaints of unfair prac
tees the Federal Trade Commission is becoming
and more whirlpool vortex divided against itself and
sympomatic of the general conflict of opinion about
hinations of capital.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1925-11-13

President Lewis Of United Nine
Workers declare anthracite coal VI. W..
rrs will never give up right TO stt'ke. f.
Marked upward trend reported os
trade reviews in most lines OF 0lzl. 94..
me-: further improvement IN ,1. NeH
England. says Federal Reserve BANK
Of Boston.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1925-11-13
Hello" Girls Win.

Bloomington. H., Nov. 11.-Organ-
jzed telephone operators have secul cd
a new agreement. Wages are increas-
81 and working conditions improved.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1925-11-13

New York, Nov. 1l.-Labor unions
are organized and used by Wall street,
according to Henry Ford, in a special
dispatch TO the New York Times.
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1925-11-13

Edwin A. Odell, u years Old, Of
Hoboken, n. j., begins j3rd year as
letter carrier
Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1925-11-13

State Senator Walker Democrat
overwhelmingly defeats Republican
IN New York City mayoralty election
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1925-02-06
What is a Fine?

Fines assessed against liquor lawbreakers are not in
tended payment for the privilege of selling booze.
Such fines intended to reimburse the government
for its trouble and expense in enforcing the law and as
punishment for the lawbreaker Some bootleggers and
blindpiggers to imagine that they have sort
of privilege to sell long they pay fine once in
while. In way they cannot be blamed for getting
this impression because it is apparently given them
by Judges uphold the law and presumed to be
in sympathy with the purposes of government.
1t is up to the citizens give the judges the impress
sion that what this country needs the bnech is
who will interpret the law in the interests of the
government and not in the interests of nations
enemies Make it clear that fine must punish the
booegger and pay for enforcement work; that fine is
payment for the privilege of selling either in the
past the future
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1925-02-06
Moonshine

Barrels of journalistic have been shed in SYM
pathy over the poor victims of moonshine. Whenever
two unreconcied vets meet they sob each others
shoulders in mutual the poisoned effects of
Iawess liquor. If they would just stop crying few
minutes they might realize the real situation relative to
poison beverage drinkers
No is compelled to drink moonshine. Everyone
is warned against moonshine. Those who disregard
both the law and the warnings have to blame
but themselves Only intoxicants legally acquired be-
fore prohibition legal The who drinks
moonshne is in the class with person who de-
berate1y drives onto the railroad track with all the
warning signals ringing, makes himself at home in
house pacarded with smallpox warning sign.
Law1ess and foolhardy moonshine drinkers give
other for sacrificing sympathy. Their foolish
and 1awless efforts acquire illegal poison help MAIN
tain public poisoning system that is others
beside themselves They like who would
lure Others to destruction the railroad by their
examples would break into smallpox quarantined
house and then break out again to imperl others.
certain class of sufferers from combined folly and crime
is, however, entitled to They the who
loudly boosted before prohibition that they could take it
leave it. but now would rather face almost certain
death or blindness than obey the law and "1eave it
alone But sympathy for those with appetites deve-
oped under the license system should cnmity
for prohibition 1t is clear enough that those who
not resist the temptation drink with the protection
built up by prohibition laws would have had
chance i'll the world with the liquor traffic licensed
get them by fair foul. Furthermore the
called goodness of preprohbition liquor is mostly de-
lirious fantasy
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1925-02-06
Making Men Good by Law

lighbrow defenders of liquor attacking prohibition
from positions of responsibility fond of asserting
that you cannot make good by law" If that IS
true it follows that you can't make men bad by law
either II the prohibition law cannot make men better
neither it make them and the highbrows are
inconsistent when they blame the prohibition law for
existing evils.
As matter of fact, while cannot be changed
directly by the law the environment which affects lite
character and actions be controlled moulded and
developed by legal enactments. The law take
away the privilege of greedy and evil to build up
brewerie dsteries saloons and other institutions that
have degrading tendency.
Man is product of heredity and environment. Law
change environment Immediately which will affect
heredity eventually The hghbrow vets will please
step TO the foot of the class
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1925-02-06
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6. 1925
Know the Law

facts about the law that every citizen should know Our
readers requested keep this number OF the Issue
for future reference. They urged to familiarze
themselves with what the law forbds as we'll as with
the duties OF the officials charged with law enforcement
II more citizens knew the power OF the law fewer Of
fcias would permit law breakers to remain i'll comfort
able ignorance of what the law provides.
Preachers Sunday school teachers public school
teachers, editors members of Women's Clubs, members
of Christian Temperance Unions should make the law
topics of discussion SO far prohibition is concerned
ignorance of the law is bliss and it is folly to
be wise regarding what the law provides.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1925-02-06

peet others TO be bound by these same laws This APP
plies not only murderers and gunner. The pros
porous banker, merchant manufacturer who enters
into conspiracy break down the laws of this nation
when he purchases illegal liquor from bootegger sac
rhees TO extent the protection of law which ne
expects for his business his person, his home and his
family It is that the protection of the law is not
definitely withdrawn from any awbrcakng person. be
he murderer booze buyer But those who contribute
TO the breakdown of law by their actions inevitably
weaken the protection of the law for all including them
selves.