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'f'* 3 A- NEWS-TRIBUNE ASSJULANT NOW SORE AT NONPARTISAN LEAGUE (Continued from Page 1.) are found in some gentle farmer's pocket book. And these salaries gor to men who do not work. They are big salaries, too. few of them less than S10(0 a week. National league headquarters in Minneapolis has let most of its cler ical force go and now there are only managers who have nothing to man age except setting their pay checks while the farmers are being threat ened with suits if they do not pay up their league dues. The league has an attorney to attend to this work. Ditching: Riff-Rttff. The bettor element in the league is drawing away from the riff-raff. Tt is trying to throw off the onus cast upon it by grafters, who drink liquor in league headquarters and gamble with printers' squads during the dull moments in the call for re form. Desperate efforts are being made to prevent disaster, but the gaff is too much to stand. John Lind. former Minnesota gov ernor and President Wilson's per sonal envoy to Mexico in 1921, startled the state several months ago by eulogizing the league, but since then he has been unusually silent. James Manarhan, former congress man-at-large from Minnesota and once a string leaguer, is known to be demanding reform. His law part ner, Thomas Sullivan, league candi date for attorney general, is lined ill) with the malcontents and is ready to break away from league influ ence. Thomas Van Lear, whose energies produced the $1,000,000 to establish a farm-labor daily paper, is primar ily the object of the existing league's attack because he doesn't want the paper used by the league influences. Split Is Serious. Just how serious is the split can be understood from an informal speech recently delivered at a meet ing of the Pail.v Star staff. Herbert E. Oaston, editor of the Star, at log gerheads with Van I^ear for more than a year over the paper's policy, announced that he had got rid of all Socialists and intended to get rid of more if they were found on the pa per. This was at direct slap at Van Lear, for Gaston, former league pa per editor and Townlcy's right-hand publicity-man, ordered by the pa per's executive board«to cut expenses, fired all the Van Lear men and left yon the pay roll all those who were friendly to him but whose salaries had drawn the director's thrust. Van Lear hurried back to Milwaukee to day to call a meeting of the direc torate to consider the matter. Townley himself has said that he is through with the Socialists. On the other hand, the Socialists want to get through with TofMiley who Jiaft served a jail sentence a"nd who next month faces a charge in Fargo, N. D., of aiding and encouraging an al leged bank embezzlement. In North Dakota, birthplace of the league, a similar condition exists. The governor, attorney general and commissioner of agriculture recently were recalled from offices. The attorney general was William Lemke.He is the backbone of the fight on Townleylsm within the league. His henchmen, despite' the fact that they are leaguers, are cred ited by Senator Porter J. McCurrv ber, chairman of the senate finance committee, who seeks re-election this year, to be the regular Repub •fiean party of the state. While the anti-leaguers are deemet? outcasts. TiCiiike Under Fire. Lemke, however, is under fire by his Successor, who has demanded an accounting of a special fund raised by the farmers during Lemke's ad ministration to be used in criminal j# prosecutions after the stale had re fused ah appropriation. The North Dakota league news paper situation also is all muddled, a board of directors supervises its policy but the directors are com posed of extremist and conservative leaguers, neither ^xf whom pull to gether, with the result that only spe cial appeal for funds keeps the pa per going. Already in this state the league is considered a dead issue, regular poli ticians no longer take it seriously, its rebuilding is deemed impossible for there has been too much scandal connected with it. Poor business methods, coupled with the ambitions .of salary grabbers, have made it bankrupt. Bad Financing. An incident of the business meth ods concerns a book by Charles Ed ward Russell, published by Double day, age and company the book's title is "The Non-Partisan League." Townley was so much impressed with it that he guaranteed [the sale of 20,000 copies. Only l,00(lk. copies have been disposed of after five years and the bankrupt league is re sponsible for payment of the other 19,000 copies. Townley is making a grand effort "to come back." Now in Washing-' ton he is seeking to put through congress his pet project for revival of the United States Grain, corpo ration. This Ts his campaign to win over the farmers to him so much per head for league membership. If he wins, he will have a tremen dous advantage over his foes so far as the farmers are concerned but labor organizations upon whose members he had counted for polit ic icAl votes are done with him. They accuse him of delivering them to "reactionary politicians." For his plan is to have the league with drawn from the political field ex cept with indorsements. Union labor men'want their own ticket. The Real Issue. This political controversy, how •jevejP important it may be to'the i'fr^jcers of office, i.-: insignificant1 [red to the real issue between [b and the Townley league, •s see Townley attempt* itet their own organiza l^rs#66 tions while "demagogueing" the farmers to win a' place for.himself again. They are not so much opposed to Townjay. however, as they are to his colleagues. "King can do wrong," said Oliver Morris, editor of the National SLead er, national publication of the league, "for ii the old days when the people were dissatisfied the king stay^d^n power but his cabinet went out." AMERICAN LABOR MADE MORE MONEY BEFORE WAR (Continued from Page 1.) attitude taken by the profiteering middlemen, the financiers and all the other, in-between fellows whd get the farmer and .the industrial worker both coming and going. They Help Each Other. Organized labor took the position that what contributes to prosperity of the farmer will also aid the city worker. Here it was iij solid eco nomic ground. Everybody but pig headed, selfish big business, realizes that it is impossible to help or hurt any groups of citizens without at the same time helping or hurting all other groups. This lesson has not yet been learned by those who are de manding the subjugation and im poverishment of industrial and agrarian workers, but the^.will get it sooner or later. For the nation will be called upon to pay the inexorable^ penalty of the outrageous treatment it is now ac cording its wealth producers, and when pay day comes Big Business will be compelled to pay through the nose. When it falls, it will be a crash worth going miles to witness. For, as old Joe Ganz said, "The bigger they are, the harder they fall." Big: Busi ness is superimposed upon the toil and sweat of the workers. It exists by arid through them. If the work ers are reduced to beggary, the merry tinkle of the cash register will be hushed, and at horde of para sitic middlemen will succumb to inanition. Small Merchants Learn. Many thousands of small mer chants have already got their les son. They have discovered, when too late and much to their chagrin, that the dope fed to them by their cham ber of commerce was all wrong. When monay was rolling in they never stopped to inquire from whence it came. Now they know that more than'*c'wo-th|rd's of their customers are the despised toilers who they have been defaming and traducing, and their cash registers tell them that these workers a$e not coming around as often as once they did, for the simple reason that many of them are jobless, while practical ly all others are working for reduced wages that are barely adequate to keep body and soul together. An Unselfish Plea. Contrast the unselfish considera tion of the city worker for the farm er with the attitude of business to ward all producers, gentle reader, and rejoice that you are not of the elect. In goin^r before the committee of congress with their plea for a square deal for agriculture the workers demonstrated their kins with all who suffer. If it would help the farmer, they said, they would be willing to pay a little more for their food, although only God knew how they would do it. They thought that if the govern ment were properly interested in its subjects the farmer could be suc cored without further burdening the urban dweller, but that meant the suppression of greedy middlemen, with whom the government seems to have a great deal of sympathy. But, in any event, they wanted the farmer assisted over his emergency, and that was the most heartening evidence of disinterested unselfishness seen in Washington in ages. IIUUNGTl¥iiifWAS BR0U6HT FROM EN6LAK& (Continued from Page 1.) everyone pleases to make it. Some times they go according to conscience sometimes according to law some times according to rule of court. Equity is a roguish thing for in law we have a measure and know What to trust to, equity is according to the conscience of him that is chan cellor and, as that is longer or nar rower, so is equity. 'Tis all one as if they should make the standard of measure the chancellor's foot. What an uncertain measure this would be one chancellor has a long foot, anoth er a short foot, a third an indifferent foot. It is the same thing with the chancellor's conscience." .The struggle between the court of equity and the courts of law continued for many years. As time passed, law yers. instead of clergymen, became the lord chancellor. Also, as time passed, the number of cases coming before the court of equity became so numerous that assistants to the lord chancellor were necessary and in time a definite court, known as the court of chancery, was established. The chancery court derived Its name from the chancellor and not from the fact, as some may imagine, that those who went before it were taking a chance although such was frequently the case. Eventually, parliament,' instead of the king, became the power in Eng land, and parliament, from time to time, defined the authority and Uie limitation under which the court of chancery should function. It became the basic principles of chancery or equity, that: "It yas to b4 exercised for the pro tection of property rights only.** "He who Would seek iti aid must come with clean hands." "There must no adequate remedy at law." ifiW {C^t ,V ,V *7**S SATURDAY HOW AMERICA GO& ITSfcl WW COURTS. "The courts of equity which We. have today in the United States are directly descended from the orig inal lord chancellor of Engraid who first becam* the keeper ofThe king's 'conscience'," says John Frey in this, the- second of Jma brilliant series of''articles on JtMj, injunction and its agencies. Injunctions are Issued by equity# courts. .That is why it ig in\portant to know about equity courts—how they came into being, what their functions properly are, how thfey acquired other functions and for what reasons. In these articles the whole trtory is being told by an authority. A complete understanding of the equity court as in institution an^t of the reasons, as well as the ex cuses, for injunctions is important in the gseat contest to bring to an end the improper and unlawful use of the Injunction. L. "It must not be used to punish crime." "It must never be used to curtail personal rights." When the British colonies were es tablished in America, they brought over with them the English common law and the English judicial proced are, the result being, that the courts of equity which we have today in the United States are directly descended from the original lord chancellor of England who first became the keeper of the king's "conscience." AT THE ORPHEUM. A double hekdiine bill of brillismt qualities features the new ^audevine bill starting a seven-day engagement at the Orpheum Sunday. In a revue of exceptional* merit William Seabury and his company of dancing girls provide half an hoyr of rare entertainment. Seabury is a dancing1 star and among the "best of his kind. He has originated as many dancing steps as Pat Rooney and in his latest revue has surrounded him self with a feminine quartet of beauty and ability. Assisting in the divertis ment are Rose Stone, Edith May Capes, Marie Cavanaugh, Boris Rey nolds, Buddie Cooper and Roxey Clements. Mrs. Gene Hughes who has been a vaudeville star for many years Shares headline honors with the big revue. Mrs. Hughfes this season i& offering Emmett Devoy's delightful farce com edy "Contented Peggy." There are five expert players in the supporting cast. Miss Rita Gould in a song cycle written by Francis Nordstom will probably prove one of the most pop ular acts of the season. Miss Gould has the voice of a prima donna and the {unmaking proclivities of a com edienne. Miss Gould for' two years during the war was an A. E. F. en tertainer and was affectionately known to thousands of "doughboys" as "Sis Rita." In an act that is devoted to noth ing but the production of laughter Emerson and Baldwin are one of the. featured attractions in th»new show. For twenty minutes you will face a barrage of comedy that will prove hard to resist. Of interest to every one but to liis fellow Scotsmen especially, is the ap pearance of Sandy Shaw, the cele brated Scotch comedian tfn the new show. Sandy's songs and stories will be long remembered.-He has an as sortment of yarn's and lyrics that will arouse unlimited laughter. Introducing that awful Orton, "The Duke of Duck," the Four Ortons, com edy wireists have evolved something new in the line of a wire act. A truly remarkable series of tricks are presented but the comedy element Is the piece de resistance. 'A Day at the Races" introduces Edward Gillette's Baboons, reputed to be the cleverest and funniest act of its kind in vaudeville. The simian performers ai almost human In their frolic and their appearance assures much laughter. 'The various picture novelties in clttding.the Topics, Aesep Fables and latest news weekly, together with the musical numbers of the Orpheum orchestra will round out a bill which the Orpheum management regards as one of the most entertaining shows presented in many weeks. AIRMEN FORM UNION. British airplane operators and mechanicians have formed a trade union to protect the interests and remedy the grievances of the aerial taxi .drivers. The present pay of pilots is £12 a week. Germany is proving that war never pays. Looks like you can't keep a good submarine down. HAMBONE'S MEDITATIONS By J. P. Alley SOME FOLKS *UNS PEY 1 BILL UP EN PEN YOU HAS T' RUN DEM JL-i McCtyf* munHHi iywikslfc, fflffVnCTMll 4yT$S "*0. WASHINGTON, D. C, Feb. 23.—Op.ening its national publi city campaign against the miners, the National Coal Association is plastering the country withv a chart containing hand-picked figures which show ihat the coal barons are making no profit and are paying 67.8 cents of every dollar for, labor. Therie are no government agencies in possession of figures on present coal eosts and profits. The coal,asso ciation shut the government out with an injunction against the Federal Trade Commission early in 1920. "But in the fall of 1920 the Calder Committee on Reconstruction and Production seized the association records and dug out the secrets thereof. The association had claimed it mkde a pr&fit of 71 cents per ton. The seized records showed the Cal der committee was Hind enough to say that the coal owners had "obs cured" the records. "The question that Is being asked now is whether the National Coal Association records are more reliable in the present case than they were when the Calder committee marched in and took the books in 1920. The National Coal Association figures now being spread broadcast (even handed out like advertising handbills in the federal agricultural conference) pretend to show.that out of every dollar labor gets 67.8 cents 12.6 fcents foes for supplies, 10.8 cents for "other operating expenses" and 8.8 cents for "general expenses" with nothing for profit The figures jtre given as, for tho period of April 1 to October 31, 1921. The National Coal Association con sists of fifty associations of local op erators and controls sixty per cent Of the National bitlminous coal out put. During the summer1 and fall of 1919 profiteering became so outrage ous that Congress took notice. A special appropriation was voted to the Federal Trade Commission to continue collection of cost figures, such as it had furnished the U. S. Fuel Administration. ""The commis sion proposed, to get and publish the facts.. Mine owfcers thought this would be em harassing and they got an injunc- INACTION WORSE THAN RADICALS President Manufacturers' As sociation Says "National BOSTON, Feb. 23.—Inactivity of "industrial leaders" is a greater dan ger to the country than radicals. That's what the.newly elected pres ident of the National Association of Manufacturers is reported to have declared in a speech in this city de livered to manufacturers of the state. He said he was not concern ed about tht "radical elements." What he particularly desired was actioii "by the elements that have the power to overcome the effect of such forces," urging 'the need of a "national consciousness" .among the "leaders in industry" as a means of successfully fightingf the condi tions with which the world Is faced. He realized als. that knoyledge of economic questions is needed to solve the problems of today. That is ob vious. But it Is quite patent that & un ion—busting,' "American 0 WORLD planning labor-spying, wage-slashing, contract breaking policy isn't going to lead anywhere but to the field of indus trial disaster. And1 the manufac turers' associations can prevent that by recognizing t^ade union princi ples in industry. UNION-MADE PER USED BY HU6HES T0SI6N TREATIES A trade union pen was used by Secretary of state Hughes in sign ing the treaties resulting from the International Conference oh the Limitation of Armament. The pen was made by David Fair banks, 111 Thoorp .street, Chicago, member of the Palntrs' Union. It was presented to Secretary Hughes on December 21, by. Mr. Fairbanks and President Gompers of the A. F. of lu Wood from 28 states was used In making the pen. It was mounted with a gold eagle and had a gold point. From the staf^ fluttered 28 flags, each attached by a silken cord. The pen will be preserved by the -Daughters of the American Revolu tion, in Colonial hall where the treaties we*e feigned. iTVB-CENT FARE INVALID. *The federal court has :-aet aside a 5-cent ruling by the Illinois com merce commisslon that jvould apply to Chicago Street pfcrs. The court ruled that the commission based its order on conjecture and did not af ford the co&pffnies ian -opportunity to^ test Its conclusions. HUGE IJNION BENEFITS. Total beniflts paid to organized street car ijien in Chicago last year totaled $1S4,559.20.^ Funeral and disability benefits amounted to ,$l26,02Jkrr: GOAL MINERS PAID NOW Coal miners throughout the country-non-union and union'— are now on the verge of starva tlon with acute /suffering in .many districts. What dQ the coal barons pro pose for the miners? What ie the purpose of a proposal to fur ther reduce Wages? .* Do the coal barons expect the miners to'submit to conditions, of complete distitution? And do they expect the public to support them in a campaign to bring about such a condition? The time has passed' for desti tution in any industry. The condition of the mine worker must be Improved, not .made more miserable tion which silenced the Federal Trade Commission and in view of which all other government agencies haye kept away from coal figures. All current figures given to the pub lic are hand-picked for coal associa tion purposes. The Calder committee has furnish ed the only 'burst of fight since the injunction. During the 1920 buying season the operators spread the "coal shortage" cry. But a govern ment review showed no.such situa tion. The miners dug 556,553,000 tons in 1920, compared to 458,063, 000 in 1919. Then the coal owners fed the pub lic their own figures on costs, gen erally believed to be doctored. The Calder committee thereupon entered the field and* made its disclosures. It is significant that the National Coal Assoclatloh coal barons started their profiteering campaign coinci dently with the. lifting of govern ment control and the issuance of the injunction against the Federal Trade Commission. The succesis of the con spiracy is told by the report of-the Calder committee': "The 1920 figured by months show that iii April, 1920 the first month after the fuel administration was lifted, the average report: margin in seven, eastern states doubled the March margin, and by July the April margin in its turn was doubled, The margin of 38 cents in March became $1.68 in July—quadrupled. The. first three n\onths of 1920 under fuel ad ministration i. rices yielded an ia.ver age margin of 30 cents the three months of the crisis yielded one of $1.64—fivefold $81.50 margin per 50-ton oar." LANDLORDS PAY COLLEGPPROf" Declares There Is a "Theoreti cal" Excess of Houso and NEW YORK, Feb. 2 S.—There Is a theoretical excess of houses and apartments in this city, according, to Samuel McCune Lindsay, professor of polltica* science, Columbia unver 8ity„ The professor made this statement before a holtsing committee. He acknowledged that he has no prac tical knowledge of the housing sit uation. A police canvass shows a shortage of 70,000 houses. Prof. Lindsay also believes that the increase of rents prior tc the enactment of emergency rent UPWB is "not an enormous one." The professor admitted that he was paid $500 by real estate owners ise on the housing situation which the real estate men have, submitted to tjie United States supreme court In their effort to annul existing rent laws. It is stated that the real- estate and landlords for preparing a treat men intended, to give wide distribu tion to Prof. Linsay's vfews as an "impartial," survey of conditions, which do not justify legislation now in force. The university man's admission that he knows nothing of the hous ing situation, indicates how "sclenti fic" opinion is often used to create public opinion. TURKISH UVING COSTS CLIMB 1,200 PER CENT Washington, Feb. 21.—In a report to the department of commerce frdm« a trade commissioner in Constanti nople it is stated that the cost*of living in that city on Oct. 1., last year, was 980 per cent higher than in pre-war days- Rent and lodging, however, Increased some 1,200 per cfht over July, 1914. These figures are "for the working and poorer Classes of the city for Amerloan and European residents the'increase,. In cluding rent, is nearer 2,460 'per cent. One of the reasons for the pres ent cOets is the large number of Rus sian refugees in that city which is declared to be one ofc tha. most ex pensive In the world. WAHW MOR&.'i««EIKEfrr. The receiver oty the 'Brooklyn rapid? transfer system plans to pay an additional I per cent to a- bank ing syndicate for the renewal of $1,,600,000 receiver*1 certificates. The rate «f the original loan was $ per' cent and a premium of 4 per cent wall paid to obtain it. Hie transit commissioner declared that results obtained In retiring receivers' certificates were at the expense of the employes and the traveling public/ Strikebreaking Agency Wants Settlep From Detroit Building Employers. DETROIT, Mich., Feb. 23.—-The as soclated building employers and the R. J. .Coach detective agency of Cleveland are at l(jggdrheads over the "cost of breaking strikes and slugging trade unionists. The Coach conipany has filed suit for th% money, but the. case will hardly come to trial, as neither side dare acknowledge their part in^ the un savory mess. Coach submits ,copies of an agree ment with the employers, wherein the latter promise to pay one super intendent $50 a day and operatives $20 a day, with necessary expenses added. In his plea to the court, Coach says: "Plaintiff agree and contracted to and with the said defendants to alleviate, break up and put down certain labor agitation, disorders and strikes then existing and being waged against said dependents and its members in said city of Detroit and county of Wayne, and in which said labor.., disputes, disorders and strikes defendants and its members were greatly concerned and inter ested" These strikes were marked by brutal assaults on trade union of ficials and recall the following de scription by CoacK of his methods: '•In their 'silent, secret, effective way, the industrial operatives up root relentlessly the weeds of dis honesty, disloyalty" and discontent. Through, their efforts, unity of pur pose'is established between employ er arid employe. Our operatives soon end' the reign of labor agita tors in shop or factory. We do not care tovsay.more on this subject." The threatened suit reveals the extent'which employers, will shovel out money1 to these Sluggers in an effort to break up trade unionism. N. RENT LAW IS AM Bff ORE SUPREME COURT WASHINGTON, Feb. 23.—Does the New York state renL. act violate the 'federal cot^titutiion The su preme court has' heard argument upon the question. Counsellor the rent gougers contended that in pas sing the rentNact of 1920 the state legislature suspended "the federal organic law on the theory that an emergency'existed," holding that a fancied or real public emergency $an not suspend or repeal the con stitution. The deputy attorney gen eral of the state in his argument declared that the. law was enacted to prevent the eviction from their homes of 100,000 families in New York city. He held tljat the law was in adcord with public interest and in strict/ conformity to the con stitution. LAWS TO HELP FARMERS NOT CLASS LEGISLATION fJew 'York* Feb. 21,-—"There has. heen a lot «f thoughtless talk about Class legislation- on behalf of the farmer," said Henry C. Wallace, secretary of agriculture, in a speech in this city. "The fact is." he said, "that all the so-called farm legislation'of the past year has been of just as much bene fit to all classes of people as it Is to the. farmer. Any. legislation which will help, put farming back on to a fairly prosperous basis will be help ful to everybody. It is not a question of giving the farmer any special fa vors. lie does not aftk them. It Is slip ply a question of putting about 40 per cent of our people In a position to help themselves." BUILT HAPHAZARDLY. The contractor who built Vie American theater building in New York testified before Magistrate McAdoo that he did the steel con struction work haphazardly with few measurements, and as much "as a child stackB cards." The building collapsed last Nov. ^killing seven workers. $10 ttd $7 Shoes for $4.83 Big Shoe Sale. The Big Duluth. ntraBMuiricMttTHEWAi .. The young lady aet«w tM» w»y say* me^sffs v«ry, ttmiot .^thr SSTSMrfKr ties by the shUatoHsU By ARTHUR E. HOLDER. (International Labor News Service.) On Feb. 23. the United States sen ate committee»-on interstate "com merce permitted the agerits of the National Council to appear and state their views on the transportation problem. The National Industrial Council is the polite name for the inside cir cle composing the hard-boiled ^profi teers of the National Association of Manufacturers, the United States Chamber of Commerce and other ag gregations of wealth takers who, on Occasions which they-consider propi tious, pose as defenders of liberty and friends of the. dear people. Mr. C. S. Walker, a manufacturer of Des' Moines, ^owa, was the first speaker. He presented to the com mittee a set of skillfully drawn reso lutions, purporting to be the delib erate expression of the membership contained, in over 300 manufacturing groups from thirty-eight states com posing, it was alleged, 290,000 manu facturers employing 10,000,000 "op eratives." Mr. James A. Emery, council of the National Industrial Council, followed Mr. Walker. Mr. Emery, is the gentleman who figured so prominently during the Mulhall Lobby investigation by the senate and the house in the year 1013, and is the same gentleman se lected by the recent conference "of subdued representatives "to represent their jyiews on transportation and other industrial problems before the Federal congress and state legisla tures. The main substance of the resolu tions presented undertook to crystal ize prejudice, against labor and the organizations of labor. Thtf'remedies proposed to solve our transeportation problems were: 1. Compulsory' arbitration. 2. Indirect, suggestion for the abolition of the railroad labor board, the substitution of a so-called impar tial tribunal to which industrial dis putes on the railroads should be re ferred and whose decisions should be summarily enforced. 3. Repeal of the Adamson eight hour law. 4. Repeal of the state full crew laws. 5. Invent congress with supreme powers over all interstate traffic, thus centralizing the states of any rights or privileges to regulate trans portation'Within their own boundar ies. Mr. Emery in reply to questions put by Senators Cummins and Stan ley admitted that he had no faith or confidence in voluntary negotiations or voluntary arbitration of labor problems by representatives of or ganized la*bor with employers. He gave no credit to the extraordinary successes that had been attendant upOn successful voluntary negotia tions between 145 railroads and their several groups of organised employes for the last 40 years he waved .aside with magnificent gesture, the service tendered by. the Bureau of Concilia tion In the department of labory the Board bf Mediation and Conciliation established under the Newlands act in 1913. the many weighty cases al ready adjusted by the railroad labor board and to the many thousands of cases successfully adjusted with justice to all. interests by the W&r Lao or board. Of course, it depends very greatly upon viewpoint as to the merits and the benefits accruing from the extra ordinary undertakings which.this in dustrial history covers, but it^was all useless and worthless from,the material viewpoint of Mr. Emery, his fellow agents and his patrons. As to the spiritual value of such human activities, he had no opinion to state, thus again showing that the ultra-materialist has at heart no re gard whatsoever for human rights, human comforts, human develop ZENITH COKE ment, human aspiration and genuine whole-souled democratic r^presenta-' tion in indusHy or elsewhere. Upon being cross-queStioned, Mn Emery agreed that the public trf-' bunal proposed by his council and. invested with the dictatorial power to arbitrate, decide and enforce de cisions by it as to wages paid raft road employes an.d It may be that these folks imagine they are fooling senators and repre sentatives, farmers and laborers with their new^y discovered pose of altru ism, but it will require 'many years of penitence, of right living and right acting for them ever to .convince the majority of the people of the United States that they are seeking for any thing less than "all the traffic will bear" for their own Immediate pri vate profit-making*, 'class-conscious, dominating groups.' TEN CENT STORE PROFITS. The F. W. Woolworth company, operating 5 an$ 10-cent stores, re port a susplus of niore than (13,000 000 last year, after all costs have been met. This surplus is equiva lent to $20.04 earned on the $G5, 000,000 common stock as against $13.87 a share the previous year. $10 and $7 Shoes for $4.83 Big Sh^e Sale. The Big J)uluth. WE" WILL WILL' REDUCE YOUR HEATING COSTS FROM 10% TO 20% LOW IN ASH HIGH' IN HEAT UNITS THE MOST SATISFACTORY FUEL ON THE MARKET For Sa^ by Alt Dealers. ZENITH FURNACE CO. .SOLE PRODUCERS. DR. ALEXANDER GRAHAM CHIROPRACTOR Headache, Backache, Appendicitis, Lung,. Stomach and Kidney Troubles Successfully Treated, as well as m|ny other human ills. Seventeen years successful experience have given this healer reputation. He It tafer and aurer than a' beginner. Let him diagnose your case. Telephone Melroie 429 NOv 500 COLUMBIA BUILDING DULUTH, MINN. Ver Tvaaty Tsars we hsve SSM tfeli Union Stamp for ase trader ear Voluntary Arbitration Contract wgggfgguifjjjjj 7TZ III •. working condi-1 tions, it should also exclusively func tion with the interstate co,mmei•ce, commission, possessing the railroad rate making power. On being further questioned, he admitted that the interstate com merce commission might function as the public tribunaT to arbitrarily set wages' and working conditions of the workers. Mr. Emery, however,''when pressed for his attitude and -that of his associates relative to compulsory arbitration in the establishments of his patrons very emphatically pro tested because that yould be an in terference with their individual lib erty. He also protested with equal emphasis to the suggestion that the interstate- commerce- commission should" be. vested with power to set the prices railroads should pay for steel rails, locomotives, cars, coal and other material and supplies used by/ railroads, generally furnished by the newly discovered freedom preservers,V liberty savers and defenders qf the public weal composed of the afore said self-constituted philanthropic and ultra-patriotic National Associa tion of Manufacturers and* other re spectable agents in the United States Chamber of Commerce. 5 1 Illllllllllllllll DELIVER EDISON Mazda Lamps In Lots of Six or More to Any-Part of the City Call Mfc\rose9li. THE PERFECT FUEL OUR STAMP INSURES: Peaceful Collective Bargaialat *«Mli Both 8trlkea afcd Lockouts Sispites Settled by Arbitration Steady Xmployment and Skilled ITotfc maaSMp greawt Deliveries to Dealers sad Public Peace-and- Success te Weifteru and Sa* flayers. Prosperity of Shoe Halting Commnnities As loyal uniott men and women, we •ik jou- tt demand shoes bearing thr above Union Stamp on Sole, lams or Lining. k'M and Shoe Workers' Union