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"THE SPIDER FAMILY
Intolerant of Organization"
Highly Skilled Craftsmen
in Silk Weaving, Spin
ning, Silk Manufact
uring
By S. B. Hedges
Silk making, or weaving, is not a
monopoly or a community enterprise,
in the spider family but is carried on
as individual enterprises, and is in
tolerant of organization or competi
tion. If two spiders happen to locate
on the same hunting grounds, in a
short while the stronger or most cun
ning will eat the weaker one. The
honey bee and silkworm have held
places as exploitable insects, but now
the spider is held in hig favor es
pecially one of the large species. It
can manufacture three or four hun
dred yards of the strongest known
silk in a day and keep it up through
out the season, while rearing a fam
ily—an impossibility for the silkworm
to duplicate. I am not sure this spe
cies is of the tarantula family, but
is as large.
In addition to the spider's skill as
a fabric maker, it is a very skillful
butcher, and can administer knockout
drops hyperdermically, on a certain
part of the victim's anatomy and pro
duce instant death. This method is
reserved for other killers of equal
daring and skill. The same knock
out drops would be used on a differ
ent portion of a ruminant's body, and
cause a partial paralysis, and at its
leisure the spider sucks out the vic
tim's life juices if the victim is then
released, it sometimes partially re
covers anl lives a sickly existence for
a few weeks longer.
The spider family often surprises
and amazes our intelligence, but does
not utterly upset it. One would be
inclined to say that the insect conies
from another planet, more monstrous,
more energetic, more insane, more
atrocious, more infernal than our own.
It kills to eat and gorges itself one
day, if necessary remains victualless
for some days without impairment of
hunting prowess or working skill. It
decorates its living room, dug in some
instances eight or nine inches deep in
the ground, with a fine flulTy silk
fabric where it lounges in snug se
clusion, patiently waiting for a din
ner to pass by, and be attracted a
little too close through curiousity
then Mrs. Spider dines.
The large colony of baby spiders
when the time comes to leave the home
nest, climbs up as individuals on some
tall herb or grass each tiny spider
constructing for itself a toy silk bal
loon, and on a light breeze it goes
a-ballooning seeking prospective
hunting territory, if it is lucky to es
cape being eaten, it builds itself a
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permanent home, and it ceases to be
a hunter of the waste land by becom
ing a trapper of great skill, trapping
wary victims under cover where it
has a mass of advantage in its favor
it either binds or kills the victim out
right if it binds the victim, it in
jects knockout drops that leave the
victim in a state of suspended activ
ity, until hunger induces dining fever.
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SUGAR COATED
BUNK"
Fed to Workers Daily By
Capitalist Press and Too
Much Swallowed
Cigar Makers' President
Urges Stronger Support
of Labor Press
Chicago.—It would profit workers
if they supported and read their la
bor press rather than swallow the
sugar coated bunk" that is daily fed
to them, says George W. Perkins,
president of the Cigar Makers' Inter
national Union, writing in the official
mafiazine of that organization.
"The privileged few and big inter
ests know the value of propaganda,"
says this trade unionist.
"It is said that a lie travels faster
than the truth that half truth is
often worse than a whole lie. These
people know that the constant teach
ing of false news and erroneous ideas
creates a psychology that it takes
years to destroy.
"The people, the public generally,
are' really hungry for news. They
swallow without analysis false state
ments made for ulterior purposes. It
would be much better if the workers
got their views on economics from
the labor press and from their own
official journals. It would be better
still if the most of us got down to
rock-bottom facts and did our own
thinking instead of swallowing the
sugar-coated bunk that we get on the
news stands for 2 or 3 cents per.
"Newspapers are useful as a time
killer, for baseball scores, etc. Some
like them for divorce news, murders
and dinner parties given to, trained
monkeys. We have no objection to
anybody reading the daily press. We
think they should, but when it comes
to our own best interests let us be
guided by facts and our own deduc
tions.
"The most of us know that a good
bill of prices, reasonable working
hours and fair shop conditions are
the proper things for us, and we,
moreover, know that the only way to
get these things is through the trade
unions. On this there is no argument.
Anyone who disputes it has an ax to
grind or has space to rent in the top
of his head. He might be, however,
repeating parrot-like, things he had
heard from those with interests di
vergent from those of the workers."
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CURB SOME STRIKES
Denver. Distric Judge Morrow
has ruled that amendments to the
can't-strike" law of this state is un
constitutional because they fail to
limit the activities of the state indus
trial commission to controversies that
are affected with a public interest.
The packing houses, says the court,
are not such an industry.
The decision does not affect the
vicious principle behind the "can't
strike" law, as the court, in effect,
holds that any strike that does not
inconvenience the public very much
can not be interfered with by the
commission, but where workers are
employed in a calling or industry that
is necessary for the public's every
day convenience, these workers can
not strike for 30 days, or until the
commission acts.
Judge Morrow's decision does not
affect an injunction judge's power to
smash the butcher workmen's strike
by issuing one of the well-known
"thpu-shalt-not" writs.
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TURNOVER TAX
Of French Not Successful
New York.—Advocates of the sales
tax in the United States will get lit
tle consolation from an article writ
ten in the Annalist, financial paper, by
Alzada Comstock, on "Lessons of the
French Turnover Tax."
"The 18-months' trial of the turn
oxer tax which France is now com
pleting," he says, "augurs badly for
similar experiments which are being
urged in the United States.
"The French tax deserves a closer
inspection than is usually given it by
proponents of the sales tax in this
country. Sales taxes levied in the
Philippines and in Mexico can hardly
be considered perfect illustrations for
the purposes of a great industrial
and commercial country like our own.
The Canadian sales tax is also cited,
but Canada's business is on a small
scale compared with ours."
In stating that conditions in Finance,
is more nearly comparable to tlhe
United States, Mr. Comstock says
that the French tax yields but one
third of what it was estimated to
yield.
"The lessons for the United States
are clear. The two chief dangers of
the sales tax are the possibilities of
evasion and the inequalities of appli
cation to agricultural and business
classes.'*
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The final proceedings of the 1921
convention of the Ohio State Federa
tion of Labor were mailed to the dele
gates and labor unions "throughout the
state last week. Thos. J. Donnelly
came to Hamilton and personally con
ducted the mailing of the proceedings
which was quite a job. The proceed
ings is the largest ever issued by the
O. S. F. of L., and contains every
detail of the convention held in Ham
ilton. They should be read by every
trade unionists in the state.
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MACHINISTS'
NOMINATION
Local Lodge No. 24} of Machinists
will nominate Grand Lodge officei's
at all regular meetings during the
month of January. Members are re
quested to attend these meetings reg
ularly to take part.
REVOLUTION
Started By Another "Work
ers" Party in New York
Everything To Be Over
thrown, Including Gov
ernment and A. F.
of L.
New York.—For the 'steenth time
a revolutionary party has been form
ed to save the workers and overthrow
the government. The American Fed
eration of Labor, of course, will go
down in the grand crash.
The new venture it is to be known
as the workers' party of America.
This sounds smoother than commun
ist party. It was formed in this city
by about 100 delegates representing
groups who demand purified, unadul
terated revolution. The third interna
tionale of Moscow was indorsed and
the usual program agreed to that
will always turn the labor movement
inside out.
The program was attacked by some
of the delegates. One was unkind
enough to label the ponderous docu
ment "a hodgepodge of muddled
brains." Another declared it was a
"mess" party, rather than a mass
party.
Defenders of the program acknowl
edge its revolutionary weakness, but
pleaded that the need of the hour is
to get a "toe hold." Afterwards, the
simor-pure revolution will begin. It
was stated that the workers are un
acquainted with the beauties of com
munism, and this theory must be
cautiously fed to them by the self
appointed guardians. A central ex
ecutive committee, with wide powers,
was elected to direct how the A. F.
of L. will be captured and how work
ers are to be inoculated with the ideals
of the third internationale.
-The usual roof-raising denunciation
of "Gompers bureaucrocy" was in
dulged in. This is a favorite oratori
cal trick of capitalist and revolution
ist.
OUR NEW MAYOR
The new revolution will not be
given a clear track by its brother rev
olutionists in other camps. The I. W
W. group of this district says it is
"dominated by a lot of cheap poli
ticians who have never had any revo
lutionary experience."
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PLEA FOR VET'S AID
Washington.—Senator Ashurst ha
served warning on his colleagues that
unless immediate and adequate appro
priation is made for sick and disabled
former service men he will inaugurate
a single-handled campaign "against
the men who have disregarded thi
public interest."
The Arizona lawmaker insisted
that solons who burned with patriot
ic fervor during the war should now
"make good."
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HARRY J. KOEHLER, JR.
"CAN'T-STRIKE" LAW
Suggested in President's An
nual Message to Congress
Incorporation o Trade
Unions Also Favored By
Nation's Executive
Washington.—In his message to
congress, President Harding recog
nizes the right of labor to organize
and be represented by agents of its
own choosing—with the two important
privisos that strikes be regulated by
law and trade unions be incorporated.
He said there should be established
judicial or quasi judicial tribunals
for the consideration and determina
tion of all disputes which menace the
public welfare."
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This statement is in line with de
clarations made last August by At
torney General Daugherty before the
convention of the American bar as
sociation in Cincinnati. At that time
the president's lep:al adviser favored
compulsory jurisdiction over industri
al disputes so that "we will have a
more intelligent ba»is upon which to
enact compulsory legislation upon this
subject."
In recommending to congress that
trade unions be incorporated, Presi
lent Harding said:
"Irt the case of the corporation
which enjoys the privilege of limited
iability of stockholders, particularly
when engaged in the public service,
is recognized that the outside pub
lic has a large concern which must
be protected and so we provide reg
ulations, restrictions and in some
cases detailed supervision. Likewise
in the case of labor organizations, we
might well apply similar and equally
well-defined principles of regulation
and supervision in order to conserve
the public's interest as affected by
heir operations."
In a public statement on this por
tion of the chief executive's message,
President Gompers said that the rec
ommendations revert back to condi
tions 400 years ago when English
courts "determined the wages of the
workers and prohibited them from
asking for more or for employers
paying more than the court's decision
and to condemn men to compulsory
servitude and slavery if they resented
in any way the decisions of these
courts."
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HUGE PROFITS IN ICE
New York.—In eight years the
American Ice Company has put back
into its business a surplus profit of
$3,915,890.
For 1920 this trust announces a
clear profit of $1,758,605, and a sur
plus of $559,392. The profits and sur
plus are exclusive of taxes and all
other charges.
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ItRKAl) PRICE GOES I
Washington. Following Attorney
General Daugherty's announcement
that profiteers would be probed, whole
sale bakers in the nation's capital
raised bread prices 1 to 1 cents a loaf.
The cost of flour is blamed.
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JAZZ MUSIC
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Not Needed Where Work
Interests, Says Engineer
New York.—Welfare workers and
jazzers in industry are on the wrong
course because they would divert the
attention from work to recreation, ac
cording to Walter N. Polokov, con
sulting engineer, in an address at the
annual meeting of the American so
ciety of mechanical engineers.
The speaker said work should be
made interesting rather than attempt
to amuse workers and divert their at
tention from "the monotony of ani
mal-like work."
This welfare work was referred to
$40, $45
and $47.60
suit and
O'coat
values
Special Purchase Sale
OLD TIME VALUES AT OLD TIME PRICES
The crowds who came bought
they were satisfied that
the values we're giving
at
$25, $27.50, $30
Suits and O'Coata
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AX-E
as "spiritual cocaine intended to help
tndure a painful operation."
"This was sometimes temporarily
expedient," he said, "yet the usual
effect was decidedly degrading be
cause of the silent admission that
work is a curse, that no attention
should be fixed on production, that
there is no interest or satisfaction to
be found in industry and that special
reward and entertainment is to be
looked for outside of one's vocation.
"Such a practice eventually ruins
the spirit of industry and breeds.fur:.
ther demoralization." 'isV
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PLUMBERS' STRIKE ENDS
East St. Louis, 111.—The plumb®*®*
strike that has been waged for nearly
a year, has been satisfactorily adjust
ed.
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are head and shoulders above
any in town real old time
values at old time prices.
Styles and
models for
all men
and young
men
$55, $60, $65
Suits and O'Coata
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