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VOL. XXI. No. 42
CLUMSY SCHEME TO
SHACKLE LABOR
In the proposal providing: for
the establishment of the national
labor court which is said to be
ready for introducing in congress,
in bill form, neither mediation
nor conciliation will be sought.
Proponents of the plan want to
remove the proposed court as far
as possible from arbitration or
anything: which might suggest ar
bitration. They purpose to create
a court in which neither laborers
por employers will be represented
as such, whose decisions will be
made upon such evidence as ihay
be submitted.
All threatened strikes or labor
controversies involving interstate
commerce in which strikes may
result will be subject to its judg
ment. The court will have the
power to summon* witnesses and
administer oaths.
While cases are on trial "public
opinion" will be called on to pre
vent strikes, and the same force
will be surged to support the deci-.
sions rendered.
These, in brief, are the features
of the plan designed to chain
labor to its job by a manufac
tured public opinion.
Washington.—Events seem to be
shaping up to attempt a legislative
slaughter of labor. The press bu
reaus of privilege are thumping Ihe
newspaper ukulele in mass. chorus
and howling a hymn for "the public
interest."
"The public interest demands free
dom from group control. Industrial
courts must be established by the
national government which shall be
devoted solely to the public interest.
Neither capital nor labor shall be
jCPpresented assuch in the make-up of
these courts.'* That's an old song,
though set to new and alluring music.
Hamstringing of labor by state
legislatures ancf local "cariVstrike"
laws is a slow process. Whqjt- is now
needed is action—quick action har
monious pounding of the same note
by both "press and public" at the same
time, with the "press" guiding the
leader's baton, to induce "the public"
to start its raucous bawling of its
ready-made opinions.
Editorial Clamor Coming
Presently the country will ring
with editorial clamor for more courts
and judges who will be "servants of
the public," with power to. proclaim
their judgment on labor questions,
fix wages and hours of labor, with
"public opinion" as the arbiter.
"Public opinion" in these days of
mass movement of privilege means,
purely and simply, the views of hired
press agents and editorial writers who
plan their work and write what they
are, told to write by those who pay
their salaries.
"Public opinion" has few other
forms of expression than the press
of the country, and the press of the
country largely is controlled either
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corporations which require con
trol in order to shape public opinion
to thfeir corporate interests or by
those who are engaged in publica
tion as a business .enterprise for
money-making purposes.
Behind the ma.sk the pui*pose clear
ly is to endeavor to blindfold labor
and lead it into the bogk of confusion.
But labor cannot be fooled by any
guch game of blindman butt".
Rut Labor Won't Be Slaughtered
It's a fine prospect—this govern
ment of labor by the press agents of
privilege. The forces of privilege and
greed evidently believe it's worth
DIVISIONS ON TARIFF
LAW RECALL
HANCOCK'S VIEWS
Washington.—In 1880 General Han
,jpock, a presidential candidate, was
ridiculed because he said: "The tar
iff is a Iocj^ issue." He refused to
consider it as a national issue.
The American'valuation commission
composed of business" men, now says:
"In the past the tariff has been a
party issue, and with an administra
lA tion and corigress of the same politi
y cal faith it would be ordinarily fairly
':v easy to forecast the approximate
character of forthcoming tariff legis
a fcition. For the first time in history
there is a sharp division in the lead
ing parties on the tariff issue. Due
'o conditions growing out of the war,
the pending tariff legislation is an
issue on which party lines are almost
entirely ignored, thus introducing an
element of uncertainty at a time
when normally the result would be
v ^11 foregone conclusion."
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TO BPDDLE THE PEOPLE
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FORCES OF PRlVlLKCE PUT ON NEW FAI.SK FACE
NATIONAL LABOR COURT OF PUBLIC
OPINION IS LATEST
Corporation Press Agents Preparing Material For On
slaught on Congress—Mass Attack Upon
Workers Indicated
spending millions to bflng about such
a national law. To herd all the coun
try's workers in a single corral, in
one gorgeous roundup, fetter them,
gag them, shackle them and slaughter
them, offers such possibilities of glee
fulTliversion to sated privilege as to
jutify planning a terrific rush upon
congress to force it to join in the gory
sport.
As a Matter of fact, the line of
march already" has been mapped out.
The question is: Will that great part
of the real public which does the na
tion's work permit the parade to pass?
Bufc~
A new congress will be elected in
the fall.
That's a'.sign post along the route
"COMPANY UNIONS"
Fast Heading For tHe Scrap
Pile
Justice and Democracy and
"Societies" of Labor
Won't Team
Washington.—Reports from various
sections of the country indicate that
those loose-jointed' "societies" of la
bor., which'meet at the call of the em
ployer president and graced by him
with the title of "mutual benefit as
sociations in industry," but commonly
known as "company unions," which
were originally designed to put "work"
into the workers, are rapidly falling
apart. With full steam ahead, they
are plunging into that dark and nau
seous reservation of uselessness called
oblivion.
They are headed for the scrap pile
because they have no steering gear
their rusted rudder chains have part
ed their workers are taking to the
life*, boats. There are no equitable
principles to guide them. Only the
employer's interests are served. He
is the constitution and the by-laws,
the final arbiter of all questions, from
making the sale of wages to employ
ment and discharge. The workers in
the "company union?* simply serve the
purpose of scenery, merely a back
ground for the employer's acting.
The "company union" thus is neither
mutually beneficial" nor even agree
able to the workers. They realize the
money collected from them as dues is
being used to increase their, burdens
instead of to lift them.
They have no defense funds they
are card-indexed in the company's of
fice they are reported on by .their
"brothers" to the company's- agents
at the executive committee meetings
when both workers and employers
sit at the same table as equals," they
are constantly being sought to sign
petitions for wage reductions and
"fair treatment for the company," to
their own detriment.
In short, they knotf they are be
ing pushed down the hill of life, with
the "company union" opeiating the
pusher.
The planners of the "company
union" overlook two vita! lines in their
blue print designs—justice and de
mocracy.
Workers understand bo*.h, and they
refuse to be fed the shadow for.the
substance.
Prosperous industry must rest upon
these principles. To insure their per
petuity the legitimate trade union
must be accepted as the expression of
the workers' ideals and the spokesman
of labor in the industrial forum.
This is a fundamental truth because
the legitimate trade union is the heart,
the mind and the soul of the worker
himself, and the worker will not- be
enslaved.
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WOULD OUTLAW BLOCS
Washington.—The success of the
fai bloc in the national lawmaking
body has aroused the wrath of Con
gressman Ansorge, who "shudders to
think what will happen to our repre
sentative form of 4ernpcracy" if this
thing continues.
Mr. Ansorge has introduced a bill
which would fine any lawmaker who
affiliates with any sort of bloc. The
bill is intended to reach those who
openly profess their purposes, but it
will not affect 'the quiet understand
ings that men agree to in the privacy
of exclusive- chibs and select social
cirles.
ikr.Ansorge is serving his' first
term in congress. He is a lawyer with
offices jn Wall street. In his biogra
phy printed in the Congressional Rec
ord (which members themselves
write) it is stated that Mr. Ansorge
won a prize for oratory and was act
ive in football during hftt college
years.
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W W I I I -I i V I 1 1
THE GENOA CONFERENCE
At the recent meeting of the
allied supreme council of the
Laegue of Nations, held at Can
nes, France, Lloyd George, Brit
ish premier, proposed that a
world economic* conference be
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The council called the confer
ence for Genoa, Italy, in March.
Among the nations which have
been invited to attend are the
United States, Germany and Rus
sia.
The ostensible purpose is to dis
cuss world economic conditions
and to seek a remedy for them.
The real purpose is exposed in
President Gompers' article, con
densed because of the limits of
space.
Washington. President Gompers
has issued a forceful argument against
the United States sending delegates
to the Genoa economic conference if
Lenine and Trotzky or delegates from
Soviet Russia are to be admitted.
Declaring that the British conces
sion hunters in the British-Soviet
trade agreement of a year ago failed
in their hidden purpose of getting
their grip on the resources of Russia,
Mr. Gompers says they have made
their new plan the "chief order of busi
ness of Lloyd George's Genoa con
ference."-*
The new plan is: Let all
governments and financiers unite to
furnish the required capital and to
legalize Lenine's title to everything in
Russia by "official" recognition. "In
a word," he says, "the Soviet Plunder
bumPis to sell Russia, including her
future, to the proposed 'central inter
national corporation,' or at least such
parts'of Russia as the financiers want
and the Bolshevists feel they do not
need for their purposes.
Aspire to U. S. Recognition
"Lenine and Trotzky," he continues,
"already have the quasi recognition
of Lloyd George. That to which the
soviet regime aspires is the recogni
tion of the United States and that
recognition would be given if the
United States were to accept the invi
tation to the German conference.
"In some circles it has been
inti
mated that the United States gov
ernment ought to accept the invita
tion to send delegates to Genoa and
at the conference denounce and re
pudiate the whole scheme of things,
worse blunder could be made^
Would Prolong Dictatorship
"To accept the invitation a/id go
to Genoa would be a pronouncement
that would go out throughout the
world that Lenine and Trotzky are to
be recognized, and any statement
made to dissent from or to repudiatae
sovietism. at Genoa would receive but
little attention from the great masses
of the world. At this time the Rus
sian people have stopped groping and
are now intelligently manifesting
their dissent and opposition to the un
warranted dictatorship and cruelty o£
the Lenine and Trotzky regime. The
Bolsheviki regime in Russia is dis
integrating faster than is generally
known. Its life can be prolonged only
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"SOVIET PLUNDER-BUND"
TO SELL RUSSIA, INCLUDING HER FUTURE, IF PLANS OF BOL
SHEVISTS NOW MATURING CARRY, DECLARES
PRESIDENT SAMUEL GOMPERS
Says No Worse Blunder Could Be Made Than For This Nation to Senc
Delegates to Genoa Conference
by the political, economic and moral
support of the (United States.
"Recognition now would give' tem
porarily an added strength to a regime
that must fall before there can be a
final solution of Russia's domestic
difficulties and her foreign relations,
without contributing anything mater
ial to immediate relief of her people.
The bolshevist dictatorship, will pass,
whereupon those who now seek to
save it in defiance of all principles of
democracy, right and justice, will have
to admit their error and retrace their
steps in order to establish relations
with the democracy that is certain
to come andw hich the present policy
of the United States so evidently
foresees.
The Genoa conference openly com
bines the ideas of Lloyd George,
Stinnes and Lenine. It prepares the
way for a new triple alliance of un
repentant Germany, Sovietizcd Rus
sia, and certain British politicians.
Sinister Politics Behind II
"In order to secure the attendance
of America, Lloyd George at first/
called the Genoa conference purely
economic. There is also a sinister
political object behind it—-an object
he later admitted in an interview in
which he said the first point on the
agenda would be not economic ques
tions but 'peace'—a political treaty,
that is, with Lenine. The Soviets, the
most impoverished of European 'gov
ernments,' supports, at the expense
of its starving agricultural serfs, and
industrial slaves, the largest army in
the world, 1,500,000 men, and they
have just decided to maintain this
army and to use it to trade for recog
nition and credits at Genoa.
"The reactionaries and revolution
aries of the world are joining hands
permanently to enthrall the masses
and enslave labor in Russia. This is
not the first example of the support
of revolutionary organizations for re
actionary purposes. But it is the
first such effort on a world scale.
Americans for Russian Freedom
"The American workers, the Ameri
can people, the writer of this article,
have had and now have a deep admira
tion and affection for the Russian peo
ple. Because of this "they are firm
in the stand they have taken against
the brutalities of the.tyi'anny which
today holds Russia in its grip. For
more than forty years the president
of the American Federation of La
bor has been engaged in efforts to
bring about the freedom of the Rus
sian people and the American labor
movement has been committed from
its earliest days to that cause. There
will be no turning back on the road,
no abandonment of principle, no act
of seeming expediency. The Russian
people can not be free while they are
subject to a dictatorship. There is
no counterfeit for freedom, and
though there may be some who can
be deceived as to when freedom exists,
the American laboi movement is not
among them."
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CAR MEN HOLD JJNES
Atlanta, Ga.—Organized street car
men have signed last year's agree
ment with the local toPactioa eom
pany.
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OPPOSE PRESS CENSOR
Washington. Postmaster General
Hays has announced his opposition to
a bill which would prohibit newspa
pers from making any referenece to
betting odds on horse racing or any
athletic or sporting event.
The postal official stated that while
there are worthy sections of the bill,
the proposal should be defeated to
check the tendency of press control.
"I am reminded," he said, "of Vol
taire's statement: 'I wholly disap
prove what you say and I will defend
with my'life your right to sav it.'"
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that a player-piano was simply a
mechanical intrument that ground
out tunes much as a machine
turns out bolts!
"But after the salesman had me sit down
and play the Gulbransen, I changed my
idea. I found the Gulbransen a finished
musical instrument—a tremendous ad
vance over the player-pianos I had
known in years past.
"I became enthusiastic. I wanted it
for my home."
"Now that I have it I am more pleased
than ever. Between business and social
duties I never had much time i'or music.
I&it in a few evenings Gulbransen In
struction Rolls taught me to play well.
In fact, better than my wife, who has
taken lessons for yearo.
"I bring out every shade of expression I
desire—1 do everything the pianist ol*
ability does—without Hie tedious finger
work."
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PRESS
New York.—Justice Robert F. Wag
ner, of the state supreme court, who
recently held the breaking of a trade
agreement by a manufacturers' asso
ciation with a trade union to be a con
spiracy, has, vacated a temporary in
junction granted to an embroidery
firm a few weeks ago and has refused
to enjoin the members of a trade
union from picketing the factory of
the company, which also violated its
trade agreement with the union, hi
view of the apparent eagerness with
which judges usually issue drastic
writs of injunction in labor disputes,
Justice Wagner's setting aside of the
stock judicial reasoning is striking.
His decision, in ptfrt, follows:
Justice Holds that Equity £ourts Are
For Purpose of Equity Only
"The plaintiff employers do not
come into court with clean hands,
since they breached the collective bar
gaining contract to which they with
others and the defendant union were
parties when they tried to force a
wage reduction in October. The pre
cedent set in the Ilitchman Coal &
Coke Company against the United
Mine Workers of America, in the
United Stt^tes supreme court, had no
application, for the reason that in the
Hitchman case there were valid exist
ing contracts which the defendants
u»'.re attempting to induce the work
to abandon."
Giving his views on tin- xj. ht
of the workers to picket Justin- Wug
ner said:
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that which does not transgress on
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IT, FOR SUBDUING WORKERS. IS A COURT
OF EQUITY', DECLARES JUSTICE
Sustains Right of Workers to Picket Struck Plant Jind
Vacates Temporary Injunction Granted •••f
Embroidery Firm
asked to restrain
the
picketing which some of the defend
ants are coneededly doing in the vicin
ity of the plaintiff's place of business.
I know of no sound principle of law
which prohibits orderly picketing
violence
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is
held.
the
rights of others. Indeed, a great body
of law affirmatively establishes the
opposite proposition.
Picket Right Guaranteed
"The right to picket is founded
on constitutional principles and, al
though it might appear that some re
cent adjudications in certain jurisdic
tions encroach upon this right, the
constiutional guarantee still survives
and must be respected and upheld.
"Xor is it material whether one
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See Special Demonstration Saturday Night
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wrong is not determined by mere
numerical considerations. The act of
a single man, if right, is not made
wrong because it is performed by sev
eral men.
Free Speech Upheld
"The right to freedom of speech
and freedom of action belongs not
only to the individual but to indi
viduals combined for a lawful pur
pose. That several insist on exercis
ing their rights simultaneously does
not of itself transmute their act to a
wrong or illegality.
"Of course, if the employes ap
proached are unwilling to listen to
argument or inducement brought for
ward by defendants, they should not
be disturbed, for it is the constitution
al right of every person to refuse
to
hold conversation with others, even if
such arguments be fortified with wis
dom or benefit to the person whose
audience is sought.
"The plaintiffs also assert that their
legal rights arc being violated, be
cause the pickets are attempting to
indue# plaintiffs' employes to abandon
plaintiffs' employ and join the unibn
inviolation of their agreements of em
ployment. Were plaint'ffs' cause not
impaired by their own breach of con
tract their ground
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of
the penal law," the court
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police station."
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relief would
be persuasive."
He asserts that s*uy transgressions
of the law should be dealt with in the
ordinary way.
"The most drastic, severe and per
manent
all injunctions against
equity is not a
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TYPOS HOLD WAGE SCALE
Pittsburgh, Pa.—Newspaper print
ers and newspaper employers in this
city have renewed their wage agree
ment for one year.
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(OOPEltS AUK STICKERS
York.—Organized coopers em­
ployed on the docks in this city have
been on strike since last July, and are
still stick ins.
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