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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER oO, 1928
HOW INJUNCTION WORKS
Federal Judge Wayne G. Borah, of
New Orleans, refused to consider
charges against a rum runner who
was seized by the federal coast guard,
and whose vessel was seized, accord
ing to the indictment, "off South
Pass" in the Gulf of Mexico, but
within the territorial waters of the
United States,
Attorneys for the rum runner
claimed that the location was indefi
nite. In upholding this claim, the
court said: "South America may be
considered as being 'off South Pass'.'
Federal courts are not so particular
that justice be done when striking
workmen are enjoined from "being
in the vicinity of a plant." Thfe late
Federal Judge Jackson, of West Vir
ginia, issued an injunction against
striking miners "walking on the roads
leading to the mines."
Under this sweeping ukase a miner
who walked on any road within the
court's jurisdiction that led to the
mines was subject to contempt pro
ceedings.
Our federal courts insist on being
definite and explicit when the liberty
of rum runners are involved, but not
when workers strike for higher living
standards.
The Borah ruling is another illus
tration of the class character of the
labor injunction.
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THEY ALSO SERVE
An inconspicuous little story tells of
the award to a section of the Maryland
division of the Pennsylvania railroad
of the general manager's $500 prize
for the maintenance of the best line
and surface of tracks. The portion
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REMEMBER THE POOR?—If"
have withheld the poor from their
desire, or have caused the eyes of
the widow to fail or have eaten my
morsel myself alone, and the father
less hath not eaten thereof if I have
seen any perish for want of clothing,
or any poor without covering: then
let mine arm fall from my shoulder
"Made,
mine arm be broken from
the bone.—Job 31:16, 17, 19, 21.
PRAYER:—Lord, may we never
forget that Thou hast said, "Inas
much as ye did it unto one of these,
my brethren, even these least, ye
did''
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THE HISTORY OF MAUKIUP*
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of the railroad receiving this token
merit extends from Perryville to
Buck Creek. Seemingly unimportant
as a matter of news, this item has
value far beyond many of those which
win a grand display. It calls atten
tion, for those who ponder it a lit
tle, to labors performed for the pub
lic which are seldom recognized and
rarely rewarded.
The traveler who journeys by rail
often thinks as he looks up at the
great panting locomotive of how
much he owes to the steady hand, the
quick eye and clear brain of the en
gineer, and he may give a passing
thought to the caution and good
judgment of the conductor. But so
little are we influenced by the things
that are unseen and do not directly
touch us, that few ever stop to con
sider how completely their fate has
been in the possession of those men
whose duty it is to keep the roadbed
in repair, spy out imperfect rails or
loose joints and generally to provide
against those trivial dangers which
produce great disasters.
Such is the vanity and injustice
of life that we heap with honors the
performers of spectacular feats and
neglect almost altogether those on
whose faithful, competent and unfail
ing fulfillment of their dull, daily
duties our very lives depend. It is a
pleasant thing, then, to see the worth
of this kind of service noticed and
the men who give it made aware that
they are appreciated. It is the work
of this class of men not only in rail
roading but in every other organiza
tion that makes it possible for the old
world to carry on at all.—Editorial
in Baltimore Sun.
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WHEN EXTREMES MEET
President Green, at the opening of
the A. F. of L. convention in New
Orleans, made a telling point against
non-union employers and communists
The National Association of Manu
facturers, at their recent New York
convention, denounced organized la
bor while insisting that the veil of
communism is "greatly exaggerated"
by the trade union movement.
In the same city, at the same time
the communists, in a public meeting
hung A. F. of L. officials in effigy
"They hung no capitalists," said
President Green, who called attention
to the historic unity between reaction
and revolution.
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BLIND LEADING BLINDED
Newspapers, upon which the peo
pie must rely for much of their in
formation, misinform their readers
arid thus, blind themselvse, set out
to lead those they have blinded.
Editorial comment of leading
American dailies on the recent Cuban
farcical election is to the point. In
that election Gerardo Machado, in
cumbent, was the sole candidate. By
what is known as the prorogue law
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ports, elastic
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of rtusses and
in feet, knees,
legs, varicose
veins by wear
ing our elastic anklets, stockings and knee caps.
Continuous Spring Bi-Lateral SPOT-PAD TRUSS
WHEN ALL OTHERS FAILJL"THIS TRUSS HOLDS THE
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he extended the term to six years and
then, under the lash of fear, drove
thi'ee parties to support him for re
election.
All but two of large group of
newspapers surveyed find in the elec
tion nothing but unanimous brotherly
love and prosperity. The truth is,
as two newspapers suspect, fear, a
demoralized opposition and some
thing not mentioned by the two
minority newspapers. Among these
are deportation and assassination.
It is but a short time since an
ex-secretary of war was compelled to
flee the island by airplane to escape
that "mysterious death" that has, in
the past three years, claimed so many
lives in Cub*
American daily newspapers fall
short in many ways. And more and
more the labor press finds the way
to true leadership, based upon truth,
honesty and fearlessness in the find
ing and presentation of facts.
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STEAM VERSUS GASOLINE
Steam seems to have gone into a
deadly clinch with gasoline. Motor
busses and motor trucks are a more
serious competitor of the railroads
than had been anticipated at any time
in the past.
In 1917 Class I railroads hauled
53,768,625 tons of less than carload
freight in 1927,38,425,225 tons. Yet
the 15,000,000 tons do not make a
full measure of the loss in short-haul
traffic they have suffered during that
decade. For they have lost in addi
tion whatever has been the growth in
the volume of this kind of traffic
during the ten years, an accession in
which the motor truck has dented
them while taking 15,000,000 tons
which were previously theirs.
Manifestly, the competition of the
motor bus and private automobile
which transport passengers is not the
only thing the railroads have to worry
about. They have reconciled them
selves to that loss by proving that
they can withstand it.
Whether the continuing loss of
this short-haul freight traffic can be
sustained with equally supportable
consequences is at least something
of a question.
That it is giving the railroad some
anxiety is shown by the growing dis
position to employ motor trucks in
competition with those which have
been taking their less than carload
traffic away from them.
In the beginning it was the general
view that the rates in such traffic
were so slightly remunerative, when
remunerative at all, that the loss of it
could be accepted with complacence.
That opinion seems to have been
ill-founded. Or perhaps motor
trucks have come to operate over
longer -distances than werfet then
thought practicable.
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BUY IN YOUR OWN COMPANY
Principal insurance companies wrote
life insurance amounting to theenor
moust total of $9,057,000 in the first
nine months of this year. This
breaks all records. The great life
insurance companies are getting
richer and richer—fabulously rich
Their money has to be invested and
they thus gain power in industry, in
finance, in a half dozen great lines
of human activity.
Insurance men wonder where it
will end and what will be the out
come. So do many others, including
government officials and economists
Undoubtedly an enormous amount
of insurance company money is in
vested in directions that give support
to industrial autocracy—which means
norvunionism.
Union labor, in turning to its own
life insurance company, Js dealing
with the problem constructively
Union labor can build its own insur
ance giant which will work for the
financial advancement of freedom
This it can do without sacrificing any
thing of soundness or profits. Union
men do wisely—more wisely than
can know today—when they insure
their lives in their 9wn insurance
company.
OUTPUT OF FIREARMS
INCREASED LAST YEAR
Washington.—The manufacture of
firearms and ammunition in this
country last year totaled $50,000,000
or 28 per cent mdre than in 1925
according to the department of com
merce^
These figures do not include
works, dynamite, gunpowder or
explosives for sale as such.
THE BUTLER COUNTY PRESS
The Cherry
#TT» Where with our
1 Little Hatchet
we tell the truth
about many things, sometimes pro
foundly, sometimes flippantly,
sometimes recklessly.
We are in danger of having a Van
zetti myth created for us and a good
many of us appear to be in danger
of swallowing the thing.
Vanzetti, along with Sacco, went to
an untimely grave, and there is a
growing number of believers in the
injustice of the way thereof.
All, or nearly an, of the officialdom
that sealed the doom of these two
men sticks to the guns in proclaiming
guilt, but the evidence of innocence
mounts like a mountain in growth.
That, for the purposes of this dis
cussion, is neither here nor there. It
is besides the point.
Vanzetti will continue to remain as
memory of injustice done and in
that manner as a lesson in the avoid
ance of injustice. But that is not a
good reason for building up a myth
about Vanzetti as a great philosopher
or a very wise man. We are in dan
ger of having such a myth.
Vanzetti was an anarchist, perhaps
philosophical anarchist. There are
schools of anarchists, just as there
are different kinds of democrats and
republicans. Philosophically, anar
chy is absence of government, ab
scence of restraint. As a philosophy
it is kindly—and childish in this day
and age.
There- are great numbers of men
and women who like to make their
martyrs into paragons of wisdom.
That has been done by many of these
men and women about Parsons and
Spies, who were unlucky, but not par
ticularly wise and it has been done
in like manner about many others
who have somehow fallen victims of
governments, or of movements, or of
mobs. Sometimes even historians
have fallen victims to these more or
less popular delusions.
One need have no less profund con
victions about the* terrible injustice
of the execution of Vanzetti in order
to rebel at the creation of a Vanzetti
myth in which Vanzetti is made to
appear as a man of great wisdom, of
unfailing perception and of qualities
combining nothing less than saitli
ness and all-knowing wisdom.
Upto Sinclair has contributed
something to the myth in his book
called "Boston," which is as good and
as terrible as Sinclair usually is
Another book bringing to us the let
ters of Vanzetti goes further to help
create in the name of Vanzetti a man
who was not at all Vanzetti and
whom Vanzetti would not have recog
nized.
Vanzetti was not profoundly wise
If we can concede that he was pro
foundly wise then we must concede
that anarchy is filled with profound
wisdom and no person who believes
in the Tightness of democracy, can
find wisdom in the philosophy of an
archy, if indeed it can be conceded
that there is anything of philosophy
about anarchy. A bad dream does
not have to be elevated to the pedes
tal of a philosophy just because its
adherents call it thus.
Vanzetti went to his execution with
the manner of a martyr, believing
that his death would contribute to
the advancement of a cause. He went
heroically. But when that ha? been
said it has all been said.
There are altogether too many who
cannot give the credit that is due
without giving credit that is not due
We do not have to be maudlin. We
do not have to forego belief in our
own ideals in order to honor a man
of differing ideals for the sacrifice he
has made for ideals that we believe
mistaken or worthless.
Let us not have a Vanzetti myth
Let us know the truth, let us fix our
hearts and minds against injustice
but let us not give up our reason in
doing so. It is possible to be fair
without being maudlin.
MUSCLE SHOALS
Is Lost If High
fire
other
DYERS RAISE WAGES
East St. Louis, III,—Organised
cleaners, dyers and pressers in this
city, Belleville and Granite City rais
ed wages 10 per cent.
Court
Hacks
"Pocket Veto"
Washington*—Government control
of Muscle Shoals is lost if the United
States supreme court holds that the
Coolidge "pocket veto" defeats that
resolution, declared Senator Norris.
bill
by
Under the constitution if a
passed by congress is not returned
the president within ten days, the bill
vecomes a law, except where adjour
ment of congress makes such return
impossible.
The Muscle Shoals resolution was
passed at the last session of con
gress within ten days before adjourn
ment. The president took no action
on the resolution.
The question now is: "What is
adjournment of congress," Friends
of the resolution insist that the bill
is law, as the seventieth congress
does not adjourn until March 4, 1929,
and that until then an adjournment
for a few months or a day is not
"adjournment" within the meaning of
the constitution. The supreme court
will have to decide this technicality.
"It looks now," said Senator Nor
ris, "that unless the supreme court
holds that the Muscle Shoals bill is
now a law, that great property devel-
oped at the expense of the American
taxpayers, cannot be saved for the
people.
We do not have the votes in con
gress to pas& a similar bill over the
veto of the president, and it is well
known that the next president would
veto any bill that retained'the owner
ship, control and operation of Muscle
Shoals in government hands."
SEEK FACTS TO
SUPPORT CLAIMS
Washington.—The value of re
searc is more and more recognized by
labor unions, according to a survey
by the United States Bureau of La
bor Statistics.
In a summary of the study, just
fnade public, it is stated that many
unions maintain a department whose
business it is to gather data that is
used to support wage increases.
'Unions," it is stated, "have had
impressed upon them the fact that
unless their representatives are arm
ed with data bearing upon all phases
of their situation they are at a dis
advantage in their collective bargain
ing with employers.
'The employers at the council table
are represented by experts with data
at their fingers' ends. Early in the
history of collective bargaining un
ions would go to conference feeling
that as their claims were just they
would be conceded. They soon saw,
however, that having justice on their
side was not enough the claim must
be proved, and to do so they must be
equipped to convince their opponents.
"This showed the need for facts
and for the ability to interpret these
facts. But facts are not always
easily available, and even when ob
tained were not always clear in
meaning to untrained persons. To
meet this situation certain unions be
gan some time.ago to establish with
in their organization a statistical or
research department in charge of a
trained statistician."
Walter: Would you like to drink
Canada Dry, sir?
Customer: I'd love to, but I'm only
here for a week.—Judge.
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