Hammond Times, Volume 14, Number 79, Hammond, Lake County, 19 September 1919 — Page 4
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THE COMING BATTE.
The long-prophesied battle between capital and labor Is at the threshold and industrial history is being
written these days which our children's children -will
read In their sohoolbooka. The conflict between the
American Federation of Labor and the ateel and xnanu
facturing interests "will be no small conflict and it is
folly to predict which side will weaken first. Lovers of this country can do nothing now but hope for the best. Both sides have locked horns in a struggle whose result may stir the country to its very depths. Only the future will decide as to the responsibility. Not only
the steel and iron industry is affected, but the whole
economic fabric in the United States is either directly
or indirectly concerned. These are momentous times in which men's passions will need to b subjugated- The day for discussion is ended.- The world's greatest strike
is here. Chaos 'or co-operation is earning. Perhaps it is
a good thing that matters have come to a head. It had to be fought out. The patience of the public was about
anyway exhausted and those who think that the public is not going to have a long memory are going to be badly fooled.
THIS IS BOLSHEVISM. In view of the agitation for readjustment of our in
dustrial relations it may be well to study for a moment some of the recent hippenings In Russia- As is well
known, the Bolshevlkl came into power on the promise
to turn industry over to the workers, and they made
good the promise. The industries were Riven to the manual laborers, and the owners and the executives were
turned out. What has happened there in the course of
this experiment ia told by Prof. Sokolov, a noted Russian educator recently returned from that country, in the cur
rent ifisue of "Struggling Russia."
"The Bolsheviki," he Bays, "are now inclined to
give up the so-called workers' control, which has done
more harm than good to industry, and to substitute state
control for it. Havinr suffered a number of failures in
their land and labor policies, the Bolshevik! have Begun to look for a way out of the intolerable situation. They
would he ready now to accept even non-revolutionary measures in order to fix up somehow the crumpled-up
industries of Russia."
BIG WASH LITTLE HANGOUT. . "What are you going to do about it," Is a question
the New York Times (Dem.) should ask itself after publishing an article showing that the Federal Board of
Vocational Education with its 1,653 employes has been
able to get jobs for only eleven disabled soldiers. The
Times attributes these inconsequential results to "red tape." In other words, there is Incompetence in the ranks of the higher-ups, who are responsible for the red tape. But The Times continues to toot the Democratic horn.
THE TRUTH WILL BE LEARNED. The steel strike is going to clarify the Industrial air,
It will also illumine a situation about which there seems
to be considerable doubt.
The A. F- of L. officials assert confidently that 80
per cent of the workers will go out. The steel industry officials give out statements that fully 80 per cent don't
want to strike and will not go out. Somebody must be
off. In a list of their grievances, too, the steel workers heads give out the following statement: "Another patent example is Hammond. Ind., where four defenseless union men were charged upon and killed by hired detectives of the steel industry, and witnesses in behalf of the survivors have been so intimidated and maltreated that the truth of the killing was suppressed."
If witnesses in behalf of the "survivors" have been Intimidated and maltreated Coroner Graham has some
Interesting work ahead of him.
The Passing Show I
SPEAK OUT. President Wilson's league of nations scheme pro-por-es to give Great Britain sis votes to our one, and to place ihe United States on the same voting basis in the Jracuetcouncil with Liberia. What do you think about it? Don't tell us write to your senator and tell him v hat you think.
THE CALL TO CONFER. The call of President Wilson for & conference of labor and capital in October for a broad-gauge view of the entire industrial situation is in line with enlightened methods of dealing with the situation. It is possible i hat more can be done in a few hours of mutual discussion than through weeks of consideration by sociologists and economists concerned chiefly with theorizing. When men authorized to speak for both employers and employes tit at ths -same council table, with eyes not upon any one industry, tut upon America as an industrial unit, then there should be evolved a unity of purpose that will make solutions of Individual problems easy. It must be apparent to all that the question of wages and prices today, widespread as it is, cannot be treated satisfactorily from the standpoint of any one craft- And labor leaders themselves have been frankest to admit that increasing of wage scales already high ia no' the solution of the problem. It is very possible that, in the hit-or-miss development that accompanied tf.e activities of war some wage scales have been too far advanced and some practically neglected. The relation of various compensations can only be determined by general analysis. Narrowness of view will only aggravate conditions complained against.
MANIFESTLY UNTRUE.
One reads with genuine astonishment the statement
of the war department to the effect that the sale of sur
plus army food has been discontinued for the reason that the demand for it was so light as not to warrant carrying the matter further. Thi declaration is simply unbelievable and is not warranted by the facts. Reports from all over the country Indicate that what happened in Fort Wayne happened elsewhere. The allotments were disposed of within a few hours and an insistent cry went up for more- Certainly there is something behind a statement so palpably and manifestly false as that given out by the war department and it unquestionably merits a searching investigation. If, as Is suspected, these sales are discontinued at the behest, of food profiteers, the fact should be made known and those responsible for the outrage punished by exposure, if in no other way. No one believes that these food sales have been discontinued because of the light demand for the goods and everybody believes that the real reason is withheld because it is of a discreditable character. In the meantime those who ordered food supplies on the first offering and who haven't received it as yet are beginning to wonder a little. Fort Wayne News.
THE former German crown prinz j IS not sawing wood AS his father is reported to be dolag BUT at least he is saying nothing WHICH helps some. LATEST grounds for divorce at our
house
DUNDEHHKADED defendants prac
tice of
DROPPING oft Into slumber while PLAINTIFF wishes to earnestly dis
cuss
ANOTHER rise In price of lynx furs
within a few
WEEKS and advisability of getting IN on the market now. AND the only reason that more of us HAVE never invested In a gold brick Is because
WE never were in share to make the
FIRST payment.
THE Lamar Journl ssys that "John
Stookey is recovering
FROM rantomine poisoning." Poor
fellow.
REVERTING to our round garner In
quiry AN observing friend
DECLARES that he has spent more or
less time ON our most prominent corners on
WINDY days and is emphatic In his
statement
THAT they have gone completely OUT of style. AND the reason WHY a man yelps so loudly WHEN he is stung In a SOMETHING-FOR-NOTHING swindle IS because he expected to STICK the other FELLOW good and plenty. OUR ever-refreshing friend Abe Mar
tin says that the fellow WHO was always busting a five now thinks - NOTHING. of cashing a new Liberty bond every marnlng. BLESSE:d is the man, if any, WHO can gtt as much satisfaction in A $1.00 raki arid a lawn full of leaves as HK could out of turning down the GREASE cups on a $4,500 touring car. ONLY a few days left in which
THERE is an extra hour of daylight
for us
TO criticize our betters in. ONCE in a. while a womai enough
Is smart
WASHINGTON
IS NOT PETRQGRAD. SAYS PAPER
(From THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE policeman. The entire process and the ,
TO get eneugh. alimeny
OUT of her-second husband to be able
TO put up a handsome tombstone FOR her ft-st husband. THE general attitude TOWARD government control of PUBLIC utilities
SEEMS to be one of violent opposition UNLESS you draw your wages under it. HAPPY Is the man
WHO is too busy to think much ABOUT how little money he has left now. THE reason why a woman KNOWS she can trust her hushand ANYWHERE Is because HE spends all of his time trying to make HER accept money to spend. WHY Is It that the women who kiss each other in PUBLIC place are the kind who look like If they
DIDN'T kiss each other they would go unklrsed.
MONITOR.) 1 The most ridiculous form of revo
lution is when a perfectly free nation proposes to revolutionize itself, not at the ballot boxes, but in the streets.
For nearly a century and a half the United States of America has been a model of liberty without license. But today there comes an element. Imported through the immigration offices, which proposes to extend liberty through license, which is a topsy-turvy way of limiting liberty by license. In the United States of America every man has a vote, and before long every woman will have one- In such conditions to suggest a revolution as a
means of carrying out the Wishes of
the majority is a bout as sane as sitting on the branch which you propose to saw off. The form of government In the United States today is that deliberately chosen by its citizens, voting In public elections, and obviously consti
tutes the direct wishes of the major
ity. The very next time that the polls are cpened, the voter can go into the
booth, and by the very simple process of obtaining a majority, make any
changes he likes in the government
of the country. This is by no means
to the liking, however, of the alien, who frequently Is not even a citizen, and does not even know the language of the country he desires to control. He still lives in the atmosphere of Moscow or Vienna before the war, and
seems to imagine that the only way to effect a political change in a free
country is to break the windows, loot
the shops, and shoot the nearest
entire Idea are mere travesties of the methods of a free state, and exhibit
an ignorance of the American idea of
government so deep as to make it difficult to accept it as mere ignorance.
The implication, the whole time, is that a certain minority is not so much
nnocent as committed to a conspiracy
for the overthrow of the Constitution
by that means which it has Itself stigmatized so violently in the hands of autocracy as a coup d'etat. In such circumstances all that is sane In the Nation had better exert itself to checkmate the insanity of the group. All that is necessary to do this is, first, to be sure that the laws are Just, and that the execution of justice is above suspicion, and then to insure that that execution shall be carried out without hesitation. The revolutions of the past have been made possible because the laws were unjust, and those responsible for their execution were without conviction. Washington, however, is not Petrograd. For the people who vote for the legislatures to- contend that the legislation is unjust is either foolish or criminal. The Government of the United States today, as it always has been, is in the hands of the people, and has been stated once and for all by Lincoln, in the phrase, "'government of the people, by the people, for the people."
Advertise in The. Times and ad tonishing results if their users are to be believed.
MERE INTERRUPTION. "United! prates troops tiave again returned from Mexico without Villa, and "watchful waiting," like the owl in'Gray's elegy, resumes its "ancient, solitary reign.-''
THE fall of the Roumanian cabinet climaxes a situation that seems to indicate a really enterprising newspaper should conduct a daily column devoted exclusively to falling and fallen governments.
THE business man with the tired look in his eyes may only be suffering from the strain of selecting a new hat.
"STOCKING prices to stay up," says headline.
the prices don't seem to need supporters, either-
And
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Voice
Of The People
coming In and new ideas, s I said before, they will be charging admission to political speakings next." Bill. I wouldn't be surprised. Well, so long, Tom."
Tom. "So long. Bill." BILLY DOO.
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A UTTX.X INTU ICOTXS. Editor Times: Pleaj print th following dialogue: Bill. "Say. Tim, how'd you enjoy the barbecue at Crown Point theother day? Funny sort of thing for the old party to pull, wasn't it?" Tom. "Yes. it was. Bill. I thought from the way the papers had it everything would be free, and durn if they didn't charge for sandwiches, and everything. I understood the Steers were donated by some big politician in the south end of the county.' Bill. "That's what I understood, too. Do you reckon that's a new scheme for the organization to raise funds?" Torn. "Looks something like it. Bill. Why, I remember the party pulled one of them things at Indiana Harbor a few years ago. .Say. a big politician I think his name was Browndonated two Steers. There was roasting ears, sweet cider and bread, and everything all donated, and it didn't cost a cent."" Bill. "I'll say that ws some barbecue. Who is the fellow that gets them things up. anyhow? Do you suppose it's the county chairman?" Tom. "Oh, I don't know. Tou see organizations are changing from time
to time new timber coming In all the
time, and that brings new ideas, and
you can never tell what they 11 spring next." .Bill. "Yes. you'r right, of course. I don't know how to explain it. but if Woodrow Wilson was asked, he'd say It was the H. C. L.. or the fault of the senate in falling to ratify the league of nations; or maybe he stayed too long ia Europe, or something of that kind. You know he's wonderful in explaining the English language." Tom. "Yes, I understand he's strong
for the Enrlish you know his folks
were English, out and out, and he ought to understand explaining English." Bill. "Well, it's a sure thing he don't understand Irish. He'd have a h 1 of a time explaining Irish to a real Irishman.'' Tom. "I'll say he would he couldn't
get an Irishman to stand still long
enough to listen to any kind of eji explanation. I don't think they like him very well. If what the papers eay Is true." Bill. "You'r shouting they don't You goin' to the next barbecue, Tom?"
Tom. "I don't Know. Bill. Maybe, if everything's free. Of course. I'm for the
Old Party, but I don't like everything'
they do. Chances are with new timber!
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