Labor Bulletin from Pratt, Kansas • 2

Our Washington Letter Butchers Raise San Francisco, Nov. 8. A wage increase of $8 a week has been negotiated by Butchers' union No. 115. The rate is now $38.

This organization has increased, its membership within the Inst several weeks and' it now has union shop conditions and general It has been estimated by W. H. Shumley, M. that 80 per cent of the population are afflicted with some form of spinal defect, causing nervousness, indigestion, headache, rheumatism, mental weakne and ether grave and dangerous diseases. Can you expect to get relief and let the mechan.cal displacement remain in tho spine? I think not.

See the CHIROPRACTORS, Welch Welch. Office in Hacker Bidg. Washington, D. Senator France provincial parliament. Now Canada gives us another agreeable Rurprise.

The country has just held seven (special elections for the. Dorninipn parliament and the farmers captured three of them. The farmers went after three; so their battiffg average is just 1000. One of the farmer victories was in Assiniboia, another in Ontario, and a third in New Brunswick, from which we might well surmise that the movement for independent politics is widespread in Canada. The party now in rower won on'y two of the seven seats and the Liberals won two.

In betterments for its members. of Maryland is rapidly becoming the vestigation of the problem of mob vi6-' lence and lynching has been issued by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. It points to fpur consequences of lynch Bernard Shaw of that body, so cut- For all kinds of Draying call phone 4179. B. F.

Crummett. t'ng are the pleasantries with which he disposes of solemn humbug and frenzied prejudice. LABOR BULLETIN Published Friday of Each Week at Pratt, Kansas. Devoted to the Interests of Affiliated Labor Organizations. JOHN HAMILTON Ed.

and Mgr. II. BARLOW Treasurer WM. MEREDITH Adv. Mgr.

Entered at the postoffice in Pratt, Kansas, for transmission through the mails as second class matter. $1.00 per year KANSAS STATE' FEDERATION President W. E. Freeman Pittsburg, Kansas. Secretary-Treas; Chas.

Hamlin Pittsburg, Kansas. 1 UNiON (f5jLABU For example, the senate was ver bally clawing the air the other dayJ with reference to the coal miners' Cozy Theatre walkout, then 48 hours off. Pcjnerene ing race riots, industrial depression, tho degradation of the moral "sense of the community, and the lowering of the position of the United States in the eyes of the world. Among the cities, where race riots have recently occurred are Washington, D. Chicago, Omaha, Knoxville, Longview, Texas, Norfork, Philadelphia, Charleston, S.

and Bisbee, Ariz. Lynching accounted for the deaths of 43 colored and four of Ohio, had started the stampede, and Thomas of Colorado, Townsend of Michigan and others had assisted him in hanging, drawing and quartering British Columbia the organized work-ers came near to taking one of the Conservative seats. An eighth elec-t cn po tponed because of the death of one of the candidates, is already conceded to the farmers. In all the contests in which independents participated the two old parties combined on one. candidate in the coal miners.

They were proposing their resolution "upholding" the Monday and Tuesday, Nov. 24-25 threats made by the cabinet in the name of the president, when Senator France broke in. the hope of discouraging independent politics. In Assiniboia the Liberals "I do not wish," he said, "to prolong FRIDAY, NOV. 14, 1919.

a futile debate on what appears to me to be a perfectly useless measure." picked out the strongest farmer politician they could find, a man who had Then he read a few telegrams from once been a leader of the organized farmers, and with a propram pretend ing to meet the farmer issues. But labor organizations in the coal districts of Maryland, showing that it was a handful of coal barons who had started the whole trouble, and that he lost to the farmer candidate by a vote of 1 to 3. failure of delivery of coal cars had aggravated it by keeping the miners When the steel workers struck in the Waukegan mills, the business men of that district banded them idle for weeks at a ime. Subverted Government "I do not wish ever to do anything which, will intensify the widespread selves together in an effort to drive the "hunkies" back to work. They had themselves made deputies for white men between January 1 and September 14, 1919.

Eight negroes were burned at the stake, and one of the was a 72-year-old man who defended two colored from attack at the hands of two drunken white men. From the year 1889 to 1019 there were lynched in this country 3,224 persons 2,472 colored men, 50 colored women, 601 white men and 11 white women. Less than 24 per cent of these lynchir.gs were ascribed to attacks upon women. Selling Government Ships Fourteen hundred vessels built by and for the government of the United States are now being operated by the United State. shipping board.

This does not suit the shipping trust, nor its friends in congress. A senate resolution recently passed demanded of the board a showing as to what efforts it was making to sell these ship3 to private operators. A majority of the beard is anxious to sell at almost any price, but Vice Chairman Steven3 has kept so consistently on the job with his demand that the government get a square deal, that the majority has not dared to override him. Hence bids for more than 2,000,000 tons of these ships have just been 'rejected as being too 'iow. World Labor Meet In the international labor confer strike duty and some of their activi and ever wider-spreading conviction that in tome way the government does not represent the people," France went on.

"We observe on every hand evidences of profound unrest, and I vities in fighting the battle of the steel trust bordered upon intimida believe that it has a deeper underlying tion. When the chamber of commerce withdrew advertising revenue fiom one of the papers for for which we are ourselves re sponsible. I believe it is this: If printing an important report of a understand the theory of our govern mass meeting, the strikers retaliated i making public their plans in the ment correctly, it is a government founded upon the theory that the peo I ne of co-operation. In addition to ple are sovereign; that legislation the grocery and dairy already in op should arise from the people, that representatives in the 'legislative bodies should enact the popular will into oration, the strikers declared that they intended to open, a co-operative furniture store, a clothing store and a coal vard. Illinois Labor Tribune.

statutes, and that it is then the duty of the executive branch to see that these statutes are executed in a broad and comprehendve manner. "If that is the theory of the gov When a pig is a pig he's Tiot worth Constance Talmage in "A Tempermental Wile" much, at least the packers say, but when pig is pork in the packer's ernment, then we must all admit that during the period of war our govern REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT. It may not have occured to the president that his calling of a conference of capital, labor and the puplic is an indication of the way American representative government has been perverted. Our city press appears to have regarded the move as necessary and proper. But if our representative government were what the term implies all these elements of the conference, capitalists, labor, farmers would be adequately represented in congress and no special, arbitraiy attempt to bring these interests together would have been needed.

And being represented in congress they would long have ironed out the difficulties which now loom so large on the social horizon. By manipulating district representation the vested interests have secured almost the unanimous vote of our law-making bodies. There is honest doubt as to what group in our nation nearly all of the 323 lawyers in congress stand for. Few seriously believe that one man can represent all the varied interests of a district capitalists, usurers, utility interests, the. farmers, the labor'ng men, the professional men, or that the upshot of trying to represent all is representation of the vested interests.

How can representative government be restored The editor of the New York American has written a pamphlet suggesting occupational instead of district representation. But this plan probably calls for too fundamental a change unless two other things nearer at hand fail. One of these is organization of the common people to secure political power. The other is proportional representation. Farmers and city workers throughout the United States and Canada are now progressing rapidly in political organization.

Proportional representation is a simple plan by which several representatives are elected from one large district and each element of the population in this district gets representation according to the' number of votes it can east. These two things, awakened interest and organization of the common people and proportional representation, will restore representative government in this country. clutch they sing a diff'rent lay. When ment has been practically subverted. ence summoned under the league of nations section of the Paris treaty, I and row sitting in the Pan-American I building, the most significant, figure.) I are Leon Jouhaux, head of the French labor movement; Mr.

Wadai, a Ma- dras writer and philosopher who is pig is pig he's a lowly brute and his price is away, 'way down, but when he's pork see the prices shoot at ev The legislation, instead of being enacted by the legislators as a result of a popular mandate has originated ery shop in town. When pig is pig with the executive and has descended it's a lucky day when the farmer comes out square, not speaking of Hay Grain Feed to the legislative, and by the legislative body it has been imposed, upon the masses of the people. It is, I be profits in any way for the labor and lieve, as a result of such subversion food and care. When, pig is pork a chop or two takes half fof your salary check and a good loin roast and per haps a stew makes your bank acount of the republic, as a result, so, to speak, of attempting to stand the pyramid upon its apex, that this profound unrest has taken place. a wreck.

When pig is pig the farmer takes the best he can get, when the organizer and head of the new trade union movement in India, and Mr. Matsumoto, whom the Japanese government insists is the "labor" delegate. Japan's trade union movement is small, but not so small that it did not send a huge mob, dressed in to demonstrate its resentment when the delegate sailed. Moreover, the firemen of the ship bearing the delegates went on strike at sea, and had to be "argued" out of their protest be'fore the ship could proceed. The incident reveals the labor policy of the Japanese government its refusal to let the real labor leaders pig is pork the packer makes a tidy Don't forget we are selling storage coal every day.

Colorado lump and nut. New Mexico, Oklahoma and Semi-Anthracite for furnaces, lump and nut. PRATT EQUITY EXCHANGE pile, you bet. And there's a reason for all these facts, as you've perhaps surmised, the farmer's alone in his "The people feel that the government is not responsive to their needs and to their wishes. The sooner this condition is cured, the better I shall be LaFoIlette Defends Miners Another Senator who marred the attacks the packers are organized.

I We are supposed to be alarmed about the peril to the vested interests at the present time, but the historian come here to speak. Jouhaux is trying to speak for the most radical labor movement outside of the future will write: "By the fall of 1919 the movement toward indus Satisfactory Bakery Products trial democracy was well under way not only in Europe but in the more plans of the panic-makers was La Fol'iette. He offered an amendment! to the Thomas resolution. That reso- luticn mentioned the bituminous coal! miners' proposed strike as the peril which was to be guarded against by the government's strong hand. La Follette proposed, as an amendment, "That we hereby assure the coal min-l ers that they will be in like manner I protected in the exercise of all lawful means in any effort to secure their prosperous and therefore more con scrvative America.

At that time the of Russia and Italy, and at the same time to keep that constituency quiet. His first job here was to see that the German and Austrian delegates were admitted on equal terms with all others. His next wt.l be to lead the fight for equal representation of workers, employers and governments great trusts brought the issue to a head by refusing to deal with labor collectively and by raiding farm pric es under the pretense of reducing the come from cost of living." The speed which Attorney General Palmer showed in working up an in junction against the leaders of the miners makes one wonder why he couldn't find something in twice the Williams' Bakery time to retetrain the autocracy of Judge Gary of the steel trust. Perhaps the war on autocracy is over. Next year the Democrats might PLACING THE BLAME.

Blame for the steel strike is placed squarely upon the shoulders of E. H. Gary, where it belongs, by the senate committee which investigated the strike. It was Gary's refusal to talk business with representatives of his employes that brought on the strike, committee finds. The question, then, arises: Is not Gary as much a menace to peace and an enemy of society as are the heads of the United Mine Workers, who ordered the mine strike? And would it not be possible to get a federal court to ordej: Mr." Gary to receive the delegations of his employes that wish to see him? May we not hope for an injunction against Gary, ending the steel strike, if the injunction against the mine workers' leaders should end 'run on the slogan, "We kept you out F.

M. FAULKNER of cars." This would be especially appropriate if the party nominates the director general of the railroads for the highest office. henceforth. This conference is made up, one-half of government delegates, one-fourth of labor and one-fourth of employer delegates. Elaine Race Riot Investigations of the race rioting at Elaine, would appear to show that unscrupulous exploitation of negro tenants was the prime cause.

The negro tenant supposedly, takes the land on half shares, but he is competed to do his trading at a certain store, generally run by the owner of the land. At harvest time the landlord makes a tour of the tenant farms to find out how much cotton the tenant will "make" and then he fixes the store bill so that the negro is bound to be in debt. Cases were found where the negro had bought not more than $200 worth of goods, had $1,000 worth of cotton, and yet was left indebted to the landlord. Bills are not itemized and there is an unwritten law that the negro can not. leave the land until his debts are paid.

The so-called revolutionary organization which the daily papers talked about turned out to be only an oiganization to raise money at $1.50 a head to test the lease and store system in the courts. Local negroes declare the fighting started when two white men fired into one of their organization meetings wijhout warning. Long and Short Distance TRANSFER "The employers will give time to eat, time to sleep; they are in terror of time to think." G. K. Chesterton.

333 Call me day or night phone Packers Use Old Methods. rights." Townsend of Michigan and Hitchcock of Nebraska protested. LaFoIlette reminded them that the coal miners had been specifically mentioned in the resolution as the result of an amendment offered by McCormick of Illinois. Myers of Montana got the floor and began a diatribe against the coal miners, which was interrupted by Gronna of North Dakota, who challenged his claim that the miners already are getting 70 per cent more wages than before the war. Gronna said that "The cost to the laborer to live has increased 200 per cent; and there is not a senator on this floor who can justify his position by saying that the wage of the laborer has increased 70 per cent." Finally cornered by the LaFoIlette amendment, Townsend arid Thomas agreed to strike out all refereilce to the coal strike, and simply have the resolution pledge full enforcement of legal rights in "the present industrial emergency." So, meaningless and futile, the Thomas resolution was adopted.

Domain Bill Amended One victory, at least, has been won by Representative Baer of North Dakota and a few associates in the house, and by Senator LaFoIlette in the senate, in their continued fight against the mineral lands bills. The measure that has now passed the senate, and which with some amendments has passed the house, does not permit the sale or giving away of any lands in fee. The public remains owner, although the party holding the lease for 20 years with the privilege of renewal will be able to get most of the mineral wealth out of the land without getting patent to it. This shift from a patenting bill to a leasing bill is due solely to the fight made by the handful of progressives Washington. In opposing any attempt to regulate their business the meat packers are using the same method they did 14 years ago when resisting legislation for meat inspec tion, said William B.

Colver, mem ber of the federal trade commission in a speech in this city. "Go to the public library," said the speaker, "and get the bound files of Oxford Cafe 318 South Main Short Orders Regular Meals Best Service. any newspaper covering May and the mine strike? Gary is paralyzing industry, just as the mine workers are. The blame for the mine strike has been placed upon the shoulders of the union heads; the blame for the steel strike upon Gary. If an injunction is a good remedy in one case, why not in the other.

And it would seem to be a much simpler task to put Mr. Gary into jail than to put all the miners into jail. The senate committee also finds that the strike is backed not only by the regular union, but by I. W. radicals, bolsheviks, and such like.

When this has been said, no important information has been added. Of course the bolsheviki back the steel strike, as they back all disorder and disorganization. So much the weightier the crime to be charged against the plutocrat who brought on the steel strike by refusing to negotiate with representatives of his employes. Wichita Eagle. June, 1906, and you will find these very phrases about socialism and anarchy and destruction of export trade all applied to the then president of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt.

His fault was that he was urging the passage of a meat in- spection law to keep unfit meat off the tables of the people." The commissioner denied the claim that the Chicago meat packers rep resent or are typical of American bus iness as a whole. Score Rockefeller Plan, Pueblo, Colo. According "to a statement issued by officials of the United Mine Workers, Colorado district, these workers are engaged in a three-cornered fight to establish collective bargaining, to resist the one-big-union craze and to expose the company "union" of Rockefeller. The unionists announce their purpose "to show the people of America that the widely-heralded Rockefeller plan is nothing more than one of these hypothetic dreams of a self-advertised philanthropist, whose system of paternalism and plunder (which soon will be exposed) was inaugurated to cover up the past misdeeds of a giant octopus which threatened the vitals of our western civilization and democracy." Pratt Motor Company Ford Cars Fordson Tractors in congress. Its effect is to make pos "A knowledge of CHIROPRAC TIC enables a medical doctor to lo cate the cause of ailments he other sible, when an administration opposed to big business is finally placed in wise fails to find." A.

W. 'Feige, power, to so enforce the terms of the Huron, S. D. FARMERS WIN IN CANADA. Three weeks ago the United Farmers and the organized workers of the province of Ontario delighted fundamental democrats everywhere by capturing a majority of the seats in the Pratt leases as to recover for the public a great share of the natural resources which for the next few years will be handed over to private plunder.

An appeal to congress for an in Phone 78- BULBS Tulip, hyacinth and narcissus are now here. Fretz Green House. 214-3.