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OKLAHOMA LEADER
PAGE THREE
Rail Emyloyes Have A
Real Interest In The
Roads, Jewell States
TODAY'S EVENTS
| One hundredth anniversary of the
death of Sir William Herschel, one
I of the greatest astronomers of mod-
i t rn times.
I Today begins the final week of the
primary campaign in California,
WASHINGTON, Aug. 23.—The fol- transportation industry, let us cap- j which has been one of the hardest
lowing statement was Issued today italize the money value of a railway fought in the history of that state.
by B. M. Jewell, president of tne employe, which on the basis of aver-
age earnings of $ 1500.00, capitalized
at five per cent, would be $30,0uo.o0.
This would mean that two million
railway employes represent a labor
investment translated into terms of
dollars of at least $60,000,000,000.00.
The tentative valuation of the Inter-
state Commerce Commission indi-
cates that the actual money invest-
ltailway haiployes' Department of
the American Federation of Labor,
on the seniority question:
The controversies Involved in the
btrike of the railway shopmen July 1,
1922, have clarified certain funds-
mental issues between the railway
managements and the organized aui-
ployes. These issues are of -moro
profound and lasting importance
than the establishment temporarily
of just wages and reasonable fork-
ing conditions. The dissension over
"seniority rights" which prevented a
substantial agreement upon the pro-
posals submitted to the contending
parties on July 1, by President
Harding, exhibits a difference in
point of view between the railway
executives and the railway employes
that Is of deep significance.
The executives take the position
that they have the authority to de-
cide, and that they are justified in
deciding, that if men who suspended j
work on July 1, after having given
from four to forty years' se.vice to
the railways, should resume work
on, let us say, September 1, they will
be classed as junior employes, Infer-
ior In experience and in rights 'o
man who have given at the most two
months service to the roads; that is.
from July 1, to September 1. It will
be admitted that these older em-
ployes are not inferior, but are in
fact vastly superior, to the new em-
ployes in technical skill and general
capacity for their work. Therefore,
it is plain that the executives propose
to enforce an artificial, Illogical and
unjust rule of seniority in oppositiou
to a natural, logical and just rule.
Roads Claim Authority.
They claim, however, (1) that they
have the authority to impose this ar-
bitrary rule, and (2) that it is right
for them to do so, in order to Jis-
courage striking and to keep their
promises to new employes, to whom
they claim to have offered unearned
seniority rights and greater assur-
ance of regular employment than
they have ever given to employes of
long and valuable service.
Before considering the merits of
the contentions of the executives,
that they are entitled to use the de-
struction of seniority rights as a
measure to discourage strikes, and
that they are bound by special prom-
ises made to new employes there
sllould be a brief inquiry as to the
exact authority of the railway ex-
ecutives to destroy the rights of old
employes and to promise to give su-
perior rights to new employes. It
may be carelessly assumed that the
• xecutlves have an unrestricted pow-
er, supported by law, to determine
and to enforce their decisions upon
these matters.
The railway executives are chosen
by the money Investors in the rail -
; toads as representatives of their in-
terest They represent the stock-
holders who have voting power and
they represent the bondholders, tj
the extent that every debtor repre-
sents the Interests of his creditors
, But It is an error to assume that, be -
cause the executives represent the
t money investors, they represent the
i "owners" of the transportation in-
, dustry. On the contrary, they repro
I sent merely the owners of certai-
t properties which are used in the pu >-
, lie service, and which, while neces-
sary for carrying on this service, a. <
V of minor Importance in comparison
with the men who are even niorft in-
dispensable to the operation of the
industry.
It was President A. H. Smith of tlv
New York Central railroad who savi
to the Interstate Commerce Commit-
tee of the United States senate on
May 20, 1921:
"Ninety-five per cent of this rail-
roading is human. The other five per
. cent is merely coal and steel, and it
is not worth anything If you do not
get good men with it."
No one "owns" the transportation
Industry. A large part of the physi-
cal properties used in furnishing
transportation are held in private
ownership. But the ownership doeo
not authorize the exercise of com-
plete and unlimited "private rights
of property," because the service to
which these properties are devoted
is a public service and the right of
any individual to control his prop-
erty, when it is devoted to a public
service, IS definitely limited by law.
It is written in an opinion of the
Supreme Court of the United States:
"The essential element of individ-
ual property is the legal right to
exclude others from enjoying it. If
the property is private, the right of
exclusion may be absolute. If the
property is affected with the public (
interest the right of exclusion is i
qualified."
Minority Interest.
Therefore, in defining the authori- ;
ty of the railway executives, it must
he realized at the outset, first, that
they represent only the minority in-
terest of the money investors in the
transportation industry; and, second,
that their power as representatives j
of the owners of the physical prop- t
erties of ihe railroads is a power i
limited in law by the requirement !
that those properties must be used (
in the public Interest. It is not the
"owners" of the railroads, who speak
through the railway executives. I
These executives speak merely for a ,
limited private interest in the physi-
cal properties which have been de- \
voted voluntarily to the public serv- j
ice. Private Interest in railroad
properties has been held repeatedly
by the highest courts to be subord-
inate to the dominating public in-
terest In these instruments of pub-
lic service.
Now in contrast to this minor and
limited Interest which the railway
executives lepresent, let considera- '
tion be given to the much larger in-
terest in fhe transportation industry
represented by the officials of the
organized employes. The money in-
vestors have contributed some of
their surplus wealth to this industry.
The labor investors have contributed
themselves.
To give some Idea of the compara-
tive size of the labor investment,
and the money Investment in the
The prosperity of the farmer in
Iowa will be reflected in the great
agricultural display at the annual
slate fair which opens at Des Moines
today.
The one hundred and fiftieth an-
niversary of the establishment of the
first school west of the Allegheny
Mountains is to be celebrated today
raent in the railways is far less than at Schoenbrun Springs, near New
$18,000,000,000.00. Therefore, to speak | Philadelphia, Ohio.
in terms of money, the railway exe
cutives are claiming that the $18,-
000,000,000.00, In the transportation
industry which they represent, shall
receive superior and prior consider-
ation to that given to the $60,000,-
000,000.00, represented by the organ-
ized employes; and that, by authority
from this minority money investment
they should be permitted, with the
sanction of law, to destroy the sixty
billion dollar labor investment, and
to punish the labor Investors for
their refusal to continue to subor-
Problems pertaining to and grow-
ing out of the shopmen's strike will
be discussed at the annual meeting
of the American Association of Kail-
road Superintendents, which Is to be-
gin its sessions today in Kansas C'lty.
Daily Fashion Hint
'Why Do We Say'
CYNOSIRK,
"Where perhaps some Beatoty lies
dinate their interests to the money I The cynosure of neighboring eyes."
Milton.
Cynosure, the point at which all
eyes are directed is an old English
word of pure Greek origin.
The word comes from "kynos-
cura," ancient Greek for a dog's tail.
Now, another game for the "Les-
investors and to submit to the ar-
bitrary dictation and control of their |
majority interest in the transporation
industry by the minority interest.
Lose Proportion.
Nothing in recent years has pro-
vided a clearer demonstration of the ,
fundamentally unsound philosophy ,Ber Bear" (Ursa Minor), the constel-j
which has been dominating in Amer- ; latlon which contains the North Star,
lean Industry than the recent* actlv- If- "Dog's Tall." North Star is tho
Ities of the railway executives. Sit- ! fixed point in the heavens around
ting in the lofty upper stories of I which all the other constellations
the industrial structure, they have revolve. In this manner, the word
lost their sense of proportion. They cynosure Is used In application to
have forgotten that the foundations ' one who attracts general attention.
¥
IN.DIRECTS,
OIL INDUSTRIES
OF THE SOVIETS
Tells of Difficulties of Indus-
trial Development—Needs
Oil Pipe Line.
BANK SYSTEM
CUT INCOME
OF FARMERS
BLOODYFEUD
IS RAGING IN
SOUTH HILLS
he'd make in the States, and at the
same time he'd give Russia a good
present.
Need 1'lpe Line.
"My present job is oil. I'm spe- I
j daily sorry about the wasted work j
i with that oil. It is so near to water,
I it ought to be so easy to handle, j
I And we have to load it on tank cars i
and cart it around and unload and _ .. p. i i n r\ it r- •.
reload, an because we aurt limi c;n>- Security Destroyed By Defla- Family Fight Dormant For
tion. Heflin Says. i Years Breaks Out Again.
™afo!T to p.T'htnTu "torrlble WASHINGTON. A.,*. 23.- How the ' MONT EAGLE, Ten,,. Aug. 23-
| profiteering rent on it. and still save federal reserve bunking system de- Another bloody chapter was added
I money and tlmo In our shipment of Hated farmers, who could not raise t0 the already crimson mountain
oil. - I money on their Liberty bonds was feud lhat hna M(J ,h|> tect|(m of
"Then the manager of Grozdny explained by Senator Heflin of Ala- . . „ . f
tells me he Is having trouble with hauia who showed an acknowledge- 1 1 11 * p 11 y years,
MOSCOW. Aug. 23. I went down
to sec Bill Shatoff. formerly known
to fame as an I. W. W. in the Colo-
rado coal fields, now the head or
the Naphtha Export Co. in Russia,
which has fl5.000.0p0 in oil for the
European market and $6,000,000 for ; ln,lu,try ,n Russia
♦ .«* V'n.ii- V. tit:# tnnrli>i| fnr Inn nt>vl
his oil'refuse, left over after making I raent by the governor of the federal when W L. Davis, federal officer
benzine. Grozdny producel the host reserve bank at Atlanta that a small attempted to make an arrest of men
benzine in the world, but the crude! Mississippi hank was charged 87 VI; belonging to the I Add faction In con-
stuff left over ought to be useful, too. | percent interest. This bank furnished j nection w ith the death of George
Westerfiehl, which occurred several
of prosperity must be protected and
require constant strengthening as the
superstructure grows. They have
forgotten that even the conservative
courts have asserted repeatedly that
"labor is 'he primary foundation of
all wealth." The have forgotten that
they must not only protect, but also
Increase the value of the labor in-
vestment to the worker, or they will
destroy the value of the money in-
vestments which they represent. Now
they are repeating an ancient mis-
take in assuming that the fear of
losing a job creates loyalty to the
job. They are attempting to create
a morale among the railway em-
ployes which will be based upon
fear. They are seeking to destroy
the independence and courage of the
workers by the fear that if they re-
fuse to work under non-acceptable
conditions they will lose the invest-
ment of a life time. Thus the rail-
way executives are demonstrating
that the stupid Impulses of the mas-
ter brute are dominating in their
counsels, and that the enlightment
of the social economic intelligence
of the twentieth century is not* op-
erating in control of the transporta-
tion industry.
FOR THE SUMMER BIUDE
Dignity is achieved in thl* gown
by the long, square shoulder train.
lt« white satin beauty is mulched
in loveliness by the ahnen of imita-
tion pearls. "A true lovers' knot"
In brilliant* sparkles from the
girdle front. The nhort bandeau
veil coes well with the costume.
the Near East market for the next
nine months.
But Bill's old principles are still
with him, for the company is a gov-
ernment syndicate, with the Russian
soviet republic owning over half the
stock, and it is selling Russian oil
111 the markets of the world.
Bill Shatoff has had a spectacular
career, though not more so than that
of many other men In Russia. He
was chief of police In Petrograd's
stormiest days. He was head of Si-
berian railways. He was general of
an army In the Ukraine. He has
now returned from a year in the
j Far Eastern republic, and he had
I a pile of manuscripts two feet deep
containing maps and diagrams of
i mines and mineral resources.
"I've been in most parts of the
world," he said, "and I %rver yet
saw a place that could touch Siberia
for richness. All Russia, in fact, Is
i just crying for development. If I
only had a capitalist with a few mil-
lions to hack me. I'd double what
Too damn full of paraflne. No cap- j money to farmers at crop-moving
ltal to build a refinery. So there j time.
i In reply to Senator Smoot's state-
, , , .. „ . ,.n„4 _• raent that farmers could get money
and It s the same," he said. But v,v.
need American methods, American
machine production, and American
workers as instructors to make "But their security was being de-
things go. stroyed every day by this deflation
"The Russians are fine workers, j proc |r" - ,n "
, elswhere if they had security, Sena-
j tor Heflin said:
once they know how. Our big in-
dustries in the states always wanted
Russians. Big and healthy and not
nervous, and not lazy, either, but
lacking the knowledge of how to
work. That's what America has to
teach Russia how to work.
"The American workers know how.
but they haven't anybody to work
for except 'he boss and thei"'s no
special fun In that. Over hei. there - for J8() anJ m m ,he
the biggest country on earth that the i t , tUnoa i,ni„ia
Cotton was 40 cents
pound, and in a few months it was
10. It was |200 a bale at tho out-
set, and when the farmer could not
get money with which to hold It off
the market, It went down to $50 a
bale.
"They refused to loan money on
Liberty bonds, and bonds were
forced out of the hands of people
who had struggled hard to buy them
workers own for themselves if thev
can learn quickly and well enough
how to work It."
Norway has enacted a law forbid-
ding strikes, requiring compulsory
providing the necessary government-
al machinery for enforcing the law.
They were forced to sell those bonds
because they could not borrow the
needed money on them.
"Wall street got the bonds and
practically stole $15 to $20 on the
$100 from patriotic people who
bought bonds to help their country
win the war."
months ago.
As a result of a shooting scrape,
Mrs. Egbert Garner, wife of one of
the principals, is dead; David and
John Ladd are not expected to live
and Egbert Garner Is under arrest,
charged with shooting at Davis with
Intent to kill.
A short time ago the feud broke
out anew when Westerfleld was
found shot to death on his doorstep
where he hnd been called during the
night. Four men were tried for the
murder but due to a mistrial, were
pot convicted.
A few days ago Grundy county
officials with warrants for Alf,
George and John Ladd, Fig Weath-
ers. Blev Weathers and Milt Tate
made an attempt to arrest the men.
The charges had been n&de by op-
posing faction, and when officers ar-
rived a battle ensued.
Feeling between the feud families
Is running high and more deaths
are expected as soon as the oppos-
ing factions meet.
Explorers have reported a tribe in
Central Africa that lives oh onions
nlone.
Milton, in his "L'AUegro" usc3:
cynosure in the verse quoted above J
CALVIM C00LIDGE MAKES
SOME BRILLIANT REMARKS
REVIEWING
THE HONOR ROLL
FREDA HOGAN
BOSTON, Aug. 23.—The cause for
present conditions Is that the masses Frank Engel, Drumright, wasn't a |
of the people are striving for bis superstitious about thirteen. He!
luxuries, said Vice President 8Mlds lhret' 8Ubs for a >'ear UDfl ont
Coolidge in an address at an Indus-1 *'1, ee months and a $1.1 check to (
trial conference at Wellesley Hills, cover. Neither are we superstitious. ;
Because of war, he said, there was 1 )Ve (!on 1 ®aI!e *Jow many of our .
a great rise in the general scale of
living. "All at once luxuries be-
came necessities. But the great mass
of people, regardless of station,
found this extraordinary material
prosperity disappointing and unsat-
isfying. Believing that the cause of
their discontent was still a lack of
possessions, they reached for more
and more until an artificial condi-
tion was created that was beyond } new one ^or
the power of the resources of the na-
tion to sustain."
Other profound utterances by the
vice-president were:
"There is no substitute for virtue.
"The great power of mankind has
been created through unity of ac-
tion.
"The people of America have long
been committed to democracy."
friends send in lists of thirteen or
remittances for thirteen dollars!
Samuel Tucker, Hydro, sends in
two for a year and then to balance
that victory blank, he ma lies his
check for $10 and gives the baby a
birthday present of $2.
E. F. Adee. Boise City, sends in a
year.
D. L. Fitzgerald, Woodward, sent
his $10 right in when he got that
hurry-up letter and now he's for-
warding the subs to take It up. Do
you know any body or any institu-
tion which has better friends than
our Leader? We don't.
THINGS THAT NEVER HAPPEN
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LVCR 3 AW
LiPt::
Z. T. Hilbish, Hene8sey, is another
old time friend whose interest In the
Leader burns brighter than ever
these days. He hustles up three new
readers for us.
G. W. Baker, Amarillo, Texas,
sends his victory blank back with
a pretty blue order on Uncle Sam
for $10 and five new subs for six
months each.
j "Am sending another yearly sub-
scription—only wish it was a hun-
dred." J. H. Devine, Amarillo, Tex-
as. Well, so do we but that doesn't
i; keep us from being grateful for the
( one. All the ones from all our good
I friends make tip the hundreds.
"I tell you it's like pulling teeth
to get money these days, but the
boys down here mean to see the
Leader through. Enclosed find $12
and three for a year." S. E. Andrus,
Roosevelt. Comrade Andrus is one
of our most faithful helpers and
when our Leader finally reaches that
position of greater influence, we
must not forget that much credit
belongs to him.
Three new ones are in from J. 0.
Koch, at Oilton.
W. D. Armstrong. Custer, Rends in
th" subscription of a neighbor along
with his own. To have many friends
doing this means much to our Lead-
I Mrs. Joe Panther, Ralston, is au-
other to prove that the women are
! to be counted on. She sends $12 to
; cover'two annual and two six months
, subs.
KIDS
HUH! THA.5S FVAMJV
I dow7 hemeM&eiz.
U/WE7HEK- MY MOM
TOl£ MS TO. &£T
EGCc SEAlBrL
I "Sorry I didn't have timo to do I
| more." writes I. W. Bfuner, Fallis,
sending in $15 for subs. Of course, !
the more ihe merrier but seems to i
us Friend Bruner is hitting them off j
i allright.
j Edward Bucher, Lamont merchant,
sells some Leader subs, too, as an
! order for two annuals show.
j "We can't get along without the
, Leader. We must have it to meet
; the lies which will be hurled at us
from now until November. I guess
you folks in the office get discour-
aged and so do we out in the sticks.
Hut we must hang on and victory
I will finally crown our efforts." This
j is the word from E. C. Wood, Carter,
I whose $lf< for new subs is about the
best medicine for discouragement we
know about—and he says he'll come
again soon with more.
I John Durisek, Okarche, just won't !
be counted ofit on anything. He's ;
one of those good friends and work-
ers who would do his part In spite
of everything. His victory blank is
| back filled up to the last line, with
a ten dollar check to cover.
F. E. Newby, Trousdale, says he
is with us in our fight for freedom
and in earnest thereof gets his ten
subs.
EXCESS WKIGHT.
"A man dat's alius thinkin' 'boift
hisself," said Uncle Eben, "is sure
to Imagine he has a heap mo' on his
mind dan dar actually Is."—Wash-
ington Star.
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