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HERE'S HOPING THE TIME IS NEAR AT HANI) WHEN LABOR DAY WILL MEAN TO ALL WHO TOIL WHAT THIS DAI IMPLIES. OKLAHOMA LEADER
Oklahoma Leader
Only labor Day Is Our Day Now.
Every Day Will Be Our Day Son e Day.
FINAL EDITION
Full Leased Wire United Press Report—Member Federated Press.
Vol. 1—No. 1
OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA, MONDAY, SEPTKMHER 6, 1920
PRICE, THREE CENTS
PROFITEERING MAIN CAUSE OF UNREST
E
GIRLS FIND THERE IS MORE THAN ONE
WAY TO HEAT A CAR STRIKE.
U. S. Chamber of Commerce
Attacked by Veteran Labor
Leader.
ACCEPTS THE CHALLENGE
Organ ization ot Employers
■•Must Protect Greed of Its
Members" Ho Says.
H; the Federated 1 rt^f.
WASHINGTON, Sept. "This is
a direct challenge to the trade union
movement romia* from the h?art of
America's financial power." declares
President Samuel Compels of the
American Federation of Labor, in
answer to the recent decision of tlie
united States chamber of commerce
to wago war aKainst the union shop
in American industry.
"Of course the chamber or com-
merce finds it necessary to protect
lit.' eieed of its members," continues
Mr. Oompers. whose conclusions fol-
low :
STRONGER
E SAY, "NO
League of Nations Heads
Draw Huge Salaries; One
ReasonsFor Favoring It
Secretary General Draws $50,000 Yearly and Two Under
Secretaries Draw $10,000 Each With 357 High
Salaried Attaches.
"The chief librarian sots 15,00"
und the director of the international j
bureau of labor, Albert Thomas, j
lie the Federated I'resit.
PARIS. France. Hept. 6. -The fat
salaries paid officials of the League
of Nations "so Ions as they are paid.
furnished the best of all reasons nets 130,000.
why the l.eajuie of Nations will not i "Other salaries are: Chief of the
die!" remarks the Crl tie Paris. dll>loiiiutic division. Sn.900; chief ot 1
which prints the following list o' ,lu, Mrvlce „f |nql,lrles Into soviet
League salaries: ,sm aub-chief in the sclen-
"The secretary peneral pets Uif«c division 15.000. Typewriters
- "■ hou;
THAN GOVT. ,o the chief secretary is paid $26, rted,|CT ,m „
" "The director of each section, I meeting in Italy or Spain or Swtt
In Strike Government Knew ithrro are .1 .loi«n or 1,0 receive norland, virtually all persons
111 Oirwe woveillllicill imicw there are a (ho oonnecle(| wi(h th(1 L^gue have to,
nen bers of the sections are paid be moved in special trains, with c-
13.000 to $6,000. penses paid. m
Won't Haul Munitions or Men
for Fight Against the
Soviets.
Mobilization Order Would
Fail.
DY MAX WORTH
Federated Press Staff Writer.
PARIS. Auk. 22. <By Mail.)
Yesterday I spoke with an engineer
on one of the roads leading out of
Paris, lie is the secretary of tin
engineers and firemen on the Pari*
section of his road and was active |
in the strikes of March and May.
section of his road, and was active j
in the strikes of March and May. I
.*>•
"Have you read the news with re-
gard to the special congress of the
Brooklyn's gentle sex have proved that the old adage. "There i3 British . °° ll.0 h,int*1"
Always a way." is very true. During the trolley car strike these young na.V"n/ . T
ladies had to find a way to get to business—and thin they did. Many of "Indeed
"The American labor movement the girls borrowed their big brothers' bicycles and pladaled their way irvintr to
has achieved a strength which can- to work, as the photograph shows. Another Miss insisted that riding Paris today. H ey
not be destroyed by methods such jn the rim of an automobile tire on the rear of an auto was almost as
as those adopted by the United comfortable as traveling in a crowded_ trolley.
States chamber of commerce. It has --
have." he replied.
"Adamson and Gosling are here in
contributed a record service to
the development or our country
which cannot t e denied or under-
mined by the dishonesty and decep-
tion of such attacks.
Chamber Loon Opposed l abor.
CLERKS WHO CRITICIZED
P. 0. ARE DISCHARGED
Hy the Federated Press.
I CHICAGO. Sept. 6.—Formal dis-
"That the chamber of commence t missal of the eleven postal Clerk'
has gone outside its leRitimate ftelrl I y,crp vv^0 spread facts about the
in launching this attack upon the ^ working conditions in the C'hi-
trade union movement is not sur- nostoffice has been ordered by
prising because the membership of \,, tmnBtel. General Burleson, in line
the chamber ot commerce is over- • suspension a month ago.
.. ivciminuiv nn pmnlovinir member- 1 , , t.
Pierce E. Butler, president of the
whelmingly an employing member
ship, a membership long in opposi-
tion to the trade union movement
and a membership not above using
any instrument with which it thinks
the progress of the trade union
movement may be impeded and its
beneficial work retarded.
"It is to be regretted that there
are those in America who care so
little for human progress, who have
so little of the real idealism of tHe
republic, who have so small ability
to express themselves in anything
but the terms of greed and explolta
T1IK liKADKK AM) I.ABOK BAY
rills number of the Leader
goes to press early Monday
morning in order to enable our
entire mechanical and office
force an opportunity to partici-
pate in the exercises and enjoy-
ments of Labor Pay.
For this reason the larger part
of 4 iir excellent Hire service is
necessarily omitted, lint In view
of other interesting features we
are Mire tkv paper will be none
the less appreciated by our read-
ers. Thank yon.
local postoffice clerks' union, and
ten others were the victims/ They
were convicted by Burleson of "so-
liciting or censing to be solicited.
sums of money from the public for
the publication of false and slander-
ous statements concerning the
postal service.''
Burleson's efforts to conceal the
deplorable conditions in the postot-
fice here, however, are meeting .
with poor success. The Chicago sion just handed down
ning Post is running a graphic
have the Federation of Labor here
take the same action for France as
the Labor Party took for Great
Britain."
"Will they take that action?"
Labor Day
General observance of Labor "Day.
Three hundredth anniversary of
the sailing of the Pilgrims.
Pope Benedict XV. today observes
the sixth anniversary of his corona-
tlon- .....
Jesse Pomeroy, the famous ' lifer
in the Massachusetts state prison,
today starts his forty-fifth year of
confinement.
Herbert Hoover is to be the chief
speaker at the- celebration of La-
fayette-Marne Day at the I'nlted
State Military academy today.
A statue of Sir George E. ('artier.
Secrecy Saves Administration
from Humiliation, Hanna
Says.
BY PAUL HANNA
Federated Press Correspondent.
Joint Board Report Says Em-
ployers' Attitude Is That of
Selfishness and D e cr i e s
Autocratic Tendencies.
By the Federated Prtu.
NEW YORK. Sept. *5 Too many
profits, too little regard for the per-
sonality of the worker and *an ex-
onerated "hands off my business"
attitude on the part of the employer
afe the real reasons lor industrial
troubles nowadays. This is the con-
clusion of the committee on war and
the religious outlook, an Inter-de-
nominatlonal group appointed by
Joint aetion of the Federal CounclK
of the Churches ot' Christ In Amer-
ica and the General War-Time Com-
mission of the churches, which has
Just published its report.
English Soldiers Safe Most
Any Place in Ireland Until
He Arms.
By the Federated Press.
LIVERPOOL. Eng.. Sept. 4
WASHINGTON, Sept li. Poland Decrying the selfish nutocrac*
is making It awfully hard for her which rules our industrial life, the
allied and American backers In the reJ'"!' :
... , TI Tha* ,he present concentration
war against Russia. I la American nf onnlrol U) |h(> m.ljorlty nf
administration, especially, is so em : workers the opportunity of directing
barrassed that only the complacent their own lives freely or finding
, ood nature of reporters who full expression In their work la
j-cover" the state department ,,i ^evident as to need little argu-
saving it from public humiliation. Industry A Collective Possession.
Between Secretary Colby and th<- "In a day in which democracy in
regarded as the conscious goal In
political development by practically
all the nations in the world, auto-
cratic organization is still a widely
accepted rule in industry. The idea
that it is my industry and that It is
nobody else's business how I run it
is largely unchallenged in our eco-
'Yes. when the time comes. The famous Canadian statesman, is to
immediate situation seems to have j be unveiled in the city of Quebec to-
cleared up, SO there is no Immediate day with interesting ceremonies,
eason for action, but there is t
What is expected to be the most
important -annual session 4n-the his-
tory of the British Trades Union
congress will be opened today at
Portsmouth, England.
Uon, who have so slight regard for sorjes of exposure of those condi-
the welfare of humanity, as to make ! tjong by one of lis staff writers
declarations of this character pos- wjU) worked in the postoffice
sible in this period of our histojy i month to find out the truth.
But so long as there are those to
whom greed If a watchword, to
whom the principles of liberty and
justice make no appeal, who have no
shame in the practices of modern
barbarism, who know no humility in
the face of humanity's suffering and
who have no concept and no longing
for a better and brighter day for
humanity, to struggle against these
forces will be necessary'.
"There is no movement in Amer-
ican life s() wel1 equipped to make
this struggle and so filled with will-
ingness to sacrifice for its sake as
the American trade union movement
which is the American Federation of
Labor. It was with all of this in
view and with a profound sensibility
of the crucial nature of the time in
which we live that the executive
council gave consideration to the ac-
tion of the employers in the United
States chamber of commerce.
"Whatever sacrifice may be re-
quired for the advancement of our
people will be made. Whatever sac-
rifice may be required for the safe-
guarding of the rights and the lib-
erties of the working people and of
the great masses of all our people
will be made. Those who believe in
liberty never hesitate in its defense.
a special convention of the Federa-
tion of l abor at the end of So;>iem
her. There will be more than two
thousand delegates at this conven
tion, and they will speak for the
masses of the French workers, who
are as ready as their British com-
rades to take a stand against war
and in favor of the controf of in-
dustry by the workers."
"How will the railroad workers
stand?"
mlddlefrCght,"ll'S', vit^'determincd ' ocratle presidential nominee,
ALONG OPEN SHOP FIGHT ^"..XreZ? ™ .i™^
« Ij.gt two strikes?" he demanded.
1 "" ' "lM ' ' ' tori.! "T:en, pnterlv "The I tn,*y of t,ie treasury, is schceduled
He leaned . Ttpleium to ma^e his first speech for the
by Nice, railway worke s • democratic national tipket at Syra-
'hancellor Backes that a strike J France and Great are„ ; CUBe, N. Y.
, Ifect accord on this point, un tne
enforce the union shop is illegal, l(inbject of war, th„y will 8ta„d to-1 A British trade delegation
sails from Liverpool today t< at-
1 the congress of the chambers
COURT DECISION HELPS
NEWARK, N. J., Sept. C.
Senator Warren G. Harding, re-
publican nominee for president, Is
to deliver a Labor day speech to-
day to a gathering of the Central
Labor Union of Marion.
Governor .Tames M. Cox. the dem-
scheduled to speak today at the
Minnesota State Fair, at Hami'ne.
William G. McAdoo. former secre-
is illegal,
provides another weapon in the anti- j rpther. There
union fiirht which is rasdnir in the against the Soviets of
Russia. b - i
newspapers there is a gentlemen's
|agreement that no reporter shall
print any questions or answers to
questions asked or received at the
daily "interview" with the preol
day I spoke with a man who is just mess. With this rule in force, the
out of Ireland. He is a Sinn Feiner. I American people can know nothing
«« ~ t .i~„, „ n,,u about our foreign affairs exeef
so his point of vies is .i wha( |he (iej>artm©nt tells them I in that no man has a right to thin*
ored, but ho told me some remark from time to time in its denatured i of an industry as simply his own
able things. For example, he sai l I statements. , private concern. It is made possi-
that In the country west of Dublin, Poland "Tore I p" I'olby Note. , ble only by the joint endeavors of
there is nothing but the Sinn Fein it is a notorious fact, for example.
power that Poland has torn up the celc
Power of the British government brated t olby note ami cast It U. ihe
Is non-existent except where there Ik lb" note I resident W -
a soldier or a policeman. He says " informed the wor'd that while
that If you want to bring a suit at America would guarantee the Indc-
law, the only thing to do Is to brim penden, e of ethnographical Poland.
it in the Sinn rein courts. Other-|'hl country would not tolerate the
wise, there is 110 v.ay to have th-: dismemberment of Russia.
order of the court executed. In In pursuance of this policy. Pres-
these districts, everyone seems to be ident Wilson declared we could 'not
for Sinn Fein. . recognize the independence even of
The chap tells me that a British the little Baltic states which hav-j
soldier in uniform or a policeman, made peace with Russia. j men's lives has modern industry run
unarmed, is quite as safe in Ireland Poland's amusingly Imperialistic j counter to the ideal of service, the
as he is in England Tne moment answer to Colby is found in the de- report continues. The appropriation
he takes up arms, however, he is mand just reported, for "self deter- of surplus profits is scored as fol-
liable to be shot. mination for the small states bot- lows:
There is a strong movement undei dering Poland and Russia." Serves Strong, Not Common Good,
way to have Jiin Uirkin released. A That means a free Vkrainia and as "All that remains after fixed
petition is being circulated, an I manv more little countries as Po- charges are met is ordinarily treat-
great deal of ! iu,ni may wish to "buffer" her rein- ed as the rightful due not of all
tions with Russia. those who share in its production
Which Will Hllsmi llepmliiite? :h,lt of 11 Rln,>'le fn< lor 1,1 the ,,n>"
Even if Poland should be able to
dictate such a peace with Russia, j
President Wilson would have to re- '
pudiate It or else repudiate his own j
declaration that the original (1f 14
noinic life. The plain fact, however.
all men who, with hand or brain,
work in connection with it. Their
lives as well as the employer's are
all bound up in it and their desti-
nies affected by ttyjj way it is car-
ried on. Collective bargaining has
tenderl to limit this arbitqrary con-
trol and In certain industries to se-
cure what ahproaches a balance of
power, but in most industries has
not yet resulted in anything that
can really be designated as de-
mocracy."
But not only in the limiting of
SERVANT GIRLS WIN
8-H0UR DAY IN
THE KING'S CASTLE
King George is scouting for
servant maids to supply the needs
of the royal British family in Bal-
moral castle. After a short strike
English house maids who wait
on royalty have won their battle
for an eight-hour day. A cable
dispatch says that the kiny has
found it necessary to borrow
servants from his neighbors until
the Balmoral staff can be made
complete with the new shorter
hours.
Hence it is found that democ-
racv in industry is reaching even
unto the castles of the few re-
maining kings not dethroned dur-
ing the recent war to make the
world safe ftfr democracy. Labor
J sued orders of mob
i railroad workers of France. Of the j
j sixty thousand orders issued, thcr*
1 was not e. halter's dozen of re-
| sponses.
! "The time has come when an or-
|der for solidarity, issued by the
union, has more force than an orde-
for mobilization. They knew it
there seems to be
sentiment on the subject.
The British policy of repression
seems to have had no other effect
than that of strengthening the Irish
feeling for independence. It is re-
ported that the British are to try
one more burst of force, and then
the new policy Is to make it possible
to hang Irishmen after a military | boundaries of Russia must be
trial. It seems impossible to g
them by the ordinary civil process.
pre
mote American musical art through
America i artists and Amtriean com-
posers, will open today at Lockport,
Work was almost completed, when
a strike was called by Local 11 of
the International Brotherhood of
Bridge and Iron Workers, because
non-union labor was being em-
ployed. An injunction was issued
against the union, and against one
of the officials of the Atlantic com-
pany. who refused to ailow strike
breakers to complete the work. ' woujd fal) now! That is why there | 0^"by the" spc^ from .when
Later on suit was brought by the ,)fl no war against Russia.
Lehigh company against the union workers nf Europe are tired
and the Atlantic company to pre- feedinK cannon.' ( ONVKNTIONS OPKN MUMMY,
vent cancellation of the contract. "Were you not in personal danger rhlcago American Chemical So-
and the court ruled that the union (lur|np llie reCent strike - I (.Iety.
shop principle was unlawful, He nofjfied and laughed. "Tli* salt Lake City—National Ta.« as-
gods were on my side." he said. "Th > sociation.
\i: HKA1) UF 1VAR YKTS police came three times to my hom<\ { $t. Louis National Retail !,um-
MINNEAPOLIS. • Appointment of' but each time that they came, a little j her Dealers' association.
| would fail; and they know^ that it I cornerstone today for
e spot froi
Pilgrim Fathers embarked
The Salvation Army in England
has planned to commemorate the
300th anniversary of the Pilgrims'
sailing from Plymouth by laving the
hall
the
Carl Calvin of St. Paul as national
chairman of the World War Veter-
ans is announced by the national
executive committee. He succeeds
Lester P. Barlow, who resigned
under fire recently because of his
political activities. Calvin is a grad-
uate of the University of Minnesota
bird whispered to me. anil I won'
away. There are many little birds,
even in the government service."
"But many of your comrades are
still in jail""
"Yes. many of them. That is an
additional reason why we should
stand by the workers of Russia."
St. Louis- National Federat. >n of
Federal Employes.
Cincinnati Bakery ''nd Confec-
tionery Workers* Interna t onal
union.
Erie, Pa Army and Navy Cnion.
Omaha Missouri Valley M Meal
Society.
•ORANGE" DRINKS ARE
ONLY DYE AND OIL
t 1 served intact, exclusive of Finland
and ethnographical Poland.
While bitterly denouncing the So-
viet government of Russia, the C'olbv
note and a subsequent message to
Warsaw sharply warned the Poles
By
FecH-
■<i r
WASHINGTON. Sept. 6. Much
of the orange Juice on the market
is simply dyed water, according
to the chemistry bureau of the
department of agriculture
"These Imitations." the bureau
states, "are concocted of sweet-
ened. artificially carbonated
water, colored with a dye to imi-
tate orange juice, and flavored
with a little oil from the peel of
the orange.
"While they may not contain
inKredients injurious to the
health of adults, they are imita-
tions and lack the medical qual-
ities of fruit juices, and should
not be used In place of genuine
orange juice, especially as a food
for babies and young children."
t oss. Still less is there a general ef-
1 fort to return to the community as
whole, from the activity and needs
| of which all values are derived, tha
surplus remaining after worthy re-
I numeration has been given to cap-
iial and labor. Autocratically organ-
ized industry thus increases th
power of the strong more than it
ministers to the common good."
Practical steps to free the perso' -
illtv of the worker that could he
immediately put into effect are sug-
to halt their armies on their own nested in the report. A greater de-
borders, as fixed i>y the Versailles I grce 0f democracy in Industry, to bii
treaty. The Polish military leader, j^a, lied tlifough the development of
PilBUdski, scorns to take such ad collective bargaining; full protec-
vice. To his native press, he says- tjon of the worker by the industry
"Poland must tnake a decision he is in, including freedom from un-
prompt and energetic. There is no employment; and provision of in-
time to lose. The allies desire th " surance, hygienic working condl-
the Poles shall remain stationary on tions. and reasonable \y<igcs and
our frontier, maintaining a pure1) hours, are recommended in the re-
defensive line My opinion is tha* , port.
,tiiik is impossible. We must cOntlnu*
our advance until Sovlpt Russia Is IliABAMA MUCK STRIKE C VI.M-.B.
crushed, or else make peace at one. INDIANAPOLIS. Sept. 6.—A'l
on the illusory ethnic boundary. An miners in the bituminous coal fields
I immediate decision is necessary." of Alabama have been called on
The Washington Post, whose own- strike by an order from
Lewis president of the United Mine
Workers of America. Lewis declares
that the Alabama* operators have
Tailed to increase wages as specified
the so-called by President Wilson's coal commis-
sion last March. ri
dated by marriage to th.
old Czarist regime, finds it ron
venient at this juncture to tell ;
few plain truths about Poland's de
sire to march
boundary of 1702
These Times Bring Momentous Developments to American Labor
The period during and since American participation in
•he European war has probably been of greater moment in
'he developmental the American Labor Movement than arm
time of equal length.
It marks a turning point; and still greater developments,
■ ven now dimly seen along the horizon, are coining—develop-
ments which could not conceivably have arrived for many
Vears without the process which the war and its aftermath
have generated.
During the war/lie government was "good" to labor. The
reason is not hard to find. The tremendous stimulus to pro-
'I ltd ion imposed by war-time needs made efficiency a neces-
sity. But? not only was is essential that factories, mines,
'ransports and farms should produce and deliver greater
quantities than ever before, it was also necessary that greater
oroductinn should be accomplished with reduced man-power.
In other words, there was a labor shortage at a time of critical
'teniand for labor.
By EDWIN NEW DICK, Managing Editor, Oklahoma Leader.
WHY THE GOVERNMENT H .1.S' "GOOD" TO LABOR. merit agency designed to secure justice and fairness for work-
But this is not all. Armies and navies and the huge ers in the United States during the war. Because of the ne-
trans-continental and trans-oceanic supply systems demanded cessities of the case and because of the allegiance to the work-
millions of men who had to be withdrawn from production. jng man's cause which characterized Frank /'. H alsli. and be-
a double reason, the government Was obliged to be "good" cause of his great abititg, the National War Labor Board did
to labor: The working men had to be kept in good humor so much to secure real concessions for labor.
that they would work diligently; and they had to be treated WAR-T/ME PRINCIPLES FOR JUSTICE TO LABOR.
ivith considerable generosity so that they would unquestion
ingly give themselves to face death and the unspeakable
horrors of "civilized" warfare.
High ideals were announced as the aims of American par-
ticipation in the European carnage. It was affirmed that a
new era of world justice was the object for which American .
, . ... , .. ,, , ,, ■ . the right of workers to a standard of living adequate for
lives were to be sacrificed. It was necessary that these ideals, , ' , ,, , . „
. . , , , . . is. health and reasonable comfort.
these, high aims, for a new and universal democracy and jus-
tice to weak as to strong, should be given the appearance of The war department and railroad administration adhered
reality by according justice and fairness at home. to similar conceptions. Railroad systems which had for
The National War Labor Board was the principal govern- i;«ars successfully resisted unionization became organized as
This board was founded upon principles which advocated
the right of all workers to organize in trade unions; which
protected workers from encroachment by employers to reduce
the standards nf pay at work nr of organization previously es-
tablished; and these principles included clear enunciation of
rapidly as trade union representatives could take applications
and establish locals.
The garment trades were largely given over io llie manu-
facture of uniforms. These trades were improved by the elim-
ination of "sweating," tenement house clothes making, by ihe
government's insistence upon the right of workers to organ-
ize, etc.
GOVERNMENT RECOGNIZED JUSTICE OF
LABOR'S DEMANDS.
Now all this had effect upon the rank and file of labor.
In time of stress, when their labor and their lives were a prime
essential, workers found that Ihe government accorded to
them precisely those rights which labor had always claimed as
its own. It was as though, after all Ihe years of strife, strug-
gle, contention, strikes, defeats, arbitrations and some hard
won victories, the government came along and said lo labor:
"You are right. In the past I hare stood hy neutral' or
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