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Kirschner, chairman; Frank Erickson, assistant; John Schuster, John Traynor, John McCarthy, George Lestring.

Ushers Otto Kleinstuber, George Kenly, John Mills, James Mangan, Charles Gehrt, Edw. Grady, Arthur Steiner, Frank Patterson, Robert Clark.

Sergeant-at-Arms-Frederick Seeber, chairman; ugh Cuff, assistant; Andrew Williams.

Honorary Members-Fred Frankenburg, Edward Frost, Harry McLaughlin, Enoch Hill.

PREDICT IMMIGRATION RUSH.

Boston. A tremendous rush of immigration after the war was the prediction of Frederic C. Howe, commissioner of immigration at the port of New York, in an address in this city "The amount of immigration after the war," he said, "will of course depend on economic conditions in Europe. If we have high wages here

and good living conditions then there will be a rush of immigration. Many things in Europe will contribute to immigration. Taxes will be high, whole provinces have been devastated and the minds of millions of men have been made restless. I believe that thousands will come.

"On the other hand, many will want to go back to their old homes to search for relatives whom they have not heard from since the beginning of the war. They will have money and they will want to buy homes. They cannot buy them here."

The speaker said the land question is a pressing problem in America.

8 HOURS FOR POLICEMEN

Dallas, Tex.-Policemen in this city have won their long fight for the eighthour day. City officials announce that the new system will be put into effect the first of the year.

JENKINS INTERLOCK MANUFACTURING CO.

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A Soldier's a Soldier; Not a Policeman

By Samuel Gompers.

The feeling of power which a gun brings to a raw recruit often stimulates all the arrogance and the animal side of his nature. Soldiers long accustomed to militarism and to secure results through force, come to think there is no other way to do things. There comes a feeling that the gun constitutes a differential between the soldier and the civilian that authorizes the soldier to act as custodian of public morals and to settle all the troubles of the unarmed.

Even at this early stage of the war we find soldiers breaking up a public meeting and destroying the property of those with whose beliefs they disagree. We find troops usurping the right to act as policemen and as custodians of peace.

Employers of workers have been quick to discern in the war emergency a spirit and opportunity that can be used to their own advantage. They have urged as a justification for forcing upon workers onerous terms and conditions the fact that the work was in some way connected with the conduct of the war. Some have even sought to connect the term “treason" with men who resented the imposition of onerous tasks and injustice. Injunctions have been sought against striking workmen on the ground that they were "interfering" with production.

Such a spirit among employers is doubly deplorable because it injects private greed into an effort of the government to unite all elements of the nation in furtherance of interests and welfare through socialized methods. Men and women can not be expected to make the ultimate sacrifice for the selfish profit of another.

A deep grounded suspicion of military force has been imbedded in the

minds of workers because the military was too often used against them. It was the hope of all that in the present war, waged for international democracy and freedom, there would be nothing that would alienate the wageearners of this country from wholehearted participation for the protection of our Republic. But deplorable things have happened in many sections of the country. In Newark, New Jersey, last August, iron molders made a demand for increased wages. This was granted by all firms except one. A strike began, the shop was picketed, there were no disorders or arrests, and all pickets kept absolutely within the law. However, after war was declared, on May 19, a detachment of United States soldiers, belonging to the First Regiment of the National Guard of New Jersey, which had been mustered into the federal service, was sent to guard the foundry. The corporal in charge of the soldiers ordered the pickets away and then put the plant under guard during working hours, but not after working hours or from Saturday to Monday morning. Plainly the purpose of this guard was to encourage and "protect" strikebreaking. When the attention of the War Department was called to the fact that federal troops were being used to do partisan service in an industrial dispute, an investigation was ordered and the troops removed. The Secretary of War expressed regret that anything should have happened which would so materially retard the efforts of the government to mobilize the good will of all citizens.

Another foundry of Newark, New Jersey, secured a subcontract for government work. When the workers asked that wages be increased in order to help them in some way meet the enormously increased cost of liv

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ing, the firm refused their request unless the men would surrender their membership in this organization. strike followed. The firm, because they were engaged on government work, requested that they be allowed to have secret service men to secure evidence against the strikers. It was their thought that the evidence of secret service men would carry greater weight than the evidence of police in securing a permanent injunction in the court.

Another request for secret service aid came from a Des Moines (Iowa) cap manufacturer who was hostile to organized labor and was bidding for a government contract to make prisoners' caps. When a strike occurred in his factory, picketing of his shop was ordered stopped and two men were held for treason.

The street car workers of Salt Lake City a few weeks ago were holding a conference with the street railway company over the renewal of agreement for the coming year. The chairman of the county commissioners of Salt Lake City called the conference committee of employers and employes before the board of commissioners and threatened that if the controversy over the agreement led to a strike and the strike interfered with the government using the road to transport prisoners to Fort Douglass, which was about a mile and a half from the city, the strikers would find themselves in prison, without bond, to remain there during the war. The commissioners claimed government authority for their threat. When the matter was taken up with the governor of the state, the threat was declared to have been made without authority.

During a strike of smelter men at Salt Lake, an officer arrested one of the strikers for making a slighting remark. Federal soldiers placed placards on his breast and bearing the words, "I made a mistake," and tied tin cans to him. The soldiers then marched the man through the streets rattling the tin cans with their bayonets.

When the chemical workers of New

Jersey struck, a representative of employes suggested that the governor be advised to have the sheriff, who was on the ground, indicate through proclamation or otherwise that such interference with production was treasonable.

These, a few illustrations of many similar occurrences throughout the country, are submitted to fair-minded, intelligent citizens with the query: By what warrant do these things happen and what will be the result if they are not prevented as well as disavowed by the responsible agents and prohibited in the future?

It may be an easy matter 10 threaten force and secure a temporary advantage through intimidation. It may mean for the employer profits, but it will mean to the government and to the nation a serious if not an insurmountable barrier to their securing the co-operation of the entire citizenship in the terrific conflict in which our county is engaged. Now of all times our government can not afford to permit anything that creates a feeling of discrimination or injustice. If the term "disloyal" can be used in connection with the above incidents, the majority of the citizenship of this country will apply that term to the employers who have been using a national calamity for personal, private profit.

In addition it may be said that since the entrance of our country in this world-wide war for freedom and democracy the masses of our people have looked upon our soldier boys and their uniforms with increasing respect and admiration. Nothing should be done or left undone to mar that thrill of pride and confidence in the men who are to fight, and perhaps die, that freedom and justice shall live.

The potatoes they are small on our table.

The potatoes they are small on our table.

The potatoes they are small,

You can eat them, skins and all,
And not notice it at all!

(1,000 parts truth to 1.39th poetry.)

WORKERS DEMAND JUSTICE.

Salt Lake City, Utah.-Protesting to W. H. Rogers and W. M. Kneer, Federal and State mediators, representatives of the Mine, Mill and Smelters Workers' Union, who were ordered to leave Bingham, this county, call attention to this outrage and ask that they be accorded rights guaranteed every citizen.

The unionists say that the Citizens' Protective Association of Bingham is but an alias of the Utah Copper Company; that the spokesman of the committee who issued the deportation order is a company foreman, and that the meeting of the association and the acts of the committee were guided and directed by the company.

"In common with the members of the association," the unionists say, "we desire peace, but we would secure it not by strangling all organized protest, but by redressing grievances. We suggest to them that if they would use their energies to combat autocracy in industry by co-operation with organized labor, acting within the law, industrial injustice would be diminished and strikes almost unknown.

"We insist that the town of Bingham and the lands of the Utah Copper Company, and those of other mining companies adjacent thereto, are subject to the laws of the State of Utah, and further that we have a right to pass along any road or commonly used path without being subjected to molestation of any character from any source whatsoever."

TONGUE TWISTERS.

"She stood at the door of the fish sauce shop welcoming him in." How fast can you say that? Here is another about the famous duel between Shott and Knott.. It reads as follows: "Shott shot the first shot, and the shot Shott shot shot not Knott. The shot Shott shot shot not Knott, so Shott shot again, and once more the shot Shott shot shot not Knott, but the shot Knott shot shot Shott, so Knott won notwithstanding."

PROTEST AGAINST INCREASE ON SECOND-CLASS POSTAGE. Congress which recently adjourned passed a war tax, and among everything else placed a 25 per cent. increase on second-class postage after July 1, 1918, and after July 1, 1919. The increase will amount to 50 per cent.; that is, for that portion devoted to reading, etc., and the advertising section will be taxed according to zones and in a progressive manner for a number of years until July 1, 1921. The tax will be from two cents to ten cents per pound, according to

zones.

This tax will make it almost prohibitive for magazines to exist; furthermore, the requirements for assembling journals according to zones, while our mailing list is now kept by States, will entail endless trouble; therefore, we hope our members will join with all other interested parties in trying to have this increase removed before it goes into effect.

Let each local union adopt resolutions in protest against this increase in second-class postage and send it to your Senators and Congressmen.

Each member can greatly aid by writing letters to their representa tives also.

The tax bill was finally passed on a mutual or tentative understanding that this feature of the bill would be repealed before it went into effect. So let's try to have this extra tax removed.

THE OTHER EYE.

Standing outside his club one afternoon Mr. Gilbert was approached by a stranger who asked, "I beg pardon, sir, but do you happen to know a gentleman, a member of this club, a man with one eye called 'Matthews?" "No, I don't think I do," replied Mr. Gilbert. Then after a pause he quickly added, "What's the name of his other eye?"

The best way to balance an account is to square it.

Industrial Agreements and Strike Avoidance Are Doubly Necessary Now

The necessity for industrial peace and efficiency is imperative, and is recognized by the trade union movement, which declared at the Buffalo A. F. of L. convention:

"The right to organize is essential to the solution of problems arising between employer and employe.

"The nation's interest makes it essential that co-operation should exist in the industries.

"There can be no true efficiency in production without good will.

"The highest efficiency in production can only be secured through the application of the principles of democracy."

Employers who ignore this challenge are blind to epoch-making upheavals that have occurred during the past eight months.

On the anvil of national values and prestige the government is shaping every available force against the greatest war machine the world has ever known.

Military conscription has been adopted.

The postmaster general has been given rigorous censorial powers.

The food control law empowers the President to seize any equipment necessary to war's prosecution.

Railroads are told where and when to ship commodities.

Commissions are setting prices for necessities.

Profits are taxed, as are incomes as low as $1,000 a year.

Business is being licensed with heavy penalties on failure to obey the government's regulation.

Organized labor is alert to the abandonment of economic and political landmarks, and to our government's determination that this war be brought to a speedy and successful close.

The employer who talks of "indi

vidual rights" and refuses to recognize labor ignores flint-hewn facts.

The employer who talks of democracy and refuses to bargain collectively with his workers, in the interest of national efficiency and industrial peace, is a ridiculous spectacle.

Shouts for freedom degrade rather than exalt unless backed by action and the power of conviction.

To win this war the nation must fabric its economic structure with chains of steel.

Every link from ore range to blast furnace, from pattern maker, iron molder, machinist, miner, shipyard worker-all must be made rigid and strong.

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Producers in every field-the shop man, transportation employe, even the lonely track walker on ircn highways rushing troops and supplies to the eastern seaboard-must play their part.

Reciprocal relations between employer and employed is essential if production is to reach its "peak" point. A committee appointed by the British government to investigate English munitions factories reported:

"We are bound to record our impression that the munitions workers in general have been allowed to reach a state of reduced efficiency and lowered health which might have been avoided by reasonable precaution."

This condition was reflexed on every battle line in Europe, Asia and Africa. Submission to wrong is not patriot

ism.

Well fed, well housed workers are necessary.

Poor shop conditions and long hours poison man's system, weaken his productive powers and shorten life-the nation is a double loser.

A nation-wide efficiency, made possible by energetic, vitalized workers, is unthinkable under these conditions.

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