INTERNATIONAL FALLS PKESS WHAT EDITORS SAY BIG STRIKE IMPENDS class of their employees without THE STEPHENS-ASHtlRST BILL mandate from some tribunal represent UP TO CONGRESS ing the public On June 15 the coo* OF RAILWAY ISSUE ON All RAILROADS ference committee gave the brother hoods a formal reply declining t® grant the demands, but pro posing\that To Protect the Public Against Dishonest Advertising the entire controversy be settled, pref* Strike Seems Certain Unless Federal erably by submission of the entire Demand Peaceful Settlement of Four Brotherhoods Make Unprecedented and False Pretenses in Merchandising question to the interstate eommere^ Commission Acts. Wage Controversy. Wage Demand. commission or else by arbitration uifc der the Newlands law. Both plans for a settlement were rejected by the (lit A bill introduced in Congress by What is "Stephens- brotherhood leaders, who annonnceJ IT REPRESENTS THE PUBLIC. STRIKE MUST BE AVERTED. ASK FOR $100,000,000 A YEAR Senator "Henry F. Ashurst of Ari­ Ashurst Bill? toeir intention of taking a strike vote and returning for another conference zona, .and by Representative Dan V. Stephens of Nebraska, Almost Unanimously Newspapers Indorse early in August Brotherhood Leaders Reject Proposals, providing a remedy for the unfair competition of great trading Proposals of Railway Managers All Plans For Settlement Have Been One of Which Provides For Interstate monopolies. That Wage Question Bs Settled by Rejected by Brotherhood Leaders, TO SETTLE LABOR DISPUTES. Commerce Commission as Arbitrator—Also Interstate Commerce Commission or Who Are Now Engaged In Taking Chiefly in advertising at "cut What is the character of Oppose Arbitration by Arbitration Under the Newlands Strike Vote and Will Return For Another Federal Body Should Fix Railway prices'* well-known goods as a this unfair competition Provided by Law They Helped to Law. Conference Early In August. Rate* and Wages. Enact. means of inducing the public to buy unknown goods of doubt* Baton Rouge, La.—Commenting on, Chicago.—The proposed strike by all The most Important strike vote in the ful quality., the prospective railroad strike tof/ Washington.—Whether the wage controversy railway train service employees In order history of labor disputes is now being higher wages, the Times says: between the railways anrt it To use the reputation of a reliable to secure a wage increase of $100,000,000 What thm purpose of thm taken by the more than 300.000 engineers. Congress should pass an act at onoQ a year Is condemned by newspaper their engineers, conductors, firemen article as a bait to catch the con­ cut-price concerns conductors, firemen and brakemen giving the interstate commerce com* editors throughout the country. and brakemen is to be settled peaceably mission authority to settle the labor employed on the railroads of the sumers, and deceive them into believing that all their goods They declare such a 'strike would be or by a strike now seems to depend disputes, just as it has the right to fix United States to enforce their demand offered for sale are sold at the some low rate of profit. a public calamity and that it must be largely on what action congress rates. for an increase in wages estimated by averted. No. Trade investigations agree that will take on the proposal to refer the It is more important that the Interstate Are the expenses of the the railroad managers at $100,000,000 a Almost unanimously the editors Indorse commerce commission have thft question to the interstate commerce business by these great trading monopolies year. the proposals made by the committee the cogt of doing right to fix wages and settle disputes less than those of the aver• commission. In many ways the situation thus created of railway managers to the big city concerns is approximately than it is that It have the right to do* age retail merchant The national conference committee is absolutely unprecedented. Never leaders of the brotherhoods—that the termlne freight rates and prohibit rebates. 30 per cent., while the cost of the before has a demand for so large a of the railways at the recent conference wage question be settled by the interstate average small merchant is 16 per cent. raise in pay been presented to a single commerce commission or by arbitration in'New York with the train service Business can hobble along under group of employers at one time. under the Newlands law. brotherhoods proposed settlement predaThey can't they only seem to. They How then can the high freight rates. Death would follow If the employees vote to leave the The following extracts from newspaper either by submission to the interstate a general railroad strike. gejj things that people know at cost. tory price cutters undersell service the leaders of the four train editorials fairly reflect1 public commerce commission or by arbitration Both the railroads and the railroad the independent merchant? service brotherhoods will have the On A unfamiliar goods they over­ sentiment on this most important issue: under the provisions of the Newlands men may be able to withstand a strike, power to declare the biggest strike ever law. charge. The consumer is deceived by the false representation but the public cannot The public la experienced. The interstate commerce commission The brotherhood leaders promptly not in a position to face a general that their mass of unknown goods is sold at the same price Never before has a strike on all the should be empowered to prevent rejected both proposals, not only objecting strike of the railroads In the country. reduction offered on a few well-known articles. railroads of the country even been this threatened railroad strike. Write to the interstate commerce The calamity is too awful to con* seriously threatened. The "big four" to your congressman about it.—Chicago commission as an arbitrator, but expressing It destroys the independent mer- What is the effect of this template. brotherhoods of train employees have Tribune. their determined opposition to nnf air advert iaing practice? It would be more frightful than a chants of the towna mall dtiea heretofore confined their concerted The great public has more at stake the plan of arbitration provided by the dozen Mexican wars. It should not be wage movements to one section of the builds up great chain-store and mail-order systems, and compels than either the railway stockholders law which they had helped to get enacted. In the power of a set of men to bring country at a time, and while the engineers or the railway employees.—Davenport the sale of inferior goods by all classes of dealers. such a disaster to the public. and firemen or the conductors (la.) Times. To meet the objection that the interstate The commission has the right to say and brakemen have frequently joined No. It means the destruction of the price cutting in thft in- The interstate commerce commission commerce commission now has what the railroads shall charge for in such movements this is the first case represents the great public. It no jurisdiction over railway wages the ,.r- ugllaj retail channels by which goods their service. terest of the public in which all four organizations have was created for the purpose of holding committee representing the railways This commission should be given reach the consumers to their best advantage. It forces the combined to enforce an increase in even the scales.—Rocky Mountain proposed "that we jointly request congress the right to say what they shall pay sale of unknown articles, often of cheap and shoddy quality, wages. News. Denver. to take such action as may be for the labor that it takes to perfonn While the demands apply only to The trainmen should take prudent instead of reliable goods which have their maker's reputation necessary to enable the commission to this service. freight and switching service, excepting thought Arbitration Is their wise policy.—Detroit consider and promptly dispose of the behind them. It promotes substitution. And It should be given this authority the passenger service, all of the Free Press. Questions involved." at once. employees who are members of the organizations. What will be the result of The public will support any finding The ruin of hundreds of thousands Upon the failure of the companies as well as all nonunion the interstate commerce commission the general extension of and the labor organizations to reach an of independent merchants the concentration train employees, are being called upon may make.—Dallas (Tex.) News the practice throughout the agreement the question was put up to The Largest Painting. of trade in vast monopolies to vote for a strike. Public opinion ought to have re-enforced congress in another form, in a resolution country? "Paradise," by Tintoretto, is the, The train employees are demanding the position of the railroads located in a few great cities which was introduced by Senator largest painting in the world. It ia an eight hour "basic" day—in other long before now.—Galveston News. Newlands on June 22 providing for an a decline in prosperity and population of the villages, towns eighty-four feet wide and thirty-three words, that they shall be paid the same The regulation of wages presents no Investigation by the commission of the and a half feet high. It is now in the and small cities and the ultimate injury of the consumers, by wage for eight hours or 100 miles or more difficulties than the regulation of whole subject of railway wages and Doge's palace. Venice. placing them at the mercy of monopolies which will then be less that they now receive for ten rates.—Holyoke (Mass.) Transcript. their relation to railway earnings. hours or 100 miles or less. This would The interstate commerce commission able to extort such profits as they please for the sale of such This resolution was proposed by the New Gasonnc rrsc'sss, make the hourly rate one-eighth of a would certainly be responsible if it goods as they choose to handle. chamber of commerce of the United A patent on a process for the manufacture day's pay or the equivalent of twelve permitted a strike to come.—Minneapolis States after having been approved by of gasoline by what the inventor- How will the bill aid in giving By preventing the unfair and dishonest Journal. and one-half miles instead of one-tenth calls a recomposition method has a practically unanimous referendum relief from The train crew unions have no case of a day's pay or the equivalent of ten cot* been granted to C. S. Palmer, Ph. D., a use of well-known goods as vote of nearly 1,000 commercial organizations miles. They also demand "time and throat monopoly creating which they are willing to try in a throughout the country. The fellow in the Mellen Institute For Industrial advertising bait, and guaranteeing one-half for overtime." or a rate of pay court of arbitration or in the great methods Newlands resolution differs from the Research of Pittsburgh. The 50 per cent higher than the regular a uniform price to all consumers. court of public opinion.—New York proposal of the railways. The latter Palmer process consists of extracting rate, for all time over eight hours or Commercial. which refers only to the questions presented gasoline from petroleum residues Wilt the bill operate in any Not at all. The bill explicitly states over the time which would be required The controversy is not between the by the demands of the 18 per cent of have practically no volatile matter below way to give trade-marked that its provisions shall not apply railways and their employees, but between to complete a trip at a speed of twelve railway employees engaged in train a temperature of 300 degrees C. goods a monopoly? the public and the railway employees.—New and one-half miles per hour. a a a When they are subjected to this temperature service and asks the commission to settle York Globe. The demands were formulated by a under conditions prescribed the controversy by a decision. The controlled by a monopoly. If any manufacturer asked higher committee of the executive officers of The men now seem to show rather a by the process about 75 t)er cent of Newlands resolution is much broader prices than his goods were worth, the public would refuse the four brotherhoods in Chicago last consciousness of the weakness of their their composition becomes volatile, and and. without contemplating a final set December, and were first submitted to to buy, and new makers would quickly enter the field. position than reliance upon its merits of this about 20 per cent is gasoline. tlement by the commission, directs it a referendum vote of the men. The -New York Times. The basis of the process is said to be to Investigate and report on "the minimum. T7. S. How can all who are inter' By writing at once to the demands were formally served on the The Interstate commerce commission the interrelated control of temperature, maximum and average wage ested in the prosperity and cannot avoid regulating wages so long roads on March 30, with a request that Senators from their State, and the pressure and time, these factors being paid, with hours of service, to each growth of oar villages, the railroads appoint a conference committee as it regulates rates.—New York Tribune. so applied that recomposition of the Congressman from their District, class of railroad employees in the tJnited representing all the roads to negotiate towns and small cities aid elements in. the petroleum residue re* States," not merely the "big four" urging them to support the Ste- with a committee representing The railroad brotherhoods are mistaken. In hairing the bill passed suits, one of the recompounded products brotherhoods of train employees. The There IS something to arbitrate.—New the organizations. phens-Ashurst Bill, and use their influence in its favor. being gasoline. commission would also be directed to York World. The railroads promptly replied with report on the hours and wages in other The railway employees are plainly in a notice that in connection with the Production of Bauxite. industries, the relation of wages the wrong and should sense their mistake proposals of the employees they desired The bauxite industry in the United to railroad revenues, the question of before they make a worse blunder.—Oshkosh to have considered certain provisions States had a banner year in 1915. The whether railroad revenues based on oII q^ (Wis.) Northwestern. in the present schedules, which Saint Thomas production of bauxite was 297.041 long existing rates for transportation will of Neither side could afford to take the if continued In connection with the tons, valued at $1,514,834, an increase admit of equally favorable terms to all position of demanding more than the higher basis of pay, would lead to unfair of 77,723 long tons, or 35 per cent in classes of railway employees and "any interstate "commerce commission would UNDER. THE CONTROLS DIRECTION OF ARCHBISHOP IRELAND results and In many cases would quantity, and of $445,640, or 41 per other matter in this connection that SAINT PAUL MlNNE-SOTAc* approve.—Pittsburgh Dispatch. multiply the inequities of double compensation cent in value compared with 1914, according the commission may deem relevant." The railroad employees are not 'suffering for the same time or service. to a statement issued by the The brotherhoods object strenuously such Intolerable wrongs that Arrangements were made for a United States geological survey. This to any idea of a. federal tribunal fixing they cannot await the result of arbi conference to be held at New York beginning abnormally large increase in bauxite wages and declare that an investiga tration.—Portland Oregonlan. on June 1 for the purpose of production is due to the greatly in. tion by, the commission would only The greatness of the jpower for which discussing the demands. The roads creased activity in the aluminum industry. serve to delay matters. The only proposal the labor leaders are1 seeking is the were represented by the national conference The quantity of foreign bauxite they have made Is that their demands very strongest argument why they committee of the railways and used during the year was exceedingly be granted in full, with the A CATHOLIC MILITARY COLLEGE should not have It—Railway Age Gazette. the employees by the executive officers small, for obvious reasons, and alternative of a nation wide strike. RANKED \S AN HONOR SCHOOL BY THE WAR DEPARTMENT and general chairmen of the four out of a total consumption of more They Insist that the railroads will be Collegiate Commercial Academic Preparatory brotherhoods. The conference lasted The public is as vitally Interested In than 300,000 tons only slightly more more inclined to yield to their demands Careful Mental, Moral and Religious Train in?. the situation as the railways or the two weeks. The brotherhood leaders than 1 per cent was imported. Arkansas Seven Hur.dred and Fifty Students From when confronted with a strike Twenty-Four States Last Year employees.—St Louis Globe-Democrat refused to consider any modification of produced more than 90 per cent of vote. FOR ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE ADDRESS Either the railroads are wrong or the domestic production, and Georgia, their demands and the railroads were In their reply to the brotherhoods the Very Rev. H. Moynihan. D. D. President their employees are. Any just cause unwilling to grant a further large Increase Alabama and Tennessee contributed railways advanced as their reasons for the remainder. will stand investigation. Jackson in wages to.the highest gald proposing to refer the question to the (Miss.) Clarion-Ledger. Interstate commerce commission that 1 Subscribe For The Press This is the time when every American it Is "the only tribunal which by reason who loves his country should set of its accumulated information aside his own schemes of aggrandizement—Kansas bearing on railway conditions and its City Journal. control of the revenue of the railways The United States government cannot Is In a position to consider and protect permit any strike that would tie the rights and equities of all the up all the railroads of the country.— Interests affected and to provide additional Leslie's Weekly. revenues necessary to meet the It Is just as true that organized labor (*THI OUPgrS KINPH1SS IS KEWABDEP AT THE CAFt- added cost of operation in case your QOOP may oppress the public Intolerably as proposals are found by the commission that organized capital may do it— to be just and reasonable." OUDaE,THC PROPRIETOR VCRY MUCH I Lowell (Mass.) Citizen. (CATTAI«?JI APPRECIATES YOU TELUH4 HIM A*OUT Whereas a board of arbitration constituted W-B TOBACCO KN» ASKS THAT ?OU DINE Those who would suffer most from WHAT'S UP, under the Newlands act could TO-PAY AT HIS EXPENSE —, a tying up of the nation's traffic would pass only on the questions presented get no vote on the question of ai strike to it in an arbitration agreement signed wnsDqxalniettt -Lincoln (Neb.) Star. by both parties and would In no 'One thing Is certain, the railroads, way represent the Interests of the public the railroad employees and the American 111 Ip the controversy, the interstate people cannot afford such a strike commerce commission would not be so MINNESOTA STATE MIR —Memphis Appeal. restricted and could consider the relation We think the brotherhoods are making of the wages of the train and engine Sepfemler4'9 19/6Admission SO a mistake in refusing arbitration. men to those of the other employees, Capital must get its living Wage as well as well as the necessary effect Interested in Stgles?Aftendflie as labor.—Milwaukee Free Press. of an Increase in wages on the Business can hobble along under high rates to be paid by the public. Utomen'sandlEisses Style Show a freight rates. Death would follow general railroad strike.—Baton Rouge mthelEomansBuflding listen Weather Variety. (La.) Times. 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The salt seasoning brings out the rich tobacco was in the early history of the race: The railroads have accepted the perfectly "While the earth remaineth, seed time flavor without grinding and spitting—that's what makes reasonable ^nd natural suggestion and harvest, and cold and heat and it a gentleman's chew. that the wage question be settled summer and winter, and day and by arbitration.—Boston Journal. Get a 10c poueh at any business-like dealer's. Give W-B CUT the night shall not cease."—Christian Herald. quality test—and learn the biggest surprise of your tobacco experience. Why should a vote be taken "on a strike which the public will never tolPost-Dispatch. ftf WETMAH-BRUTOH COMPANY, Si* U- Ntw T«k City Sfssn, J*. -v "HZ "f tv a s.