INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS, OCTOBER 23rd, 1919 PAGE FOUR THE INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS RIGHT TO STRIKE AND RIGHT TO EAT The recent strike of the railway shopmen, which finally led to the intervention of the President, was declared by the men in open Mr Goanpers recently has asserted that the Cummins railroad opposition to the orders of their general officers. In the Winnipeg AND BORDER BUDGET bill would enslave workers by denying them the fundamental right strike the rail workers insisted on going out, despite the orders of GEO. P. WATSON, Editor of striking. He fails to reflect, we think, that the|re is another their officers, and had to be disciplined. right involved—the right of the soverign people to maintain the integrity These are only a few instances out of many illustrating the Bntcred at the Post Office at International Fall*. Minn., as Second-class Matter of industries absolutely essential to life itself. present individualistic tendency in the trade unions. The strike It is pretty well understood that certain services are inextricably^bound SUBSCRIPTION RATES: U. S., $2.00 FOREIGN, .$2.50 PER YEAR fever seems to have inf-ected organized labor to such an extent thai up in the welfare of the nation. A soldier having the the duly elected officers, chosen because of their ability to lead eflicently, right to'strike at will might choose the crucial moment. Not even are losing control of their men, and in many cases are quite ANNOUNCEMENT ir bolshevist Russia would it~be tolerated. A policeman, standing unable to carry out agreements made with the employers. in the position of public guardian and with authority delegated directly Employers have turned large salary increases to employees, Having been offered a newspaper plant at Fairbault, which by the people, can have only one duty, and this to his sovereign, with the result that outputs are restricted in many industries, and city offers necessary advanced 'educational opportunities for the people. strikes are being used no't in the interest of the public. our children, THE PRESS is for immediate sale. We speak of these directly delegated services because helf defense The1 Result will be legislation which, the unions are emphasizing We shall consider it a favor if all who are indebted to us is fundamental. We will thrust asid every convention to by a high handed course, is afc much needed as it was against the will make arrangements to pay their bills in cash or bankable maintain the1 principle. But if the presence of a material and physical railroads, when they favored ctertain shippers by rebates—Minneapolis paper before November 1st, 1919. We also wish that any who enemy arouses us to such a pitch of defense, what of the no Journal. 1 .*!# -i 5131®*-'*" have bills against us will present them for payment before that less deadly but unseen enemy of hunger time. Reduced to the last analysis, food is the, first requirement of PAVE ROADS WITH CONCRETE GEO. P. WATSON, the'nation. The last few years have shown us with startling emphasis that food and all it implies—production, transportation, and The following editorial in last Sunday's Duluth News Tribune When a man gets chasing the dollar so hard that he has no distribution, and these split into an infinity of subclassifications— confirms the wfisdom of our city council in selecting concrete as the lespect for law, its a mighty good thing to put him where he can cannot and must not depend upon the group decision. paving for our city streets, and judging from the expressions, spoken rest from his chasie awhile and quetly meditate upon the rights of If the producers of food stop producing, it not only is they who of in this good larticle, of the experience of the city of Duluth in the the community he lives in. suffer, but the nation as well. If the transporters of food stop various kinds of paving, concrete seems to be the kind which should transporting, they do not suffer alone, but all the rest with them be selected by the county board for the county roads when the time If we who have bleen entrusted with only one talent would use and so with the distributers. The modern machinery of production comes to make the selection: that talent instead of burying it amidst our discontent because and distribution is the nations dinner table. Each separate "The News Tribune has advocated bitulithic as a high class we are not entrusted with more talents, or because we arle jealous act is dependent upon ieach other. paving material. We are prejudiced for it rather than against it. of the prosperity of the man with five or ten talents, and all those We no longer cultivate our own farm nor spin our own wool, We know all its good ponts and they are many. But it has not a of more than one talent would usie the surplus income derived from nor procure our own fuel. The division of labor has made us reliant single thing in its facor which concrete does not have, while concrete the use of their many talents for the encouragement and helpfulness and reliable. We must not ceasei to be reliable. If one group has much that bitulithic lacks. of thos|e less favored much of the present turmoil would dease and demands the special privelege of clogging industrial industry, that To use bitulithic for the Miller Trunk road, or any other country the one talent man would soon gain other talents and also be happy group ascends from fraternal co-operation to autocratic domination. highway, will be to throw money away. The county commissioners in his degree of prosperity. The rest of the, population must wait upon its decisions, good or cannot afford to do this. They cannot affoird to pay 25 pev bad. cent more for a poorer material and cut down by so much the roa^ "What a man does for himself, dies with him what he does for The right of railroad men to strike implies the right to throttle mileage they can build. The taxpayers will not excuse such action. his community lives forever." Did you eiver stop to think of that? transportation, an industry essential in a vital degree to our very if not, just hesitate for a moment in your mad rush for riches and Bitulilthic is but the wearing surface of a roadway. It rests upon, lives implies, in short, the right to suspjend the nation's right to think it over. The chances are that if you do, the community will or covers a base of concrete, which is what sustains the lo°ds eat. Without railroads we can have neither food nor fuel. Will soon appreciate your worth more than it ever did before,. To cast that pass over it. This concrete is of a poorer mix, havng a considerably 120,000,000 peiople grant this autocratic privilege to a small percentage aside self in our thoughts and take into consideration the town, less proportion of cement than is used in concrete paving. of the whole co-operative community? county, state in which we livei-may be a difficult thing to do, but It therefore does not have the equal sustaining power. Group rule inevitably must lead to a rule of subgroups, and so nevertheless it would make better citizens of us and the community Bitulithic itself is the upper course of wearing surface. It consists on down to the individual, until at last, suspending the whole fabric of such citizens, would be an ideal place in which to reside.—Welcome of a scientific mixture of the various sizes of crushed rock so of fraternal protection and mutual help, the race1 must find itself Times. combined with bitumen or asphalt, as to leave practically no voids. vherie it came from—living in trees and carrying knotted clubs. Each element used is weighed and under pressure all fit so closely The new era we are talking about must be an era of co-operation HOW ABOUT IT, MR. FARMER that the overrun is but little more than the original material bull* and responsibility and good will, not of group assertiveness and of rock. group jealousies, else the tree and the club.—Chicago Tribune. Arthur C. Townley, head of the Nonpartisan League, is an The bitumen is the binder that holds the aggregate of crushed avowed Socialist. A largie, number of good men have affiliated with lock together, just as does cement. The mixture has been patented this league und|er misunderstanding. They, do not realize the fact What Is the Cost of Cheap and eivery contractor who uses it" has to pay a royalty on the pat that Nonpartisianism of the Townley brand is simply State Socialism, ent. This in itself adds to the cost wheih is also increased by extra and1 neither do they realize that Socialism is not Americanism. labor and handling. An estimate of 25 per cent over concrete is Furniture? The Bolshevists of Russia are Socialists, and there are those moderate. who are striving to overthrow the American constitution and set Concrete is now universally recognized as not alone the cheapest, up a Soviet form of government here in the United States. but the best road paving material. It is one-course paving, If the Socialists, I. W. W. and Nonpartisian League leaders whereas bitulithic is two-course—the wearing surface being placed You may say it's mighty little when you purchase it, but cheap furniture succeed in their designs, they will overthrow the Constitution and soon outlives its usefulness. It isn't the original expenditure upon the concrete base. An all-concrete paving is a rich mixture that determines the worth of good furniture, but the amount of force the Soviet upon us. Under the Soviet government, every man it has one part of cement to 1 1-2 plus 3 of the aggregate, or 1 to happiness and comfort you derive from the number of dollars you who owns even as much as one horse, or a house, is considered a 4 1-2. For a concrete base this proportion would be about one spend. That is why you cannot afford to overlook the offerings capitalist, and has no voice in 'the government. to eight and the sustaining power would be by so much less and presented in this store. The Sovi'et confiscates all privately owned property. If these the sustaining power would be by so much less and) the mixture BED BARGAINS Socialists, I. W. W.'s and Nonpartisiam leaders have their way, Sv much more porous. then every farmer who owns his own farm will have it taken from Concrete paving has both a better driving and a better wearing Handsome 2-inch post steel tubing Vernis Martin bed, heavy fillers, his possession eventually. Think it over Mr. Farmer! Do you an amazing value for this week only $9.75. surface. The proof of the pudding is the eating. Duluth has prefer the Sovi'et to the) American constitu'tion Do you prefer t.:ore than a continuous mile of bitulithic paving just completed RUGS benighted Russia to a free and (enlightened America—Fairmont Sen or East First street. It is percepitably wavy, so much so as to tinel. be almost unpleasant. Compare this with any of the concrete pav.g, Recently we received a large assortment of rugs in Wilton Velvets, i- such as Woodland avenue, Vermilion or the longer stretch in Axminister and' Tapestry in all sizes. The rug market is in a serious LABOR AND ITS BARGAINS condition, the manufacturers are not able to deliver one half the west part of the city. of the business that is offered. This coming season promises to be The concrete surface also gives a better grip to the tires. No even worse, the prices will be much higher and selection not so The right of labor to organize in order to settle wages and conditions matter how wet, it nevier is in the least slipper and a car never good. We offer the best quality Axminister rugs .in a good line of of work by means of collective bargaining, is generally recognized. skids on concrete. In wearng quality the concrete will equal or patterns at prices within the reach of every one. The Industrial Conference at Washington should ass'ent exceed any asphaltic paving. BATHROOM RUGS 36x72 SPECIALLY PRICED to the request of the labor contingent that the principle of collective But what the bitulithic people will claim is that their material For this week only $1.95. bargaining £e approved as a step, even if it is not final. much easier and less expensive to patch that in fact, when it Heaters that Are Priced Right But there are practical difficulties conncted^ with the application wears under heavy traffic, concrete cannot be patched or resurfaced, of the principle which labor itself should find m'eans of removing. while their material can be skinned off and replaced. No. 11 Oak Heaters, this week only $5.95, A bargains good only when both parties to it are1 bound by There was a time when they could' put his across, but not nou. No. 13 Oak Heaters, this week only $7.95 its terms, and can be depended upon to carry them out. The great Ways have been found to resurface concrete with concrete. Even difficulty with collective bargains is that, as things are at present, if this was not so, the 25 per cent excess cost of bitulithic put at they bind only the employer side. The labor side is under no compulsion Double boiler aluminum kettles, this interest would equal the cost of complete replacement before concrete save that of honor to keep its word. Trade unions are not paving on thhe Miller Trunk will show ruts. week only, specially priced, value $2.75 incorporated and cannot be sued to enforce contracts. Their individual It will be claimed, too, that concrete cracks. It does. So does $1.39 members are under no legal compulsion to keep the bar any paving. Bitulithic merely does not show cracks plainly, and g'anis madel for them by their representatives. if there be enough hot days may close and rebind. But this is It is true that in the Danbury Hatters' case, the individual members certain: However much a concrete road may crack, the concrete of the union were held responsible-for the damagethey had done base under the bitulithic surface and so concealed, will crack far to the complaining hat-making concerns by mejans of a boycott liiore and far more badly, for it is a weaker, more porous texture. tut if it had been a qustion of compelling the hatters to work foi Cracks in concrete where you can get at them are easily repaired. agreed upon wages, the decison would have been different, They are but like cracks in rock. But cracks in a concrete base cannot be repaired. They open the way for under penetration We are agents for the Sonora and 'Some of the trade, unions have built up and jealously maintain Vitanola talking machines. You will of moisture and are apt to disintegrate the weaker mix. a reputation for keeping their contracts. But even these have also find a complete line of Singer tound great difficulty of late in forcing their members and loca In fact, there is not one single argument in favor of bituithic sewing machines. All these articles unions to stand by their bargains. that is not a much stronger argument for concrete, while it admittedly can be purchased on our easy payment plan. We will be pleased to costs 25 per cent more. In simple arithmetic this means that, The spirit of individualism is in the alir. It' hlas strdngly affected show you the very latest in home if St. Louis county with the funds available' can pave 200 miles oi organized labor. Strikes by the rank and file in violation O' furnishings. broadway with bitulithic, it can pave 250 miles with concrete with agreements and in open rebellion against the leadjers are common the same money and have better paving, stronger in sustaining In New York the longshoremen have now tied up shipping by such COME IN WHILE OUR STOCK IS MOST COMPLETE strength, more lasting in wearing surface, with a better driving a strike, and turn a deiaf e!ar to the pleading of their officers to carry out their agreements. In the same city hundreds of perodicals surface, and as easily repaired? SHAPIR A'S, Complete Home Outfitters have had to suspend publication because the printing trade is para1) The county commissioners have no need to hurry letting these zed by a dispute between the local unions and their international contracts. No work can be done before spring and clearly they will One block from the Main street. organizations. The charters of the local unions have been forfeited not stand approved or excusd, if they use any material more xpensive Opposite Paper Mill Office. blecausie! of their radicalism and failure to keep contracts, and Phone 212 than concrete on which a score or more local 'contractors can the internationals are trying to organize new locals. Meanwhile bid, while few have the outfit or the experience needed to lay bituit CASH IF YOU HAVE IT. CREDIT IF YOU NEED IT. .the, periodicals can't get their issues printed. 0 a a a $ .•*. x,3sifc£r: A. Irn 2