The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 16, 1919, Page 8

OLD TIMER TELLS OF DAY WHEN THE ’ FARMERS GROPED Traces Difficulties Attending the Early Efforts to Organ- ize Tillers K. P. Levang, a pioneer of Walsh county, for eight years a mel the North Dakota legislative em- bly and father of Christ Levang, the present senator from the Walsh county ; district which his father represented a generation ago, addressed the open | league caucus last telling: of | some of the carly strug! sof the} farmers of the middle west in an ef-) | fort to organize. He talked of the old} Farmers’ alliance days in Iowa, und | of the obstacles which the organiza- tion had to overcome, and he told of! the time of Populisin i bh Da . at which time the s er Was, member, of the Populist minority the le; ture, nator Levang said he could not. stir up in his heart much sympathy for the present minority when he re-{ called the treatment which he and his; associates of the minority received) power to fix rates. from the majority in the good old After coming to New He denounced partisanship in| fortunate enough to pi leclaring that it; number of interesting common thing in the olde s;One of the arguments in laughter a perfectly good 1 court of the United Sta because fits author chanced to ajin which the inte’ democrat. |commisison attempte Harriman and cert: ers answer questions with railroad management. T_ was active in the lit: 1907, which was widely di the time, between the panies and the state of a relative ‘d passenger rates. W' ps sed the act prohibiting railroad companies from Paris, France.—Lieutenant-Colonel | ‘Tnsporting coal of other commodi- de Thomasson, the military critic of ties mined or owned by themselves the “Petit Journal,” has published a (the statute known is the commodity report compiled from casualty lists| Clause) I made one of the arguments which places total German losses at|in the supreme court of the United €,066,000. men. Of this number 1,611,-|States on behalf of the railroads. 000 were killed, 3,683,000 were wound-| I devoted nearly two years to gen- ed and 772,000 were missing. The/|¢ra! inquiry by the interstate com- Prussian losses were 1,260,000 killed,|™merce commission into the rates and 2,880,000 wounded and 620,000 miss-| Practices of the express companies, ing. wherein I represented the Adams, The missing include prisoners American, Southern, United States and which are estimated at 590.000, while| Wells Fargo companies. 180,000 reported missing have prob-| Helped Railroads Fight ably been killed. The Adamson Law. ‘Losses among officers have been| 1 devoted over two years to the gen- equally heavy, 45,000 have been kill-|€F@l inquiry conducted by the inter- ed, 82,000 wounded and 83,000 miss- ing. Finally Lieutenant-Colonel de Thom- asson estimates that 27 per cent of the casualties are fatal, whereas in the war of 1870-71 the killed were: 22 per cent. During the first. three months of the present.war the per- centage of deaths was 15. BRITISH LORD LABOR PLEADER Higher Wages Shorter Hours Insisted on. " York Twas} HUN CASUALTIES NUMBER 6,066,000 Total Deaths Are Estimated at 1,611,000 th Caro-} - E. A. Special to The Tribune, N. E. A. Special to The Tribune, London, England. “ Higher wages. Shorter hours. Greater: production. , ,These must come, says Lord Lever- huime. “Attempt to reduce wages with the ‘ddea ‘of bringing back pre-war cost of living is ‘a fallacy,” he declares. ‘© *Seience has placed at our dispo: ‘the ‘means of unlimited producti If we disabuse our minds of the fear of over-production, we can not only increase wages but reduce the hours of labor. “It weuld be fallacy to talk of re duction of hours of lavor if it meant the cost of the product was advanced in proportion to the reduction of the cost of labor. We know good tools and other hardware goods. our store for instant delivery. lowed by higher wages.” Uncle Sam’s Railroad . Boss Writes Story of Life for Daily Tribune (Continued From Page One.) & Nashville, atten: egulating from us. 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