The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 20, 1919, Page 4

alana aca a PAGE 4 THF BISMARCK TRIBUNE D., as Second Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. Class Matte. GEORGE D. MANN - - *- -___Editor G, LOGAN PAYN Tras, NE’ eK Hifth Marquette Kresege ine. 1. .3 BOSTO uag., MINNA zs “MBER OF itled to the use t or not otherwise Tor pus news published pedis. in this paper and wise herein. Mt Meas of publication « dispatches herein are U OF CIRCULATION AYABLE IN ADVANCE +o $7.20 ON RAT py per years... | per year (In Bism: | per year (In state outside o! | outside of North Dakota .. GHE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER. (Established 1873) GOES AROUND A CIRCLE Theo. Price, the business expert of that most valuable publication, Commerce and Finance, notes the satisfactory condition of most retail busi- nesses, the resuscitation of the automobile busi- negg, increase in building enterprises and concludes that “there is a reasonable basis for the expecta- tion that the year 1919 will be one of excepticna! prosperity in the United States.” “Back of it all,” he adds, “is the increasing velocity with which money is circulating.” Undoubtedly, prosperity depends in the highest degree upon the rapid and general circulation of money. High wages and the collection and expen- diture by the government of big tax monies must certainly increase the “velocity” still further. In other words, the taking of money from the com- parative few who have lots of it and handing it over, in the shape of wages, to the millions who have compartively little of it spells prosperity. Maybe it sounds a bit “radical” but how do you get around the proposition? 0 A NEW KIND OF A STRIKE Imagine a woman telephoning a doctor, “My baby is sick; I don’t know what’s the matter; come right away.” And the doctor answe: I am sorry, madam, but the bourgeois council is on strike today and the rules of our union are that | cannot come. You must tend to your baby your- self.” Or imagine a man celling up a lawyer and say- ing, “They are going to foreclose the mortgage on| my house today unless some lawyer helps me.”) And the lawyer answers, “I’m sorry, but the bour- geois council is on strike today and the rules of the union’are that I cannot come. You must tend to your mortgage yourself.” This is what is happening in German cities where bourgeois councils of doctors, lawyers, preachers, engineers and bookkeepers have organ- ized unicns to combat the workmen-soldier councils that have declared so many strikes recently. Of a certainty this is what happens if the professional classes,actually carry out their declared purpose to counterstrike the strikes of labor. SACRED COWS Is a cow sacred? Is it wrong to kill a cow? These questions look silly to us, here in this country. In a libel suit now on in London, it is brought out, however, that millions of human beings look on the cow as sacred. Bal Tilak, a Brahmin, is suing for libel. He charges Sir V. Chirol in a book called ‘“Indiar Unrest” did him wrong. Tilak, it seems, started an Anti-Cow Killing society in India, to protect the life of cows, and teach that it is wrong to kill cov The book libelled him, he charges, because it insinuated the Anti-Cow Killing society was carrying on a propa- ganda against Hindoos and Mohammedans. Bal Tilak testified it is a solemn tradition among millions of Hindocs that the cow is an ani- mal of holiness and it is a violation of religion to put a cow to death. So it goes. Half the world does not know how the other half lives. How far would one of these Hindoos get if he went to a big stockyard in an American city and preached, “The cow is a blessed and superior crea- ture. Live on rice. Let beefsteak alone. Be kind tothe cow. Do not kill it.” NEW SPRING HAT THAT MOTHER DOESN'T GET What a fuss and a flutter and a chatter and a/ clatter there is when mother prepares to buy her new spring hat! What a lot of talk with sister as }' WHOEVER HEARD OF BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE 9 THURSDAY,’ MARCH? 20721919 EAP ESTE erally lasts about a week. From day to day EE taste wavers from a blue-sailor to an old pote | bonnet and back to a wide brim, etc. But suddenly there comes a surprising silence. Finally she goes to father and says: “I’m not going to get a new hat this year. I'm} going to make over my old one—it’s plenty good | enough. And I’m going to use the money to get something for the children!” And father smiles a little cynically—he’s been ‘through this same thing year after year, you |know—and then he pats mother affectionately on |the shoulder and says: “What—AGAIN, my ‘dear ” A FISH SITTING; DOWN? * | We know 4 man who says it’s unnatural to sit ;down, It seems—he says—we’ve passed through sev-} eral forms of life, stages of existence... For argu- ment’s sake he started with the crustacean period. So our mind might grasp better, he declared we! were once fsihes. That we granted, for some of us are yet known as sharks, eels, crabs and—beg pardon—skates. We bade him continue—so far we still had our head above water. Then he shot over the deathblow—“whoever heard of a fish sitting down?” Next, we were reptiles Again the knockout—“can you imagine a snake seated?” The gentleman now has us befoozled, and at his mercy. He said elephants only sat in circuses, that monkeys never had till they aped their older brother, man! Then he commenced to pitch wild. He said we were at one time trees. We held that it was duobt- less because we'd stood all the way down the eras that the relaxation of sitting was discovered to us in this life. od He still stood stoutly by his theéry—the pas proved it unnatural that we sit down. P. S.—Haven’t you often wondered why the street car company provided straps rather than seats for most of its riders? it be a gentleman. Hoover to earn izing? * ays he must quit next summer in order When we beat our swords into plowshares, | why not beat our professional loafers into plow-| hands? A mere man can’t see much difference between | this new Victory red the ladies are wearing and the; strike of New % | old-fashioned barn red. When the Hun chose Belgium as a gateway to] this vr France, he didn’t know it was a toll gate with a| w seven-billion-dollar fee. : Another fine thing about peace is that we will be able to read a newspaper without the aid of | an encyclopedia and an atlas. The more we hear about the baron, the more| our conviction grows that Japan is Makino mistake by keeping him at the conference. i | At thought of the Hun starving, our hearts! grow soft; and we hasten to feed him, that he may live to pay what he owes us. H | We can understand why China/sent Mr. Koo to 4 peace conference, but we can’t understand why |he dis¢losed the Wellington part of his name. } Woodrow says that men advocate sinking the | German ships because they don’t know what else| jto do. Men advocate the league plan for the same reason, i | | The gratifying thing about these wholesale arrests of alleged Bolsheviki is that nearly all of| ithe men arrested prove to be scum from the other | side of the water. i Of course we are all for abolishing this might- jis-right theory, but you have noticed that more |and more people are being converted to the theory | | that the way to get what you want is to raise a| | rough-house about it. | finally jless the government or to what’s what this year; what a lot of running) —_——______, downstairs to look into store windows and what al ' WITH THE rustle of papers as the very latest styles are looked |___WITH THE EDITORS o SaTTERT ele — GETTING INTO ACT MILLS SCHEME DEFEATED BY NEW Avot al eisiaton aks oa nation is tat LEALAND FARMERS; TOWNLEY’S MAN EXPOSED AS ENEMY OF UNIONISM a living. Why not stay on and try Hoover-| «1 i¢tle Dwarf of Democracy” Failed to Put Up Much Vaunted Theories in Antipodes—Hired at So Much a Head to Make Socialists—Repudiated and Discredited Where He Is Best Known. (By Josiah Fenton in St. Pioneer Press) In the winter “of 1913 the great aland took place, in which some 809° were involved. The strike lasted for weeks, and was broken by the Farmers’ union | ‘a played a prominent part in} at contest, first, hecause it} American who inelped to or- | e the forces which made the| sible, and second, it: was } made axe handles — that Am ican w used as the weapons that broke the backbone of the strike. i The industries. of the country had been paralyzed for weeks, and as the strike continued to spread until thé sympathetic strike was called in Syd ney, Australia, more than 1,200 mil across the sea from the seat of trou ble. i Jt looked like all of Australia was | to become involved in the trouble un- | some other force in New Zealand could settle up the trouble | Seemed Powerless. But the government of New Zea-| land seemed powerless to effect and kind of a settlement, or even a,com- promise. The strikers had complete control-of all the industries by rea- son of their control of commerce, which they effectively tied up. The wharves at all the ports were in the absolute control of this I, W. W. ele ment, which Walter Thomas Mills had helped to organize, The harbors were full of vessles waiting to load or discharge cargoes. The rioting strikers domincered the situation for many wee At last the farmers realized that unless something was done they would be ruined. In fact they had al- ready sustained very heavy losses by the tying up of steamship trafic. The | farmers had a union well organized | and very ‘powerful when solidified and determined to act as one man. Convention Called. Then the farmers secretly perfect: | ed to act, and they acted very prompt- ly and vigorously, $n the first place their officials communicated with the government authorities to ascertain if the government would ppt them as a volunteer police force for duty upon the wharves and also upon the | atre seaport cities. The gov- ern pied the offer at once. Then the tlyy perfect- ed thelr rural constabulary without Paul . ;arms.. One. farmer suggested that an ; American ax handle would just about ——_—_—_Y up! Father looks on with a sort of a cynical grin. He’s been all through this before—year after year —until it’s become as old to him as the story his partner tells new customers about the Irishman who died and went to heaven and met various other nationalities there. But father, like the good scout he is, digs deep into his jeans and comes across with a good sized bill. It means fewer cigars for dad—especially since the new tax has shot the prices up—but he never kicks about that. He simply pats mother on the shoulder and says: “Get.a real nice, pretty hat this year.” And mother smiles a “Yes” and carefully’tucls the money, away in her time-worn pocketbook as she and sister fall to in another discussionof ‘rib- eae and abe ee technical matters that make mere males cou; and reach for a newspaper in winch to bury their ignoratice, “a oil over mother’s new spring hat gen- Wek | SHOULD LEARN ENGEISH | The almost unanimous vote of the Missouri | | house in favor of the engrossment of the bill mak-| ing it unlawful to teach any other language than| English in the elementary schools of this state, | public, private or parochial, indicates its final pas- sage. Like action may be expected from the state! senate. It would be well for Americans if more | of our citizens understood fareign languages, and| opportunity for their study should be afforded in the high schools and the institutions of higher learning. But elementary instruction should be confined to English. It’is irrelevant to point to the magnificent manner in which citizens who did not understand English rallied to the support of | the nation in war, In'this respect the melting pot was a success. But we have many peace duties which can be performed properly only by citizens who can and do use our common language as only t ‘who have had it drilled into them in the plastic days of childhood,—Wilton News, # lthe first inkling to the ears of the union labor leaders, Farmers Take Charge The first knowledge taat the Unit- ed Sabor union leaders had of this} farmers’ mnovementewas when they awoke one mornipg and found the wharves and leading business streets | of Wellington, Auckland, Lyttleton | and other port towns, swarming with the farmer constabulary, In all there were more than 10,000 farmers armed and pertarming active duty when the J, W, Wit went to} breakfast that morming. And almost every farmer was armed with an American ax sandle It had heen yoted not 10 use fire OTHERS Tues ie on always fit the situation, and his suggestion took like fire. The stores were clean- ed out of ax handles in no time. The sudden. appearance of 10,090 sturdy men, part of them niounted, | and all armed with agood strong ax handle had an immediate. soothing ef. fect upon the wild enthusiasm of the strike leaders. Many Went to Work. Many of the farmers’ went to work at once while. others did patro) duty The ships were loaded und others unloaded. In ten hours the strike was completely broken, so far as the hipping business was concerned. During the afternoon. the strikers ought to play their I. W. W\. tactics upon the farmers, and here where the American ax handles me in mighty handy. An ax handle in the hands of a powerful farmer who is used to handling such a weapon prov- eo most effective against an 1. W. W. head and the ax handle won. In the hands of the men who knew how: to wield them they drove terror into the hearts ofthe I. W.,W.. ‘terrorists. Within forty-eignt ‘aours business on the streets had resumed its normal way. Many of the strikers when they saw that the farmers meant business EVERETT TRUE - MATTER HERE ? ION eee] —— : ON YOUR. WAY, BUMS \ went to work under the direction of the farmers’ union officials. Some of them quit the United La- bor party (the I. Wi Wl) unions and formed new unions organized under the laws of the country. Suffered Big Loss. The estimated losses of this great strike were $5,000,000. The New Zea- land government appropriated $500,- 000 to meet the expenses of this trou- ble; so, Walter Thomas Mills proved pretty expensive to New: Zealand as he is and will’ be to the farmers of Nortn.Dakota. e This was the first real syndicalist strike that New Zealand had ever had, and New Zedland had been known far and wide as “a country without 'strikes.” It was-an Ly W. WY strike pure and simple and the 1...W. s h this great syndica were the activitles of one Walter Thomas Mills who had come to Australia from Milwaukee. He was known in Australia as+Pro! Mills, but<he sai@ himself that title was merely “honorary.” » Had Been Lecturing. He had heen delivering lectures in stralia on socialism for which he is reported to have (received large financial rewards. «He ‘had? by his speeches attracted the attention of Edgar Tregear of Willington, New Zealand, who was at the time promi- nently connected with the government labor/ bureau and wio is said to pe the author of most of the radical leg islation. Now Mr. Tregear believed the time had come to build a more radical so- cialist labor party in New Zealand, so he invited Walter Thomas Mills to come and help him. It was these two men who had drafted the constitution and by-laws of the United Labor Par- ty some two or three years before this, great strike. The new party had a most rapid growth. It was intended to supplant the old craft unions just as the I. W. W. in this country was or- ganized to do. The new party succeed- ed in gaining 30,000 members out of, BY CONDO WHAT'S THe [7( THIS JANITOR REFUSES To CLEAN MY SPITTOON! fe tae: -; Manasquan, N. J. some 70,000 that, had formerly be longed to the Federation of Labor, of New eZaland. ; What Led Up to Strike. About sixteen months before the ; great strike a miner at Huntly was | accidentally: killed and the miners be- longing to the union took a ‘day off jfo attend the funeral of their com- | rade, The mining company dis- charged the executive members of the union for stopping work for the tu- nereal, claiming that this was break- ing an agreement with the company. Ther of the miners went on strike at once. Their places. were filled by’ | other men, who proceeded to organize a new union and. become registered under the Jaw of New Zealand, which ; comes under the general arbitration act. Then the Federation of Labor took a hand and ordered their striking members 16 return to work and to join the new union. They did so, and soon obtained control of this. new union. " When, the mining company: discov- ered that the same old element that had made trouble for them . in the first place were again in control of union affairs they again discharged the executive board, which was com- posed of, sixteen members. But the company gave the excuse for this discharge that they wanted to reduce the force of meh working in the mine. Took of New Men, Rut the ‘next day the company took on fourteen new men. The Federa- tion' of Labor then demanded that the discharged miners be reinstated. The company refused and a strike was called on {he ground of vistimization, a term used in Englan: as well as in all’ the Australian’ and New Zealand States. Hi In* the meantime the dispute be- tween the old Federation of Labor and the new syndicalist union of the United Labor -party, which Mr. Mills had helped to organize, was growing more and more bitter. The federa- tion, called a conference, which was Keld in, Wellington, N. 2, in January, 11913, for the purpose of considering the dispute which, existed and: which | Was becoming more hitter each day | between the two unions, and to find out if there’ was not some ground upon which, these differences could be ironed out and a consolidation ef- fected. Both Men Invited. ‘Messrs, Mills and Tregear were both invited to address the confer- ference, which they did. and after- ward both were appointed as members of a committee to draft constitutions | for the two new unions, one to be po- litical and the other industrial, but both affiliated and working together. Tiis draft was to be submitted to a general conference to be held in July following. When the conference met. it organized what. is known, all over ; New Zealand and Australia, too, as the “Red-Feds,” ar the United Fed- ration. of Labor and the Social.Dem- ic party. Foth the political and industrial {unions were largely dominated by the I. W. W., who had come to New Zea- landyitom’ Australia for the very pur- pos making propaganda for th i alist’ ideals as preaché#-by Walter Thomas Mills in Australia. Mr. Mills ‘was clected a general organizer for the Social Dem ocratic party, dine the® following, election. this, party Won. six seats in the New.Zealand parliament, and in the election for two:seats following the great strike they won hoth. Refused to Join, A-small part of the former United Labor ‘party refused to join the “Red- Feds,” and still: maintain ‘an organiza- tion somewhat like the old Socialist Labor party of this country. It was, therefore, this “Red-Feds” that was really responsible for tho strike. Its purpose was to capture the country, throug’. a violent upheay- al and establish. the dictatorship of the world. The direct cause of the great strike, however, was the discharge of thirty shipwrights at Wellington. The aqr- ganized “Red-Feds” were looking for an excuse to start the big strike, when it was discovered tat these thirty shipwrights had been pair for walk- ing to and from their work for a number of years, which amounted to $1.25 a week. With this discovery copie -the, docking of. the $1.25 per week.’ ‘The nien’ took an hour off to consider a strike.’ They voted, how- ever, not to strike, and returned to the shéps,. were “they. found that their places had been filled. | This was the spark that ignited the great strike—which | lasted | for several months until the organized farmers came to the rescue with their Ameri- can ax handles, War Quickly Over. But the war was quickly over when the farmers took a hand Mills and Tregear were completely defzated; not only was the strike lost without a single concession given to the strik- ers, but the farnters’ and the employ- ers, acting together, secured ‘the en- actment of a law which prohibits a strike being called in the future with- out a conference being held between the dissatisfied workers and their em- ployers. And it also prouibits a strike being declared except by secret bal- i lot of the~members of the union. the leaders were arrested and served jail sentences. for using language in public ‘addresses that was treasonable and that tended to cause violewce on the part of their followers... —“ Walter Thomas Mills failed to make a howling success of. his effort to eStablish Bolshevism in New Zealand. He appears to be having, more. suc- cess in North Dakota: + | Cured His RUPTURE I was badly ruptured while lifting a trunk ‘several years ago.. Doctors said my only hope of cure’ Was an operation. Trusses did me no good. finally I got hold of something that quickly and completely’ cured me. Years have passed and the rupture has never returned, although I am doing hard work as a carpenter. There was no operation, no lost time, no trouble. { have nothing to sell, but will give full information about how you may find a complete cure without operation’ i€¥ou ‘write to me;Eugene M. Pulleh, Carpenter, 231E. Marcellus Avenue, Better gut out this notice and show it to any others who 4] are! ruptured—you may save a life or Eleast stop the misery of rupture and u ce worry and danger of ap ‘opera- During the great strike several-of | ‘ t , oe aed , ‘ i