The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 5, 1922, Page 3

“CHECK-OFF” NO CREATION OF THE UNION It Was Founded Years Ago By Operators—and Is Still Practiced By Them ORIGIN. OF. IT UNKNOWN Indianapolis, Ind., April 5.—(By the Associated Press) —One of the pe- culiar practices of the sq‘t coal in- dustry is the “check off” system, a collecting agency for union dues. To a large extent, it.is the financial back- bone of the United Mine Workers of America. The operators also use ¢t for collecting money due them from their workmen. 2 . In brief, the “check off” results in a part @f a miner’s wages being with- held: for a specified payment — his dues,~in case of the union—and vari- ous expenditures, made in his behalf by his employer, in case of the ope- rator. 2 The’ origin‘of the ‘“‘check off” is un- known, Some. operators: have de- clared that any settlement must pro- vide for its discard, and the union a few months ago threatened a nation- wide strike in its defense. However, it has been a recognized. method ot collecting union dues for 25 years, and practiced -longer than that time -by the operators for their own benefit. The federal circuit court of appeals at Chicago recently ruled that as ‘ar as‘ existing contrdcts disclose “th> check-off is the voluntary assignment by the employe of so much of his “wages as may be necessary to meet his union dues and his direction to his employer to pay the amount. to the treasurer of his union; in that respect the contract provision is legal, ‘and quite evidently there are many lawful purposes for which dues may be used.” Attacks Union’s Side of It An attack on the “check-off’—the union’s part of it—is made in an in- dictment, pending in the court here, charging operators and miners in the Central Competitive field with con- spiracy to violate the Sherman anti- trust law. Incidental to the main charge that the operators and miners combined to control production and prices, the indictment referred to the “check-off” as indicating a close rela- tion between the two, and declaring the purpose as “well known and un- derstood,” was to provide funds for the union’s alleged efforts to stop coal production at non-union mfines. Ac- tion in the case has been at a stand- still for months. Opponents of the “check-off” also assert that it is re- flected in the price of coal. ‘ In defense of the “check-off,” union officials interpret it as a “convenient method, mutually agreed upon be- tween employer and employe, for col- lecting dues,” President John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers of America, adds that opponents “set up the ‘check-off’ as a straw man for the basis of other propaganda.” “The ‘cheek-off’ is not the creation of the union,” says Mr! Lewis. “It was founded years ago by the’ opera- tors, and is still practiced by them. Company rent, supplies, tools and a long, long list of charges—some al- most unique—are found in the opera- tors’ ‘check-off,’ and’ down at the end of the list appears thi# monthly item: ‘United Mine Workers of America dues, 75 cents. “The importance to the union of the ‘check-off’ is convenience.” Wanted Dues Checked Off Too Where the “check-off” for the union first started is ndt known. The ope- rators, it seems, practiced it for them- selves, and when they got to bargain- ing with the union, tradition is that the miners said, “‘now you have checked off everything else, just check off our dues.” Before this, the tradition is that the local unions had committees to stand at the mouth of the mine on the day when dues were to be paid, and if a miner refused payment, the committee sent him home, This practice, it is said, often interfered “with mine ope- rations by reducing the needed labor supply, and increased the willingness of operators to adopt the “check-off” for the union. The “check-off” became a part of the interstate wage agreement made for the Central Competitive field in 1898, and not only has been renewed by subsequent agreements but also has been pushed into other fields until now two-thirds of the half million union miners settle dues by the “check off.” _However, the “check-off” is not universal throughout the coal in- dustry. It is not used in the partly unionized soft coal fields, and also is missing in the Pennsylvania anthra- cite fields, St. Peter’s Mayor, A Woman—To Run For Congress ‘St. Peter, Minn, April 5—Mrs. A. 6. Gault, mayor of St. Peter and Minne- sota's first woman aspirant for elec- tion to congress, wants to “prove that women can find time te attend. tof other things without neglecting their | home.” J These “other things” in her case in- clude active participation in matters political, an hereditary trait, perhaps. for her sister, Mrs. Irene G. Buell, city / Prosecutor of Ashland, \Neb., seeks te represent the Fourth Nebraska district in congress. ‘When Mrs. Gault announced her de- termination to seek the democratic nomination for congress from the third Minnesota district, she acted in re- sponse to insistent urgings of her friends, including many women, that she try for some important p@litical Just a year ago she was elected mayor of St. Peter on a reform ticket, defeating strong opposition. ‘She stop- ped the “shimmy” and took other questionable motions out: of public dances; then she licensed soft drink establishments and caused removals uf screens from their windows. “Equal opportunity for all and the same laws for rich and poor alike”— that is her simple platform in her'con-; test for congress, If she survives thel June primary, her opponent will be the Republican choice of that election, , Charles R, Davis, Republican, has rep- resented the district since 1903. Mrs. Gault has found time from her | household duties—for she does her own home work—to figure prominent. ly in all forms. of women’s activities during the past quarter of a century, ‘She belongs to many patriotic organ- izations—her ancestors fought in the French and Indian war, in the Revolu- tion, the Civil wars, and her own son Was an officer in the American Ex- peditionary Force in France, where he was wounded, : bs ‘Her maternal ancestry includes Grover Cleveland, ‘and on her‘paternal side she is related to James IM. Cox, democratic nominee for president two} years ago, Her father was the late Judge BE. St. Julien Cox, one of-the leaders of the Democratic party in Minnesota for years, ~ Mrs, Gault. taught school in this county and in South Dakota before her marriage to Andrew Kelsey Gault, a civil engiheer. He died two years ago. One son, Hubert, aged 28, is a student in an’ eastern engineering school, and her other son, Norman, 30, is an attorney of Omaha, Neb, Mrs. Gault resided with her family in Omaha for several years, and there was prominent in club activities, church and charitable. work. She served as state’ secretary of the D. A. R, in Nebraska and from 1910 to 1914 was vice president general for Nebra- sha. , | During the- fight ‘between Mrs. Mathew T. Scott and Mrs: W. C. Storey for the national presidency of the D, A. R.y Mrs. Gault presided at one of the national sessions at Conti- nental hall, Washington, and at that time Associate Justice Lamar of the United States supreme court remarked that she was “a better presiding offi- cer than either Joe Cannon or Champ Clark.” TAXPAYERS OF McLEAN COUNTY WILL GATHER Underwood, N, D., April 5.—A score of McLean county farmers have called a taxpayers meeting to be held April 7 by the following announcement, “We Republicans of McLean county, believe that the best interests of the party~ead of the citizens and taxpay- ers of this county require a mass meeting in the near future, at some convenient place, where matters of general political interest may be dis- cussed and plans laid. for, conducting a campaign for economy in public of- fice, reduced taxation, and. for or against such measures as are or may be proposed by initiated laws. “Therefore we are taking this op portunity to call such a mass meeting to be held at Underwood, 'N. D., the same to convene at 1 o’clock P. M. of the 7th day of April, 1922. “Such matters as road expense, in- crease of commissioners’ districts, in creased; jurisdiction of \county court and many other questions of interest will be considered for the purpose of co-operating in the general demand for reduced taxation.” $2,000,000 Paid U.S. Treasury In Oil Royalties Washington, April 5.—Nearly nine million barrels of oil were produced on government-owned lands in 1921, resulting in more than $2,000,000 >e- ing paid into the United States Treas- ury as royaltfes, according to the an- nual report of A. W. Ambrose, chief petroleum technologist of the Bureau of Mines. . The government receives royalties on-all petroleum and natural gas ahd their products sold from government lands. The minimum oil royalty rate of 5 per cent is that for -land leased as a reward for discovery. Most of the leases have been awarded, it was said, under a sliding scale of royalties ranging from 12 1-2 to 16 2-3 | per cent. The rate on casing head gasoline is 16 2-2 per cent of the value of the gasoline extracted from the gas produced and‘ sold. More than 6,000 permits for pros- pecting for oil and gas have been is- sued by the General Land Officer, the report stated, while 267 leases were said to have been granted for pro-|_ ducing oil and gas properties. Most of,the oil produced on government lands is credited to Wyoming, ‘Califor- nia, Montana and Louisiana, Natural gas comes from Wyoming and Cali- fornia and casinghead gasoline from Wyoming and California. “Pikers” Again Getting Ready For Baseball Season St. Louis, Mo. April 5.—Baseball training is in full swing at Washing- ton university and a large squad is working out under Coach Davis, who has a quantity of excellent material. Coach Davis is working strenuously with his pitchers to get them in shape for the opening of the Missouri Val- ley Conference schedule in April. In the two years since the resump- tion ‘of ‘baseball activities by the Pik- ers the team has won the Valley champignship ence and finished just behind the leaders the second time. HOME BUILDERS CASES COMBINED A stipulation has been filed in Bur- Jeigh county district court between the Attorney-General and a number of persons for whom houses were built by the state to submit the controversy over the proper payment for the hous- es in the two cases filed there, one against George E. Wallace, former tax commissioner, and the other against C. S. Fossum. The following Bismarck people are named in tle stipulation for which! William Langer is acting as attorney: Geo. E. Wallace, J. A. Graham, Rev. Oscar Jacobson, A. J. Arnot, Chas. B. Rosen, Dr. G. R. Lipp, C. M. Payne, Arnold Svendsgaard, F. C. Grady, A.! HOUSE FOR SALE—Nice new bun-: A. Jones, O. H. Lerum, 0. Lund- quist, C. S. Fossum, David J. Hall, A. L. Sanders, Wm: O. Folendort. ' The deposition of J. B. Adams, form- erly manager of the association, will ee in Seattle, Wash., Mr. Langer said. “ largest sized bears ~ Vd Eveni airy Tale SSS Z00 NEWS “We must get out another newspa- per,” sald one of the zoo animals, | - whose’ name was) Mr, Ostrich. “I re-} member there was a time when the different creatures each gave a piece of news and we called it-a news- paper. Let’s do that now. “To be sure we don’t have to write our news or ‘print our news, so it will be all right. “Now in the first place of all I will! say that I am dark in color. And I will say that “I Remember.” Mrs, Ostrich 1s dressing in gray this season as* in other seasons. “Those are fashion notes.” “I have a piece of news,” said Mr. Fallow Deer. 53. “We changed our brown and spotted coats for white ones this autumn, as we always like to get new suits in the fall. “That's a fashion note of great im- portance. “And I’dilike téadd another fashion note and say that we Mr. Fallow Deer shed our-horns each birthday. We can’t Keep the.same pair of horns forever. “I would lke to add also that many peopfe'came ,to the zoo to sée our fine ats, We were all born in the zoo, though our grandmothers and grandfathers were born in the moun- tains not so very, very far away from the zoo.” Bage: J ‘We pumped out our elephant house the other day,” said Mr. Elephant, “There was another leak from the| tank belonging to Mr. Hippopotamus and the water began to flood in here. So we’ pumped it out, taking it up through our trunks and then blowing it out again, “That is the most important plece of news that has happened in many a7 day. That ought to be the leading piece of news! “We can drink many gallons of wa- ter a day,” Mr. Elephant continued. “We can drink almost as much as Mr.! Came] can, x “But I can drink more than Mr. Ti- ger can. He can drink very little, and so perhaps this piece of news isn’t very important. But it is important to say that I can drink yery nearly as much as Mr. Camel can. “We are the only animals who can blow out water too when we want to pump it out for the keeper after an accident, as happened. “We pumped’ out five hundred gal- lons of water in fifteen minutes. Now that 1s smart,” said Mr. Elephant. “I hope.you will gave that a good place in your newspaper.” “I think {t deserves a good place,” said Mr. Ostrich. “You see we are each. going to Announce our own newsif we. have anything of impor- tance to announce. Then the really important bits of news will be told all over the z00 and out of it too.” “Good,” said Mr. Elephant. “Well, when my piece of news or bit of news, or whatever way you wish to have me| speak of my news goés about I wish you would be sure toyadd that I didn’t do all that pumping work by myself, but my elephant ‘brother and I did tt! together.” - “We'll remember that,” said Mr. Os- trich. “It seems an enormous amount of work for two of you to have done.” “It was quite a bit of work,” sald Mr. Elephant, “but we managed it quite quickly.” “I should say you did,” sald Mr, Camel. “The keeper was delighted. He sald you were his two wonderful and bright elephants.” “Good of him,” said Mr. Elephant as he smiled an’elephant smil “T’ll tell interesting bits of news,” said Ivan, the big Alaskan bear. “T am the largest bear in any z0o and I core from, the family: of the} anywhere — the bears of Alaska. “I eat twenty loaves of bread and ten pounds of beef for luncheon as a rule. I must eat a lot to keep up my strength, “But the most important piece of news I have to give is that the other day they { wanted to give me [| a big old tree and it took thirty men to drag it to my den. ~ “When they got it insid@ 1 took it right up with the greatest ease—this tree which it had taken thirty of them to move—and I} carried it about on my shoulders and; made them feel cheap all right, all | right! “And then my weight !s supposed to be over a thousand pounds. That is an interesting fact! “But most important of all is that “Twenty Loaves.” DOROTHY By NEA Service Dallas Tex., April 4.—It seems that Dorothy: Cannon, age 6, has the real smils that just won’t come off, iWay last June she was picked up for dead fr9m a live wire in a puddle of water. At a hospital: it was found that a slight spark of life still remained. Since then she has had 15 sleeps un- der ether, 45 skin grafting operations and has Ween in the hospital surgical ward] ever since. = And still the ray of sunshine spreads across her face. WALDRON WANTS BETTER WHEAT : : Believes He Has Found Combi nation Which Promises Well Fargo, N. D., April 5.—L. R. Wal- dron of the Agricultural College is working to develop a new and better variely of wheat than any yet pro- duced for growth in North Dakota. He believes that he has found a ‘combina- tion which promises well but’ it will take five years of detailed work and study to bring: it’ to the point where it will be ready for distribution among farmers, ‘ ‘He ranged from Russia’s wind swept plains to the sunbaked fields of India to get the combinations he want- ed. He is trying to incorporate qual- ities of both kinds of wheat so that North Dakota’s versatile climate may exhibit either its Russian of its In- dian side without cting the wheat. The new strain is a cross between Marquis. and Kota. The latter, itself a new strain is, oned one of the best by agricultural collegé men. The proportion of the Kota Marqui: wheat jg about three quarters Tt sian and one qu Indian. One of its parents—Mar is a mixture of Red Fife (Russian) and Hard Red Calcutta (India The other—Kota— is believed to be the cross between a The above picture . shows that one gailon of SWP house paint covers 360 square feet of sur- face, two coats. Ondinary paint covers from 200 to 250 square feet, That is the first saving. the zoo people say that I’m as strong and powerful as an animal could be. That is the most Important of all, | | | woof, woof, growl!” | | galow of five rooms and bath. Full basement.. This- is a real - home. $1100 cash. Balance easy terms. J.” H. Holihan, 314 Broadway. Phone 745. 4 WANTED—Delivery boy at Hoskins- | : a Meyer, 4-5-3t SWP, though heavy-bodied, flows easily and evenly, thus cutting down the time required to apply it. 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