The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 14, 1923, Page 2

uc: Yeod PAGE TWO Harness Vermont River To Supply Electricity Wilmington, Vt., July 14.— The Deerfield Valley between this town and the M chusetts state line is in process of transformation from a quiet, picturesque country with ene little village and several agri- cultural communities to a great artifi lake is reservoir of energy is destined to send power over elect transmission lines to milly and factories many miles distant in Massachusetts. On either side of the vall chains of high hills running alm perallel to the Deerfield Here and there the valley widens to include open fields, the hills together to but an ow oD for the river. At. Davis Bridge, whe he valley is being thrown ‘r present pl the valley will be flooded in 1924, Against the huge dam the river will send water from its sources in e Vermont mountains until it reaches a depth of 200 feet. The back up against the e little o i v | 3 Millers’ J and will avash back to the outskirts of Wilmington. The lake to be created will be ten niles tong and half a mile wide. | River. | THE LIST GROWS Sditor Tribune: | T had prorhikgd}—o Would you say hreatened—in this fourth article o deal with the reasons why the Business Men of Beulah should be n: favar of a Union Mine but I do rot feel. that the general situation 1as been sufficiently covered as yet © make a special treatment expe- lient, so will write one more letter mn the general aspects first. A raise in wages in any one local- ty or in any one trade or division of labor tends to raise wages in all other local and all other trades ind a betterment of working condi- sions in one place reacts toward a detterment all around. This is an ige of rapid travelling of news, of 1 cosmopolitan, residence changing population; any advance elsewhere s soon known to us and we strive ‘or the same advantages, usually with some degree of success. ‘One ‘aise or one betterment may be as 1 biicket of water in a lake—it may ake a great many to raise the gen- sralYevel perceptable but every itgle-helps. Labor Unions have forced higher wages: and better conditions time ind again and all working men overywhere are enjoying the results of their fights, they have promul- sated, sponsored and brought about he enactment of many good laws, s the various Workmens Com- x e reen placed on the Statute Books 2xept for organized labors efforts. White*serving as a necessary coun- erbalance to combines, seeping: our industrial life intact, our manual laborers prosperous and h&=-Corporations within reason they iave also filled the place of an In- justriat. Policeman protecting the sroperty interests of the very one vho is ever trying to quash them— he Capitalist. They are its guard wgainst Anarchy, its assurance of tontinued permenancy and_prosper- ty. In this day of wainst existing form of Govern- nent, of growing disrespect for. our aws and Legal Machinery, the HANA Miss Evelyn\Gordon, daughter of U. S. District Attorney and Mrs. Peyton Gordon of Washington, D. C added to the list 6f capital debuta union stands as a bulwark between the ty holding fic complaint : because advocate lawless element and the proper- n, I hold no speci- ninst the I. W. W’s. I do not know what they but it-appears, from the known facts, that they harbour many of Anarchistie leanings and countenance wful acts, this being the c ms that the Unions the Unions sore enemies, Members of the I. W. W’s. edn not ie admittance to the Union and Union Men are prohibited member- ship in any of these dual or, tions, of course some I. W. W' in but they ‘are weeded out where found. We do know that most of the agi- tators are W. W. men and that these are, urally, found in the Non-Union mines, these men know that to start an agitation, without just cause, in a Union Mine will probably result in the discovery of their affi ions and their ostrac- ism, further, they realize the futi- lity of starting anything without merit. In a non-union mine an agitator, or some temporarily sore-head can, and does about once a month, start a walk out of more or less magni- tude simply by lamming his dinner pail against the rib and taking off down the track cursing the owners, the managem@nt and the world in general. He always gets some fol- lowing, that is human (as well sheep} nature. Trouble is ever springing in the open shop mine, the unstable, unce n conditions calls there only the drifters among whom we find nearly all the real itators. The union man is, usually, a man] s of family, a faifly permanent fix- is the latest whose name has been es for the coming season. home of his own and securing one becomes that much more interested in law enforcement—that much bet- zen, He has a . part, so to a contract running over a period of time, guaranteeing favorable working conditions, and with some assurance. Unionism at- tracts to the locality the best class of mining ecitigen and the best grade of workmen, men who will spend their wages in support of families or invest it in property and patro- nize the local business men instead of being transiqnts or itinerant miners who work several Weeks then go to the Cities to squander their pay, perhaps leaving the “hick mer- chant” a sorry cxeditor. The uniop man has a real, live in- terest in the continuance and pros- perity of the mine, his home is in the financial shadow of the institu- tion, he is willing to listen to any bona fide plea of the operator for ‘uid in averting impending calimity, financial or otherwise, he feels rather as a sort of co-partner, Many, many operators who have had ex- perience under both systems prefer and fully endorse the union way be- cause of the added efficacy, morale, dependability etc. they can contract their output to consumers knowing. almost exactly what, the coal will cost them on board cars and that they will have such output and be enabled to fill their contracts. The union is, in legal contemp- lation, a person, capable of forming binding contracts and being sued and collected from for violation of their agreements, it is a very well to do person at tha’, having thou- ds upon thousands of dollars of j resources, perfectly substantial and responsible. Responsible in many one is that, to the extent of ture in the community, he wants TAT vested authority, it is respon- sible for the $ of its various of- TAR _ Tribune Advertising Every successful merchant and manufacturer adver- tises. That’s one of the main reasons they have suc- ceeded—they’ll tell you so themselves. . For local advertising The Bismarck Tribune is the best possible medium—going into hundreds of homes of all classes—homes that constitute the b - Keach. Watch the ads in The Tribune and see who voice their agreement by using its opis Tribune, Bismarck the Slope Like the Morning Sun, uyers you wish to. the advertisers columns. can plan for the immediate future |" ficers international national, dis- trict and local, and the selection of |\ these-men is carefully overseen. One of its major obligations, incorporat- ed a8 a principal element of ,.the Joint agreement entered irito -be- tween hte operators and the union is that no strikes will be allowed during the settlement of pending differences, contrary to popular sup- position it is the preventer of strikes. This is assured not only by its agreement but, by its method of procedure in adjusting disputes and difference Every local union has s “Pit Committee” and when any miner has a complaint or grievance he puts it before this committee, if they’ find that it has no merit they quash it right there, thus most of the incipient trouble is killed by the miners themselves, If the complaint is found to be well founded the Pit Committee hold a conference with the Pit Boss —the company’s man who oversees, the miners in the mine—the major- ity of grievances are settled by them without going out-of the bowels of the earth, so to speak. If the Pit Boss and Pit Committee can “not agree then it goes to higher and still highcr authorities on each side until it reaches the court of last resort the President of the un- ion and the operators commissioner —this is a man versed in both the technic of mining and the jurisprudl- | cal side of the matter, hired by the operators to represent them in the arbitration of disputes. If these two cannot agree then a strike may be called. During all this time the men in the mine are bound to go on working if possible, the union is liable in the sum of $1.00 per day for each man walking out before final adjustment, so if 200 men quit work the operator can collect $200.00 per day penalty. This regular and deliberate meth- od’ of procedure practically insures that no malcontent can start any- thing unwarranted «nd get anywhere culties speedily adjusted and only matters of grave concern get to the high tribunal, for these reasons’ I say the union is a preventer of strikes. Under the open shop system,| wherein neither side is bound to have regard for the other continual trouble is sure and results detri- mentally to the entire community both financially and’ because of the tensity of feeling concerning the justness of the attitude of the pri cipals in the affair, This trouble is not only occassional but spasmodi. cal nothing can guard us from it. In Unionism there. is a feeling both of respectability and responsi- bility each to his fellows as well as to the company, a prompting to “do “The Snappy Brownie’s Root Beer It’s Good. Brownle’s Ginger Ale With a Mild Twang. At all Fountains and Stores. American Fountain 318 Robert Street Undertakers __DAY PHONE 246 Day Phone 106 Most vacation provide a Spend vacation and your fication fund to. pave sdvancege, ying with modern Go wherever ir fancy leads, stopping for fanch, y, same to ten: tahoe in pe f * starry The usual heavy expense for fooms and restaurant pay chécks will: USED BIS NOODLE mining will agree that a good effi- cient trackman who can iay a switch’ so t6 eliminate the waste of time and the damage caused by continual jumping of the tratk by the cars, or a.timberman who can prevent falls. and caveins, are worth a half dozen ignorant, careless boobs, such 4s are commonly found in non-union mines. It is a matter of real gcon- omy to hire such men and the union scale together with union enviton- ments will attract and hold these \ef- ficient men, and, considering the ERR ERS Bre tA SPD Legion -Auxiliary Meets in Mandan Gov. R. A, Nestos and Mrs. Ly- man N. Carey, president of the North Dakota Federation of Wo- men’s clubs, will be the principal speakers at the third state conven: tion of the American Legion auxil- fary, Sept. 5 and 6, at Mandan, cording to an announcement made by Miss Abbey M. Hurley of Far- ‘go, state secretary-treasurer. sere een SR TE SATURDAY, JULY 14, 1923* delegates to the national conven- {tion in San Francisco, Oct 19-20. North Dakota is entitled to nine delegates. ‘ ee Wy Hospitalization and Americaniz- ation work are the two subjects’ to which most attention will be de- voted at the meeting, the auxiliary following the lead of the Légion in supporting their action in matters pertaining to the welfare of the service men. 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Anyone knoWing aught of | SANT KITES m 1 al Ai e-eectote ee 2 is and BLADDER irowls é hazard, disagreeableness and re- ~ ‘The most important part of the| uted to atmospheric pressure on their sponsibility of their work the pay,‘ mecting will be the selection of | nerves. $7.50 per day, is not so high for ra trained men.’ * : The same argument holds good to some degree regarding the other company men. , As to the tonnage scale (the price per-ton paid to the miners) this is largely a. matter for local adjust- ment and is governed much by the; price the operator can secure ,for his optput, freight rates to market, amount of shrinkage of the coal, ete. as well as by the expense for explosives to the miner, the con- yeniances affgrded him, service he! will “get ete. all this is taken into consideration in setting what is con- sidered an equitable price. The price in this vicinity would be ap- proximately just what it is now un- der non-union management, that is 60c per ton for machine cut coal, in Montana it runs from 87c to 95c and if the operators can pay thas there it seems they can pay Uc here. I believe we may now, in a fu- ture installment, treat with the purely local aspects of the union question. Years of experience with auto- mobiles, trucks, tractors and gasoline engines have given the farmer a’ practical knowledge of oils. There is no repair shop “around the corner” for the farmer to rely on. E D. E, CONE. Prince. of Wales Adds to That’s why so many farmers Fame of King Caractacus keep a drum of Havoline Oil and feed their engines nothing but Havoline. Why not join the thousands of car owners who are getting con- stant satisfaction with Havoline? You’ ll be as pleased as they are. There’s a dealer near you'who displays the Havoline sign, and who will sell you Havoline by the can or quart measure, as you want it. 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