The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, December 10, 1917, Page 17

P e (Continued from page 7) wheat at 75 to 80 cents a bushel they tame out with an advertisement to the ‘tonsumers in which they tfiemselves said that the flour made out of this 'poor “feed D” wheat made better bread. By that one transaction alone the milling trust made over $20,000,000 Jast year. They took that out-.of.our pockets, they didn’t give it to you, and they haven’t given it back to us. I notice another matter since I have arrived in this town, and I want to read you a resolution to show you what our friends in the city of Minneapolis are doing. MINNESOTA LABOR RESOLUTION READ Here Mr. Townley read the following resolution adopted by the Minnesota State Federation of Labor. WHEREAS, The Washburn-Crosby, Consolidated and Pillsbury Flour Mill- ing companies, three of the largest concerns in the milling industry, on Thursday, November 1, refused the re- quest of the government of the United States to reinstate members of the Flour and Cereal Mill Workers Union No. 15469, affiliated with the American Federation of Labor who had been dis- charged by these companies for affiat- ing with the Union; be it RESOLVED, That the American Federation of Labor request the Gov- ernment of the United States to take over and operate the flour milling in- dustry of the United States earliest possible moment in order that the milling autocracy which for years has exploited both the workers of the city and the country, may be termi- nated, and the business of manufactur- ing flour conducted for the benefit of all the people. MR. TOWNLEY CONTINUED: I call your attention to that resolu- tion to show you the necessity on your part of protecting yourselves and fel- low-workers from these same men who belong to an organization so tight that you can't drive a spike into it any place you begin, men who are making millions and millions of dollars. Let me show you further the atti- tude of this organization. About two months ago our government in its pro- gram to lower prices to you workers in the cities so that you might be able to buy bread at a reasonable price fixed the price of our wheat at $2.20 a bushel in the basket, fixed it arbitrarily and we have been getting $2.20 minus what it costs to produce it. At that time we understood that the millers were to get 25 cents a barrel profit for manufac- turing flour out of the wheat we were selling for less than $2.00 ‘a bushel, and that the bakers were going to get ten, but since that date these milling con- cerns have been making more than $1.00 a barrel profit. At a profit of 25 cents a barrel running half the time these millers could pay more than 10 per cent dividends. But they took it arbitrarily, and then when your fellow workers undertook to organize to pro- tect themselves and their families they discharged them, even when the gov- ernment of these United States asked them to reinstate these men. These millers, to hear them tell it, are very strong for liberty and democ- racy. They lose no opportunity when they are not busy getting that dollar a barrel or locking out workers who try to organize, to wrap the flag about their bodies and eall themselves pa- triots. They lead the parade in spite of anything the farmers can do, and if you have been told that the farmer was not keeping step in the loyalty parade in the state of Minnesota I want to tell you that it is because these millers are at the head of the parade and the farmers don't like to follow them. They are a little bit suspicious of liberty and democracy that has to come through the leadership of these gentlemen. They are not suspicious of the liberty and democracy that will come through the sacrifice and the work of the American people of these TUnited States, but they don't know just where they are when these gentlemen here talk of liberty and democracy for all the world while they deny it to the fathers and mothers, the brothers and gisters of the boys who have gone acrcss the water to fight for liberty and democracy. FARMERS SECOND TO NONE IN LOYALTY In spite of the fact that the farmer does not keep step always in a parade headed in this way, I want to assure you that the farmers of the Northwest, especcially of the state of North Da- kota, in their loyalty to the people of this country and this nation are second to none. In our state, in spite of two bad crop years, the farmers over-sub- scribed the Liberty ILoan more than at the - Labor Hears Farmers’ Side | B [ ’ > » I o ) ' N . s . was over-subscribed anywhere else in the United States. The farmers of the state of North Dakota—and it must have been the farmers, because nobody else lives there, the Minneapolis Cham- ber of Commerce doesn’t live in North Dakota—the farmérs over-subscribed 73 per cent, In the city of New York, the next best, they over-subscribed it 72 per cent, and in the city of Minne- apolis where these gentlemen live they only over-subscribed it 34 per cent. We are here primarily for the pur- pose of bringing about unity of the workers in the field and the workers in the city. We are looking” over the plains to you as an ally in our battle against those who are making it very difficult for us to live, and we invite your co-operation with us politically and industrially to bring about better conditions and unify the forces of this country for the good of the country in time of peace and for the success of the country in time of war. If you will stand shoulder to shoulder with us in our battle to protect our families against those who are robbing us, we will stand shoulder to shoulder with you, and I pledge you further that if the 500,000 organized workers in the city of New York, the million and a quarter of organized workers in the State of New York and the organized workers over these United States will recognize the farmer in his struggle and aid him in his struggle, we will aid you in your struggle by recogniz- ing the brand of goods made in your union shops until the day arrives when no man, either upon the farm or in the city, shall not be organized. I thank you. TOWNLEY’S APPEAL HAS ITS EFFECT After the address had been delivered, talk among the delegates from the various central labor _councils and state federations of Ilabor indicated that the appeal had struck home. A Montana delegate, for example, told newspaper men that theré could be no doubt that Townley had “hit the nail on the head.” He added that Montana would register that opinion, next November, by a sweeping majority made up of farmers, ranchers, trade unionists in the towns and the metal miners, millers and smeltermen. A delegate from the lumber mill trades in the state of Washington said that he had information that Townley’s organ- ization would meet with the heartiest sort of co-operation from the wage workers in that state, Delegates from California, in touch with the feeling of tens of thousands of workers in the - industries around San Francisco bay and up the valleys, thought. y Townley’s success in getting his message to the delgates of more than 2,200,000 organized wage workers was the more striking in view of the inten- sive campaign of falsehood which the enemies of the National Nonpartisan league have conducted in the East. Scores of delegates here had the im- pression, before Townley spoke, that the League was an anarchist organiza- tion, and that in any case it was under suspicion as to its attitude toward the government. The very fact that Mr. Townley was invited here by Mr. Gompers and the other officials of the American Federation of Labor, cleared the way for a sympathetic hearing of the farmers’ proposal that the two classes of producers join hands. The speech did the rest. LABOR MEN WILL echoed the same _GO INTO POLITICS It may have been pure coincidence, but on the day following Mr. Townley's speech the convention voted, 255 to 21, to amend its laws so thq,t henceforth it will meet in June each year, begin- ning in 1918, John B. Lennon, who proposed this change, said frankly that it would enable the Federation to draft a program of definite legislative measures, and put them before the country before the political platforms of the parties were made up. This, he said, would vastly strengthen the posi- tion of organized labor in going to con- gress with its demands. 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