The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, November 3, 1919, Page 22

What Bulk e " ADVERTISEMENTS - ~Storage Mention the Leader When Writing Advertisers Means to YOU ONE of the major services which the Standard Oil Company (Indiana) renders you, is to maintain at all times, at convenient points throughout the territory it serves, large stor- age tanks filled with gasoline, kerosene and lubricating oils for quick delivery to you when you need them. Assume for a moment what would happen if severe weather or unforeseen transportation con- ditions should cut off deliveries from the refinery for a week, and that no appreciable surplus was available. . | You would walk for your groceries. Your physician would be slow in arriv- ing in case of sickness. Business gener- ally would suffer through inability to make deliveries. 3 In a word, unlessthe Standard Oil Com- pany (Indiana) maintains ‘a tremendous surplus in the field at all times your domestic-and commercial welfare would be jeopardized. e This vast storage of 156,528,950 gallons is but a single cog in the giant wheel of usefulness which the Standard Oil Com- pany (Indiana) operates in discharging its obligations as a public servant in a manner satisfactory and beneficial to all. Standard Oil Compahy (Indiana) & : 910 S. Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IIL, / PAGE TWENTY:TWO Washington Bureau, Nonpartisan Leader. N. TITTEMORE, presi- ent of the American So- ciety of Equity and self- appointed farmer dele- gate to the labor-capital conference at Washing- ton, does not represent that organiza- tion, the national board of the Equity declared in a protest against his seat- ing sent to Secretary of Labor Wil- son. Credentials from the board naming J. Weller Long as their mem- ber of the board have been filed with Secretary Wilson. : Tittemore is not in sympathy with the members of the executive board. He is a former railroad promoter, and his commncctions in Wisconsin polities have not always been progressive.. Just now he is bitterly opposing entrance of the Nonpartisan league in Wiscon- sin politics. Long, on the other hand, is a progressive and a warm friend of the League. 3 Tittemore, upon receiving an in- vitation to name a delegate from the Equity to the conference, failed to consult the executive board, but took it upon himself to represent the so- ciety. The board met and sought to- force him to abide by its decision, fused and was seated. In a'letter to Secretary Wilson, Long says: “The board recognizes that Mr. Tittemore’s action was im- proper. It has selected me to rep- resent the society and you have my credentials.” On behalf of the Equity board I therefore ask you to. submit to the conference these facts and make clear that Mr. Tittemore is not en- titled to be seated as a member there- of, and that by action of the board, I am the duly accredited representa- tive of the American Society of Equity at this industrial conference.” The secretary declined to question Tittemore’s selection of Tittemore to represent the society or. to put the matter before the conference. Mr. Tittemore made a character- istic defense of his action in naming himself delegate without the consent of the board! He said the three mem- bers of the board were - associated with the League, and makes this his - excuse for taking matters into his own hands. TITTEMORE EXHIBITS VENOM AGAINST LEAGUE “I am through with all four,” (Long and the three board members) he said, “and so is the membership of our great Wisconsin state union, in- cluding the League, which at this moment is undertaking to steal the organization of the American Society of Equity in Wisconsin and supplant its policies of co-ordination and co- operation with a propaganda of po- litical, social and economic degen- eracies. “Long breathed -disloyalty in his editorials during the war to such an surveillance by the government. Ful- ler (a2 member of the board) was de- nied passports to Europe. “I have repudiated the whole lot”: (the board was elected by the mem- bers of the Equity and Tittemore has no authority to repudiate the board or_anything else) “and shall fight to clean them out of the Equity and out " of the state and national, because I know them to be committed to_poli- cies subversive of our constitutional form of government, Equity in the | state of Wisconsin, which is nine- tenths of the national society, repu- diates them and sustains my posi- tion.” : C. H. Barrett, president of the Na- which is the usual custom. He re- ' extent that he was under constant ' Farmers and the Industrial Conference Tittemore, Anti-League, Self-Appointed E(guity Delegate, - : Has Seat Challenged by Executive e oard tional Farmers’ union, issued a state- ment setting forth the side of the farmers in the industrial situation. He complained that the farmers are receiving scanty attention as an in- dustrial element. : “Is it,” he-asked, “because there is a suspicion in 'certain responsible minds that we are not organized and . consequently are incapable of execut- ing ‘the influence which can be ex- ercised only when we march in solid phalanx ? “It can not be that anybody is so blissfully ignorant as to believe that the immense questions before this conference can be settled without the aid of the farmer. And can anybody suppose that if an agreement between labor and capital is reached in which agriculture has no effective voice, that agreement will be permitted to stand ?” 3y BARRETT ASSAILS GARY’S ATTITUDE Barrett declared himself an advo- cate of union labor and assailed Gary’s attitude of industrial autocra- cy. He warned the conference that the farmer can not be made the “goat” for the high cost of living. The farmers throughout the confer- ence have been given short, consider- ation. At the outset, the farmers, instead of being recognized as a sep- arate group, were classed with cap- ital for representation, and outvoted in their own group, although the in- vestment in agriculture is larger than in any other industry in the country, and the problems and interests of the farmers flatly opposed to those of capital. 3 One farmer was named on the cap- ital group for the executive committee —and two capitalists. Most of the farmers’ interests lie with the con- sumer rather than the middleman, but as usual they are being kept as far apart as ever. And the - various representatives will vote only as groups, thus silencing any protest of the farmers against any action of the capital representatives with which they do not agree. There will be no minority reports, which makes it easy for the middlemen-and the pan k- ers on the board. - There is still another joker in the deck which was dealt when the con- ference was called. The group which was named to represent the “public” has on it such men as John D. Rocke- feller and Elbert H. Gary. Gary is particularly obnoxious at this time as a representative of the “public.” As head of the steel trust, Gary is fighting the right to organize for col- lective bargaining tooth and nail. He is defending the actions of the thugs who ride down and shoot down strik- ing mine workers. His interests are wholly with the employers, and yet he is named to' give the “public” ex- pression at the industrial conference. A great majority of the “public’s” representatives are employers 'and only a few are at all identified with the workers’ movement. None, how- ever, are union men. Charles Edward Russell, John Spargo and Ida Tarbell are the only members who are at all sympathetic with union' labor and its demands. i It is extremely unlikely, therefore, with this unacceptable representation and less acceptable method. of pro- cedure, that anything of value, either for - the farmer or organized labor. ‘will come out of the industrial con- ference. The suggested plan for an industrial truce for three months could possibly benefit no one but the employers, and labor would get no guaranty of improved conditions after ..the expiration of the ‘truce. :