The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, November 24, 1919, Page 21

The Plumb Plan and the Cost of Living (Continued from page 10) trial slaves. And the modern capital- ist to a very great extent controls also the natural resources. The same combinations that are able to grant or withhold the money - credit by means of which accumulated equipment may be secured for any industry own much of the best land, much of the water- power, coal and oil, and nearly all of the known supply of iron, copper and other metals. The worker can choose neither his employer nor his employ- ment. The consumer is helpless to determine whether or not commodities will be produced to supply his needs. No man can provide shelter, clothing or food for his wife and children, ex- cept by the consent of those who have wrongfully seized upon and continue to hold control of the means of pro- duction. : The railway brotherhoods propose that these financial highwaymen shall no longer hold up the nation’s industries, by refusing, except upon their own extortionate terms, the use of the nation’s capital for the main- tenance and operation of its trans- portation system. This the opponents of the plan characterize as confiscation; and we may expect that any attempt to remove the incubus of over- capitalization or . to eliminate unnecessary or wasteful organi- zation from any of our industries will likewise be called confisca- tion. The discussion of the brotherhood plan has brought us squarely face to face with a situation we should have had to meet in the near future in any North Dakota Solves Its Coal Problem (Continued from page 4) ing to pay more for-coal during the strike they &ould not have it. It was a timely opportunity to break the miners’ union, ds Gary is trying to break organized labor in the steel in- dustry, and moreover it was advan- tageous to that end to have the strike now so that labor could be blamed for- making the people suffer and public sentiment moulded against the unions. That’s the philosophy that ruled when the national operators refused to negotiate with the national union, and on a smaller scale the effects of the same influences were asserting them- selves on the North Dakota coal oper- ators. It was a memorable conference, that . last one of the governor and the oper- ators. The miners were still at work, and there was nothing of consequence in the way to hinder an agreement. . In fact some operators were of the opinion that it would go through with- out a hitch. But at the afternoon ses~ sion various devices for delaying things were thought of, and the after- noon meeting ended with no result. At the evening meeting the same policy among a small, but influential, group of the owners was noticeable. Throughout the evening and on past midnight the session lasted. Finally at 1 o’clock one operator, who had lost patience, made a motion that the proposition of the men be accepted as an emergency policy to keep the mines operating. The point had been brought up by a clever attorney rep- resenting one of- the bigger mining interests, that such an agreement might be illegal in the eyes of govern- ment officials. It was a plain case of scare—but he was an attorney. Another operator from out of the state regaled the operators with “bear” stories. There were sugges- tive hints of criminal action by the federal government. ' The governor, seeing through the purpose of all the talk that had con- sumed the day, eventually lost pa- " ability of the worker due to his pro- case. The principal causes of the high cost of living to the workers are: - 1. The enormous load of vested in- terests that industry has to carry. 2. The heavy draft made by the war upon the labor and material of the country, which is also being capitaliz- ed and fastened as an additional bur- den upon productive labor. 3. Sabotage wupon transportation, marketing and manufacturing organ- izations, in order to force concessions to private monopolies, enabling them to maintain and to extend their con- trol and to carry over their war prof- its into the industries of peace. 4. The decline in the productive gressive degradation .in a system which has less consideration for him than for the machine he operates. The - brotherhood plan reaches all these causes. It eliminates vested in- terests entirely from the ownership and operation of the roads, and abolish- es profits, thus putting an end once for all to the finangial exploitation that existed before the government took control, and the flagrant sabo- tage that has been practiced since, in order to discredit public ownership. It creates an interest in and a re- sponsibility for the operation of the roads on the part of the railway or- ganizations and of every one of their members. It places the railroads upon a basis of fundamental justice, both to patrons and to employes; and only thus can we hope to conserve hu- man energy and material resources, . and to develop that interest in the common welfare without which no hu- man activity can serve its true pur- pose. : tience. In the midst of the “bear” stories he put the question point blank to the operators. Providing he could assure them that by the next morning he would have official sanction from the United States district attorney that their action was legal, would they or would they not vote to-accept the men’s demands for the duration of the strike? The vote was called. One vote was cast for it. : Immediately the governor declared the meeting adjourned. Perhaps no group of men ever got a franker statement on their actions than that of the governor. The operators were “stalling,” he said; it was obvious that they had no intention of putting them- selves on record one way or the other, and that the one purpose of certain in- terests represented among the eper- ators was to make a “goat” of him. It was a surprise to the*operators who had conducted the filibuster. They had not expected such decisive force of action. The attitude of the leading operator trying to kill the conference by inaction was that of the smooth “city feller” who could not conceal his contempt for a “hick” gov- ernor. The only trouble with that man was that he was so smooth he slipped. When he butted up against an honest, straight-thinking man in politics, but not a politician, he was lost. The governor-did not play ac- cording to the rules laid down by other “city fellers.” Here was a chief executive who didn’t equivocate; who didn’t talk around the bush and mouth . fine-sounding platitudes. He was there to get coal for the people, and was going to get it. If the operators didn’t want to play in a game in which everything had been fixed their own way, as it. were, then he would try some other tack. But so far as the mine owners were concerned, the people of the state were to go without coal. They showed themselves powerless and unwilling -to act; because.. somebody beyond was pulling the strings for them, too. 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