The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 30, 1918, Page 12

THE SEATTLE STAR GOVERNMENT CONTROL ROCHESTER MEET IS ENTHUSIASTIC RECONSTRUCTION Here is America’s first lined at the Rochester Kee al Municipal league, which has been in sens finite program for reconstruct in Rochester for a BY A. B. GELDHOF N. BE. A. Staff Corresponde cident Wilson should appoint a reee : Roe of some ofthe ablest business and civic leaders of the coun of the war | G@y=NOT POLE IANS—to work along Lines similar to those followed by the reconstruction ministries of France and Great Britain, All the revolutionary go Must be retained as mea. : yr ‘That's the platform o Row ter Conf merican Re 2 Gove Ht control of the railroads, telegraphs and tel struction Problems, wt \ non- political and ed by | must be continued, wh by govern nership and gover the best thought of t he Jeot, \ uy t | operation, or private ownership and government operation. form by ail.citisens wh eo the United States in a more ad 8. The federal empte at service the war la must extend their spheres te bring about closer cooperation between and the employe. ree them from ¢ J control of business practices must be fectual state regulat {he [corporations must be brought under federal rather th oration procedure a procedure, Factors of the war trade board organization, which are valuable nation of foreign preserved. The shipping board ut be dropped over basic resources thru the food wstries board should be pre Vanced position than it held befe The National Municipal leagu under Whose auspices the conference was heli, has authorized Low Purdy, of New York appoint a commit scope to wage a fik and before the public to the people of country are er abled to hold the reforms they have ontinued, and state incor. president ¢ of nationa insure th ery effort should be made by conference held. us of the fuel ulministrations, the war in board, the war labor board. for ex and the government, the to preserve the nuc gained during the war he war trade board, the merchant peace as in war, “The American people will miss &/ marine and other agencies which | ‘ f industrial houslng should great opportunity if they allow cer:|have made for national efficiency |} extend Its activities to the creation of “garden cities” and “garden tain of these temporary powers, for: | during the war |] suburbs,” » ax have been constructed in England for industrial merly within private control, to slip The importar and ements in our ciiies a thing of the past thru their fingers in the next few anding th yment ust be exerted toward making the return of our months,” says the platform adopted by the conference GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP PLANK ADOPTED On the ownership, per tant discussed at the meeting following highly significant “plank was adopted “The federal government has assumed control of railroads, tel- egtaphs and telephones, opening soldiers more & brass band, flag-waving welcome; England's pro- gram of demotilization, which contemplates holding every soldier in the army until a job iy open for him in industrial life, should be pat terned was emphas connect mployes and employers in the only t and efficient way ted that this 1 to extend 9. health of our returnéd soldiers clude the education workers must be protected thru federal co-operation with local authori the modern principles of employment Hee regarding health and moral conditions dices i 10. federal bureau of municipalities should be created to GOVERNMENT HOUSING American cities In working their: passbateeaiion gietbenea. au WORK IS COMMENDED cities and towns are urged to renew their fight for rule, freed hd wae of from outside legislative und political control, as a part of the program housing ite armies of Justrial It was ever of gover aps the most im: the government In of national and social reconstruction. the opportunity either for FED. workers was highly commended The ERAL OWNERSHIP, WITH | conference holds that (ls — 7 PRIVATE OPERATION, or | MeNt's interest in the we ‘ Pe MALOWNERSHW WITH | Workers should not now lapse, but Lister Proposes Lloyd George Is ent's bureau of in continua, Reclamation of . Washington Lands SPOKANE Nov 50.—JKaleer } waa ri m thru the streets in effig the labor departn dustrial housing should be FEDERAL OPERATION, or a reorganization by economical re gional systems under a method of control that will protect the private capital by insuring a rea- sonable return, yet removing speculative and anti-social fea- tures of the private ownership of the past, with its retatively feeble and negative system of regula- tion. Whichever principle is adopted is 4 smaller matter than that THE ESSENTIAL FEA- nfluence on local govermnents. The TURES OF OUR PRESENT fight against vice also must be con CONTROL SHOULD NEVER Unued. BE RELINQUISHED.” The government was asked to in This was a compromise plank, the | augurate a federal bureau of munict @elegates at the conference not being | Palities as a part of the department a unit in desiring outright ownership | of the interior, its function to be to] of irrigation pr and operation by the government of | collect and distribute information on | 3,000,000 acres of arid lands in our common carriers. But it makes | Municipal problems. Cities and towns | trad Washi: it clear that nation-wide public sent/-| were urged to take advantage of the ystallized in favor of | opportunity now offered to obtain a Bee ees ct heacemeht CONTROL | Tull measure of home rul WASHINGTON SECOND of the railroads, as opposed to REG. | -_- ULATION IN LOW FISH PRICES A committee was appointed to in-, Florida iw the ein the! 1 vestigate the government ownership problem as a part of the program of national reconstruction, especially as it affects the high cost of living, good government and public welfare On the question of government control of commercial corporations the conference ts equally explicit. Because the problems they create are national, rather than state-wide, fed eral control and supervision of their Opposed to Old Political Ideas NEWCASTLE, Eng. Nov. 26 and its powers should be broader to include educational work and search into the problems of hous K an inter (Delayed.-—"The country in not health urging that, to protect the health of our returning soldiers, as well as our industrial workers during the re struction period and after, the fe last night, and burned on a huge bonfire, as part of the victory and threeday festival, A Mardi) Premier Lic ball will close the carnival to choosing a party, but a principle 1 George declared in a mpeech here today. “We should not night Last night al government continue to exert {ts we are revert to the old party system until a banquet given to reed te v Alexander ot Ernest ginlation to compel the owners of | work to geedoff lands to dis of them t a figure that w 1! enable men to buy and ¢ He also proposed federal finar himself and Idaho, Goy | le er proposed I do not ask you to trust the self and ansociates if an other group is b r able to carry out the reconstruction policies, But, in God's name, let us have a differ h’s coalition and © between Asc ine Hin mine does not $100,000 Worth of Salmon Condemned inal wi ed Lansdowne only st fish at ton, says State Darwin. — In federal agents early in December price, Florida is first with the low-| The «almon, in 29 canes, was eat average, Washington Md and | seized at the quartermaster pler, It |Calffornia third wa led for army consumplon. 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