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About La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 17, 1911)
PAGL4 LA GRANDE EVENING OtfSEft VEtt. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1911. THE OBSERVER BRUCE DENNIS Editor ani Owner. , Xater4 at the yostoffice at La Granae .,.,. aa second-class matter. SUBSCRIPTION BITES aflj, aer week, Salty, aer month. it 5 1911 OCTOBER mi S lAj TIWI TIFIS l23456l7 8 11011121314 15 16 78 192021 2212425262728 &3031I I I t JjTBlKOG FOB A LA BOB TRUST. ieal separately with the five unions making up the Federation of Shop Employes, but not with the Federation Itself. 'Vt we win this strike," de clares James W. Kline, "all the rail roads in the United States will submit to a federation." "We might aB well turn over our roads to the men as to grant their demands,' replies Julius KruttBchnitt, vice president and di rector of maintenance and operation of the Harriman lines. : The - union leaders, according to a San Francisco dispatch, frankly urg9 that the unions must follow the example of capital in the matter of combination and central ization. "For the first time," remarks the Brooklyn Standard Union, "the issue' has been squarely made between the corporation and labor; not as organ ized Into independent trade-unionB, but as federated, consolidated into a central unit, with control over all the examinations, the. personal record sy tern, and the rank discrimination prac tised ,by the railroads. . . . The men will not recede. The matter of wages is an after-consideration. ' They de mand to deal as a unit with the roads, and t o treat with them on equal terms." He explains, also, that the federa tion Is formed not only "for protec tion," but "in the interest of economy and convenience," as . it "should be easier to deal with one committee than with a dozen." "From their own point of view," admits the Philadel phia Public Ledger, "the representa tives of the men have strong ground to stand on," but the same paper thinks that the position of the rail roads is -avert stronger. The Philadel phia Record, however, Is Inclined to think that the refusal of the railroads to recognize the federation was un duly arbitrary. To Mr. Kruttschnitt's p 4i y mmmm branches and combinations, the very assertion that such recognition would That the strike on the Harriman lines Is an effort to confront a railroad combination with a labor "trust" Is not apparently denied by the men or their, leaders, and while roost of th'. daily press condemn the strike on this (round, just as they condemn Standard Oil or the Sugar trust, the labor or gans, so far as we hve seen, iglory in the fact and argue that such a com- blnation of labor Is just what Is need fed. This strike, which calls out 35, 000 men, and affects the Harriman system from the Mississippi to the Pa cific and the Illinois Central from the Great takes to the gulf, 1b declared be cause these railroads refuse to deal wfth a federation of unions. They will Arcade . ; Theatre CHANGE OF PROGRAM I . 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These trade-unionists, ,, de clares the Philadelphia Public Ledger, aim at "the formation of a trust that would be as Intolerant and insolent In the exercise of its powers In re straint .of trad. as are any of those against which the powers of the fed eral government have been brought to bear," The labor papers are In the main yet to be heard from. In addition to the recognition of the Federation of Shop Employes, dls-j patches state, the strikers ask that the railroads compel all shop employes t join this federation, whether they wish to or not, and they further demand for their organization the right to desig nate the men to be laid off when the force is cut down ,and the right to say whether any particular employe shall be discharged or suspended. They also demand the abandonment of the premium or bonus system. If the companies agreed to d.?al with the federation instead of with the individ ual unions, remarks Mr. Kruttschnltt, "an Issue raised on a small-system road in Louisiana or Texas might stop all Bhop work through the entire sys tern by requiring members to strike in distant California, Oregon, Washing ton or Nebraska." And in his formal answer to the labor representatives he says: "If the essentials of admittedly fair and considerate treatment, the; -payment of highest wages of any railroads in the territories served by our lines, and the guaranty of -'hospitable and generous pension benefits have not been sufficient to deter our shopmen from terminating agreements insur ing these conditions made from tlnn to time In conference with their la bor unions and from spending four or place the unions in "absolute control" of the railroads the New York Call (socialist) replies unhesitatingly that "they should control." It goes on to say: . "The men on the Harriman roads, having come to a realization of the power coiiiuuiaiiun gives tnein, bad started to federate all the depart-' ments. The Harriman lines, among the most powerful in thds country, are themselves the result of the federation of lines that had been weakened through competition, and in some in stances brought almost to the verge of disaster through their 'individual ef forts' at independence. 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The chief aim has been to g"t their nose in the public trough five months In devising new issues and ! and then scheme for higher taxation means to dfstroy existing harmonious relations, and, morsover, are not suf ficient to Induce them to remain In our employ and to make them realize their duty to the public, I do not tee that we can do anything more to convince th.Mu that they have no good reason to stop work or to prevent your giving snproval and permission to them to l?ave our service." Commenting upon -this, President Kline of the Blacksmiths' union says: "The position the railroads take is arbitrary. Mr. Kruttschnltt refers to good wages, the pension system, and other admirable things done by the llarrliunn lines. He says nothing, however, of the damnable physical A Strong Modern Bank Efficiently conducted, not only In the Interests of It stock .holders but of Its depositors and juifons as vu-llt .Wltb official" well known and triite In the comninnltj. With capital, surplus and undivided profits of fcilO.OWUMM) and total resources of $ I, (MH) ,000.00. The La Grande Xatlonal Dunk offers to firms rnra Hons and Indlrldnuls the bent banking seMcr, and Its ofti cm ak personal tobrvlfw with those contemplating changing accounts or opening new ones. La Grande National Bank LA GRANDE. OREGON. CAPITAL . SURPLUS RESOURCES Fred J. Holmes, Pres. F. L. Meye rt, Cashiet . $ 100.000.00 . . 105,000.00 . . 1,000,000.00 W. J. Church. Vice Pres. Earl ZundeMss'!. Cashier and more expense. But, again we say, there are s'gns on te moon. The comlne year mnv witness a great awakening In Oregon Republicans may finally pinch them selves and renl'ze they have swallow ed the mush peddled out by the chat terlng non-partisans until they nr confronted with general defeat and a public tax that Is almost unbearable, IUMMJ TO BE. Oregon is always the land of "going to be," wrote the new settler to a Kan sas City paper. And so we are "going to be." But In some parts, we al ready are, says the Portland Journal In Eastern Oregon, which was de scribed by the knocker as a land of "sage brush and rattlesnakes," i Ontario. G. W. Wanton. Sr., took from a 40-ncre alfalfa field 25.000 pounds of alfalfa seed worth $3.7.ri0 and 140 tons of hay worth $700. His Income from the 40 acres was $4.4."0. Alex Smith took from 25 acres of alfalfa $2,362.50 worth of seed In tha second cutting and had the hay left from a first cutting. Charles Knilson got $972 worth of seed from nine and a half acres of alfalfa and $140 worth of hay, or a total of $117 per acre. On six acres of alfalfa M. V. War ing got $103 per acre and has left the hay from the first cutting. These are pretty fair showings for a land of "sage brush and rattle snakes.'" And there are a few other crops thnt are produced In Oregon. For Men J. 52. Tilt Dress Shoes. Fatapsco $3.00 and $3.50 Work Shoes. 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It is quarreling with Matron Baldwin who has the last word and the people will believe her be cause she Is a woman. About 6,2"0 automobiles have paid license to the stab? of Oregon and that number of machines wear brindle tags in front and behind that are as bilious In niHiearauce as a law library. Psychology of Sleep. The iiM.wimiotry o: is ti v.-wt ntid little explored snlrpi-t S.ec;t ilei'.' en to tv;;n e. triune to dentil Therefore In lilt. spiMkiim fiin.e-.l:.-it :iri.(lit:;i cally. sleep Is most kin to deuth. 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