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.
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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
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CHANGE OF PROGRAM I
. TIMES A WEEK
STEAM HEATED BUILDING.
'That Winsome Winnie
Smile." Edison. Comic. A
comedy of social life in a small
community. It is light hearted
a'ld pleasing.
"Hearts and Swords" - Bio
f.&ph. Drama. An exe?..;
picture, the faithful darke , the
inura.-ous n ot whit i;.rl an I
he ' "south"-.! belle a., -ili
Hd charade i.
Paths Weekly" Contains
twelve Important new, i'-i-n i f
the week, as taken by the iam
era man Instead of the rmrter
with his pencil. The new tiling
tlon pictures.
"No CooWng Allowed" Ed
ison. Comedy. A good board
ing honse comedy full of lively
situations.
"True Clue" Sons; by .Mr.
Grlce.
TOU A HE ALWAYS WELCOME
latest and extremest form of the
trust." 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.
"But the present heads of those
lines instantly realized that what had
been good for them through the com
bination of separate roads Into a fed
erated system would not have the
same beneficent effect If the various
crafts employed on the roads were also
federated into a System."
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SIGNS OX THE MOOX.
There Is something doing In this
United States of America this coming
year. Already the signs are on thi.i
moon. An ominous look for republi
can success is everywhere noticeable,
and with it comes the chattering of n
bunch of political monkeys who for
a .number of years have been drool
ing out' non-partisan and other silly
twaddle In order to get and keep an
office.
In' ordew they havt siuc?eded re
markably well. Out of the whole line
up of state and national characters
there Is hardly an exception to a two-by-four
rule. 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
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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
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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.
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pointment at the hands of a "non
partisan" governor.
FVhfiea from Wnllnwu mmtv oil toll !
the same good story of a great fair
and a remarkably successful event.
Wallowa can congratulate herself for
fairs are waning everywhere else.
The state fair was very slow this
year and a receiver has just been. ap
pointed for the Portland Fair associ
ation. '
The new secretary of state. lien W.
Olcott, Is an a dvertiser. In some man
ner he makey every newspaper corre
spondent .(Mil Ion his name even in
the smaV . t news story from Salem.
Tint Ii ,.ill require considerable ad-
J ) vert!()..m for any republican to over
t jcon. . the odium of accepting an ap-
The Portland police commission is
down and out. 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.
Wuether the spirit is p.-irted from the
body and rims loni: Journeys through
spine, or whether It Is in 11 srnte of
one long dre;nn. puns of vlil u we are
alone conscious of. in n mutter fur the
Si fety : I'sj-ch!-nl i:ese:'.rch Yet
Uiiiny or ii have drp;;rm(I tl:litt. seen
thing's or even spolien nml he;ird 'nine
In sleep vhl'-h we have seeu. heard or
spoken later on In re:ility We nn
more or less follow the stages up to
the Bnal sleep of nil. nut hei-e we must
pause, nml. wltb Ilamiet. In v::in at
tempt to learn wlint lies beyond the
veil: "And In thnt sleep of death, what
dreams may come!" London lllobe.
A Matter of Economy.
"But why do you wlsb to have a
running account at the department
store?" nsked the husband. "Do you
think It saves you anything?"
"Of course It does, you silly thing.
Isn't that just like a man! It saves
me more than you can Imagine." an
swered the wife in a breath.
"But what does It save?"
"Time. I don't have to stop enS
ask the price of anything 1 want to
buy." Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Her Beautiful Hair.
"Maybelle. your girl friend has beau
tiful balr."
"It will pass. Tom."
"Why do you girls hate to adii.it that
another girl has fine points?"
"In that case It wouldn't do t ap
pear too enthusiastic. I lent ber that
halr'-nnsas City Journal
Feminine Reasoning.
Stella Iler gown Is Just like yours.
Bella I don't care If bers is a dupli
cate of mine, but I don't want mine a
duplicate of bers. Puck.
Civilization Is first and foremost a
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