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NO. 261 ■»- PROFITEERING AND f-T ry -- - - . •1» •'*' TOTC7U e<l, however, money ior the war. ! H O O V E R G E T S O F F Igo back far enough. It must go ing on uniforms were children end of th e Civil w ar—big b u sin ess ' enough to enjoy a n o th e r 30 y e a rs of lias been in control of th e U nited life, 1 th in k you will ag re e w ith me LABOR STRIKES and the money it raised, because TO A W R O N G S T A R T back to the point of production and young women. S ta te s. T his control has been very th a t people's rule, w hile by no m eans This clothing manufacturer, The following editorial from of the war, had to be granted, Mr. Hoover, our genial food and figure from the actual labor com plete. B ased on th e ow nership p erfect, is infin itely p referab le to the the Topeka Capital, a daily news- The advocates of freat war controller, hasn't really got on cost of the commodity right like many others, found himself of th e n a tu ra l réso u rces, public u tili ru le of an ig n o ran t, m isguided and with a strike on his hands when paper with no special interest in profits and very limited taxes >’ct—at least, there are i through. Nothing can be done he got the government contract. ties, m ines, facto ries and sto re s, it narrow -visioned plutocracy. the labor movement, is so liber-' frOm those war profits have won no falling prices to show it— i by hitting the chain in the mid- He denounced the strikers as h as been extended to include new s “SCOTT NEARING." al tow ard organized labor and I a victory but R jg a p yrr}lic vJc_ but he is trying, to climb slowly die; by starting with the whole- un-American and appealed to the papers. colleges, schools, churches th e o th e r forces th a t sh a re pub “F IN K ” D E F IN E S ST A T U S contains so much good, sound tory They ever touched the and painfully toward that elu saler. The Hoover plan might patriotism of the countryside. and lic opinion, as well as th e m ach in reasoning that it is considered same cborfl an(1 sang tbe same [ sive creature, “the man higher work better if we were still in His appeal met with a hearty re e ry of governm ent. P re sid e n t W il San Francisco, Nov.—A “fink" sponse. Schoolboys, many of worthy of reproduction: refrain. They loudly declaimed UP ” an(1 Put the screws on him .: the old era of “free competition.’’ employed by the United Riail- them in the uniform of Bov son in his “ New F reedom ” calls p a r roads, assures the public, in a “ Labor is being recklessly at- tbat tbev believed ¡n bi£jb taxes He has got as far as the person As it is now, it will not work. Scouts, and their sisters mad? tic u la r a tte n tio n to th is com plete tacked because of its selfish n ess' of w ar pro[i(s a, thc per tjm<. known to us as “the wholesaler," So far as it does work at all, application for work, saying that dom ination by big business of Am local newspaper, that there is a vast difference between his pro during w ar tim es exh.b.ted tn t)]e proper tim e somc and has decreed that prices of it will give the trusts the great- they wanted to do their bit. In e ric an public life. man’s factory a boy of 11 “ B usiness, in control of th e sources fession and what he terms thc strikes, especially upon govern-, nncertain anJ indefinitc food stuffs shall be regulated est profits, and at the expense of this of pow er—econom ic, social and poli ordinary, low down scab, who is m ent work, as in the shipbuild presumably after the war, when i b-v the prices the wholesalers ac-j their competitors. ’Twas always was put to work on a cutting machine and received $6 a week. tic a l— announced a ‘business adm in declared a cut throat in the ing industry of the Pacific there could be no more war prof-i tua^>’ Pa.v - That is to say, the j thus ; and strikebreaking game, and who thus it always will fThe man who had the job be is tra tio n ’ of tlie w orld's affairs. works for less wages than is coast. But vesterdav the facts its. “ T he A m erican b usiness in te re sts ! retailer, the small exploiter, the be until we get back to the actual fore the strike was called made paid unionists. h av e enjoyed an unusual o p p ortunity were disclosed which throws a Lugubriously thev asserted ; ^ast sma^ link ’n the profit- production of the commodity, from $28 to 30 a week.) Inci finks/’ he said, “stand significant light on the subject. that if a large percentage of prof- ^’tatclung chain between prodne- That is the place to begin. And dentally. the boy had his wrist d u rin g th e p a st h alf century. T he up “The for their rights and get all e a lth of thp country increased 35 W , hat happened was the , offer.-. its were „ taxen , , , bv the govern- er and consumer, will be the first it is vain to look for a general cut bv the machine, several inch w they can get away with. You es of flesh being torn out last tim es betw een 1850 and 1916; tlie of a 33 per cent wage advance any “finks” working don’t find regulated. That is to reduction of prices by beginning week, after he had been doing im provem ents in m achinery, tra n s ' . ! ment industry would be crip- for small wages—that is. the by one of the shipbuilding con pled and business throttled. A say, again, that the curtailment anywhere else along the profit his bit for the bettef part of a p o rtatio n and th e use of e le c tric old time gang never did. But pow er m ade possible a production ot cerns to get workers from other chain that stretches from pro- month. few concrete examples of w a r! of profit shall begin with him. A boy 11 years of age, wearing com m odities sufficien t to provide the tile scabs cut prices all the time. plants. When competing con profits will demonstrate the fal-i Tt is a beginning at any rate, eduction to consumption, No decent “fink” will associate cerns failed to make a corres lacy of the arguments of the tim-1 an<l perhaps it may work indif-J Mr. Hoover is an excellent knee pants, was put to work as n e c essa rie s and m ost of th e sim ple with them. a cleaner in the same shop. He com forts of life for every m an. wo ponding advance many work id war profits tax men. “A job with good loot in it ! ferently in somc cases. In o th -! m an; an efficient man, but be was paid by the niece. Accord m an and child in th e U nited S tates. was the express drivers’ strike men struck, The Bethlehem Steel Corpora-;ers, it more likely to be the ¡cannot be expected to work mir- ing to the information now at E ducation w as spread broadcast. in Chicago. There was a cop “ Nobody will deny that labor tion made average pre-war j l)e.£Bnn,"n£I the disposal of the secretarv of K now ledge increased. N ever in m od Mr. Hoover’s real acles; ami if be is so expected, war. this bov earned $1.25 fo r'a ern tim es had it been e a sie r to m ake on every wagon, and wc always is selfish, but it is another thing peace profits of four million dol-¡doubles. he will disappoint us. But in week’s w o r k . — I ssties a n d a w orld fit for people to live in. T his had to split with them when we to accuse it of lack of loyalty and lars, and in 1916, made war prof-: Let us take milk for instance. ff*v’ng us a lesson in how not to Events. w as th e prom ise and th e o p portuni stole a package. We busted open love of country. Is there an in its of fifty-seven million dollars :• The w holesaler, the farmer tells J do it. he may be instructing us every package that looked good.” ty. W h a t w as th e p erform ance? dustry in the United States that L U N A T IC S O R G A N IZ E ? “ In 1916, a fte r a half c e n tu ry of j the Dupont Powder company j us. pays him but 7 cents a quart , ’n the real and only method pos NO. A T T E N D A N T S ? YES ru le by ’b usiness m en,' th e p roperty has not been boosted without made average pre-war peace ; for it; he retails it—or, as he sible by which it can be done, In connection with the newly ow n ersh ip of th e co u n try w as so con This Is Just What cause or reason, other than the ; though at this stage we. of profits of five million dollars, calls it, distributes it—at from organized union «if attendants at c e n tra te d th a t 2 per cen t of the peo We Have Said belief of the business man that and in 1916 made war profits of ¡12 to 15 cents a quart. Now course, do not expect him to say the state hospital the following ple ow ned 62 per cen t of th e w e a lth ; be could get thc price? If so, . . . . , cightv-two million dollars; th e'M r. Hoover’s fiat would, if ef-pkat the job can only be put anecdote, taken from an ex w hile 6,000,000 fam ilies w ere living in poverty. In th e ric h e st nation U nder th e caption “ F a rm e rs and . . . , , , Anaconda Copper Mining com -; tcctive, cut down the profits of i through by the application of S o - change. is decidedlv pertinent: representing patriotism should be , A visitor was beiing shown on ç a rth th e re w ere m ore poverty- L and” w rites one of o u r P o rtlan d , , panv made average pre-war the milk trust. Farmers sell - ; cialist principles. He will leave over a lunatic asylum. “Do you stric k e n in h a b ita n ts in 1916 th an the c o n tem p o raries: built then to the business man peace ' profits of eleven , .... ing potatoes to the “wholesaler” ; us to find that out, and as we ever have any bother with the e n tire population in 1850. T he cities millions “One of th e m irth-provoking jo k es who has refused to take advan and war profits in 1916 of fifty get, let ns say, $1 a bushel for starve in thc meantime, there patients?” he asked. reeked w ith m isery, vice and crim e. of th e day is th e failure of th e ch ic k tage of any opportunity to make “Oh, ves: sometimes one of T h e stru g g le for bread w as so te r en farm er. millions; the Utah Copper com them: the wholesaler gets twice ! is much hope that our half-empty every dollar of profit attainable. rible th at m en, wom en and even little them will get troublesome.’’ “ His experiences, re la te d by sm il pany made pre-war peace profits that from the retailer. Now if stomachs will prove better teacli- children w ere w orking long hours, ing hu m o rists, seldom fail to am use A\ hen Kansas City’s street ear “W’liat would you do if the of seven millions and war profits the price the wholesaler pays for ers than our at-present-addled whole lot got troublesome at u n d e r b arb aro u s conditions, for a pit the reader. He goes 'back to the strike occurred the other day it in 1916 of thirty-nine millions: them is to fix the standard of * brains.—(N. A . C all.) ta n c e w age. S tu n ted bodies, m is la n d ’ from a city job, in v ests his once—if thev organized a re was learned that thc company the United States Steel Corpora price for the retailer, it is ap shapen m inds and dw arfed souls w ere savings in chickens, w orks h ard for volt?” was paying its men only 22% everyw here. T hen cam e 1917. W ar, ab o u t th re e y ears, loses ev ery th in g The warden smiled. “We tion made pre-war peace profits parent that we might expect a B U N K P A T R IO T S cents an hour. haven't any fear of that." he said. fam ine, disease, anguish and d eath he has and re tu rn s to h is city job of sixtv-three millions, and it is reduction in the price of potatoes (By Berton Braley.) “Lunatics never organize."-— w ere added to th e lot of a world, sad d er and w iser. T he joke is varied “Business is selfish, and so is , , , . , . . , . estimated in 1917 will make live And so with other commodities w hich h a s been m anaged for half now and then by in se rtin g a fru it labor, which is a part ot bust- , , , , . , .... I prefer thc slacker to the bunk Stockton Labor Review. that need no manufacture but are ,. ... . . , ! Hundred and eighty ■millions a cen tu ry by business m en. m ade safe farm er o r dairy-m an in place of a ness. It any distinction is to be , . ' . E N G L IS H W O R K E R S produced ready for consumption. j patriot for th e b usiness in te re sts. In the last case the govern- chicken farm er. T he plot is th e sam e made at all it is not, as is so fre W A N T 7-H O U R DAY. Eor at least the slacker is “ The A m erican plutocracy h as been in all cases and th e sto ry ends in But how will it be with su- quently encountered, distinction nR!U Faxes untouched to thc . . _ .... , rlode-inp- h i- i lu t v w h ile AND 5-DAY W E E K tried out for 50 years. It h as had th e sam e way. ' element and 1 nite'1 Statcs Steel Corporation , gar, for example? The trust al- trankl> dodging hks dut>, while against the laboring o p p o rtu n ity to d e m o n stra te w hat “ F red erick C. Howe m akes som e more than three’hundred millions i lows thc wholesaler little * profit 1 ‘ lL * ' ,U!1k patriot is trxing to get p ernan<j 59 p er Cent Reduction an . 1 1 1 * 1 it could do. D uring 50 y ears of peace th in g m ore th an a joke of th e se com abuse of lalwir because it goes of dollars of war profits, in re -J ' t here. And if the price of sugar i b-' " ’1‘1 k)ud Pr< ,in>M and 110 pe;- in Cost of Necessaries and and unexam pled p ro sp e rity it has mon experiences in his c u rre n t a rtic le after the dollar. The distinction . ■ f o r m a n r e Threaten Force to Get It plunged th e U nited S ta te s into a con on ‘T he Decay of A gricu ltu re.’ As he ,, , alitv almost one million dollars a is tixed on this policy bv Mr. i ‘ ‘ should be the other wav, because 1 , - , . , . . TT 1 . . Who i« the bunk m trint? dition of social disorganization which sees them , tak e n in th e sum , they . . , t , „ f • d a v , and in other cases cited, ; Hoover, we mav expect no re-! ‘ 1 K unK I alri l - Representative- of 200.000 ma- today ap p ro ach es econom ic a n arch y com pose n o th in g less th an a n a tio n What labor can hope for IS no - . , , , H e k th e c o rn e r « r o re r w h o more than a comfortable living P'-"P"rt'onately, the senate h a s , duct,on ,n the price of sugar, but ' *>r chinerv workers held a confer al tragedy. T he to ta l effect of such j been as generous. Of course, ion the other hand we may expect ' (JraP^s tkc dag all over the iront ence in Leeds, England, which and social ruin. “B usiness h as failed. failures h as been to reduce th e per wage, while what business goes all of the expenses of the war a rise. The same is evidently i ot . b’s , sboP and Puts l'P *’’s was called to discuss the recent “T he sam e b usiness purposes and cap ita foo;l production of th e U nited after is excess profits beyond the ! cannot be paid from current in-¡true of beef, mutton, pork, oils, p )r’CCh Per cent 011 account award of 75 cents a week in th e sam e business sp irit which p re S ta te s a t an om inous rate . An ex wildest dreams of avarice. To cooking fats, rice, breakfast ccr-Iot ^ 1e u ar ’ ^ lc rCi,taurant keep- crease made bv the committee dom inates th e A m erican life, p re am ple or tw o m ay be illum inating. denounce labor while ignoring : comes; but where we can lessen eals, canned goods, preserved tr >cr\e.s lloovei s war ra on production, and which was re- dom inates likew ise th e B ritish life, From 1899 to 1915 our per c a p ita the burden of the future, without , garded as unsatisfactory. the profiteering which perfectly the French life, the G erm an life and m eat production fell from 248 to 219 . ? , , , ' j injury to the present, we insist 1 fruits, etc. How will Mr. IIoo- tions at enhanced schedules; the A resoluti, 1 1 1 was passed de represents capital and nisi 1 ; business man who subscribes to manding a reduction of 50 per th e B elgian life. The w estern w orld pounds, and m ilk from 95 to 75 gal is a business-m ade w orld. T he pov lons. ethics, is merely to show innate j two Liberty bonds and gets it cent in the price of the necessar e rty . w retch ed n ess, w ar, fam ine, and beef trust pays for the raw ma- Fverv dollar we now incur “ It m ay su rp rise som e re a d e rs to American prejudice in favor of ies of life, and recommending terial that it works up and puts ' back ^m ediately with 200 per disease, which glare at us out of learn th a t th e sam e causes w hich the dollar and against the man. must some time be paid. Every that, in event of no effect re th e oncom ing w in ter a re business- drive the chicken farm e r back to the dollar we now pay means one on thc market as a finished pro- <cnt ac^F'l from the public he sulting from the demand before with wife and child. m ade resu lts. city in discouragem ent and failu re duct? How will he figure the is suPP^sed to serve: the land- “If labor is not to be specially dollar less we must pay in the cost of manufacture when the ' ^ rd who sends out notices of in- October 15. 1917, such immediate “C apitalism h as had its chance. a re also a t w ork to c u t down our action be taken as should secure T h e re has been am ple o p p o rtu n ity supply of m eat and m ilk. T he long blamed, neither is business. Bus future. Every dollar we refuse “wholesaler” himself is the m an-’ creased rents 011 PaPer with an it. for it to d e m o n stra te its pow er as a and sh o rt of the situ a tio n is th a t the iness exists for profit, and that to take today when we are able ufacturer? If all commodities | eml>osse(1 f,a£ in tIlc corncr- Resolutions were also passed civilizing agency. The resu lt of the econom ic conditions u n d e r which the to take it from these enormous is the whole story. Business lias food producer m ust live and w ork passed regularly through the t,le empF>er who talks in favor of a national minimum a c tiv ity is world chaos. war profits, is an added dollar rate of waives, a seven hour day “ Many stu d e n ts of social affa irs a re e x tirp a tin g him. T he A m erican been brought up on profit-mak- hands of Wholesalers and job- i about the “(1>sloyal and unpat- ing as the only excuse for its we and our children must liere- bers, who were not the manu- i r,Otlc woH<man” that strikes for and a five-dav week. If the men p red icted th e failure of capitalism . farm er who ow ns his land and tills are compelled to encage in a T hey pointed out th a t society o rg a n it w ith his hands is disappearing. existence. The whole secret of meet in- walkout to enforce their demands ized for th e profit of th e few a t “ In som e in sta n c es th e land w hich , , . . . .. \\ hen wc now refuse to take, facturers of the product, and anothcr (lollar a daY business and meaning of it lie . each of these took his regular | crcasetl 1,v,n> cost due to the manv thousands more are ex- th e expense of the m any, m u st nec he once farm ed lies untilled. T he t it *• r as r.ngland with its X0 r per cent in profits. In the time of war . nected to co with them. The 1 , tax now takes, a just proportion profit. Mr. Hoover’s task would ■ act,v,t,es of othcr bunk Patriots delegates declared that it was e ssa rily b reak to pieces. They enclosed but uncu ltiv ated farm s in thousands of business men have .. be much easier. But most in- !and ,n the next breath denounces not shillings and pence that they show ed th a t th e b ru ta l h e a rtle ssn e ss th e U nited S ta te s cover 400,000,000 e these enormous war profits, a feeling that they would like , of 1 in d u stria l exploitation, as it w as acres of good land. )5ome of th e we say to those wdio go across dustry has passed out of th a t/* 1^ confiscatory and socialistic wanted, but decent living con of p e rp e tu ate d u n d er th e c a p italistic farm s which w ere once tilled by th o se to make some sacrifice for the i staffe long ago. The trusts beat of takin" *.en '>er cent of ditions. regim e, m u st inevitably d estro y it “horny handed sons of toil,” so d e a r country, but they do not know the sea: “Not only must you his extra war profits to carry on self. to th e politicians, h av e been m erged fight the battles of the republic the United tSates government. T W IL IG H T O F C A P IT A L how to do it in prices. That is the war. “C om petition belongs in the ju n into im m ense feudal e s ta te s . Tw o upon a foreign soil, but if you ! What have they to fear from Mr. ISM IS A P P R O A C H IN G gle. Even th e re m any c re a tu re s have hundred m illion a c re s of our b est not business. And there is no Tie is the banker, the financier, return you must pay a greater Hoover, even with the govern- wav of conducting business yet the money lender who cheers for T h a t th e A m erican plu to cracy Is reje cte d it as a m ethod of social o r farm land have been disposed of in proportion of the cost than you j ment back of him? a tra g ic failu re is a sse rte d by Scott th a t way. T he holdings in which known that is not thc business our boys in khaki and forecloses N earing, chairm an of th e executive ganization. ought to pay because we did not “ Society can be built upon one they have been m erged ran g e from T 1 1 other w’ords, where the way. notes and mortgages on the fam com m ittee of th e P eople’s Council principle, and only one. T h at p rin a m inim um of 4000 a c re s up to sev “These things being self-evi have the courage, or because we “wholesaler" is really an agent ilies they have left behind. of A m erica, in th e fifth and la s t of ciple is co-operation. Service m u st eral m illion. O ne-fourth of th e tilla were lacking in something else instead o f an independent profit dent. the less said about labor’s a se rie s of open le tte rs to th e New be ren d ered for serv ice; all m ust ble land in th e U nited S ta te s is owned Tic is any and every member unpatriotism in seeking profits, in dealing with the profits that eer—as is the condition in scores of the tribe of “ I ’ll get-mine"— Y ork T im es. “T he A m erican bu si w ork to g e th e r in the in te re sts of all. by 50,000 persons. Such a fact r e or higher wages necessary for a were made out of the struggle of industries—there is no reason and when the real patriots who ness world is a business failu re ,” B usiness is organized on th e rule of m inds one shiveringly of Ireland in in which you risked vonr lives." for expecting any reduction of C hairm an N earing declares, and the tooth and claw. Society m ust be o r its w orst days. decent living, the better.” are suffering and sacrificing and tim e has come for th e people of the ganized on th e rule of m utual aid. “ T h ere is a th ird w ay by which the We say as well, to the small prices through t h e Hoover toiling and fighting to win this U nited S ta te s to ta k e control of T he failure of th e A m erican plutoc sm ali fa rm e r who ow ns his land d is taxpayer, the merchant and the scheme. JOHNSON ON war for democracy and decency th e ir own a ffa irs, econom ic as well racy w as inevitable. It is none the ap p ears. H is farm is lo st by fo re farmer: “You in the end must How, for example, is coal to less deplorable th a t ten s of m illions closure and a te n a n t su p p lan ts the W A R P R O F IT S find time to attend to him lie's as political." foot a greater part of this bill j)C c]ieapene(l p II it is to be done The le tte r re a d s: of people m u st su ffer because of the in d ep en d en t land ow ner. T hc in crease going to “get his” with com- “ E d ito r of th e T im es: T have Following final passage in thc than you should have paid, and at all. Mr. Hoover must go back , pound ¡ntercst ,,nd a bo„,|s inability of th e leaders of our civil of te n a n t farm ers has been a sto n ish w ritte n you four le tte rs . I began ization to com prehend th e sim plest ingly rapid of late years. senate of the two billion dollar that which we could have paid of the wholesaler, to the "pit s When that glad period arrives by a sk in g why th e business in te re s ts principles of social organization. “ It is idle to detail th ese troubles war revenue bill Senator Hiram today from the steel corpora mouth”-—to thc coal mine ow n w ere not in favor of an early peace, “ T he plutocracy has had its day. w ithout m entioning th e cau se and the rest of 11s will be present to W. Johnson made public a state tions, the copper companies and er; and after that comes the rail and th en pointed out th a t A m erican T he tw ilig h t of capitalism is com cure. T he sm all farm e r can not the others now profiting from roads and other means of trans look on approvingly and to yell— business had m ade billions of profits ing. B usiness m en will no longer m ake a living because he is preyed ment in which be said: “Hit him again, he has no out of th e w ar in E urope; th a t it was I voted for the revenue bill the w’ar, in our tenderness and pOrtation that brings the coal to rule th e w orld th a t th ey have w reck upon by th e tra n sp o rta tio n com pan friends!” playing ‘p ro fite e r’ and p rep a rin g to ed. T he people a re tak in g a hand. ies, by the city m iddlem en, by cru d e because it was the only revenue timidity we put upon you.” the place where the consumers m ake billions m ore out of th e w ar “ A lready th e people of R ussia have ly in adequate m ark e tin g a rra n g e The generosity and the char reach it. .\nd how will this bill presented, and the money to “P R O F IT E E R S .” supplies fu rn ish ed to th e U nited u n d e rta k en to control th e ir own a f m ents. by lack of d istrib u tin g ag en be derived from this bill is ab ity of the Congress to the D u scheme apply to Rockefeller’s The patriotism of voting Am S tates, and th a t the business in te r fairs. W h e th e r or not th ey succeed, cies. by scores of o th e r p a ra site s and solutely essential for the prose pont Powder Company in per oil? These things are just as nec erican girls and boys is being ex e sts w ere tak in g o p p o rtu n ity of th e th e will is th e re ; th e w ay alone hin d ran ces. Society is organized to mitting it to retain so great a essary as food stuffs. cution of the war. exploit him but n ot to help him e x ploited by the makers of army w ar crisis to launch an a tta c k a t m ust be found. th e radical p a rt of th e lab o r move “T he tim e h a s come for th e A m er cept in som e m inor p a rtic u la rs.” Our contest in the senate was proportion of its 1.600 per cent The Hoover scheme, as it and navy uniforms, an investiga m ent u n d er cover of patriotism . In ican people to follow the exam p’e The last sen te n c e an sw ers one-half tion now being conducted by the not without results. The reve- profit, to the Utah Copper com-; stands. will not do. It does not this, th e la s t of th e le tte rs , which of th e ir R ussian com rades. To th ro*’ of th e question. Society is organized, war department discloses. The nue from war profits under our panv in yielding it so great a says. The federal in I propose to w rite you. I d esire to asid e th e b arb arism s of m odern i 1- not to help but to exploit the sm all assault was raised a half billion, part of its 500 per cent war prof- lion dollars a day war profits, Tribune vestigators found children arc show th a t the A m erican business d u strial society, to d estro y econon- farm e r as well as all w orkingm en. and the table taxes—those upon its. to the Anaconda Copper com- and to the others making enor working on these uniforms, some w orld is a failure and th a t th e tim e is p a ra sitism ; to an n ih ila te all of Only by the elim ination of all exploi tea. coffee, sugar, cocoa, and the panv with its 500 per cent war mous gains out of our struggle, of them bovs in Bov Scout uni has com e for th e people of th e U n it th e social in stitu tio n s which enab e tatio n can th e obsession be e ra d ic a t like—were stricken from the bill, profits, to the Bethlehem Steel must all be paid somc day when forms. and some of them as ed S ta te s to tak e control of th e ir one m an to live upon an o th er m an ’s ed; th a t c o n stitu te s th e cure. B ut if own a ffa irs—econom ic as well as po labor. The tim e has come for tl e the intention is to re tu rn to th e tim e The bill, nevertheless, in mv company with its 1.400 per cent there are no longer war profits, young as 12 vears of age. litical. peoples everyw here to tak e p o ssess when sm all farm s w*ere p rev a len t one small New Jersev town opinfon, does not raise sufficient ■ war profits, and to the United and the reckoning will then be not In far “ T he A m erican p lu tocracy h as ion of th e w orld and run it for the everyw here, or r a th e r w hen th e re from this city the invest! revenue and is entirely too ten- States Steel Corporation in p e r-w ith the ordinary taxpayers of found that 'about *40 per failed, tragically. service of m ankind. w ere none hut sm all farm s, the aim “For m ore th an 50 y e a rs—since the “ If you, Mr. E ditor, a re fo rtu n a te is retro g re ssiv e . N ot back to sm all der of war profits. It represent-m itting it to reain almost a mil-j the nation.—Triniday Free P ress.' cent of gQO employes ’’work -
