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THE GAZETTE-TIMES. HEFFNER. OREGON, THURSDAY. AUGUST 24, 1922. rAGn rora Their Job To Keep Our Home Fires Burning u H Iq Poem by A'V? -TjT 4 ) f&n - ; ;U -11 I' L. MONTERESTELLI Marble and Granite Works PENDLETON, OREGON Fine Monument and Cemetery Work All parties interested in getting work in my line should get my prices and estimates before placing their orders All Work Guaranteed J Here are the men who are to try to keep us all supplied in coal this winter. They are ollicers of Coal MPmmiran Onnmicsion. created by President Harding. These men each have fan authority in their respec tive districts. Front row, left to right, shows Clyde B. Aitchisoo, Commission; John C Roth, Director Bureau of Service; E. H. De Groot, Jr., Assistant Director; and F. C. Smith, Chief Inspector. Second Row: J. B. Ford, Birmingham, Ala.: B. S. Robertson, Bluefield, W. Va.; C. C. Scrapie Huntington, W. Va.; C. S. , Reynolds, Knoxville, Tenn.; H. M. Priest, Louisville, Ky.; W. L. Barry, Norton .Va.; and S. J. Mayhood, Thurmond. W. Va. Community Service The Byers Chop Mill (Formerly SCHEMPP-S MILL) , STEAM ROLLED BARLEY AND WHEAT After the 20th of September will handle Gasoline, Coal Oil and Lubricating Oil You Will Find Prompt and Satisfactory Service Here Pioneer Employment Co. With Two Big Offices PENDLETON AND PORTLAND Is prepared to handle the business of Eastern Oregon better than ever before Our Specialties Farms, Mills, Camps, Hotels, Garages, Etc. WIRE RUSH ORDERS AT OCR EXPENSE 14 n. Imi4 . Paatletea OM 111 . Wckk . The Only Employment Office in Eastern Oregon with Connections in Portland tiiiiiiitiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiniiiiMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiini ! A. M. EDWARDS I WELL DRILLER Lexingttn, Ore. Box 14 I Uses up-to-date traction drilling outfit, equipped for E all sizes of hole and depths. 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Lewis, Miner's Union, Quotes Authorities on Labor Problems OPPOSITION TO STRIKE PRINCIPLE OF MINERS Asserts Mine Owners Have Resorted to Brutality to Break Union By JOHN L. LEWIS, President of the United Mine Workers of America. Editor's Note: Coming at this time anything from John Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America, is of interest. In the following Mr. Lew is has gone to some pains to locate and quote rulings on the rights of the work ers to organize from men known throughout the world. To their opinions he has added some ideas of his own. The total gives cause for thought and that, evidently, was Mr. Lewis' idea in presenting the manuscript. Opposition to strikes, except as a last resort and after every other honorable means of reaching a settlement of dif ferences has failed, is a cardinal prin ciple of the United Mine Workers of America. But they hold firmly and de terminedly to the well-established prin ciple of the right of workers to organize and to deal collectively with their em ployers. When this right is denied or attacked the miners stand ready to en gage in industrial battle for the main tenance of that rgiht. The right of workers to organize is fundamental. It has been pronounced and affirmed by the government, by the last four presidents, the congress, the courts, by state legis latures, by the press, the pulpit, by civic bodies everywhere and by the public. Can You Do It? Theodore Roosevelt, while president of the United States in 1902, said: "I be lieve in organized labor. I believe in or ganizations of wage workers. Organiza tion is one of the laws of our social and economic development at this time." Chief Justice Taft, before his election to the presidency, said: "What the cap italist, who is the employer of labor, must face is that the organization of labor the labor union is a permanent condition in the industrial world. It has come to stay. If the employer would consult his own interest he must admit this and act on it. Under existing con ditions the blindest course that an em ployer of labor can pursue is to decline to recognize labor unions as the con trolling force in the labor market and to insist upon dealing only with his par ticular employes. Time and again one has heard the indignant expression of a manager of some great industrial enter prise, that he did not propose to have the labor union to run his business; that he would deal with his own men and not with outsiders. The time has passed in which that attitude can be assumed with any hope of successfully maintaining it." During the war emergency Mr. Taft served as joint chairman of the War Labor Board, and it is interesting to note that after his experience in that work he said, on August 9, 1919: "Labor un ions have been necessary to secure to the individual workman an opportunity to deal with his employer on an equality and free from the duress of the immed iate want of a daily wage, to demand what he regards as an adequate and just return for his labor, or to withdraw from employment." Hughes Speaks Up. And this from Charles Evans Hughes, now secretary of state, in an address at Columbia University, on November 30, 1918: "I trust there will be no more struggle in futile opposition to the right of collective bargaining on the part of the employe. The recognition of the right of representation and the prompt hearing of grievances provides the open door to reasonable and just settlements. And in returning to peace conditions there should be the utmost care to pre serve every possible means which has been found helpful during the war for the investigation of complaints of labor and for the adjustment of demands." Employers of importance and vision concede the right to the workers to or ganize. Thus John D. Rockefeller, Jr., said in the Annals of American Academy of Political and Social Science, January, 1919: "As regards the organization of labor, it is just as proper and advantage ous for labor to associate itself into organized groups for the advancement of its legitimate interests as for capital to combine for the same objects." J. N. Tittenmore, a member of the Em- biA-iuuiiui-u,ci raui ts. numpnreys of Phillipsburg, Pa., started on an athletic career when he was two months old. His daddy trained him. The feat shown here is only one of his stunts. He weighs 18 pounds and he has a chest measurement of 18 inches. tele Jcte tfcsfc YOU MIGHT BE SWART ENOUGH TO PROFIT FRO A LOSS BUT NOT FROM . LOSAS YOUR head! ployers' Group in the president's first Industrial Conference, October, 1919, said: "So far as I am concerned, I am committed in my mind and in my very scul to unionism as it is expressed by the administrative faculty of the Amer ican Federation of Li-bor; and in say ing that, my friends, I do not sanction ultra-radicalism." Harry A. Wheeler, former president of the Chamber of Commerce of the Uni ted States and another member of the Employers' Group in the first Industrial Conference, said: "We freely accord the place of the trade and labor unions in those organizations which the men have the right to join." Rights of Workers. The Chamber of Commerce of the Uni ted States, in its referendum No. 27, on a report on principles of industrial re lations, declared: "The right of workers to organize is as clearly recognized as that of any other element or part of the community." The labor provisions of the Peace Treaty affirm "the right of association for all lawful purposes by the employed as well as by the employer." Twenty-six states have enacted laws specifically legalizing trade unions and prohibiting discharge on ground of membership therein. They are Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Lou isiana, Maine, Michigan, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsyl vania, South Carolina, Texas, Utah. Vir ginia, Washington, Wisconsin and Wyo ming. In the principles and policies of the War Labor Board, the right to organize was tnunciated in detail. ThU declara tion, worked out in conference between representatives of employers avl em ployes, and given the force of law for the war emergency by presidential pro cU.mation, was as follows: "Thj right of workers to orfanize in trade uii ns and to bargain collectively througn ch'- ren repr uridines is recognized and it firmed. This right shall not be denied, abridged or ir.teifered with by the vnr ployers in any manner whatsoever." And yet we find coal operators in West Virginia, Alabama and other states bru tally denying to their employes the right to organize or to join the United Mine Workers of America. Not only do they oppose the exercise of this right, but they maintain huge armies of armed gunmen and thugs whom they turn loose to ronm the hills and mountain sides with a roving commission to assault and JESS WILLARD Going to fight though fat and forty- 111 Former champ Jess Willard is going to get his chance this fall to regain the crown he lost to Jack Dcmpsey at Toledo three years ago. Tex Richard is going to stage the bout at Jersey City. Jess in training at Los Angeles looks all of fat and forty as shown here. OnmC II W.dwmkww V l it's easy eou6 ro "Ae mint mmthm teTwXT-THr ) SHEET ""C1IT11 Ij I 7 nr " A-. well, i know all i A r r ( RI&HTl IT'S THE A ' 0NE ,N ANIfAAL THAT'S ALWWS O THE C,RCUS fv a SO' SOMEPLACE' f - "N THAT ALWAYS u itramrfh Jb HA his trow I .t7h W ELL AFTER ALL When you hear a feller grumble at the hill he has to climb, an' later, see him crumble in despair, you wouldn't err in judgment, if you bet yer bottom dime, that he has built the cross he has to bear. This thing we call humanity, is full of human freaks, with fitful an' imaginative brains. There's very few that's brave enough to scale the high est peaks, that knows enough to come in, when it rainsl n ith blcssin s all around us, we embrace the things that curse. We pander to the vicious a pe tite. We undertake the very thing that's sure to make us worse, an' shet our eyes to everything that's right. Then is It any wonder, that wa flounder in the sea, and swaller bitter waters, tempest-tossed? Too often we Imagine that our trouble has to be, when we only need the rudder that we i. .u tnH it IOSII well una ll Miuum Mum we banish every dread, and cure the j--.: - TU .n.,l.a'a imperiecuons wi our w. a us n. nearly allers in our little ivory head, and trouble's hard to manage in a bone! Wearing Her Championship Belt Mrs. Grace McClel- & v Ian, of Austin, Tex., Sr',Z''jr A f is the new champion &3si -? woman pistol shot. -n-- , 'C'F I She won her title in , - 'XJT I recent competition w I at San Antonio, U v ' I where she scored -j f t , 272 hits out of a pos- w . .B . V sihle 300. She is Vk; fa wearing the cham- VfL pionship belt and . S'Si; i shooting a gold- r Vsn2!w . 1 plated automatic lV KSSj X I awarded with the PV'7 V5f I title. murder, if necessary, those employes who dare to encourage organization. Hundreds of coal miners have been beat en or killed by these lawless gunmen in the employ of unoin-busting coal com panies. Scores of union organizers have been assaulted, beaten up, driven out or killed in order to prevent the union from obtaining a foothold in these non-union fields. These coal companies place them selves above the law, above government, courts, pulpit, press and the wholesome force of public opinion. They would destroy the union and reduce their em ployes to a still lower standard of liv ing. What is the great American public going to do about it? Many Thrillers Will Be Feature of Round-Up PENDLETON, Ore., Aug. 23. Wild Mexican steers which have never felt the yoke, bucking bronks who have yet to know the novelty of the touch of the j saddle, and fast running, sleek horses these will be the co-stars with the hu-1 man performers at the Pendleton Round-' Up, September 21, 22, and 23. I A bunch of livestock unequalled In the history of the great out-door drama is being assembled for the events of track and arena and promises some lively work for the cowboys who will match their wits against those of the animals in the bulldogging, steer roping and broncho busting. ' The pausclcss thrill for which the Round-Up is noted will as usual, be par amount. The association permits not a moments delay in the staging of the dra ma and event follows event in quick suc cession. Among the stars who will participate will be Tom Mix, motion picture actor, and his 60 cowboys; Yakima Canutt, Ray. Bell and Hugh Strickland, all former champions; Mabel Strickland, clever trick rider; Lorena Trickey, winner of the McAlpin trophy awarded the cham pion woman rider of the world; and scores of other cowboys and cowgirls whose lives have been spent in the sad dle. Entertainment for the evening hours will be ample. Happy Canyon, that un tamed village of the West of the old days when man was untrammeled by law or convention, will be "wide open" and will offer games of faro and roulette for those who would stake their Round-Up bucks. Like the Round-Up, Happy Can yon is a community show sponsored by Pendleton people. Special railroad rates have been ar ranged for and the Oregon Journal spe cial from Portland will be a feature. The Round-Up association is daily receiving out-of-town orders for tickets. HOMEY PHILOSOPHY FOR H22. Since we are all out helping to make the world better why not do it In half the time? If we put the time spent in kicking into correcting, gee, what a hole we could knock in the things we don't like! Most people who don't kick say "what's the use?" because they think they are powerless, so they waste their time grumbling. As soon as one thing's cured another bobs up. When we're shaving by wireless there'll be a kick because the static shakes the ra zor. Meantime suppose we all butt In an' better things, and meantime also smile. FOR BALE Two bull calves one came Nov. 16, 1920, and one February 11, 1922. Good registered Jerseys of same breeding. Will sell either of them. Price 176 and (150. J. R. JOHNSON, Board man, Ore. 4t FOR SALE-Thoroughbred White Leg horn cockerels, laying strain. $1.50 apiece if taken soon. Mrs. Eph Eskelson, Lexington, Ore. utvehettes JvMA MATTHEWS D.D. LL D. 13 Amusement Mania This is the amusement age. The craze for amusements foretells the doom of present day civilization. If you are a careful reader of history you will note the similarity between a this age and the one which preceded the fall of Greece and Rome. We are marching toward the same precipice. The increased population of the world and the extra facilities afford ed us make it possible for a quicker decline. The people seem to have forgotten all about life's more seri ous work and are engaged In a mad competition for pleasure. There are more people trying to commercialize this tendency or mania for amuse ment than ever before, and, for finan cial considerations they are furnish ing more kinds of amusements. Proprieties are being shattered, principles are being abandoned, and characters sacrificed in the mad rush to reach the Beach of Frivolity and Pleasure. The old people have become Insane on the subject; the middle-aged are Intoxicated; - and the youth of the land are hopelessly engulfed. Babies are born in the mad house of Jazs I and are being rocked In the cradle of indecency. The amusement mania of pleasure insanity seems to have afflicted eighty-five per cent of the population. They are today spending millions and millions of dollars for a day of folly or a nightride of moral fatality. They do not soem to agree with anyone who is trying to cure them of this awful malady. They are not willing to co-operate with anyone who is trying to reform the amuse ments now being used for the de struction of society. The Honorable William H. Hays deserves the unstinted praise and support of all Christian people in his efforts to clean the filthy screens and wash out the cesspools of moving pic ture studios. Every virtue-loving woman In the land ought to come to his support and demand the closing of every the ater which exhibits any picture with an immoral subject or false coloring. If you are not willing to support men who are trying to cure the pop ulace of their mad amusement In sanity then you should prepare the funeral cortege for the wrecked bod ies of your sons and daughters. Help us to treat your malady, re form your amusments, and direct the people in the road of sanity and mor al development.