HE WHO OWNS MY JOB HAS RULERSHIP OVER ME
Bigelow, Herbert S.
He Who Owns My Job Has Rulership Over Me BY HERBERT S. BIGELOW NO MAN is good enough to rule another. No man is good enough to own another. No man is good enough to own another's job. He who owns...
...The first dikes built on Puget sound were made of planks fastened to stakes and filled with earth, the walls being about one foot thick...
...The value of crops grown in 1919 on lands served with water either in whole or inpart from the works of the Service amounted to $150,000,000...
...What power will redeem these counties...
...There are counties in West Virginia, Kentucky and Alabama where terror reigns...
...They claim for themselves rights which they would deny to others...
...As these occur at night during the winter and during the day in the summer, the oysters are subject to injury from the heat of the sun at extreme low tides in the latter season, and from freezing during the winter...
...It has added from two to four hours a day of sunshine to the lives of the workers...
...In stamping out this brutal power the miners' organization is doing a work of Americanization which is wonderful to think of...
...For most crimes the worst that the state can do is to take a man and make him work...
...Of the first class, 1,187,000 acres were actually irrigated and 1,113,500 harvested, producing crops worth $89,000,000, or about $80 per acre cropped...
...The power of organized labor came to these wretched people that they and their little ones might have life and have it more abundantly...
...Of the other class from complete information it is roughly estimated that 916,000 acres were irrigated and 880,000 acres cropped, yielding crop products worth $64,000,000...
...Progress of National Reclamation AT the close of the fiscal year 1920, the net cost of construction of the reclamation projects, completed or under construction by the U. S. Reclamation Service, Department of the Interior, amounted to a little less than $125,000,000...
...Co-operation between the courts and other social agencies has been increasing, and in some instances social agencies have given the services of trained social workers for probation work...
...Some of these concrete dikes have now been in service for many years and are as effective as the day they were completedThe diked areas are of irregular shape, conforming to the contour of the tide flats...
...Under chattel slavery the master owned both the job and the worker...
...The autocrats are organized...
...Some of the larger beds, composed of many smaller units, aggregate sixty acres.—Gaines, Popular Mechanics...
...The oyster beds on Puget sound are located in comparatively shallow water...
...It is the attempt of industrial autocracy to resist the growth of industrial democracy...
...They own themselves, but they do not yet own their jobs...
...This is what the so-called open shop struggle is about...
...Where in the annals of modern history is there such a record of achievement...
...The oyster beds have at all times been kept covered with water by means of the so-called French "parking" system...
...Now the workers are half-free...
...The autocrats say that they are contending for the right of the unorganized workingman to take employment where he pleases...
...Protection of Oyster Beds OYSTER culture has become an industry of considerable importance on Puget sound...
...Bui this form of construction was found to give only one year's service, because crawfish bred under the wooden walls, permitting the water to escape, and the teredo rapidly destroyed the timber...
...In reality they contend for the power to use the helplessness of the unorganized worker to break up labor organizations and thus bring all work-ingmen into subjection to themselves...
...Juvenile Courts in the United States IT is estimated, on the basis of a questionnaire study made by the Children's Bureau of the U. S. Department of Labor, that 175,000 children were brought before courts in the United States in a year...
...It is a hateful power, capable of arbitrary, vindictive and tyrannical use...
...He who owns my job has rulership and ownership over me...
...The organized power of the five hundred thousand members of the United Mine Workers of America...
...Today this organization is supporting fifty thousand miners in tented cities while they are striking against this autocracy and its hired assassins...
...In so doing they deal unjustly with their fellow-man...
...This organization has added four years to the childhood of the children...
...The majority of the courts failed to make adequate investigation of the child's home and family circumstances, his physical and mental condition, and his personal tendencies...
...They are striving, through their organizations, to acquire ownership of their jobs, and thus win their complete freedom...
...Especially in small towns and rural districts the child is still subjected to the unsocialized treatment which the juvenile court was designed to replace...
...The intelligent methods worked out by the best courts are being adopted by others...
...thas is, the sloping areas covered by the oyster beds are terraced and dikes provided which retain sufficient water as the tides recede...
...On account of the great range of ocean tides in this territory, the beds are exposed during periods of extreme low tides...
...The interest in opportunities on the land," says Director Arthur P. Davis, "has been increased with the return of our soldiers, sailors, and marines, and the definite desire on the part of thousands of landless men and women to become part of a movement 'forward to the farm should be met by a comprehensive scheme of reclamation development...
...Logging operations and floating driftwood also damaged these makeshift dikes frequently, so this temporary construction was abandoned and the dikes were built of concrete...
...Although every State except one had laws providing for juvenile probation, according to the investigations of the Bureau, less than half the courts hearing children's cases actually had probation service...
...These counties are industrial jungles...
...Yet we have money-maniacs who talk of smashing the unions and making labor eat out of their hands!—Railway Mail Clerk...
...In every bed there are a great many small diked areas ranging in size from two to six acres...
...However, certain important tendencies are noted in juvenile court work...
...The power to hire and fire is a power which no man should be trusted to exercise over another without restraint...
...Of these 50,000 came before courts not adapted to handling children's cases...
...For acts which are no crimes, the industrial autocrat can deprive his brother of the right to work...
...Facilities for mental and physical examinations are being extended...
...The works of the Reclamation Service in 1919 served areas aggregating about 2,648,000 irrigable acres, including 1,636,000 acres for which the Government systems fornished the sole supply of irrigation water and 1,012,000 acres to which in most cases the Service furnished stored water in bulk to supplement the partial supply of private spstems otherwise dependent on unregulated stream flow...
Vol. 13 • January 1921 • No. 1
