NEWS WORTH REMEMBERING
News Worth Remembering DURING the week just ended the country has given itself over to the enjoyment and observance of the Christmas and New Years holidays. There has been a temporary lull in...
...As reported in the Chicago Tribune, Judge Blair's methods in listening to these pleas are extremely informal...
...Rio Grande, New Mexico, Texas, and Mexico, $4,500,000...
...Secretary Ballinger has already filed with the Congressional committee his draft of the proposed legislation to take off from his own shoulders the responsibilty for passing final judgment on these claims...
...Trainmen's Wages Increased Wage demands of conductors and trainmen employed on fifty western railroad systems were settled yesterday on the basis of an increase of 10 per cent...
...and W. G. Lee, president of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen...
...In the report of the third assistant postmaster general, made public on December 27, it is pointed out that though the expenditures of the department for the last year were in excess of the receipts, there was a decrease in the expenditures of the department when compared with those of a year ago...
...A demand of 15 per cent...
...Up to December 28, a total of 892 indictments had been returned against voters of the county for the selling of their votes in the last election...
...In return for this proposition, the conductors and trainmen withdrew demands for certain rules covering conditions of employment and other matters affecting the employees...
...And voicing the desire of business, it suggests: "Quiet conservatism and level headed treatment of the problems apparently pressing for solution are to be enjoined if the country is to reap the full benefits of the readjustments already in evidence and those to be met with, and, it is hoped, satisfactorily made in 1911...
...The indictments led to a rush on the part of others to appear before the judge and plead guilty, take a nominal fine, and depart...
...Stricter legislation to govern that class of legislation is recommended...
...A. B. Garretson, president of the Order of Railway Conductors...
...He knows a large proportion of the voters by their first name, and when they come into court the scene is a social one...
...Un-compahgre, Colorado, $1,500,000...
...It is also charged in the brief that "the industries of Alaska have been for years legally in the hands of a great and oppressive monopoly, the Guggenheim syndicate, which has kept out other capital, throttled competition, and held Alaska at a standstill...
...All this talk about me supporting Mr...
...There has been a temporary lull in public affairs...
...Great progress is noted for the past year in the movement toward popular government and the cause of equal opportunity for all men, and 1911 will doubtless see the banner of political and economic freedom carried still nearer the goal...
...And I'll just put a six months' workhouse sentence on top of that, but I won't enforce it as long as you behave...
...The settlement includes employes in all branches of the train service...
...In a voluminous brief the Pinchots contend that the record in these claims "abundantly proves that the claims are illegal and that from the beginning the claimants have conspired to defraud the government...
...The hew agreement was signed by A. W. Trenholm, chairman of the railroad general managers' committee...
...I reckon I am, judge," is the usual reply...
...In it Foraker declares that it is in reality a "corporation income tax," and unconstitutional for the same reasons that the income tax was declared unconstitutional in 1895...
...The judge sits on one side of a plain table, the indicted man on the other: "How about it, John, are you guilty...
...Selling Their Votes A scandal, not unlike the "jack pot" scandals recently stirred up in Illinois, was unearthed last week in Adams County, Ohio...
...Strawberry valley, Utah, $2,272,-000...
...Roosevelt's reply to a printed story from Washington last week to the effect that there was complete amity between Taft and Roosevelt and that the two were working together harmoniously for an administration victory in the 1912 Republican convention...
...Postal Banks Open On Tuesday, January 2, residents of one city in each state will find a postal savings bank open to them...
...This brief marks another step in the legal contest over the constitutionality of this law...
...At the same time the post-office department is announcing with a flourish an enormous saving in the operation of the mail service...
...Umatilla, Oregon, $325,000...
...Coupled with the settlement of the engineers last Saturady, the present agreement makes a total of $9,000,000 annual wage increases granted by the railroads in Chicago conferences within a week...
...There has been nothing like that discussed by me with any one at any time...
...Fund for Reclamation President Taft has approved the report of the special board of army engineers recommending the apportionment of the new $20,000,000 fund provided by Congress among the following reclamation projects in the west: Salt River, Arizona, $495,000...
...Taft in 1912 is utterly absurd...
...was presented originally, and this was scaled down until the railroads offered a raise of 10 per cent...
...Most of the railroads of the country, eastern, southern, and western, as a result of the demands of the employees, have granted increases amounting to nearly $100,000,000 annually and affecting practically every branch of the service, with the possible exception of the clerical force...
...Former Senator Joseph B. Foraker of Ohio filed a brief on the 27th in the U. S. Supreme Court attacking the constitutionality of the corporation tax provision of the Payne-Aldrich tariff law...
...Pa-yotte-Boise, Idaho, $2,000,000...
...asked the judge...
...The Illinois Federation of Labor has decided to take a referendum vote among all organized workers of the state in order to ascertain the feeling toward the formation of a labor party...
...North Platte, Wyoming and Nebraska, $2,000,000...
...Fund for Garment Workers There has been no settlement of the garment workers' strike in Chicago...
...Just how this apparent saving was effected is not made clear, but there are evidences that this "economy" involved crippling the service and working mail clerks longer hours...
...Klamath, Oregon and California, $600,-000...
...Reviews of 1910 and forecasts for 1911 generally are of an optimistic tone...
...Though no increase in attempts to import contract labor is apparent, 1,700 aliens were deported as such during the year...
...Public sympathy is being aroused throughout the Middle West and appeals are being made, regardless of the merits of the strike, for funds to keep the innocent children and dependents of the strikers from starvation and cold...
...The agreement was reached at a conference late in the afternoon and the new rates of pay took effect at once...
...The settlement virtually marks the end of the great wage movement begun by railroad employees of the country more than one year ago...
...It is announced that as soon as these forty-eight postal banks are in good working order the system will be extended to other cities...
...The $20,000,000 is to be spent within the next five years and the interest on the loan is to be charged against the projects...
...Milk River, Montana, $1,000,000...
...News Notes — Secretary Nagel's report on immigration shows that the bulk of the immigration continues to be drawn from southern and eastern Europe...
...All right, judge, you've got the goods on me...
...The resolution authorizing this referendum vote contained a clause which declared: "The Republican and Democratic parties always are controlled by employing interests and always opposed to the best interests of the workers...
...Grand Valley, Colorado, $1,000,000...
...All right, John, I'll have to fine you $10 and you can't vote any more for five years...
...Pinchot Appeals to Taft A political event of prime importance was the appeal made to President Taft by Gifford Pinchot and his brother Amos to cancel immediately, without further hearing, the Cunningham claims...
...This was Col...
...By the increase granted $5,000,000 annually will be added to the payrolls of the roads involved and 75,000 employes will be affected...
...Bradstreet's says: "High prices of most products and especially foods and raw materials, have been a sort of endless chain burden to labor, to manufacture and to trade generally, which free buying of some generally esteemed nonessentials has not entirely concealed...
...Truckee-Carson, Nevada, $1,193,000...
...A total of 4,120 miles of new railroad was constructed in the New United States during 1910, according to figures compiled by the Railway Age Gazette...
...Yuma, Arizona and California, $1,200,000...
...Sunnyside and Tieton, at Yakima, Wash., $1,250,000 and $665,000 respectively...
...The appeal was made at this time in order to prevent, if possible, the carrying out of Ballin-ger's scheme to have Congress refer the Cunningham claims to the District of Columbia Court of Appeals...
Vol. 3 • January 1911 • No. 1
