NEWS WORTH REMEMBERING
News Worth Remembering CONGRESS ADJOURNED on August 22, after four and a half months of strenuous work. Just before adjournment President Taft's message vetoing the cotton bill was received. "My...
...On the 22d the five commissioners were inaugurated...
...The success of the Liverpool strike last week is reported to be the inspiration for the present feeling among German workmen...
...A further reason given by the President is his desire to wait until his tariff board makes a report...
...Secretary of the Treasury, MacVeagh, it is asserted, differs from this view and holds that the forming of this company is entirely legal...
...English Strikers Win England's "greatest conflict" between employers and employees ended in a vict-tory for the unions...
...The situation finally reached a point where only the street railway officials stood in the way of settlement...
...But for the progressive Republicans this program would undoubtedly have been carried out...
...Then the street railway employees went out to lend their aid to the cause of the striking railway workers...
...Said he: "I should esteem it a genuine calamity if such a movement were taken...
...Passing of a stringent and effective campaign publicity bill, including publicity before as well as after election...
...Here are some accomplishments which the country must place to their credit: Forcing the System Democrats into the open where the voters may see their alliance with the System Republicans...
...I believe," said Senator Owen, "the panic of 1907 was brought about by a deliberate conspiracy for enrichment of those who engineered it...
...He suggested, although he did not directly state, that it was President Roosevelt's influence that saved the day for the Corn Syrup people...
...Forcing the popular election of United States Senators to a point where it is assured of passage at the next session...
...Campaigning for Suffrage Keen interest and growing enthusiasm greet the Suffrage "tourists" who are making a vigorous campaign through the state of Wisconsin...
...He said a vast struggle is coming not unlike that of the Civil War, but it is to be a bloodless revolution...
...Wiley were victorious over the friends of Secretary Wilson in the election of officers...
...Conciliation boards to be convened to settle all questions at present in dispute...
...The dockers struck to help the railway employees...
...He was backed by the progressives of both parties and one of the first fruits of this movement to make the Senate free and representative came when the conference over the wool tariff bill was held with open doors, with reporters present, so the whole country could be informed what was happening...
...Submitting to Congress and the country a comprehensive, practicable, far-reaching program for the development of Alaska that will prevent the Morgan-Guggenheims from controlling the industries and transportation of that territory...
...Labor on the farm, in the mines and in the forest adds to the sum of raw materials adapted to man's use...
...Attorney General Wickersham holds that this action is illegal...
...Dairy and Food Commissioner J. Q. Emery of Wisconsin, charged that food experts had been approached by men on behalf of the great food interests and suggested that money from some source must have been used to conduct such a compaign...
...My objection to the cotton schedule," said the President, "is that it was adopted without any investigation or information of a satisfactory character as to the effect it will have on an industry of this country in which the capital invested amounted, in 1909, to $821,000,000, the value of the product in dollars to $629,000,000 and affecting at least 1,200,000 persons involving wages amounting to $146,000,000...
...Col...
...He was in the air 28 hours and 9 minutes...
...of their men on August 26...
...None of these would go back to work until the demands of all were satisfied...
...Wilson was treated with the utmost consideration by the members of the committee...
...Admitting New Mexico and Arizona to statehood with full measure of self-government,—a measure which was vetoed by Taft, making it necessary to admit these two territories with the recall of judges eliminated...
...Roosevelt in a letter to a Pittsburgh editor asks his friends to prevent any movement that might be made to bring him forward for the nomination for President in 1912...
...Full and complete debate of the President's Canadian tariff measure, which exposed its injustice to the American Public...
...He said: "I don't propose to have a subordinate go off at a tangent after having a question decided by these great scientists...
...Kruttschnitt, but unless he instructs the managers of the different Toads to meet the committee, the men are likely to walk out without further parleying...
...On certain specific matters the committee unfortunately did not receive much assistance from the Secretary because he pleaded poor recollection...
...Twenty thousand men are said to be involved, and unless a strike is averted the efficiency of the railroad service throughout the entire system is sure to be impaired, and much suffering ensue...
...Labor in the shop, factory and mill fits products thus wrested from stubborn nature to practical ends and the satisfaction of human wants...
...Abolishing the famous Aldrich Monetary Board, an institution created in the interest of the money power...
...Deference to his high official position shielded him from the cross-examination which has been meted out to minor officials...
...At a conference between two representatives of the strikers, two of railway officials and one of the board of trade, the following terms of settlement were agreed to: All strikers and locked-out men to be reinstated...
...Big Strike Impends Upon Julius Kruttschnitt, director of maintenance and operation of the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific system, probably rests the responsibility of determining whether or not the shop men of the Harriman railways will go but on a big strike or remain at work...
...Organized labor throughout the world is jubilant over the outcome...
...T. P. O'Connor, in the Chicago Tribune says: "It (the strike) indicates that if working classes really were united against a war they could bring it to an end in twenty-four hours...
...Submitting to Congress a measure to offset the evil effects of the recent Standard Oil and Tobacco decisions, providing effective safe-guards against great monopolies in restraint of trade...
...session Senator La Follette made a speech in the Senate exposing the evils of this system...
...In meeting it he urges all to take a "middle course" road...
...But public opinion was against prolonging the hardships of the strike and these officials gave in...
...The La Follette cotton bill was shelved by an alliance between the Standpat Republicans, and the Stand-pat Democrats, and the Democratic bill, which it was certain the President would veto, was permitted to pass...
...The men declare that this "personal record" amounts to a black-list...
...Secretary Wilson complained that Dr...
...This is an important question now up to President Taft to decide...
...I propose they shall work in line or keep still about it...
...President Taft, speaking at the G. A. R. Convention in Rochester, New York, on the 23rd denounced what he called the "nostrums" of reform which he declared "demagogues" and "theoretical extremists" have brought forward for the solution of the problem of concentrated wealth in the country...
...Although denouncing the remedies which he declared were worse than the disease, he made no suggestions as to what remedies he has in mind for the conditions he admits exist...
...The National City Bank of New York organized this company for the purpose of transacting business, which the national bank laws do not permit the parent institution to engage in, thereby constituting, it is alleged, a new method by which the Money Power may evade the laws...
...Speeches are made from the automobile on street corners at noon and in the evening when the greater number of people can be reached, and so far the workers have met with encouragement...
...This bill, unlike the wool bill which Taft vetoed, was strictly a Democratic measure...
...Wiley is a trouble maker...
...Progressives Get Results President Taft's plan in calling Congress into special session was to secure quick ratification of his tariff trade agreement with Canada and then have the Senators and Congressmen go home...
...Convention Endorses Wiley At the Convention of State Food Commissioners at Duluth last week, supporters of Dr...
...Senator Robert L. Owen offered a resolution in the Senate on the 21st, to bring about an investigation into the causes of the panic of 1907...
...The laborer, therefore, is the real creator of wealth...
...NEWS NOTES — Harry N. Atwood broke the world's record for long distance flight in an aeroplane when on August 25 he completed his flight from St...
...Revising downward the "indefensible" woolen tariff—vetoed by Taft...
...Secretary Wilson explained his frequent reversal of his own statements by saying that he was acting in accordance with the wishes of his superior official, the President...
...The strike was not confined to a single trade but involved innumerable trades...
...It is reported that no strike will be called until after the conference between labor representatives and Mr...
...The men of one railroad struck out of sympathy with their co-workers on another line...
...Wilson Rebukes Wiley The House investigation of the conspiracy against Chief Chemist Wiley and the pure food law in the Department of Agriculture ended on August 21 with an examination of Secretary Wilson...
...As it turned out, the little band of progressive Republican Senators made this session of Congress one of the most significant and momentous in history...
...Destroying the pernicious secret caucus system of legislation...
...It is predicted by Washington correspondents that the committee will prepare a report upholding Dr...
...At the present writing the situation is expected to reach a crisis within the next few days...
...Any decisions arrived at are to be retroactive as from the date of the present agreement...
...Early in the A Thought for Labor Day By FRANCIS E. McGOVERN Governor of Wisconsin Labor is the only true alchemy...
...Cabinet Officers Disagree ? Will the National City Company of New York be permitted to continue in business...
...Trenton, New Jersey, is the first city in the state of Woodrow Wilson to put into effect the commission form of government...
...This victory is looked upon as a memorable exhibition of the strength of the working classes when they combine their forces to a common end...
...though at times others may be custodians of it, charged with the duty of using it for the preservation of the common good...
...It appeared as if this could be done, in view of the support given to the President's proposal by great newspaper publishing and news distributing interests...
...Saxon employers of metal workers have decided to lock out 60 per cent...
...With this reported disagreement between two members of President Taft's cabinet, it is probable that the President himself will have to settle the question as to whether national banks may longer remain in control of trust companies...
...Forcing the Senate to conduct a new investigation of the Lorimer scandal, which is certain to be searching and thorough, unlike the white-wash of last year...
...Their purpose is to arouse a deeper interest among the women who are indifferent to Woman's Suffrage, and even opposed to it, and to appeal to the wider sympathies of the voters of the state to whom the question will be presented at the November election...
...The laborer alone really transmits base metals into gold by giving value to things before found worthless...
...If the sectional boards fail to arrive at a settlement, the central board is to meet at once...
...Labor Unre t in Germany In Germany, too, there are manifestations of labor unrest...
...No one to subjected to proceedings for breach of contract, or otherwise penalized...
...The main point at issue, however, concerns the recognition of a federation of the employees in the various kinds of shop work in the entire Harriman System, instead of the separate organizations that have contracts with the individual railroads of the system...
...Louis to New York, a distance of 1,265 miles which he covered in 12 days...
...Reports from Berlin on the 24th, state that cigar workers, regarding their present wages as inadequate, are hoping to secure concessions without a strike...
...Wiley and condemning Solicitor McCabe, the most active foe of Wiley in the department...
...Exasperated capitalists urged them not to concede to the demands of the men...
...The Arbitration Treaties with Great Britain and France which President Taft asked the Senate to ratify without change were not acted upon by the Senate before adjournment and they go over for further consideration at the regular session...
...Secretary Wilson sought to make it appear that the trouble in his department was a tempest in a tea-pot and that Dr...
...The men are asking for the eight-hour day and wage increases of from 4 to 7 cents an hour, according to the location and nature of the work, and the abolition of the "personal record" system on the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific roads...
...Wiley was too zealous for reform...
...It has been a striking demonstration of the strength of federation, or what French workingmen call "syndicalism...
...It was not the intention of either the President or the System Republicans to have his false-pretense reciprocity bill changed in a single particular, or even discussed and analyzed for the benefit of the country...
...The company explains it on the ground that it is necessary to have a personal record of the employees for the purpose of paying disability benefits...
...The dockers of Bremen decided to refuse to unload British vessels on which strike breakers are employed...
Vol. 3 • September 1911 • No. 35
