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miners ready to raid prohibition officers; train Purposed Capturing District Attorney and Leaving Fed eral Agents Stranded in Railroad Coaches. Iron River, Mich., Feb. 26. It was learned today that a party of JOO miners, woodsmen and hunters, gathered yesterday near Stambaugh, a mile from here, prepared to cap ture the federal prohibition raiders train, had Majot Dalrymple carried out his threat to arrest District At torney McDonough in the ptohibi lion enforcement fracas. They said they intended to take McDonough way from Dalrymple and leave the teoerai agents stranded in tneir rail road coaches, Mr. McDonough, a young lawyer m-ho served during the war as a cap tain of infantry, is the most popu lar man in Iron county. Among the messages received by McDonough today were many from prominent men in . all parts of the country. Edward Swann, district at torney of New iork county, wired "Permit me to congratulate you on your courageous stand against Dalrymple's theatrical effort to at tain notoriety for himself by grossly . exaggerating an unfortunate met dent A Chicago man with a knowledge of I. V. W. slang sent an unsigned postcard advising the prosecutor to throw. Dalrymple and the prohibi tion "gay cats" in the lake, then come to Chicago and be our "State's attorney. George F. Cummerford, special agent of the department of justice, will reach Iron Kiver at 11 o clock tonight to investigate the disturb ance. Mr. Cummerford reached Mar quette, Mich., today to consult United States "Commissioner Hatch, whose refusal to issue warrants for the arrest of Iron county officials led to the bringing of an armed ex pedition of federal agents here by Maj. A. V. Dalrymple, prohibition commissioner of the central states. Assistant Attorney General Con verse of Michigan is due here late today to represent the state at the investigation scheduled to begin to morrow. Colorado Prepares Novel Comforts for Tourists Glenwood Springs, Colo., Feb. 26. Tourists from the east will be af forded very facility for comfort during tht 1920 season here. An nouncement has been made by the management of two leading hotels that a dancing pavilion will be built a short distance from the bathing pools and all arrangements will be made to enable the bathers to go di rect from their swimming exercises to the dance hall, where they will be .ii....j .. ,LAi-.i.i r I fclliP ?. hght antast,c m their bathing suits, "Shimmying in your bathing suit" promises to become a popular pas time in Glenwood. Plan, Military Measure To End Strike in France Pari 'Feb. 26. Military measures to deal with the railway strike on th Paris, Lyons and Mediterranean railroad, which with strikes on other French lines is seriously affecting the country's transportation, , were decided upon today. It was an nounced late this afternoon that the government would call out the rail road section of the army attached to the Paris, Lyons and Mediterranean to assure the transportation of pro visions. Wants Marine Corps Strength of 27,400 Men Washington, Feb. 26. Maj. Gen. George Barnett of tb,e marine corps, asked the house naval affairs com mittee for a marine corps strength of 27,400 men for the next fiscal year, 1,700 to be stationed at San rtiA ftrwi . . . : - manent expeditionary force, 6,000 at sea with the fleets, and the re mainder on duty in Haiti, San Do (mingoand elsewhere. The present strength is about 15,000 men. Food Control Amendment . Declared Unconstitutional ' St Louis, Mo.,' Feb. 26. The amendment to the Lever food con trol act was declared unconstitu tional by4 United States District Judge Fans here when he sustained a demurrer of the defense and dis missed the case of the L. Cohen Grocery Co., which was charged with making an unjust profit on sugar. i S. W. Lamson, Promiment. Grain Man, Dies On Coast Chicago, Feb. 26. S. W. Lamson. prominent grain man of this city,. dieo m rasaaena, uai., yesterday, according to -word received here today. Mr. Lamson was ill for a short time with pneumonia. District Judge Sears Better District Judge W. G. Sears, who lias been ill at his home in the An gelas apartments, was reported bet ter last night ' " OOUWFMl Y ' . ' . . ..; Democracy and Autocracy In a Struggle for Rule Of the Industrial World Upon the Issue othe Fight Depends the Future Wel fare ,and Progress of the Nation New Plans for Co-operative Control Fast Gaining Ground Throughout the Country Many Movements Are of the Extreme Radical Type. By RAY STANNARD BAKER. Article XVIII. In this article the last of the series I wish to take uo certain loosa ends and suggest certain gen eral conclusions. Boiled down, the present crisis-in America and for that matter in the world represents a struggle to es cape from the chaos of industrial warfare, with mie waste and ineffi ciency which characterize war, into a new reign of law and order. "Law and order," however much the terra may be abused, is today the pas sionate desire, the deep need, of the whole world. It is desired and need' ed in international affairs; still more desired and needed in the great field ot industry, Three methods are proposed for attaining law and order in industry. The first is that of extreme con servatives like Judge Gary of the United States Steel corporation, who would enforce law and order from above' by virtue of maintaining a determined autocracy of caoital. While 'powerfully organized them selves, employers who hold to this oint of view use every device to eep labor disorganized. . Judge Gary will neither meet aor deal with outside representatives of union labor, nor will he recognize organ izations within his mills. , T 1 P .1 . xi employers oi mis type are forced by the erowine oower of labor to deal with the unions it is in no real spirit of co-operation; they merely sign a truce, and the attitude on both sides remains one of suspicion and hostility which may at any moment flame up in open war (.siriKes, locicoutsj. Extreme Radical Movements. The second method is that of the extreme radicals. An examination of the extreme radical movements among American workers will show that mosK of them have for their central purpose, however vaguely expressed, however veiled, the im position of law and order upon in dustry through autocratic control by labor. They see only injustice, suppression, inefficiency,, in the au tocracy of capital and they fly to the other extreme. "Labor must rule," is the slogan of revolutionary radicalism. Extreme conservatism thus breeds extreme radicalism; czarism breeds bolshevism. The exemplification of this extreme point of view is found in the "dictatorship ot tne proletariat now existing in Russia. While the great masses of labor in America today are not yet touched with this extreme spirit, never theless labor unions are-'growing ik - 'w as never ueiore: iney are pene- trating many industries formerly i r . unorganized, like the steel mills and the textile industries. They have already conquered the packing house industries. They are going into politics as never before, with the successes of the labor party in England to cheer them on. They are undertaking with a fresh spirit of determination co-operative enter prises designed to serve the sole needs of the workers. Workers Are Winning. To any honest observer who sur veys the development of the past 25 years it is clear that while they have lost battles, the workers are winning the war. One need only recall as evidence of this advance the immense body of labor legislation passed during the last few years in America and the fact that labor is now represented in the president's cabinet; one need only recall the part which labor leaders played dur ing the 'war, and, finally, the power exhibited recently by labor organ ations in the steel and coal strikes and in the" railroad controversy. While the masses of American labor may not subscribe to the outright program of the extreme radicals that "labor must rule," yet the whole drift of the labor movement is in that direction. New Co-operative Relationship. The third method represents a vigorous rejection of the whole idea of autocracy either the blind and greed autocracy of capital i or the rough autocracy of labor. A sturdy and wholesome voice is rising powerfully in America not clear yet, and rather angry, but full of vitality that says: ; "A plague o' both your houses. We will be bossed neither by Gary nor by Haywood nor by the ideas that they personify. Get together now and do your job! 'Give us pro duction; give us clothes and coal and steel and food and stop your fighting about it I" Out o this spirit and out of the intolerable chaoi which long-continued conditions of incipient civil war in industry have produced has sprung the remarkable movement which I have already described, to ward a new co-operative relation ship between employers and workers and a gradual substitution of demo cratic for autocratic control of in dustry,' It represents a right-about-face; a new spirit, a new attitude. It is opposed by both extremes, both the old hard-set employer class and the wilder radicals, but it is being accepted by the younger.v more CANDY Cathartic progressive, leaders among both employers and workers, and is spreading with great rapidity. Today the two 4deas democracy versus autocracy are struggling for mastery in American-industry. Upon the issue hangs, to a large ex tent the future welfare and progress of the nation. Need of World. The great need of a world that is. short of clothing, food, housing, manufactured materials of all kinds, is more production. The old autocratic method of con trol has been weighed in the bal ance and found wanting. It has been inefficient and wasteful to a de gree that few people realize. Scien tists in industry have declared that our industrial plants are producing only about a quarter as much as they might produce, without a cent of additional capital, if methods of handling both machinery and per sonnel were perfected. Morale in industry has dropped below zero. Autocratic employers think some times that when they have pre vented labor Organization or held it back they have presented strikes and secured efficiency; but as a matter of fact they suffer continually from a kind of chronic disease of strik ing. Experienced men leave their jobs, and new and inefficient men have to be brought in and trained a very expensive process. The "la bor turn-over" today in American industry is appalling, and labor turn-over is only a chronic phase of the disease of striking. It is as though a general were trvinar to fjght a battle with half or two-thirds ot his trained men deserting all the time, with raw recruits taking their places I Another element of crass inefficiency is to be found in inter mittent employment, as in the coal mining industry: another is the want! ot any systematic effort to train and educate workers to do their work well instead of carelessly. Importance of Team Play. Under, the new plan of co-ooera- tive effort production increases with the new spirit of the shop. Team play becomes as important to in dustry as to base ball team play and sacrifice hitting. And with hon est co-operation the worker will share in the rewards of the in creased production resulting from common effort. Some form of profit sharing eventually appears in indus tries where the new system is intro duced, and this adds further stimu lation to efficiency. The autocratic employer often complains bitterly that the worker does not nroduce as much as he could. "Why should I?" asks the worker. "T get nothing out of it. None of the profit of added production comes to me. The employer takes it all." One of the questions that is al ways fired straight at the advocate of the new system by the employer who is still skeptical about it is this: " Peculiar Difficulties. "Now, that's all right in the clo'th iug trades or at Wappingers Falls or in the Dennison Manufacturing company but it won't work with us" and he begins to tell of his pe culiar difficulties and of how unusu ally ignorant his workers are, and how atrocious are the labor leaders he has to deal with. Or he says that fhe owner of, such-and-such a plant is rich and can afford to experiment. The trouble with many employers is that they want to, be absolutely assured of success before they ven ture, and that isn t the . way the world is built. Nevertheless, it is a fact that a scheme which succeeds in one in dustry may fail in another. There is the hackneyed contract between water-power plant with an enor mous investment of capita! and a labor force of half a dozen men, and a laundry with little or no capital in vested and a large number ot work ers No mechanical plan can fit both cases. Industry is as various as life itself; wnolly different groups of conditions present themselves; for example, in the building trades, in public service corporations, like railroads; in gov ernment or municipal employment Small town and small factory condi tions are wholly different from those in the great steel and textile indus tries. , No Panaceas Will Suffice. No mere mechanism especially no patent panacea, ana mere are patent panaceas in this department of life as in any other will solve the problem. Everything depends upon the spirit of approach, the attitude of employer and worker. If thare is a real desire tor co-opera tion, a genuine wish to substitute a democratic for an autocratic point of viewrthe method will soon ap pear. Each situation must be stud ied for itself. It is a' wholesome sign in America that we are taking hold of the problem in the American way experimentally, locauy, wiui small respect for former experience and with little attention to theories a method which irritates some critics who want lis to "think through" and to "have a program" like the Germans or the British. The variety and enthusiasm of the experimentation in America seem, however, a sign of health. We are going about it with the same spirit ok inventiveness and ingeniousness, with the same disregard for govern ment commission and government advice which have always marked the most vigorous and original American development j A Great Danger. One of the chief dangers now confronting the new movement, is the evident effort upon the part of some employers to use the new de vice with the intent of forestalling the organization of labor. They put in the form--" of the system perhaps call it "democracy" but have not the. spirit by which it can really be made to work. No class of men are harder ro fool than -the workers; and many of. them today are suspicions of the new system because they are not convinced that jt is genuine, One pJE the. demands THE BEE: OMAHA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1920. of the steel workers in the recent strike was for "abolition of com pany unions." There is danger in every case where the system is "put in" by the employer as he would put in a hew machine without en couraging a firm and independent organization of the workers. There can be real co-operation only where the co-operators both have the sense of beingfree. Good "will must be reciprocal; it can never be all on one side. I-know of employers who have, put in various forms of wel fare work with a real intent to ex press their good will and have been tragically disappointed when it evoked no return; but good , will comes not out of gifts, but out of association. It is for this reason that the best example of the devel opment of the whole idea is in the men's clothing trades (as I have already described) , in which both sides are firmly organized and ap proach each .other face to face as upstanding equals. , Must Be Open Diplomacy. There must also be open di plomacy between the co-operators; there is nothing that so allays sus picion and feeds the spirit of com mon effort as frankness in taking the workers into full confidence. Real publicity which is simole truth telling would solve a large proportion of the ills the world now sniffers from. Onegreat value of the new sys tem is that it must more and more set up standards of employment for once the old basis of employ ment, in which labor is a purchase- able- commodity is shaken, new methods of determining standards of work, standards of living, stand ards of pay, must be devised. I In the clothing industry research 1 bu reaus have already been established by both employers and workers and the work of investigation has be gun j but probably most of this task will eventually have to be done by outside, impartial government agen cies. Law for Industry. Another important development perhaps the most important of all is the gradual upbuilding of a common law for industry, through the recurring decisions of shop councils and boards of arbitration. Industrial democracy is thus emerg ing just as did political democracy through, a steady accretion of prin ciples of control and adjustments, a veritable common law. Dean J. Wigmore of the Northwestern University Law school, in commenting ' upon this growth of law in the clothing trades of Chicago has this to say: "The significant thing is that gen eral principles are beginning to be f fcrmulated. And the moment you have general principles, used for de ciding particular cases, you have justice in the form of law, as dis tinguished from the arbitrary jus tice of a Turkish caliph, or from private struggle decided by private force. "Industrial controversy will be come as justifiable as property con troversy. And a new field will have been gained for systematic jus tice. , Renewed Interest in Education. Another tendency apparent in the new movement is a renewed interest in education. Just as a great wave of educational enthusiasm, which found its best expression in the common school system of America, followed the introduction of real pohtitcal democracy, so a wave of a new kind of education is coming in with the approach of industrial democracy. Autocracy thrives upon ignorance, as it does today in the steel indus try; but education is the very life blood of democracy, 'in every case where the new system has been genuinely introduced there is a tre mendous urge toward classes, clubs, schools. Both employers and work ers are interested. The Amalga mated Clothing Workers have a reg ular department of education, and the shop school or the training class is a feature of these new movements. For with . goodwill comes a new loyalty to the shop or mill. That new loyalty tends to reduce the ja bore turnover and make for steadier employment, and steadier employ ment means the opportunity and the encouragement for better training of the workers. I can only, touch upon this important subject here; it deserves an entire article. One other point is of great import ance the support of public opinion in demanding that the two parties TRUCK BODIES Republic Trucks WITHOUT MUSIC? Nothing gives so much pleasure to every member of the family as Music. A few new Q. R. S. Player Rolls added now and then to your collection creates new interest and allows you to get the most out of your Player Piano. Come- and select yours at : 0 wm I r i f to the industrial warfare which is now paralyzing our whole life get together and stay together. The pub lic must more and 'more keep in touch, not necessarily with the. de tails of the problems involved, bui with the general currents of prog ress. An Impatient Letter. I received a rather impatient letter the other day from a correspondent, who said he had read my presenta tion of some of the rather discourag ing aspects of American industry. "What is the solution of the prob lem ?"Jie demanded. Well, I felt like asking'in rejurn; "What is the solution of life" For the labor problem is the great est continuing process of life. In it are involved the myriad human re lationships under which men work together here upon the earth to cre ate food, clothing, shelter and a few beautiful things for themselves and their families. Is there any ''so lution" for that? The trouble is that men get tired and .want things settled; they want a formula; or they find a warm and comfortable corner and hate to be. disturbed in it But life and the la bor problem do not get tired they go on! In Another sense, there is a solu tion. It consists in the attitude, the spirit, which one maintains toward the labor problem an adventurous inquiring, experimental attitude, ever hospitable toward new facts and a generous and democratic spirit. I wonderif men can find this solution in its completeness without some high faith in God, and some vital jw terest in their fellowmen. Fined $400 for First' Death by Auto Under The New State Law John H Wise was fined $400 by District Judge Troup yesterday, having been found guilty by a jury last week ot causing death by ex ceeding the speed limit in an auto mobile. He was the first person to be convicted under this new law. His victim was 7-year-old Willie Kucera. The accident occurred at Sixty-first street and Military ave nue, December 5,, 1919. Consumption of Fresh Meat Causes Cut Down of Force Chicago, Feb. 26. The number of employes in packing houses in Chi cago and Kansas City, Kan., re cently has been reduced, due to ani increased consumption of fresh meats at. home and abroad, accord ing to statements made today by representatives of packing houses and by officials of labor unions. Dispatches from Kansas City said labor union officials there estimated between 2,500 and 3,500 men had been laid off. Unmasked Bandits Rob Taxi Driver of Loaded Revolver Three unmasked bandits held up and robbed E. 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