Show lip I d end HEARD round the ther t tal nal r al Capital C pTER ARTER FIELD l J Jone one would scarcely puch uch a commodity as co ld Id so many peo Mess I SS has found out that t It Itt tUng t ting the proposed new t oil tire cents n a pound 4 bill and three cents a approved by the sen Congress committee pro qUOn from business s Inter Inter- country that has sum ted the senators senator and rep have ha joined In cry Scarcely a state In f f what has some hospital t- t more which have sent theIr senators and mem mein house protesting against n a tax on health II 11 Is used for making used for many other 1150 been disco discovered el ed by the I people are up In arms textile Industry Most lost he house did not dream dreame e Interested The tan liver oil which Is tax They sa say It would costs enormously and would hn hate e to be passed ed manufacturers So they in the letter writing n a sending battle too only the beginning Min wrappers for soap boxes lack ack the soap lItho lithographs and advertising aU all hive hl t protest They The say the ps ris theris on 15 per cent and andruse ruse use rate of fir a 0 cents thI this the tae taC on cocoanut oil ithe times the duty siy foreign makers of If could run with Ith the fket because they would f p their cocoanut oil at five fhe late er the ta tae shall n poun pound Rs us Angles Angless s part of this fight Is that 14 from the Philippine In mo ement Se Several eral years lost people thought the independence had J Jennings Bryan Eted an alliance bet between Interests which ig g from Philippine corn com comet et ef among these w IS gs su resting 15 states where here raised and t tw o 0 states states- c here here- here cane cane fight beh between een Interests In Cuba and the h Haw Ha nian sugar suar Inter cd ad into a truce whIle both Dusty to do something whIch In 10 1929 I tons of Into tates and this year sentis sent is s Interests were joIned by bv I crests of the Northwest orth est the cheap Phil Ich was making oleo l a ai i or of butter It Is these lIch ch are responsible more morer ler r elements and consider er gether for the fact that 18 months two bills for have been atter attel one sat the he Filipinos who reject are not willing to rod Od of years before the erected against the Phil Phil- Independence Hence x on cocoanut oil In the i I every pha phase e of thus tae tl re only the of 5 These products me not dallY dairy and creamery Inter Inter- perfectly satisfied If the plied only to nOD edIble e commercial interests ant the tax nt at aU all be a terrIbly unfair bur burly ly large AmerIcan Indus a pressure that succeeded e tu taa from frow five to three e senate committee It surprising If the pressure ugh to force a further re- re reite ite the clamor of the do doers doers ers utes Ahead a soft coil cOll strike Is just any labor dIsputes In the theof theof of whIch and the coal ocular will become scares scare S before the passage of l Each ach time there will be bed bed d the President will ha have hae har haver e r Textiles longshoremen ding are among those thoe on r oal situation Is one of the thes thes s of all Actually the I ken a terrible beating beatin up RA IIA was organized Now are anxious to get back In the period following I me agreement 00 they hope for one whole soft coal Industry cued after the Jackson nt at was simply that hay hayo o pay the scale of wages the men the number of d upon at Jacksonville O found themselves with the nonunion sprang into activity 19 ket for sort soft coal for Industrial purposes had bad been slipping for years It has hns been slipping over ever sInce More and moro more IndustrIes are run by electricity generated from wa- wa water water ter power powel More nn and more hotels fac- fac factorIes factories torIes apartment houses office orrice build lags clubs and all tapes t pes or of lar large e structures where here soft and not hard coal conI had been used began turning to oil In tact fact most of tile the new structures structures tures put up In the last ten years have oil and not coal burnIng furnaces for their hefting MeaD Meanwhile and andI even In nd of thIs steamships I and steamboats had been turnIng to oil until It his been a long time now that the coal burnIng Vessel has been considered cd obsolete In the na v where greater cruising Tinge 1 and speed were so sits ital tIllS thus has been true since the World So They Cut Prices So wIth the demand for soft coal COllI falling off the only way some mine 0 owners nel s saw to get business was as to dish prices es and agaIn and inthis In Inthis this competition the union mIne own owners owners ers were el e barred So the Kentucky an and West Vest Virginia fields did most of the soft coil COll business was ns with done nonunion miners I lien hen with the com coin comIng lag Ing of NnA and the Insistence upon collective e came the hope of union leaders that they would again be able to regain their foothold despite de despite spite the fact thit the soft coal bust busl bustness ness Is at a far lower ebb today thin It eser eer e er his been In fact It Is 1 ed as not hay ha haIng Ing touched bottom and being destined to slide down to toward ar it fot foi some time to come the impossibility of a union mine attempting to compete with witha Ith Itha a nonunIon l the moment the code tor lOr w iges and hours was The collective e bargaining pro pIo ision moreo el assured cd some sort of organization So the United Mine line S saw the he same opportunIty that the re of Libor Li bor saw a aIn In the automobile in industry industry The same opportunity but with a aver avery ver very different ent situation applies In the steel industry Hence the prompt ac action tion of the steel companies ill n ens ensing ing wages They The e ious anxious that the dispute when hen It should reach front pi OpOl and Ir 11 In in- in interference should be confined solely to the quest question lOll of union recognition recognition- and recognitIOn of a pal union They wanted wante the whole hole question of bouts and taken taLen out of true the con contro controversy tro ers But all union and all In who hay ha hae e a studied the sit sit- know that the American leeder leder atton of Labor dId make mahe a substantIal substantial gain in what be a long battle for control of the labor In the automo automobile hUe bile Industry In the 1 recent settlement I So everybody on both sides of every e ery other Industry save those thoroughly I unionized now Is set for trouble until the battle In theIr industry has hus been fought or been settled b 93 Presidential I edIct Pleases Labor Leaders Prediction that every e ery labor dispute which de develops clops from now on will be laid hid lIght on the Presidents President's doorstep vv is freel made as the conditions of the settlement of the automobIle labor dispute were studied here by all three t types pes of those observers those ers In s sympathy with or connected with the those In s sympathy with or con con- connected connected with tabor labor an and those whose hose only Interest Is In determining where the publIc comes out and where hele events are leading Generally hailed at first as a defeat for tor labor there Is not so much sure sure- sureness ness about this with subsequent study One point that distresses the old rugged Individualists Is that It puts the go government in as the decidIng fac- fac factor factor tor in every dispute As the labor representative e and the 1 representative e of the employers may always ays be certainly certainly placed In advance It Is quIte obvious that each decIsIon will be made after the umpire speaks And the umpire will III be the man put theta e eby by the government I This sort of thing Is highly tor to the labor leaders It Is s a corn com complete labor vIctory In a way What made It look 1001 different at first Is that it II was qUIte a setback for the Imme- Imme asp aspirations 11 of the present group of AmerIcan 1 of Labor om- om officials daIs hey dId not win In the power and the dues they had bad hoped for when their bIg gesture for a strike was planned But as a matter of fact they were not very hopeful of winning ever every thing in one skirmish They wanted to gain ground They have done It it Under the present set up the strong probabilIty probability Ity Is that the nationwide union wIll gaIn ground and the shop union will lose ground If this does docs not happen the labor leaders will keep leep up a con barrage against the employers charging them every with blocking the of the work work- workers workers ers In the union they prefer preter Anyone who thinks the ultimate In- In Intention intention of the federation to obtain power 0 over er the automobile workers has been smashed for all tIme simply does not know union l labor bor methods The fight has only begun nut But the immediate problem Is tough for the manufacturers In that they arenow are aro aronow now so to tn in politics up to their necks It will HI be necessary for them to put e every cry ounce of pressure they can on the gO government to have governmental gov- gov governmental for their own de desires desires sires In the various arlous dl disputes which will VIlli arise and which will be settled under the Presidents PresIdent settlement by this board of tin tIll ee That ls is where the labor ha have hae e really scored CoI Copyright hl w NU service a |