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Show THE CITIZEN 4 labor councils, causing many San Francisco factories to nioy the southern city, transferring some rather hefty payrolls along,! them and adding their contribution of wealth and energy free labor mart of Los Angeles. There is some analogy between the history of Los AngelCs. all other cities of the nation that have kept their labor markets to all comers. There is likewise a striking similarity between industrial centers where unionism has insisted upon complete coJl with the fate that befel San Francisco recently, when one of largest manufacturing concerns, literally tore up its plant by roots, before the eyes of pickets and walking delegates, and ferred all its equipment and working force to the southern metros Industrial Freedom, with the right to every man to work in peace he is guaranteed. It matters not whether he be union or given the same measure of protection to the end that he shall achieve the most from his toil and live his own life as he chooses to live it, so long as he chooses to live within the mandates of the common law of the land. Comparisons may be invidious; but the banks letter draws a timely picture of the vast difference that exists in Los Angeles and San Francisco, the acknowledged financial center for the west, where closed shop tactics have throttled the growth of the bay city, and where industrial stalemate has issued out of the dictation of central non-unio- n, jti SKIM MILK BA BIES OR BIG PROFITS MILK TRUST- - WHICHf If it is a question of profits, and the controversy now raging over the price of milk in Salt Lake, has about resolved itself into a question of feeding the babies on skim milk, which may be had free of cost, or paying a tribute to the milk combine lor whole milk, Salt Lake mothers will be forced to admit that the profiteers have all the best of it thus far. How long will this unholy combination be permitted to exact the old wartime price for milk from the citizens of this city? Even if babies were not suffering and the death rate among them had not jumped to an alarming extent, as attested to by the women who had the milk barons on the carpet last Saturday at the Civic Center, it would still be a matter of grave public concern, as the tendency to perpetuate war prices in this city is becoming a menace to public welfare and a blot upon the fair name of the community. And here is just one instance where the combine refused to take milk, guaranteed to be of standard grade, at a price that would permit it to be sold to the consumer at half the price now charged : A rancher offered the Clover Leaf Dairy fifty gallons of milk daily of standard grade for 14 cents a gallon. The offer was refused. It has been ascertained by many consumers that the farmer is not receiving on an average more than 17 cents for his milk delivered to the institutions forming the combine. The spread between 17 cents and 50 cents a gallon is more than is warranted under existing conditions and would not be tolerated in any community that prides itself on its Americanism and its devotion to the principles of justice. It was disclosed at the meeting before the women at the Civic Center, Saturday morning, that the milk combine is giving away skim milk free of charge, through the regular constituted channels of public charity, to all who ask for it. While this is commendable, yet it does not atone for maintaining a prohibitive price for whole milk. Neither does it make amends for depriving infants of their food and the women of this daily portion of should take summary action to bring the recalcitrant milk deaL well to book. Mothers ! you who have means to pay the profiteering now being exacted for milk do you want your less fortunate to feed their babies on skim milk? Do you want the death among Salt Lakes infant population to increase because of the tf j the ti. of proper sustenance? Are you inclined to white-was- h barons as did the Progressive Business Mens Club, because it to ail be wrong to make an object lesson of one class of profiteers to J ofji mer exclusion of all others? The Citizens thinks not and you are respectfully reminded i rigl this is your affair and you will be held responsible, to a degree c patible with the influence in civic affairs you can assert, if yon'i this matter slide by without bringing down the price of mittthal t tect Salt Lake. A dairy man of Salt Lake, who wishes his name suppressed, ? allic that 8 cents a quart would be a fair price for milk in bulk delivered to the homes. He bases this price on the present cost; this all things labor, feed, delivery and overhead charges, continf wjb( fai: woi upon conducting a large dairy. Such a price would probably earn a profit for a fifty gallon dairy, but our Salt Lake dairies ?pe in thousands of gallons daily and do business at a minimum cost J The producer is against the public in this fight because he it that the milk barons will assess whatever reduction they mayk; J to concede, against him. This should not be permitted. The Cit r;;J believes that the price to the producer the farmer is already k eo to normal and compares favorably with all other prices for f( wh visions today. For the milk combine to switch around and take their uni V Hoi profit at the source of supply, instead of making the consic pay it, as at present, would be as immoral and as criminal asTo profiteering stunt they are now engaged in. life-sustaini- ng sii ! fc ; ' j hi bu wh ANALOGY OF THE RUSSIAN REGIME LEAGUE OF NA TIONS Few of us have the genius to originate the power that gives us distinction. The vast majority cither inheriting it or having it transmitted by those who arc constituted our leaders. There are and have been few original men in the world. It is only' now and then that one arises who bears the evidence of uniqueness and originality to such an extent as to stand out boldly from the masses. The world, however, has recently had two such men. Thcyr are Woodrow Wilson, who conceived the plan for the world, and Lenine, tiro master Bolshevist of Russia. super-governme- nt K t AM j i an coi Wherein lies the analogous tendencies of the League of NX as handed down by the sages at Versailles and the government Russia as dictated and directed by Lenine, the master mind? Let us remember, first, that there arc only 600,000 commurf in all Russia. In theory those 600,000 rule all the teeming of Russians. But this theory must be scrapped in order way for the realities. These 600,000 communists are actually 'eh by a small committee (the famous central committee) of nintf. Nc And it is known that this committee of nineteen is in turn htf. pe dominated by its five leading members. These five leading incli ne have no difficulty, whenever they arc agreed upon any propose |