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Newspaper
Choteau Montanan
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1918
Page
9
Labor leaders threaten a general strike if Mooney cannot be retried. The piece argues the supreme court found sufficient evidence of his guilt and frames Mooney as an anarchist linked to Berkman. It urges upholding law and order over mob rule and stresses fair retrial on solid facts.
Press dispatches report Pres. A C Townley announcing a national convention in St Paul with five member delegations from each league state including North Dakota South Dakota Minnesota Montana Idaho Nebraska Colorado and separate representation from Washington Wisconsin Kansas Iowa Texas and Oklahoma. The league aims to win western elections and has faced defeat in Idaho and Montana where candidates hid as Republicans or Democrats while backed by the nonpartisan league socialist ticket.
The public awakens to extraordinary powers granted to officials as war measures. Railroads telegraph and telephone lines and express firms were taken for the war period. Now postwar consolidation under tighter government control departs from wartime concessions. The citizen doubts such autocratic power will end.
The writer argues that wartime measures are being exploited as peace policies with broader scope than before. They warn paid public servants risk becoming dictators and that such moves under government ownership would deprive states of tax revenue and erode individual initiative and enterprise.
The editorial questions Samuel Gompers linkage of American labor to international free trade at the Laredo conference. It argues labor leaders cannot speak for organized labor on peace terms and stresses U S wage standards should be preserved while non-war industries maintain typical wages amid global competition.
A veteran trade debate excerpt argues that American manufacturers, built on high wage and living standards, cannot endure open competition with European, and especially Chinese and Japanese, producers under lower standards. The rhetoric stresses protection for domestic industry and national economic strength.
The piece laments a pattern of taxpayer burdens from state schemes, comparing to Halifax disasters, and warns of inevitable "the people pay" outcomes under public ownership. It also notes William D. Stephens facing life imprisonment and San Francisco labor council debates on Mooney and related strikes amid grand jury challenges.
The article reports J Mooney giving up involvement in the San Francisco Preparedness Day bombing case. It notes the case connected to a murder charge and references a statement attributed to the governor. No further specifics on proceedings are provided.
Marvin Richard Gratiot 21 of Madison Wisconsin and Roselia B Smith 18 of Fonda Iowa. Ernest G Kitzman 33 of Alexander Minnesota and Idutse Brieke 28 of Power Montana.
Read about special winter rates at the Glenloyd Hotel with steam heat emphasized as a premier comfort feature. Booking details and duration implied through the ad style.
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