Painters and Decorators Wanted to receive every cent their labor produces. If you are only making a painter's ordinary wages there is very little chance of your receiving any more unless you MASTER A SPECIALTY and thereby draw a specialist's pay of from Fifty to Eighty Dollars a week or more. Others are doing it and they had no more experience than you when they commenced; just make up your mind to get started. You might as well use your spare time this coming Winter to great advantage. Send for one of our FREE, ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUES, describing our MAIL COURSES in Pictorial, Decorative Art and Theatrical Scene-Painting. These courses are of special benefit to am bitious painters in all branches of the trade. No special talent for drawing required and you cas easily learn same in your spare time. The courses are highly recommended, practical and up-todate in every respect. No agent will call on you. Write today. NOW. LEARN A TRADE THAT PAYS WELL. National Commercial Art School Dept. 5. Omaha, Nebraska. Entered as second-class matter, LaFayette, Ind., under act of March 3, 1879. The Painter and Decorator Volume XXXVI OFFICIAL ORGAN OF The Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators The Labor Union did this much for you. Here's what you can do for the Labor Unionshow the non-union advocates what unionism means by doing your utmost to uphold the purposes and principles of your trade obligation. To the Membership In the September issue of the Journal a complete statement was published regarding the many calls received for financial and other assistance, and a recommendation was made by your General Executive Board suggesting how the Defense Fund may receive additional revenue in order to partially meet this ever increasing demand. For the months of November and December, sufficient space will be set aside in the Journal for publication of arguments for and against the proposition as suggested, and every member of the organization is cordially invited to give his views on this subject. The matter should be discussed in the meetings of the local, and some member be appointed to give the union's views on the subject. All statements should be as brief as possible. Lets have your views on this question so that every section of the country may know the view of the other. CHAS. J. LAMMERT, G. S.-T. I KELLOGG'S VICIOUS BILL CHECKED So-Called Sympathy for Aliens Dangerous Plot Washington, Sept. 30. N checking a so-called "alien protection" bill, introduced by Senator Kellogg, the A. F. of L. has performed another distinct service to the cause of liberty. The bill was the result of President Harding's recommendation to congress that the federal government be given the power to enforce those portions of its treaties with foreign nations that apply to the protection of aliens. The stage had been set for rushing the bill through congress by a propaganda on the Herrin mob. When the bill came before the senate committee it was clear that there was no intention of holding hearings, but Edgar Wallace, legislative representative of the A. F. of L., asked to be heard. That finished the Kellogg bill. The trade unionist showed that it empowered the president to send troops into any state, over protests of state officials, if he (the president) said an alien claimed he was not receiving justice as assured him under a treaty between his country and the United States. It also empowered the president to set aside alien land laws of western states on the ground that they interferred with treaty rights assured Japanese in this country. The bill is one of the most vicious proposals ever introduced in the congress of the United States. It has been smashed to bits, however, through the vigilance of the A. F. of L. Sustains Position of Labor. The Boston American, one of the leading papers of New England, editorially sustains the position of labor's representatives. Listen to this: The bill is revolutionary. It is revolutionary in two aspects. Its terms are a typical illustration of the weakness of human nature. The President was only seeking, ostensibly, the power to protect aliens from the lawless violence of people within a stateagainst violence which was contrary to the law of the state as well as to the law of nations. But the bill as drawn shows how hungry we are for power. It gives the Executive authority far more power than is needed to deal with such affairs as the fight between the miners in southern Illinois. It illustrates the modern tendency to increase the Executive and the judicial power at the expense of the legislative power. UNDER ITS TERMS THE PRESIDENT AND HIS SUBORDINATES CAN NULLIFY THE LAWS OF THE STATE, AND PARTICULARLY IN RESPECT TO THOSE LAWS WHICH HAVE ALWAYS BEEN CONSIDERED EXCLUSIVELY WITHIN THE STATE JURISDICTION. By the terms of this proposed act the Pacific coast states will lose control of their Asiatic problem, and other sections will lose control of some of their most delicate local questions. |