The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1910-01-14
Annual Report of Chas. r.
Case at Hoquiam Con-
vention an Able Docu-
ment-Will be Printed
forGeneraI Circulation.

To the Eighth Annual Convention OF
the Washington State Federation OF
Labor:
Fellow workers:-We are assembled
here for the purpose of discussing ways
and means for the betterment of man
kind and particularly of those who Ia
Dor to live. None more competent to
Judge of their needs could be found
than you, delegates, who through your
daily occupations are brought face to
face with the actual conditions exist
ing among the toilers of this state.
Your presence here marks you as
leaders among your associates, marks
YOU as ones found worthy of confidence
and full of ability to serve wisely those
who sent you.
The problem before YOU today is
world wide and with the perfection of
aviation may, in the near future, in
clude many worlds.
Our duties are primarily to the toll
ers within our state yet we must keer
in mind that the eyes of workers every
where are watching our progress and
that in some degree we shall be looked
upon as blazing new trails that others
may see the way. Under existing
twentieth century conditions no state
nj n N
without others share in their prosper,
ity.
flor the sake of ourselves but for the
good OF ALL to do our best not only
while here but ever after that all may
enjoy greater proportion of the multi
tude Of necessities which a higher state
: of civilization demands.
Our nine years of existence as an
steady and vigorous growth in member
| ship. influence and in results attained
Year after year we are looked to more
and more to do those things We are
organized to undertake.
| During the past year We have pro
NOTED the legislative needs of the peo-
pie before the state legislature and city
councils, have assisted in organizing the
unorganized both in new and old fields
promoted closer affiliations with state
and central bodies and performedmul-
titudes of other tasks both great and
small wherever and whenever We
were called upon or saw an opportunity
to do so.
Our mission this week, while together
and representing as we do all the III
dustries of our state, is to review the
work done during the year past ano
campaign for better citizenship, better
homes and more of them, better man
hood, better womanhood better child
hood, throughout the state and nation
A report of the work of this Office
cannot be complete. Much of it hat
been done after a days work at anothe
mind and body were not at their best
The growth of the organization ha
multiplied its duties and as our worl
has become known more and more de
mands for information and assistane
and counsel reach us from many sour
ees.
Much of yearly review is neees
sarily a repetition of what has reached
you through circular letters and tn
daily labor press. Yet we must neces
, sarily call your attention again to i
with no other desire than that of hav
ing completed duty Since l mus
} draw largely upon memory it will b
easiest for me and perhaps as well wit
, you that we take up the work with tn
: adjournment of the last convention an
follow it through the year somewhat il
the order in which things have occurred
Legislative Session.
J Immediately following the close Q
|, the last convention | was selected b.
/ the executive board to represent tn
! interests of the working men and WON
en- before the legislature which con
vened the day following our adjourn
ment
Not having participated actively
( the years political campaign | was SER
' ously handicapped by lack of know
, edge of the personality of the man
now legislators and state officials.
' was necessary to become aequainte
. with and to study the individual chal
e acteristies in order to be able to az
' proach them with any degree of SUI
4 cess
The session was the first one hel
r since the passage of the direct primar
n law and the first and most noticeab
|. feature was the absence of many wi
{ had heretofore been considered as pc
!. manent representatives of special inte
ests from certain localities because