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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-05-17
PARTY At CLUB HOUSE.

Pink roses and carnations were used
in decorating the Country club house
Monday afternoon when Mrs. John A..
Nicholson, with her daughter, Miss
Edith entertained large company at
bridge The game was played at nj
teen tables. Favors were given to
Mrs Gennett Rose Of Nashville, Ten
nessee, Miss Florence MCGUIRE and
Mrs. w. r. Poundstone. After the
game luncheon In several courses
was served. Among the out-of-town
guests were Miss Matte Belle Gayle OF
New Liberty, Kentucky, Miss Almira
Starr of Chicago, who is the guest OF
Miss Marry Gaar, Mrs. Holden OF In
dianapolis, Mrs. Gennett Rose and Mrs.
Curtis of Nashville. Tennessee, and
Mrs. Frank Roe. Of Piqua, Ohio.
= = y
MARRIED THIS MORNING.
Mr.. Glen Taylor and Miss Mable
Eikenberry were quietly married this
morning at the First Christian church
parsonage by the Rev. S. w. Traum
There we're no attendants. The bride
wore pretty light tan travelling suit
Her hat was a large black picture one.
She wore corsage bouquet of valley
lilies.
Mr.. and Mrs. Taylor left at nine
fifty-five o'clock for Columbus, Della
ware and Cleveland, Ohio, where they
will spend their honeymoon Upon
their return they will be at home at
OCT North Twenty-first street. Their
many friends extend most hearty con
gratulations. The bride is well and
favorably known here.
- - -.
CHANGE FLOWER
Mrs. Charles w. Fairbanks suggest
ed to the General Federation OF Wo
mems clubs in Cincinnati. last week
that the laurel instead of the golden
rod, be adopted as the national flower
Here reasons in part are: THE lau
rel grows In every state, We are told
1t is beautiful. and. above all. endur
ing. l do not know that 1t has any pc
culiar fragrance. but that is not es
sential. It's greatest characteristic
Is that It is universal American
plant and is typical of all parts OF
the country. The goldenrod may or II
may not be: but 1t does not stand fol
any peculiar virtue.
1.-THE laurel from the days immem
orial has stood for courage, victory
conquest and achievement. not only II
war, but in every pursuit. We neef
a. national flower and think the Fed
Grafton would aid the movement II i
would indorse the laurel"
Mrs. Fairbanks stated that the i'm
preston which she had gained Of thu
necessity Of national flower for thu
United States was greatly strengthen
ed by the tour of the world from
which she has just returned with he
husband.
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DANCE A SUCCESS
In honor of the Kokomo. Richmond
Marion and Anderson track teams
Walter Bercaw. Berry Whitaker ant
Paul Moreland gave novel dance a
the town house Of the Country clul
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-05-17

Mrs. A. F. B.: Do not use these So
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-05-17
DANCE A SUCCESS

In honor OF the Kokomo. Richmond,
Marion and Anderson track teams,
Walter Bercaw. Berry Whitaker and
Paul Moreland gave a novel dance at
the town house Of the Country club
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-05-17
HURSTING-BATTER

The wedding of Mr.. Henry c. Hurst
ing and Miss Lille M. Batter was cele-
hrated this morning at o'clock in
ST. Andrews church. The bride was
attended by her sister, Miss Katherine
Batter.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-05-17
PARTY At CLUB HOUSE


PARTY AT CLUB HOUSE
A card party will be give Thursday
afternoon at the Country club house
A small admission fee will be asked
the proceeds to be used to purchase
linen and dishes for the club.
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MRS. BARTEL's RECEPTION.
The hours for Mrs. Fred J. Bartels
reception to be given Monday after
noon. May 23rd, at her home or
South Fourteenth street, are from
until o'clock.
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TO GIVE CARD PARTY.
A card party will be given Thursday
evening, May 10th, by the Lady Mac
cabees in the Odd Fellows hall. The
game will begin at o'clock.
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WERE GUESTS HERE
The Misses Hazel and Marjorie Con
nell, of Dayton, Ohio, spent Sunday II
this city, the guests OF friends.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-05-17

w. X: | do not know of anything te
suit your case and would advise you t
consult a good physician.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-05-17

The Friends Foreign Missionary So
ciety will meet with Mrs. Atwood Jen-
kins, at her home on the National
road. Wednesday Afternoon, at els
O'Clock
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1910-11-11
FINED FOR WORKING
GIRLS OVER 10 HOURS

Mrs Blanch II. Mason, assistant state
labor commissioner, has been in Ever
EFT the past few days to investigate
complaints of violation of the ten hour
law for women emplo yes. This humane
statute provides thfa no employer can
exact more than teen hours on any one
day of a woman employe. Complaint
has been made TO the clerks union
and the assistant state labor com
missioner secured the evidence this
week. The result being that the case
was heard Wednesday; the defendant
pleaded guilty anil received the fine
and costs attached to the suit
This should prove very wholesome
check and restraint to further violation
of this law. The child labor case which
has been under CAREFUL Investigation
and has resulted in the child being
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1910-11-11
BOTH ELECTRIC LIGHT
COMPANIES ARE UNFAIR

The strike against the Senttle.Ta
coma Power company and the Stone
Webster CO., to an outsider, may seem
to be on the wane, but to those who
know, it is, most emphatically, not.
At a recent meeting of the Trades
Council the union men of the city de-
cided that it was hardly fair to con
tinue using electricity for lighting
purposes, as long as the electricians
were on strike, so they will discontinue
its use until such a time as the strik-
ers succeed in reaching some kind of
an agreement with the companies.
The effect of this decision is far
reaching, and is already bearing fruit
The company will tell you that it will
have no effect ON their business, but
at the same time they are working
overtime to head it off; they are max
ing hurried calls on all patrons whose
contracts have expired and use every
effort to have them renewed, but in
some cases, and they are numerous,
they do not succeed.
The men are out on Just strike,
and for that reason they have the
moral support of majority of the peo-
pie, they cannot have the support of
the daily papers for reasons that are
known to the most of MS
II may be that the strike will be
a prolonged affair, but the men are in
a position to stand it as long as the
company, the strikers are all working.
or can he il they care to, so are out
nothing on that account. but with the
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1910-11-11

October seventh The Times printed
the headlines: Connecting the Lead
ers. Tveitmoe's Friend Sought as Dyna-
miter." The evidence upon which it
was sought to base these statements
that no other newspaper, not even those
which seem to have joined The Times
in the conspiracy to lay the blame on
organized labor, made any mention of
it.
Finally, from that day to this, The
Times has daily through insinuation
and innuendo, attempted to rivet upon
the public mind the belief that union
men active in the existing strikes in
Los Angeles planned and ordered the
dynamting of it's building, although it
has been unable to present the slight
est evidence to support such a belief.
Inasmuch as there are many persons
of fair mind who are not acquainted
with General Harrison Gray Otis and
his newspaper, nor with the industrial
situation in Los Angeles, and who,
therefore, seeing bold and unqualified
assertions that dynamite was used to
blow up The Times building, and that
unionists were the dynamiters. would
naturally suppose that there existed
evidence to support such assertion, it
would seem important to shed some
light upon these matters.
AS a publication, The Los Angeles
Times is notorious throughout the
world as having no rival as hostile
and INSCRIPTIONS enemy, not only to
unionism, but to progress generally.
On the subject of industrial free
DOM it is no exaggeration to say that
General Otis is insane. Otis was against
unionism has always been matter of
''principle," not of pocket book. Years
ago his assaults on the Typographical
Union brought him to the verge of
bankruptcy but his fanaticism drove
him to fight on.
The dream of General Otis life for
the past twenty years has been the
determination of unionism in Los An
geles. and there has not been a trick
so low, a calumny so vile, that he has
not resorted to if he thought it would
work toward that end.
Repeatedly, when employers have ex-
pressed il willingness to treat with
their employees on a basis of equality,
Otis has resorted to blackmale to com
pei them to stand out for the "open
shop"
Otis allied himself with the Southern
Pacific railroad machine and thus be-
came a power in politics, in order that
he might use this Influence. in all its
ramifcations, against organized labor.
Otis created the Merchants and Man
ufacturers' association, the Citizens
Alliance of Los Angeles, and gained
control of the Los Angeles Chamber of
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company things are different, the work
they are having done is costing them
at least double, and no doubt more,
than it would under fair conditions, az
the men that they are able to get are
not mechanics.
With the expenses going up and the
receipts going down some one is going
to sit up and take notice"
The conditions in Seattle, Tacoma
and Bellingham are all that could be
wished for, and if the union men in
this part of the country will just give
the moral support that they can, the
strike will soon be won.
1t might be well to look back few
months into the history of this trouble.
Six months or more ago, the electric
light linemen took up with the com
panies, the matter of wages and con
ditions, and after numberless confer
ences were turned down on every count.
The telephone linemen have an agree
ment with the companies for 1915 per
day for eight hours the light men were
receiving $685. per day of nine hours,
in other words the telephone men get
about 20 cents for the ninth hour,
while the light men received 10 cents
for the ninth hour, when il is conceded
that light work is worth so cents a
day more than telephone work. The
light men are asking for the pricely t0
sum of $4.20 per day of eight hours,
which surely is reasonable enough com,
pared with other skilled mechanics in
less hazardous trades.
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withdrawn from employment, and the
superintendent of schools and probation
Officers are to secure in some way
school advantages for this lS-year-old
lad who was found working ten hours
day.
The plumbing ordinance recently put
through by the council, has section
providing for separate and distinct
toilets for both sexes and that the
plumbing and sanitation shall be up-to
date.
There are a number of eases now that
the sanitary inspector can take hold OF
at once, and correct, and the Labor
Journal recommends immediate action
One of the things the labor commits
sioner commends highly is the recent
appointment of nurse at the high
school.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1910-11-11
Los Angeles, Cal,
October 2G, 1910.

October 2G, 1910.
10 the Executive Council of the Cali.
fornia State Federation of Labor.
Your committee appointed October
4th to investigate the circumstances
of The Times disaster beg leave to sub
mt the following report:
On the afternoon of the 4th this com
mittee called upon Mayor Alexander
and informed him of our desire to CO.
operate with the committee of business
men whom he had already appointed to
report upon the causes of the catastro-
phe. The mayor refused to grant our
request, saying that he had no right
to give us permission to 90 upon pri-
vate property, and further, that to al.
low us to act would be unfair to the
other committee since the latter had
already about finished its investiga
tiOns.
The mayor told us that the owners
of The Times had ordered the city EN-
ployes off the premises, and that the
laborers digging at the ruins had quit
work at noon that day. Mr.. Humph-
reys, who was in charge of the city
diggers, happened to come into the of
flee at this time, and, upon being asked
the pointed question, asserted that the
city employees We're still working. but.
casting a quick glance at the mayor.
caught himself and said: "They are
probably off the premises by this time "
These incidents your committee took
as evidence that their services were not
welcome, and that for some reason the
mayor did not wish us to investigate
too closely the circumstances surround
ing the disaster.
After some parley, however, this
committee secured permission to pass
within the police lines ut The Times
and proceeded to view the
wreck from the adjoining, property
which was as close to the ruins as we
were permitted to go. From these
points of vantage. we observed the
wreck for about two and one half
hours. The committee of business men
made brief investigation and reported
within a few days. Your committee
has continued its work INCREASINGLY for
a period of nearly four weeks, and has
spared no effort nor expense to uncover
The TRUTH not only of the immediate
cause of the catastrophe, but of the
circumstances and motives involved in
the charges of crime which have so
readily been made against organizs,s
abor in connection Herewith.
Four weeks have now passed since
-he terrible explosion which destroyed
the building of the Los Angeles Times
wrecked it's printing plant and snuffed
'ut the lives of twenty three of its EN-
Dloyes.
Four weeks should be time enough
for the public mind to regain it's
equilibrium. The average citizen, who
has no interests at heart except those
Of justice and fair play, ought now to
be able to look the situation sqnarely
N the face. He ought to be able to
hazard a fair guess as to the cause of
The explosion, as well aus to who are
he criminals, provided there are any
criminal acts connected with this woe
ful affair
Since the truth itsself seems to have
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1910-11-11
UNFAIR LIST

ELECTRIC COMPANIES - The
Lighting, Maintenance and Con
struction departments of the
Everett Railway & Light Co.,
and Snoqualmie Light Co.
STORES-Vogels, 2913 Hewitt;
Sahlinger's, 3019 Hewitt; w.
Sahlinger's, 3019 Hewitt;
Workingman' Store.
BAKEKRY-Everett Home Bak-
cry, 2S03 Hewitt.
EVERETT THEATRE.
IRON WORKS - Sumner Iron
Works, Nordeen Iron Works,
Bayside Iron Works, Everett
Iron Works.
PRINTERS-Knisely Printing Co.
1901 Wetmore. Kane & Har-
Gus, Proprs.
AMERICAN PILE DRIVING co.
BRICK LAYERS-O. A. Wheeler,
Dan Mccarthy, Barney Grant,
and all bricklayers on Presby
terian church.
ELECTRICIANS. P. Bush.
MITCHELL HOTEL, Barber Shop.
Bar and Cafe.
A. ERICSSON.
CEMENT WORKER-Pettit, Sr
C. R. SCHWEITZER, Plumber.
C. f. Groenke, Plumber.
A. BASSETT, Plumber.
MODERN PLUMBING & HEAT
ING CO.
ACME ICE CREAM co.
ACME PLUMBING CO.
EAST SIDE PLUMBING CO.,
1916 Everett.
R. Springer, of Springer's Bazaar,
1913 Hewitt avenue.
Warehouse foot of California
street.
P. SAMPSON, Contractor.
CARPENTERS Platt, Paddock,
Ridgeway, Steel, M. w. Perkins
PAINTERS John Engblom,
Z. f. Neal.
PLASTERERS- A. Allyn,
Willard, C. Wheeler, A. e. Wright.
Booth.
BAR r S.-Wm. Whitaker,
Lowell.
Clarence S. Tripp.
CONC RETE AP A RTMENT
HOUSE, corner Norton aud Pa
: cific
BY order EVERETT TRADES
COUNCIL
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sons that will hereafter appear-in or
der that a just judgment may be ar
rived at, it will be necessary here to
present the situation as it stands. We
believe the following to be fair and
honest statement of facts.
At one o'clock on the morning of
October lst The Times building was
destroyed by an explosion and fire, the
fire enveloped the building so quickly
that score of the employees were un-
able to escape and were burned to
death, while several others were seri-
ously injured.
Within an hour after the explosion
Harry s. Andrews, managing editor of
the paper, issued the following public
statement:
"The Times building was destroyed
by dynamite early this morning by
the enemies of industrial freedom"
This assertion was made before Mr.
Andrews had the slightest evidence as
to what caused the explosion, much
less, as to who-supposing the cause to
have been dynamite-committed the
crime.
an edition from its auxiliary plant.
Page wide its headlines read: "Unionist
Romhs Wreck Tho Timas
General Harrison Gray Otis, propri-
etor of The Times, although he had
not yet arrived in Los Angeles, nor had
interviewed anyone who was acquaint
ed with the primary facts of the dis
aster, made. in effect, the same state
ment as did Andrews. The statements
of both were telegraphed to all parts
of the world, and were undoubtedly
read by tens of millions of people.
In every succeeding issue for many
days, and repeatedly in each issue The
Times reiterated the charge that its
building had been blown up by members
of labor unions. Monday morning, Oc-
tober third, it made the statement:
"That The Times building was wreck
ed with dynamite and more than score
of innocent lives sacrificed to labor
union vengeance is an established fact.
The gas explosion theory began and
ended in malice"
From this it might be supposed that
some evidence had been discovered i'm
plicating union men. Such was not the
case. No one had been accused, no one
was even under suspicion. Not a shred
of evidence as to the identity of the
dynamiters-if there were dynamiters--
had been discovered or alleged to have
been discovred, by anyone not even The
Times itself.
Wednesday, October 5th The Times
printed an editorial arguing that.
should the alleged crime be brought
home to the door of any members of
labor union, though it be found That
they had neither part in nor knowl-
edge of the crime. the leaders of or
eanized labor in the state of California
should be hanged as instigators; in
other words, that the barbarous prin
ciple employed to execute innocent per
sons subsequent to the Haymarket at
fair twenty three years ago, be resur-
rected to bring about the death of men
whom the members of California labor
unions have elected to their executive
Offices
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Commerce, to use them as weapons
against organized labor.
Otis acquired other publications. no.
tably the Daily Journal and the Daily
Herald He published the latter under
other nominal ownership, using it in a
pretended fight against his own poll
cies, in order to gain a clientele of read
ers beyond the reach of The Times. so
as to propagate among them later for
his own ends.
Otis hired spies to join the unions
and mingle with union men, in the
hope of securing evidence of criminal
ity or other evidence which he might
use to their detriment
Trumpeting abroad the report that
unionists were plotting to do him vio-
lence, Otis made of his editorial rooms
an arsenal, then employed every means
at his command to goad union men to
attack him or to make demonstration
in front of his office, in order to furn
ish an excuse for massacre
Otis gathered about him a body of
professional libelers and union -haters,
and, from first to last, carried on a
campaign of villification, lying and Ii
bel unique in the history of journalism
This campaign was directed not only
against unionism and unionists but
against progressive ideas and progress
sive persons of every sort. To Otis,
every class of reformer, from the con
vocate of direct legislation to the con
servationists, was like a "red." "an-
archist." 'crank" or "disturber."
As a result of Otis bitter hostility.
and the uncompromsing attitude which
his bulldozing tactics compelled the EN-
ployers to take, it was inevitable that
a time should come when there would
be sharp contest between the forces
of organized labor and the employers
associations in Los Angles
The great humanitarian movement
for the association of the workers OF
the world may be hindered and check
ed for n time, but as surely as the
world is marching forward so surely
will this vast movement extend itself
By his fanatic opposition to unionism
as principle Otis was only laying up
for Los Angeles lockouts, strikes and
boycotts, which are only the fruit of
misunderstanding and interpretation
of the beneficient ends of labor union
ism.
Los Angeles, being an "open shop
town, wages are generally low. The
skilled mechanics in the metal trades.
for example, have been receiving from
one to three dollars a day less money
than mechanics of the same standing
are receiving in other cities of the
United States. The brewery workers
have also been receiving a wholly in
adequate wage.
In May of this year the men in these
two crafts decided to ask for more
wages as a partial offset to the in
creased cost of living. Making their
advances in the most respectful and
tactful way, the Brewery Workers
Union asked an increase of from two
to three dollars a week The Metal
Trades council asked for a minimum
wage of four dollars day The brew
cry workers We're promptly locked out.
The communication of the Metal Trades
council was consigned to the waste
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THE TIMES DISASTER AS
REPORTED BY S. F. OF T..

| basket and when it became evident that
the mechanics were to get no consider
alton whatsoever they went on strike.
AT the time of The Times disaster
both these struggles seemed on the
point of being won by the union men.
Despite the eXasperating efforts of the
police to stir up trouble. the men have
INDUCED in no serious acts of violence
and every precauton has been taken
to prevent members from resisting the
aggressions of the police. There have
been many arrests. but nearly all of
these have been the arrest of peaceful
union pckets, in enforcement of the
-picketing law which the city coun-
ell passed under pressure from The
Times and the Merchants and Manu-
facturers' association.
But the strikers were on the point
of winning For the first time it ap-
peared that the grip of The Times on
the industries of Los Angeles was about
to be broken. Wherefore the attacks
of The Times upon organized labor be
came more infuriated. more insane than
ever. During the few days previous to
the disaster The Times applied, in its
columns, the following epithets to un-
ionism or unionists
"Sluggers," "Union Rowdies,' Hired
Trouble Breeders" Horde" "Lawless
Agitation" "Bullics," "Di8turbers of
the Industrial Peace" ''Organized Ruff
fianism," "Ruffians." "Brutes," Mob"
"Rabble," "Gas-ppe Ruffians," "Or-
ganized Rowdyism." "Bunch" local
Malcontents," "Union Brutns." "Strong
Arm Union Labor Gang" Rough
neclls." 'Lawless Ones" "Union
Wolves" "Toughs," Corpse Defacers,"
"Murderers' and "Assassins"
Without the slightest foundation for
its statements, during this period The
Times charged union men with some
of the most heinous crimes. among
them several attempted dynamitings
The day previous to the disaster. The
variously with attempting to blow up
the Hall of Records. with attempting
murder with conspiring mayhem with
attacking a corpse.
During this period General Otis, The
Times. the Merchants and Manufac
turers' association and their allies were
exerting tremendous efforts to bring
about a coalition of employers on the
Pacific Coast for the purpose of launch
ing war of determination against or
ganized labor from Seattle to San
Diego.
Such was the situation Just previous
to the blowing up of The Times.
1t has not been established that The
Times building was destroyed by dy-
Mantle.
The only two points which can pos
sibly be urged in support of the dyna
hitting theory after four weeks investi-
CATION, are:
First That a committee appointed by
the mayor reported the conclusion that
"The explosion used was one of high
power, such as nitroglycerine or a pro
duet of nitroglycerine"
Second That the day following tae
disaster "infenal machines" were dis
covered" in the vicinity of the homes of
General Otis and Secretary Zeehande
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