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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-06-15
BY TRAINER BARNEY FUREY

I have been with John Johnson
for eight years and l never saw
him in better condition than he is
now. I will never believe there is
a man in the world who can defeat
him until l see him beaten, and I
don't expect to see anything of this
kind. l predict that he will win in
not more than IS rounds, and l
Will be surprised if he does not.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-06-15
BY TIP WRIGHT,

BY TIP WRIGHT.
SAN FRANCISCO, June 15.-
With two weeks to train, Jack john
son wishes way down In his heart,
that he was carrying more weight,
more by 10 pounds.
When he fought Stanley Ketchell
Johnson scaled at 1875. He will
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-06-15

Packy Mcfarland Is coming
home, as Freddie Welsh has refused
to make another match with him.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-06-15
BY BILLY NOLAN
Confidential Adviser to Jack
Johnson.

l think Jack Johnson today is
In grand shape. AS to the outcome
of tPe battle, l think the negro
wiil'Hin handly-not easily, but
handily-if he enters the ring on
even terms. | have not read the
article of agreement and they may
contain something that | have not
heard about, but with all things be-
ing equal, it is my candid belief.
and has been for months, that
johnson will win inside of 20
rounds.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1910-06-10
UNION WEN
ON STRIKE:
1,5OO Men in Boston De-
mand Increased Wages
and Better Conditions.

BOSTON, June lO-Fifteen hundred
Boston trade unionists struck June
for a better wage. The crafts involved
are the carpenters, shop and mill men,
cabinet makers, machinists, hosting
and portable engineers, floor layers and
sheet metal workers
Six thousand house carpenters and
joiners ask for an increase of ST. a week.
Six hundred cabinet makers, shop and
mill men seek an increase of 81 a week
Three thousand machinists seek the es-
tablishment OF Standardization of
rates. Sheet metal workers ask $3.50
week increase Wharf pile drivers want
an increase of 26 cents a day and wharf
carpenters seek 26 cents day advance
The crafts involved are organized
practically to a man and the total mum
Der of skilled men involved in the de
mands is 10000 They threaten a gen
eral strike unless they get what they
ask.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1910-06-10
WEAVERS ELECT OFFICERS

Despite the counter attraction of the
Sunday tabernacle meeting the shingle
weavers had large meeting Tuesday
night, the occasion being the semi an.
nual election of officers The fellow
ing members will serve in the various
official capacities for the next six
months: President, A. A. Furber: vice
president, R. Pilon; recording secretary.
Charles Knecht financial secretary, E.
2. Marsh; treasurer, Edw. Johnson !;
guide, Charles Turley; guard, A. J. Nc
Donald; delegates to Trades Council,
j. E. Campbell. NJ. c. Engeles, E P
Marsh; trustees, B F Hall, Gus Berg.
Henry Luce; executive board, l.. P.
Grignon, Lew Davis, Ed Little, Jos.
Bodin, John Sundberg. Edw Johnson,
Grant Began. Much to the chagrin of
the local, one of its members was guilty
of taking the job of one of the striking
laundry drivers during the recent
strike. The guilty member, VIM Mat
lock, was called on the carpet and fined
the maximum provided by the consti-
tuition for such offense. The weavers
consider it is just as wrong for a mem
ber to take the place of striking
workman in another craft as it would
be to take the place of one of their
members on strike.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1910-06-10
EIGHT HOUR STATUTE
SHOULD BE ENFORCED
Plain Violation of the Law Excused By Jury On
Grounds of Personal Liberty-If Eight Hour Law
Can be Broken With Impunity, So May Any 9th
er, and Law Enforcement Made Farce.

a mans inherent right to work as long
as he pleasesl If he wants to work
sixteen hours a day it is none of the
laws business! That is the deduction
that must be drawn from the verdict
of the jury for they returned a verdict
of mot guilty"
Since when did it become the pro-
vince of the jury to make the law?
In our ignorance we had supposed that
the legislature made the laws and that
it was the province of the courts TO in
terpret and see that they were en-
forced. We had also supposed that the
iuries were to base their decision On
the facts and evidence produced before
them as to whether or not law had
been broken. But this jury with
plain violation of law before them
wrote new law, i.e., a statute is all
right so long as it does not conflict
with a mans personal desires. Rather
far-fetched statement, perhaps? But
what else can be deducted from the
verdict?
Happily for existing law that all
juries don't attempt to substitute them
selves for legislature, judges and at
torneys. This is by no means a stric-
ture upon jury trial-very seldom
jury gets in wrong that way-but when
it does it makes the foxiest attorney in
the business look like an amateur in the
statute juggling line.
Here is another thought that comes
to us; The late lamented legislature
tackled on to the jury law new pro
vision lie. man to be eligible for Jury
duty must be a property holder. The
corporate influences that engineered
this little joker reasoned that a man
of property was far more conservative
than the man without property hold
ings and therefore more subservient to
the call of property rights. Damage
suits of course were what they had in
mind The number of working people
who own property isn't overwhelmingly
large and the right of challenge makes
it possible to pretty nearly eliminate
that class from any jury Doesn't it
come pretty near insult to assert that
the non property holder hasn't intelli-
gence enough nor fairness enough in
his makeup to render a verdict i'll ac-
cordance with the law and the evidence
Yet that is exactly what the new jury
law asserts And we can't help wonder
ing where this new law is going to
lead us?
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1910-06-10

The State of Washington has recog
nized the fact that eight hours is long
enough for men to toll and has by leg
islative decree fixed the same as a max
imnum workday for state, county and
municipal public work Ihe eight hour
law is on the statute books and should
be enforced the same as any other law
Because it treads on some contractors
toes is no reason why it should be ig-
nored and broken and the man or cor
poration that willfully violates the law
should be taught that laws are passed
to be obeyed. We cannot imagine the
twistings and turnings OF a mans
mental machinery who will sit on a
jury and deliberately return verdict
of mot guilty" in a case where the
of law is plain as the nose on
a mans face, But iuries sometimes have
the habit of turning mental flip flops
that leave both Judge and attorneys
gasping for breath Here is case in
point:
The American Pile Driving Co. had a
county contract building bridge near
Hazel in this county. They worked
their men over eight hours a day and
warrant was sworn out against them
for violating the state law. The case
came up for trial in the justice court
in this city before jury of six tried
and true electors and taxpayers" 1t
was admitted that the men had been
worked over eight hours and the de-
fence was that the men wanted to work
over eight hours day. They We're in
the country and wanted to make all
they could. That the law said eight
hours and no more shall constitute a
days labor didn't cut any ice with the
Jury The law shouldn't interfere with
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1910-06-10

William Goff, one of the switchmen
involved in the strike of last winter,
suffered a serious accident a short time
ago while working for the Port Blake
ley Logging Co, Mr.. Goff was making
a coupling of the old style link and pin
variety when he stepped into a hole
and his hand was thrown into the
coupling. The hand was so badly
mashed that the thumb and two fingers
had to be amuptated The accident
win probably end his railroading days
and will throw one more victim on
the list of manned and injured through
the criminal negligence of corporations
that will not provide for the safety
of employees.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1910-06-10
BIG COOPERATIVE STORE
PLANNED FOR SEATTLE
Working Men and Farmers Unite to Form Greatest
Business Venture in History of Queen City-Pro-
fits Going to Wholesalers and Jobbers Will be Di-
vided Among Producers and Consumers.

storage plant for handling provisions
and meats The building has ample
room in addition for the various other
departments. One of the largest de-
partment stores in Seattle has been
purchased and will become a part of
the Equity Cooperative Stores when
the organization is completed. The
whole vast enterprise will be managed
by competent, experienced, successful
merchants The business will not be
begun upon the impractical theory that
We all know that "everybOdys business
is nobodys business" and the Equity
Cooperative Company will not attempt
to disprove this truth.
Cone of the most successful mer-
chants in the west has already been en-
gagged to take the general management
of the business, and he is perfecting an
organization of MERCHANT experts to
manage the various departments. The
Equity Cooperative Stores will be as
ably managed as any railroad, steel
plant or other corporation having
thousands of stockholders in the United
States"
1t would seem that this venture is
to be placed on a sound basis as FAR as
the business management Of the vast
enterprise is concerned. It's pronounced
success is up to the people Yes, the
progress of the enterprise will surely
be watched with deep interest by every
body.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1910-06-10

The retail clerks are now meeting
regularly in the Temple and are making
good headway. Strong action is being
taken to prevent a general evening
opening of the stores and a consequent
return to the long hour of former
years. The clerks outside of the union
should take cognizance of the fact that
the union is doing something in which
they viii directly benefit and that they
should get in and help boost.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1910-06-10
CIGARMAKERS' UNION WILL PRO
TECT THEIR LABEL.

G. w. Perkins of Chicago, president
of the Cigarmakers International
union, and Eugene Clifford of the same
city, general counsel for the national
body, were in York last week where
they were met by General Organizer l.
B. Kuhn and officers of union No BIC
of McSberrystow4 and No 242 of York
and We're in conference with J. S.
Black, in relation to litigation and
prosecutions which are to be brought
against users of counterfeit and imita-
ton union labels in York and Adams
counties w. G. Shelley ESQ, of
Gettysburg, with Mr. Black, will rep
resent the union in the Adams county
cases Gettysburg Compiler
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1910-06-10
WON'T HAVE TO BEG.

When the trade unionists of Mil.
waukee want to make request or sub
NIT a protest to the city fathers they
will not have to knock at the back
dor of the council chamber, like tramps
asking for q hand-out, nor will they
have to crawl on their bellies to get a
hearing. They will be among friends
who represent the people and are there
to serve them and not to carry out the
orders of corporations and of corrupt
party sses.--Painter & Decorator.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1910-06-10
PLAN OUTLAY
OF 100000
Gas Company Intend to
Give the Best Service
Possible.

Ii your wife or mother doesn't have
gas range to cook on, it won't be the
fault of the Everett Gas Co. The ae
tiyity OF the company in preparing to
take care of the eity's rapid growth is
apparent in the small army of men at
work tearing up the streets and lay
ing gas mains. Three teams are kept
busy hauling material and fixtures and
it is estimated that the outlay for the
extension and improvement of the Ev-
erett system win take S300000 The
company is also laying a high pressure
main to Snohomish and will supply
gas to that city. The purchasers Of
the Everett plant evidently intend to
keep pace with Everett's growth and
give the people adequate service,
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1910-06-10
STAGE WORKERS ELECT OFFICERS

AT a largely attended meeting last
Sunday the l. A T. & S. E. Local
No. ls0, elected the following set of
officers to serve for the ensuing term:
President, H. S. Holberg; vice president,
L. F. Gould; recording secretary, VIM.
Rice; financial secretary and treasurer,
E. Harbers; inside guard, B. Hatch
trustees, E. Lemon, Charles Kane. H,
g. Weinker; delegates TO Trades Coun
ell E. Lemon, S. Haynes, r. Cujney
President Holberg was elected as dele
gate to the Northwest District Council
convention and H. G. Weinker as busi
ness agent for the international jour
nal.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1910-06-10
June q, 1910.

june 3, 1910.
Council called to order at p. m. by
President Moncur.
The credentials of James Davis of
the Electrical Workers, No. l9l, were
accepted and delegate obligated and
seated
A communication from the laundry
workers was read thanking the coureil
and the members of organized labor in
the city for the support rendered in the
late strike.
A communication from the Painters
Union was read requesting that the
council appoint a conference committee
Of three to meet like committee from
that body. BY motion request was com
piled with and r. F. Straka, Frank
Pollard and j. B. Moneur appointed as
committee.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1910-06-10
THIS CHURCH WILL BE BUILT
RIGHT.

What a contrast between the action
of the building committee of the First
Presbyterian church and the trustees
of the Christian church in the construc-
tion of new church edifices. The form
er gave the contract to the notorious
Sampson because, perforce he was the
lowest bidder and by that action for
feited the respect and good will of
union mechanics of the city. The lat
ter voted unanimously to have their
beautiful new edifice erected by day
labor under the personal supervision of
a man who is and always has been
right with union people. Leaving creeds
entirely aside which church do you
think deserves the appreciation of union
men and women2
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1910-06-10

The Labor Temple reading room will
gladly welcome any donations of mags-
zines for its reading table. Bring along
your magazines that you have read
and don't know what to do with.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1910-06-10

BY motion the Wallgren Electric Co
and the Easton and Weston Cow Butter
Store were ordered removed from the
unfair list, they having been declared
fair by the building trades council.
The building trades reported NJ. w.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1910-06-10
(PAID ADVERTISEMENTS J
NOTICE TO VOTERS.

[ will be a candidate for the nomina
tion of Sheriff of Snohomish County,
subject to the approval of the voters in
the coming primary election.
JOHN H. MACK.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1910-06-10

"Dr. Jacob Smith, Specialist, Blood
and Skin, Toggery Bldg, 1505h
Hewitt"
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1910-06-10
Report by Unions

Report by UNIONS.
Bridgeworkers-one application.
Barbers-Everybody working.
Carpenters-Three limitations; One
by card; work slack.
Cigarmakers-Donated $l5 to strik-
ing laundry workers.
Laundry Workers = Proprietors all
signed new scale; all at work.
Lathers-one by card; donated $1,000
to laundry workers.
Engineers-One initiation.
Shingle Weavers-One initiation.
Stage Workers-Granted working per
init to machine operator at Rose Thea
tire.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1910-06-10
EVERETT TRADES COUNCIL

Perkins, carpenter, had been placed un-
fair and by motion council concurred in
the action and ordered his name placed
in the unfair list of the Trades Council,
Business Agent Frank Pollard repor-
ed laundry strike settled and that the
committee was engaged in winding up
the business incidental to the strike.
Full and detailed report will be ren
dered at next meeting.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-10-28
SHINGLES SHINGLES
HAWKINS HARDWARE CO.
LONDON news FINED
$1,000 FOR CONTEMPT

London, Oct. 2S.-The high court
yesterday fined the Evening News ST.
900 for contempt Of court in having
published the story of a conference
between Richard Muir, the prescott
ing counsel, and the quartermaster of
the steamer Montrose, in which the
ships officers revealed a plan which
he and DR.. Hawley H. Crippen had
made to bring about the latter's es'
cape from the steamer when he was
being pursued by the British authori
ties.
The court held that the publication
of the story was calculated to preju
dice the case of Crippen when the lat
ter was being brought to trial for the
murder of his wife.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-10-28
Salvage Work.
prices.

How much of the billion feet
which was either killed or burned up
in Montana and northern Idaho can
eventually be salvaged it is of course,
impossible to predict. If it were all
a total loss, and if its stumpage value
were put at the average price at
which National Forest timber was
sold last year, it would be the equiva-
lent of a money loss of about fifteen
million dollars.
1t is believed that last summers
fires either burned up or killed be
tween one and two per cent of the
total stand of National Forest tim
Der. At the present rate of cutting
from the National Forests, 6 billion
feet is equal to IL years supply; but
it is less than one-sixth of a single
years cut in the entire country, OF
enough to keep all our lumber mills
busy for something under two months
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-10-28
GIFTS IRE DANGEROUS TO HEALTH

has started crusade against cats In
opinion animals known to man. He says
other
think good why cats hou
catching they exceled by traps In
a examination made
either actively uberculous or had
at
especially children be traced 10
extent
what dirty the cat
neighbohood
itself all When you stroke
cat associated with bad food and
the recent has
all the district which they
infectious diseases and bring the III
kindred diseases be traced
to cats
Agan cats are particularly and influenza
diseases from them In my opinion
there for its asso ia
ton with huma beings"
that ought to be sent awa
said
things both the ca
be bnshed ami
life but this all kinds Of fads
fancies
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-10-28
YANCEY resigns
FROM EXCHANGE
Member Of Bankrupt Firm OF Knight
Yancey & Co., May be Expelled
Into the Bargain.

New Orleans, Oct. 2S.-Notice OF
the resignation of w. j. Yancey, OF the
failed spot cotton firm of Knight, Ian
cey & Co., which was posted yester-
day morning on the floor of the New
Orleans Cotton Exchange, excited
much interest because of the feeling
among an element of the exchange
membership that Yancey should be
expelled and not allowed to resign.
The notice of resignation came
through an order of the United States
court directing that the stock held by
Yancey be transferred to the receiv
ers of the firm.
Considerable criticism has been eX
pressed over the membership of Van
cey since the firms failure and the
allegations against its members IL
regard to the forged bilisof lading, but
the absence of formal charges agains
him has prevented action by the boart
CT directors.
The question of whether Yancey
shall be permitted to resign or be eX
pelled will be decided by the boart
on November 6.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-10-28
FOREST FIRE DAMAGE
IN MONTANA and
northern idaho

Washington, D. c., Oct. 2S.-A
rough estimate of the fire loss upon
the National Forests in Montana and
northern Idaho, upon which the For
est officers of the U. S. Department
of Agriculture have been engaged
since the fires were put out, puts the
total amount of timber killed or de-
stroyed in this one district at over
6 billion board feet, while the area
burned over is put at over / IA million
acres.
The heaviest losses were in two
Idaho Forests, the Occur dAlene,
where over 8 billion board feet of
timber are reported killed or de-
stroyed, and over $50 thousand acres
burned over, and the Clearwater
where 1 billion feet of timber were
killed or destroyed and 300 thousand
acres burned over. On the Helena
National FOREST, In MONTANA, tne loss
in timber is believed to have beer
500 million feet, on the Cabinet For
est 400 million, and on the Lolo For
est 300 million.
A large part of the losses on the
Occur dAlene, Clearwater and LolC
were due to what became practically
one great fire. The burn is shown
on the Forest Service maps as extend
ing in a northwesterly and south
easterly direction from north of Wal
lace, Idaho, to point some 80 mile
southwest of Missoula, Mont, or near
ly 100 miles. At it's widest point thi
burn has width of about 40 miles
but its shape is very irregular.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-10-28
Marlborough House.

Coronation risks are already being
insured against, the rate at the pres
ent moment, being from s to 10 per
cent. The insurance is against finan-
cial loss which would ensue should
the coronation from any cause not
take place next year. Protection can
also be obtained against loss conse-
quent upon an eleventh hour postpone
ment to later date in the same year.
The insurance particularly concerns
of course, those who erect stands or
make contracts for decorations, and
Examinations. The present rates. are
not so high as were those of King Ed
ward. This is on account of King
Georges fewer years.
According to the latest club reports
solitaire is superceding bridge in popu
larity, auction bridge having made the
game so scientific that it is a task
rather than a pleasure to play it
clubmen say, so they prefer peaceful
solitaire to a quarrelsome and diff
cult rubber at bridge.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-10-28
if not marketed quickly it will not be
worth cutting at all.
viii Dispose of Timber.

The Department of Agriculture will
push vigorously to dispose OF this
fire-killed timber. AS with all other
National Forest timber, it will be sold
on the stump, to mill men who will
lumber the land, paying a set price
per thousand board feet for the tim
Der, and conforming to whatever reg
ulations are stipulated in the interest
of the forest. Pending the disposal of
this fire-killed timber, future sales of
green timber from the National For
ests which were badly burned last
summer will probably be greatly re-
stricted, If not entirely suspended.
Since the amount to be disposed oil
is doubtless greater than can be mar
keted in any event, and since it is
better for the country that the timber
should be utilized than that it should
go to waste in the woods, the price
at which it will be sold will be lowel
than would be asked for the timber
under ordinary circumstances. Gen
orally speaking, Secretary Wilson
does not regard it as wise public
policy to sell off the National Fores
timber except when it is in reason
ably good demand, for the country il
sure to need the supply badly late
on. But with the fire-killed timber |
is a case of now or never. Conse
quently there is an annual opening
for lumbermen who are ready to blu.
National Forest stumpage at bargain
prices.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-10-28

The expression. Of our face is OF so
great Importance that we must watch
1t closely, so as to give happiness to
all around us, but above all to the be-
loved best. A cross look, mere
frown, has often been the beginning
of much bitterness of heart and sor-
row between lovers. says Woman's
Life. smile demands so slight an
effort, and has such great power In
a woman, especially charm of express
sion is everything.