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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-01-22

dish towels, hose, etc, are folded smoothly as taken from line, and put away unironed. The children put polish on the windows, and on rainy days polish the silver. Mother completes the work. The greatest strength-saver in the kitchen is rocker, where mother prepares the fruit and vegetables, and a hammock supplements this on specially strenuous days.
 Machine stitching, cutting and fitting are done at home, and the buttons and buttonholes are done while visiting with friends who come in the after moons, or while making neighborly calls.
 A trusty neighbor girl stays with the children for stipulated sum per hour, while the mother goes out in the after noon or evening.
 Friends are entertained with the idea that 1t is our society rather than the re- treatments which brings them, and the service is simple, though dainty. Thus entertaining is never a burden.
 In this way everyone helps, the work lis sufficiently systenatized to leave no extra hard days, and everyone is healthy, hearty and happy.
 Training Children
 The place to begin training children and especially so-cal1ed incorrigibles- is with the parents. Let the parent train him or herself, and the little imi- tators and refectors will be all right so soon that everybody will suppose they were born so.
 The Would-be Civitizer of Young Savage should try the affirmative treat ment on her boy. Never mention his faults to him if you can help it. When you must do so, be brief and speak as you would to an equal in age and good intentions. For instance, Ill the case of a piifered storeroom where the thefts were denied, can you control your own fault of temper sufficiently to say, "Son, did you take thus and SO from the store room?"
 And whatever the reply, accept it |courteously Gas you would bc obliged to from your husband or brother), and add, T just asked because I need to know. l wondered if you got all you wanted or needed at the table. wish you to do so. Whatever there is in the house is for you as for the rest of us; i; but I'd rather not have 1t taken from the storeroom between meals" You may say that such mild measures
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-01-22
THE sorT ANSWER THAT TURNETR
 AWAY WRATH

Parents frequently complain to me of the rudeness and irritability of their children. This complaint reflects more on the parent than on the child. If parents and teachers had self-control enough always to speak courteously and softly to children in their charge, most of the irritability and rudeness found in the modern child would be done away with When I first began my work as kindergartner in large slum kinder garten, among rough class of children, their manners were beyond description.
 A kick in the eye from "dear little playmate, so happy and glad" was re- garded as quite an ordinary attention.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-01-22
THE HOUSEWIFE SHOULD UNDERSTAND THE VALUE OF THE VARIOUS CUTS IN THE
 DIFFERENT KINDS OF MEAT

fine in grain or rich in quality. The neck is used for stews and for boiling. The side of the animal, running along under the ribs, is the rattleround. This is. used for corning. The brisket is un- der the side of the animals body, and that, many people-myself among the number the finest part for corning. The shoulder is used for steaks and corning, though the less said about the tenderness of shoulder steaks the better. The shin. both in front and back, is used for soup and soup stock, the marrow in the shinbone giving the richness so desirable.
 Hind-Quarter
 The hind-quarter furnishes the finest roasts and steaks, as well as the juiciest meats for making beef tea, meat pies,
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-01-22

Watch your own mental attitude and make sure that this is so. Commend every virtue you can spy in him. Don't be over-critical-good traits that don't appeal to you much may be important to his welfare in life. A child is always more or less hypnotized by those over him in authority, and there is no such disastrous hypnotisIn as to hold before loved.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-01-22

will have no effect; but your severer ones have not either, and this is worth trying. Now for the more positive DOT ton of the treatment: watch for your boys virtues as vigilantly as you have been watching for his faults. Find some thing to commend in him each day, if it's nothing more than his excellent ap- petite and good digestion.
 Give the young man to understand that you admire as we'll as love him.
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''''''s' i"eS 'e'-
'''''' "o"eNe'' 'h"J II made little dll-
terence how many strike breakers the
laundry proprietors gathered too4tber
IF THEY DID NOT GET THE WORK
TO DO. And they started out to sae
that they didn't get tbe work
OF course it i, impossible to nredict
the length of the strnooIe. . NAV ha ,
week-it NAV no month. LHt h,o
strikers are resolved that no matter
how long it takes tbev arc ooino 70
stand firm for what bev deem to ho
right. The propriators homo. Of coursa
to starve them into submission or t.,.
making show of activity in their
Iplants to weaken tbo rasoIyo of tba
striker, and induce them to oo hack to
work. 1t is ND to the neonIa of tbis citv
to back the Girls in this contest until
they win what thev are fiobtipg for
The best way Won can do that i to s,nd
every bit of laundry to tbe oirls in
their headouartcrs in the Labor TopnIa
They will see that it is dome promntIv
and returned TO Won. And if tbis tbina
lasts much longer new rlant will oo
up in this city that will empIov tbesa
Girls and nav them LIVING WAGES
and the obstinate member. Of the ON.
nlovers' association will oot dose Of
oo,,,,,otiti,.,, ,,.t.i.I, .,.,,,,.,,l-l A.. .t,--
ent will he like q mountain 10 mole.
him.
Every man and woman in tbo oit, If
Evaratt who hol;ayo. tbo+ +bo 1,rnlr,-
women should racaiv, aoorcb 10 oIotbo
and feed them and enable them to look
the world in the face with self-respect
must rally to their sunnort NOW when
tbov need II Tbar don4 want cborit,-
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is meeting with splendid success in
forming large class for initiation for
the meeting which viii probably occur
next Thursday eveI-rng. Many local
unionists have signed applications for
membership and many more will fall in
line as they become more acquainted
with the merits of the order. The or
der is one that should appeal to work
ingmen as the benefits are tangible and
real and come to every member and his
family in times of sickness or distress.
1t is not "die-to win" proposition
While the charter is open the initiation
win be at the low figure OF five dol
lars; after the charter closes it will
be raised to twenty five. A good class
of men are joining the order in this city
and those who want immediate protec
tion in a first-class order will do well
to get in early.
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UNITED HATTERS OF NORTH
AMERICA.

To Members of Organized Labor and
Their Friends, Greeting
The National Association of Manu-
facturers and Anti-Boycott Society are
still waging war against the United
Hatters of North America. In the re-
cent trial before the United States
court, at Hartford, Connecticut, for an
alleged violation of the Sherman anti
Trust law in which a Judgment was
rendered against our organization for
$4,000, Mr.. Loewe, the supposed
plaintiff in the case, testified that the
defendants GAO members of the Hat
ters' union) were selected by Mr..
Davenport who is the legal adviser and
organizer of the anti-Boycott Society,
and that that organization was furnish.
ing the expense of conducting the trial,
showing clearly that the anti-Boycott
Society. and not the d. f. Loewe COM
pany, was the real plaintiff in the case.
The great crime of which we were
accused was that our members refused
to work for the Loewe company be
cause of his refusal to unionize his
factory, and that we told our friends,
the members of organized labor, that
the Loawe hat was unfair and did not
contain the label of the United Hatters
of North America.
The court holds that this is a serious
crime, and must not be repeated by
our organization, but we can hsk you
without any fear of breaking the law
"To buy no hat unless it contains the
label of the United Hatters of North
America"
We don't believe there is member
of organized labor who would wilfully
help the anti Boycott Society in their
fight against the United Hatters OF
North America, but the fact remains
that many members of organized labor
can be found with non-union hats
which shows that (unconseiously, per
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\ certain member Of the Switchmen's
Union went out on strike the first of
last December when the boys went ont
for better conditions and stayed out
until the strike was officially declared
off He was not an officer of the union,
neither could he be classed as an "agi
tator" he was Just one of the great
rank and file who believed his organi.
zation meant something and that the
will of the membership as direvted by
the officials in charge Of the strike
should be obeyed. He was a practical
railroad man, who had put in many
years in the service and had honorable
clearance letters from several railroad
systems. A clear record and years of
honorable service counted for nothing
for he had the temerity TO ask for bet
ter working conditions and to stay out
in defence of his principles After the
strike was over he was put back to
work pending the usual examination
which every railroad requires of appi
cants for positions. He had passed such
an examination before and as we have
stated was thorough railroad man.
But this time he couldn't pass the eX-
animation. And yet the railroads EN-
ployed men as strike breakers who
didn't know a switch from a coupling
pin and who couldn't have passed the
simplest Kind of an examination. One
was willing TO be a lickspittle of the
company and scaB on fellow work.
man; the other had the manhood to
stay by his fellows in their demands
The former is kept at work as if there
were no such thing as an examination;
the latter is bumped on an examination
that was as easy to him as taking
candy from a Kid. And yet the rail
roads prate about "iustiee"
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One of the most complete tie ups
that ever occurred in any industry in
Everett was inaugurated last Monday
morning when the employees of every
laundry plant in the city walked ont
in support of their wage scale which
the Laundrymen's association refused
absolutely to sign. Briefly stated the
facts leading up to the strike are
these:
The wage scale. under which the
laundry employees were working prior
to the walkout. had been in effect two
years without change. In that time
the laundry proprietors have raised the
price of work to the public all the way
from 25 to 35 per cent and have tried
to Justify their action by affirming
that they were compelled to raise prices
because they were forced to pay more
for their help. The laundry workers
came to the conclusion that if the larn-
dries received more for their work they
could afford to divide their prosperity
with their help and therefore drew up
a new scale. This scale was submit
ted to the proprietors and was deemed
too high by them and was referred back
to the union. The union, not wishing
to embarass the proprietors, re-draftcd
their proposed scale on the basis of APP
proXimately ten per cent increase and
re-submitted it to the bosses. This
scale, as finally adopted by the union,
was submitted to the proprietors on
the 18th inst. and they were given un-
wage scales We're mailed back to the
union unsigned and the fight was on
One of the proprietors in an inter
view in the daily press stated that the
employees walked out without warn,
ing. This is untruth No. 1. They re
ceived notice nearly a week before the
walkout occurred of the proposed ac-
tion of the union.
Again, they state that the new wage
scale called for an increase of nearly
20 per cent Untruth No. 9. And to
prove that this is not the case, we give
below the wage scale governing the
laundries at the time the strike was
called and the new scale the employees
asked for We ask the public to com
pare these two scales carefully and they
will see that the increase asked for
did not average quite ten per cent. ,,
OLD SCALE.
Assorters and Markers, 1st class men.
SIS per week Women, $12 pr. week.
Assorters and Markers, End class men,
$14 per week. Women, SIS per week.
Washers, $14 to $1S per week.
Polishers, 1st class men, $1S per week.
Women, 25c an hour.
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and live dollars a week for the girl
that washes it don't sound good to me. ''
More was at stake to these girls than
the small increase in wages they asked
for-the very life of thee organization
was threatened. They have been or
ganized long enough to know that the
only protection they have in the world
is the fact that they are organized and
consequently in position to command
the instant help of all organized labor
in time of trouble. Slowly but surely
they saw their organization being at
tackled and beaten down. 1t is stated
on excellent authority that one concern
in the city made IL practice of discharg
ing girls as fast as it learned that they
We're joining, or contemplated Joining.
the union. 1t was apparent that a su-
preme struggle must soon come, the
outcome of which meant either an or
ganization strong enough to protect the
employees or the total annihiation of
their union. SO forcibe were the signs
pointing to this struggle that to have
avoided it longer was cowardice. Like
the brave girls they We're, they chose
idleness, with the suffering it entaied,
rather than disruption of their union.
The first blow to the hopes of the
proprietors was the immediate action of
the laundry drivers who refused to
work when the inside help went out. As
the drivers personally had no grievance
their wage scale not being affected
they counted on their subservience. No
man with Il spark of respect for his
sister unionists would have helped to
beat them down and the boys quit with
them. The second blow was the quick
action of the strikers in arranging for
the care of the laundry of the city A
committee was Immediately sent to Sc
attic and contract signed up with the
Independent laundry of that cfty-a
union plant-to handle all the laundry
they would send them. The girls went
Every hotel, cafe, barber shop, every
business house was visited and their
work asked for. The girls mounted the
wagons with the boys and drove up and
down the business streets asking for
and collecting laundry, They met with
magnificent response from all quarters
and the volume of work turned over to
them taxed their resources to the ut
most to take care of, They resolved
to beat the laundrymen at their own
game They knew that few of the
weaker spirited ones from their ranks
would, per haps, listen to the honeyed
words of the bosses and return to work,
and they knew that it was possible to
get non-union help that would do as a
makeshift to keep the laundries up in
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strike today who have been supporting
little children as well as themselves
out of their meagre earnings There
are hotels i'll the city that give the girls
a cut rate for board and room because
the kind hearted proprietors know
that the girls cannot keep body and SOU
together out of such pitiful earnings
and keep STRAIGHT. unless they are
given help.
In this struggle the sympathy of the
general public is with the girls Knowing
the conditions surrounding them and
the brave, earnest fight they are max
ing for wage commensurate with a de-
cent mode of living, could the public do
otherwise than sympathize with and
aid them in their fight for a living wage
scale?
The laundry proprietors it is claimed
have formed an association to which
every laundry in the city belongs and
that each man is under cash forfeit
to stay with the fight against higher
wage. There never was Il strike in all
history that the bosses did not put up
the moth eaten howl of misery that
to raise wages meant runation to their
business. Have to raise prices again if
they granted an incsease in wages 4
We've all heard that poverty cry.
Yet the laundry owners it is safe to
assert are paying more in a vain effort
to break the strike than it would ost
them to pay the slight increase asked
for for many, mony months. Dir~ have
been approached by the proprietors and
begged to go back with the promise of
more than the new scale if they would
desert the union and in one case it was
reported that the proprie,s, offered to
pay the fines for any OF the workers
that the union might impose if they
wound aid in breaking the strike. They
couldn't pay the scale asked for but
they could pay heavy bonuses to strike
breakers. When will bosses learn to
quit trying to bunk the public with
that old gag that they can't afford the
increase in wages Nine strikes out of
ten the employers spend more braking
the strike than the increase asked for
would aggregate for whole year.
The thing that sounds ugly to the
general public is that the proprietors
had the nerve to raise the price Of
laundry on the pretense that their help
cost more, when it turned out that the
help is receiving no more than they dld
two years ago. If fair proportion OF
the increase was going to t%ose un
derpaid women people would not object
so much to the higher prices-they are
getting educated up to higher prices
any how. As one business man eX-
pressed it, Twenty cents for shirt
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For the past three months organizers
for the Loyal Order of Moose have
haunted the Labor Temple with good
results for the order. The slogan,
''None But Good Men Invited" has ap
pealed to the members of organized
labor generally, for they consider that
is the place for them. The first
thought of the union man is for home
and family, and they could not affili-
ate with any organization that did not
appeal to the better. qualities of man
hood.
The lodge now has about 1900 MEM
bers, and among the officers there are
members of organized labor, the treas
urer and assistant sergeant-at arms
Seattle Union Record.
Mr.. Replogle, mstling organizer for
this popular order, is now in charge of
the organizing campaign in Everett and
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haps) they are helping the enemy to
destroy our organization.
There is no neutral ground in this
fight of the nti-Boycott Society. kv-
cry time you buy hat you must take
part. If you insist on getting hat
with the union label you side with the
limited Hatters of North America! if
you buy a hat without the label you
side with the ant Boycott Society.
Look under the sweat band of the
hat which you now wear and see
whether you are with the United Hat
ters of North America or against them
So many hats are made by members
of the United Iatters of North Amer
lea and contain their union label, that
we were accused during the strike of
having a monopoly of all the skilled
men in the hat industry, and had to
defend that action in court at Trenton,
New Jersey.
Union made hats can be had in ev-
cry style and quality, and are far
better value than hats made by un-
skilled labor in non union factories.
Under these circumstances why buy
non-union hats?
Once more, we would request that
you remember when buying a hat,
chat it is not union made unless it
contains the union label of the United
Hatters of North America"
Thanking you and the members OF
your organization for many past ia
vors, and hoping that when the roll is
called by your association that no mem
ber will be found siding with the anti
Boycott Society in their effort to ex-
terminate the United Hatters of North
America, we are,
Respectfully yours,
UNITED HATTERS OF NORTH
AMERICA,
JOHN A. MOFFITT,
President.
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! Polishers, End class men, $14 per weel;
Women, 17c per hour
Starchers, 1st class men, $1S per week
Women Tic per hour
Starchers, End class men, $14 per week
Women, 15c per hour.
Mangle Girls, 4c per hour.
Machine ironers, 1st class, | 7c per hour
Machine ironers, End class, 1 Sc per hour
Hand ironers, 1st class, l &c per hour.
Hand ironers, End class, 15c per hour.
NEW SCALE.
Assorters and Markers, 1st class men
$40 per week. Women, $13 per week
Assorters and Markers, 2nd class men
$40 per week. Women, SO per week
Washers, $16 to $40 per week.
Polishers, 1st class men. $50 per week
Women, 271sc per hour.
Polishers, 2nd class men, $40 per week
Women, Ice per hour.
Starchers, 1st class men. $40 per week
Women, 19c per hour.
Starchers, End class men, SIG per week
Women, 16c per hour.
Nangle girls, Il Sc per hour.
Machine ironers, 1st class, Sc per hour.
Machine ironers End class, &c per hour.
Hand ironers, 1st class, 19c per hour.
Hand ironcrs, End class. &c per hour.
There are the two scales and they in
vite comparison if anyone imagines that
anything startling or revolutionary was
asked for. Less than ten per cent aver
age increase was asked for and denied
in the face of the fact that laundry
prices have been raised as high as 35
per cent.
A perusal of the old scale will show
that the women employees received Is,
1G and T cents pei hour. Figuring on
the basis of a ten hour day it would be
computed that they received $1.50,
$1.60 and $1.70 per day, a good wage,
says the employer and the person who
knows nothing about the laundry bust
ness. But the fact is that these girls
never worked on an average more than
six hours a day, owing to the number
of slack days in each week, when the
laundry collected was very light. They
might work eight or nine hours one or
two days week and five or six hours
a day the balance of the week. Laun-
dry workers state that seven hours n
day is big average for the week This
gave them the munificent weekly sal
arv of $500, $6.72 and $6.94. And,
mark you, this is high average. There
are girls on strike today who made less
than five dollars last week and many
preceding weeks. Out of this magnifi
cent salary they are supposed to feed
and clothe themselves and in many in
stances. contribute to the support of
their families. There aIt women on
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RAILROAD MEN DEDICATE NEW
BUILDING.

The fine new hall of Lodge No. sol
of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire
men and Engineers at Leavenworth was
dedicated Monday evening with appro-
pirate ceremonies and with a large
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crowd in attendance. The beautiful
little home of the railroad men was
erected at cost of $4,000 and was
dedicated free from debt, an undertak
ing of which they have a right to he
very proud J. Beneke is president and
J. @. Davis is secretary of Lodge No
sci.
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"Dr. Jacob Smith, Specialist, Blood
and Skin, Toggery Bldg, 15O5h
Hewitt"
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oDr. Jacob Smith, Specialist, Kidney
and Bladder, Toggery Bldg, 16O5h
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Union label Suits, $50, $25, $50, at
the Boston.
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Elgin Shirts at the Boston.
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THE LABOR JOURNAL
Is the official organ of the Trades
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ing men and women of Everett.