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The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1910-12-30

for ourselves and families, we must
be continually strengthening our or.
ganization to assist us to maintain the
conditions we are at present working
under, as well as to advance, and have
more time for literary pursuits and
recreation, and better food and better
clothing and better shelter, which we
are continually producing and other;
are enjoying to greater extent than
we, the producers.
eve find that at present there are
many more carpenters than jobs, and
while that is the usual condition at this
season of the year, it has been con
dition all over the Northwest during
because there are more carpenters taan
jobs, but because there are more men
working at carpenter work than there
is carpenter work for men.
''We must protect our trade, for the
Sufc1 mas Sole loICH UHdJ IHe IrduSs
unions "must go" along the Pacific
Coast, and if we do not more closely
affiliate and intrench ourselves, those
who are planning our destruction will
in the absence of us fortifying our
selves become imbued with the belief
they can annihilate us, and consequent
ly the more severely attack us; and
if we are even temporarily routed on
the Pacific Coast our members i'm
mediately inland will be the first to
feel the effect of our struggle.
"The Washington State Council of
the United Brotherhood will hold its
Fifth Annual Convention in Olympia,
Wash, beginning Sunday, January
Is, 1911. and by a referendum vote
of all locals affiliated with the Wash
ington State Council, the local unions
of the United Brotherhood in Oregon,
idaho Montana and British Columbia
are invited and urged to send two dele
gates to Olympia for the purpose of
organizing council of our United
Brotherhood locals covering the terri
tory just enumerated"
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1910-12-30
NORTHWEST CARPENTERS
WILL HOLD CONVENTION
District Council Will Meet in Olympia and
Discuss Measures of Importance to
Their Craft-Plans to Extend Territory
to Take in States Not Now Affiliated
With Northwest Council Will be
Formulated.

A call for a convention of represen-
tatives of the different locals of the
United Brotherhood of Carpenters and
Joiners of the northwest has been is
sued, the convention to meet in
Olympia on January 18th, just prior to
the state federation convention. The
two delegates chosen by the local
union of carpenters to attend the fed
Grafton will also attend the carpenters
convention. Following is from the call
issued:
"The Washington State Council is
now in the fourth year of its existence,
and we find that the imaginary geo
graphical lines guarding the political
government of the State of Washing
ton, while serving the purpose for
which they were established, are alb
solutely and completely disregarded
when the interests of the membership
of our great United Brotherhood is to
be considered, and that the followers
of our craft are continually crossing
and re-crossing the confines of the ter
ritory addressed in the heading of this
communication.
''The territory just alluded to is so
situated geographically that it is a
continuous, though extensive locality,
and there is considerable amount
of territory on all sides of us that
separates us from our next nearest
locals of the United Brotherhood and
the working condition of the Pacific
Northwest and Inter Mountain country
is largely similar, and that our mem
bership in this section should as q
family make the conditions of our
brothers their concern and become
closer united and affiliated for the pro-
lection of our craft.
We find that number of the In
ternational unions are maintaining a
district organization within their own
ranks in the Northwest, and by such
an organization have established bet
ter and more uniform working condi-
tions.
If we want better standard of life
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SOCIAL CHANGES ARE SURE TO COME

We are not Socialists, but this little
essay ON Monkey Versus Man. which
we met in the Blacksmith's Journal,
credited to 'Mother Earth" struck us
as particularly bright;
"Go to the monkey, thou voter, con-
slider his ways and be wise. Do the
monkeys pay ground rent to the de-
scendants of the first old ape who dis
covered the valleys where the monkeys
liver
"Do they hire the trees from the
chimpanzee who found the forest
DO they buy the cocoanuts from the
great-great grand children of the gorilla
who invented way to crack themf
'Do they allow two or three monkeys
to form corporation and obtain con
troll of all the paths that lead through
the woodsl
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1910-12-30

Mention the Journal to the
merchant who solicits your patron
age through these columns.
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that the delegates take the matter up
with the affiliated unions
Motion carried that the council elect
delegates to the coming convention of
the State Federation of Labor Dele.
gates Moncur and Campbell were elect
ed by acclamation.
Delegate Marsh spoke upon the re-
cent contempt decision given by Sc
attic judge against the Seattle Star
and urged that the council take some
decisive action that would reflect the
sentiment of organized labor in this
city upon the subject. Upon motion
Delegates Marsh and Bowden were APP
pointed a special committee to draw up
suitable resolutions and present them
to the council at the next meeting.
arpenters-Placed fine of SIS upon
any member patronizing an unfair firm
Cooks and Waiters-Will hold So
cial session at the next regular meet
ing.
Linemen-Placed a fine of SIS upon
any member patronizing an unfair firm
Plumbers their members
% cents each per month for the Los
Angeles strikers during the life of the
strike.
Painters-Donated $40 to Los An
geles strikers.
Teamsters-Two limitations; elected
delegates to federation.
Shingle Weavers-Social session
first meeting i'm January.
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE
STATE OF WASHINGTON, FOR
SNOH0MISH COUNTY.

In the Matter of the Estate of Mason
Van Amburg, Deceased.
Notice is hereby given, by the under
signed duly appointed administrator of
the estate of Mason Van Amburg, de-
ceased, to the creditors of, and all per-
sons having claims against said de-
ceased, to exhibit them, with the ne
cessary vouchers, within one year after
the first publication of this notice to
the undersigned at the office of Ray
mond j. Mcmillan, ESQ, 404 Bank of
California Building, in the City of Ia
coma. in the County of Pierce and State
of Washington, being the place for the
transaction of the business of said es-
tate.
Date of issuing first publication of
this notice, December 80, 1910.
c. +. LUCTAN AGASSIZ,
Administrator.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1910-12-30
HARDWARE.

Despite all the knockers and the
pessimists the city of Everett is going
to grow and prosper. No city in the
state has so many advantages, a bright
er future. A long pull, a strong pull
and pull all together will turn the
trick During the year 1911 many
new residences are TO be erected Peo-
pie are going to show their faith in
Evrett's future by setting up their
household goods in homes of their own
When you are planning that new homo
you are going to erect, let wide awake
firm figure your hardware bill
CURRAN HARDWARE CO.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1910-12-30
NEW YEARS RESOLUTIONS.

The following set of resolutions have
been drawn up and subscribed to by The
Journal force and will go into effect
the first of the new year:
I resolve the following year that
will not drink any, unless I am dry
very dry.
That I will let people mind their OWL
business and assist them all can.
That I will agree to mind my super
iors, If I have any.
That viii always forgive my en-
emies. especially those I can't whip.
That I will strive to be in love ant
charity with my neighbor, if I see
shall need him to back me in some pur
suit of life the coming year.
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md
HOUR DAY
d ry3UUYt l1tSc WISE ITCTf 10 ell U
to Secure Industrial Freedom.

eight-hour day. Nothing but the di-
vine right of capital; of the thing ere
ated over the creator; the product over
the producer.
And as the lights went out on the fa
nous Otis dinner, the toastmaster
breathed a silent benediction:
"He came, he went, but organized la
Dor is still here!"
Yes, it's here, because it is a vital
necessity to human advancement; be-
cause the producer realizes more and
more that only through his own or
ganized effort can he ever hope to Sc
cure the benefits resulting from his own
creative genius.
Here, because the truth of Carlysle's
words are becoming apparent to him
that mo great reform ever sprang from
the top of society and worked down
ward, but all reforms start from the
bottom and work upward. Born in the
sin, sickness, want, distress and death
the brain of one permeates the ranks
crystallizes into action, then into law
and reform is born" And the human
race takes another step in its slow and
weary march upward
The thought before the producer at
the present time is an eight hour day.
II,
the land, in every shop and factory
and mine East and west, north and
south the battle will 90 on until it is
accomplished.
We wonder, General if the represen-
tative business men of the northwest,
took you around and showed you the
many small shops that have already
signed up for the eight hour day We
wonder if they took you through one
of the largest shops of Seattle-a shop
belonging to the Metal Trades-that
is today working eight hours.
Did they tell you that several of the
shop owners had requested agreements
that would take them out of the fight
until the larger shops that were put
ting up the bitterest part of the fight
would come to a settlement?
And we wonder, General if you
whispered in their ears that Los An
geles, the ten-hour city, is today
working on nine-hour basis, and that
prospects look bright for eight hours.
Or perhaps you told them that your
home town, practically unorganized be-
fore the first of June, held a parade
the other day in which 10000 men
and women, members of organized la
Dor, took part.
Or did you quote to them the words
of our martyred president, William
Mckinley: "The tendency of the times
the world over is for shorter hours of
labor Shorter hours in the interest
of health, of humanity, of the home and
of the family. And the United States
can do no better service to labor and
to its own citizens than to set the
example to states, to corporations and
to individuals employing men, by de
claring that, so far as the government
is concerned, eight hours shall consti
tute days work and b all that il
required OF its laboring force"
We are not ngrateful, General, We
appreciate Your services. and regard
you as the greatest organizer labor
possesses.
We wish you a happy New Year. Call
again.
After the eight-hour day has been
established we will be delighted to have
you witness our increased happiness,
prosperity and progress resulting from
the shorter work-day.
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By d. G. CHISHOLM.

by u. ". CnlSnOLm.
The other week there appeared in
Seattle two distinguished gentlemen,
Col Harrison Gray Otis and John
Kirby, Jr., and at the Arctic Club they
smoked good cigars, drand sparkling
wine and preached the same old doc
trine of the obsolute proprietorship of
kings and rulers over those who toll
John Kirbys advice to the manu-
facturers of the northwest was Call
out your minute men; establish a dead
line around your borders; send such
cases as you already have to the pest
house."
Col. Otis declared that the capitalist
should dictate the hours of labor When
times are bad, shorten the hours. When
times are good, increase them to nine,
ten, or more, if necessary.
And the representative business men
voiced, "Hear, hear" and they worship
ped at the shrine of these two wise
men. For had they not come from the
city of Los Angeles? The city of hope
to the producer of the east, seeking
in its balmy air and equable climate to
rebuild an impaired constitution. only
to find it's industrial freedom a mock
cry, its hours of labor the longest and
it's remuneration the smallest of any
city on the coast.
Girls working in the stores of this
prosperous city for from SO to 81 n
week and compelled to barter their
virtue for the balance necessary to ex-
list.
Boys under age in the store and fac
tory, who ought to be in school, robbed
of their youth and education by the
hypocritical howlers of industrial free
DOM"
Women-wives, sisters and mothers
in laundries and like shambles, sweat.
ing their lives away and coming their
hearts blood for the enrichment of the
few.
Men-hard working, honest, home
loving American citizens-forced into
competition with the Asiatic and COM
PEELED to work for less than a living
wage and under un-American condi-
tions Bullied and thrown into Jail by
a prostituted police force sent to pris
on by capitalist controlled judges on
the flimsiest of falsified evidence And,
mark it well, in this city under the alb
solute control of the wise men, where
capitalist industrial freedom prevailed
and independent workmen worked, the
wage slaves rebelled.
The machinist and boilermaker, the
brass worker and blacksmith, the skilled
mechanic and unskilled, on the first
day of last June laid down their tools
and demanded an eight hour work day
and living wage. Tell us, you wise
men, how was it that in Los Angeles,
the Paradise of industrial freedom,
with practically no organization, your
producers refused to work under the
conditions you imposed?
But the wise men travelled north,
from Portland to Vancouver and east
ward to Spokane. led by the Interna-
tional Asspciation of Machinists, the
metal workers. after their request for
conference to discuss the eight hour
day had been refused, had laid down
their tools and walked out and the
manufacturers We're in sore straits.
But the only solution the wise men
could give was absolute control over
the lives of the producers. Not word
of love for the toiling masses; not a
suggestion that mayhap in this age of
inventive genius and tremendous pro-
gress the producer is entitled to an
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1910-12-30
MACHINISTS
HOLD GROUND
Dull Season of the Year
Finds Strikers Standing
in Solid PhlanX for the
Eight Hour Day.

The strike among the metal trades
mechanics of the coast has now been
going on for six months with no sign
of weakening abong the men. Despite
of the year when there is a natural
surplus of skilled mechanics, the manu-
facturers are finding it next to i'm
possible to get men to turn out the
necessary work and finish contracts on
hand
The "free and Independent workmen'
working in the "open shops" of the
Metal Trades association, are on the
whole as incompetent set of men as
ever masqueraded as mechanics. The
skilled men in the metal trades all over
the country know exactly the condi-
tions that prevail on the coast, what
their fellow workers are fighting for,
and refused to be used to beat down
wages and hours.
In Portland trumped-up charges nave
been made against some of the strikers
of attempted violence but so far the
cases fell flat when they got into court.
The association shops are in a bad
way. With not enough competent men
to finish contracts on hand, they dare
not bid on new contracts. Their one
best bet has been the slack season,
hoping that temporary lull in work
would send the men to their knees beg
ging for work on any old terms In
this they have been grievously disap-
pointed. With a general resumption of
business in the spring manufacturers
will find it absolutely impossible to
handle the business offered them un-
less they settle with the men on strike
A hurry-up call to the "big sticks"
of the Manufacturers Association
brought the contemplate Otis and his
fellow labor skinner, John Kirby, Jr.,
scurrying to the northwest to apply
starch to the backbones of the dis
couraged metal trades employers. In
their swing around this section of the
country they gave utterance to the
most rabid, incorporate sentiments,
but it only served to strengthen the
resolve of the strikers and to swing
public sentiment toward the cause of
the workers.
In Los Angeles the boys are putting
up a magnificent struggle. The deter
mination of the monied interests to
crush unionism in that city and then
to extend their activities northward,
has reused the organized toilers of the
country to the necessity of preserving
the labor movement in the west and
they are sending their hard earned
dollars to Los Angeles to keep the
strikers and their families from want.
Locally, the situation is unchanged.
Not man has become disheartened or
has returned to work and they are de-
termined that the men in Everett shall
remain firm until the strike is won.
Inc strlKe on uhe missouri Iaclllc
system has been settled by agreement
between the railroad authorities and
the officials of the International AS
sociation of Machinists.
Organized labor can win this eight
'our struggle among the metal trades
workers. The boys have the metal
in them-the fighting spirit that win
battles. If their brothers working at
their own trade and at other trades,
will keep them eating, they'll take care
of the fighting. This is momentous
struggle and is going to be won. for it
means much to the Pacific Coast
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1910-12-30

You are hereby further notified that
above named plaintiff is the owner
i holder of Certificate of Delinquency
.mbered Al0336, issued and dated the
il day of September, A. d. 1909, by
; County of Snohomish, State of
for the amount of one and
100 ($l.5ll00) Dollars, the same be-
the amount then due and delinquent
taxes for the years 1908, 1906, 1907,
-IS, upon real property of which YOU
said defendant, Lionel r. Hare, are
owner and reputed owner, situate
said county and more particularly
-cribed as follows, to-wit:
lot twenty-one (21) of block seven
of Queen Anne Addition to Everett.
prhe amount of said Certificate of De
quency, bearing interest at the rate
Fifteen per cent (l5 per cent? per
mum from its said date; all of which
now due the above named plaintiff.
You are hereby further notified that
= above named plaintiff is the owner
d holder of Certificate of Delinquency
mbered Al0337, issued and dated the
tn day of September, A. d. 1909, by
e County of Snohomish, State of
for the amount of one and
100 ($l.5l-l00) Dollars, the same be
: the amount then due and delinquent
r taxes for the years 1905, 1906, 1907, |
ls, upon real property of which you,
= said defendant, Lionel R. Hare, are
? owner and reputed owner, situate
sa county and more particularly
5crtoed as follows, to-wit:
&c twenty-five (22) of block seven
If Queen Anpn .Al,E4:.- .l.EYSrct4 i
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30 they permit some smart young,
monkey, with superior ability, to claim
all the springs of water in the forests
as his own. because of soTe alleged
bargain made by their ancestors five
hundred years ago?
DO they allow smart gang af mon
key lawyers to so tangle up their con
L /. 1 = l..
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ABoR JOURNAL
j organ Of the Trades
is read by the labor
women of Everett.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1910-12-22
STRICT RULES MADE
TO SAVE BOXING

Philadelphia, Pa, Dec. 22.-As the re-
suit of the death of kid" Gardner
who was killed last week in boxing
match in this city, local sporting writ
ers today held a conference with Di-
rector of Public Safety Clay, who
formulated probably the most drastic
rules ever made to regulate prize fight
ing.
The director has served notice upon
the fight promoters that nothing but
six ounce gloves can be used, an official
physician must be at the ringside to
examine all boxers, the police depart
ment must be notified twenty-four
hours in advance as to just who will
appear in the ring, only three seconds
are to be allowed to each man and the
seconds will not be allowed to coach
their man. The official physician will
have the authority to order all bouts
stopped when he thinks one man is
badly outclassed and no boys under 16
will be allowed in a ring and no light
weight will be allowed to fight a man
who has more than ten pounds advant-
age in weight.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1910-12-22
KUBIAK AND CON
O'KELLY MATCHED

Syracuse. N. Y, Dec. 22.-"Al' Kubi-
ak of Philadelphia and Con" O'Kelly
of Syracuse were today matched to box
ten rounds before the Onondaga Ath-
letic club here on or about Jan. 16.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1910-12-22
AUTO SHOWS
OF THE SEASON

Dec. 31-American Motor Car Manu-
facturers' Exhibit Association, New
York City.
Jan. Association of Licensed Au-
tomobile Manufacturers, New York
City
Jan 14-Annual show of Philadel-
phia Dealers Association.
jan 15-Annual show of Milwaukee
Automobile Dealers Association.
Jan 15-Annual show of Detroit Au-
tomobile Dealers Association.
Jan 25-Annual show of ST. Paul
Automobile Dealers Association.
Jan. 2S-National Association of
Automobile Manufacturers, at Chicago.
Feb. 6-Comercial car show of the
N. A. A. NJ. at Chicago
Feb. annual show of the Auto
mobile Trade Association OF Buffalo.
Feb 13-Annual show of the Auto
mobile Dealers Association of Wash
ington. D C.
Feb. 1s-show of Motor Car Trades
Association of Kansas City, Mo.
Feb. 15-Annual show of the Grand
| Rapids Automobile Trade Association.
! Feb 1s-Annual show of the Brook
Ign Automobile Dealers Association
Feb. 1S-Show of the Binghamton
On W Automobile Club.
! Feb 1s-Annual show of the Mime
apolis Automobile Dealers Association.
| Feb. 1S-Snow of the New Jersey
Automobile. Exhibition Company at
Newark
Feb. 20-Annual show of the Omaha
Automobile Association
/ Feb. 24-Show of the New Orleans
! Automobile Dealers Association.
| Feb 5-Annual show of the Ontario
| Motor League at Toronto.
March Annual show of the Boston
Automobile Dealers Association.
March 6-AnnuaI show of the Des
Moines Automobile Dealers Associa-
tion.
March 13-Annual show of Cleveland
Automobile Dealers and Manufacture
ers' Association.
March 15-Annual show Of the
Louisville Automobile Dealers. Asso-
citation.
April Commercial truck show OF
the Automobile Dealers Association OF
Pittsburs
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1910-12-22

a knockout Jensen forfeited part of
the purse because he was overweight