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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-10-20
Sunday.


The number OF complete and perfect copies
Of The Washington Times printed Sundays
during the month OF September was as fol-
lows:
September A.. 4574sl September 1s... 1914
september H.. 45.5S5( September g.. tS'ls
Total for the nonth..................... 6Sl
sunday average for the month. 1855
The net total circulation Of The Washington
Times Sunday during the month OF Sep
tember was 165.S05. all copies ieft over
and returned by agents being eliminated.
This number. when divided by 4. the number
Of Sundays during September. shows the net
SUNDAY average for September 70 have been
0.e26.
In each issue Of The Times the circulation
figures for the previous day are plainly
printed al the head OF the FIRST page at The
left OF the date line.
Entered at the POstofgice at Washington.
ID. c. as second class matter.
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It might have been wiser for DR.. VIII
son TO wait until after November before
resigninC the presidency OF Princeton.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-10-20

The attendance indicates that the high
cost Of living isn't going 10 bother the
players IN the worlds series this winter
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-10-20

It looks as If the October smile Of Miss
Democracy would be carried over into
November this year.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-10-20

BE terse if you would be forceful. The
sign, NO admittance. All trespassers
viii be prosecuted by the owner 10 the
fullest extent OF the law" would not
keep One-half as many people or OF a
piece OF property as the two words,
Keep outt' and. after all. that's all the
other string OF words meant. The man
who knows what he wants to say. says
it and shuts Up. - tie winner.
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cry. and either one of them viii reves
to themselves in the woodshed at
midnight I'm sorry for these peo-
pie, of course, but they had TO tell
their troubles and love affairs to
some one and the professor listened
for a consideration"
Now. don't poke fun at this for
tune telling business, for 1 know
there is something in it Imogene
was Indignant
you bet there is s2O46 so in one
day in it for this fellow, He was
selling Rudyard Kipling's poem "a
rag, a bone and a hank of hair" for
$64 a throw! Tell me your expe-
rience with the fortune teller"
We'll" said Imogene. Il only
went once. TO a colored woman, and
she told me 1 was going TO hear
bad news about a dark man, and the
very next day the driver from the
grocery hit the black janitor Of our
fiat over the head with ham and he
was in the hospital for A week."
Wonderful But their ability TO
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Andrew and ImOgene
Its a mean trick. that's what
THINK it's a shame," said Imogene.

81 ' aisi1 ITS ''"' SAID i"'S'"' '''" '''' mats ~
you absolutely" replied AndreE What is it,?
Well Andrew Give three rye
high balls and box Of station
whispered
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Total for the month
Sunday avPra ga Tor #,

Entered at the Postofrice at washington.
ID. c. as second class matter.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1910-06-03

The second Sunday in May is labor's
memorial day Responding to wide
spread sentiment, the Norfolk conven-
ton Of the American Federation or
Labor in 1907 recommended that as
the date on which throughout the Ju-
risdiction of the American labor move
ment men and women might assemble
and give public recognition to the
services for labor performed by de-
parted fellow workers. The observ-
ance of the day promises to become
more general year by year. The otti-
cial organs of the international unions
and the labor press as a whole are
making mention of the approach or
the date and suggesting appropriate
ceremonies for the occasion. There's
not a community in all the land which
has not had noble examples of devo-
ton and self sacrifice among the mem
bers of organized labor who are no
longer among the living. Here's to our
absent comradesL-American Fedora
Zionist
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1910-06-03
LABOR NOTES.

How much have you done for the
union label this year?
The building trades in Germany are
anticipating a heavy fight this spring.
but have been preparing for 1t for a
long time.
Boston has an Independent Order
of Culinary and Domestic Workers
union. q large number of the members
of which are Italians.
Perhaps the greatest benefit Of union
labor lies in the fact that so many
millions are united in the struggle
for better conditions among men.
Since the introduction Of the eight
hour day in the ranks of the cigar
makers Of the United States within the
last few years the average life Of
men engaged in the craft has increas-
ed fifteen years.
President William d Huber Of the
United brotherhood of Carpenters and
Joiners says that at the rate the or
ganiZation is growing at present he
expects the paid up membership to
pass the 2O0.000 mark by June 80. the
end of the calendar year.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1910-06-03
Pittsbure to Employ Union Men.

Pittsburg is to be 'union shop" so
far as city employees are concerned.
according to an announcement made
by Director of Public Works Joseph
d. Armstrong.
The director states that hereafter all
applicants applying for city jobs must
be union men and that in case the
civil service does not certify union
men to him he will insist upon the ap-
pointees joining a union before going
to work
Mr.. Armstrong states that he prom
ised this to the unions when he, with
other city officials. was stumping the
city in n bond issue campaign last
fall. He argued before the salary re-
vision committee recently that all city
labor be paid current union wages aud
aided In having the wages Of all city
employees advanced
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1910-06-03
TRADES COUNCIL

Linemen-good meeting; donated $25
to the strikers.
Inside Wiremen-All members of their
craft in the city unionized; will aid the
strikers in every way possible.
Laundry Workers None working
just at present
administrative limitations.
Plumbers meeting.
Shingle Weavers-Two limitations;
donated $40 to strikers.
Printers-Will aid strikers morally
and financially.
Meat Cutters-Preparing for big bar
becue at Silver Lake in the near future
and want the boys to join them.
eamsters-Three limitations; three
applications.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1910-06-03
MORE MEN
ARE NEEDED
A Niggardly Policy of
Fire Protection to Be
Deplored.

penny wise and pound foolish"
seems to fit us like the paper on the
wall when the local fire protection
situation is considered. We are un.
willing to provide the wherewithal for
proper apparatus and men to man it and
when fire occurs with which the fire
men are unable to cope, WI yen our
heads off about our lack of fire pro-
lection and berate the men who are
doing the best they can with the faci-
lities provided. We haven't men en-
ough and we haven't apparatus en-
ough and in each case it is a lack of
funds There is little inducement for
good men to take the examination with
a view to joining the department at
the present remuneration. We have
had several disastrous fires in the last
year which ought to serve as a warn
ing. He would be called a mighty poor
business man who didn't insure his
business against possible loss by fire
and charge the expense to his business,
what shall be said of city that pur-
sues the even tenor of its way and per-
sistently ignore the rapid growth of its
business district in the matter OF ade-
uate fire protection? The city OF San
Francisco at its last municipal election
raised substantially the pay of the city
firemen and put the department gen
orally on better footing. But it took
the holocaust of 1906 to do it. Isn't
it better to raise funds for proper fire
protection in Everett if we have to
bond the city to do it than to continue
running the risk of possible confla-
grafton that will make all former fires
look like a chimney fire in comparison
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1910-06-03
AID THIS
MEASURE
Eight Hour Bill Before
Congress Must Receive
Instant Support.

Congress has under consideration a
bill to extend the provisions of the
eight hour law to all government work,
whether performed at first hand or by
private forms under the contract sys
TEN. Undoubtedly this was the intent
of the Trainer of the original measure,
but the peculiarities of phraseology
and the convenient latitude of legal
minds have prevented the consumma-
tion of the intention.
While all unions are very much in
terested in the extension proposed, the
men engaged in the iron industry are
especially concerned, for the reason that
they do great deal of government
work and most of them have to toll
longer than eight hours.
The American Federation of LABOR
and all the labor organizations east, and
south are heartily in favor of house
bill No. 15,441, and senate bill No.
5,57S. The house and senate labor
committee is discussing the advisability
of broadening the law. This body will
be addressed by learned lawyers who
will describe the fearful results for
sundry millionaires should the recog.
nized American workday become law,
Do your part. There is no need
describe to n radp-uniOn constituency
the reasons for urging the adoption of
the bill. They are known. Write a let
ter to Congressman Sylester C. Smith
and Senator Frank Flint--both of
California-who are on the committee
Tell them you are in favor of the adop-
tion of the real eight-hour law, urge
them to vote for it and advocate its
passage in congress.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1910-06-03
conpers on the Sherman Law.

If labor unions cannot live under
the antitrust law the law will have TO
GO" said Samuel Gompers, president
of the American Federation of Labor,
in recent address at Chicago. Mr.
Gompers discussed the recent decision
of the federal court in Connecticut
which assessed damages against the
United HatteFs OF North America for
injuring the business of firm against
which the union had a strike.
The Sherman antitrust law as It
now exists is not an antitrust law" he
said. 1T is an anti-association law. |
hold that what one or hundred men
may do lawfully as individuals may be
done by the same men collectively. To
make the power of the employer abso-
lutte over the wage Garner is the pur-
pose of the law as interpreted by the
courts"
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1910-06-03

amount of work given to the girls in
their whirlwind soliciting campaign sur
prised even them and made them go
some to handle it all. Everybody wanted
to give them their work and for about
week the Labor Temple looked like a
big laundry. Soiled mem and clean
linen, shipping boxes and crates, filled
the office until there wasn't room to
take long breath. Oh, there was
something doing in the laundry bust
ness, all right Now that it is all over,
however, the Labor Temple force are
willing to confess that they don't con-
template entering the laundry business
as a regular occupation. No, thanks!
1t has been claimed that this strike
was fought and won by the public.
This is not altogether true. Public
sentiment is very important factor
to deal with in any industrial struggle,
but the strike must be won (if won at
alD by the solidarity of the workers
involved. If this strike had been called
and half of the workers had stayed in
the plants and those who were out been
half fhearted or timid in their conduct
of the strike, public sentiment would
have been very negative quantity. 1t
wa. the fact that these girls came out
in body, not knowing how long it
would a 81 sp,,
they might be before the strike was
settled, that won the admiration of the
public. And it was the determination
and get up-and- get quality they dis
played in the conduct of the strike that
held public attention and insured pub
lie support.
There are girls in other occupations
who work as hard and probably receive
as little remuneration and half the
public don't know anything about it.
The same desire for better working
conditions and the same latent posi-
bilities of organization are present.
The laundry workers, through their
union training, had learned the lesson
of intelligent cooperation and when
the supreme test came We're able to-
act in concert. They could make a
noise loud enough to be heard by the
public and the public needed. There is
lesson here for working girls and
women in other occupations. In this
age of combination indivi&ual effort
don't count for much, collective effort
is what brings results.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1910-06-03
LAUNDRY GIRLS WIN
HIGHER WAGE STRIKE
Magnificent Support Received From the Public an
Important Factor-Concerted Action of Workers
Only Solution of Present Day Problems.

One week marked the duration of the
laundry workers strike. From Monday
morning to Saturday evening the bat
tie waxed furious, neither side asking
nor giving quarter 1t appeared Sat
urday morning that the strike would
run over into another week, but mem
bers of both sides got together during
the afternoon and held a talkfest
which resulted in paving the way for
an ultimate settlement. Saturday ev-
ening another conference between em-
ployers and employees was held which
resulted in committee being appointed
from the laundrymen's association to
confer with the executive committee
of the strikers with view of arrang-
ing a settlement The two commit
tees met in the Labor Temple between
9 and 10 o'clock and in the best of
feeling discussed the situation. A basis
of settlement was finally agreed upon
after both sides had submitted propo
sitions and counter propositions, the
pipe of peace was passed around the
circle, and the strike was over. 1t
was victory for the strikers and well
earned. :.
These are the terms of settlement A
straight 10 per cent increase is grant
ed over the previous scale to all the
inside help; every striker who wished
to return to work is re-instated in his
or her old position; the scale is signed
by the employers for term of two
years. In return the executive com
mittee agreed to reduce the fines placed
against the three members who deserted
to minimum figure.
From the very outset it was apparent
that an overwhelming public sentiment
was with the strikers. 1t was so clear
ly shown that the wage s,"n inforce
was entirely inadequate to meet the
absolute needs of the women workers
on account of the small number of hours
actually worked per week, that the
justice of the demands could not be
denied. Public sympathy stayed with
the strikers from beginning to end of
the trouble and was potent factor in
bringing about a favorable settlement.
The originality of the girls displayed
in the tactics adopted pleased the pub
lie and kept them wondering what new
stunt the strikers had up their sleeve
and when it would be pulled off. The
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1910-06-03
THE CAUSE OF STRIKES.
Logical Outcome of Our System of
Compensation.

Compensation.
1t is not the workme who are chief
ly at fault for the inconsistency and
inefficiency of most payroll disburse-
ments, but the system generally used
in handling the workmen. Under the
system that oftenest exists we cannot
expect the workman to be much differ
ent from what he is. If we We're in his
place we should probably do as he
does. We should want to make the
best living we could for our families,
and if by working honestly and con
scientiously we could not make any
more money and if we had tried it
over and over again and still could not
get any more, even though we did
twice or three times as much as the
poorer worker beside us, we should do
the same thing the average worker
now does-namely, come to the con
clusion that the system under which
we were working had no provision for
compensating the individual according
to his deserts and that the only way
we could get more money for our serv-
ices would be to get the wage rate Of
our class raised and take steps to this
end.
This is exactly what the men do
The employer has forced them into n
class by keeping their wages uniform.
and it is but a short step from such a
class to Il union. With the union comes
first collective bargaining, then de-
mands, then strikes. This is a logical
series, for a successful bargainer al
ways wants a better bargain next
time, and the demand that is success
full is very apt to be followed later by
one that will yield more still, even if
it takes force to sustain it'll. l.,
CAN'T in Engineering Magazine.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1910-06-03
INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE.
Pressing Need of Medical inspection of
Factories.

PRESSING NeeC OF mcoiCaI inspection OF
Factories.
To the literature of industrial hy-
giene, still meager, but rapidly grow
ing in this country, the report on the
work of the state inspectors of health
of Massachusetts is a welcome addi-
ton. The work has been under the
direction of William G. Hanson, NJ. D.,
author of Effect of Industry on
Health"
This report of 100 pages summarizes
the results Of Investigations by fifteen
medical inspectors for the year ending
Nov. l, 1908, and includes first inspec-
tions of about 5000 factories, more
than 1000 Of which were reinspected,
several a third and even a fourth
time. Five hundred and twenty-one
minors were found to be in Ill health
or physically unfit for work.
Suggestive of the need of medical
inspection of factories outside the
three states now having inadequate
provisions for that purpose are the fire.
quent references to problems of occu-
pational hygiene, such as 'naphtha
drunks" in the patent leather and rub
ber industry, dangerous dusts and
fumes in numerous employments and
malignant pustule in the curled hair
industry. DIR. Harry Linenthal of
Roxbury deserves special praise for
his contributions upon these questions.
AS a result Of labor legislation re-
quiring scientific methods in investiga-
ton a large number Of manufacturers
have suddenly awakened to the knowl-
edge that It is to their own interest to
provide hygienic conditions for their
work people.-Survey,
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1910-06-03
Shirt Waist Girls to Parade

Arrangements have been made for
May day parade of 10000 shirt waist
girls ilf New York city The parade
will consist only of the girl shirt waist
workers of the greater city and will be
divided into seven divisions. There
will be ten bands of music, and the
route will be through east side streets.
The parade has been arranged to cele-
brate both the international labor day
and the victory recently achieved by
girls in the general strike for union
conditions and wage scales. There
will also be a great number of floats,
in which there will be girls symbolic
ing the international solidarity of Ia
Dor and the significance of the interna-
tional labor day. Automobiles, in
which will be the pickets of the recent
great strike. will be another feature of
the parade.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1910-06-03

President Noncur called the council
to order at s o'clock.
A communication was read from the
United Hatters urging members of or
ganized labor to call for the union
label. Same was referred to the dele
gates with the request that they urge
the necessity upon their members OF
complying with the request OF the hat
ters.
A communication was read from the
Rose Theatre in reference to a matter
at issue with the stage workers. Sec
retary was instructed to reply in writ
ing that as it involved question of
law with their organization the council
could take no action in the matter.
The strikes and boycotts committee
reported that they were unable to come
to any understanding looking to an
amicable adjustment between the Acme
Ice Cream company and the council.
The report was accepted and by motion
the action taken by the plumbers was
complied with, and the Acme Ice Cream
company placed on the unfair list of
the Everett Trades Council.
Building Trades Council reported that
A. Ericsson had been placed unfair.
The members of the Shirt, Waist and
Laundry Workers and the Laundry
Drivers unions were present in body
and. Business Agent Pollard, and the
officials of the organizations affected
in the strike told the council in detail
the progress of the trouble since the
walkout of Monday morning. A writ
ten request was presented asking the
concurrence of the council in declaring
Everett laundries unfair. BY motion,
council concurred in the action. Similar
action was Immediately taken by the
Building Trades council and same re-
ported to the Trades Council. A motion
was carried that a committee of two
be appointed by the council to aid the
executive committee of the strikers in
prosecuting the strike or bringing about
settlement of the trouble. F. G. Pol
lard of the Cooks and Walters, and f.
p Marsh, of the shingle weavers, were
appointed to act for the council.
Report by Unions.
Carpenters-One initiation; donated
$50 to the strikers; will make a dis
cussion of the union label regular
order of business at their next meeting
Cooks and Waiters-Condition good
Cigar Makers-Business dull in theil
line but apparently as many cigars
smoked as ever; boost for the blue la
bel and put some more cigarmakers al
work.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1910-06-03
PARTIES NOT
DESTROYED
But Rather Protected by
Good Direct Primary
Law.

The opponents OF the direct primary
have often claimed that that system of
nomination for public office, tended to
destroy party. 1t is interesting in that
connection to read the statement of
Senator Jonathan NJ. Bourne of Ore
gon. Senator Bourne hales from a
state which is way out on the firing
line of popular or reform government
and anything emanating from a states
man who has been in a position to
watch the inside working of popular
government is extremely interesting
Here is how Senator Bourne answers
that complaint: MANY claim that pri-
mary laws destroy party. In my opin-
ion they protect and cement parties
Party success depends, under primary
laws, upon the ideas and principles ad,
vocated and the nominations made by
the parties in their primaries. If a
majority party fails to make proper
nominations, or if the minority party
has better material in its electorate,
then minority party would rapidly
develop into majority party, and
rightly 50. Under a direct primary law
no individual can acquire large per-
sonal following or build up a personal
organization, except such a following
as would support the individual on ac-
count of the principles advocated by
him or the demonstration made by him
as a public servant. But no man would
be able to transfer such a following for
or against another individual, though
he might influence thousands - vot-
ers to support his ideas, constructive,
or proposed solutions of
pending problems. This does not de-
stroy party, but elevates and strength
ems it, and fortunate, indeed, is that
party which possesses in its electorate
one or more individuals who are able
to advance new ideas or evolve solu-
tions which appeal to the sound judg-
ment of his fellow-men."
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1910-06-03

The sixth biennial congress of the
International Association For Labor
Legislation viii be held at Lugano,
Switzerland. sept 25-2S 1910 Four
teen national sections are now united
in this international organization,
which publishes an International
quarterly review OF labor legislation
and conducts a scientific bureau at
Basel, Switzerland
The American association VIII prob
ably be represented at Lugano by six
delegates.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1910-06-03

Ludlow has been known as model
mill town" The recent disclosures
raise the question whether the model
could not be very much improved.
What the real American workingman
wants is not so much gymnasiums and
pool rooms as fair wages and steady
work and the self respecting inde-
pendence that comes from ability just
ly recognized and squarely dealt With,
Boston Journal.