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The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1910-09-02
THE TRADE UNIONS.
They Are Exactly What the Wage
workers Choose to Make Them.

They Are Exactly What the Wage
workers Choose to Make Them.
The trade unions are the reflects in
organized, crystallized form of the
best thought, activity and hopes OF
the wageworkers. They represent the
aggregate expression of discomfort of
labor with existing economic, social
and political misrule The trade I'M
ions are exactly what the wagework
ers are, and can be made exactly what
they may please to make them-ac.
or broad gagged, just as the members
are intellectual or otherwise. But, rep.
resent as they may either of these al.
ternatives, the trade union Is the best
form of organization for the toilers to
protect their present interest, as well
as to work out their salvation from
all wrong. In politics we shall be as
we always have been, independent
Independent Of all parties, regardless
under which name they may be known
The only interest we shall have in
either is their real. not merely their
avowed, attitude toward labor. We
shall endeavor to aid in exposing the
folly Of being a union man 364 days
in the year and falling to remember
the union mans duty on election day.
But we shall unqualifedly oppose the
att to 70 iDnn ha oh
the workingmen that so long as they
''vote right on one day In the year,
they may be remiss in their member
ship and all their other duties every
other day in the year.-Samuel Com
pers.
Attacked and denounced as scarcely
any other institution. ever has been, the
unions have thriven and grown In the
face of opposition. This healthy vital
ity has been due to the fact that they
were a genuine product Of social needs
indispensable as a protest and a
struggle against the abuses of indus
trial government and inevitable as a
consequence of that consciousness Of
strength inspired by the concentration
of numbers under the new conditions
of industry. They have been, as is
now admitted by almost all candid
minds, instruments of progress. Not
to speak of the material advantages
they have gained for workingmen, they
have developed powerful sympathies
among them and taught them the les
son of self sacrifice in the interest of
their brethren and, still more, of their
successors. They have infused new
spirit of independence and self respect
They have brought some Of the best
men to the front and given them the
ascendency due to their personal quail
tiles and desirable in the interests of
society.-John X. Ingram, LII. D.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1910-09-02
SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION.
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE
STATE OF WASHINGTON, FOR
SNOHOMISH COUNTY.

c. J. Thurston, Plaintiff, VS.. Erik A.
Nelson and Hannah Nelson, his wife,
Defendants.
The State of Washington to the said
Erik A. Nelson and Hannah Nelson, his
wife, defendants, above named:
You are hereby summoned to appear
within sixty days after the date OF the
first publication of this summons, to-
wit: Within sixty days after the 2oth
day of August, 1910, and defend the
above entitled action in the above en-
titled court, and answer the complaint
of the plaintiff, and serve copy oil
your answer upon the undersigned at
torney for plaintiff at his office below
stated: and in case of your failure SO
to do judgment will be rendered against
you according to the demand OF the
complaint which has been filed with
the clerk of said court.
The object of this action is to Obtain
Judgment against defendants and each
of them on certain promissory notes
held by plaintiff herein in the aggre,
gate amount of $379.75 and accrued
interest, and lot 29 in block 4S4, plat
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1910-09-02
SETBACK FOR SHORT DAY.
Eight Hour Law Does Not Apply Out
side NAVY Yards


Attorney General Wickersham. on re-
quest of the secretary of the navy, has
given a ruling on the eight hour clause
Of the act appropriating money for
new battleships. He holds that it ap-
plies only to work actually done in the
government navy yards and not to
work on machinery and armor done
outside by private contractors.
This ruling will be surprise to la
Dor men throughout the country, who
hailed the insertion Of the eight hour
provision into the bill as a great vic
tory in regard to shops not controlled
by the government.
81 think it is clear that the provision
in the naval appropriation act" says
Attorney General Wickersham after
quoting many authorities, must be
construed to apply simply to work
done upon the vessel itself at the place
where it is built and not as applying
to the manufacture Of machinery or
other material elsewhere which is to
enter into the construction of the YES
sol "
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1910-09-02
LAX MINING LAWS.
John Mitchell Urges Legislation 70
Protect Mine Workers.

Protect Mine Workers.
Workmen's compensation laws and
better protective legislation for indus
trial workers of the country were urged
, by John Mitchell, former head of the
United Mine Workers of America, in
talk before state mine inspectors at a
banquet held recently In Chicago.
He declared that the United States
Is far behind European nations in the
matter of Industrial legislation and the
use of safety devices for the protec-
ton Of life and limb of workmen in
hazardous occupations.
1.-THE terrible mine catastrophe at
Cherry suggests to our minds RENE
dies for the prevention of similar oc-
currences," said Mr.. Mitchell. mo
body of men has done more in the way
Of making mines safer than the state
mine inspectors.
ut is no credit, however, to the
United States that a larger number Is
killed in industry than If two great
nations were continually at war.
want to say with that great man The
oUoiC ieooSCNCit ihiS Nouhtiy
far behind European nations in indus
trial legislation.
ut seems to me 1t Is high time that
our country takes its place among the
most advanced The United States Is
now the only place where the anti
quated system of assumed risk and
other legal doctrines still obtain. Isn't
1t much better to have an automatic
compensation system for the workers?
But the real problem Is to preserve
the lives and limbs Of our wage earners.
1t Is more valuable to society that the
workers save their limbs and preserve
their health AS Americans we should
be ashamed to confess that our coun-
try is the most backward nation in the
world in industrial legislation.
ITO you men who are charged with
great responsibility belongs part Of the
task Of developing uniform system
of legislation for the protection Of min
ers | submit that the conservation of
our human resources is vastly more
important than the conservation of all
the material resources on earth
urge upon you to do your part In max
ing the United States the safest and
best protected nation In the world in
stead of the worst"
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1910-09-02
TANNER Your Utterances.

sincerely believe that the inter-
ests of our people are best protected
and promoted by being temperate in
our utterances. but do 1t In friendly
spirit, for think it is commonly easier
to compose your industrial differences
with an employer If you have not
wounded his feelings personally. We
are all human. and when a man
wounds my personal feelings l am not
quite as agreeable TO deal with after
ward as would be If he had not
wounded me personally, and employ
ers and you and | are just the same
So be sympathetic. broad minded and
temperate in all things. John Mitchell
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1910-09-02
NOTICE AND SUMMONS.
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE
STATE OF WASHINGTON, IN
AND FOR THE COUNTY
OF SNOHOMISH.

A. L. Thornton, Plaintiff, vs.. Grace b.
Logan, and all persons unknown, II
any, having or claiming an interest or
estate in and to the hereinafter de-
scribed real property, Defendants.
The State of Washington, TO Grace
B. Logan, and all persons unknown II
any, having or claiming an interest or
estate in and to the hereinafter de-
scribed real property, defendants; -.
You and each of you are hereby mott
fled that the above named plaintiff Is
the owner and holder of Certificate OF
Delinquency numbered A1oS67, issued
and dated the 1st day of October, A
ID. 1909, by the County OF Snohomish
State of Washington, for the amount
of Three and 100 ($3.O1) Dollars
the same being the amount then due
and delinquent for taxes for the years
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1910-09-02

The threatened strike on the Penn
sylvania railroad was happily averted
by the good sense of those concerned.
1t is evident that most of the Difficult
ties in this case arose from different
interpretations or applications Of the
rules formulated by boards of concilia-
ton for other roads, While both sides
apparently agreed to accept these,
they did not accept them in precisely
the same way. The railroad officials
and the trainmen's committee have
been for some days engaged in work
ing out the detailed application Of the
rules so that there can be no misun-
Outstanding hereafter.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1910-09-02
The Seamen's Strike.

The strike of the seamen on the
great lakes is now over one year old.
1t involves nearly 10000 sailors. fire.
men and cooks, who are striking
against conditions Of serfdom. The
Lake Carriers association. nonre-
sponsible body composed Of vessel
owners. has resorted to every expe-
dent to fill their places. but with
out success. 1t attempted to induce
seamen to desert ocean going vessels
at New York. but ran up against the
alien immigration law. Meanwhile.
through inexperienced seamanship. it
is losing ships and lives. The strik-
ers are determined to win and are en-
titled to every form Of support.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1910-09-02

The BARRIERS are now said to be
threatened with competition along the
lines the cigarmakers have been up
against with the tobacco trust. 1t is
reported that a corporation is being
formed for the purpose Of putting In
elegantly furnished barber shops in all
the larger cities. The new corporation
is said to be backed by ample capital
and in addition to competing will
spend all the money necessary to an
null all anti Sunday work ordinances
and statutes.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1910-09-02
Moldsrs, Union TO Insure.

The Iron Molders' union is begin
ming a comprehensive insurance plan
that is likely to enlist the entire trade.
The start is being made In Ohio. where
500 members will incorporate under
the laws, and then one state after an
other will be attached to the organiza-
ton. The molders claim they will pay
benefits of $500 to $1,000 at less cost
than any insurance company in the
vynrl1
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1910-09-02
SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION.
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE
STATE OF WASHINGTON, IN
AND FOR THE COUNTY
OF SN0H0AuSH.

Thomas Henry Beaumont, Plaintiff, VS..
Alma Beaumont, Defendant.
You are hereby summoned to appear
within sixty days after the date of the
disqualification of this summons, to-
wit: Within sixty days after the Sth
day of July, 1910, and defend the above
entitled action in the above entitled
court, and answer the complaint of the
plaintiff and serve copy of your an
swer upon the undersigned attorney for
the plaintiff at his office below stated,
and in case of your failure SO to do,
Judgment will be rendered against you
according to the demands of the com
plant which has been filed with the
clerk of said court.
The object of the said action is TO OBJ
tain divorce on the grounds of de-
sertion.
II. w. HOLMES,
Attorney for Plaintiff.
lP. o. Address, Eclipse Bldg, Suite 8,
Everett, Wash.
Date of first publication, July sth
1910 ~
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1910-09-02
(PAID ADVERTISEMENT

hereby announce myself as can
didate for nomination as Justice of the
Peace in the first precinct of Snohomish
County, subject to the action of the
voters of Everett, at the Republican
primary election TO be held on Septem
Der 18th. 1910. r. T. WARNER.
Dated August IL, 10,
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1910-09-02
JAMES McCULLOCIT
A. Fl. B. JORDAN,
A /. WTJHTTE

Board of County Commissioners of Sno-
homish County, State of Washington
Date of first publication, September
2, 1910. 2t
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1910-09-02
of Everett, division b, has been a
tached.
NOAH HAKESPEARE

TIdIHUII1 AUIUIIty'
p. 0. Address: 10, 20, Diefenbacher
Building Everett, Washington.
Date of first publication August 26,
1910 1t
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-06-07

before adjournment, whenever that
may be. The people may rest reason
ably assured now that they will secure
the enactment OF laws on these sub
iects. This is an assurance which the
INSTRUMENTATION organs were not
willing to concede a few weeks ago,
when they we're telling the people that
they need not expect congress to give
them any railroad bill, any conserva-
tion or postal savings bill, but the
railroad bill is on the way and the
conservation bills probably will be
voted on before many days, while the
others will come in short order.
By the time congress adjourns and
the members go home to seek endorse
ment at the polls, there will in all
probability have been written upon
the statute books at Washington ample
material in the form of long demanded
laws to warrant any member who
helped writ them there asking a
vindication from the voters.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-06-07

The fallacy of the theory that de-
mands destruction of the whole insti-
tuition of private property as a means
to so-called economic justice is that it
regards individual wealth as beyond
control, thereby imputing to govern
ment an inherent weakness # does not
possess. In the first place. all the
abuses of the laws of supply and de-
mand have not been due to private
property as an Institution, and in the
next place, IL they had been, socialism
would not necessarily be the panacea
This republic ia not ready to admit its
inability to control wealth even when
organized in gigantic forms II has
grappled with and brought to complete
and permanent solution problems
much more formidable and it may be
depended upon not to fail here.
1t is proper, sane regulation rather
than abolition of wealth that is wanted
and which we will have in the United
States, all the vagarious theorists to
the contrary Notwithstanding. This
is clearly outlined by President Taft
in his Jackson, Mich, speech, when he
says the issue is being framed with
respect to the institution OF private
property" and dissents from those
who charge all the economic evils to
the abuse of this power and advocate
its destruction as the only way OF es-
tablishing an equilibrium between the
masses.
There is no danger that socialism
will ever triumph so long as the people
keep their faith in a popular govern
ment so full of opportunity for indi-
vidual effort The policy of "destruc-
ton" means cropping for a last resort,
means weakness and despair, and we
are not giving up in this country to-
day; we are not placing a premium on
human weakness, but ON personal
effort and organized grit and we are
showing considerable progress in curb
ing and controlling, directing and regu-
lating, the powerful accumulations of
wealth and making them contribute to
the development of orr national life
and industries as agencies of useful.
ness rather than mere mechanism of
| oppression.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-06-07
The Example of Darius Green.

According to the mother of Charles
X. Hamilton, one of the ambitious avi-
ators who will compete in the flight
from New York to st. Louis for prize
of $4,000, her son was originally in
spired by the story of Darius Green
and His Flying Machine, and all his
life has been dreaming and working
over airships. 1t may be that other of
the twentieth century aviators, pos
sibly the Wright brothers, or Farnam,
or Curtiss, or even the foreigners, Bile
riot, Paulhan or Santos-Dumont, got
their first notion OF aerial navigation
from the same simple source. At any
rate we may admit that this crude per-
sonage in his naive way has sent his
Influence on down through history to
be felt in the enlightened progressive
age OF the twentieth century, as a
genuine boon to science and world
economy.
But before we proceed too far in
our marveling over the wonderful
feats that are being accomplished, it
might be well to go back into history
and see il the advancement of the
present day is altogether unprece-
dented. Between 1923 and 1880
Rufus Porter made a cigar-shaped
dirigible balloon strikingly like the
one in which Santos-Dumont achieved
such fame, and Henri Clifford, the
French inventor, constructed steam
propelling airship which was a crude
model of the modern machine. Nor
will the man who succeeds in flying
from New York to st. Louis be the
first to travel that distance in air. In
the latter sos a flight was made
from St. Louis to point 1900 miles
distant in the state OF New York in
just twenty hours. So that the present
human birds have really some pretty
fair records to break.
But of course there is a vast differ.
ence between what is being done today
and what was done three-quarters Of
a century ago. Then men merely
sailed somewhere through space by
means of balloons, while today they
are working toward the perfection Of
systematic aerial navigation. bringing
their aircraft under definite contro
with view of making them practica
means of transportation. And yet tn,
power Of the example of the Darius
Greens is felt through every triumph
we are achieving.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-06-07
PERSONAL NOTES.

English men of letters have treated
Roosevelt with consideration, but Kipling
threatens TO write poem about him.
The Prussian Parliaments favorable
action on the kaiser's request for a raise
of salary seems to be a further recognition
Of the high cost of living.
The bar of England has lost its hair
dresser, John Carter, to whose shop by
Temple Bar, a relic of London in the merry
days when Henry VIII reigned, came each
day juniors X. C.'s and judges OF the high
court. He died recently at the age Of 70.
Because his conscience hurt him, a
penitent sinner has sent 2 cents to the gov
eminent, official recording of the episode
costing the government 81. II the fellows
conscience hurts him any more and he
really loves his country he viii suffer in
silence.
Mrs. Charles Netcher of Chicago is act
ing manager and owner with her children,
OF one of the largest department stores in
the world. The store covers IS acres OF
floor space, represents an investment OF
more than $15,OOO,O 900 and employs upward
Of 5000 persons.
out Of several hundred papers submitted
to the international congress the one Of a
woman doctor of Chicago, DR.. Bertha Won
Hoosen. was chosen to be read before the
association at its meeting in Budapest. II
was one of two written in the English
language that were chosen, the other beinE
the production OF an eastern doctor of dis
tiuction.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-06-07
SEEING OMAHA.

Fremont Tribune; Omaha is looking for
sn easy place TO light. The Bee tries to
point out that the surprise w4ll be II the
census shows more than 10000
Broken Bow Beacon: The supreme court
has decided that Omaha shall take its
water works from a private corporation
at an appraisement of 81, 26S, 295 and omaha
is sick of the deal. She will experience on
a large scale something OF what Broken
Bow had to experience in taking over its
water plant
Grand Island Independent: The admls-
sions of the man Erdman at Omaha, Of
his connection with other crimes, enacted
and contemplated, are sufficient to stamp
him as a strange sort of a reformer to be
associated with Elmer Thomas attorney
for the Anti-Saloon league and kindred or
CARNATIONS in the metropolis.
Papillon Times: Omaha received final
knockout decision In the city water works
affair when the United States supreme
court decided that the city would have
to buy the plant from the private owners
at the appraised valuation OF $3.50, 295. 40.
Sarpy county's court house bonds for 500. =
900 looks rather small beside these stag
gerlng figures.
DAVID City PreSf: Omaha VIII nave 10
pay 1926 2a5.4s for the water plant This
is the decision of the supreme court af-
ter five years litigation. This was the
price put on the plant by two of the three
appraisers in 1906. the appraisers having
been appointed in 1903 After little more
litigation to determine when the sale be-
came effective and what the earnings
of the water company have been, the mat
ter will be settled, which ought to be
! before Halley's comet comes again.
Beatrice Express: Omaha, like most OF
| the Nebraska towns, has come to the con-
clusion that she was expecting too much
of the census this year. Dissatisfied with
the government enumeration, the CONNER
cial club OF that city had private census
taken, with the result that IT was found
there we're several thousand less people
| in Omaha than was counted on earlier in
the year. The gain over the 1900 census
will be small. Similar results in practi-
cally all the other towns Of the state lead
to the conclusion that the census ten years
ago was padded considerably
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-06-07
In Iowa.

The political spotlight is right now
on Iowa, where the impending pri-
maries will soon tell who's who in the
Hawkeye state. Although the pri-
maries are to determine the makeup
of the tickets of all parties, the inter-
est is conferred almost wholly on the
republican side of the fence, and there
on the denomination of members Of
congress who have been standing with
the regular organization. The per-
sonal participation OF the two United
States senators from Iowa pleading
for a reputation of the regulars as an
endorsement OF their own insurgency
has drawn factional lines sharply and
diverted the issues in some measure
from the personalities of the opposing
candidates for primary preference.
1t remains to be seen, however,
whether Iowa republicans will vote to
retire the men who have represented
them longest in the house and have
the best records of public service to
their credit, simply because they have
refused to enlist under the insurgent
banner and to take orders from the
senators rather than from their own
constituencies. The democrats natu-
rally regard the factional fight in
Iowa as grist to their mill and are said
TO be lending assistance to the insur-
gents, whose success they feel sure
would be to their advantage. II that
is the case. republicans looking on as
unprejudiced outsiders would prefer
to see the strong men who have made
the Iowa house delegation a positive
influence. renominated, reelected and
kept in the forefront.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-06-07
The New Test.

Notice is given by our amiable dem
ocratic contemporary that the signing
of Statement No 1" is to be the new
test, and presumably the only test, of
the democracy Of aspiring candidates
for the legislature
All democrats who sign Statement
No 1" will look alike to 1t and be
commended to the confidence and
favor of democratic voters.
Just sign Statement No. 1" and all
past misdeeds will be forgiven.
The notorious boodler and the
chronic CRATER may have an immunity
bath by immersing himself in State
ment No. l."
All the corporation cappers or other
disreputables in the late Douglas dele
cation may reinstate themselves as
democrats in good standing by swal-
lowing dose of Statement No. l.
Any liar whose word is at discount
and whose bond is below par can float
his paper as a legislative candidate on
the democratic ticket by signing up for
Statement No. l."
Statement No. 1" is the new polit-
ical divining rod that will.tell the true
democrat from the false, the real arti-
Gle from the counterfeit.
Oh, II we had only had this infallible
test before the Sting of ingratitude'
got in it's work!