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The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1911-03-10
BEVERlDGE ON GREELEY.
Famous Editor a Warm Advocate OF
Labor Organization.

Famous Editor Warm Advocate OF
Labor Organization.
Senator Beveridge of Indiana was
one of the speakers at the recent Hor-
nee Greeley memorial meeting held by
the New York printers. The senator
called Greeley the prophet in his time
of a brighter day for those who toll
He painted vivid picture of the "old
and savage theory that the working
man is merely merchandise like sack
of -four or bucket of coal" and told
of Greeley's struggles to change this
condition. He was optimistic or the
present progress labor is making ana
of the work accomplished by Greeley
and his successors.
"He was among the greatest of the
advocates of organized labor" said the
Indiana senator. "He saw not only the
inhumanity that the toilers suffer from
want of organization; saw not only
that the disorganization of labor and
the organization of capital made posi-
BILE mans inhumanity to man,
but also he saw that the lack of organ
ization among laborers caused incredl-
BILE waste and loss. He declared that
the aggregate waste of labor and fac
ulty for want of organization In any
year exceeds the cost Of any war for
five years, ruinous and detestable as
all war is 1t is palpable faulty and
criminal waste of the divine bounty to
let this go on interminably.'
Senator Beveridge said that no one
today better understands the philoso-
ply Of labor than Greeley did in his
time, but he was always practical and
knew that the reforms could only be
gained step by step. "He fought for
shorter hours and tried to show en-
ployers how the greater efficiency Of
the worker would make up for the
loss of time" The senator quoted
Greeley's declaration against child la
Dor and took the opportunity to ar
raign the "black brutality of child la
Dor In America today"
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1911-03-10

and of the materialistic conception of
history has been made so plain that
child in economics can understand. Be
cause things have been in the past is no
logical reason why they should con
tinue So
"Thc producers of this world are de-
termned that poverty must be abolish
ed, but they realize that only through
education. organization and the install
lotion OF a correct system of production
can this be accomplished. Under pro
Juction for use human life will become
valuable more so than all the dirty
gold of this world.
"Cet on the band wagon, brother.
Get in the party that has given to
You the only practical solution of the
vcNing problems of today. Your broth
crs of today and the generations that
are to come demand of you that you
educate yourself, and the only material
education that this. life can give you is
to understand how wealth is produced
and the effect of its production on the
producer.
"Thc Socialist party is your party. It's
cornerstone, production for use, rs
founded on the law of life itself
(Which do you prefer, Life or Death p
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1911-03-10

A verdict of guilty against the men,
bers Of the New Orleans Dock and
Cotton council, charged with conspir-
acy to interfere with foreign COM
merce under the Sherman antitrust
law, was returned recently in the Unit
ed States circuit court at New Orleans.
This is a labor organization with
about $4,000 members. 1t handles all
freight in the port Of New Orleans, and
the charges grew out Of strike which
began many months ago. The convict
ed men are James Byrnes, former pres
ident of the council and at present
state labor commissioner of Louisiana;
Philip Pearsaw, former president Of
the local Coal Wheelers' union, and u.
S. Swan, former president of the Long
shoremen's union. Swan and Pearsaw
are negroes.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1911-03-10
POINTS TO PONDER.

Resolve to be a better trade
unionlst than you have been.
The union member who per-
forms his whole duty to his I'M
ion will be too busy to spend
much time in criticising others.
The good union man VIII not
furnish employment to nonun-
ionists or business to unfair en-
ployees, but will demand union
label articles in return for MS
wages as they are spent to pro
vide for the needs Of himself
and family.
The true union man will try
to persist in the attempt to IN
duce all nonmembers TO become
unionlsts, both in his own trade
and others, being content with
nothing less than that his infu-
ence for the upbuilding of I'M
ionism shall radiate from him
self to every person within his
reach.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1911-03-10
CHURCH AND LABOR.
Methodists Favor Short Workday and
Oppose Child Labor.

Oppose Child Labor
The following recommendation was
unanimously adopted by the Puget
Sound annual conference of the Meth
Odist Episcopal church:
I'VE recommend that this conference
place itself ON record as seeking for
all classes Of worllingmen in the state
of Washington half day holiday in
each week.
also that the hours of work for
women in stores, factories, etc, shall
not exceed eight hours in each twenty
four. and we urge the enforcement Of
the child labor law and if this law is
not sufficient to protect the child we
urge legislation to that effect.
'And we ask that Il copy of this. rec
ommendatiou be sent TO the various
labor organizations for their co-opera-
ton and that the trade unions of this
state be invited to send delegates to
our conference sessions and that we
do all in our power to enforce the
laws now on record"
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plaintiff, and serve a copy of. your an
swer upon the undersigned attorneys
for the plaintiff at their office below
stated; and in case of your failure so
to do, judgment will be rendered against
you, according to the demands of the
complaint, which has been filed with
the clerk of said court.
The object of this action is for a di-
vorce from said defendant.
MOORE & KLEIN,
Attorneys for Plaintiff. P. O. and Of
flee Address, Rooms 2l42l5-2l6 Colby
Bldg, Everett, Snohomish Co., Wash.
Date of first pub. Jan. 20. It
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1911-03-10
Eight Hour Law Observed.

The annual report of the New York
state commissioner of labor says the
eight hour law is being practically OBJ
served. There were only forty COM
plants received last year, and twenty
five of them were found to be viola
tons. The commissioner attributes
the respect paid the law to the severe
penalty clause, involving possible for
fixture of contracts.
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FOR SALE-Real Estate Blanks. Short
form for time transaction. News Pub.
fishing Co., 29l2 Rockefeller Ave.
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE OF SALE
OF REAL ESTATE.
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE |
STATE OF WASHINGTON, IN
AND FOR THE COUNTY OF
SNOHONTSH


SNOHOMISH.
In the Matter of the Estate of Wilhelm
Jensen, Deceased.
Thomas H. Kolderup, the administra-
tor of the estate of Wilhelm Jensen,
deceased, having his petition herein
praying for an order of sale of real es-
tate of said decedent for the purposes
therein set forth,
1t is therefore ordered by the Judge
of said court that all persons interest
ed in the estate of said deceased APP
pear before the said superior court on
Saturday, the 18th day of March,
1911, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon of
said day at the court room of said SUI
perior court, at the court house of said
county of Snohomish, Everett, to show
cause why an order should not be
granted to the said Thomas H. Kolder-
up to sell so much of the real estate of
the said deceased as shall be necessary;
And that copy of this order be pub
lished at least four successive weeks in
the Labor Journal, newspaper printed
and published in said county.
JOHN SANDIDGE,
Court Commissioner.
Date of first publication, Feb. 10,
1911. Al
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1911-03-10
VANLEAR SPEAKS
TO BIG AUDIENCE

= - - = - - - - = - -
The open meeting March 3rd in Fra
tcrual hall was well attended Bro. Van
Lear spoke on The New order of
Things or "Production for USE In
his analysis of the present economic
system he drew parallel between the
serf of medieval ages, the negro slave
before the war and the wage slave of
today. "Thc serf sells only a portion
of his labor. He does not receive his
wages from the owner of the soil;
rather the owner of the soil receives a
tribute from HIM The scrf belongs to
the soil and to the lord of the soil he
brings its fruits.
"The negro slave is sold to his own
er. He himself is a commodity, but his
labor is not his commodity. The wage
slave of today sells his labor. lie be
longs neither to an owner or to the soil,
but s, 10, y. Is hours Of his daily life
belongs to the man who buys them-to
the owner of the raw material, the in
struments OF work and the means Of
life
"Thc wage slave, whose only source
of earning is the sale of his labor, can
not leave the whole class of its pur-
chasers, that is, the capitalist class,
without renouncing his own existence.
He does not belong to this or that par
ticular employer, but he does belong to
the employing class; and more than
that, it is his business to find an en-
ployer; that is among this employing
class it is his business to discover his
own particular purchaser
He related the story of the owner of
a cotton mill. discovering a leak in the
roof over a valuable piece of machinery.
told an old darkey to go up and fix it.
But the old colored man replied, ''AIas-
sa, you know you paid 5000 for dis ne
gro, and Use getting old and feeble and
if l goes up on the roof, [ may loose
my nerve and fall down and get killed
and then YOU would lose what YOU paid
for me. but there is a machinist over
there at that engine: send him up and
if he falls down and gets killed you lose
nothing"
The wage slave of today is but cog
in the wheel of industry; when this
human cog plays out he is thrown on
the scrap heap and a new slave takes
his place.
There are three political parties in
the United States: Democratic, Repub-
Hean and Socialist.
"Tbe issue of the Democratic party.
Bust the Trusts is suicidal. The trust
is a necessary part of the evolution of
industry. It eliminates waste of hui
man ENERGY and of raw and finished ma
terial 70 bust them wouId be to turn
the hands Of time backward. The
children Of this earth move onward. not
backward.
"Tbe issue of the Republican party
is the Profit SYSTEM and all the DOW
er and force of the cod of gold is behind
it. Worship the material thing that
gold BUYS and builds. for that will live
but the creator thereof. the skilled
hands and the creature brain will die
and he forootten. What matters it if
all the civilizations of the past founded
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SUMMONS

SUMMONS
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE
STATE OF WASHINGTON, IN
AND FOR SNOHOAiISH
COUNTY.
Marie E. F. McKim, alias Marie f. f.
Mckay, Plaintiff, VS.. Ernest Cody Nc
Kim, alias Ernest Cody Mckay, De-
PENDANT.
The State of Washington, to the
above named defendant, Ernest Cody
McKim, alias Ernest Cody Mckay,
greetings:
You are hereby summoned to appear
within sixty days after the first pub
lication of this summons, to-wit, within
sixty days after the goth day of Janu-
airy, A. ID. 1911, and defend the above
entitled action in the above entitled
court, and answer the complaint of the
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presidential grade. By the end of the year practically all of these will have been designated and then the system will be extended to all fourth class postoffices doing a money order business.
 In selecting postoffices for Repositories consideration was given to the efficiency of the postmasters and only those offices where tlle ratings were satisfactory to the department have been designated. Withholding designation from postmasters with unsatisfactory ratings has had salutary effect on the service.
 The deposits have kept pace with the extension of the system. Amounting to only s6o, ,652 at the end of the first months operation in the experimental offices, they increased to $679, ,310 by July, and now aft CT Il months of operation have reached q total of $11, GOO 900. This sum is distributed among 2710 banks and protected under the law by bonds deposited with the treas urer of the United States.
 Under the method adopted for the con duct of the system certificates are is- sued as evidence of deposits and &C., counts with depositors are kept by the nostoffices instead of by the department. Compared with the practice in other coun- tries of entering deposits in pass books and keeping at the central office a ledger account with each depositor, the use or
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AAS SdHdl
 The very satisfactory progress made on the Panama canal last year has contin- ued. and there is every reason to believe that the canal will be completed as early as the 1st of July, 1913 unless something unforeseen occurs. This is about IS months before the time promised by the engineers
 We are now near enough the comple- ton of the canal to make it imperatively necessary that legislation should be en- acted to fix the method by which the canal shall be maintained and controlled and the zone governed. The fact is that today there is no statutory law by au- thority of which the President is main- taining the government of the zone. Such authority was given in an amendment to the Spooner act which expired blythe terms of it's limitation some years ago. Since that time the government has con- tnued. under the advice of the Attorney General that in the absence of action by Congress, there is necessarily an implied authority on the part of the executive to maintain government ina territory in which he has to see that the laws are l executed. The fact that we have been | able thus to get along during the im- l portant days of construction without leg l islatton expressly formulating the govern ment of the zone, or delegating the crea- lton Of 1t to the President, is not req i son for supposing that we may continue the same kind of a government after the construction is finished. The implied authority of the President to maintain d | civil government in the zone may be derived from the mandatory direction glv- en him in the original Spooner act, by which he was commanded to build the canal but certainly. now that the cana is about to be completed and to be put under a permanent management. thert ought to be specific statutory authority y ' for its regulation and control and for the government of the zone. which we hold
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marks about an inch or two apart. My face was also affected. I stayed home that day and yNnt to see doctor. Ile told me that I must have eaten something poison ous, and I had the hives. He prescribed medicine and also gave mo some ointment.
 " As the days went by steadily grew worse, the marks changing from one part of my body 10 another The medicine and ointment were of no use, and I felt greatly disappointed until one evening by chance looking over the papers I saw the Cuticura Remedies adver- tscd. immediately procured some Cuticura Ointment and applied it to my body. lcould hardly believe it, but it seemed to ease my s1ia right away. l1c9t cn using tse Cuticura Ointment fer week and can say that 1t certainly was the finest preparation l had ever used. It completely cured me. and l have not been troubled since" lSignedl William Waterman, leo F. tooth St., New York City Dec. 8, 1910.
 Although Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment are sold by druggist and dealers everywhere. liberal sample of caca with 3o-page booklet on the skin and hair, will be sent post free. on application to Potter Drug < Chem. Corp. Dept. .3A. Doaon.
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charges and carelessneSs. The relation ship between the judge and the clerk makes it ungracious for members of the bar to complain of the clerk or for de- partment examiners to make charges against him to be heard by the court. and an order of removal of clerk and a Judgment for the recovery of fees are in some cases reluctantly entered by the judge. For this reason I recommend an amendment to the law whereby the Pres ident shall be given power to remove the clerks for cause. This provision need not interfere with the right of the judge to appoint his clerk or to remove him.
 French Spoliation Awards
 In my last message, I recommended to Congress that it authorize the pay ment of the findings of Judgments of the court of claims in the matter of the French spoliation cases. There has been no appropriation to pay these judgments since 1905. The findings and awards were obtained after very bitter fight, the government succeed ing in about 75 per cent of the cases. The amount of the awards ought, as a matter of good faith on the part of the government, to be paid.
 Employs Liability and WOrkmen's
 Compensation Commission
 The limitation of the liability of the master to his servant for personal in iuries to such as are occasioned by his fault has been abandoned in most civ ilized countries and provision made whereby the employe injured in the course of his employment is compen- sated for his loss of working ability ir- respective of negligence. The principle upon which such provision proceeds is that accidental injuries to workmen in modern industry, with it's vast com plexity and inherent dangers arising from complicated machinery and the use of the great forces of steam and
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Measures to Prevent Delay and Un-
 necessary. Cost of Litigation

In promotion of the movement for the prevention of delay and unnecessary cost in litigation, I am glad to say that the supreme court has taken steps to reform the present equity rules of the federal courts, and that we may in the near future expect a revision of them which will be a long step in the right direction
 The American Bar association has rec commended to Congress several bills eX- pediting procedure, one of which has all ready passed the House unanimously, February 6, 1911. This directs that no judgment should be set aside or reversed, or new trial granted, unless it appears to the court, after an examination of the entire cause, that the error com plained of has injuriously affected the substantial rights of the parties, and also provides for the submission of issues Of fact to jury reservng questions of law for subsequent argument and decision. I hope this bill will pass the Senate and become law, for it will simplify the pro- cedure at law
 Another bill to amend chapter Il of the judicial code, in order to avoid errors in pleading, was presented by the same as- sociation, and one enlarging the jurisdic- tion of the supreme court so as to permit that court to examine, upon writ Of error. all eases in which any right or t1tle IS cldliiltu under the cOnStilutloi, oi any statute or treaty of the United States, whether the decision in the court below has been against the right or title or in it's favor. Both these measures are in the interest of justice and should be passed. POstOffice
 | At the beginning of the present admin | istration in 1909 the postal service was in | arrears to the extent of 17,479770.47. It was very much the largest deficit on rec 1, ord In the brief space of two years this | has been turned into surplus of $220000, which has been accomplished without cur | taiment of the postal facilities, as may be seen by the fact that there have been | established 3744 new postoffices; deliv- | erv by carrier has been added to the
 service in 1S6 cities; 2,516 new rural routes
 have been established, covering 60,00C
 miles: the force of postal employees has | been increased in these two years by more | than 5000, and their average annual sal
 ary has had substantial increase.
 Postal Savings System
 | On January 8 1911, postal savings de nositories were established experiment. | ally in AS states and territories. Afte. three months successful operation ths system was extended as rapidly as feasi bIe to the 75O0 postoffices of the first
 second and third classes constituting th'
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electricity, should be regarded as risks of the industry and the loss borne in some equitable proportion by those who for their own profit engage therein. In recognition of this last Congress authorized the appointment of com mission to investigate the subpect of employers liability and workmen's compensation and to report the result of their investigations, through the President, to Congress. This commis- sion was appointed and has been at work, holding bearings, gathering data, and considering the subject, and it is expected will be able to report by the first of the year, in accordance with the provisions of the law. It is hoped and expected that the commission will sug- gest legislation which will enable us to put in the place of the present waste ful and sometimes unjust system of employers liability plan of compensa- tion which will afford some certain and definite relief to all employees who are injured in the course of their employ ment in those industries which are sub 1ect to the regulating power of Con- gress.
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It was just simply terrible and made it impossible for me to sleep the rest of that night, so l had to sit up all night changing my position every couple of minutes.
 As the hours vent by it grew worse and soon I started 10 scratch myself. When daylight arrived I saw that my body vas roverad with larpe red