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The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1911-03-24
SWENSON RECEIVES
CITY APPOINTMENT

Our old friend, W. A. Swenson, of
Spokane, received an important city po-
sition in the department of public
works, and it is doubtless all the more
appreciated by him as it came entirely
unsolicited. Swenson was one of the
hardest workers during the campaign
preceding the commissioner election and
much of the success of organized labor
must be attributed to his tireless, UNI
remitting efforts. Bro Swenson's op-
portunity for public service has been
widened but we hope he will still find
time to WELD that trenchant pen
of his in behalf of the toilers. Sven
sons "Short Jabs" have made mighty
interesting reading and as an education
al feature of the World have been of
great value.
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EVERETT TRADES COUNCIL

Labor Temple, Friday, March 17th.--
Council was called to order at 8 p. m.
by Vice President Olinger.
Minutes of the previous meeting were
read and approved.
The credentials of H. S. Rayburn of
the Laundry Workers and w. o. Nc
Allister of the BARRIERS, were accepted
and delegates obligated and seated.
A communication was read from the
union label department of Indianapolis
calling attention to the otter brand of
garments as being made by union work
ers under union conditions in every de-
partment. Communication was received
and filed
A communication was read from
strike headquarters of the machinists
outlining the progress made by the
strikers throughout the Northwest. The
request was made that all local unions
making contributions to the strikers
should make them through local secre-
taries in localities where men were on
strike; locals in cities not affected to
send their contributions direct to strike
headquarters.
Strikes and boycott committee re-
ported that they had conferred with
Mr.. Van Valley of the Van Valley Bot
Ting Works in an efforts to have the
wages of the teamsters restored but
were unsuccessful. The committee rec
commended that the bottling works be
placed on the unfair list and by motion
the recommendation was concurred
with.
An urgent appeal was made to the
council in behalf of the Labor Journal
and a committee was appointed to visit
the unions in its behalf.
Reports by unions:
Linemen-2 limitations; visited by
District Vice President Morgenthaler, of
Seattle.
Laundry Drivers limitations; only
one non-union driver in the city.
Machinists-Two members lost by
death; body of Bro. Marlborough who
died in the Panama canal zone will be
brought home for burial; numerous
shops in the strike district have signed
up for the eight-hour day since last re-
port.
Musicians-1 initiation.
Plumbers-Committee visiting unions
in the interest of better organization
movement.
Single Weavers-Donated $4,000 to
striking machinists.
raphical-Cascade Printing Co.
violated union rules and asserted their
determination to run under open shop
Trouble referred to strikes
and boycott committee.
Teamsters-3 sAitiations; contem-
plating putting a business agent in the
field soon; only one driver for the Can
yOn Wood Co. a member of the union;
demand the union card from every team
ster delivering wood or coal
Reported activity of the "Open Shop
pers" was discussed at length and the
necessity of organized labor closing up
its ranks was impressed upon every del
egate.
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tiff, and serve a copy of your answer
upon the undersigned attorneys for
plaintiff, at his office below stated
and in case of your failure so to do,
Judgment will be rendereaS against you,
according to the demand of the com
plant, which has been filed with the
clerk of said court.
The above entitled action has been
commenced to quiet the title in plaintiff
of the Southwest quarter of the north
west quarter (SWH of NWH) and the
northwest quarter of the southwest
quarter (NWH of SWH) of Section
two (2); the northeast quarter of the
Southeast quarter (NeA of SEQ AMI
the southeast quarter of the northeast
quarter (SEA of NEA) of Section
three t3), all in Township thirty (30),
North of Range five (5) East of the
Willamette Meridian, Snohomish coun-
ty, Washington, and to exclude the de-
PENDANTS from any interest therein
f. z. ANDERSON,
Attorney for Plaintiff.
Office and Postoffice Address: Realty
Bldg, Everett, Washington.
Date of first publication, March "a,
1911. It
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SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION.
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE
STATE OF WASHINGTON, IN
AND FOR SNOHOMISH
COUNTY.
Blanche Moore, Plaintiff, VS.. Mathew
j. Moore, Defendant.

Blanche Moore, Plaintiff, VS.. Mathew
j. Moore, Defendant.
The State of Washington to the above
named defendant:
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 oath
of March, 1911, and defend the above
entitled action in the above entitled
court, and answer the complaint of the
plaintiff, and serve copy of your ans
wer upon the undersigned attorney for
plaintiff at his office below stated and
in case of your failure so to do iudg-
ment will be rendered against you sc-
cording to the demand of the complaint
which has been filed with the clerk of
said court.
The object of this action is to obtain
decree of divorce from defendant on
the grounds of abandonment and non
support.
NOAH SHAKESPEARE.
Plaintiffs Attorney
P. O. Address, 29O9h Hewitt Ave, Ev-
erett, Washington.
Date of first publication, March "a,
1911. 1t
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No. ll2ll.
NOTICE OF PUBLICATION.
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE
STATE OF WASHINGTON, IN
AND FOR THE COUNTY OF


SNOHOMISH.
Clemet Rasmussen, Plaintiff, VS.. En-
ma Opsvig, Emma Opsvig Executrix
of the Estate of Louis P. Opsvig, De-
ceased; Louis Talberg and Jane Doe
Talberg, his wife; Andrew Opsvig
and Jane Doe Opsvig, his wife; and
Andrew johnson and Jane Doe John
son, his wife, Defendants.
The State of Washington to the said
defendants, Emma Opsvig, Emma
Opsvig, Executrix of the Estate of
Louis P. Opsvig, Deceased; Louis
Talberg and Jane Doe Talberg, his
wife; Andrew Opsvig and Jane Doe
Opsvig, his wife; and Andrew John
son and Jane Doe johnson, his wife.
You are hereby summoned to appear
within Sixty 1907 days after the date
of the first publication of this summons
towit: after the 10th day of March,
1911, and defend the above entitled ac-
ton in the above entitled court, and
answer the complaint of the plaintiff
and serve copy of your answer on the
undersigned attorney for the plaintiff
at his postoffice address below given,
and in case of your failure so to do
judgment will be rendered against you
according to the demands of the COM
plant, a copy of which has ben filed
with the clerk of said court.
The above entitled action is an ac-
ton brought by the plaintiff to fore
close certain mortgage on the follow
ing described real estate situate in the
County of Snohomish, State of Wash
ington, to-wit: Lots Eighteen (ls) and
(l9) in Block Six Hundred
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of finance. The organizations of work
ing people that would wrest from capt
tai living wages, shorter hours of toll,
the comforts of life to which all are
entitled, are assailed at every turn, ma
tives impugned leaders villified. If
these industrial pirates, these would
be union wreckers, had their way, to-
morrow's sun would rise over the ashes
of every union organization in America.
Ii the forces of organized greed had
their own sweet will the workers would
be reduced to the level of the veriest
serf. Yet how futile are the efforts of
the industrial slave drivers to stamp
out the spirit of independence among
the workers. Organized labor emerges
from every conflict with unbroken de-
termination to hold fast that which
has been gained through struggle and
sacrifice and hand down to their chill
dren their rightful heritage. You can
not kill the spirit of unionism. You
may hamper it, cripple it, but it lives
and will stay alive. Men must unite I;
they have no alternative. Capital has
decreed that organized labor on the Pa
cific coast must be stamped out and in
Los Angeles today the forces of gold
and the forces of human rights are en-
gagged in a terrific combat. In that
southern city where Otis and his crew
are using every effort to stamp out or
gained labor, twenty two new unions
have been granted charters from the
American Federation of Labor since the
fight began. Crush unionism and with il
the hopes and aspirations of the toiing
masses of the nation? Not in thous
and years. Unionism was born of mems
necessity and you cannot kill that which
man has brought into being to stand
between him and economic serfdom
The rack, the pillory and the stake
could not stamp out the Christian reli-
gion; all the fiendish devices of mon
ey-mad, dividend pursuing, union hat.
ing horde, will alike fail before the cour-
age and determination of the men in
the labor movement.
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NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN, That
John r. Daily, the duly appointed, quail
flied and acting administrator, de bonis
non, with the will annexed, of the above
entitled estate, in pursuance to the auth
ority and power vested in him, by the
terms of the will of John Mort, deceas
ed, as duly admitted to probate herein,
will sell at private sale to the highest
bidder for cash, subject to the confirma-
ton by said court, at 20 o'clock, A. NJ,
on Saturday, April Is, 1911; all of
the right, title, interest and estate of
the above named decedent in and to
that ceran parcel of land, situated, ly-
ing and being in the County of Snoho-
mish, State of Washington, and describ-
ed as follows. towt:
Lots Three (3), Four az, Five (5)
and Six (6), Block Two (2) of j. G..
Smiths Addition to Snohomish, Snoho-
mish County, Washington.
All bids and offers must be in writ
ing and accompanied by certified
check for at least 10 per cent of the
amount of the bid and are receivable
at the offices of Faussett & Smith, at
torneys for administrator de bonis non
with the will annexed. at 2067 Stokes
Bldg, Everett, Washington, or at the
office of the undersigned in the Walsh
Block, Everett, Washington, up to the
time set for making the sale.
Terms of Sale: Cash, Gold Coin Of
the United States; 10 per cent at the
time of sale, and balance on confirma
ton.
JOHN R. DAILY,
Administrator de bonis non with the
will annexed
Date of first publication, March "a,
1911. At
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Lots of things that are theoretically
correct don't work out in practice. Call
ing for bids on public work and the let
ting of contracts to the lowest response
BILE bidder works beautifully theoretical
ly. Taxpayers pay the bills-cheaper
the Jobs the cheaper the bills. That's
the theoretical side of it. But the way
it has worked out has been that lot
of inspectors were necessary to keep the
contractors from skinning the munich
palities-ergo, the taXpayers-to death,
and the taxpayers generally got skinned
despite the inspectors. A contractor fig
ures his bid as low as he can and make
good profit and as soon as he gets
the job he Immediately sets mis- brains
to work figuring out a way to increase
his profits. He starts out by employ
ing a lot of cheap labor. He generally
finds that his cheap" labor is pretty
der" and with an eye on profits he
adopts the other tack-substituting
cheap material Often there is a cut
in" too with officials Now we are not
intimating that any of these things ever
happened in Everett, but instances are
not wanting in any number of cities
where the contract system has resulted
in the chain of evils enumerated above.
A remedy for the evils of the contract
system as applied to public improve
ments seems to be the day system. The
legislature passed law giving to cities
the right to do its own public work by
day labor and in that law is a way out
of the middle. The contractors profit
could be eliminated and the inspectors
employed to watch the contractor could
superintend the work. If they We're
not practical men they certainly would
be no good as inspectors on contract
jobs, and if they were practical they
would certainly be competent to take
charge Of the work. The argument has
often been used against day labor that
it is more wasteful and costly than
contract work. The answer to that in
most eases is the fact that city Jobs
have been regarded as berths for politi-
cal henchnen that had to be taken care
Of. An industrial corporation wouldn't
think OF putting man in as manager
or superintendent who had no knowl-
edge OF that particular industry. But
municipality will give jobs to fellows
who don't know or pretend to know the
least thing about the department in
which they are placed. How in the
world is a city expected to get CON
crete results from such a system? When
municipality learns to run its business
on business principles and makes ability
he qualification for positions rather
han political pull, it viii learn that it
can do its own public work and manage
its own public utilities. It's a question
If competent and intelligent manage
ment entirely-the man in the overalls
who does the manual labor is the same
whether he works for a municipality or
corporation.
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Seventeen (6l7) of the Plat of Everett,
Division G. Also Lot Thirteen (l3) in
Block Six Hundred Twenty (62l)
of the Plat of Everett, and for such
other and further relief, as will more
fully appear by reference to the com
plant on file herein. Said mortgage
was executed by the said Louis P. Ops
Wig and Emma Opsvig, his wife, on the
3lst day of July, 1908, to secure the
payment of certain note of Twenty
five Hundred ($2,50000) Dollars with
interest thereon.
0. T. WEBB,
Attorney for Plaintiff.
Office and Postoffice Address, 1926
Stokes Bldg, Everett, Washington.
First publication, March TO- It
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UNION LABEL GOODS.
Mil Dominate All Markets When
Workers Demand Them.

VII Dominate All Markets When
Workers Demand Them.
We have many times referred in
these columns to the power that wage
earners can exercise with their local
merchants in the direction of influenc-
ing them to handle goods bearing the
union label. We regard the possibil-
ties of this influence as being so great
as to practically amount to an owner
ship of the business of the merchant,
says the Shoe Workers Journal.
1t has sometimes been said that the
wage Garner is the slave of the en-
ployer because he is dependent upon
him for an opportunity to earn Il liv-
| ing. The author of this statement may
say the same thing of the merchant
who is the slave of the consumer be-
cause he is dependent upon the con-
sumner for an opportunity to make a
living in his business. Moreover,
merchant is not as free to change from
one situation to another and cannot
do so as readily as the average me-
chanic.
If one is skeptical about the degree
of ownership that the consumer can
exercise over the business of the av-
erage retail merchant, just let him
listen to the retail merchants pleading
for the residents of their city to trade
in their home stores. If one will lis
ten to the rural merchants expressing
their fears of the result to them
through the competition of the mail
order houses should a parcels post be
established he cannot fail to draw
the inference that the retail merchants
understand full well that their bust
ness is gone when the surrounding
people fail to trade with them.
Taking all these things for granted,
then who patroniZes the merchants,
and to whose patronage do the mer-
chants appeal? Why, the mass of the
people, of course, the wage earners, the
union men and women whose large
number and their needs make the vol
ume of retail trade.
These, then, are the merchants we
own, and we own them nevertheless
whether we permit them to do as they
please or not. The child is none the
less the child of the parents even al
though permitted to be Maynard and
to be out of doors nights. The only
question IS, When will the parents CON
clude to use their parental authority
and to cause the child to walk in the
straight and narrow path under fear
Of an application of the birch?
And so in our case the only ques-
ton is when the rank and file of the
members Of our movement will under
take to exact proper degree of con
sideration-yes, and of obedience-from
the merchants we own and who with
out our patronage could not live II
they desire us to trade in our home
stores they must give us what we
want, and we must be manly enough
to demand it and to refuse to accept
anything else. We want union labe
goods to dominate in all markets. Lei
-as.Ea.l.
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Longshoremen reported business quiet,
but a big ship expected in soon that
would give employment to about sixty
men.
The light company came in for a Sc
we're flaying and union men were urged
to withhold all possible patronage until
the light company decided to deal fairly
with organized labor.
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History tells us that the pagans of
bygone centuries tried to stamp out the
Christian religion by putting to torture
and death thousands Of men, women and
children who would not forswear the
cross of Christ. How signally they
failed. Persecution never killed lust
cause. Right win triumph in the end
over every obstacle, despite all opposi-
tion through ali persecution. Modern
industry is in this age of dollars en-
gagged in a relentless persecution. It's
victims do not as in the days of old
give up their lives at the stake or in the
arena. But they give them none the
less. Lack of safety appliances on rail
roads, in mines and factories; unsan-
itary surroundings in tenements and
sweatshops, take the lives of thousands
Of workers each year while the golden
flood pours into the Golfers of the kings
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No. 1868
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE WHY SALE
OF REAL ESTATE SHOULD
NOT BE MADE.
No. 1868.
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE
STATE OF WASHINGTON, IN
AND FOR SNONHOMISH
COUNTY.

In the Matter of the Estate of Clara
Jones, Deceased.
c. f. Mum, the administrator of the
estate of Clara Jones, Deceased, having
filed his petition herein praying for an
order of sale of all of the real estate
of the said decedent for the purposes
set forth in said petition, it is therefore
ordered that all persons interestd in
the estate of Clara Jones, deceased APP
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The State of Washington to Ida Haw-
kins, Eugene Cyphert, Clarence Cyphert,
the unknown heirs of Annie Rhoades,
deceased; and also, all other persons or
parties unknown claiming any right, ii
tie, estate, lien or interest in the real
estate described in the complaint herein,
defendants:
You, and each of you, are hereby sum-
moned to appear within sixty (60) days
from the date of the first publication
of this summons, to-wit: Within sixty
900 days after the oath day of March,
A. d., 1911, and defend the above-en-
titled action in the court above named
and answer the complaint of the plain
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No.
SUMMONS.
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE
STATE OF WASHINGTON, IN
AND FOR THE COUNTY OF
SNOHOMISH.

Newton Rhoades, Plaintiff, vs. Ida Haw-
kins, Eugene Cyphert, Clarence Cy-
phert, the unknown heirs of Annie
Rhoades, deceased, and, also, all 9TH
er persons or parties unknown, claim
ing any right, title, estate, lien or in
terest in the real estate described in
the complaint herein, defendants.
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Japs are said to be leaving the North
west in large numbers for some point
on the southern coast At last reports
Mukilteo still had her colony of Orien
tails, however
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ABOUT PROFIT SHARING.

. The trouble with different
plans Of profit sharing that are
; usually presented is that they
nearly always contain the ele-
ment of coercion. In other
words, the workman is not treat
ed as a man who by his labor
that he has given has contrib
uted toward the support and
success of his employer and is
therefore entitled to a moiety in
addition to his daily wage, but
he is told that in order to re
ceive this moiety he must con
tinue in the employ of his en-
plOyer This means virtually
that he must work at the wage
fixed by the employer and turn
off a quality and quantity of
work fixed by the employer.
This is not profit sharing. II Is
a species of slavery under which
the employer seeks to own and
control as his yassal the en-
ployee who is foolish enough TO
bite at this type Of profit shar-
ing.
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No. 1647.
NOTICE.

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE
STATE OF WASHINGTON, IN
AND FOR THE COUNTY OF
SNOHOMISH.
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UNION DIRECTORY


Samuel Gompers President.
James Duncan----First Vice President.
John Mitchell Second Vice President.
James OConnel--T Third Vice President.
Dennis A. Hayes, Fourth Vice President.
VIM. ID. Huber,--Fifth Vice President.
Jos. Z. Valentine Vice President
John R, Alpine, Seventh Vice President.
II. B. Perham, Eighth Vice President.
John b. Lennon ------------ treasurer
Frank Morrison ------------ Secretary.
Washington State Federation of Labor.
President ------------------ y. II. Ohse,
Seattle.
First Vice President ------Fred Hudson,
Bellingham.
Second Vice President--Wm. j. Coates
Spokane.
Third Vice President------L. +. Clarke,
Walla Walla.
Fourth Vice Presidential. A. Livermore
Aberdeen.
Fifth Vice President----P. j. Mulligan,
Gle Elum.
Sixth Vice President Ii. Bolton
Seattle.
Seventh Vice President--J. E. Campbell,
Everett.
Sec. Treas --------Charles Perry Taylor,
Box 1S5, Tacoma.
Organizer ----------------C. 0. Young,
Everett.
Everett Trades Council.
j. B. Moncur, President
r. ]. Olinger. Vice President.
F. ]. Fdney. -----Tr Treasurer
d. T. Freeburg Secretary
Thos. Cooley 1900. Sergeant at-Arms
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In the Matter of the Estate of John
Mort, Deceased.