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The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1912-12-27
WITH THE BARRIERS.

The last regular meeting of the
BARRIERS union played to a full house
and a lot of interest was shown in
the matters under discussion. A de-
cision of the local to regulate working
hours on future Labor Days so the
BARRIERS can participate in parades
will be welcomed by all the unions.
Hereafter working hours on Labor
Day will be from to 10 in the morn
ing. That's all. VIM. Skinner was
elected president of the local for the
ensuing term and also delegate to the
State Federation convention at Olym-
pia. The list of newly elected officers
is as follows; President, VIM. Skin
ner; vice-president, w. ]. Zenzie; fl
nancial and corresponding secretary,
w. o. McAllister; recorder, NJ. T.
Altman; treasurer E. Emott: guide,
A. H. Davenport; guardian, Christ
Balmer; auditing committee, C. w.
Hubbard, c. B. Wright, F. A. Brown
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1912-12-27
CHRISTMAS WELL OBSERVED

If there were any little chimney
kids" in Everett that didn't get a bit
of Christmas cheer it was because
they couldn't be found by the numer-
GUS groups of good fellows" who were
dispensing the same. The Elks lodge
took a prominent part in the Santa
Claus stunt, mixing a lot of good fun
with the giving of gifts of practical
utility. Manager ST. Peter of the Rose
theater threw the doors of his popular
playhouse open Tuesday to the young
sters of the city and gave them the
time of their young lives. The Asso-
ciated Charities and the Salvation
Army searched out worthy cases
while every church in the city held
it's customary Christmas entertain
ment.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1912-12-27
BODY
PROCEEDINGS

Friday December 2O.-Council was
called to order at S:2O p. m., President
Williston presiding
A communication was read from the
Stationery Engineers Union No. Il of
Rochester, N. Y, stating that their
members were on strike in the factory
of the Curtice Canning company for
shorter hours. Goods manufactured
by that concern are strictly non-union
and laboring people everywhere are
asked not to purchase them Motion
passed that communication be pub
lished in the Labor Journal.
Communication from the union
label trades department of the A. f.
of L., asking the council to petition
congress to pass the Booher contract
labor bill. Secretary was instructed
to write to cur representatives in con-
gress.
Resolution from the carpenters I'M
ion asking for legislative action doing
away with the abstract title business
was read and explained by the car
penter delegates. Council endorsed
the resolution and instructed the dele
gates to the Olympia convention to
work for the endorsement of the meas
ure by the State Federation.
A call was made for all delegates to
the Olympia convention to meet in
the Labor Temple Sunday afternoon,
January 5, at p. m, to plan har-
monious action during the coming
convention.
A committee on arrangement for the
proposed council smoker to be held
early in January was appointed The
following delegates were chosen: NJ.
T. Altman, chairman; Thompson,
Davis, Roberts and Overman
Reports by Unions.
Barbers-One application; elected
officers and delegate to Olympia con-
vention.
Cooks and Waiters-Nine applica-
tions; five limitations; two by card;
elected Mary McDougall delegate to
Olympia convention
Cigarmakers-Two by card: unable
to send delegate to convention owing
to heavy expense entailed in sending
delegate back to Baltimore intend
taking stock in Labor Temple asso-
citation.
Engineers-Elected two delegates to
Olympia convention.
Electricians-Big meeting; two by
card; inside wiremen won their strike
for an increase in wages; all contract
shops now paying $5 per day.
LOngshoremen-Will elect delegate
to Olympia
Painters-One initiation
Shingle Weavers-Visited by Presi-
dent Case of the State Federation.
State Workers-Big meeting: elect
ed officers and delegate to Olympia
convention.
Teamsters-Two applications
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1912-12-27

THE LABOR JOURNAL
Is the official organ of the Trades
Council, and is read by the labor
ing men and women of Everett.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1912-12-27
PROPOSED
LEGISLATION

An interesting topic of discussia1
lar meeting was the court practice O
administering estates. The present
method of appointing administrators
by the courts came in for a severe
grilling by those who took part in the
discussion. 1t was asserted that in
stances were numerous where estates
of persons dying intestate had become
the plaything of administrators and
estates virtually swallowed up in ad-
ministrator fees, lawyer fees and court
costs. 1t is proposed to prepare a bill
for presentation to the legislature, do
ing away with the appointment of ad-
ministrators for estates by the courts.
The method proposed is for each
county to have a public administrator,
preferably an elective official, whose
duty it shall be to administer estates
They would have this official under
salary the same as any other official
with no fees attached to the office and
under sufficient bond for the faith
full performance of his duties. They
realize, say the carpenters, that this
bill will meet a storm of opposition
from many lawyers and "semi-pro
fessional" administrators, but believe
the people in general will approve
such a measure A committee is ont
working on a proposed draft of a reso
luton that will embody the ideas sug-
gested above.
Another law that the carpenters
would have passed is one doing away
with the abstract business. They be-
lieve that the abstracter is perform
ing a useless function inasmuch as
his work is but repitition of what
anyone must do to prove title, viz,
go over the records on file in the
county courthouse. They would sub
stitute system whereby papers of
transfer should record all claims
against the property or claims paid,
cutting out the necessity of an alb
stract title.
The latter matter was laid before
the trades council and approved by
that body and the delegates to
Olympia instructed to work for the
approval of the convention.
1t is argued that there are many
systems of procedure in connection
with transfer of property, admins
tration and mode of taxation which
need remedying by legislative enact
ment and that it is time to begin
agitating along these lines
They are aware that they are start
ing something" but say it is high time
that the questions of public import
were better understood.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1912-12-27
FRUIT GROWING
NOT A CINCH

A. j. Morrow and wife. formerl,
proprietors of the News Publishing
company but now Wenatchee ranch
ers," spent Christmas with Everett
relatives. Both Mr.. and Mrs. Morrow
appear in the best of health, the clim
ate of the Wenatchee valley evidently
agreeing with them. Mr. Morrow is in
the orchard business, having one fruit
farm near Wenatchee and another
near Cashmere.
In conversation with the Journal
man Mr. Morrow said
"The fruit business in the Wenat-
chez valley is not a short cut to
wealth by any means. A heavy crop
of apples in every fruit belt of the
country, excessive freight rates, icing
charges, commissions, etc, took the
cream of the business. The work is
healthy, however, and interesting, and
we manage to make a good living
The practice of consignment to com.
mission houses with no ironclad agree
ment as to price or ultimate destina-
ton is the worst feature of the bust.
ness and is responsible in a great de-
gree to the condition Of the fruit
market. The fruit growers need bet.
ter organization. The berry raisers
have a good association
Mr.. Morrow added some interesting
details to the controversy now raging
around the Western avenue commits
sion houses in Seattle. He had some
of the earliest cherries raised in the
Wenatchee valley ready for shipment
April 80, An agent for a Seattle com
mission house urged him to send them
to Seattle, telling him that choice
cherries that early in the season
should net him dollar a box. Mr.
Morrow shipped ten boxes of ten
pounds each and after some time had
elapsed, got his returns. He received
thirty cents box. At the same time
we were paying fifteen cents a pound
on the fruit stands for early cherries
AT another time he had some early
pears and was assured that they
would bring him $150 a box from the
Seattle commission houses. He ship
ped consignment and heard nothing
of it for weeks. At last he wrote
about them and received a letter back
that the house had that day disposed
of the last of the pears. Many of
them had spoiled on their hands, etc,
and the settlement ranged from &c to
soc box.
Mr. Morrow says there is no way of
beating the commission house game
save by an iron-clad organization of
fruit growers. Freight rates from We
natchee to Everett are 40 cents a
hundred and from Wenatchee to Sc
attic Is cents a hundred That's the
terminal rate game Can you beat it?
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1912-12-27
STAGE WORKERS ELECT.

The semi-annual election of officers
of the Theatrical Stage Employees
Union occurred last Sunday and the
following set of officers were chosen: :
President, Thos. McKern; vice-presi-
dent, Harry Oleson recording secre.
tary, Burt Webster; financial secre
tary. Elmer Harbers; sergeant-at
arms, f. C. Goldthorp: business agent
VIM Rice; delegates to Trades Coun
Gil Bros. McKern. Blunt and Webster
Brother Burt Webster was elected /
delegate to the State Federation con
vention and VIM. Rice alternate.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1912-12-27
WOMEN REPLACING STRIK
ERS.

Toledo. Ohio, Dec. 26.-ln strike
of the iron molders against casting
foundry in East Toledo 100 men and
bovs are idle. Immediately about 81
Irnearian women, for the most part
wives of laborers employed at the
foundry. we're brought to the foundry
and commenced to receive instruction
IN the art of core-making. 1t is ap'
narently the aim of the company TO
disnlace all male core-makers with
foreign women.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1912-12-27
GIVEN HEAVY FINES.

Los Angeles, Dec. 26.-Two print
ing firms in this city charged with
having fraudulently used the union
label of the Allied Printing Trades,
pleaded guilty to the charge and were
fined 800 in each instance. Sentence
in one case was suspended on the
promise that the offense would not be
repeated, but in the other case fine
was demanded. This is not the firsi
instance of this character occurring II
Los Angeles, but the Allied Printing
Trades Council is determined that tn,
fraudulent use of the union label mus
cease.
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TO TAKE IN COMMON LABOR
ERS.

The International Union of Building
Laborers, Hod Carriers and Helpers
has by referendum vote of the mem
bers decided to extend jurisdiction to
cover many classes of common labor.
ers. All common laborers on building
construction, street and sewer work
etc, are now eligible to become mem
bers of the international Members
on the Pacific coast voted against the
proposed extension but it was carried
heavily in the East.
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WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT
THIS?

A certain business firm in this city
recently sent to Portland to get some
showcases and other fixtures made.
Had to send away, you know, because
something swell was wanted. The
Portland firm that got the order
turned right around and let the con-
tract to manufacture to an Everett
wood working establishment and they
ARE BEING MADE IN EVERETT
RIGHT MOVIE oh, you 'home in
dustry" boosters!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-16

and the son of Italy turned to his cart to
resume business. One look at the interior
of the cart and volume OF Italian
speech assailed those within hearing that
threatened TO drown the noise Of traffic on
Pennsylvania avenue. With frantic wells
and Italian condemnation OF all base ball
games, the ice cream man grabbed his
cart and hurried i'm the direction of tho
policeman on the corner.
With an eloquence born of despair he told
the man in blue how the newsboys had
stolen his stock while one OF them taught
him the rudiments of the great game or
base ball. The officer promised TO look
into the matter and sauntered or leaving
the Italian with a CLEAN OF hope on his
face. Up at the next corner a half
dozen newsboys were eating more pink
ice cream than was good for them,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-16
Not Far Wrong.

ELISHA DYER. New York's cotilon
~ leader, returned from Europe re-
Gently and reporter asked him X
the duty he was paying on a large
stock OF London clothes would not
make them cost more than he would
have paid for them In New York.
We'll, even So" Mr.. Dyer replied
1--WE need have no regret about the cost
of our wardrobes. Look at the unfortu-
nate ladies',
Il have just left Paris, where all the
smart women are wearing delicate little
white straw bowler hats mounted in front
with punches of white algrettes as thick
as your wrist. To be without one OF these
hats is to be shabby, and yet, simple
they are. they cost as much as $50 each.
Last month an American girl enticed
her husband into a shop on the Rue
Royale and tried bowler hat with
huge aigrette.
How do you think this looks, John I"
she asked.
HIM. 1t looks to me like months
salary he said
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-16

two lives have thus far spanned LAG
years. She has been widow for fifty
eight years, during all but two of which
she has resided in Philadelphia.
Next in order of their husbands ranks
are two widows of war-of-1S12 lieuten.
ants, both OF militia. The younger. Mrs
Catherine Lowman Sandidge, of Alto, Va.
celebrates her eighty-second birthday
this year. Her husband, Anderson sand
didge. was first lieutenant of compan!
of the Sth Virginia Volunteers, organized
in Amherst county, for the defense OF
his country against the British. He was
honorably discharged at Camp Carter III
1915 and Mrs. Sandidge was married to
him forty years later. Christmas day.
1855. In less than three. years and q
half he died. so she has been widow
IS in the Blue Ridge mountains, few
miles east of Lexington.
The Old Dominion state is the home
also of Mrs. Lucy Ann Frazier kilgore
of the village of Peters. She is the
widow of Lieut.. Hiram Kilgore. who
volunteered at Russell Court House in 1914
and, after serving in the artillery. was
discharged at Norfolk the following year.
He was born III years ago, and when
they were married in 1868, he was sew
enty-seven and she was forty. She has
been widow for forty-two years. Her
eighty-fourth birthday falls within this
centennial year of the beginning of the
war in which her husband served.
*
rare distinction enjoyed by Mrs. Mary
Ann Moore of Vincennes, Ind, is that OF
being not only the widow of an 1912 Of
ficer, but Real Daughter OF the Revo-
luton. Her father, John Caldwell. aided
in the first stroke for liberty under Wash
ington, and her husband, John Moore.
helped put the finishing stroke upon our
independence a generation later. Indeed.
John Moore was already a veteran when
the war Of 1912 opened, for he had volun-
teered as private of the Indiana militia
in the summer of 1911, for the Indian war
of that year, during which he was pro-
NOTED to the rank of corporal. Then,
when the second war with the mother
country broke out he offered his services
as a private of the Indiana Mounted
Rifiemen, or Rangers" In the same
year, 1872 he was elected ensign of a
company of the 1st Indiana Regiment.
The present Mrs. Moore was his third
wife. She married him in old Vincennes
sixty-six years ago, when he was fifty
nine and she was lass of only sweet
sixteen" his two previous weddings hav-
ing been solemnized, respectively, twenty
six and sixteen years previously. She
lived with him for nearly nineteen years
and has been his widow since the third
year of the civil war. Her eighty-second
birthday occurs this year, her husband
having first volunteered his services for
his country nearly decade before she
was born.
Another widow of an ensign of the sec
ond war with the mother country is Mrs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-16
It's Overeatinq.

WILLIAM MULDOON. the health
!" specialist. said the other day in
New York:
I'VE eat too much. A fat millionaire
gourmet invited me to luncheon recently.
1t was q delicious luncheon-hors
d'oeuvre. Spanish omelette, salmi OF
little birds, then lamb chops with new
potatoes and peas, then a peche Melba.
then fruit, then filtered coffee.
1.-THE millionaire, at the end. unbuttoned
the lowest buttons OF his waistcoat, and
said with complacent smile:
"'Ah, Muldoon, half the doctors pa
tients are undoubtedly supplied by bad
cooks
Yes l agreed, and the other half
are Just as undoubtedly supplied by good
ones
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-16
A New Profession.

LARRY FURN1Ss. the English car
! toonist, was asked, In New York,
how England avoids the trust evil.
England has its trusts said Mr..
Furniss I'VE have many powerful trusts
the thread trust, for example. But our
trusts are not exposed by the press, as
yours are. They avoid investigation by
the government, as yours do not"
Mr.. Furniss turned over the pages OF
his morning paper.
my paper is full Of trust Investigation
news" he said. But these tnvestiga-
tions-what do they accomplish? Very
little, indeed. if there is any truth in a
story I heard.
Two music hall proprietors. in this
story, were discussing their program.
How about that mathematical phe-
nomenon? Where is he now asked the
senior partner His turn is popular: we
might put him on. Wonderful the way he
could juggle figures.
"rhe Junior partner shook his head
He will never juggle figures for us
again. he said. He's making fortune
now preparing reports for trusts about to
be investigated by the Senate commit
tee
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-16

sedate old gentlemen into cheering chill.
dren. His gaze was fastened on the cleo
trio scoreboard and anxiously his eyes
followed the moves Of the players as they
were depicted by the little electric dots.
Clustered about him were seven or eight
newsboys engaged in devouring thin
wedges OF ice cream plastered between
two waters of cake. The Italian turned
to them once or twice with questions re-
garding some point OF the game he didn I
understand. With a wink at his COM
panions and a few whispered words, one
of the newsboys stepped forward and be-
gan to explain the workings of the board
to the Italian. The ice cream vender be-
came deeply interested and under the
spell of the occasion he forgot business
and was soon yelling with the rest of the
fans.
The game over, with another victory
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-16

now ninety-eight, in the race against his
elders, Glenn and Smith, both 1O2. And
before another year was out both OF these
centenarians fell by the wayside, giving
Cronk the laurels. which he wore undis-
puted for the next six years
His honors came quick and fast: New
York state granted him a special PEN
sion of S72 a month, in addition to that
already allowed by the federal govern.
ment. The Empire state was doubly
proud, in that the last survivor of the
revolution. Daniel Brakeman fwho died
at 1922 years, in 1861 had also been one
Of her sons. After Hiram Cronk passed
his 1O4th milestone the board of alderman,
New York city, anticipating his death
at any moment, resolved that his re-
mains should lie in state In the city hall.
But this modern Methuselah was not
yet ready to be mustered out. On his
one hundred and fifth birthday. how
ever, when visited by delegation OF the
Society OF the War of 1912. which came
to deliver addresses and install him as an
honorary member. he realized little or
nothing of the honors paid him. and gave
no attention to his guests. For days he
had been sleeping the greater part OF the
time, and while awake had been appar-
emily oplivious to what had occurred
about him. Moreover. he had grown
very deaf. and partly on that account
was unable to carry on a conversation.
Yet he was physically strong, and could
get in and out Of his bed with little diff
Guilty.
At upon a May morning, just a fort
night after his installation into the So
ciety, he passed on. leaving upon this
side of the great divide four children
ranging in ages from sixty-sx to eighty
one; also fourteen grandchildren and ten
Observation-Disclosures.
In ho 90 b.
Corps of Artillery Of the War of 1912, his
remains were borne to New York city in
a casket draped in a battle flag OF that
conflict. A special train carried the flu
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-16
CEVEN Are Reflects of

CEVEN Are Reflects of
~ Officers in That Conflict,
Whose Centenary Com
nnences Tuesday Next-One
Is the Widow of Real Hero
of That War-Some Very
Old Ladies-Last Veteran of
1872 Said to Have Survived
Until This Year-What the
Official Records Show-Some
Distinguished Descendants of
1872 Heroes-The Last Fifty
Survivors Reached Remark
able Ages-Interesting Race
for Honor of Being the Last
Survivor-Honors H e aped
Upon the Winner-His Glori-
Gus Funeral.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-16
Turning the Tables.

A LITERARY critic and adviser OF
"A New York was talking at the Gen.
fury Club about well-to-do author
whose work was falling off.
His case" said he, reminds me of a
young landscape painter.
Yes the young man said to me at a
studio tea.-he was devourfng lettuce sand
wiches rayenously at the time-'yes. l
get bad pay for good work. but never
theless 1 am content.
".Content in your love Of art? I in
quired.
Crushing a handful OF macaroons into
his mouth, he answered.:
Content in the thought that IL live
long enough I'll get good pay for bad
work."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-16
The Round Peg.

7 UDGE GOODNOw. in the court OF
J domestic relations in Chicago, said
recently:
mo man has a right to leave his
wife night after night alone. She Is
foolish to stay home. She should go
after him and bring him back. or else
remain out with him.
Il agree" concluded Judge Goodnow.
with the suffragette who said. The
right man in the right place In . hus
band at home in the evening"