The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1914-01-30
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D E L E G. A T E - TIM B E R
WORKERS FIND ENCOUR-
AGEMENT FOR EIGHT-HOUR
DAY.

The thirteenth annual convention of
the Washington State Federation of
Labor has come and gone. These an
nual gatherings of the hosts of labor
are distinctly worth while" If they
served no other purpose than to bring
the men and women of labor together
for mental interchange of ideas they
would be worth all their monetary
cost. mo man liveth unto himself
alone" nor has monopoly of all the
us can learn from association with our
fellows. 1t is true that the problems
which confront us are much the same
but methods and tactics used to meet
labor conditions are as varied as the
weather. Out of the wealth of each
delegates experience we glimpse some
new vision, catch some new idea,
which bears fruit in the solution of
our own particular problems. There
is a comradeship, a good feeling, a
new viewpoint, engendered at each of
these conventions which we take home
with us and unconsciously instill into
our local movement which carries us
forward in the work of settlement of
vexatious labor problems.
Raymond citizens proved themselves
ideal hosts. 1t was hardly to be ex-
pected that so young and small COM
could care for as big a gather
ing in thoroughly cosmopolitan style.
The delegates went prepared to
trough it" and found every provision
made for their comfort Automobiles
met the visitors at the depot and con-
Quoted them to a brand new modern
hotel. The sumptious quarters of the
Commercial club were thrown open to
the delegates, capable committees at
tended to every detail, varied pro-
gram of entertainments was provided.
Raymond made good in every particu-
lar and the splendid reception and
care of the convention by the citizens
of Raymond in general will ever re-
main a pleasant memory
Each year sees an increasing num-
ber of women in attendance as dele
gates. This is an encouraging sign.
Our women are the keenest sufferers
from economic injustice, why should
they not have voice in planning for
a better and brighter industrial era?
A State Women's Union Label League
was launched at Olympia one year ago
and received an added impetus at this
gathering. Mrs. M. T. Altman of Ev-
erett, Mrs. R. B. Ellis Of Aberdeen and
Mrs. Margaret Stauffer of Everett,
were elected president, vice-president
and secretary-treasurer respectively of
the State League and a nest egg of
$100 voted them from the Federation
treasury 1t is planned to make the
League a close adjunct to the Fedora
tion and to meet annually at the same
time and place the Federation meets.
For the first time in the history of
our state movement, the great railroad
brotherhoods were represented by a
fraternal delegate Bro. Grant, of the
Seattle lodge of Locomotive Engineers
was present throughout the conven-
ton, gave us a splendid address, and,
we hope, was the forerunner of a flu
ture legislative alliance between our
Federation and the powerful railroad
organization. Nor was Brother Grant
the only fraternal delegate There
was Sister Love of the State Fedora
ton of Oregon, Brother Watchman of
the British Columbia Federation,
Brothers Kegley, Chamberlain and
Erase of the State Grange, Brother Me
Curtain of the Farmers Union, Broth,
.ers Bowen, Snyder and McGill of the
NJ. f. Church. A goodly number and
each one an inspiration and a help to
us. With the forces that stand for
clean politics, clean living, a more
equable distribution of the wealth that
labor produces, slowly but surely com
ming together on a platform of toler
ance and understanding, we are going
forth to meet the dawn of a better day
John II. Wallace, labor's represen
tative on the industrial insurance com
mission, electrified the convention in
his speech on the operation of the