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The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1914-09-04
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The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1914-09-04
Boilermakers' LEGISLATION.

The International Brotherhood of
Boilermakers and Iron Shipbuilders
and Helpers of America, recently in
biennial convention in San Francisco.
voted life pension of 500 per month
to w. j. Gilthorpe, who retired from
the office of secretary treasurer after
twenty-three consecutive years Of serv-
ice. GilthOrpe was also presented
with a valuable diamond ring by the
delegates. The convention voted in
favor of the amalgamatiOn into one
international union of the International
Brotherhood of BOilermakers, the In
ternational Association of Sheet Metal
Workers and the International Associa-
ton of Bridge and Structural Iron
Workers. Conventions of the brother
hood will be held once in three years,
instead of biennially, as has been the
custom in the past Kansas City, Mo-,
was selected as the permanent con-
vention city for the brotherhood Res
olutions favoring the adoption of the
initiative and referendum in the matter
of electing officers and enacting legisla-
ton for the brotherhood were defeated.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1914-09-04
FALLACIOUS ECONOMY.
Cutting Down Wages Sure to Result In
Financial Depression.

Mr.. G. G. Jackson of this city is quot
ed as saying that one of the surest
ways to better the general situation
financially and industrially is to ''liqui-
date" labor, which means in plain Eng
fish to cut down the wages Of our
workingmen.
With considerable respect for Mr..
Jackson's eminence as a banker and an
economist. we feel impelled to disagree
with him as to his remedy. 1t is clear
that the very fact that labor has not
been ''liquidated" has prevented a far
worse depression than we have just
been having. 1t is a matter of Stats
teal truth that whenever labor is dras-
tically ''liquidated" the result is the de-
Struction of the market for every kind
of everyday commodity.
The demand for our industrial prod
ucts is still great. We are hot far down
in depression-very slightly, as COLI
pared with the state of affairs in other
periods. The market is still there. and
it is there because labor has not been
''liquidated."
1t is fortunate indeed that labor has
not been 'Iiquidated'' in any large
sense in the United States of late
fortunate for labor and just as truly
fortunate for capital. This is no time
to attempt such an i'll advised process.
Boston Post.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1914-09-04
COMPENSATION PROBLEM.
New York Board Includes Overtime In
Fixing Award.

One of the interested listeners at the
session of the New York workingmen' s
compensation board. held recently at
the Metropolitan building, New York
city, was Miss Doris Virginia Garland,
aged ten months. who sat through the
long session without once crying or
making Il sound above a gurgle. When
it came time to hear Mrs. Garland s
case her chair was moved up to the
table where the members of the board
sat, and Doris smiled at the members
and graciously consented to taste Of Il
paper cutter which one of the men held
out to her.
In connection with Mrs. Garland s
application for insurance for the death
of her husband, there arose the QueS-
ton of what basis mans weekly
wage should be computed on when he
sometimes worked overtime and seven
days in the week. 1t was finally decid-
ed that the extra time and wages
should be taken into account. and Mrs.
Garland will receive 80 per cent Of her
husbands wages. which averaged
$3.50 a week. and Miss Doris Garland
will receive $1.SS week.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1914-09-04
UNFAIR LIST.

Published by order of the Everett
Trades Council
Laundries-French Laundry and
Shoe Repairing department
Barber Shops. H. Turner, 1104
Hewitt; Mitchell Hotel shop, VIM.
Whitaker, Lowell; Barnhart Shop,
Monroe; Independent, 101915 Hewitt.
Iron Works-Sumner Iron Works,
Bayside Iron Works, Everett Iron
Works.
Hotels and cafes-MitcheI hotel,
Lords cafe
PIumbers-C. R. Schweitzer, w. ].
Callahan A. Stormfels.
Building Laborers-Peter Jackson.
Iectricians-R. P. Bush.
BrickIayers-Barney Grant, Tony
Bast.
American Pile Driving Co.
Dr. Ida Mcintyre (by the Building
Trades CounciD.
Carpenters Paddock, A Den
amur, Frank c. Tubs, w. J. Tenny,
Brace, n. E. Butts
Pasterers-A. C. Wright, VIM. Car
ter, A. L. Knapp Booth.
Contractors. Wintermute, Amel
Larson, Richard J. Weken, Bert Jones.
Painters-Anderson & Steen, Will
lam Ferguson, VIM. Christensen, M.
Kokeen, VIM Gleason.
6uildings-1217 Hewitt; building op-
posite Labor Temple
Cement Workers-Pettit. Sr
Teamsters-C. J. Witt.
Hewitt.
Stores-Grocery Store, E. ]. Long,
Tailors-Scotch Wooden Mills, 1909
18th and Virginia
MiIIs-Robinson Manufacturing Co.
Adv.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1914-09-04
DISASTER RELIEF.
Case That Proves Economic Value Of
Workmen's Compensation.


Workmen's Compensation.
That adequate compensation for in
dustrial accidents, when they come sin
ely, is justly chargeable to the oper-
ating cost Of an industry has been ac-
cepted by many business men, but q
holocaust is usually regarded as call.
ing for community charity, for "disas-
ter relief" Not always, however
On April %, 1913, an explosion in the
Cincinnati mine, located in Washing
ton county, Pa, about forty miles
south of Pittsburgh, killed ninety-siX
employees This mine is operated by
the Monongahela River Consolidated
Coal and Coke company, a subsidiary
of the Pittsburgh Coal company.
Within six weeks after the explosion
the Pittsburgh Coal company proceed
ed to take releases and to settle with
the victims relatives. The basis of
settlement was substantially as pro-
vided in the worAmens compensation
bill then pending in the Pennsylvania
legislature, but which subsequently
failed of passage.
Those eligible for compensation were
widows and children or, in the alb
sence of both of these, fathers and
mothers, or, in their absence, brothers
and sisters. The compensation was
to continue for 800 weeks or in the
case of full orphans or abandoned chill
dren until such children reached the
age of sixteen years. 1t was to be
computed on the basis of the dece-
dents average weekly earnings, eXclu-
sive of overtime and paid periodically
as wages We're paid In the event Of
the remarrlage of u widow payments
ceased. Lump sum settlements were
to be made on the basis of the COM
pensation discounted one-third.
The settlements made under these
general provisions have involved APP
preparations from $500 to $4,000 per
family on the pension plan of payment
and from $500 to $1,000 on the lump
sum basis A recent canvass of the
families indicates in virtually every in
stance present economic status as
favorable as that existing Immediately
before the explosion.-J. Byron Dea-
con in Survey.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1914-09-04
VICTORY FOR CARMEN.
Boston Trolley Workers Awarded In
crease of Wages and Back Pay.

The award of the arbitrator of the
wage question between the MiddleseX
and Boston Street railway and employ
ees, made recently, gives the employ
eeS substantial victory. The cOnduc
tors and motormen by the award are
entitled to 2 cents an hour back pay
for the sixteen months ending June
80, and from then until June 80. 1916
they will receive 8 cents an hour
more than the old rate of pay. The
other employees get an increase of
from 2 to cents an hour, dating from
June |. 1918
The old schedule for the motormen
and conductors was on the eight year
basis and ranged from 81 to p cents
an hour Under the new schedule the
motormen will receive from % to 20
cents an hour for the sixteen months
ending June 80 next and thereafter for
two years, ending June 80. 1916. the
rate will be from "a to 80 cents an
hour on five year graduation.
The road employs about go men,
200 being conductors and motormen
The arbitration board rules that the
computation of time for the back pay
shall be made upon the basis of the ac-
tual number of hours each man has
worked The arbitlatorS express the
opinion that the back pay should be
made to the men ut Il date not later
than July s.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1914-09-04
INTERESTING LABOR NOTES.

United Mine Workers of Iowa have
Endorsed the new wage agreement
The New Zealand arbitration court
has granted a six day week to hotel
workers.
Michigan stands with California on
the question of receiving the japanese
rs settlers.
New York has established a state
bureau of employment to begin opera
tiuuS Aug. |.
Oregon's new workmen's compensa
tion law recently went into operation
1t affects 1000 employers of labor.
\ tentative organization of the com
mission to administer Kentueky's
wurGmens compensation fund has
been effected No funds will be avail
able until the first of the year
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1914-09-04
Want Shorter Day.

More than 10000 western railway OPP
eratives have announced through their
accredited representatives their deter
mination to strike unless the railroads
agree to change the working day from
ten to eight hours without a reduction
in pay The unions represented were
the Railway Clerks, Freight Handlers
and Warehousemen, Locomotive Fire
men and Enginemen, Engineers, Main
tenance of Way Men. Oilers, Engine
Wipers and Trainmen. The sentiment
for strike was reported to be over
whelming throughout the entire west
trunk lines and subsidiaries west of
Chicago.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1914-09-04

The Labor temple in Belllngham
Wash, is about ready for dedication
The building will represent an invest
ment of about $4,000 and will he open
ed with only $4,000 of Indebtedness
The remarkable feature of the under.
taking is that on July l last year the
proposition Of building labor temple
was preached without cent on hand
and the success of the workers in this
instance is inspiring them to greater
effort
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1914-09-04
Germany's Child Workers.

There are 1924 children under four
teen years. of whom 7.434 are boys,
employed in mills and factories in Ger
returns. The number of children be-
tween the ages of fourteen and sixteen
employed in 10000 German mills and
factories is $4,000, of whom nearly
$4,000 are boys. The greater number
of little boys are found in metal and
machine shops and in textile factories.
The greatest number of little girls
are found in textile and clothing fac
tories.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1914-09-04
BRIEF LABOR GOSSIP.

Textile workers in New England are
maintaining their agitation for SAM
tary mills
Oregon was the first state to declare
Labor day holiday The law was
passed IN 1897
IN California universal eight hour
measure will be voted on at the No
vputlnI election
Labor organizations throughout the
couurlN IRE making preparations for
the celebration of Labor day
\ committee representing twenty.
two lHbur organizations is making an
effort to secure the passage of com
peusauun- law in Vermont
The wages of the $685. men and
3,92G women in the trade unions of
Missouri increased Sl24l9S1 during
the year ending June 30, 1913
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1914-09-04
Anti-screen Law to Stand.

The United States supreme court
has refused to issue restraining order
to hold up the operation of the Green
anti-screen law, passed by the last SEES,
sion of the Ohio legislature. This law
has been urged by the miners for
twenty years, and they have protested
against the use of screens at the mines
by operators. Miners in that state are
through the screens. although the OPP
orator markets it. The anti-screen law
would abolish this practice. and it has
been resisted by the operators.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1914-09-04
Black List Wiped Out.

Commenting on the victory Of the
metal polishers in their strike against
the Indian Motorcycle company, Presi-
dent DAILY of the International Metal
Polishers' union said Not only does
this victory give tangible benefits to a
large number of union workers, but it
means the complete rout of the Con-
necticut Valley Manufacturers associ-
alton. which for years has bitterly
fought union labor. This association
at one time maintained n blacklist,
which contained the names of more
than 5000 union men
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1914-09-04
PRISON LABOR EVILS.
Contract System a Disgrace to Modern
Civilization.

CIVILIZATION.
Men can't be reformed by sending
them to prison and selling their labor
to contractors. There must be diff
ferent system
1t has ever been the custom when
those opposed to contract convict labor
appear in the halls of Legislation and
seek to cause the abandonment by the
state of the practice of rescuing the
souls of her unfortunate charges by
selling for Il pittance the tabor of their
bodies and the sweat of their brows to
see the advocates of the system throw
up their hands in holy horror and
prate about the necessity of employing
prisoners lest they go insane Those
opposed to the contract convict labor
system have not the slightest idea of
keeping convicts idle in their cells.
They propose to substitute Il different
system, not to abolish work
Making slaves oUt of men and wo-
men after they have been sent to pris-
on does not do a particle toward less
ening crime or reforming the unfortu-
nate Under the present system in
vogue in many prisons the convict is
made to perform II certain stint or dead
line for the contractor If they work
fast enough a pittance is thrown to
them against the day when they go
free. If they don't work fast enough
they are punished.
A system whereby a contractor of
fers up prayer of thankfulness every
time q new convict enters the prison
walls. because it means another EN-
ployee at so or 60 cents a day for him.
is unjust. un-Christian and un-Ameri-
can and is being abandoned in every
enlightened state.
Let us hope that Nebraska will estab
fish reformatory and that there will
be no more prison labor contracts
Nebraska Federationist.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1914-09-04
PROTECT THE CHILD.
Lack of Enforcement Renders Exist
ing Laws Practically Obsolete.

Lack OF enforcement RENDERS EXIST
ing Laws Practically Obsolete.
Because of child labor today the fu-
ture generation Of men and women
will suffer. Their careers will bear the
stamp of humanity's brutality.
Scientific investigation tells us that
ii the race is to be saved from dimin-
ishing in stature prevention must be-
gin with the child After the time for
growth has passed no improvement in
the physical environment will cause
the bones to increase in size.
The nation has no right to permit a
child to sacrifice during his years of
possible physical development that
which he cannot hope to regain in later
years or to relinquish any degree of
efficiency which would otherwise be
his and which he will need in his man
hood years
AS nation claiming to be enlight-
ened and civilized it is time we were
awaking to the fact that there are GER
tain imponderable values that must be
saved
The national child labor committee
reports progress in securing laws in
favor of child workers. Almost every
state has gone on record, some more
pronounced than others, as opposed to
child labor and has passed regulation
laws But we are told by the same
committee that most important of all
is the provision for adequate enforce
ment Of the laws, Without such pro
vision any child labor law is obsolete.
The problem of providing for the prop
err enforcement of the law is far from
being solved. Grace Brewer in Ma
chinistS Journal.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1914-09-04

Do those who attack Samuel Com
pers and others in the labor move
ment really think that they are lift
ing any burdens from the oppressed
or adding one ray of sunshine to any
life? When it comes to a scrap the
Scraps family have nothing on one
Samuel Gompers, who can hand out
some chunks of highly peppered vic
tuals which will give cramps to those
whose lungs seem to be leather goods
indianapolis Union.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1914-09-04
Think of These.

in the city there are children
Gaspng FOR the want of air,
Dying for the food we owe them,
Asking for our help and care.
Shall we listen tu their pleading
Coming to us soft and low?
Yes Remember that the Saviour
Blessed he children long ago.
In the city there are children
Weak and wan and deathly pale.
No one cares how much they suffer
No one listens 10 their wall
shah we help them, friendly people"
Yes. The Saviour meek and mild,
Who has dted To save us sorrow,
Was himself lttle child
Christian Herald
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1914-09-04
Favor Minimum Mace.

The Detroit Federation OF Labor will
circulate petitions asking that the peo-
pie be given chance to vote on the
question of a minimum wage for mu-
nicipa workers when the charter
amendments are submitted The pro
posed bill provides that contractors VIC
lating the law may be punished by a
ten to thirty days in jail
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1914-09-04
Phossy Jaw Wiped Out.

"Phossy jaw" the match workers
disease. has been outlawed now in
every part of America. the Association
For Labor Legislation officiating. The
United States passed phosphorus
match prohibition law in 1912 Shortly
after Mexico issued an administrative
order against it. and recently the
Canadian parliament wiped the CONT
nent clean.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1914-09-04
49,. s !: : !. j, :. !. !. !: s,s
I. DUTY OF UNION MEN.

:, One of the worst features of
!. Indifference Of union men to
= their duty to patrOuiZe the prod
: uct of union labor when spend
: ing their own wages is the eX-
I ample and proof it affords TO the
: merchant of the inSincerity of
), the labor man Why should any
: merchant carry union made
:. goods if he knows that - per
: cent of the union members pay
:. no attention to the union label:
: We mention this percentage 10y
{. way Of illustration. not meaning
! to say that there are so few as
! twenty-five union men in Il hun-
: dred that buy union made goods.
i II the figures We're reversed.
: however and the merchant
/. should realize that lie must have
( union made goods or lose sales
I. to seventy-tive in hundred
+ members of organized labor he
I. would respect that movement
! and carry more union made
!. goods because of that respect
\ Shoe Workers Journal
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1914-09-04
Label For City Work.

The mayor of Montreal Canada, has
notified the various city officials that
the union label must appear on all
printing used by the city The French
and English Typographical unions, No.
l45 and No l76, are now bringing
pressure to bear on the comptrollers to
adopt resolution providing for carry.
ing out effectively the mandate of the
mayor
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1914-09-04
Labor Unions Growing.

Reports showing n gain of 6975G
members of affiliated unions for April.
1914. over April. 1918 have been made
public by Secretary Morrison of the
American Federation of Labor The
total paid up membership for 1914 was
2069l5I; that Of April, 1913, was
1000. 40l.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1914-09-04

In cases of permanent partial dis
ability the employer must pay G6 %
per cent of the weekly wage for the
following periods:
Thumb, 90 weeks; first finger, 4G;
second finger, 80; third finger, %;
fourth, 10; hand. A. arm, 312; foot,
POS; LEG. 2SS; eye, 12S; big toe, 49,;
other toes. %
For eases of temporary total disability
,i6 % per cent of employees weekly
wage will he paid. but not in excess Of
So 800
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1914-09-04

The Canadian court of appeals up
set the plan of Gurdit Singh, a wealthy
Hindu merchant to introduce ship
load of Hindus into Canada 1t dis
missed his appeal from the action of
the immigration authorities who bar.
red the passengers of the Komagata
Muru, Gurdit Singh's ship, from land
ing at Victoria
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1914-09-04
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
A. F. OF L. ENDORSED.

The American Federation of
Labor finds its mission in the do
main of holy endeavor. 1t seeks
I the abasement of pride, the re-
! dress of wrong, the vindication
! OF unshielded right, the exalta-
. ton of the lowly. equal and ex-
! act justice to all classes of the
: population before the law. But
!. 1t moves not to the field of CON
! hlct with bayonets and batteries
. ana troops of the line. It's soul
responds not to the blast of the
: air piercing trumpet 1t starts
not at the rude summons of the
. doubling drum. 1t eschews at
. once both the panoply and the
destructiveness of war. Its ar
. mament is made of uplifting
ideas, and it's battles are won by
. their diffusion, concentration into
disciplined potencies and practi-
. cal application to the affairs of
everyday life.
. This great leavening and be-
nev0lent organization works
: noiselessly and unostentatiously,
. but it works constantly. and,
: while its progress is often I'M
. noted and at times even ridi-
culed, its advancement is steady.
. Resolution Adopted by Mime
sofa State Federation of Labor.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1914-09-04
Stand Up and Be Counted.

The labor movement grows in pro
portion Ms it can show the solidarity
of its membership rs well rs the nd
vantageS it has secured for the toi!ers.
Demonstrate these facts every day.
but particularly on Labor day.
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What a SYSTEM!

What a system anyway!
Some must work for little pay;
Others have no work 10 do
And are in Il pretty stew,
Some don't have to work at all.
And on servants they can call:
Some have everythnE To eat
And a house on Easy street;
Others live in shabby shacks
And have rags upon their backs;
Some must worry. fret and strive
Just TO keep themselves alive,
To exist from day to day
What a system anyway
Coming Nation
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1914-09-04
HOURS AND WAGES.

1t will not be safe to assumS
! that eight hour laws and other
I measures that give workers the
) guarantee of adequate relaxation
and rest are injurious to either
} capital or labor because they les
sen the productive period. 1t is
the history of such legislation
and of the whole movement for
} shorter hours and better work
ing conditions that better rather
than less wages go along with
the progress of this movement.
There are always exceptions, and
! they are especially noted in
times when new eight hour
measures for men and women
are just taking effect. But in
the long run of experience it
has been shown that the eight
hour worker Is made enough
more efficient to enable him to
} earn as large Il wage in eight as
he formerly did in ten hours
New York Press.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1914-09-04
COURT RULE.

What recourse have any peo-
pie. even under Il constitution
guaranteeing rivil rights to all
alike. when they find themselves
in the clutches uf Judges appoint
ed for life who are deaf to pop
ular appeals for Justice aud
whose official edicts however
cruel and unjust. cannot even be
modified by congress. the SUI
preme lawmakins power?-l r
Sherwood