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

a workmans compensation act far in
advance of similar legislation else
where; a woman's eight-hour law eX-
cepting only seasonable occupations in
perishable products (the lawmakers
forgot human bodies are also perish
able product laws providing that in
establishments using machinery safety
devices are to be maintained; that
work rooms shall be provided with
good ventilation and kept in sani-
tarv state that places of danger shall
be guarded; that seats shall be pro-
vided for women workers; minimum
wage law for women workers; provid-
ing for payment of wages only in law
full money; prohibiting fraud by en-
ployment agents; regulating assign
ments of wages and providing for labor
liens on certain property; regulating
practice of barbering; protecting trade
marks and labels of trades unions;
providing Sunday closing of certain
lines of business; prohibiting black
listing; prohibiting employment of
minors; laws protecting railroad en-
ployes; pertaining to equipment and
providing for inspections; requiring au-
tomato couplers and forbidding use of
defective railway devices; providing
full crews for passenger and express
trains; requiring competent men to
operate street cars and limiting such
employment to ten hours daily; pro
viding for inspection and ventilation
of mines and provision for speedy exit
in case of danger; limiting employ
ment at place of work in mines to
eight hours; eXempting wages from
garnishment under certain conditions,
and many other enactments to protect
the wage-earners Of our state.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1914-09-04

We need not go far to Illustrate the
changes in industrial life that have
taken place within the past half cen
tury that affect the worker to his Diet
riment. These changes in the work
shop of industry, particularly through
improved machinery, are familiar.
Let us consider the detrimental
changes in transportation life and
work. An analysis of the operating
performance of the carriers at once
discloses that the railroads, by using
larger engines, heavier equipment, and
by adding to train loads, have de-
yeloped a remarkable increase in effl-
cheney of employees, and while adding
to the labor OF the wage-earner have
reduced to a striking degree the labor
cost of conducting transportation. In
the workshop, the Taylor system of
increased production per hour per man
has been such a slave-driving device
for grinding the utmost from the work
err as to bring from labor organiza-
lions a united and unanimous protest.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1914-09-04
Working Through Initiative.

Nor are these existing provisions OF
labor legislation the ultimate in the
plan of labor's purpose and work. In
the present year extraordinary efforts
are being made, through direct legis-
lation, to create additional legislative
provisions to further safeguard the
welfare of wage-earners. The labor
movement of the state of Washington
is making heroic efforts to secure the
enactment of a universal eight-hour
law. application to all industry within
the state, with overtime pay at the
rate of time and half; is trying by
direct legislation to forever abolish
the swindling institution known as the
private employment agency; is trying
to secure the adoption by vote of the
people of an amendment and needed
extension of the provisions of the
workmen's compensation act known as
first aid. Nor is this all. The labor
movement is trying to induce the vot-
ers Of Washington to adopt a half
dozen more enactments that will cur
tail the power of special privilege and
vested monopoly,
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1914-09-04
LABOR DAY SPEAKERS.

Practically all of the larger cities
and many of the smaller towns in
Washington will celebrate Labor Day
with varied programs Of sports, pa
rades and speeches. Among the labor
men who will deliver addresses are
the following: Rev. Laviolette, at Sc
attic; C. r. Case, at Raymond; e. p.
Marsh, at Spokane; Chas. Perry Tay-
lor, at Aberdeen; c. o. Young, at
Walla Walla; ]. G. Brown, at Wilke-
son; Martin Flyzik, at Bellingham;
John H. Wallace, at Black Diamond;
Frank Harrington and VIM. Short at
Roslyn.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1914-09-04
New Jersey Labor Law.

Under the new child labor law re-
Gently effective 63SS children under
sixteen. years of age who. have been
employed in New Jersey industries
will be affected in that they will be
prohibited from working at night or
more than eight hours day or a total
of forty eight hours a week. The law
provides that no working papers shall
be given to child under the age Of
fourteen years and that they are pro-
hibited from working more than eight
hours per day or forty eight hours per
week
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1914-09-04
Eiqht-Hour Movement.

The national labor movement &C
cording to expressions of President
Gompers before the United States
commission on industrial relations in
New York May 21-23, 1914, expresses
itself thus on eight-hour legislatlon
"tThe American Federation of Labor is
in favor of fixing the maximum num-
Der of hours for children, minors and
women. 1t does not favor a legal liml-
tation of the workday for adult men
workers. The unions have very large
" established the shorter workday by
their own initiative, power and influ-
ence; they have done it for them
selves. The American Federation OF
Labor is opposed to limiting, by legal
statutory authority, the hours of work
for men in private industries. The
American Federation of Labor has ap-
nrehensions as to the wisdom of plac-
ing in the hands of the government
additional powers which may be used
to the detriment of the working peo-
pie. 1t particularly opposes this policy
when the things can be done by the
workmen themselves" Mr.. GOmpers
goes on to explain that cit did not re-
ouire any law for the printers to Sc
cure the eight-hour day, nor for the
granite cutters, nor the cigarmakers.
There was no law establishing the
eight-hour day in the building trades
nor in many other trades which now
enjoy it. The American Federation OF
Labor, at various annual conventions,
as early as 1884, adopted resolutions
approving the movement for an eight
hour day and co-operated with the var
ious organizations for it's attainment.
It is necessary, however, for the or
CARNATIONS themselves to take the
initiative"
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1914-09-04
Dynamite Cases Dropped.

Judge A b Anderson of the United
States court, sitting at Indianapolis,
who sentenced the dynamiters, has dis
posed Of the remaining cases. On mo-
ton of Frank o. Daley. United States
district attorney. the cases against
Olaf A. Tveitmoe, William J. Mccain,
James E. Ray, Richard H. Houlihan,
Fred Shireman and Harry S. Jones
were nolle pressed. George E. Davis,
who has been held since last October,
when he was arrested in New York
after a confession. was taken before
Judge Anderson, and sentence was
suspended on his plea of guilty. He
was released Immediately, Tveitmoe,
Mccain. Ray. Houlihan and Shireman
were freed on the ground of insufficient
evidence The minor connection OF
Jones, if any, with the conspiracy, did
not warrant a long and expensive trial,
Attorney Daley said.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1914-09-04

We need not necessarily understand
from this, however, that the national
labor movement would take active
steps to prevent the union movement
in any portion of the country from Sc
curing an eight-hour day by legislation
when in the judgment of the union
movement in that section the legisla-
tive method seemed to be advantage
Gus. For instance, in the state OF
Washington organized labor is COM
mitted to a legal eight-hour workday
for all industries within it's borders.
A resolution to this effect has always
had support at state conventions of the
federation, and at the last session in
Raymond last January resolution
was unanimously adopted which
reads:
"Resolved, that the thirteenth con-
vention of the Washington State Fed
Grafton of Labor assembled at Ray
mond indorse initiative measure No. s
(Kingery eight-hour bilD and urge its
members to work for the passage OF
said measure, that it may be enacted
into law"
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1914-09-04

A trade school which is being plan
ned in Philadelphia is expected to do
much toward solving the problem Of
inefficiency and consequent low wages
among girls. This school will teach
the rudiments of not only one but
many trades.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1914-09-04
Tho ToiIers.

Each day is but a fight for roof and
bread
Behind relentless walls. mid noise and
heat.
Till evening tames a million twirlng
wheels
And weary crowds surge home on shut
fling feet.
But soothing hands are laid upon this
world
When slumb'rous night floats down the
mist hung streams.
Then for a space we bear no crushing
load:
We wander. freed. in fields a-bloom with
dreamsl
Louise Won wetter in New York Times.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1914-09-04
LABOR JOURNAL

ferences are as to method only, not a
conflict of opinion as to the desirable
ity of the end sought. No labor Off
cial would oppose attainment of an
eight-hour day by one method in one
section of the country simply because
that method of attainment might not
be practical in another section of the
country. We all want results.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1914-09-04

Judge Chapman Of Tacoma, Wash.
denied an injunction to restrain union
printers from picketing nonunion
plants. The strike was caused by a
refusal of the employers to grant
slight increase of wages. The printers
claim it is opposition to unionism in
general more than the scale OF wages
that is behind their employers refusal
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1914-09-04
Inspiring Possibilities.

What of the immediate future? The
recent achievements may we'll fill us
with pride, but the possibilities of the
future are far more inspiring. We
have progressed as we have because
we have organized; because when
workmen are organized they get bet
ter wages, have shorter hours and bet
ter working conditions; because when
organized we become convinced that
there is no better way than through
organization, education and legislation
whereby workmen and wOrkwomen
can be protected against avarice,
greed tyranny and injustice; because
when organized workmen and work
women realize that the unions make
independent instead of dependent men
and women. Are not these consum-
nations devoutly to be wished ?
For it's Tommy this, an Tommy that
an "Chuck him out, the brute!"
But it's "Savior of lis country when
the guns begin to shoot"
Yes, it's Tommy this, an Tommy that
an anything you please;
But Tommy amt bloomin' fool-you
bet that Tommy sees
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1914-09-04

Labor's Cooperative Enterprises.
The labor unions have established
and are operating successfully hos
pitfalls and cooperative stores, and both
are successful. The labor unions pro
vide for their sick and aged, bury
their dead, find employment so far as
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1914-09-04
Organized Labor Signs Petitions.

organized LdUOT OiSHS TCtiliOHos
The labor movement of this state
produced the great majority of the
signatures on the petitions for this
eight-hour measure, while on the petit
tons for what are known as the Seven
Sisters measures, organized agricul-
turists produced majority of the sig
natures rather than the trades union
lists. There is an energy in behalf of
the Seven Sisters shown by the agri-
culturists that is only exceeded by
that of the trades unionists in behalf
of an eight-hour day and trades I'M
ionists are doing all in their power to
pass the Seven Sisters also.
Let no reader misconstrue the diff
ferent viewpoints of the national and
local labor movements on eight-hour
legislation as being in opposition. Diff
ference in opinion as to the better
method OF attainment frequently ex-
lists in the labor movement as well as
in other walks of life, but these diff
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-03-12
Grain Review.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. /
{ CHICAGO, March 12.-Wheat was
9 shade easier at the start today be-
cause OF a decline at Liverpool, but
news from other foreign markets was
bullish and buying on thu early dip.
caused prices to advance. Toward
noon May options dropped back again,
going a shade under last nights clos
ing mark, but July was frs.
Corn was or shade at the open
ing on continued seasonable weather
for marketing but May ra.:ied, gain.
ed y and then settled back to last
nights closing figure. July futures
were steady.
Oats had weaker tons from the
start and favorable crop news from
Kansas started a selling movement In
May futures that caused loss Of i
in the forenoon session, July shading
OF a fraction.
Provisions were dun and steady
early In the day. but buying In pork
boosted options throughout the en-
tire list,
Daily Range Of Prices.
CHICAGO. NJ, March 12-
|. Open. High. Low. Close.
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ChIcauo caah Grain

Snicd9o Cash Grain.
CHICAGO, March 12.-Wheat-No.
p red, 95@s51sc; No. 8 red, ssms4c:
No. hard. 92sa@s2Mc; No. 8 hard.
s2@s21ac; No. spring, 93M@s4hc.
Corn-No. 2 yellow, CSC; No. 8. 80
@S4hc; NO. white, SAX QS5c: No.
3 yellow, 621l @65c; No. 4. 57AaD
Sole; No. white, SIN @631hc: No.
4 yellow, 5s@61hc.
oats-No. 8 white, 3s1a@ssc: No !
white, SS9Ss1kc; standard, 39% D4oc.
Peoria Grain.
PEORIA, H., March 12.-Corn-,
Market 1zt01c higher. No. white.
6o@62c; No. 8 ysllow, 61@61kc; No
4 yellow. sO@6O1sc; No. 8 mixed. Sic.
No. 4 mixed, Coo.
Oats,-Market unchanged, Ac lower
No. white, 4Oc; No. 8 white 38H N.
3shc; standard, sec.
Chicago Live Stock.
CHICAGO. March 12.-4taog rece,n+s
2l.0OO; mrket strong, SC higher. M,xed
and butchers, $S.45@s. 771s: good
'>'' - ~o'cVgo.ou, rough lGaVy. 81 2E
@8.5O; light, ss.50QS.721s; pigs. 500
$3.50. go y'.Do
Cattle receipts 1000; market slow
Beeyes. T1507.so; cows and heifers
$o.1oQS.5O; stockers and feeders
S5.6o@8.10; Texans, $7.1oms. TX.
calves. s7.00@1O.00.
Sheep receipts. $4,000; market ou,et
easy. Native, s4.s0@6.30; western
1880 Qe.S5; lambs. $6.S0@7. west.
ern, s8.sO@7.S5.
st. Louis Live Stock.
EAST ST. LOUIS, March 1z.--.e,att,a
receipts, 1000; market steady. Taxas
receipts 500; native beef steers 05o
Qs.25; COWS and heifers, s4.25@8 30.
stockers and feeders, s5.oo6p7 5o.
calves, 5000 @d05o; Texas sters AZ *
@825; cows and heifers, s4.0o@soo
Hog receipts 1900; market 1op15c
higher. Mixed and butchers. ss75m
1927 "a; good to heavy, sS.55@s 2eIx
rough, ss.260S.5o; light. ss.7o@s &,
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How II Your aoller1

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MUsTER0LE 4 Magic
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been secured, through the property
between Thirteenth and what would
be Carroll street were it extended
and Eleventh and Ridge streets. When
this roadway had been located and
the land secured then the sewer could
be built along the roadway thus given
the city.
The bid for the sewer work which
were opened yesterday by the two
commissioners ranged frons $4,000 to
little over $1,000. Mayor Elder ex.
planned that the contracts for such a
sewer would not be valid until he
signed them. and he stated that he
would refuse his signature in this
matter.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-03-12
THEY HAVE SNOW
EVEN IN JAPAN
y. .. Newell Tell. Audience at Con-
gregational Church II Is Not
All Cherry Blossoms
In Japan.
WAR TALK rs SCARCE
Real Japs Are Not Proud Of Some Of
the Representatives Of Their
Country in Cali
fornia.

H. B. Newell of Matsuyama, Japan,
who spoke before the prayer meeting
at the First Congregational church
last night exploded one. popular
theory that Japan is all cherry bios
SONS. Mr.. Newell told the audience
that where he has bcen living In the
Oriental kingdom 1t was nothing to
have many feet of snow during the
winter. Thirteen and fourteen feet
of snow was not unusual for that part
of Japan, he said
Mr.. Newsli also said that the war
talk with the United States, and the
California trouble is not concerning
the Japanees he has come in contact
with. The Japs themselves are not
proud of tn. California trouble, be-
cause they believe it is a reflection
on them to have sent such poor rep
resentatives Of their people to our
country.
For the most part the Japs do not
consider the japanese and especially
the ones over which the California
trouble started worthy OF wasting
much time upon, ana the war talk is
not making much Roadway in that
country.
Mr. Newell, who was a classmats on
G. T McFarland's OF this city, and
who is being entertained by Mr. Nc
Farland during his visit here was an
orator in his college days. He has
lived SO long In Japan, that he has
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-03-12
HOW YOU MAY THROW
AWAY YOUR GLASSES

The statement Is made that thou
really need them. If you are one or
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may be running your eyes instead Of
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glasses are only like crutchas and
every few years they must be changed
to fit the ever-incrsasing weakened
condition, so better see If you can,
like many others. get clear, healthy,
strong magnetic eyes through the
prescription hare given,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-03-12


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assumed the dialect or custom Of the
Japanese to speak In monotones.

assumed the dialect or custom Of the
Japanese to speak in monotones.
Mr.. Newell has mastered the Japa,
nese tongue and speaks it fuently.
He says that when he is In another
room talking with the natives, per
son cannot tell that hs is an Amerf,
can.
There are several American families
living near one another at Matsu-
yama. and Mr.. Newell related stories
of how they met together once week
and talked English so that they
wouldn't entirely forget how it sound.
ed to hear their native tongue.
Mr.. Newell was greeted by a good
sized audience and his talk was thor
oughly enjoyed by everyone who heard
him last night.