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The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-09-03
CAUSES OF UNREST

The report summarizes the causes
of industrial unrest as follows:
Unjust distribution of wealth and
income
Unemployment and denial of oppor-
tunity to earn a living.
Denial of justice in the creation, in
the adjudication and in the admins
tration of law.
Denial of the right and opportunity
to form effective organizations.
1t is shown that A families possess
aggregate incomes totaling at least
$50000,000 per year, while between
one-fourth and one-third of male work
ers in factories and mines, IS years
of age and over earn less than $40 per
week and only about one-tenth earn
more than $40 per week.
To check these swollen, unearned
fortunes, it is recommended that con-
gress pass an inheritance tax law and
that all funds of deceased over ST.
100000 revert to the government In
support of this action, the report says
"These heirs, owners only by vir-
tue of the accident of birth, control
the livelihoods and have the power to
dictate the happiness of more human
beings than populated England in the
middle ages. Their principalities, it
is true, are scattered and, through the
medium of stock ownership, shared in
part with others; but they are none
the less real. In fact, such scattered,
invisible industrial principalities are
a greater menace to the welfare of the
nation than would be equal power
consolidated into numerous petty
kingdoms in different parts of the
country. They might then be visual
lied and guarded against-now their
influence invisibly permeatee and con
trolls every phase of life and industry.
THE families of these industrial
princes are already well established
and are knit together not only by com
merCial alliances, but by a network of
inter-marriages which assure harmo-
NOUS action whenever their common
interest is threatened.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-09-03
Federal PrObers OF Industrial
Unrest Complete Report

The United States commission on
industrial relations adjourned sine die
after giving final approval to a re-
port that will be filed with the clerk
of the house of Representatives for
presentation to congress, when it con
venes next December,
The commission has issued excerpts
of the report, which includes supple
mental views of all the members.
The principal report, prepared by
Basil NJ. Manly, the commissions dl-
rector of research and investigation
covers every phase of industrial I'M
rest and the causes therefor. This is
approved by Chairman Walsh and
commissioners OConnell, Lennon and
Garretson. 1t declares the crux OF
the whole question of industrial rela-
tions is: "Shall the workers, for the
protection of their interests, be organ
lied and represented collectively by
their chosen delegates, even as the
stockholders are represented by their
directors and by the various grades
of executive officials and bosses"
In it's plea for a wider extension of
democracy in industry, this report
says:
"The ordinary man, whether en-
ployer or worker, has relatively little
contact with the government. If he
and his family are we'll fed, well
housed and vel clothed, and if he
can pay for the education of his chill
dren, he can exist even under an auto
cratic monarchy with little concern
until some critical situation develops
in which his own liberty is interfered
with or until he is deprived of life
or property by the overwhelming pow
err of his tyranncal ruler. But his
industrial relations determine every
day what he and his family shall eat,
what they shall wear, how many hours
of his life he shall labor and in what
surroundings. Under certain condi-
lions where his individual or corpor-
ate employer owns or controls the
commodity in which he lives, the edu-
cation of his children, the character
and prices of his food, clothing and
house, his own actions, speech and
opinions, and in some cases even his
religion, are controlled and determin-
ed, insofar as the interests of the en-
ployer make it desirable for him to
exercise such control. Such conditions
are established and maintained not
only through the dctation of all work
ing conditions of employment by the
employer, but by his usurpation or
control of the functions and machinery
of political government in such com
munities."
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-09-03

ular institutions. With the acceptance
of such an ideal our democracy is
doomed to ultimate destruction. Per
sOnal rights must be recognized as
supreme and of unalterable ascend
ency over property rights Relief
from these grave evils cannot be Sc
cured by petty reforms The action
must be drastic and directed at the
roots from which these evils spring"
The pretense of open shop" advo-
Gates is exposed thusly:
"oPEN SHOP" WRONG IN
PRINCIPLE
THE theory of the open shop ac-
cording to these witnesses (employ-
|ers), is that workers are employed
without any reference to their mem
bership or non-membership in trade
unions; while, as a matter of fact, it
was found upon investigation that
these employers did not willingly or
knowingly employ union men. Never
theless, this is deemed to be a minor
point. The open shop even if union
men are not Disseminated against is
as much a denial of the right of col
lective action as is the 'anti-union
shop. In neither is the collective ac-
ton of employees permitted for the
purpose of negotiating with reference
to labor conditions. Both in theory
and practice, in the absence of legis.
lative regulation, the working condi-
tons are fixed by the employer. 1t
is evident, therefore, that there can
at best be only a benevolent despotism
where collective action on the part OF
employees does not exist"
In discussing women and Children
in Industry" the report says:
las a result of their unprotected
condition, women and children are ex.
plotted in industry, trade, domestic
service and agriculture, to an extent
which threatens their health and vel.
fare and menaces the well-being of flu
ture generations. The competition OF
women and children is direct men.
ace to the wage and salary standards
of men. Under present conditions
children are permitted by their par
ents to go to work largely because
their earnings are necessary for the
support of the rest of the family"
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-09-03
UNEMPLOYMENT PROBLEM
AND IT'S REMEDY

1t is declared that the unemploy-
ment situation will not be "appre-
ciably relieved" until great advances
have been made in removing the two
prime causes-unjust distribution of
wealth and monopolization of land
and natural resources.
Under the head Denial of Justice, "
the numerous charges of workers are
supported, and the report declares:
The establishment of property
rights and personal rights on the
same level can leave only constant
and ever growing menace to our pop
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-09-03
NEW HAND BAGS
NEW HAND PURSES S1.75

- nave you seen these Hand Purses with 2 stran
the hahdF They novel, handy and inexpensive A.,
e"'1eI -coIors are black, green, brown and navy
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-09-03
CITIZENS OF MOUNT CARMEL, BOYHOOD TOWN
OF JOHN R. LAWSON, ARE PUTTING FORTH
GREAT EFFORT TO SECURE FREEDOM
FOR LITTLE JACK"

lieve that he is guilty Of the crime of
murder or any other wrong, and | be
| lieve time will demonstrate this fact"
Ask most any old-time mine super
intendent, newspaper editor, lawyer,
doctor or merchant on the street cor
ner, in their home, or at their place
of business about Lawson, who knew
him and they will all pay the same
splendid tribute to his name And
they are his friends ready and willing
to go the full limit for him They are
keenly alive to the seriousness of his
present position in his battle for sim
Jple justice. This was evidenced last
week on the occasion of the visit of
John p. White, president of the Unit
ed Mine Workers, to Mount Carmel,
when ten thousand cheered for fully
ten minutes in response to a resolution
introduced in Lawsons behalf, by
White, appealing to President Wilson
and Governor Carlson, of Colorado, to
intervene and in some manner set
aside the verdict or see to it that a
trial was granted that would be con-
Quoted fair and impartially such as the
law of the state contemplates.
Many Petitions from Mt. Carmel
For several weeks past many resi-
dents have voluntarily engaged in the
work of circulating petitions in Mount
Carmel and vicinity appealing to var
ious nation and state officials to
reverse the gang verdict. Practically
every citizen for miles around has al
ready signed these petitions But the
work will not stop with the mere com
pletion of these petitions Nay, nay,
Mount Carmel folks plan to continue
the campaign until LawsOns release
from the clutches of the grasping
| forces who seek to destroy him is in
every manner assured The Rev. B.
! w. SpOoner, pastor of the church
where Lawson worshipped, gave ex-
preston to the support that could be
/ expected from Mount Carmel when
he said 81 stand ready and willing
to go anywhere at any time and do
every honorable thing that l can that
will be of benefit to Lawson and his
friends in securing his release Why
| will even gladly go and visit the
President to plead his cause if neces-
sary"
In little cottage home located in
the extreme west end of Mount Car
mel, which represents the savings of
a life time, lays, bedstricken Thomas
Ramage, uncle of Lawson, aged 6S.
a victim of miners asthma. the dread
ed disease that has sapped the lives
Of so many men engaged in the an
thracite coal industry. For months
this poor old man has been unable to
lift his head Of his own strength from
his pillow. Yet hardly an hour in the
day passes that he does not inquire if
there is anything new developed in
the case. On a table near his head.
piled TWO feet high are papers and
magazines from everywhere contain
ing stories dealing with the Lawson
case. Daily his good Wife and son.
Thomas, Jr., who is now the only
support of the family. and who too
has spent all his life in the coal mines.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-11-13
WANTS.
CLASSIFIED

u. S. GOVERNMENT SALE of Indian
Lands. Six Days, Nov. 80 to Dec. a..
1915, Time Payments with reduced
Interest Rate, Tracts from 10 to
800 acres. Prices from So to $40
per acre. Suitable for agriculture,
grazing, fruit-growing, dairying, poul-
try raising. Prospective value for oil
and gas. correspondence solicited
and any available information gladly
furnished ON application to the un-
dersigned. GABE 70. PARKER Sup.
erintendent Five Civilized Tribes,
Muskogee, Oklahoma. t3f a
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-11-13
WANT
CLASSIFIED
MONEY TO LOAN.

WE HAVE $5oO,OOO to loan on farms
at low rate of interest long time,
easy payments. Drop in and have
talk with us; it costs nothing and
may prove valuable to you. Pennock
G. Son Realty Co., over Oklahoma
State bank
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-11-13
TODAY'S QUOTATIONS
MARKETS BY WIRE


Prairie hay, per ton, $500.
Kafirr corn, per hu., soc.
Wheat, per bu. $t.O0.
Oats, per bushel, soc.
Corn, per bu., 40c.
Alfalfa has, per ton, $500 to $500
Straw (wheat), per bale, 15c.
Straw loats), per bale, zoe.
Bran, per 400 lbs, s1.OO
Bran, mill press, per 100 lbs, $40
Corn chops, per 100 lbs, $1.10.
Kafir chops. per 100 lbs, 1.25.
Alfalfa meal, 100 lbs, $1.15. ft
Hides.
Hides, green salt 15c.
Hides, green, 12c.
Horse hides, No. I, $500.
Horse hides, No. 2, $2.OG.
Horse hides. damaged. s1.O0
Productive Poultry
Broilers, under lbs, a2c.
Springs. over lis, 10c.
Hens. &c.
Tarkeys, No. 1, Sc.
Turkeys old Toms, &c. jq tg
Ducks. Sc. icy
Geese, &c.
BOOSTERS. sc.
Eggs, iS- ioz.: s5.4u case.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-11-13
WANT
CLASSIFIED
wANTED-ro EXCHANGE.

FOR EXCHANGE-S room modern
house, 4 block from car line, north
east part OF city. for property closer
in. Address N, l., care Leader.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-11-13
WANT
CLASSIFIED
wANrED-AeENTs

LOCAL MGR. WANTED by old reli-
able firm. Big pay, no soliciting.
Permanent, full or spare time. Men
or women. Write quick Jubilee Co.,
Dept. lat. Omaha. Nebr.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-11-13

MEN~-0ur illustrated catalogue ex-
plains how we teach barber trade in
short term, mailed free. Moler Barber
College, Kansas City, Mo.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-11-13

TO TRADE-Arkansas improved and
unimproved farms, for good rental
city property, or for stock of groceries,
general mdse, or furniture and hard.
ware. Write, J. d. Shearer Bearden,
Ark nfI
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-11-13

SALESMAN-Splendid opening for
producer. High class, staple line,
All merchants are prospects. Old.
established house. High commissions;
$50 weekly advanced Sales Manager.
As Suite. 500 Woodward. Detroit.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-11-13

LIVE AGENTS wanted for high grade
specially. Demonstration invariably
results in sale. Write for free booklet
on Salesmanship. Write now, Bangs
Specially Co., Plainyiew, Nebr. s
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-11-13

EASY CHRISTMAS MONEY for Tray
cling Statesmen. Brand New Punch
Board Deal. Red Hot Seller; $500
commission. Responsible House. Pan
Mf Co., 374 East 26th St. Chicago.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-11-13
BUSINESS CHANCES

OIL STOCK advances 20 per cent
Nov 9th; big Company; ground
floor proposition; Oklahoma oil
doubled in price; 100 per cent diyi-
dends 80 days possible; quick action
on your money; limited number shares,
SC share; $40 buys 500 par value
stock; Company paid two dividends;
remit now. Write; free information.
Amalgamated Oil Co., 1900 Colcord
Bldg, Oklahoma, Okla.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-11-13
HELP wANTED-rEMALE.

WANTED Persons to color art pic.
lures at home, easy work. no expert.
ence; good pay; sample free. Wheeler
Co., 337 Madison, Chicago.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-11-13

ACT QUICKi Automobile Gasoline
going up. Sell Gaso-Tonic. Equals
gasoline at &c a gallon. Eliminates
carbon. Dollar an hour profit. Sales
guaranteed. White Mfg. Co., Dept. 10.
Cincinnati, o.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-11-13
WANTS
CLASSIFIED
WANTED-MALE HELP.

WANTED Ford car owners and sales
men every county to demonstrate
Dadco Automatic $40 Starter; $50
weekly Send with application five
Ford owners addresses. Over $4,000
sold. American Dadco, Detroit, Mich.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-11-13

FOR SALE OK rRADE-Four auto
mobiles; Ford, passenger;
Mitchell, ) passenger; one Pope To
ledo truck, also one e. NJ. F. pas
senger car VIII trade for horses,
city property, piano. j. S. b. Hall.
Phone 1877.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-11-13
SNATCH THIS SNAP.

Good so acre black pasture land,
only 4 miles from Meridian at price
that will make you money. Excellent
spring on place. well fenced, an idea
small farm Mortgage Of 100000
price. $500. Mr. Lloyd McCrosky
liveryman at Meridian win show you
farm any time. F. O. Ringer, Pauls
Valley oklahoma
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-11-13

Help-a-phone; al
most every telephone user buys; sells
So; earn $10S weekly Complete in
structions in salesmanship, free.
Mountain & Plain Specially Co., Hugo,
Colo.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-11-13

FOR SALE -Phonograph. Leader
office.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-11-13

AGENTS to start at once handling our
household specially. Big profits;
easy to sell. Send for free particu-
lars. Western Speciality Co., Box 119,
Joplin, Mo.
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] WILL PAY any honest man up to
$50 monthly for part of spare time.
No canyassing. No capital. Write to-
day. Voorhies, Desk 149, Omaha, Neb.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-11-13

CATTLE.
kansas City, Mo-, Nov. llS.-
sReceipts 2500. m l
Market, steady.
Dressed beef steers, 1925 to $1,000
Prime fed steers, $3.50 to $500.
tCows and heifers, s4.OO to $500.
.qss.b 7ay5f b8 isasl
Receipts 1000
Market. steady.
Bulk of sale. $3.50 to $3.50. = i
Top pridegsdsO. fSli
WHEAT:
Kansas city. Mo-. Nov. 13.-
December 9S rs, split.
May, $1o1 IA, split.
CORN:
December Sc IL, split.
May, so 5-s, split.
GUTHRIE MARKETS.
Livestock.
steers, prime, s to 6 u. W
Cows, s to .5A, III tiss .aa
Heifers, prime. s5.75 to $500. piI
Hogs. $500 s 9
Grs il and Hay s.ses ,as.5 af a
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-11-13

LADlES-When delayed or irregular
use Triumph Pills, always depend
able. Relief and particulars free Not
sold at drug stores. Write National
Medical Institute, Milwaukee. Wis.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-11-13

CUT THIS OUT FOR LUCK-Send
birth date and 10c. for wonderful
horoscope of your entire life. Profes-
sor Raphael 49g Lexington Ave. New
York. .ss .s,sl
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-09-14
BIG ATTRACTIONS
| IN LYCEUM COURSE
Course In General Is Much
Stronger Than That Given
Last Year

Many inquiries have come in about
the attractions to be offered ON Sa.
lem 3 lyceum course this coming sea-
son and no doubt the announcement Of
these entertainments will be well re-
ceived by Salem Is music lovers Those
who had the privilege of attending the
lyceum course last season will know
in measure what to expect, while
others will be obliged to depend large
ly on the regulations of the artists TO
appear.
Working upon the policy of building
bigger and better, Mr.. McC0ddam has
secured six Of the strongest attractions
on the road for Salem 's course. The
first entertainment will come in No.
vomber when Madam Grace Hall-Rihel.
doffer, coming American concert so
loist, will appear with Alexander Won
Skibinisky, the Russian violinist. Ar.
ranged at various intervals throughout
the season will be the Oxford Grand
Opera quartet, the Schumann quintet
which was on our chautauqua program
this summer and is directed by the fa'
nous Carl Lampert, Of the Thomas or.
ehestra. Judge Geo, D. Alden, the great
chautauqua lecturer, win give his lee.
ture on "Tbe Needs Of the Hour. "
One Of the finest attractions will be
the Metropolitan Male quartet. The
personnel Of this company is made up
Of experienced grand opera singers and
each one il an artist Of the highest
TYNE. The last attraction will be Fred.
eriek Warde, famous as Shakespear-
can actor who will lecture on and in
terpret some Of Shakespeare 's plays.
Tickets are to be sold TO the entire
course for 81 aud fee Of so cents or
$l hcarged for the privilege Of resery-
ing the seat. This should assure these
concerts Of packed houses which is tru.
~ representative Of Salem's best peo'
pie.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-09-14

alton and does not write till he gets it..
From my earliest days, said MIR.
sheldon in, a recent interview, ''the
negro problem was a familiar subject
to me. | heard it discussed as n child
from a hundred different angles and
by all grades of men and women. All
appeared to agree that tncre was no So
luton to it. Naturally in tais environ,
ment the topic struck deep tap-roots IN
my mind. | had the play in mind in
nebulus form long before | wrote it.,
Primarily, however, did not in
tend it for "a play with purpose as
some of my kind critics have supposed.
| penned it as n drama pure and simple.
OF course in the action and character
ization and in the telliEg of the story
the negro problem crops up.
Gas | have pointed oit in the play
the negro problem is in my belief due
largely to bad whiskey. There is hardly
one of the usual crimes of the South.
ern negro, for which the penalty is usu.
ally lynehing, that has not alcohol be.
hind it as an underlying cause. Take
liquor out of the suth and the race
problem would cease to be one. The
regr0 is naturally primative. Alcohol
brings the worst in him to the surface.
| 1t makes him worse than the brutes.
81 wrote the play to draw attention
to this fact, which appears to have
been overlooked by Jealous reformors
The man really responsible for much
negro crime, which results in lylichings
and riots, is the dstiller. In Clifton
Noyes in the play have sketched one
of these worthless who fatten taeir
pockets at the expense of the negro 's
soul.
"Noyes would have Morrow sacrifice
I his honor and veto u prohibition bill
out Of party loyalty. That is a sample
of what these gentry will do to gain an
end. Noyes is composite character
He is not all bad; but he is all self. lie
will stop at nothing to gain his ends
The negro only interests him as a pur
chaser of whiskey. That is why in the
play | poilt out that the real root al
the trouble lies in the distilleries. | be-
lieve that a new and happier day is
downing for the south and that in due
time these difficulties which now loom
so large, will solve themselves.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-09-14
Shot and Killed On
San Francisco Street

San Francisco, Sept. 14.-Abell Lor.
enza was shot and killed and Patrick
O'Donnell, passerby, was wounded by
Trinidad Gonzales in a crowd of pedes.
trians at busy downtown corner
yesterday. Gonzales said he shot Lor.
enza because he feared the latter was
"out to get him. Z"
Gonzales fired five shots. Four of
them took effect in the body of Lor-
enza. The fifth hit O'Donnell in the
right leg.
Loren2a was leaving hotel when he
faced Gonzales. The men had been
sailors on an Alaska fishing boat which
recently reached port. ''Bad blood"
had existed on the trip, and they had
fought many times.
Gonzales told the police Lorenza
reached for his hip pocket when he saw
him. Gonzales drew his gun first and
fired. Three bullets pierced Lorenza IS
heart and a fourth the right forearm.
A panic ensued in the crowd on the
streets as the shots rang out and the
men fell. Gonzales, in a break for
liberty was caught by two policemen.
On Lorenza S body was note ad-
dressed to Mrs. Laura Maga. 1t read:
81 m leaving you forever. God bless
you"
No gun was found on Lorenza 3 body.
The men are Filipinos.
In view of the note found ON Lor.
enza s body, the police expressed the
opinion that he was on the way to com.
NIT suicide when he was slain.