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The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-04-02
SOME FACTS WHICH
THE WORKERS SHOULD
BEAR IN MIND
Same to You, Boss

The value Of the agricultural ex-
ports Of domestic production in the
fiscal year 1913 was $1,123,021, ,469, the
largest amount in the history of Am
erica.
Thousands of people in the United
States went hungry in 1913, despite
the production of a bumper crop"
The 1914 crop is still larger than
that of 1918.
And there will be more hungry and
homeless people in 1914 than there
were in 1918. WHY7 1t is worth
while to seek an answer to this ques-
ton. And here it is:
The average wage in the manufac-
turing industries in 1910 Was 351S.
An analysis of the income tax re-
port Of 1918 showed that So per cent
OF the people of the United States
that have any income at all, whether
from wages, salaries or in investments,
have an average annual income Of
3601.
On the other hand, we have seen
the cost Of living mount higher and
higher, so that whereas q man could
exist on $247 year in 1850 (for this
was the average wage at that time)
1t was revealed by an investigation by
the United States government few
years ago that 5000 a year was the
least that the average family could
live upon, even for the bare necessi-
ties Of life. No marvel that seven
million men of marriageable age are
bachelors in this country.
More recently the New York asso.
citation for improving the condition of
the poor gathered and compiled sta.
tistics which showed that the aver
age family of today must have an in.
come OF at least $1,0S20O a year to
purchase the necessaries of life
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-04-02
JUDGE BELL SCORES COM
MISSIONERs CLAY AND
KELLY IN OPEN COURT
Il Have Nothing But Contempt
for a Council Like That"
Says Jurist.

II have nothing but contempt for q
city council like that" declared Judge
Bell last week, referring to the an
archism OF city councilmen Clay and
Kelly in ignoring the building ordin
ance relating to construction of chin.
neys. Such acts would but make a
farce of city government" said his
honor Phese obliging officials, it will
be remembered, shamelessly ignored
the express provisions Of the law, for
the benefit Of the Shull Mill Co. corpo-
ration; while at the same time hold
ing to it's rigid enforcement in the case
of a humble citizen of Everett who
applied for suspension Of the letter
of the law in his case. No, for a poor
man there can be no Suspension" of
ordinance, neither legally nor lawless-
ly. The "bit" Is to be taken into the
teeth only for the benefit Of union
smashers!
That the Socialist commissioner, j,
M. Salter, protested against this fav-
oritism in behalf of the labor union
smashers goes without saying. His
"grilling" of the two representatives
of business, Commissioners Clay and
Kelly, was not without educational
value, though he was, of course, out
voted. When the next election day
comes around, doubtless the workers
OF Everett will express at the polls
Judge Bells sentiment in open court,
that they have nothing but con-
tempt" for q pair of politicians who
openly ignore the city's laws for the
benefit Of q concern that has started
Industrial strife in Everett for tho sole
purpose OF crushing out unionism.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-04-02
KINGS IS KINGS"
Monarchs Set Example Of Glass
consciousness
MAY NOT cARiCATURE 1.-THE
ENEMY"

When King Alexander and Queen
Draga were murdered in their palace,
in Serbia, royalty was everywhere up
in arms against the outrage. 1--WE
kings must stand together" said
King Edward.
And, only the other day, while Ger
mans and Englishmen were killing
each other, King George stood by"
the kaiser, II London's rialto rumors
are true.
The story OF Londons broadway
goes like this:
When Sir James Barrie wrote the
one-act war skit, Der Tag" which
has the kaiser for one of its charac-
ters. he planned to have the German
ruler impersonated to the life. But,
to the astonishment Of theatergoers,
the actor who played kaiser wore no
mustache and evidently dressed as
far away from the kaiser part as he
possibly could. Most of the articles
wrote against the piece and most of
them criticized the "kaiser's" makeup,
And then, so the theatergoers say
the truth came out. The censor, who
Is a member Of the kings household
wouldn't allow the kaiser to be carl
catured on the stage. Theatre folks
don't say why the censor took this
stand. But they understood.
War is war. but royalty Is royalty
and majesty is majesty. and the whole
king business is cheapened when one
ruler allows his subjects to make fur
of another ruler. And there you are
If only the workers would stand b,
one another, in class loyalty, as the
masters do, how soon the old eartf
would everywhere be decked with
vine-clad cottages for all those wh'
do the worlds useful work! Onc'
more we say. Workers OF the worlt
unite!"
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-04-02

THE SCAB
BY Reginald Wright Kaufman

BY Reginald Wright Kaufman
l claim the Right to Work
For whatever the Boss will pay;
If the wage is low, why, out you go
And in l come to stay!
I've not your skill,
But I've got the will
To do as my masters say.
l claim the Right to Work
Till my very soul Is raw;
l claim the Right for day and night
So long as cent l draw;
For when you quit
earn my bit;
So I'm for a twelve-hour law.
l claim the Right to Work
In shop where few may thrive
In dust and smell, or fire-trap's hell
From five o'clock till five;
Though every breath
Is thick with death,
What matter if I'm alive?
l force the wages down?
Or the many to slave and shirk?
Although l quicken, the hundreds
sicken
Amid the muck and murk?
Well, what care
If the workers die?
/ claim the Right to Work.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-04-02
CALLS INQUIRY MPo1LTE

Representative Howard, of Georgia.
accused Representative Greene, of
Massachusetts,, of being grossly dis
courteous" to him in offering an At
lanta cotton mill strike investigation
resolution.
Children working for so cents daily
in some Massachusetts textile mills
are charged 10 cents weekly for wa
ter. he asserted. continuing:
When women were being shot in
Lawrence. Mr.. Greene didn't open his
mouth. l am informed he has beer
trying to prevent any investigation
resolution being reported by the rules
committee. Labor never has beer
treated in the south as you are treat
ing it in Massachusetts,"
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-04-02
SMALL PAY FOR GIRLS
The Massachusetts minimum wa

Tne MaSsachusetts minimum wage
commission recently made public the
results Of an investigation of the
wages Of female employees of Massa.
chusetts department stores. The In.
vestigation covered twenty-six depart
ment stores employing about 5000
girls.
The commission finds that one-third
Of the girls receive less than Sc Q
week. that one-third receive from 81
to IS per week and that the re
mainder. who receive more than So
are mostly office employees. Fifty
three per cent OF the girls employed
by five-and-ten-cent stores receiv,
less than IS q week.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-04-02
THE SONG OF THE SHINGLE
MILL
RY E RACKUS


Hark! to the song of the Shingle Mill!
Scre-ech, Scre-ech, Zi-p-p, Zi-p-p.
The logs come in with the rising tides
And up the steep slide writhe and tip
With beveled ends and reeking sides,
Snaked by the Bull Chains iron grip:
shuddering at the piercing sound
OF the venemous saw as it circles
round
Scre-ech, Scre-ech, Zi-p-p, Zi-p-p.
A vicious song, sings the Shingle
MILL
Scre-ech, Scre-ech, Zi-p-p, Zi-p-p.
To the grimy, grave faced weaver men
Who feed the fuming, fretful saws,
That mangle their keepers now and
then
For daring to tamper with Natures
laws,
BY working from dawn to twilight
hours,
With straining muscles and waning
powers,
To the raucous music
zi-p-p, Zip-p!
A murderous song sings the Shingle
Mill,-
Scre-ech, Scre-ech, Zi-p-p, Zi-p-p.
To sad faced women in tenements
near,
Whose loved ones toll for a scanty
wage
In the dangerous mill by the river
pier,
Where the droning devils Of sharp
steel rage,
And watch for chance to bite the
hand
OF the tired slaves that before them
stand.
scr-e-ech. scr-e-ech, zi-p-p, Zi-p-p!
That is the song Of the Shingle Mill,
With its endless Scr-e-e-ch and
Zi-p-p!
Tearing the battered logs to shreds,
To dust and splinters and Three
K clears"
For roofing houses, barns and sheds,
Wherever the builder q guant frame
rears.
As you sit meath . roof, secure from
the rain,
Think how the sharp saws tore the
grain!
And the heArts of women and the
hands OF men!
Scr-e-ech, Scr-e-ech, Hi-rtp, Zi-p-p!
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-04-02

The miners of West Virginia are ON
the verge of revolt on account of the
state militia having been sent into
the mining district pf Pennington
where a strike is on. So the workers
Of America can expect another long
fight in the eastern mining country
like what happened in Virginia two
years ago, the same coal barons prac-
tically owning all the mines in both
Virginia and West Virginia
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-04-02
Nothing to Arbitrate
BY EUGENE v. DEBS.

The Colorado strike is settled
1t lasted almost five years and cost
the miners a million dollars a year.
Not less than two hundred lives were
sacrificed.
And yet the strike was lost-a total
failure.
| The mine owners conceded abso-
lutely nothing,
They proved themselves, with
Rockefeller at their head, not only
the boss of Colorado but the boss Of
the United States.
They defied President Wilson and
compelled him to capitulate to their
power and do their bidding as abject-
ly as it had been done by Governor
Ammons.
But it is only true in limited
sense, after all, that the strike was
lost. In another and infinitely larger
sense it was won, and time will prove
it to have been glorious victory,
From the very beginning the mine
owners declared-"There is nothing
to arbitrate."
They were right; absolutely right
There is nothing to arbitrate be-
tween the working class and the cap
italist class; between the robbed and
the robbers.
Let us thank the mine owners for
having taught US the lesson, and let
US not fail to profit by it.
Nothing to arbitrate!"
Pullman snarled it twenty years
ago.
Carnegie proved it at Homestead
McNaughton stood for It at Calu-
met.
Rockefeller wrote it on the skies in
the blood of babies slaughtered at
Ludlow.
Nothing to arbitrate!"
Let US thank. repeat, Pullman,
Carnegie, AcNaughton, sH Rookie
felier. They have burnt IL into US.
that there is nothing to arbitrste,
anf all our protests have been In vGin.
They have been right and we have
been wrong. They are our friends.
They have taught us the lesson.
We now know that there Is nothing
to arbitrate between their class and
our class; nothing to concede; moth
ing to compromise; but war to the
death.
Let us organize our class for the
war on the basis laid down by them
and enforced by their gunner;
Nothing to arbitrste!"
Our eyes are open at last, thanks
to them. We know now where we
stand.
They are our enemy and we are
theirs. They rob us OF what we pro-
SSlce and when we meekly petition
for a few more crumbs from their fat
table they drive us from their door
and have their gunmen murder our
wives and babies.
They refuse to even allow US to see
them, to talk TO them They treat
us as dogs, and dogs we are as long
as they own our jobs and our means
OF life.
Why should they arbitrate?
And why should we?
The lesson has been written for us
by the Colorado mine owners in the
blood of our brothers.
Now to our task! Since there is
nothing to arbitrate there is every
thing to fight for
The mine owners have themselves
drawn the line which separates them
from their slaves and If now they are
not class-conscious they are stricken
with blindness.
Industrial and political unity OF
the miners and all other workers in
Colorado and all other states, is the
answer and the only answer to the
ukase OF the masters. that there Is
Nothing to arbitrate!"
Let the clarion ring throughout the
state and echo and re-echo from the
Rocky mountains to the coast: Work
ers, unite for the fight; there is moth
ing to arbitratei
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-04-02
"ACowardly Act
A WELL-TIMED ACT?
Who Fired the Shots?
JUDGE NOT, THAT YE BE NOT
JUDGED

Thursday evening, about Z o'clock,
some one, it Is alleged, fired two shots
into an automobile, on Norton ave-
-aHe, just north Of the city garbage
dump. AS the Tribune reports the oc-
currence
"The reports of the shots were 80
close together that it is believed there
were two weapons discharged prac-
tically at the same time. One shot
went through the top of the car, just
grazing the heads of Fox and Long
The other shot went through the gear
case Of the car partially disabling the
gear.
police Commissioner Kelly was on
his way down the steps at Fourteenth
street when the attack upon the auto
mobile was made. He made an i'm
mediate search for the men doing the
shooting but could get no trace Of
them.
Immediately after the shots were
fired about 80 men who were on
picket duty at the Shull mill rushed
to the scene but they were dispers-
ed by Officer Fox before any serious
demonstration against the occupants
of the stranded car could be made.
Commissioner Kelly believes that
the men who fired on the automobile
were on top Of the bank, possibly
concealed in some building, as care
full search of the brush failed to dis
close any trace Of them"
RATHER CONFLICTING
II, as Chief Kelly says, an immedi-
ate search for men was made, and
none found. and the shots were fired
from ION top Of the bank" down on
the car. how did the shots proceed
upwards, "just grazing the heads of
Fox and Long?
We leave this very important ques-
tion to be solved by those who have
. motive In violence (that doesn't
hurt any Of the managers Of the union
smashers.) The Employer associa.
tion can make capital out of such
"cowardly" acts: they can enlist SYM
pathy for their cause, union-smashing,
by alleged acts of violence, merely
by imputing them to friends OF or
ganized labor. It is not necessary to
prove that the labor union was in
any wise responsible for, or in SYM
pathy with. acts OF violence, or at
tempts thereat; it is sufficient to
insinuate that union men committed
"a cowardly act;" even though, in
fact, the act reported were merely
a weII-pIanned act, designed by the
union-smashers, or their hirelings, to
put organized labor in bad light in
the eyes Of the general public.
Beware the snitehmen!
Remember employer" Wood and
his dynamite plot, in Lawrence, Mass
Remember the Ballard fiasco.
Remember the dynamite" find in
Los Angeles, composed of honest
horse manure.
Remember the dynamite bomb in
st. Patrick's Cathedral, New York,
composed Of adulterated black pep
per. plotted by the sleuths.
Beware Of snitchmenl Judge not,
that ye be not judged.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-04-02
Challenge Accepted
Nothing to Arbitrate'
IT'S THE CLASS WAR

The lumber and shingle barons OF
Everett have entered boldly and open
ly into fight against organized labor
They have tacitly declared that the
working class have no economic rights
which they are bound to respect. Their
business is profit-mongering. They
are in the labor market for limited
amount of labor-power, and they are
determined to purchase this supply OF
human energy where it can be bought
ON the best terms. They insist upon
doing business with individual work
men, "free men," who are not subject
to any self-protective union rules or
safeguards; men who are free" to
do what the bosses order done, to ac-
cept what the employers offer, with
out any self-protective reservations, or
union restrictions. Just SO. 1t Is
easier to deal with free and inde-
pendent" wage slave, battling alone,
individually, for food, clothing and
shelter, than with a well-organized
group of workers banded together for
mutual aid and protection. In union
there is strength for the units. And
the bosses are we'll aware Of this car
dinal principle. So why should they
not form a union Of their own for the
purpose OF preventing the unioniza-
ton Of their wage slaves?
NOTHING TO ARBITRATE
So there is nothing to arbitrate.
The bosses need willing, servile, un-
protected, hungry, disorganized wage
slaves, struggling for bread single
handed, glad to receive bare subsist-
ance wage, with 2 long, and longer,
work-day.
This disorganized, helpless, indivi-
dualistic effort to obtain job at a
living wage, Is fatal to members Of
the working class.
IT Is FATAL TO THE PROS
PERITY OF MERCHANTS WHO
MUST DEPEND UPON WAGE
WORKERS FOR PATRONAGE.
IN THIS INSTANCE THE IN
TERESTS OF STORE-KEEPERS
AND WAGE FARMERS ARE
IDENTICAL.
The merchant class should not per-
NIT their bourgeois instincts to be-
tray them into sympathetic coopera-
ton with the manufacturers whose
hunger for profits leads them into an
attempt to reduce the standard OF liv-
ing among wage earners.
REMEMBER. MR.. sTOREKEEPER.
no sooner will the unions have been
destroyed and the manufacturing class
will enforce a still further reduction
in wages among their now helpless
wage slaves. This will still further
reduce their standard Of living, their
purchasing power. And whore do you
como in?
MR.. MERCHANT, back up the
unions in this their determined strug-
gle for existence. Times are hard
enough as matters now stand. Don't
be misled into helping tho manufae-
turers to make them worse!
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-04-02

Professor Friendenthal, Of Berlin
university, has discovered a means
of converting straw into food. Can it
be that he has found the formula for
American breakfast foods?-Phila-
delphia North American.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1915-04-15
In Gorgeous Ralment.

A love of gorgeous raiment, such as
characterized NJ. Emile Verhaeren in
his youth, has been common to many
famous writer's. Disraeli as a young
man startled the town by an evening
dress comprising green velvet trousers.
a canary-colored waistcoat, and coat
with lace cuffs. Dickens, likewise. was
fond of certain bright green waist
coat which he wore in accompani.
ment with vivid scarlet tie. and he
turned up at Frith's studio one day in
a sky-blue overcoat with red cuffs.
Even more fearful and wonderful was
Dumas appearance at an ambassa.
doris reception in "a shirt on which
were depicted number OF little red
demons disporting themselves amid
flames of yellow fire." my costume
was a great success" he wrote;
everyone thronged round and made
much of me."--London Chronicle.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1915-04-15
BOY CONTESTANTS GET BUSY
Tho Lad Who Grows the Best Corn
VIII Have His Expenses Paid to
Panama Exposition.

Ames.-In thirteen counties of tho
state arrangements have been made
to send the boy who grows the best
acre of corn with the excursion OF
boy corn growers to the Panama Pa
cinc exposition next fall. Director R.
X. Bliss, of the agricultural extension
department, who Is promoting these
contests, in cooperation with the
bankers of the state. believes that q
large majority of the counties will
make similar arrangements. That
means that after the corn is harvest
ed this coming fall special train of
Iowa boys will be taken across the
continent to see the sights OF the
western part of the United States and
to visit the big San Francisco show.
The thirteen counties in which ar
rangements have already been made
include the following:
Floyd, Marshall, Cerro Gordo, Cal.
houn, Plymouth, Boone, Black Hawk,
Cherokee, Greene. Hardin, Hamilton,
Benton, O'Brien, Woodbury..
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1915-04-15
ANOTHER ROAD BILL
Plan Desperate Fight to Pass
Proposed Compromise
MAIN FEATURES RETAINED
Speedy Action Required " lnsurgenf
Forces Expect Success to Crown
Their Efforts to Get Through
Highway Measure.

Des Moines.-A reopening OF the
road fight in the house was cleared
when the sitting committee voted to
report out the senate highways bill.
Simultaneously with this announce
ment, it became known that the back
ers of the Johnston road bill have
drafted an entirely new measure
which they will present as a ssubsti-
tute for the senate bill.
The new bill retains some features
Of the Johnston bill but makes i'm
portant concessions to the principle
for which opponents of the Johnston
bill have commended. 1t substitutes
the word shall" in many places
where the duties Of local officers in
road building are defined, and gives
to the state engineer supervisory
powers of real force. 1t would still
abolish the commission and substitute
a single state engineer with an Office
force, and transfer the state roads
office from Ames to Des Moines.
The men who fought for the John
ston bill in the house have already
declared that they will have nothing
70 do with the senate highways bill,
that II is more Objectionable than the
Barry bill they defeated in the first
battle, and that no legislation would
30 better than enactment of 1t.
To put any bill through, however.
there will have to be speedy action.
1t is expected therefore that the SEN
ate bill will now be called up at an
early date. There seems no reason
to doubt that the opponents are strong
enough to defeat 1t, and il the new
house bill should prove more reason
able to the men who fought the John
ston bill, an agreement on it may be
possible early. Then 1t will be up to
the senate to decide whether any road
laws are to be passed.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1915-04-15

as possible for easy cleaning. Every
year dairymen are raising the stand
ard until competition is becoming very
keen in the furnishing of high grade
milk, to get higher prices. A stable
constructed on this plan has every adj
vantage, provided the work is care
fully and thoroughly well done. All
inside surfaces, including side walls,
ceiling posts, Orders, windows. stall
partitions, etc., are required to be
made smooth. In well-kept stable
all these inside surfaces are gone over
with cleaning mops or brushes at fire.
quent intervals, to remove all dust
and dirt.
7 The cutters are made with slight
grade, to drain at the most convenient
end of the building. After the stables
are cleaned the cutters are washed
with water from the hose. The cows
are kept clean and the mixers wear
linen duck uniforms and are required
to keep themselves particularly clean.
The cows In a well-kept dairy are cur
ried and are otherwise as carefully
cared for as high-priced horse.