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Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-09-13
Book Published BY Department
of Public instruction viii
Aid New Corners

For the information of the 30 or
mere new public school teachers who
have arrived in Honolulu during the
last month from different points on
the mainland, the Star-Balletin here
with publishes Circular of lnforma.
ton" recently issued by the depart
ment of public instruction: g.
The Department. -.. ..<r E.
The department Of public instruc-
ton consists OF superintendent and
six commissioners, appointed by the
governor. It has charge Of all the
public schools In the territory, The
College of Hawaii and all lxindergar-
tens. as we'll as the numerous private
schools. are not under the jurisdiction
OF the department. Il appoints all the
teachers in the public schools, usually,
for the term of one year. The public
school system comprises april, I915)
170 schools, with an enrolment, of 49,.
7ss pupils and employing 737 teach.
ers. a-25izs ~ 70; : =, = {"
School Year. - - = So 90 ~
The school year consists Of 10
months OF teaching and two months.
Of vacation. The teaching period is
divided into three terms aggregating
3S weeks of school The fall term
opens about the middle Of September,
and the summer term closes the lat
ter part of June. The usual Christ
mas and Easter vacations are OBJ
served. = - :. ~ , :. T..
Salaries. ~.:-. -. - Z
Schools are classified and salaries
fixed each year before the beginning
Of the regular school year. Schools
are rated as elementary, high. normal
and special. -,
Salaries Of assistant teachers in ele-
mentary schools are regulated accord
ing To the following schedule, based
en- certificate held and length OF sat.
isfactory service. - rs =.
Salary Schedule for Assistant 1
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-09-13
NO PASSPORTS
GIVEN KOREANS
TO Mainland?
japanese Papers Say Consul
Withholds Them, But Fuiii
Denies the Run1or

Local Koreans win either have to
remain in the territory or go back to
Korea. for q time at least The local
Japanese consulate has declared It
will not issue any more passports TO
Koreans desiring TO journey to. the.
mainland. according to the Japanese
press of Honolulu. IL r.
The Japanese press reports that the
Japanese consul has clearly explained
why his office has established this
new rule. 1t is claimed that since the.
territorial grand jury began an inyes-
tigation few months ago Of the cases
Of two officers OF the Korean Nation
al Association, who. 1t was alleged,
had embezzled funds of the organE|
ration, the consulate has maintained
q careful watch over the actions, of
certain officers and members OF the
association. - -. -. !. =.
Il Is alleged by the. Japanese press
that many OF the Koreans In question
are living very comfortably In spite
of the fact that they have no employ
ment Others who have no income,
1t Is declared, nre spending consider
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Honolulu from the former Hermit
Kingdom.
Believing that ali OF the Koreans In
question. or some of them, might be
wanted by the territorial authorities
as witnesses, says the Japanese press,
the consul has decided to Issue no more
passports to Koreans for the present.
and especially to officers and mem
bers of the Korean National Associa,
tion.
According to the city and county at
torney's office the grand jury recent
~ found q no-bill in the case OF one
Korean who was alleged to have EN-
bezzled the funds of the association. |
The tribunal now has under investiga-
ton the case of a Korean said to have
been treasurer OF the organization.
Vice-consul X. Full on Saturday de
MED that any special measures were |
being taken against the Koreans Of
Hawaii. He said that both Japanese
and Koreans underwent . closer scru-
tiny now before they were granted /
their passports, than wassformerly the !
case,
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-09-13
ANARcHlST In ITtsttAN - T., >.
4 ARMY IS AWARDED MEDAL

ROME.-The anarchist leader Sbar,
"a, who was one of the leaders of the
strike riots in Anecna III June, 1914
and VINO is now serving at the front
has been named for the silver medal
for bravery on the field. ~. {. -. IL. IN
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-09-13

The Kakaako boys viii meet In tht,
clnbfoOm in ,.KaWaihaas chnrchgarE
this evening. Mr.. s. w. sRobley q
the NJ. C. AZ win meet with them
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-09-13

No increases in teachers salaries
are made, except at the beginning OF
each school year. Haf-time taught
elsewhere than in the territory. pro-
vided the teaching be properly cert.
fled as being satisfactory by compe-
tent authority, may be allowed in de-
termining the initial salary. at the dis
erection of the department
Teachers holding state or. territorial
normal diplomas may begin on the
above schedule at $50 per month and
receive their maximum salary after
seven years OF actual service.
The salary schedule for normal
training and high school teachers Is
as follows: 3. 4 t,sgss 81 q.
First year ~. .-.,.... .,.s...:...$1 900
Second year ...... ], 100
Third year ............ -l,2OO5
Fourth to. tenth year, inclusive. loo
After tenth year trnaximum). ). 1900
The salary schedule for normal prac-
tice and teachers in high schools VINO
do. not, devote the greater part OF
their time to high school work is as
follows: .s....<szs
First year ..................$ 10000
Second year ..........t....E $4,000
Third year 1,020.V0
Fourth year !. - !. ,0S0.0O
Fifth and thereafter maxi.
NUM- 3. 1 200. 90
Except as otherwise provided. the
salaries Of all teachers In government.
service are paid in f2 monthly install
ments,. although the work of the
schoolroona is accomplished in IL
months. 80 w..
Vacation Salaries.
The school year is considered as
consisting of 10 months of teaching
and two months of vacation, viz, jury
and. August, all salaries for each school
year terminating August 81.
& All teachers who are in the service
of the department at the close of
spring term: shall be entitled to as
many tenths Of their respective ga:
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-09-13
BONNIE PHOTO
PoRTRAlTURE

a, new painless process. Sittipgs
only BY appointment. Phone 5006. =
lAdE1 8.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-10-29

The Council appointed committee
Of three to visit the State University
for the purpose of registering a for
NAL protest against the system OF
compulsory military drill, and at an
expense to each student Of abuot $50
in hard cash
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-10-29
TAKING FROM THOSE
WHO HAVE NOT

To pay war expenses, the latest
British budget demands new sacrifi-
ces from every class except the land
owners. New taxes are to be laid OH
the wealth producers. There is to be
an increase in the direct tax on their
incomes and an indirect tax on what
they consume. But there is to be no
increase in taxation on the privilege
of charging Britons for permission to
live and work in Great Britain. The
fighting and payment of expenses are
to be left principally to those who are
legally but "trespassers on the land
of their birth" Then should their
sufferings and sacrifices bring any
benefit to the country, their reward
will be the privilege of paying higher
rent to the landowners whom the gov
eminent treats so tenderly.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-10-29
UPHoLDS FREE PRESS

KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Courts are
liable to err and a free press and a
free people are entitled to criticise,
in fair manner, the actions of courts,
declared Judge Henry Lamm, of Sc
dalia, in an address before the annual
meeting of the Missouri State Bar
association.
Courts are mans invention, the re.
suit of slow evolution, and are hui.
man institutions" said Judge Lamm.
"The courts have human limitations
and frailties, hence are liable to err
and stand to have their errors ham,
mered out on the anvil of public dis
cussions and cured by exposures. 1t
is vain to contend they are immune
from just scrutiny and criticism to
keep them up to high efficiency Of
service. I maintain the proposition
that free people, and therefore a
free press, may examine, discuss,
question or defend the doctrines and
acts of their courts. do not believe
that great courts and judges impugn
this general rule or seek its modifi-
cation.
"The true attitude of the courts to
the newspapers is found in the great
judgments of great courts, the great
opinions of great judges upholding the
right of a decent press to be free to
discuss with manly frankness and
fearlessness those officials, those
men, those principles, those things
lying close to the public veal"
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-10-29
Blind to Causes

On August Is the Chicago Tribune
said editorially:
"a quarter of a billion acres Of
land lie idle and undeveloped in the
South alone, two-thirds of it being
tillable And hardly days ride away
are the great centers of New York,
Chicago, Baltimore, Boston, Philadel-
phia, and other manufacturing cities,
where people are crowded together in
tenements. This contributes to the
high cost of living"
On September "a the Tribune said
editorially:
ut does not take hard times to
make idleness these days. There were
29,073,233 wage earners (persons of
10 years or over in 1900. Every fifth
person, or 1928 per cent, of these were
idle for period of from one month
to twelve months In 1910, another
good year, the wage earners totaled
38,756,223, and the advance estimates
predict that about one-fourth were
idle. The mean for six months from
January to June in 232 labor organi-
cations in New York state for the past
sixteen years was 20.9.'
The Tribune seems blissfully not
aware of the fact that it called atten-
ton on August rs to the conditions
which cause such a state of affairs
as it described on September "a.
While valuable lands are withheld
from use, there will be people suf-
fering for the things which might be
produced from these lands, or which
might be obtained through exchange
of products. Twenty per cent OF
workers will be unemployed, even in
so-called good" times, while natural
opportunities are held out of use to
which labor might be applied
The Tribune seems quite expert in
noticing facts, but woefully deficient
in ability to draw most obvious infer
ences therefrom.
When the workers get wise, and
manly they will abolish private prop
erty in the land and machinery which
is socially necessary, and which should
be collectively owned and democratic
cally managed
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-10-29
WORKER MUST HELP
HIMSELF

Sam Jones used to have an illustra
ton of a watering trough he once saw
The cattle had to mount a platform
to reach the trough, and as they did
this their weight on the platform
pressed a lever which threw the wa.
ter into the trough. AS they did their
part, the springs far up in the noun.
tains did their part, and the cattle's
hirst was quenched
In the field OF labor the worker
must learn that he has to use his
own weight If he is to gain anything
for himself
His lot calls for consistent agrees
siveness.
He is engaged in perpetual contest
against opposing influences.
His best advantage lies in getting
into the labor union, and by paying
his share to support the union and
doing his share to promote the union
cause, obtain the benefits Of organ
lied effort
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-10-29
PREDICTS SUPERMEN

CHICAGO.-According to Lawrence
WELLER, director of the New York COM
mittee on the prevention of tubercu'
losis, the race of supermen, healthy,
vigorous and of aspiring mental pow
ers, is actually on the way.
1T is a question of education, OF
expelling ignorant and vicious Gus
toms, Of teaching wholesome living"
said Mr.. WELLER. THE work done
among infants, especially, has been
encouraging, and finer, stronger
stock is on the way with each new
generation. The immense progress
which has been made against tuber'
culosis forecasts the day when the
race will be free of the white plague"
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-10-29
QUESTION CANDIDATES

NASHVILLE, Tenn-The Trades
and Labor Council has prepared the
following questions to be submitted
to candidates for the United States
senate:
Will you urge and support by your
voice and vote the passage Of an i'm
migration law containing the litter
acy test" even to the extent Of voting
for it over the veto of the President
of the United States?
Will you favor domestic convict
labor bill which will enable the sew
eral states to regulate convict labor
including the admission of convict
made goods from other states?
Will you favor abollshing the impor.
tation of goods made in whole or in
part by convict labor?
Will you favor law prohibiting the
interstate transportation of goods
made by child labor?
Will you favor a liberal compensa-
ton law for federal employees, for
working people employed in the Dis
trict of Columbia and for railroad EN-.
ployes in interstate commerce?
Will you favor labor safety laws
to be administered by the United
States department of labor?
Will you favor amending the hours
of service (railroad mems 16-hour)
law, with a minimum penalty provi'
sion Incorporated?
Will you favor an eight-hour law for
railroad telegraphers employed in in
terstate commerce?
Will you favor liberal and com
prehensive industrial education of vo'
cational and undertaking bill?
Will you oppose any amendments
to the present seamens law which
will endanger public safety or inter
ference with the liberty and fair work
ing conditions OF seamen?
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-10-29
VOTING POWER THE REMEDY

The laboring class may become dis
couraged; many conclude this is a
world for the rich, and that the poor
were just thrown in to fill up and to
help make the rich richer. They may
conclude we have poor form of gov
eminent, run by few people, with
absolute control of our finances, and,
therefore, we want no government, no
riches, no private ownership, nothing
but what is common property, and
but does all this get us anywhere?
The laboring man has the right to
vote at the polls, and herein Is his
remedy for any existing evils. There
is no use to sit down and bemoan our
fate; howl about the rich and tell us
we are slaves. This will not get us
anywhere.
What does it get us to damn every
man with a dollar, because he has the
dollar? Will this get us anything but
needless enemies? VIII it improve
our condition to condemn everything
and everybody with not even a sug-
gested remedy for an implied wrong
condition?
If you know of an unjust law, sug-
gest a more equitable one. If you
know of an upright, fair legislator,
tell him of your remedy then vote for
this legislator, again and again-keep
him a legislator so long as he does
that which will afford the desired re-
| lief.
Do you know of a judge whose in
depreciation of laws is prejudiced, or
favorable to conditions which you be-
wall, vote against him; study his de-
cisions and point out his unfitness to
your acquaintance that they may,
too, help to unseat him.
Do you know of a grating public
official? Your vote should not help
to again place him in office, and your
vote should help to enact laws which
will provide punishment for him. And
so on, up and down the list of unde-
sirable laws and conditions.
In short, labor can make this coun-
try what they will II they will but
take sufficient interest to study the
evils and the remedies and, united,
march to the polls and vote for their
own welfare, instead of for any old
thing. without study of the laws or
men on the ballot. And votsi Don't
stay at home or neglect to vote; but
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-10-29
TRADES
COUNCIL
N E w S

That the demand for Union Label
products in Everett was to be the
order of each day hereafter was plain
ly evidenced at last Wednesday eve
ning's meeting of the Central Trade
Council The agitation begun few
weeks ago for greater earnestness in
support of the label is bearing fruit.
The spirit of cooperation in a demand
for fair" products is rapidly spread
ing from man to man, from family to
family, from local to local, until, soon,
the whole working-class population Of
Everett will be fired with enthusiasm
over the Label and all that it stands
for in the way of human advance
ment
The campaign for union-made goods
is on in earnest. 1t began by sort
Of spontaneous combustion Of labor
solidarity. The merchant who fails
to lay in a reasonable supply of La
bel goods from now on is going to
be out Of luck, right in the midst of
the holiday season.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-10-29
THE VALUE OF
POLITICAL POWER

For the benefit OF those deluded but
well-meaning individuals who see no
effective work in the winning of po-
litical power, we offer the following
simple but striking examples for their
consideration.
During a recent strike in Elizabeth,
New Jersey, of the Singer Sewing
Machine company employees, one of
the lickspittle editors of the company
paper, the Times" offered the fol-
lowing advice to the Singer employees:
But for the present it is our ad-
vice to the Singer employees to take
every loafing agitator to Staten Island
Sound, tie rock around his neck
and throw him off the dock"
No more patent case of melting to
murder could be found anywhere; no
better ground for fine or imprison-
ment. The organizer Of the local GEN.
trail labor union swore out warrant
and had the editor arrested and tried
on the charge cited above. OF course,
the judge let him off on the ground
that there was no proof that the man
wrote the article quoted in the charge.
BUT the only reason the man was
ever brought to trial was because the
Socialists had elected in Elizabeth a
justice of the peace, who had power
to issue warrants, and some small au-
thority in administration of the law.
The anarchistic, nihilistic, blood
thirsty editor of the Elizabeth Times
was dismissed because the judge who
tried him and who was elected by
the votes of the working people in
New Jersey, was not a Socialist
On an accusation of "inciting to
riot" during a strike meeting at which
he was not present, Pat Quinlan, of
the neighboring city of Paterson, is
serving a seven-year term in the peni-
Tertiary. During the same strike, Edi-
tor Scott, who was managing the
labor paper OF paterson at that time,
referred to the chief of police of Pat
erson as a "blockhead" For this,
he was sentenced to serve term in
prison from one to three years.
More recently still, in Butte, Mont,
the constitutional right of the people
to free speech and free assemblage
has been violated by the city and
county officials elected by the work
ing class Of that city.
These inequalities in the admins
tration of the law are made possible
by the working class themselves who,
at election time, cast their ballot for
the Representatives who stand open
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-10-29
The Class War

There is a struggle in this land Of
ours,
A. struggle 'twixt the owners and the
owned;
The tyranny of Capital enthroned
And Labor dispossessed Of all its
powers,
Der Washington today the storm
cloud lowers,
And every flash of living truth re-
veals
The class which rules and Stays be-
cause it steals.
No longer now the cursed wage slave
covers,
For courage born of social conscious
Now nerves him to demand a full
redress.
The system of the parasites must
pass
And a new world of worker-owners
come.
Tolls cosmic purpose sways the hui
man mass
That watch our fighting comrades
martyrdom!
LUCIEN V. RULE, Goshen, KY.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-10-29
Some Timely Lessons
for Organized Labor

ly and avowedly upon the master-class
platforms.
In West Virginia, the miners voted
for capitalistic political rulers (not
servants) and they got the armored
train. In Michigan they voted the
same way and they got the fiery
Christmas; in Colorado, they elected
Governor Ammons and they got the
Ludlow massacre. And so it goes.
If the working class, men and wom-
en-, would take upon themselves the
solemn pledge to stand by their class,
politically, as well as industrially,
these atrocities would cease almost
over night. For there would be no
capitalist legislators elected to make
the masters laws; no capitalist courts
elected to interpret the laws in favor
of the master, and no capitalist NUM-
cipal, county, state and federal Off
cials to administer the masters laws.
The history of the working class
movement in this country has proven
beyond possibility of doubt, the neces-
sity Of political power to back up in
dustrial action. Michigan and Colo
RADIO alone have testified to the weak
ness of industrial mass action lacking
political support The strike in Mich
igan was practically unanimous. Had
it not been for the subservient sher-
ifs and governor, the strike of the
Calumet miners would probably have
been successful within a few days or
weeks The men were beaten, not by
lack of solidarity, but by the armed
political power of tile masters. The
same thing happened in Colorado and
in Bayonne. The power of the state
in the hands of the master has broken
the lives and the hopes of the work
ers wherever they have struggled to
brighten their lives and lift their
hopes above the dreariness of mere
existence
When the working class has learn
ed the lesson that there is not one
phase of their life that does not count
in the class struggle; that every activ-
ity must be closely studied and or
ganized and intelligently used, then
may we look for effective results to
replace the blind, futile, and disas-
trous revolts that are now the in
evitable products of DISCRIMINATION,
bewilderment, helplessness, and ig-
norant neglect of the power which po-
litical rights have put in the hands
of the workers to use for their pro-
lection. The intelligent, class.con-
scious use of the ballot, is a powerful
weapon for freedom, but few are the
workers who fully appreciate and use
that power.-Exchange.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-10-29

be there every election, posted upon
every law and name on the ballot, and
you will soon have every reason to
congratulate yourself upon the
changed conditions.
The mighty efforts of the labor
unions have given almost every
branch OF labor. organized and unor-
gained, the shorter workday. II a
little of this home-time Is given to
study of laws. lawmakers and the
judiciary, and then an unfailing ex-
ercise of our franchise at the polls at
every election. wonderful change
for better conditions for the poor will
result. Labor Press.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-10-29

The Council was favored by an in
teresting address by Mr., Clarence
Parker, of the State Industrial Insur-
ance Commission. Particular en-
phasis was laid upon the necessity
for reports Of accidents to an employ
err as soon as they occur, even Of a
slight scratch, as the latter may be
followed by blood poisoning, and the
subsequent loss of much time, or even
of limb. II is much easier to estab-
lish a claim to accident insurance
when the case has been promptly re
ported.
Some very gratifying statictics were
presented to the Council by Mr.. Par
ker showing HON the number Of ac-
cidents is being steadily reduced, not
only in this state, but throughout the
entire country, through the personal
efforts of employers, foremen, and
gang bosses" The Everett Paper
Mil was cited as a notable instance
Of what can be done by employers
who personally attend to matters per-
tanning to increasing the safety pro-
visions Of an industry.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-10-29
STRIKE ON-KEEP AWAY

UNBORN CHILDREN are advised
to stay away from the world. A ter
rifle war is going ON. which threatens
to be merely the stepping stone to a
far more horrible one in about twenty
years. Children intending to be born
now in Europe better keep away. as
a strike Is now on, and all they'll be
in 20 years Is, cannon fodder.