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The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-12-10
ELECTRICAL AGE is NEXT

CHICAGO.-Electricity is changing
the city, the factory and the home
just as radically as steam changed it,
declared Dr. Steinmetz, electrical en-
gineer in an address in this city
Steam built up our great cities
with their congestion and slums.
Electricity will break them down and
scatter the population evenly over the
continent, because electricity can be
transmitted anywhere by simple
transmission wires. Steam must be
used where generated, and where
there is a large labor supply" said
DR.. Steinmetz
with full electrical development,
the labor supply need not be right at
the factory door 1t can be moved
cheaply and quickly morning and eve
ming. There will be no necessity for
locating near where the power can
be produced the cheapest, as in the
steam factory, because the power can
ue carried over the wires.
The factories will then go where
me land is cheapest. Electricity will
run errands in the home.
The cost is all that is standing in
the way. But the high cost is due
to the limited use of the electrical
motor rather than any natural disa
bility. 1t is as simple as an alarm
clock and should and would be a,
cheap if it were used as generally
All we need is better distribution
The more we use the lower the cos
! per unit and the more electricity viii
supplant steam and hand power, Just
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-12-10
SOCIALIST MAYOR
HELPS STRIKERS
sWEARs IN SPECIAL POLICE AND
TELLS DEPUTY SHERIFF
THUGS TO LOOK OUT

HAMILTON, Ohio Mayor Fred A
Hinhol the Socialist executive Of this
city, has sworn i'm 40 special police
men and instructed them to guard
the eight shops, in which men are on
strike, against the gangsters import
ed by the sheriff to beat up union
men.
The men are on strike at the Niles
Tool Works company, the Black &
Clawsoh company, the Hooven Owens
Rentschler company, the Peerless
Foundry company the H P. Deut-
scher company, the Miami Foundry
company, the Kern Machine Tool
company and the Hamilton Machine
Tool company.
The employers. who control the
sheriff, induced him TO swear in as
deputies a lot of former policemen
that lost their Jobs when the Social
lists won the elections.
American law and Jurisprudence is
based upon the foundation principle
that the ordinary citizen shall have
the same consideration before the law
as the most wealthy" the mayor in.
/ formed the employers. The bosses
don't understand the American con-
stitution in that way.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-12-10
THE WORLD OF LABOR
BILL,
READY FOR CONGRESS

The campaign for -.4e Heating
federal child labor bill was launched
in Washington yesterday when Sen
Owen, Congressman Keating and the
secretaries of the National Child La
Dor Committee met to confer on the
bill and decide on the final form in
which it is to be introduced.
"The bill will be introduced the day
that congress convenes," said Owen
R. Lovejoy, general secretary of the
National Child Labor Committee,
"and we are going to stand by to see
that it is not buried under national
preparedness, shipping or tariff. But
do not think there is serious danger
of that because the sentiment of the
present congress is favorable to the
bill and the endorsements and offers
of cooperation which daily pour into
our offices are evidences of the fact
that thousands of people throughout
the country are convinced that this
bill ought to be passed"
The bill as decided upon at the
Washington conference is practically
identical with the Palmer-Owen bill
of last year. 1t prohibits the shipment
in interstate commerce of any article
which is the product Of any mine or
quarry in which children under | 6
are employed, or the product of any
mill, factory, workshop, cannery or
manufacturing establishment in which
children under ID are employed, or in
which children under 16 are employed
more than 8 hours a day or more than
6 days a week or at night.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-12-10
F. P. WALSH WILL
EDIT K. G. POST

The announcement that Frank P
Walsh has assumed sole direction of
the editorial, news and business poll.
cies" of the Kansas City Post is of
significant interest to the common
people as well as to the newspaper
and political fraternity.
His initial pronouncement signal
ICES the entrance of a new idea in
metropolitan journalism. Mr.. Walsh
says:
81 believe that under the existing
status of the common law the sub
scribers to a newspaper obtain not
only a moral but vested right and
are legally entitled, upon proper show.
ing, to mandatory injunction against
its publisher requiring him to print
the truth fairly and without discrimi-
nation"
If we take this thought and apply
it to the journalistic attitude toward
organized labor, what a mass of lies
have been disseminated through the
press, all tending to prejudice the
public against its activities and very
existence. If the truth had been told
fairly and squarely, about the objects
of labor organizations, who will doubt
that it would have made greater pro-
gress and more splendid record ?
Seattle Union Record.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-12-10
PAINTERS DEFEAT LOCKOUT

SAN FRANCISCO.-Union painters
have defeated the lockout of the Mas
ter Painters association, which at
tempted to break the recently adopted
rule Of these workers that from No
vember l to March 81 five days would
constitute a weeks work Contrac-
tors were not interested in this at
tempt to benefit the unemployed, and
they locked out over 1000 employees.
After a few days idleness, however.
the master painters accepted the new
system.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-12-10
DECREASE OF EMPLOYMENT
IN WASHINGTON

Statistics gathered from the rec
ords of the industrial insurance COM
mission show the present status of
employment in the lumber trade to be
considerably smaller than during 1914.
The figures are very nearly complete,
with payrolls checked for the first
six months of the current year, ex-
cept few small firms not yet check
ed.
The data shows the payroll for class
10-1914-to be $37,057,03S.
For the first six months of 1915
$11, ,4O2, 2,59O.29.
Estimate of average number of men
employed is, 1914, 1861.
1915, 52,425.
These figures indicate only about
70 per cent. of the number of men en-
ployed this year that were employed
in 1914. The few small firms miss
ing in the data may bring the total
up to rs per cent. at the most.
Glass 10 Qumber and logging) COM
prises about one-third of the total
state payroll of employees covered by
industrial insurance. The commission
believes that employment in other
classes is about equal to 1914, but the
1916 data has not been checked except
in one class.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-12-10
FOR SAFETY ON WATER

WASHINGTON.-It is stated that
the department of commerce has
framed bill which will be presented
to congress to give the federal gov
ernment complete control of the build
ing of all merchant vessels Of more
than 100 tons gross tonnage. No GER
tificate of inspection could be issued
to any vessel unless the plans had
been approved by a board of naval
architects.
This proposal is an echo of the
Eastland disaster and the controversy
over the steamboat inspection service
that followed.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-12-10
BROTHERHOOD OF PAINTERS
AND THE ElGHT-HOUR DAY
BY Herman Jessen

That the rank and file of the Amer
lean Trade Unions consist of intelli.
gent workers who do their own think
ing is shown by the present referen-
dunn election of the Brotherhood of
Painters, Decorators and Paperhang-
ers of America.
The present general President, Geo.
F. Hedrick, of Albany, N. Y, voted
at the Philadelphia A. F. of L. con-
vention against the shortening of the
workday by law. His opponent, Vic
tor Buhr of New York City, claims
that no international officer has the
right to say how the workers shall
get the shorter workday, as conditions
find one method more practical than
the other or vice versa.
The painters are an organization
that feel the competition of the g.
and 10-hour day and the evolution of
the industries lately more than any
other union. They have been fighting
25 years to get the S-hour day on
finishing of wood trim. After get
ting control of the wood industry,
evolution, the steel trust and the
fire insurance companies replace
wood with metal and with the change
of the material goes the condition un-
der which it is manufactured.
Metal trim is controlled by the steel
trust, whose factories work long
hours and pay small wages. The
present administration of the Paint
ers' union organizes some of the fac
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-12-10
Who P
uEandWE BUY OUR GOODS AT HOME JOURNAL ADVERTISERS
Are in Favor of Political
Fight for Eight-Hour Day

tories on the g. and 1O-hour basis
with low wages which makes ii i'm
possible for members of the Brother
hood in large cities, where the fin
ished product is used, to strike
against it, as it is finished by mem
bers of their own organization.
The work that was formerly done
by the men in the large cities at the
rate of eight hours per day and
high rate is now being done by mem
bers of the same union at the 1O-hour
rate and smaller wages.
The men that fought for the eight
hour day for years are now walking
the streets with an eight-hour const-
tuition in their pockets. The condi
tions of the painting industry show
plainly that the eight-hour day by law
would benefit not only those that
work longer hours now, but would
also make fairer competition for the
workers in the big cities possible.
Buhrs campaign committee in New
York and Chicago are making these
points the issue in the election which
takes place December 11th, and it will
be interesting for the whole Ameri-
can labor movement how the rank
and file of a large organization ex.
presses itself through the ballot. In
nearly all elections of international
unions it is impossible to let the rank
and file know about the real issue
and the votes cast are not always an
expression of the wish of the man.
The vote in Philadelphia caused
President Daily of the Metal Polish.
ers' Union his position.
We wonder if Hedrick will be the
second victim.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-12-10
WILL FIGHT UNIONISM

In New York, recently, employers
claiming to represent 4,000,000,0 900
in capital met to organize a central
organization to fight labor and to set
up the "open shop" throughout the
land. In speeches by presidents of
the great employers associations op-
posed to organized labor, Walsh and
his committee were bitterly denounc-
ed, and plans were made to carry the
fight against labor into congress.
Other features of the legislative
program of the new commission are
Income and inheritance taxes as
source of revenue; reduce taxes on
necessities and comforts of the work
ers.
Prohibiting courts from declaring
laws unconstitutional.
Juries to be selected by an impair
tial method from lists containing the
names of all qualified voters, so that
the workers may be fairly represented
on the juries.
Unfair competition to be defined by
statute to include exploitation of la
Dor through low wages, long hours
unsafe or insanitary conditions, or
through refusal to meet and deal with
the authorized representatives of EN-
ployes. The secretary of labor shall
be authorized to prosecute such cases
before the Federal Trade Commission
1t is a matter of vital Importance
to organized labor that the work o.
the industrial commission is to be
continued. The startling revelations
made more significant because of thu
fact that a commission authorized b!
act of congress gave utterance Il
them, and the vigor with which thu
claims of labor will be prosecuted
make it doubly important that labo
organizations keep in touch with tn
work of the new commission an
render to it all the support at thei
command.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-12-10
ACT ON THIS

1t was Thomas Carlyle who said.
"A fair days wage for a fair days
work." and it was Grant Allen who
said that "There is no such thing as
fair days wage, as the moment it
became fair it ceased to be wage.
Nothing short of the whole product
was fair to the producer or the work.
err"
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-12-10
MOTHERS PENSIONS

RACINE, Wis.-County supervisors
have set aside $4,000 for mothers pen
sions. A state law gives these Off
cials power to pension mothers with
children, and Racine county super
visors state that more money will be
forthcoming next year If it is found
the first appropriation is insufficient.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-12-10

Education" says John Metz of
Munich, sis the one great thing that
will wipe out the stupidity of mlitar-
ism" Much, however, depends upon
the kind of education that is used
u. A. Journal.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-12-10
THE WORKER WONDERS

When will the women sit
In tram and train and knit
Warm woollens for MY kit?
Why don't l get a share
In all this underwear?
(God knows I've none to spareD
Is there no place that votes
Tan boots and overcoats--
WITHOUT this cutting throats?
r. H. l.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-12-10

The many powerful forces at work
to defeat the aspirations of the COM
mon people will find new lineup op-
posing them in the nations capital
this winter. For the first time, or
ganized labor in it's task of holding
the trenches and extending democ'
racy's battle line, is to have the unit
ed support of all outsiders" who ac-
knowledge iabor's leadership and who
are ready to fight under labor's ban.
ner. .....--.
Without regard to doctrine, party
or creed, those who see the necessity
Of aggressive, organized action by the
establishing real democracy have
come together in the new Committee
on Industrial Relations, with Frank
P. Walsh, chairman of the United
States Commission on Industrial Rela
tions, as their leader.
There are seven labor leaders
among the IL members of the new
committee. Others are Frank P.
Walsh, Amos Pinchot, Frederick c.
Howe, immigration commissioner,
Bishop C. D. Williams, and Dante
Barton, Kansas City newspaper
man.
Basil M. Manly, author of the Com
missions main report to Congress, is
on the job in Washington as director
for the new committee. With him are
Dante Barton, personal representative
of Mr.. Walsh, and George P. West,
publicity director for the Federal
Commission, and author of the Colo
RADIO report. Already they are in
touch with many members of con-
the influence of big business and to
push measures designed to leave Ia
Dor free to organize And Walsh is
to give his personal attention to this
new job.
One of the many who have endorsed
the new committee is T. v. POwderly,
the veteran pioneer leader, who, as
head of the old Knights of Labor,
first shook the arbitrary power of
the anthracite coal operators of Penn
sylvania, and helped lay the founda-
tions for the American labor move
ment of today.
"The formation of the new commit
tee shows what labor has accomplish
ed in the past thirty years." said Mr.
Powderly. I'm the old days you could
not have got a corporal's guard out
side of the rank and file of labor it
self who understood what labor want
ed. or who would have admitted that
labor was right.
"Welfare workers were plentiful
enough, and there were many who be-
lieved in unions if they were run
right But whole-hearted, thorough
going support from men like Walsh
was unknown. If we had such com
mittee in the old days it would have
helped us as nothing else could. 1t
is a sign that big class is growing
up in this country who see that we
can't have a democracy until wage
earners have won the right to com
pelling voice in determining the con
ditions under which they shall work.
The committee has established
headquarters in Washington, and to
day the same men who dragged th'
truth about Colorado from Rockefel
lers unwilling lips are on the Jo'
ready to insist that Congress do some
thing to remedy the evils that Wais
and his associates exposed.
WILL INVADE CONGRESS
First and foremost, the commissio
will urge upon congress the necessit
of printing, free of charge, the finf
reports of the Commission on mdu
trial Relations, and the testimony tai
en- at public hearings. A reading
1. ~N ~ a
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-12-10
Head of Recent Industrial Relations Commission Declares That
Every Person Should Read Report of Probes-Union
Labor to Demand Action by Congress
ATTEMPT SAID TO BE MADE TO PREVENT
PRINTING FAMOUS INDUSTRIAL REPORT
Greatest Labor Battle Century Begin Congress Next Month
Well Framed Program Agreed to by Walsh,
OConnell Lennon and Garretson

men and women who already are vi
tally interested in the industrial prob
lem, the understanding that is neces
sary if public opinion is to do its
share in the great task of translating
our democratic ideals into reality.
Walsh comes to Washington to find
the national capital overflowing with
the lobbyists and publicity agents OF
the big interests that bitterly opposed
him at every step in his work, just as
they always have opposed every move
that was likely to strengthen the pow
er Of the workers.
Navy Leagues, Security Leagues,
Manufacturers Associations, and a
score of similar organizations have
opened headquarters and are seeking
the ears of Congressman with their
program for huge army and navy,
the repeal of the Seamen's Act, and
all the other planks in the program of
special privilege. Every office build
ing in Washington has it's one or more
suites of offices where skillful lobby
lists and writer's are at work prepar.
ing to overwhelm congressman with
their pleas for action in the interests
of business" Much is to be heard
about American supremacy, by which
is meant great foreign trade to be
built up on reduced labor costs at
home, and, therefore, on the discour-
agement of unionism.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-12-10
S6.OOO,OOO -- IMPROVEMENTS

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. S.-The Mid
vale Steel company will spend over
Sc. 900, 900 in enlarging its plants.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-12-10
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The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-12-10
PICTURE OPERATORS GAIN

INDIANAPOLIS.-The Moving Pic
ture Operators union has signed a
contract with the Motion Picture Ex-
hibitors' association. Wages are in
creased 81 for night work and from
$1.50 to 50 for day work. Operators
working from 10 am. till II pm.
shall receive $23 a week, and those
working from noon till II pm. shall
receive $23 a week An arbitration
clause is included, as are strong pro
visions governing fire prevention.
BALTIMORE-Off of the Nov
ing Picture Operators union report
that there are less than half a dozen
motion picture theatres in this city
that have refused to sign their new
scale, which is agreed to by SS houses.
These signatures mean an additional
$1,000 year to the movie" opera
tors.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-12-10

as steam once supplanted hand pow
err"
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-12-10

Patronize YOUR advertIsersi
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-12-10

Patronlze YOUR Advertisers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-29
Another Good Man Sleeps Today
By MRS. J. B. REID

In the death of MT. Harry Spurrier He has labored faithfully with the people of the district for 30 years, first as car penter; this trade he learned in England. where he was a cabinet maker and ship builder and then he has been useful worker in the public works in the early pioneers who feled the first trees to re- place the space with Ensley. What he did with his hands he did well, but it is not of this we wish to speak, but of his life among the people of his community He lived right, and lifted others on the way. His influence was wonderful, that power t at amanlted from the real love of his fellow man. Everybody was a part of his big family and everybody in his church and in his circle of friends called him Daddy" not in the sense of familiarity, but it was with the love and dignity his leadership commanded
 He lived the simple life, lived among the people q cheerful worker for the welfare of all: every stroke of his hammer, every pulse of his heart beat for good work manship. He has finished his mission on earth, and left in the midst of his friends and these who knew him bas. name that stands for justice Tor faith and un- worth while, mans greatness is expressed in little deeds. acts that make home and happiness until the end of time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-29

streams, the game and fish. the cattle and hogs, the mines and factories, and the crops and commerce of the state.
 Alabama has no greater asset than her children. Twenty-six states have provid- ed such legislation for the protection of the home and family. enabling the mother to rear her children at home surrounded by the mother influence and care In a recent address before the legisla- ture, entitled, "A Plea for the Needy Fatherless Children Alabama" the fol- lowing statement is made in reference to tho bill:
 statute shall be permissive and not man datory; that it shall not at this time ask or provide for a cent of appropra ton out of the treasury of the state Au- thorfty Is asked for the appointment in each of the counties of the state of boards of child welfare. to be composed of either men or women or both, and for authority Tor toard of revenue or Courts of county commissions and municipalities to make appropriations from public funds, com mensurate with the requirements as as- certained after careful investigation" Tn" maximum age of the child to whom allowance is made is. in most states where similar laws as this one proposed exist, IA years, extended In some cases where
 
 The amount of allowance for each child IS matter of importance and varies in different states.
 The maximum allowed in some states Is as low S2 per week, and in others for example, Illinois-is as high as $15. In New York the maximum is fixed at an amount sufficient to properly care for the child. not to exceed what 1t would cost to maintain and educate the child in state or county home.
 The advantage of the passage of such bill as this is paramount. the necessity of it is apparent, the advantage to the child of the mothers care and individual attention is undsputed; at home the dis tinct types may be considered and de- veloped.
 The state should be awake to It's respon- siblity in regard to the child; the opinion of all experts in child wefa e is that the early years of the childs life should be spent with the mother, and 1t is the duty of the community to assist In making this possible.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-29
TO LIFT EMBARGO
 ON RUSSIAN EXPORTS

Washington, July 2S.-The state de- partment cabled to Petrograd today asking for details of conditions on " hich the Russian embargo on exports to the United States Is to be lifted. Acceptance of the American proposal that goods sent to this country from Russia be consigned to the Secretary of Commerce under a guarantee that they would not be re-eXported to bel ligerents already has come by cable, a statement of conditions imposed to follow by mail.
 Pressure of American demands for Russian products, particularly hides and vetch seed, prompted the request that the conditions be cabled
 An early report is expected from Commercial Attache Baker at Petro- grad on Russian shipping conditions. Baker has Just completed a trip to Archangel, the only Russian port in Europe now open to commerce. which virtually has been monopolized for military purposes. Negotiations to re- lieve the congestion there probably will follow resumption of trade with the United States.