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Imperial Valley press., 1915-06-04

Choice Aprcots for sale at 2 cents
per pound, in 40-pound lots or over
Viii deliver Il Centre OF Imperial
Phone Imperial e0Fi-4, He7eaer
ranch. 2 miles southeast Of ImPe-
r:ai-Adv, 81
Imperial Valley press., 1915-06-04

in the Superior Court of the Stat
Of California, III and for the Count
Of Imperial.
Imperial Valley press., 1915-06-04
GARDEN FaIfY

Saturday, June 5, afternoon and e'en-
ing, at Fishers Summer Garden, pene-
fit Christian church. Everybody III
~-;ted. State street, perweez roaIrn and
Tiftn.-Ad-- 81
Imperial Valley press., 1915-06-04
CHI AND VALE y

Bringing - oogs-Tne Psc:11::>
Lan6 and Cattle Company last weel
brought 70 rIe vaiiey 800 nead e nogc
foc fatten;ng.
K X *
The F;t' Toa;ght-At the Iheatr:
Tulane tonight wilt pe presented The
Fit, & story OF the Chicago grain
market. This presentation IS knovn
as Wilton Lackaye's greatest stage
triumph
Imperial Valley press., 1915-06-04

Bring the children TO the GardeE
Party; SATURDAY,. Fishers, State be
tween Fourth and Fifth Auspices
Christian cnarch.-Ad~. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1915-06-04
MARRIAGE LICENSE

Raymond ". Boyd, %, and Maran-
da McKinney. eotn are residents Of
Frawiey.
Imperial Valley press., 1915-06-04

Mr. msted has Of the weeks Creditors Sale
1t Saturday Thanks the
people Imperial Valley raised the sufficient
his creditors complete
make final everything for the
days hcv Of tne greatest held
-rper:a. Va1ey.
Imperial Valley press., 1915-06-04

Keep On o1E-ing Waigath's ice
Cream-Ad-. X36
Imperial Valley press., 1915-06-04

Modern t-o-room Housekeeping
apartments, e52 Commercial ca
Royce.--Aov.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-07-09
IRON MOLDERS STRIKE

ST. PAUL, Minn.-The village of
Shakopee, near here, is attracting
statewide attention because of an
iron molders' strike against the Min
nesota Stove company, which has re-
fused to live up to agreements made
with these workers. The company
discharged the chairman of the griev-
ance committee and forwarded this
unique letter to the unionist in de
fense of its action we understand
you are getting ready to market a
stove which will be in competition
with us, and we therefore do not see
how we can consistently continue
you in our employ. We regret losing
your services but under the circum-
stances do not see how we can do
otherwise
The union denied the charge and
offered to submit evidence to this eff
feet, but the company answered, He
is discharged and that settles it."
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-07-09
MAINE UNIONISTS ADVANCE

AUGUSTA, Me.-In his report to
the Maine federation of labor conyen-
tion, Secretary Donnelly called atten-
tion to the few labor laws on the state
statute books when the first annual
convention was held in this city in
1908 Since then many advances have
been made, the most important being
the 54-hour law direct primary, iui-
tiative and referendum, trustee eX-
emption, making it a crime to adyer-
tse for labor when a strike is on
without stating the fact, workmen's $
compensation act, and provisions reg
ulating the department Of labor.
The 54-hour law, passed by the last
legislature, Will be referred to the
referendum, if present plans Of hos
tile employers are successful The
convention declared the purpose Of
this move is to delay enforcement of
the new law just as long as possible
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-07-09
WHAT rs "A PREVAILING
RATE?"

ST. LOUIS, Mo.-Trade unionists
are having trouble with officials over
the enforcement of laws regulating
wages of municipal employees. The
city charter provides that the pre-
vailing rate of wages" shall be paid,
and the common council, known as
the municipal assembly last Decem-
Der passed an ordinance providing
that union wage scales shall be the
prevailing rates in trades or callings
that have been unionized.
For the purpose of enforcing this
ordinance, officers charged with the
employment of mechanics and labor
ers, were authorized to report to and
make inquiry of the executive officers
of such organized labor unions and to
fix from time to time the rate of
wages to be paid to such mechanics
or laborers employed by the city so
ascertained to be the prevailing rate
among members of such unions"
To the average citizen, these dec
larations seem sufficiently plain that
it was the intention to pay the union
wage rate to city employees following
a trade or calling that was unionized,
But certain officials are not so sure,
and with a wisdom that befits hair
splitting judges they insist that the
term prevailing rate" means the
average wage of union man during
the year, and not the wage he re-
ceives from hour to hour or day to
day.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-07-09
WANT WAGE LAW ENFORCED

DETROIT.-In the suit started by
the Detroit federation of labor to
compel municipal officials to obey the
minimum wage law approved at the
last city charter election, trade union
lists are afforded an opportunity to
compare the working of wage-by-law
with methods employed by their labor
organizations.
By the largest majority ever given
a city charter amendment the people
approved a minimum wage and an
eight-hour day for municipal laborers.
City officials have refused to obey
the mandate and the city attorney
presents the strange spectacle of de-
Tending this violation in a suit start
ed by the unionists, who have secured
counsel and are now raising funds to
compel the authorities to obey the
law.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-07-09
(By E. P. Marsh, President Washing
ton State Federation of Labor)

Which plays the more important
part in securing remedial labor con
ditions, the activities of labor upon
the industrial field or upon the po
litical?
It's a noft asked question and vigor'
GUS hackers can be found for each
contention.
The industrialist says: "You send
your lobbyists down to Olympia to
grovel before a lot of contemptuous
legislators. They throw you crumb
or two each session, Your laws run
the gauntlet of the courts and those
that escape the law sharks KEEP you
busy the rest of your natural lives
trying to get them enforced Build
up your unions to point where you
can make your labor conditions ON
THE JOB and you'll be indiffer-
ent to lawmakers. ."-(Cries of Hear!
Hear!')
Now comes the other fellow to bat.
Listen to him. GO ahead. Build up
your strong union" What happens to
them when they go on strike? Some
judge issues an injunction against
them. If they violate it the boys go
to Jail. If they show resistance to
tyranny as the Colorado miners did,
they bury the charred remains of
their women and children. Your
strong" unions, such as your rail
road brotherhods, were not strong
enough to prevent a most vicious at
tack in the legislature last winter
upon their dearly priced full crew.
law. All because for all your strong
unions you neglect to send men of
your own class to make your laws,
elect men of your own class to enforce
them and administer the various af-
fairs of government. Get off your
foot."
Placed before you in a crude way
is the meat of the argument on both
sides. What do you thing about it?
I'll tell you my conclusions. Were
to have the choice of only ONE
weapon with which to fight labor's
battles, I'd take the Industrial Why?
Because l believe thoroughly in organ
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-07-09
ROCKEFELLER is GENEROUS

NEW YORK, - Colorado miners
who have been victimized by company
checkweighmen will be interested in
the announcement that the general
education board a Rockefeller insti-
tuition, has appropriated $596,650 for
educational purposes. The board
states that several new lines of edu-
cational activity have been inaugur-
ated 1t has resolved to enter the
field of education investigation, re
search and experiment, by assisting
research workers connected with in
supplying Independent investigators
and experiments
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-07-09
NATIONAL WOMEN S TRADE
UNION LEAGUE OF
AMERICA

The continual demand for women
organizers in America has prompted
the above association to establish
training schools for women organiz-
ers. The syllabus includes field work,
organization work, administrative
work. class room work, public speak
ing, records and reports, correspond
ence and library, etc. The number Of
students who have already Joined the
courses and the number of prospec-
tive students is sufficient proof of the
need of such a school The head
quarters of the league are in Chicago
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-07-09
By JOHN D. BARRY

Some time ago a lawyer told me OF
an experience that l thought amusing
He saw no humor in it, however. AS
he spoke he showed a good deal of
bitter feeling.
81 went down to the country little
while ago on a railroad case" he be-
gan Then he told me something
about the case. He was against the
railroad and he had for associate a
distinguished attorney.
when we got down there" he said,
Eve were having everything our own
way 1t happened that on the other
side there was well-known man that
lived near by, very delightful and
a very rich old gentleman. When
the noon recess was called the old
gentleman invited my associate and
myself to go to luncheon with him.
made an excuse. So did my associate.
But the old gentleman insisted
There's no place in this one-horse
town." he said, where you can get
anything fit to eat" Finally my as
sociate was won over Then, of
course, I had to go, too, or seem to
be unappreciative and disagreeable.
The luncheon proved to be far more
elaborate than even that rich man
,rpI,ld ,,e,,olI,, bovo surnootod tbo+
it had been specially prepared We
started with cocktails, we went
through several courses and we topped
off with liqueurs and with expensive
cigars. During the whole proceeding
was very uneasy. for I saw that my
associate was thawing out under all
this geniality. 1t happened that it
was he who was to conduct the exam
nation of the witnesses that after
men, with attractive manners and
suave address, and our genial host
noon, and among the Witnesses We're
two guests at that table both railroad
was himself to be called to the stand.
When we went back we were all on
the best of terms. No one to see us.
talking and laughing, with cigars in
our mouths, could have suspected that
we belonged TO two camps. The re
suit Of all this geniality was that
when those three witnesses were call
ed to the stand my associate treated
them with such respect that he got
virtually nothing out of them There
were several searching personal ques-
tions that he ought to have asked
questions that would have made those
men very uncomfortable; but he didn't
ask them. Consequently our case was
seriously injured. We lost But for
the handling of those witnesses I be-
lieve that we should have had an easy
victory"
We have lately been hearing a good
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-07-09
Organize or Legislate (which?

, ization at the very heart of mans
activities and that heart is the place
where man by the sweat of his brow
earns his bread. The fundamental
mart of a mans life is his source OF
food. shelter and clothing and it is
there where his material interest
beats most strongly. How men differ
over politics. Divide and sub-divide
into schools of political thought and
quarrel over the use of political
means. But did you ever notice that
there are certain recognized laws un-
derlying trade unionism, certain well
defined courses of action, upon which
conservatives, radicals and "in-be-
tweens" absolutely agree?
But I'm one of these kind of nuts.
| won't despise legislative action if it
will put little butter on my bread.
The fellow that carries punch in
either hand is the fellow you want to
loow out for in the squared circle.
Legislation may be all that is claimed
for it by the simon pure industrialist
But it has still brought modicum of
blessing into cheerless homes. How
many thousands of men in this state
since October 1st, 1911, have received
back from society a tithe of that
which they gave because of the Com
pensation Act, who under the old
archaic system of treating injuries
would never have received one penny,
perhaps become wards of the state?
The willingness of the trade union
movement to work patiently along
legislative lines has accomplished
something else 1t has many men
and women of humanitarian instinct,
who, because of their utter lack of
knowledge of the basic reason for
strikes, lockouts, picketing, etc, were
unsympathetic, warm, fast friends of
trade unionsm. Study brought under
standing and they studied because
they reasoned there must be some
underlying good in movement which
worked along the lines they knew
something about.
What's the answer? Don't neglect
either arm of the labor body. That
has been the policy of the State Fed
Grafton and will continue to be so,
| imagine, for some time to come.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-07-09
Visitor From East Says Everett is
"Livest Town." Etc.--His Own
Hometown Better--for the Bosses

investigation into the average annual
wage of the same employees But, be-
ing careful, businesslike survey, to
furnish prospective investors accurate
information as to their probable pro-
fits, we presume the matter of wages
is also considered.
However, it needs no elaborate sta
tistical data to convince the workers
employed in Minneapolis factories
that they do not receive a wage of
$6,140 per year. Very few of the we'll
organized, highly skilled workers get
more than SOC per hour. At this scale
with an eight-hour day, six-day week
and no periods of unemployment, the
yearly wage would be only S1,249,
leaving a surplus of $4S92 as profits
for the boss. But when we take into
consideration the large number of un-
organized workers whose wages hover
around the $500 point and the thou
sands of women and girls working for
$500 and $500 a week and even less,
We realize that the annual average
wage of these workers who produce
$6,140 each and every year, must lie
considerably below $1,000, which
means that on the average Mnnea-
polls workers produce a surplus of
over $4,000 for their employers.
The City That Makes Good.
Yes, Minneapolis is certainly the
city that makes good. But of all the
elements in Minneapolis that make
good, the working people have every
body skinned a hundred miles. The
workers of Minneapolis make good
but not for themselves, They make
good fortunes for their employers.
They live in poverty. They make
beautiful homes on stately bouleyards,
they live in suburban shacks far from
city improvements. They create
beautiful and admired park system,
their children play in the streets and
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-07-09
BIG LOCOMOTIVE ORDER

PHILADELPHIA of the
Baldwin locomotive works have con-
firmed the statement that this con-
Germ has received an order for $50
locomotives from the Russian govern
ment. This is the largest order ever
received by an American locomotive
plant. The order involves $6,O0O000,
and amounts to nearly one-half of the
business done by the Baldwin COM
pany last year
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-07-09
TO THE UNION MAN

Hail to the union man who sticks
And sticks when times are hard
Stands up straight for a principle
Stands by his union card.
If he sticks when things are darkest
blue
He proves his own true worth
When he stands up strong and firm
and true
He's a part of the salt of the earth.
Hail to the union man who sticks
And sticks the whole year round
He may not amount to much himself
But his principles are sound.
BY a Lincoln, Neb, Union Man.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-07-09
The Danger of Sympathy

deal of criticism of judges. once
judges were immune from criticism.
In the change many people profess to
believe there is grave danger.
Judges, as a rule, are very impressive
men. OF course those in the lower
courts are sometimes common place
enough. I have heard them speak un-
dramatically. have seen them
chewing tobacco. But somehow these
very habits make them seem close to
the people they judge. In observing
them I have had the feeling that per-
haps they were as good judges as
could be found. If they were far
away from the everyday people there
might be no genuine sympathy be-
tween the delinquents and themselves.
The judges in the higher courts are
much more impressive. Nearly al
ways they are men of great dignity.
When they wear robes it is fine to
see them at court. No actors could
carry themselves more effectively.
And as they take their places on the
bench, they sometimes seem almost
to turn to granite. In one sense they
seem more than human. In another
sense, they seem less than human
Often they look like noble statues.
When people approach these judges
it is always with the Difference that
might be paid to a king or to a god.
Nevertheless, l have seen those
granite men talking And have seen
them become flesh and blood and un-
bend And nearly always such
change has taken place in the pres
ence of men like themselves, we'll
dressed, dignified, the men sometimes
described as pillars Of society.
1t is plain that between dignified
judges and men of wealth and dignity
there is a strong bond OF sympathy
1t is only lately that We have reaIiz-
ed the danger Of this sympathy. For
we know that the sympathy of even
the higher judges should be with all
the people, not merely with those like
themselves, but with the nIiterate as
we'll, the ill-clad. the grimy the vast
majority
We know that where there is sym
Dathy with one kind of people and lack
of sympathy with another kind Of
people there is likely to be fayoriusm.
Unfairness.
Lately the public Consciousness Of
this danger has been so vigorously ex-
pressed that some good people con
slider the noise positively scandalous.
Even President Taft, representative
of the whole people is shocked The
millions, expressing their conscious
ness, which include the illiterate, the
grimy, and the ill-clad, he calls the
mob"
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-07-09
ORGANIZED FARMERS
SCORE ROCKEFELLER

Tumwater, Wash, June 81, 1915.
To the Governor of Colorado and E. p
Marsh, President of the Washing
ton State Federation of Labor:
Dear Sirs: By action of the Wash
ington State Grange in convention as
sembled at Centralia, June 1, 1915, the
following resolution was adopted and
as per instruction l herewith trans
nit a copy to you:
FRED w. LEWIS,
Secretary Washington State Grange.
Whereas, A man has been convicted
of murder and sentenced to life i'm
prisonment in the State of Colorado,
who was many miles away when the
act was done, and
Whereas, Many more men are
awaiting trial on the same charge of
resisting wholesale murder of their
women and children by gunner en-
ployed by the Colorado Fuel & Iron
Co, and condoned in by the governor
and the legislature of that state
Therefore Be 1t Resolved, By the
Washington State Grange in regular
session assembled at Centralia, Wash,
this 2nd day of June, 1915, that we
believe that Colorado should be
moved and annexed to Mexico as such
would better become the actions of
Mexico than of civilized land
And, on the same basis of reason
ing we demand that the governor and
courts of the State of Colorado secure
the eXtradtion of John d. Rockefeller,
JJr., who is just as guilty of murder by
the same reasoning, as John Lawson.
We direct that a copy of these
resolutions be sent to the governor of
the State of Colorado and to f. P.
Marsh, president of the Washington
State Federation of Labor, to be trans
mitted by him to the labor officials of
Colorado
Adopted by Belfast Grange No. 543,
and by it referred to the State Grange
for its action.
Adopted by vote of the State Grange
June 2, 1915.
FRED w. LEWIS,
Secretary Washington State Grange
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-07-09
WANT JUDGES APPOINTED

ALBANY, N. Y.-Former President
Taft maintained his position of oppo-
sition to the peoples rule before the
judiciary committee of the constitu-
tional convention, which was urged
to favor the appointment of judges,
instead of electing them. Mr., Taft
believes this will remove judges
from politics" He is not in sympathy
with primary elections, either.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-07-09
TRADE UNIONS

FOSTER EDUCATION AND UPROOT IGNORANCE.
SHORTEN HOURS AND LENGTHEN LIFE
RAISE WAGES AND LOWER USURY.
INCREASE INDEPENDENCE AND DECREASE DEPENDENCE.
DEVELOP MANHOOD AND BALK TYRANNY.
ESTABLISH FRATERNITY DISCOURAGE SELFISHNESS
REDUCE PREJUDICE AND INDUCE LBERALTY
ENLARGE SOCIETY ELIMINATE
CREATE RIGHTS AND ABOLISH WRONGS
LIGHTEN TOLL AND BRIGHTEN
MAKE THE WORLD BETTER
All workers should be union Their progress
limited only by them who hold aloof together agi-
tate, educate and do.
Don walt until tomorrow; tomorrow
Don wait for else start it yourself
Don hearken to the Indifferent wake them up
Don't think impossible million organized prove
different.
Don weaken persistence wins.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-07-09

The seed ye SOW another reaps;
The wealth ye find another keeps;
The robes ye weave another wears
The arms ye forge another bears.
Sow seed, but let no tyrant reap;
Find wealth-let no imposter heap;
Weave robes-let not the idle wear
Forge arms in your defense to bear
=. b. Shelley
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-07-09
ANSWERS OWN QUESTION

SAN FRANCISCO.-T question is
asked and answered by the Evening
Bulletins editor:
How many great strikes have there
been in the United States in which the
employers honestly tried to show the
employees that they were 'on the
squares? Not one, From Homestead
to Las Animas, not one"
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-07-09

Germany explains that she torpe-
doed the Gulflight by mistake" 1t
is to prevent errors like this that
the international law requires that
ships shall be boarded and examined
before being sunk. - Philadelphia
North American.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-07-09
BREWERS HIRE SLUGGERS? ?

WILMINGTON, Del-Trade union
lists charge that sluggers are employ
ed by the brewery companies to in
timidate pickets. The brewery work
ers have been on strike several weeks
rather than accept the non-union shop.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-07-09

Legislation with regard to labor
has almost always been class legis-
lation. 1t is the effort of some dom
inant body to keep down a lower
class. Prof W. Stanley Jevons
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-07-09

In an address on the evils of tu-
berculosis, Secretary Torslef, of the
Maine Anti-Tuberculosis association,
declared:
1--WE think war is awful, but all the
wars of history cannot show a death
list equal to tuberculosis. The speak
er said this nations losses in the Civil
War were much less than the deaths
by tuberculosis.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-07-09

Won BuloW says he made an earn
est effort "to bring Italy and Austria
together" He succeeded. Nashville
Southern Lumberman.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-07-09

If a great thing can be done at ALL
it can be done easily. But 1t is that
kind of ease with which tree bios
SONS after long years of gathering
strength. .--Ruskin.