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The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-11-05
TO ORGANIZED LABOR
Portland, Ore, Sept. Is, 1915

Portland, Ore, Sept Is, 1915
To All Lodges of the I. A. of M.
Dear Sirs and Brothers-We desire
| to call your attention to the policy
of the COIN MACHINE MANUFAC-
TURING CO., of Portland Ore, in re-
gard to the I. A. of M. We have tried
for some time to induce this company
to do their work with union machin-
lists. Out of two hundred employees
the best we could get was five union
men, and due to a change in man
agement, they were let out three
months ago.
The wages have been cut; in fact,
our minimum wage was never paid
except to the few Of our men who
worked there.
AS there is no chance for further
negotiations at this time, the Coin
Manufacturing Co. is placed on the
UNFAIR LIST by Willamette Lodge
No 60, I. A. of M
This company is Just starting the
manufacture of a number of auto
matte machines, which if sold or
leased, will be used in Moving Picture
shows, baseball and amusement
parks. street car service, etc. Some
of the automatic turnstiles made by
this company are now in use in base
ball and amusement parks through
out the country on lease basis.
AS these machines depend upon the
patronage of the working class, it is
necessary that we start at once to
keep them from being installed in the
various places of amusement, and to
warn our members not to advocate
or purchase any stock that may be
offered for sale by the Coin Machine
Mfg. Co.
The following machines are pro-
ducts of this company:
Potter Coin Machines,
Potter Pay-As- Y ou-Enter,
Potter Automatic Turnstiles,
Automatic Change Maker.
We earnestly request you to look
up the representative of this company
in your locality, and any attempt to
install these machines should be TAX
en- up at once, and called to the at
tention of the Central Labor and
Building Trades Councils.
Any other information will be glad
ly furnished by this Lodge.
Thanking you in advance for your
assistance, we are,
]. w. MILLER,
Recording Sec'y.
Executive Board: o B. Raser, A. G.
Feyerabend, L. Cruikshank. J. w.
Marriott, A. L. Hershey.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-11-05
GERMER MAKES FUN
OF ROCKEFELLER

In an address to several hundred in
the auditorium of the Labor Temple
last Sunday afternoon, Adolph Ger
mer, international board member OF
the United Mine Workers of America,
and national executive committeeman
Of the Socialist party, ridiculed the
pretensions to consideration for his
employees made by the younger Rookie
Teller and incidentally told his audi
tors the principles OF modern social
ism.
Germer is on his way to San Fran
cisco to attend the American Fedora
ton of Labor convention. He spent
several days in Seattle and vicinity
speaking in various places.-Seattle
Union Record.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-11-05
Rockefeller Plan Would
Fit Children

DENVER. - The Rockefeller plan
of settling disputes with employees
might be feasible if these workers
were children, but to grown men the
scheme is repugnant. This is the
verdict of a committee representing
the international executive board,
United Mine Workers of America,
now in charge of Colorado affairs.
The committee says:
THE calm assurance on the part of
the company that the results of the
joint conference was foregone con-
clusion speaks eloquently of their
firm conviction that the plan to
work at all, must work in harmony
with their desires.
"The great fundamental principles
of industrial democracy and the right
of collective bargaining, which alone
can guarantee to the Colorado worker
his civil and political liberties, have
no place in the document that has
been so deliberately prepared by Mr.,
Rockefeller and his associates, for
the future guidance of his silent and
apparently non-consulted partners in
the mining camps of Southern Colo
RADIO.
"The plan fails to provide for meet
ings or conventions of the miners eX-
cept locally, and by doing SO insures
company domination of it's workings.
"All meetings except local mine
meetings are to be joint meetings
where the company will have equal
representation, thus eliminating the
danger of the collective action that
might result if the men from several
mines met together free from COM
pany influence
"The evils that are fundamental
will be eradicated when the men are
represented by a labor organization
powerful enough to compel recogni-
ton of the industrial, political and
civic rights of it's members, and cap
able of writing these principles into
the joint agreement along with the
rights claimed by the employer.
Had the employees of the Colorado
Fuel & Iron company been so many
children of tender age, the paternal
control they seek to exercise through
the medium of the plan would be
proper; to grown men Of independent
| thought in a nation that boasts of
it's free institutions, it cannot be 9TH
err than repugnant.
"a certain degree of social better
ment is poor substitute for the
privileges that can only be secured
through industrial democracy and
collective action ON the part of the
wage workers"
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-11-05
SOMETHING TO MIND"

The merchant who does not adver-
tise at all may or may not be your
friend, fellow worker, but it is fore
gone conclusion that he who literally
patronizes the columns of all other
papers and refuses to advertise in the
labor paper, is not looking for the
workingman's patronage, does not
wish it, and is not DESTROYS of your
friendship.-Ex.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-11-05
THE REAL ISSUE

But what's the difference whether
the $200,000,000 a year is handed to
the wage-slaves to give over to the
landlords, or kept back out of their
wages by the manufacturers, contrac-
tors ct al? In no case would the
workers get more than the cost of
their keep" so what's the difference
how low or how high the cost of liy-
ing runs? Wages follow the curve of
the cost of living, and it is the bust
ness of wage earners to organize on
the Job in order to secure as high
standard of living as united action can
command.
1t was just as difficult for the wage
Garner to obtain the cost of his keep"
when the cost of living was 40 per
cent. lower than it is now, as it is to
keep up a living wage-scale now.
Whatever the average standard of liv-
ing is in a locality, whatever the cost
of living may happen to be at any
given time or place, there are always
numerous jobless workers ready to
compete for the chance to exc out
bare existence at wages below a nor
nal subsistence standard.
Progressive degeneration of the
working class, the world over, will
inevitably continue so long as the
capitalist system of production for
profit instead of for use, continues.
There is no escape. But the automat-
ic process of lowering the workers
standard of living can be retarded by
organization of the wage earners into
unions, for mutual defense, and for
mutual aid. In some skilled trades,
where the machine has not yet be-
come a successful competitor, wages
may be forced up above the average
standard workers cost-of-living basis,
for a time, at least Also by organ
lied effort, workers in almost any
field of work can improve conditions.
1t is up to every man and woman
who works for wages to join the union
of his or her trade, or profession, so
as to be able to put up solid fighting
front to the enemy-the employing
class, whose own competitive strug-
giles force them, in turn, to buy their
supply of labor-power wherever 1T
can be had cheapest, without regard
to the effects on the workers them
selves.
In case of monopolized industries,
the wages are forced downward by
the employers just for the love of
big profits; and the workers are, in
many cases, helpless against organ
lied capital, backed up as it is by the
bosses political control of city, coun-
ty, state and nation. (The political
power being freely given over to the
employing class by the workers them
selves, every election dayD
The only logical conclusion to be
derived from the history of working
class struggles is that wage-earners
must vote together as they strike to-
gether, remembering that the class
struggle Is on at the ballot box as well
as at the shop, mill, mine or factory.
They should vote not for good men,"
but for working-class political power,
working-class political control of the
municipal, state and federal govern
ments, to the end that they may pro
tect their interests through both their
industrial and their political power.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-11-05
Prepare for War

AS matters are now being shaped
by the masters of this nation it is
time for the people of the nation to
prepare themselves for the inevitable
entrance of this government into the
present European war. The United
States as nation is certain to take
the side of the allies, and place Amer
lean soldiers in the trenches along
side the Hindoos, Singalese and 9th
er alien soldiers of France and Eng
land. 1t is as sure as the flow of the
tide, and, being sure the American
working class might just as well be-
gin now to prepare for it.
1t is time for the mothers to pre-
pare to have their sons, for whose
lives they entered the valley of death,
lit rotting upon the battlefields of
Europe
Prepare to tell your wives, you
working-class husbands, that you,
who vowed to love, cherish and pro-
tect" them, will soon be following the
PATH OF GLORY that leads to the
grave.
Tell your mothers now, you sons of
working-class women, that all their
suffering and privation, all their
dreams and hopes for you have been
in vain.
For a year this nation has been
engaged in the European war, on the
side of the Allies. And that, too,
without a formal declaration of war.
No formal declaration was made, for
the very simple reason that it best
suited the masters of the nation and
their interests that no such declara-
ton be made No declaration was
necessary when their part was but
to supply the food and the munitions.
The men have not yet been called
for More profit to the masters was
in sight for the time being, if Amer
| lean workers could be kept at home
to produce the materials for the mas
tiers to sell in Europe. If many men
we sent to Europe, there would not
be so many unemployed, and those
who had jobs might take it into their
minds to demand larger wage. That
would have interferred somewhat
with the profits of the masters.
| Now comes loan commission" to
complete at least a half-billion dollar
loan. A half-billion dollars that has
been wrung from the productive en-
terprise of American workingmen, to
be loaned to pay for the wholesale
murders of Europe. What will those
French and English bonds be worth
| if France and England do not win
this war? About as much as the ink
| it required to print them.
There is but one possible chance
for the patriots" who are so nobly
coming to the rescue of the hard
pressed allies, to cash in their bonds,
and that is through the success of the
allies.
AS sure as that half-billion dollar
loan is made, American working men
are going to be put into the trenches
of Europe, to insure the success of
those nations who owe the money to
the American plutocrats. American
wives will be widowed; American
children will be orphaned; American
lives will be sacrificed, that few
dirty dollars of our masters may be
protected. And when that time comes,
remember you workingmen, that it
is your votes, and yours only, that
have made it possible. You will pay
for your blindness and stupidity with
your own blood, and with the tears
of your wives and children.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-11-05
TOUGH WORK

Flatbush-I see that during the %
years from 1890 to 1912, inclusive,
1882 deaths were reported on Amer
lean railways.
Bensonhurst-Won If trying to
open the windows had anything to do
with the number Yonkers States
man.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-11-05
TRADES
COUNCIL
N E w S

Credentials were received from the
I. B. of E. w, Local Union No, 1911,
for Brothers Sam Roberts and Ben
Mueller to represent that body as del
egates to the Council, succeeding
Bros. Jno, Erland and H. Donohoe,
resigned. They were duly seated.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-11-05

Massachusetts House Of Represen-
tatives has passed a bill which pro-
vides that every workman, mechanic
and laborer employed by the state
shall have a half holiday every week.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-11-05

Brother Sam Roberts was unani-
mously elected a member Of the Labor
Journal board of control, succeeding
Brother Erland, resigned.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-11-05

Attorney Loutitt was a guest of the
Council and gave an interesting and
instructive talk relating to the form
ing OF Labor Journal corporation,
which step the Council contemplates
taking.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-11-05

Carnival Committee reported that
all arrangements had been completed
with the Carnival company for the
big street shows.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-11-05

Ben. Johnston, plumber, and house
on 4002 Colby Ave. were also ordered
placed on the unfair list, by request
of the Building Trade Council.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-11-05

A communication was received from
the Building Trades Council request
ing that contractors Morgan and Ban
croft be placed on the unfair list of
the Labor Journal. Request granted
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-11-05

Suit Cases, Bags, Repairing. Ever
EFT Trunk Factory, 2s15 Rockefeller.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-11-05

Why pay $500 for pictures you can
buy at Juleen's Studio for $500?
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1915-11-19
COUNTY NEWS.
WHITING.

Mrs. j. Warner of Winsted, Conn, is
visiting her parents, Mr.. and Mrs G. T.
Mason. also her sister, Mrs. j. NJ. Stick
ney.
Rev. Mr.. Stannard of Weybridge will
exchange with j. p. Hoyt Sunday, No
vember 81. There will be communion
service.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. G. Freegard are enter
tanning friends from Westport, N. Y.
Mrs. Herbert Leslie and little daugh-
ter, Iris, are visiting in Healdville.
Rev. E. f. Knapp and wife of Wash
ington have accepted a call from the
Baptist church and will begin their
labors here Sunday, November 81.
The Grange meeting Tuesday evening
was election of officers. The following
were elected: Master, II r. Wells
overseer, E. p. Waite; lecturer. Mrs. r,
N. Wooster; steward, c. B. Hubbard
assistant steward, G. r. Brown; chap
lain. Mrs. L. A.. Webster; treasurer, w
Sem; secretary, Mrs. Peter Aines; gate
keeper, Wilbur Lewis; Ceres, Mrs. H.
r. Wells; Pomona, Miss Maud Webster
Flora, Miss Beth Delano. Deputy G..
Bump was present at this meeting and
made suggestions for the good of the
order
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1915-11-19
ORWELL.

Miss Mary Barber, who is in the Moses
hospital in Ticonderoga recovering from
an operation for appendicitis, is gaining
rapidly.
Mrs. Frank Achampaugh of Dalton,
Mass, who has been for a week in town
visiting friends, left on Monday for
Moors, N. Y, enroute for Minneapolis,
Mimi, where she expects to spend the
winter with her daughter, Mrs. John
Wood.
Mrs. Myrtle Wilcox goes this week to
New York city to spend the winter with
her daughter, Miss Ruth.
Leon Catlin underwent a successful
operation for appendicitis at the Moses
hospital in Ticonderoga on Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Moore of Fair
Haven were guests on Saturday and
Sunday at C. E. Blackmer's and G. E.
Walkers.
Louis Boulia is in Forestdale to try his
luck with the deer.
There is but little change in the condi-
ton of William Nickerson, who has been
critically i'll for the past two weeks.
Allen Bishop and Warren Kimberley
went Monday to Rochester deer hunting.
VII. anu WIS OOIH NlChtIoOh VI IL
bany, N. Y, who were called here last
week by the serious illness of Mr.. Nick
erson's father, William Nickerson, have
returned.
There was an enjoyable whist party at
Foresters' hall on Wednesday evening,
the ladies of ST. Paul's church furnishing
the supper. On Tuesday evening, No
vember 23, a second whist party will be
held at the same place. This time the
gentlemen of the parish will furnish the
refreshments
The hours of service at ST. Pauls
church are as follows: The first and
thiri Sundays of the month service
begins at $50 p. M; the second and
fourth Sundays at II 10 p. m.
Miss Mary Williams ven on Saturday
of last week to Rutland to spend a few
days with her friend, Mrs John viii
liams. From there she will go to Water
ford, n. Y. to visit her sister, Mrs. 5. c
Bull.
Mrs. r s. Hall and Mrs. G. w. Bod
fish attended the 4Sth annual meeting of
the Woman's Board of Missions held in
Burlington on Thursday of last week.
MIR. and Mrs. c. f. Walker were in
Burlington on Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles n. Ladd and son,
Earl, and Mr.. and Mis-. Thomas Bareor
spent Thursday OF last week in Middle
town Springs, making the trip in Mr..
Ladd's car.
Mrs. Joseph Todriff of Shoreham Cen
ter il for a week with her parents, Mr.,
and Mrs. William Cassavaugh.
c. j. Blair motored to Dandy on Sun
day.
Mrs. Eva Cuts and Miss Alice Warren
went to Rutland Tuesday evening to at
tend "The Garden of Allah"
Three deer were shot in the Pond
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1915-11-19
WEVURiO0k.

The Agricultural Extension school
will give sessions here for five days
commencing Monday, November 20,
under the auspices of the Weybridge
Farmers club. 1t is expected that at
least four experts will be in attend
ance.
While Charles M. Baker was working
in his barn last Monday morning a board
he was sitting on broke suddenly letting
HIM fall to the floor below. In endeavor-
ing to save himself he wrenched his
arm badly and a nail deeply penetrated
his right hand.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. A.. Boies were the
guests of Mrs. Winona Shaw in Middle
bury last Saturday.
H. A. Boies has sold his new Dodge
Brothers automobile to B. o. Wales.
State Superintendent of Education
Mason S. Stone and the local superin-
tendent, Prof. Eddy, held a well attend
ed meeting at the town hall Wednes-
day evening, speaking On the better
ment of rural schools.
j. S. Shaw returned home last Fri
day evening from his trip to Benning-
ton
Many of our local hunters have gone
to different places hunting for deer.
At this writing seven have been sue
cessful in bringing home a deer.
A little daughter arrived at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. II. C.. Johnson last
Sunday morning.
A. r. Warner and son, Harry, Sc
cured two fine bucks Tuesday.
Stowell Dewey has gone to Rochester
on a hunting trip.
w. T. Sturtevant, C. f. Fiske, Fred
Roscoe and H. A. Boies brought home
a fine deer Tuesday.
Rev. Mr.. Gauthie, w. II. Hall, Viii
Hier and George HER secured the first
deer to come to town Monday.
Madam Sneeden of Waltham is visit.
ing Mrs. Dewey.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1915-11-19
LARGE FACULTY. ONE TEACHER FOR EVERY TWENTY PUPILS

woods on Monday. Clarence Fish, Ceci
Goodrich and Ned O'Shea were the
skilled hunters.
The meeting of the Woman's Mission
airy society, held on Friday of last week
at the Ladies rooms with Mrs. Cornelis
Cults, was well attended. Mrs. Marion
Wells Woodward is a most earnest and
entertaining speaker and her talk was
full of interest.
George NJ. Wright of New York is fol
a few days at his home here.
The public telephone pay station is tC
be moved within a few days from Eagle
Inn to the post office.
Mrs. w. II. Wright of Brandon was a
weekend guest of Mrs. Amanda Warren
and daughters.
Miss Vella Mallory has returned from
her home in Sudbury and has resumed
her duties in the telephone exchange.
Miss Anna Young has resigned her
position in the First National bank
Otis S. Wisell is assisting in the bank
during the forenoons.
The condition of Thomas Clark. whose
illness was mentioned last week, does
not improve.
Miss Lena Needham was home from
Brandon over Sunday.
The schools in town close on Friday OF
this week for the Thanksgiving recess OF
one week.
Rollin c. Brown was in Albany on
Saturday of last week to witness the
football game between T. {. a. ano
Albany High school.
Special Thanksgiving services will be
held at the Congregational church Thurs
day evening, November 25. at 1913.
The wiring of st. Paul's church anc
rectory has been completed and bott
buildings are o ready for the electri'
current.
NJ. j. Sullivan has purchased a worl
team of Kenneth Cook Of Shoreham.
Preparations are already being mad
for the Christmas tree and entertainment
for the children of St. Paurs parish to b'
held il the Foresters' hall at the Christ
mas time. Further particulars aud tn,
exact date will be given laler.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1915-11-19
FIRST:

All the splendid instruments in
the sale are made in the factories
owned by Hartman, Peck e. Co.,
makers of the famous Hartman
the official piano of the Metropoli-
tan Opera House, New York, and
every instrumtn mt is guaranteed by
them as well as by us.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1915-11-19

The Chatham Concert Co. will give an
entertainment At the town hall on
Thursday evening. November %, under
the auspices of Independence lodge, No.
10, F. & A. NJ. This company comes
well recommended and merits 4 we'll
filled house. The entertainment will be-
gin at 8 80.
Dorus Saunders returned from Man.
chester on Monday, bringing with him a
fine deer. Word has been received that
Roy Phelps, who is attending school at
Burr and Burton Seminary in Manchas-
Ter. also has shot IA deer.
Mrs. w. b French and Miss Mabel
Grow were in Rutland Tuesday.
Mrs. Otis Wisell and Miss Mildred
Carlton spent Sunday in Poultney with
Mr.. and Mrs. II. X. Carlton.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1915-11-19
FOURTH:

No cash payment is required. You
simply pay the first weekly install
ment after you have enjoyed the
piano in your home for a week.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1915-11-19
Get Rid of Those Poisons in Your
System!

You will find DR.. Kings New Life
Pills a most satisfactory laxative in re-
leasing the poisons from your system.
Accumulated waste and poisons cause
manifold ailments unless released. Dir
illness, spots before the eyes, blackness
and a miserable feeling generally are
indications that you need DIR. Kings
New Life Pills. Take a dose tonight and
you will experience grateful relief by
morning. 25c.-adv.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1915-11-19
Coughs That Are stoppedl

Careful people see hat they are
stopped. DIR. Kings New Discovery is a
remedy of tried merit. 1t has held its
aud old age testify to It's soothing and
healing qualities. Pneumonia and lung
troubles are often caused by delay of
treatment. DIR. Kings New Discovery
stops those hacking coughs and relieves
la grippe tendencies. Money back if il
fails. SOC. and 81. 00-adv.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1915-11-19
Fl FIFTH

There are no interest charges, no
carriage charge, no tuning charge,
no extras of any sort.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1915-11-19

Alazy liver leads to chronic dyspepsia
and NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. the whole
system. Doan's ReRulets t25c per box,
act mildly on the liver and bowels. At
all drug stores.-adv.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1915-11-19

The terms are the easiest anyone
could desire-S1 so a week on the
Standard Piano, and 50 so a week
on the standard Player-Pi Piano.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1915-11-19
SECOND:

Prices are the lowest for which
these instruments have ever been
sold in Burlington.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1915-11-19

Each and every feature is covered
by a written guarantee signed by
+. Z. Clarkson & Co, and by
Hardman, Peck & Co.. and given
to each purchaser. There a he
no unfultlled promises or misun-
Outstanding. You are Thoroughly
protected.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1915-11-19
SIXTH :

Your piano is insured in your fav-
or in case you die. If all pay
ments have been kept up, the
piano becomes the property of
your family in case of your death,
without any further payments be-
ing made.