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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-01-01
Now DROPS
! DEFIANCE
J. -. ~:
Buchanan WaiGAS.E xtradi-
Ation and Wi!tGa'to New
York to flead
'....:.
'.y..S.
THEIRS GIvE::L>p
/ THE FIGHT ALSO
-. -. 80
-. -.
Marshall, Jubilant at Turn of
Affairs, Says None
Can Escape

Washington, Tan. 1.--Congressmar
Buchanan will go to New York Mon,
day or Tuesday to plead to the indict-
ment returned against him in the
Labor's Peace Council case, by agree
ment with the department OF justice
this afternoon He will furnish bail
there.
Ex-Congressman Fowler, Martin and
Schulteis, in accordance with their
agreement of yesterday, appeared be
fore United States Commissioner Tay-
Tor here this morning, They refused
to consent to an unconditional re-
moval to the New York jurisdiction,
and were released in $4,000 bail each
for hearing before Commissioner Tay-
/. lor on Jan, 20.
At the hearing, it is expected, they
will sue out writs of habeas corpus and
demand their summary release on the
ground that the charge contained in
the Indictment is not a crime. The in
dictment states that they, together
with Franz Won Rintelen, agent of the
Kaiser; David Lamar, "The Wolf of
Wall Street." and Others eonspired to
bride labor leaders to incite workers in
American arms and ammunition fac
tories to strike.
United States Attorney Fl. Snow
den Marshall when informed of the
change of front of Buchanan and his
confreres this afternoon only smiled.
"Of course, he said "there are many
steps that the conspirators may take
before finally being brought here for
trial, but their case is hopeless Their
contention that the charge contained
in the Indictment is not crime is
ridiculous.
IF they persist in these tactics they
can obtain further delays even after
their removal to this jurisdiction by
filing demurrers against the indiet-
ment, which viii waste much time.
"But such hysterical conduct win get
them nowheres. 1t will simply mean
that instead of the trial taking place
in February, 1916, as we had expected
it win go over for weeks and maybe
months"
Mr.. Marshall was fully confident that
no matter how potential their efforts
the conspirators will fail to dodge trial. 1
He said that he was not surprised at
the actions Of the men. and declared
that If the policy is pursued it can only
result in injuring their case.
The United States Attorney and his
assistant, Raymond H. Sarfaty, who
have worked on the intricate case since
last September, officially announced
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-01-01
He Deses Yuan

San Francisco, Calf, Jan. I.-General
Linshun, commanding Chinese govern
ment troops in the province Of Kisng 81,
has declared his Independents Of Yuan Shi
kai, prospective emperor, according 70 a
cablegram received here yesterday.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-01-01

Colds cause erIp-Laxative Bromo Qui-
nine removes the cause. There is only
one eBromo Quinine.- =. vs.. GROVES
signature on box. 25e.-Adv.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-05-26
$3.50 A DAY WAGE

The Federal Employees Union of
Washington, D. c., has been formed
since March 1, 1916, and is now COM
posed of about five thousand en-
ployees of the government of the
United States in the District of Co.
lumbia We are affiliated with Amer
lean Federation of Labor under Fed
eral Labor Union charter No. 1852
The organization is formed for the
purpose of improvement of the gov
ernment service and the conditions of
the government workers generally.
We hope to extend the organization
throughout the United States by the
formation of local unions in various
cities, and when these locals are suf
ficiently strong, organize them into
national federation.
Some of the specific objects of the
organization which have been sug-
gested are the protection of the work
ers from legislation inimical to their
interests, the extension of the merit
and civil service system to all govern
ment workers, the procurement of
legislation beneficial to such workers.
Saturday half-holidays throughout the
year, reclassification of salaries pro-
portionate to and based upon both the
value of work done and seniority.
proper methods and schedules of pro-
motions, including more frequent if
somewhat smaller increases in sal
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-05-26
SHINGLE WEAVERS
ADVANCE

Seattle, Wash.-Officers of the In
ternational Shingle Weavers' union
report steady gains in their effort to
enforce a wage scale adopted at their
last convention. Compared with the
past few years, shingle mills through
out the Northwest are prosperous, but
despite this fact the shingle weavers
have been forced to call numerous
strikes to remind mill owners of their
last years promise to pay the 1907
rates. The mill owners have been
pleading that the high price of logs
makes this impossible The workers
reply that flour and meat are also in
cluded in the high price list and that
wages must be increased AS the
shinPle weavers have reorganized
their union and are thoroughly united,
the employers are paying the new
rates, rather than see their mills idle.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-05-26
BOILERMAKERS ORGANIZE

Next Tuesday evening the boiler
makers of Everett will effect a per-
manent organization, at the Labor
Temple.
Brother Joseph Reed, International
Deputy Organizer, is in Everett, and
expresses himself as we'll satisfied
with the progress being made in his
work. mot only in Everett, but in
the boys are falling into line" said
Brother Reed to a Journal representa-
tive The Labor Forward movement
is sweeping the country with a wave
of enthusiasm not seen in years." he
added
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-05-26
OPEN SHOP" rs NON UNION

Duluth, Minn.-The Labor World Of
this city refuses to play the game"
Of organized labor's opponents by call
ing the union shop a CLOSED shop"
1.-TWO Duluth unions are attempt
ing" says the Labor World, ''to make
a contract with their employers for
the recognition of the union shop
Enemies of organized labor designate
this as the closed shop. They have
purpose in so characterizing the
unoin shop. The American mind is
opposed to anything that is closed.
The union shop is not closed shop;
it is the most open institution in the
world. The real closed shop is the
nOn-union shop; it is closed to work
ingmen who are members of organized
labor
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-05-26
AND SECRETARY
McAD0O HAVE FACTS IN
CASE AND POWER TO
REMEDY DEFECT
BY Basil M. Manly
Noted American Economic Investi-

Noted American Economic Investi
gator.
The evidence in the greatest case of
the country-the United States Gov
eminent VS.. the Income Tax Thieves
has now been presented.
/ YOU-the American people-are the
! jury. Your decision must now be rem
dered and your verdict enforced by
your representatives in congress and
the treasury department.
The evidence shows in brief: Eva
sion of taxes amounting in the aggre
gate to more than THREE HUN
DRIED AND TWENTY MILLION
DOLLARS. Every dollar of this enor-
nous total is NEEDED at once by the
| Federal Government to pay the cost
of those great measures of social
service which are essential for real
national efficiency If these millions
are not collected from the tax thieves
the PEOPLE -yOu-will have to pay
! at Tic dIc Vi OLA ILIJ4N DolIlJAINo
FOR EVERY AMERICAN FAMILY.
! Not only is the evidence conclusive
regarding the enormous size of these
frauds, but the IDENTITY of thieves
has in large measure been revealed.
The thieves who have stolen these
millions from the treasury are, as a
class, the same men who, for the past
quarter century, have monopolized the
! land and natural resources Of our
nation, concentrating the ownership
and control of American corporations
in the hands of a FEW, and, by mark
! ing up the prices of commodities so
that they are now nearly 100 per cent
higher than in 1896, have drained into
their own Golfers the results of Aemr-
/ ica's unparalleled productive capacity.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-05-26
u. s. Government Exploits the Workers

aries, reasonably safe and comfortable
places in which to work, protection
against oppression by unreasonable
rules and regulations, a satisfactory
retirement of the methods and sys-
TENS of annuated government en-
ployees, improvement of the methods
and systems of doing government
work, and other advantages which
we may be able to secure.
Government Niggardly
The first undertaking of the organ
mum wage law providing for not less
than SO per day for all government
employees. The hearings on this bill
have brought out the fact that the
United States is employing more than
"a third of it's workers at less than a
thousand dollars a year, and more
than a fourth at less than $S40 a year
The condition of these poorly paid
workers for the United States is
graphically set forth in the printed
hearings on this bill, which may be
obtained upon application to the con.
gressmen from the various districts
People generally suppose that govern
ment employees are the best cared
for and best paid workers in the coun-
try, but a perusal of these hearings
will readily convince them of the
error of this supposition. We expect
to distribute several thousand copies
of excerpts from these hearings at an
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-05-26
BOARD OF CONTROL
ELECTS EDITOR
BROTHER A. w. STANLEY TO
OCCUPY CHAIR

Maynard Shipley having handed i'm
his resignation, to take effect with
the publication of next weeks issue
the Board Of Control of the Labor
Journal met last Sunday i'm special
session to consider written applica-
tions for the position of editor of the
Trades Councils official organ. The
choice lay between John Worswicb,
of the Electrical Workers Union, and
A w Stanley of the Printers Union
When the ballots We're counted there
We're six for Brother Stanley and five
for Brother Worswick Now it's up
to Stanley to get out the Journal.
after the issue of June 2nd Brother
Stanley's practical experience as fore
man of the Everett Printing and En-
craving Co. and his long connection
with the Labor movement. plus his
native wit, will qualify him for the
work he is to undertake The Boards
selection has met with general APP
proval, and we predict for the Journal
a long and brilliant career of useful
ness in its special field
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-05-26
CARPENTERS CONTINUE
GAINS

Indianapolis. f. General Secretary
Frank Duffy of the brotherhood of
Carpenters reports that he following
locals have notified headquarters Of
wage increases and hours reduced:
South Bend, Increase from As
to so cents an hour; hours reduced
from nine to eight per day
New Britain. Coun.-From Al to As
cents an hour; hours reduced from As
to A per week.
Toledo, Ohio-From 471a to SO
cents an hour,
Lincoln, Neb.-From so to So cents
an hour
Paterson, N. From 471s to so
cents an hour.
Passaic, N. From $3.50 TO "a
per day
Stamford, Conn From SIS to S20.5O
for 5O-hour week at St Johns Wood
working company.
Washington. d. C.-From 55 to 621a
cents an hour; 25 cents per day in
crease for millmen
Delaware County, Pa. Wilmington,
Chester, Media and Clifton Heights)-
From As to so cents an hour.
Pottstown, Pa-From S5 to 40 cents
an hour
Youngstown, Ohio.-From so to 60
cents an hour; Saturday half-holiday
Hamilton, Ontario.-From 40 to 42h
cents an hour, May l, 1916: As cents.
May l, 1917; so cents, May l, 1918,
and the eight-hour day.
Springfield, Ohio.-From 40 to As
cents an hour.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-05-26
BY Geo. r. Kirkpatrick.

"War is the ignoble trick of Sitting
open The blood vessels of the excited
working class to satisfy the honor and
save the pride and business of
crowned and uncrowned towards of
the ruling class. There never is a
war, and never can be a war till the
working men are willing to do the
marching, the trench digging, and the
actual fighting, bleeding and dying
And the working men are never will
ing to butcher and be butchered
wholesale till influential but coarse
grained people Of the capitalist class,
or highly educated panderers to the
capitalist class, craftily or ignOrantly
excite the humble toilers to the fiends
stupid mood of savage hate. First
come the powerful editorials the
great speeches. the eloquent SER
MONS and ferocious prayers for the
war; then the fife and drum; then the
brain storm of the humble, hum
bugged working men; then the re-
cruiting; then the hand waving and
Goodbye, boys, goodbye, goodbye:
then the butchering and the blood;
then the tears and the taxes.
at is, of course, true-grandly true
and is here gladly, gratefully ac-
knowledged-that some educated, in
fluential people are too highly civ
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-05-26

early date, and ask that you give the
mater as much publicity as you will.
The only methods open to this or
ganization by which it may attain its
ends are by congress and cooperation
with government officials. To secure
this favorable legislation, We desire to
create public opinion favorable to
same so that it will reach congress
and induce them to take the necessary
action.
The need for the reforms above
named is urgent and admitted by most
people who are cognizant of the con-
ditions existing. The failure of con-
gress to act on some of the matters,
notably the retirement of superan
nuated employees, is due in a large
measure to the doubt in the minds of
the various congressman as to whether
such action would meet with the ap-
proval of their constituents. The eX-
pense involved in retirement meas
ure is being cheerfully paid now by
the salaries going to the incapacitated
employees who have devoted their
lives to the government, and who are
no longer able to render the most eff
ficient service. These employees
could be retired on a scale of retired
pay which would enable them to live
and new and young employees in
stalled in their places with very lit
tie increase in the expenditures of
the United States.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-05-26
The Workers and the WarI

ilized, too finely noble to- stoop to the
shameless business of rousing the
slumbering tiger in the human breast
Some of them proudly scorn the
vicious role of throwing fire brands
into the inflammable imagination of
the weary toilers. These have cour-
age-true courage. These we greet
with profound gratitude.
But every lily-fingered snob, every
socially gilt-edged coward every in
tellectual prostitute, every pro-war
preacher, every self-eXempting po-
litical shark, and every well-fed money
glutton, who dares help excite the
working class for the hell of war
these, every one of these-in case of
war, should be forced to dance on the
firing line to the hideous music of the
cannon's roar till his own torn carcass
decorates great battle field. #
Thus let the mouthers do the march
ing, let the shouters do the shooting
let the bawlers do the bleeding, let
the howlers have the hell-force them
to the firing line and force them to
stay on the firing line-and there will
be far less yawping about the honor
and glory of war and there will be
fewer humble homes of the poor
damned with the desolation OF war.
Friend, don't curse the militiamen
and the soldiers. They are our broth
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-05-26

ers EXplain-wiJh tireless patience
explain to them that the capitalists
seek to make tools and bullet shoppers
of them. Explain it like brother in
side and outside the ranks till our
working class brothers everywhere
inside and outside the ranks-are
reused and distinctly see the meaning
of a Gatling gun with a working class
man behind the gun and working
class man in front of the gun.
Brothers, stamp this into your
brain and explain it into the brain Of
our brothers: The working class must
themselves protect the working class.
Capitalists want war, because:
"War sends up prices-of most
things.
"War stimulates business-the more
blood, the more business.
"War means more investments and
more profits-the more blood, the
more bonds, more interest; more land
and more rent-more unearned in
come.
"War-to advocate war, makes
newspapers vastly more popular and
therefore more profitable.
"War makes tn working people clap
their hands and yell so loudly they
can't think. and as long as working
people don't think, it is easy to keep
the brides and saddles on them"
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-05-26
Ldleness Pays Better
Than Industry

uncle sam IaIkS Like Socialist
There yau have it straight from
your Uncle Sam Industrial life in
our great free land Of America holds
out no hopes for anything but un-
certain jobs. strikes, lay-offs. sick
ness; same old monotonous. tiresome
grind day after day; stuffy, gloomy,
uninteresting work place: no chance
to save a dollar and finally old age,
or physical incapacity, thrown out on
the scrap heap to die in a Henry
Dubb pauper's home, and be buried in
the Henry Dubb potter's field; while
the loafer in the navy is taken care
Of, pay goes on all the time, doctor
and hospital care free, lives the
hoalthful outdoor life, sees the world
and at retirement goes on the pension
roll for life
How do you like the contrast. Mr..
II. Dubb Workingman? You produce
the means whereby the millions live
in comfort Your hands supply all
the boasted benefits Of civilization.
You create everything there is. The
navy loafer produces nothing, but
consumes the products of your labor
He spends his life doing nothing, but
preparing to kill Your life is wholly
constructive His is wholly destruc-
tive. He is living off your labor and
training for what all mankind re-
CARDS as the greatest evil on earth
today-war ~ thing without the
slightest shadow of justification
among civilized peoples.
GOVERNMENT OUGHT TO KNOW
Remember this arraignment of the
working mans abuses, this exposi-
ton of his sorry plight is not the
mad vaporing of some crack-brained
socialist. II is not the mouthings of
the refOrmer Not at all It's the
calm, judicial summing up of the in
dustrial situation by the highest au-
thority in the land-the United States
government The government knows
what it is talking about. It has in it's
archives the records of all the in
vestigatiOns into wages and cost of
living and economic standing of every
working man in the country It gets
its figures first hand. 1t cannot be
deceived. These are facts.
Now what are you going to do about
it? This is your problem. This is
your government You make the laws
and you prescribe the conditions un-
der which you shall labor, If you
don't like it. don't blame the govern
ment, don't blame the employers,
don't blame the capitahstic masters.
They have no power save that which
YOU give them. Every time a work
ingman strikes for better conditions
it isn't plute or capitalist that
drives him back 10 work at the bay
ouets point, but some other working
man
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-05-26
RAISE WAGES OF
THE UNORGANIZED

Powell River, British Columbia
Paper Makers union No. 142 has Sc
cured new agreement Wages are
increased 81 week for several
classes of work and the unionists
have won their point thta the rates of
unorganized mill employees should be
increased. These latter advances
amount, in some cases, to as high as
10 per cent.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-05-26
CARRYING BANNER LEGAL

neapolis.-Judge Smith has dis
charged members of the Cooks union
who were charged with disorderly
conduct because they carried banner
in the vicinity of a non-union res
taurant AS a result of this decision
Mayor Nye is quoted as opposing
further prosecution of these strikers.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-05-26
CARPENTERS GAINS

Billings, Mont-From SIS to Sc per
day.
Pueblo, Colo-Outside men, from So
to 60 cents an hour; cents increase
for millmen, making minimum $500
per day.
Colorado Springs, Colo.-From 55 to
60 cents an hour.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-05-26
PAINTERS WIN A
SHORT STRIKE

Minneapolis, Minn.-After suspend
ing work for a few days every paint.
ing contractor in the city signed the
new vase scale of the Painters union.
Wages are increased from so to So
cetns an hour.
st. Paul, Minn.-The Painters union
reports that it is enforcing its new
wage scale, which calls for an in
crease of cents an hour
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-05-26
STEAMFITTERS RAISE
WAGES

ti.-Steamfitters and Help.
ers union has signed a three years
contract with employers. Wages are
increased and improved working con.
ditions have been secured.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-05-26
ONLY SLAVE DRIVERS
OPPOSE

Boston.-"It sounds logical to
every one except the veriest slave
is the Boston Journals opin-
ion of this declaration by the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor:
Eight hours for work, eight hours
for sleep, eight hours for free time"
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-05-26
GAINS IN EAST LIVERPOOL

East Liverpool, Ohio.-Hod Car
riers' union has increased wages from
"a cents to 371a cents without a strike.
After a one weeks strike Carpen-
ters' union has raised its scale from
$4 to $3.50 for an eight-hour day, to
take effect July l.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-05-26
BY Bruce Calvert


The United States government,
which should know, says in its adj
vertisements for recruits to the naval
service:
Young man, think over what you
have NOW and what promise the
FUTURE holds out for you: then,
learn what the navy offers you.
Check up each and every item in the
two columns which follow; compare
item in the Civil Life column with
the opposite item in the Navy column
then judge which column sums
higher up.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-05-26
READ EVERY WORD OF THIS
IN CIVIL LIFE

I. Jobs uncertain; strikes, lay
offs, sickness.
2. Promotion and advancement
uncertain and slow.
8. Favoritism and partiaIity
frequently shown.
4. Pay small and limited while
learning a trade.
5. Same old, monotonous, tire
some grind every day.
6. Stuffy, gloomy, uninteresting
working place.
7. When sick your pay stops
and doctors bill starts.
8. If disabled or injured you
receive little or no pay.
g. If you die your family gets
only what you have saved from
your small wages.
10. Little CLEAR MONEY;
nearly all you pay goes for living
expenses.
II. Old age, sickness, little
money saved, your job goes to
younger and more active man.
IN THE NAVY
I. Steady and healthy employ
ment, with good pay.
2. Promotion quick and sure for
deserving men.
8. No unfairness or preference;
the best man wins.
q. Pay good with chance to
learn a useful trade
5. Travel, education, knowledge,
change of scene.
6. Fresh air, sun, sea: clean,
healthfuI, athletic life.
7. When sick, pay goes on, doc
tor and hospital free.
8. If you are disabled you get
a generous pension.
g. If you die, six months pay
goes to your famiIy-with lib
era pension.
10. Your pay is CLEAR
MONEY; no expense or outlay
for clothing.
II. After 30 years service, re-
tirement on three-fourths pay,
plus S15.75 for allowances.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-05-26

Justice Hughes is doing his best to
preserve the dignity Of the supreme
court and the possibility of a presi-
Dental nomination at one and the
same time.-Chicago Herald
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-05-26
BOILERMAKERS WIN

San Francisco o-Boilermakers' union
No. has won practically every de-
mand on its employers and an agree
ment, with higher wages and better
shop conditions, has been signed.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-05-26
HAVE BIG IDEA

Minneapolis. MINI. Carpenters
union No 7 is out for a record-the
largest union of carpenters in the
world To prove that this union
means what it says, it initiated 400
members last week.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-05-26
PLUMBERS MAKE GAINS

Hamilton. Ohio.-Employing plumb
ars have signed a two years contract
with Plumbers union No. 10S. Better
conditions are agreed to.