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The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-03-10
Report On Condition OF Woman And
Child Wage Farmers

ton of woman and child wage earn
ers, we find within this period the
number of states prohibiting factory
employment under IA years of age
increasing from 80 on January l,
1903 to Al in 1915, the number requir-
ing medical eXamtmation or GER
tificate of physical fitness preliminary
to the issue of work permits from s
to 80, the number prohibiting night
work under 16 years from IS to SO,
and the number limiting hours of
work under 16 years to s per day
from 8 to 81. Changes quite as strik-
ing are found in provisions affecting
women. Since 1908 the number of
states prohibiting night work for WON
en- increased from 3 to 6, the number
limiting the hours of work in factories
to per day increased from none to
4. the number limiting hours of work
to 10 a day increased from is to "a,
while two classes of laws not known
in any state in January, 1908, namely,
minimum wage and mothers pension
laws, have been enacted, the former
in II states, the latter in 20 states.
FACTORY INSPECTION
The progress in labor legislation af
2
this period is not adequately meas
ured by the number of states enactlns
new laws, for much more effective
: enforcement has also been provided
! for by the creation of factory inspec
ton in 10 states where formerly Their
2 were no inspectors, by increases il
Y the personnel in other states, and b
; giving to factory inspectors in seN
i eral of the states greatly increase
n powers.
e The movement for workmen's con
r pensation legislation and occupation
n al disease reporting, which is entirel
d new within this period, is scarcel
r less important than that which ha
n secured the classes of laws alread
It named, for the compensation law
G have brought new standards of safet
and sanitation affecting all employe
with new methods and powers of e
h forcement. Furthermore, the qua
,r anty of compensation payments
@. case of fatal and serious acciden
Y. helps to maintain reasonable stan
,e ards of living without forcing the d
S. pendent women and children of Il
re injured workmans family into indr
&C. trial employment.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-03-10

work and that from so to 95 per cent. /
of all the girls of this age group in
these families were wage earners'
That this employment was matter
of economic necessity is indicated by
the fact that from q to 43 per cent
of the total family income was con
tributed by girls in this age group,
and that approximately 80 per cent.
of all the earnings were contributed
Ito the family.
LESS THAN Sc WEEKLY
one of the most significant facts
disclosed by the investigation in prac'
Itically all industries was the large
proportion of women wage earners
who were paid low wages, wages in
many cases Inadequate to supply
reasonable standard of living for
women dependent upon their own
earnings for support. In the group
of women employed in the four great
Industries Cotton, mems ready-made
clothing, glass, and silk, from two
fifths to two-thirds of those 10 years
of age and over earned less than 50
lin a representative week. In another
group of % industries, an eXamlna'
ton of the earnings of over 3S,OOO
women IS years of age and over
showed that over Al per cent. earned
less than Sc in a representative week
CHILD LABOR EXTENSIVE
The report shows that the employ
, ment of children was both extensive
and serious. not only were children
found employed in great numbers, bu
r they we're found employed below tn
2 legal age; employed at work legal
: prohibited to children of their years
? employed for illegally long hours an
at illegal times; employed throug
S evasions of the law and under rails
$ certificates of age, as well as unde
d many other undesirable conditions.
d sptte of all this, evidence was foun
e of a decrease in the relative numbe
d of children employed, and very plal
d indications that a public sentlmel
S against their exploitation is maxim
itself felt effectively.
,e PROTECTION BY LAW
10 Some definite idea of the breadt
is and strength of the movement #
le protective labor legislation during 7
b. cent years may be gained by an e
ID animation of the legislation of Il
80 various states from 1908 to 1915. Thu
I'd taking as examples some of the mo
at important provisions for the protf
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-03-10
A LIMB FOR A LIMB

A cockney angler, thinking his
Highland bOatman was not treating
him with the respect due to his sta
ton, eXpostulated thus:
Look here, my good man, you don't
seem to grasp who / am. Do you
know that my family has been en-
titled to bear arms for the last two
hundred years."
"Hoots! that's naething," was the
reply. my ancestors have been en-
titled to bare legs for the last two
thousand years"
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-03-10
NOTICE OF SHERlFF'S SALE OF
REAL ESTATE

NOTICE OF SHERlFF'S SALE OF
REAL ESTATE
State of Washington, County of Sno-
homish. SIS.
Sheriff's Office
By virtue of an Order of Sale issued
out of the Honorable Superior Court
of Snohomish County, on the 9Th day
of March, 1916, by the Clerk thereof,
in the case of Conrad Kuehn, Plain
tiff. versus Leila Mcconnell formerly
Leila Stoddard; Lawrence E. Neon
nell and Guy Mcconnell, Defendants,
No 1896, and to me as Sheriff, di-
rected and delivered.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That
will proceed to sell at public auction
/ to the highest bidder for cash, within
/ the hours prescribed by law for Sher-
/ ifs sales to-wit: at 1000 o'clock a
m. on the Sth day of April, AID. 1916,
/ before the Court House door of said
SnohOmsh County, in the State Of
Washington, all of the right, title and
interest Of the said Defendants above
named in and to the following de-
scribed property, situated in SnOhO-
mish County, State of Washington
to-wit Lot % of Block II of Fridays
First Addition to Everett, as the Flat
of same appears of record in the O.
flee of the Auditor of said County. lev
led on as the property of said De-
PENDANTS above named to satisfy
judgment amounting to Six Hundred
Ninety-four and 96/1O0 ($69496) Dol
lars and costs of suit, in favor of
Plaintiff
Dated this Sth day of March, 1916.
DONALD McRAE, Sheriff
By j. l.. ALLEN, Deputy.
e. c. DALEY,
Everett, Wash,
Attorney for Plaintiff.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-03-10
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE
STATE OF WASHINGTON IN AND
FOR THE COUNTY OF SNOHO-
MlSH.

In Probate
In the Matter of the Estate of Elise
Wagner, Deceased.
No. 1923
Notice to Creditors
Notice is hereby given by the un-
dersigned, the executriX of the estate
of Elise Wagner, deceased: To the
creditors of and all persons having
claims against said deceased, to eX-
hibit them with the necessary vouch-
ers within twelve Q2) months after
the first publication of this notice, to
the undersigned, at the office of {.
w. Jordan, 1920 Diefenbacher Bldg,
Everett, Washington, which office the
undersigned selects as her place OF
business in all matters connected with
said estate.
Date of first publication, March
! 10th, 1916.
Date of last publication, April 7th
! 1916.
LOUISA REINEL,
EXecutriX
! C. w. JORDAN,
Attorney for EXecutriX.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-03-10

The trustees of the Carnegie Fouh-
dation of Scotland, organized TO pro
mote world peace, sold the $22'Soo
worth of bonds to the British govern
ment. The British government useu
tho neace bonds to pay off war in
debtedness. The United States steer
has secured and retired the bonds
Thus we find that what was TO De
used to promote peace has been USED
to promote war. The money was ac
cumulated in the first place from the
manufacture of war material, was sem
70 Scotland to promote peace 90 ahc
hos returned to this country to pay
for more war material
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ALONG THE ROW
Real Affection

neal AIIeCtiOn
| love to see the scribes at work,
1t fills my soul with joy;
! love to hear the desk man shout
Hey You there! Copy boy!"
love to see a speedy man
Turn out a corking head;
| love to see the Linotype
Turn written words to lead.
| love to hear the presses roar
Away down underground.
I love to watch the big white rolls
AS swiftly they're unwound
love the smell of printers ink
| love the game | do.
And once a week, Oh! happy day,
l love the cashier, too!
Editor and Publisht
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-03-10
HIS DEFINITION

A Liverpool teacher asked her class
to write an essay on London.
Later she was surprised to read the
following in one attempt:
THE people OF London are noted
for their stupidity"
The young author was asked how
he got that idea.
please, miss was the reply, at
says in the textbook, "The population
of London is very dense, - London
! Answers.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-03-10
PROTECTION BY LAW
FIGHTING FOR THE GOODS
Patronize Our Advertisers and You
Won't Have To

Here's what a would-be tradesman
did
He was a slick young guy
When Patrick said, Take back the
No label won't buy"
He stuck a Cancelled revenue stamp
With haste within the hat;
Then. smiling like a smoky lamp,
Held out the lid to Pat
There is the label-there it ISL
But Patrick loud did cry
"If that's the label, here's kiss.
And banged him in the eye.
William r. Fox in the Chronicle
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-03-10
NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE OF
REAL ESTATE
State of Washington, County of Sno-
homish. IS.
Sheriff's Office

State of Washington, County of Sno-
hOmish. SIS.
Sheriff's Office
BY virtue of an Order of Sale issued
out of the Honorable Superior Court
of Snohomish County, on the 23rd
day of February, 1916, by the Clerk
thereof, in the case of E. E. Stuart
Plaintiff, versus Vina Upper and N
l.. Upper, her husband; and Schwa-
bacher Bros. Company, corporation,
Defendants, No. 1858, and to me as
Sheriff, directed and delivered.
NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN, That
| will proceed to sell at public auc-
ton to the highest bidder for cash,
within the hours prescribed by law
for Sheriff's sales, to-wit: at 1000
o'clock am. on the 25th day of March
AID. 1916, before the Court House
door of said Snohomish County, in
the State of Washington, all of the
right, title and interest of the said
Defendants above named in and tc
the following described property, sit
uated in Snohomish County, State OF
Washington, to-wit: Lot Twelve (12)
in Block Six Hundred Seventy-nine
(679) of the Plat of Everett, levied
on as the property of said Defendants
above named to satisfy a judgment
amounting to Five Hundred Seventy
nine no/00 dollars and costs of suit
in favor of Plaintiff.
Dated this 23rd day of February
1916
DONALD McRAE, Sheriff
BY ]. L. Allen, Deputy
In. w. HOLMES,
Everett, Wash,
Attorney for Plaintiff.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-03-10
SLIGHT SLIP

In an address at a concert Tor
wounded soldiers, the chief speaker
of the evening said:
81 am indeed glad to see so many
of YOU present this evening. "-Edin'
burg Evening News.
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G. B. Shaw says that the Allies
must not crush Germany. Lates ad.
vices from the front indicate that
the Allies are taking his suggestion
very seriously-Macon Evening News
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-03-10
HABITUAL

do YOU know you are growing
handsome, hubble?
"Yes; it's a way l nave WHEN -
gets anywhere near your birthday
Boston Transcript.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-03-10
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE
STATE OF WASHINGTON, FOR
sNOHOMlSH COUNTY,.
In the Matter of the Estate OF ID. Y
Williams, Deceased.
No. 1901
Notice to Creditors

Notice to Creditors
Pursuant to an order entered in the
above entitled Cause, notice Is mere
by given to the Creditors of d. y
Williams, deceased, and all persons
having claims against his estate, that
you are required to present the same
properly executed with the necessary
vouchers, within one year from ana
after the first publication of this no.
tice, to-wit within one year after the
Ord day of March, 1916, to the I'M
dersigned administrator of the SAID
estate, in the Eclipse Block, Everett
Washington, or at the office of VIM.
Shelter, my attorney, at $50 Stokes
Bldg. Everett, Washington, that be-
ing the place for the transaction OF
business for this estate.
All creditors and claimants are
warned that unless so presented, their
claims are forever barred.
FRED p. BUELL.,
Administrator of the above entitled
estate.
VIM. Shelter, Attorney for Admins
traitor, Everett, Washington.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-06-15
CLAIMS ON ORDERS
PAID BY RAILWAY

Several Americas negroes have col
lected Gains from the Seaboard Air
Line railway for the payment OF or
ders from their salaries for premiums
Oh accident insurance policies. The
Continental Casualty Co., of Chicago, is
the insurance concern connected with
the affair, and jude J. A. Hixon has
secured the payment Of several claims
for negroes which he represented.
From best accounts, it appears that
orders on negroes salaries were forg-
ed for the payment of insurance prem
iums, some Of which they did not hold
and others which they had refused to
renew.
Two OF the negroes were Charles
Hawkins and Willie Harrison.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-06-15

Georgia, under the present lease of
the Western & Atlantic railroad, is
$52G,012 par year.
Therefore the increased revenue of
100000 per year, which the railroads
would derive from fertilizer and cot
ton seed meal, is almost double the
State of Georgia's annual revenue
from this immensely valuable proper
ty.
"The Western & Atlantic railroad
cCnservatively estimated by the Comp
troller General at a valuation of $780,
100000. The total valuation of all the
railroads in the state exclusive of the
Western & Atlantic, Georgia Railroad,
the southwestern and the Augusta &
Savannah, as disclosed by their
sworn returns to the Comptroller Gen
eral for 1915, was only $105,S83,6 67.
THE Western & Atlantic, worth
nearly one-fifth as much as all the
balance of the railroads in the state,
with exceptions noted annually
earns for the State only little more
than one-half of the increased annual
revenue which the railroads propose
to extract from this one item of fertil-
i2er and cotton seed meal
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-06-15
BODIES RECOVERED
FROM WRECKED BOAT

EUREKA, Cal, June 15.-Five bod
les were recovered early today from
the wreck of the coastwise steamer
Bear, wrecked last night on Sugar Loaf
reef. The Bear had one hundred and
fifteen passengers on board when she
went on the rocks, the fate of many of
these being uncertain.
A large crew of rescue workers from
the battleship oregon and the steamer
Grace Dollar are searching the vicin-
ity of the wreck for survivors. One of
the Bears boats was seen trying to
land during last night, according to a
report heard by the light keeper at
Mendoicino Light.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-06-15
CHINESE CHANCE FROM THE
OPIUM TO THE T0BACOCO

ATLANTA, Ca, June 15.-Rigid en-
forcement of the federal anti-narcotic
aid anti-opium laws, has driven At
lanta Chimes to the use of enormous
quantities of Chinese tobacco, which
they smoke in long-stemmed pipes
that are very similar to the pipes of
opium.
Any night in the Chinese quarter, OF
which there is large one peopled by
laundrymen and restaurant keepers the
celestials may be found in front OF
heather images, where they sit and
smoke for hours, conversing in their
strange, outlandish tongue.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-06-15
MANY PEOPLE PAY FOR
PRIVILEGE OF TALKING

ATLANTA, Ca, June 15.-"Talk is
cheap says an old adage. Lots of
peope, however, pay for the privilege
of talking, and get more for their
money than they do in many other ex-
penditures. For instance, there's the
telephone and there are some tele-
phones in the country, according to
statistics that have just reached At
lanta, and Will prove interesting to
many people who like to deal in fig
ures. There are now twenty-One mil
lion miles of wire in the Southern Bell
Telephone system. The number OF
telephone stations are nine million and
one hundred and fifty thousand, and
going to ten million by the end of the
year.
The average daily calls are twenty
seven million and eight hundred thous-
aud, or nine billion a year. The Bell
forces number one hundred and seven
;y thousand, of which eight thousand
ere classified as general" ten thous.
and commercial, eighty-two thous.
and, traffic fifty thousand, plant,
and two thousand and one hundred
engineering"
While statistics in Georgia and ad,
Joining states are not yet available
the general reports show unusual
growth. This is true not only in the
towns and cities, but in the rural dis.
tyicts, where farmers are building theiI
Nwn telephone lines and making con.
lections with the Southern Bell lines
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-06-15
Y
NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS.

= All advertising cop. requiring
, two columns Of space or lees :
y should be In the business Office I
y not later than eight o'clock morn. I
= ing of issue in order to insure (
= prompt insertion. All copy for "
= space of more than two columns Z
= should he submitted not later :
= than & J'clOck of the day prior TO I
date If issue. I
THE TIMES-RECUKDER.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-06-15
Thing of Most Importance.

What matters the nature Of oTH
work so long as 1t is we'll done? We
do not CLEAN happiness according to
our station in life, but according to
how well We adapt ourselves to that
station "
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1916-06-15
COTTON MARKET

AMERICUS, June 15.-The Amer
ious spot cotton market is quoted to-
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1916-05-31

pr'verized soil.
The many spikes or teeth of the h r
row had by this time demolished every
slod, and the surface of the field was
level and smooth, with slight slope to
the south, which insured drainage.
Passers by on the country road began
to stop and watch his operations. Most
Of the farmers grinned indulgently and
predicted that nothing would come of
'all that foolishness." A few of them
went to thinking, and without saying
anything about it went home and gath
cred up leaves and trash and barnyard
fertilizer and plOwed an acre or so
deeply, just as u matter of curiosity, to
see what would happen. A few others
sOwed oats or rye just as Joe did.
The rye came up-a splendid, thick
stand of it. In few weeks it had
spread, forming a solid mat of luscious
green. Hungry hogs prowled squeal-
ingly around the hogproof fence; hun
cry cows looked and longed and lowed
disconSolately. for it was near Christ
mas time, and there was no green pas
and dead grass is not very satisfying.
Jim Sullivan stopped his team in tho
road one day and gazed admiringly i'll
the field.
Got a fine stand thar, Joe" he
called.
pretty goOd-yes, SIR
'What'n you charge me to let NE
Craze these here horses in that patch
awhile? They're powerful puny. new
er made no feed to speak of last fall,
an If | don't strengthen 'em up some
I'm afeard they won't pull through the
winter
Joe gazed at the scrawny, weak ami
mails and felt sorry for them. He re-
called the 81 Jim had paid for the
liquor last fall and thought If it had
been invested in oats the horses and
Jim would both have been good deal
better off.
"Why, hardly know, Mr.. Sullivan
Il amt got no money now, Joe, but
I'll pay you next fall when my cotton
comes in Joe remembered hearing
Mr.. Somerville say Sullivan was mighty
bad pay, that he spent every cent he
could get his hands on for liquor.
''That amt business, Mr.. Sullivan. l
can't afford to wait that long. Tell
you what will do, though. l saw that
old white faced sow of yours with a
new litter of pigs about a month ago.
I'll pasture your horses here until the
first of the year for two of those little
pigs"
That's go. I'll bring 'em over and
turn the bosses in"
"All right, but you better call me
when you come. l keep that gate
locked"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1916-05-31

IULLlVAN drove on, his ungreas-
nj ed wagon wheels squeaking a
dismal tune and the shaky wag-
- on rafting and jingling in all
its joints from being left exposed and
unsheltered in all sorts of weather.
Joe went to the barn and got a sack.
From the oak grove he managed to
scrape up four sackfuls of leaves.
These he placed in a corner of the
fence. Then he cut a pole about ten
feet long and ran it cater cornered
through the wires of the two lines of
fence about three feet from the ground
Several shorter ones were placed be-
hind it to the angle formed by the
fence corner post.
With his Ratchet he cut pine brush
from the bushes in an old field and
piled them on the poles in the fence
corner, the stems all pointing to the
sloping roof which would shed rain.
Then he piled more pine brush about
the two sides formed by the converging
wire fence and climbed over and sur
veyed his work.
He had made a coy rain and wind
proof shelter, and he smiled as he
thought of how those uncared for pigs
of Sulivan's would enjoy it. Across
the road was a spring branch and an
abandoned washtub from the house,
with an approach of dirt banked to its
edge, which, set down and placed in the
field, formed a watering place for the
pigs. Joe thoughtfully put several
large stones in the tub so that the wa
ter was not over five inches deep. In
case one of the pigs fell in it would not
drown.
Next morning Jim Sullivan brought
the pigs, lively, spotted little fellows,
but poor as snakes. Joe turned them
loose i'm the field, and they began eat
ing the tender young rye as If they
were famished. Jim's scrawny horses
were also ravenously devouring the
green stuff. After stipulating that Sui
Ivan was to fill the water tub each
morning and evening Joe locked the
gate and went up to the house.
Mother, you and sister come with
me. I've got something to show you"
he said.
"All right. Come on, Annie" called
Mrs. Weston. And they followed Joe
down the road to his farm" as they
called the four acres.
"Oh-h. brother. look at those old
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1916-05-31

left think there is bushel and a
half. You may have emit will save
you just that much
His fathers eyes followed him up
the hill toward the house. Joe felt
nearer to his father than he could
ever recall before-more ON an equality
as a comrade with him.
"Giddap, BaIdy" called Tom Weston
to the lazy one of his team. Badly, 1
thought that boy was actin the fool
about these leaves an stuff an this
here deep plowin'. 1t amt him, Badly;
it's me. Giddap! By granny, got to
be maxim up for a lot of time I've lost
by bein pigheaded."
That night Joe got down his account
book. One page he had headed "Ex-
pense," and there he carefully entered
every cent paid out for posts, wire, la
Dor, seed. On the opposite side he
wrote the heading Income" for the
first results of his farming operations
that had come in the shape of two
scrawny little pigs.
Received from ]. Sullivan two spot
tcu piss OLA WtchS Oiu, value. o. tdCu,
total, $4," he entered. On another page
he headed. 81. Weston in acct. with
Weston & Somerville." He had taken
the pigs in for the firm, but presented
both to his mother and sister.
ITO one of the Sullivan pigs" he
wrote under his individual account,
then paused. He started to charge the
pig at the two dollar value, but at once
put the thought from him.
Zone of those pigs is mine; the other
is Mr.. Somerville's. If l take his pig
and make present of it should settle
with Mr.. Somerville at what the pig
would be worth when he and l settle
in the fall. I'll pay for it out of my
share of the crop" he said to himself
Then he picked up the pen.
ITO one of the Sullivan pigs, S15," he
wrote.