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The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-03-17
The Union Label---Its Inspiration,
Its Accomplishments and
Its Possibilities

ian immediate and vital effect OIL tie
sales of an unfair firm as will the
Iadmonition not tn purcl ase The goods
of a particular firm, it is equally true
that as the union label movement
grows and develops, the admonition
to purchase only union labeled goods
will have a more comprehensive and
permanent response than any other
form of appeal.
A BROAD MEASURE
The boycott and unfair lists-ar
individual in characterize union la
bel admonition is comprehensive in
its application. Where the former
weapons are spasmodic in nature, sub
ject to i'll feeling and strife and fric-
ton, the latter is permanent in char
acter minus the element of friction
and strife and i'll feeling engendered
in the application of the former weap-
ons. 1t is not claimed that the union
should or will substitute the union la
bel for the boycott and unfair list In
deed substitution would prove I'M
desirable, even though it were posi-
BILE. But it is claimed that the union
label so used as to combine these
weapons, specific and permanent re-
suits will follow continually both in
a specific and a comprehensive form
The union label unquestionably ex
cells in that it aspires to unity and
federation, stimulates education, en-
phasizes skill and superior workman
ship, promotes trade and defies I'M
scrupulous competition, teaches the
primal obligations of labor to a great
common cause, while steadily win
ming it's way into the hearts of the
masses in that it symbolizes human
justice and human freedom.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-03-17
c. w JORDAN,
Attorney for ExecutriX.
NOTICE OF SHERlFF'S SALE OF
REAL ESTATE

NOTICE OF SHERIFF'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. McCon-
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 10000 o'clock a
m. on the Sth day of April, 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 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 Of
flee of the Auditor of said County, lev
led on as the property of said De-
PENDANTS above named to satisfy a
judgment amounting to Six Hundred
Ninety-four and 96/100 ($694.96) Dol
lars and costs of suit, in favor of
Plaintiff.
Dated this Sth day of March, 1916
DONALD McRAE, Sheriff.
BY ]. L. ALLEN, Deputy.
E. c. DALEY,
Everett, Wash,
Attorney for Plaintiff.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-03-17
NOTICE OF SHERlFF'S SALE OF
REAL ESTATE
Sherlffs Office

State of Washington, County of Sno-
homish. S.
Sherffs office
BY virtue of an Order of Sale issued
out of the Honorable Superior Court
of Snohomish County, on the 18th day
of March, 1916, by the Clerk thereof,
in the case of George Hardenburg,
Plaintiff, versus John S. Williamson
and Dana Williamson, his wife, De-
PENDANTS. No. 15434, and to me as
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-03-17
CONSUMPTION S CRUSHING
WORK
BRITISH WORKERS PROTEST

The government of this country has
inflicted a greater defeat upon us
than any German army has inflicted.
An opposing army may crush us ma
terially; it can never crush our spirit.
We alone can degrade the soul of our
own nation And if the decision of
the government be accepted by par
lament and people, we shall have de-
stroyed our own soul The people of
this country embarked upon the war
to liberate Europe from the menace
Of militarism. TO end war forever to
enable the peoples to live in peace
and civic liberty, to assure the tri-
umph OF a free democracy over an
iron daspotism The government has
sacrificed the very ideals which made
the war a holy crusade in the eyes
of thousands of young men who lie
dead upon the battlefield, IT has en-
throncd militarism in our own land.
Instead of liberatng Europe from the
yoke of militarism, it asks us to place
the yoke upon our own shoulders. It
is true the government has only de
cided at the moment to adopt compul
sion in the case of a limited number
Of men. But the principle is as re-
pugnant if applied to one man as TO
a million. Modern Britain win no
longer be able to say that it's citizens
are free to decline to kin their fell
lows if their reason and conscience so
dictate. We yield to none in our re-
spect for the men who undertake 1ll-
itary service from a sense Of duty.
An act must be Judged by the motive.
But TO compel men to kill who do not
feel the eall of duty is to compel them
to murder, 1t is to destroy the peace
of their minds through eternity It is
to damn their souls.-The Labor Lead.
err, Manchester
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-03-17

lmanv who were imbued with the feeling
and spirit of maintaining a high stan
dard of moral and social conditions
and who were willing to subordinate
temporary economic advantages in
order to further such moral and So
cial principles.
This message of the first trade
union label and the moral, social and
economic mission it performed in
such a splendid fashion is still in evil
dence today. Indeed the message
symbolized in the trade union label
is greater today in its scope and CON
sequence than at any time since its
adoption. Today the union label di-
reefs attention to the evils of under
paid and overworked adult labor, to
the unfair competition of free labor
with compulsory or convict labor; to
the exploitation of woman and child
labor. 1t directs attention and con-
centrates public sentiment against tn
evils peculiar to certain crafts and
evils common to most all industries.
1t is a permanent declaration of the
moral duty developing on the pur-
chaser to inquire into the cost at
which an article is produced, as well
as into the cost at which it is sold.
1t appeals to reason and not to force
and is a medium through which the
public may enforce it's rightful power
of arbitration between employer and
employees.
1t is impossible to define the COM
prehensive possibilities of the union
label; nothing in the whole realm of
union labor is more capable of effec-
tive and continuous unity. To the
trade unionist it is constant remind
err of their common interests and
common duty in and toward each 9th
err, and it is unquestionably the most
practical agency yet devised to unity
and organize all the forces so greatly
divided and diversified in the produc
tive field of labor
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-03-17
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 23rd
day of February, 1916, by the Clerk
Plaintiff, versus Vina Upper and NJ
L. Upper her husband; and Schwa
bacher Bros. Company, corporation,
Defendants, No. 15463, and to me as
Sheriff, directed and delivered.
NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN, That
l will proceed to sell at public auc-
ton to the highest bidder for cash,
within the hours prescribed by law
for Sheriffs sales, to-wit: at 10000
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 to
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/100 dollars and costs of suit,
in favor of Plaintiff
Dated this 23rd day of February,
1916.
DONALD McRAE, Sheriff
By ]. l.. Allen, Deputy.
II. w. HOLMES,
Everett, Wash,
Attorney for Plaintiff.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-03-17

BY Matthew Vol, President lnterna-
tional Allied Printing Trades Asso.
citation. in Woman's Label League
Journal.
The union label is part of the well.
known machinery of labor unions.
The union label is used to indicate
that the goods and receptacles OF
goods to which it is affixed were
made solely by members Of the union
having adopted the label, and to dis
tinguish such goods from all others OF
a similar kind in the market. 1t has
been said that it may not be too much
to assume that the use of the label is
in fact. as it certainly might be, of
more economic Importance to the
union than are many or more trade
marks strictly so-called, in the pro
motion of which vast sums of money
are spent and which are so zealously
protected by our courts.
While it is true that each form OF
trade union actively has it's own par
ticular functions to perform, it is
equally true that since the unfavor-
able Buck Stove and Range Company
and the Danbury Hatters decisions
much greater emphasis has been laid
on the use of union labels. Indeed,
the establishing of the Union Label
Trades Department of the American
Federation of Labor and its continual
maintenance for the past eight years,
as well as the formation and contin-
ued existence of the International Al
lied Printing Trades Association, is
significant of the great commercial
and social value attributed to this
union label movement
WHAT DOES THE UNION LABEL
SIGNIFY?
Thus the question is naturally and
logically raised What does the union
label signify? What great social and
economic principles does it represent?
What are the ideals, aims and aspira-
lions typified and symbolized by the
trade union label?
Originally the trade union label
was designed by the Cigarmakers of
San Francisco to direct attention to
the growing competition of Chinese
labor with white labor and to the
grave and menacing dangers which
would logically follow the converting
of an American standard of living to
a much lower condition of life The
impending danger was so great, this
appeal of the cigarmakers so effec-
tive, that immediate individual and
social resentment was aroused, Gre
ating a social atmosphere and eco
monte condition wherein this unfair
competition could no longer exist.
Of course, then as now, there were
those who cared little under what
conditions of employment the articles
they purchased were produced and
marketed, who failed to grasp or APP
preciate the relation of conditions of
sale to conditions of production and
the effect of this relation upon the
moral, social and economic condi-
tions of the great mass of people
Fortunately, there were then, as now,
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-03-17
A GREAT POWER

The realization of the great social
and economic value inherent in the
trade union label, the increasing agi-
tation and resultant demand for union
label products, so ably championed
and furthered by the Union Label
Trades Department of the American
Federation of Labor and the Interna-
tional Allied Printing Trades Associa-
ton, encouraged and supported by all
it's local branches and by many inter
national and subordinate local unions,
is slowly but surely developing COM
plete understanding and organization
among all trade unionists of the great
purchasing power and it is in re-
Spouse to this realization that a great
and powerful union label movement
is developing among the workers of
this country.
The union label movement has not
been the first to attempt to organize
the purchasing power of labor. Nu-
merous attempts and many expert
ments have been made in the past to
organize and enhance the value of
this economic and social power of
the workers. Cooperative movements,
consumers leagues and the like have
all been due primarily to this concep-
ton of the commercial and social val
workers. Unfortunately, however,
whenever such activities assumed any
degrees of success and became invest
ed with power and influence, almost
invariably instead of cooperating
with the economic organizations of
the workers as producers, the influ-
ence and power of these institutions
were perverted into instruments of
oppression and suppression. Almost-in
rather than a feeling of socializing
industry, became the dominant factor.
The union label movement compre.
bends in its ultimate attainment COM
plete harmony and sympathy with the
hopes and aspirations of the workers
expressed in their organizations as
producers This movement realizes
and responds to the possibility of
uniting and co-ordinating all the at
tributes of labor into one great com
prehensiye associated effort directed
to complete characterization of all in
dustries and to ultimately establish a
just and fair condition of life and la
Dor
Trade unionists themselves have
for years responded in some form or
other to this ideal of directing the
purchasing power of labor so as to
strengthen themselves whenever rep
reservations were made to employers
which were adversely received These
activities usually TOOK the form of a
boycott or an unfair list. While these
weapons have proven helpful in spe-
cific undertakings experience like
wise shows that it is eX-
tremely doubtful at present wheth
err the admonition to trade unionists
and their sympathizers to purchase
only union label goods will have such
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-03-17
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE
STATE OF WASHINGTON IN AND
FOR THE COUNTY OF SNOHO-
MISH.
In Probate
In the Matter of the Estat,
WaPner. Deceased.

In Probate
In the Matter of the Estate of Elise
Wagner, Deceased.
No. 1923
Notice to Creditors
Notice is hereby given by the I'M
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 12) months after
the first publication of this notice, to
the undersigned, at the office Of c.,
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 18th,
1916.
LOUISA REINEL,
EXecutriX.
C. w. JORDAN,
Attorney for EXecutriX.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-03-17
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE
STATE OF WASHINGTON, FOR
SNOHOMISH COUNTY.

h.
STATE OF WASHINGTON, FOR
SNOHOMISH COUNTY.
In the Matter Of the Estate Of b. Y
Williams, Deceased.
No. 1901
Notice to Creditors
Pursuant to an order entered In the
above entitled Cause, a notice Is here
by given to the Creditors Of -. 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 and
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 i. BUELL.,
Administrator of the above entitled
estate.
VIM Shelter. Attorney for Admins
traitor, Everett, Washington.
Arizona republican., 1916-06-12

the city gained, rather than lost in
the efficiency of the service.
City Manager Robert A. Craig has
given careful attention to the work of
installation as has also Fire Chief A. +.
Wright Quietly they have examined
the work day by day and at no time
found cause for complaint. Sometimes
they were on hand while the men
were at work. At other times they
made inspections together and sep
arately when the men had quit for
the day And both today report that
Phoenix now has n fire alarm system
to which no criticism can attach.
Superintendent Coffee and Chief
Wright are anxious that the new sys-
TEN may ne employed to the best ad-
vantage by the public. They are de-
sirous to have the public informed
that in ninety-nine cases out of a
hundred it is better for person de
string to send in an alarm to go to a
box which at most can hardly be
more than two blocks away and usu-
ally shorter distance. and send in
an alarm than to try and telephone
it. Everybody becomes excited when
telephoning for the fire apparatus and
anyone is likely either to get the
wrong number or give the wrong To-
cation. The boxes cannot do this.
With this article are presented pic
lures of the new boxes. One shows
that Gamewell box and the new
standard adopted for this city ana
constructed by the Arizona Iron
Works. The standards are of them
selves ornamental and practical. They
can be seen for q long distance.
The directions for sending in an
alarm are presented in bold letters
on the front of each box They bear
the legend: For Fire. Break the
| Glass, Open the Door. Pull Down
Once and Let Co" That is all there
is to it. But when the operation is
completed. the person sending in an
alarm is urged to remain at the box
in order to direct the firemen to the
| fire This is important as otherwise
there may be delay in locating the
fire e"en after the firemen have made
= quick run. 1t IS the first few min
utcs that count at every fire and
every precaution should he taken to
save those few minutes to the fire
mems advantage.
In the illustrations it will be seer
that the box on the standard is
| closed. There is a small cage or box
! covering the key to the door of tht
box This glass may be broken witt
! the elbow, a knife or stone. Blu
Arizona republican., 1916-06-12
CITY MANAGER ROBERT A. CRAIG
Who Gave Close Attention to install
lation of GameweI Alarm System

credit to himself and 10 the big con-
Germ he represents.
With the exception of some old
Gamewell boxes that have been en-
tirely worked over and refined some
Star electric boxes practically as good
as new and like the Gamewell boxes
refined, a small amount of first
class copper wire that had been in
service not much more than one year
and probably good for another fifty
years, the system as ii now stands is
entirely new. No provision of the
contract with the city has been ne
elected and many details not included
in the contract were provided.
The only objection that was raised
ut any time during the period of in
stallation If the new system was oc-
casioned by the employment of the
wire which had been used about a.
year before in installing some new
Star electric boxes. 1t was commended
that because it was necessary to make
more joints in using this wire. than
wouid have been necessary had new
wire been used, the system would
suffer thereby. Expert electricians.
however. who examined the work
found that each of the joints had been
well soldered each lap being even
longer than necessity demanded and
from an electricians standpoint. pro-
viding an even better conductor than
wire not so 1ointed. In this respect
Arizona republican., 1916-06-12
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE MEETS

The June business meeting of the
chamber of commerce was held on
Tuesday evening. The first business
taken up was the hearing of the re-
ports of the executive board. Chair
man X. NJ. Gilbert gave the financial
report and a report of the work done
by the advertising department. Dur
ing the month of May with an eXpen-
diture of but S29 for advertisements,
AZ letters of inquiry were received. a
number of these writer's stating their
desire to locate in or near Chandler
A. E. Price reported that the cheese
factory proposition was still held I'M
der Amusement with every prospect of
one being located in Chandler. To
push this project a meeting will be
called during the next week to aseer-
tain the opinions of and to acquaint
the ranchers with the matter of the
proposed factory. The matter of bet
ter fire protection for Chandler was
brought before the commerce body
and A. Lukin and A. T. Morgareidge
We're appointed a committee to devise
WAYS and means for obtaining this
end. The meeting then adjourned.
Arizona republican., 1916-06-12

the cage opened disclosing the key
the next operation is TO turn the key
and pull the door open. One of the
pictures shown here indicates Il box
with the glass broken and ready for
the door to be opened. Another
shows the door open. Inside the box
will be hook or handle with a small
slot. All that is necessary now. and
this is very necessary. is to pun down
that handle or hook and let go at
once A small Taper in the box will
notify the person at the box that the
alarm is being sent in. 1t is worth
While to read these directions over
several times and to memorize the
details. They are simple and there
should be no confusion in following
them out.
Some idea of the extent of the new
fire alarm system can be gained from
the following facts and figures per-
tanning to the material used the num-
Der Of boxes and to the equipment at
tn central fire station.
Street signal boxes 104, of which %
interfering and successive type
made by the Gamewell Fire Alarm
Tel Co; 20 are of the positive nom
interfering and successive type made
by the Star Electric Co. and 16 are old
Gamewell boxes which have been re-
timed and adjusted to work fast in
harmony with the new system. Miles
of outside line wire, %; taut and
euyed feet of cubic underground, spe-
cial made. lead armoured. 1890.
street signal boxes on pedestals, 15 ir
the underground district, set in con-
! crete and painted red.
City owned underground conduit
| about 5000 feet, besides about $780,
| feet of duct reserved in the Mountaii
| States T. e T. Co., by the city
! All spices of the cable in the I'M
rected similarly to the telephon,
cables
At the central station, located a
| First and jefferson Streets there i.
! located: The central office equipmen
of the fire alarm system in the new
fire proof station.
The central office equipment con
sists of: Ssts
1 S-circuit automatic, storage bat
terry charging and line controllnl
switch board of the latest Gamewel
! type, mounted in a handsome oal
frame:
| s-circuit positive non-interferrin,
repeater mounted on an oak pedesta
and inclosed in a glass case Thi
instrument takes care of and control
all the box and gong circuits; whel
one line becomes disabled this in
strument automatically closes all tn
other fire alarm circuits and throw
the disabled line out of service Their
is also an automatic time limitin
charging device by which an accurat
record is kept of the number of hours
the storage batteries are TO
charged, when the charge is complet
ed, this instrument automaticall
throws the charging current off. thu
preventing the batteries from becom
ing over charged. IL for any reaso
the current is interrupted. this instru
ment will stop Immediately, whic