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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-04-29

as the slogan following preparedness, this.
COAST DEFENSE!
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For months the United States has been on
the brink of war. The most terrible struggle of
human history is Going ON before us. Treaties
are torn up, nations are trampled upon, and
whole peoples almost annihilated
Century after century has taught the lesson
ofwhat to expect when the world goes war mad.
should do it! To these assertions from our
friends the pacifists, we say Correct" But
the world is doing it. Why should we hold to
the illogical optimism of FOOLS paradise? All
nations do not regard LACK of military estab-
ishment as a reason why they should NOT
attack us.
For months, we repeat, we have been in
this condition of optimism that RESENTS dis
comfort and pain and we have passed from one
crisis to another, lightly and sometimes joking
ly, with a sham battle between our camps of
paCifists and Observation-Disclosures to amuse
us. We have learned nothin9--or, if we have
learned, we have not applied it.
Europe is far away to us in the Northwest.
We get warfare greatly diluted by Geo
graphical distance. But are we so far away?
Let's see. This paper has demanded prepared
ness. Some persons have asked ''Why? Ger
many, they say, is not dangerous. We have
our ideas about the striking power of any Eu-
ropean military nation. but we for9et them for
the moment and we offer you--JAPAN!
Oh ye An cry Wolff we admit
HAS 5
"gentemens agreements" : -
% Japan fire s IT s aHa OPPORTUNITY OF
Japan can gain control of China with little fear of
ropean interference and can always strike BARGAIN with
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-04-29


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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-04-29

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And Japan this opportunity. Ambassador Chinda
only last week President Wilson against
posed immigration regulations recently passed by the
house and pending in the senate.
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land Powerless to protest against plan of
Japan. This the of the jn9o press
much anyone and for those who spout for prepared
for profit have nothing but contempt tits to the
thinking man that The Times S talking.
We ON the verge of with Germany, but actual
with Germany does not hold for America the DANGER
that is involved in the Japanese situation
The East sees the German crisis and is eaier
for PREPAREDNESS. Surely we of the Pacific
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1916-04-29
Russia for Asiatc partition. The of her furhe
plans means PREPAREDNESS for Japan and UMPIRE
PAREDNESS for the United States.

The Japanese intelligent hrewd % loyal people They believe
fare They believe Japanese domination the Pacific Their actions
erned Standards Expedency their The
They and Their
and efficiency, make them dangerous.
How really problem,
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-03-31
GET 1884 A WEEK; STRIKE

PHILADELPHIA IT h e unorgan.
lied employees of the Bristol mills are
striking to enforce a wage demand of
$11 week. They have been receiv-
ing 1894 week and declare it is i'm
possible for them to support a fam.
lily on these rates. The mills are
owned by Joseph r. Grundy, presi.
dent of the Pennsylvania Manufactur.
ers' association. Mr. Grundy led the
fight against the child labor law
passed by the last legislature, and
the strike he now faces would indi
cate he has other reasons to oppose
child labor legislation than the fear
that children will acquire bad habits
if they are taken from mills, mines
and factories.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-03-31
LOW WAGE WORKERS STRIKE

CHICAGO.-Because of a strike of
several hundred workers, the i'm
mense plant of the Corn Products
Refining company at Argo. the larg-
est of its kind in the world, was fore
ed to suspend operations The strik-
ers are demanding 25 cents an hour.
Many of them are receiving but 171s
cents an hour. The factory has been
running at top capacity, consuming
$4,000 bushels of corn a day and turn
ing out starch, corn syrup, artificial
rubber and scores of by-products.
Later Supt. Jeffries agreed to pay
those of the strikers "who were
faithful an increase to 19A cents.
The official said he made this offer
'on his own initiative" The Mooney
a Boland detective agency is furnish.
ing special guards to the company.
Among these thugs are included those
most active against the Muscatine,
Iowa, button workers in their strike
several years ago. These guards have
been ordered to stay inside the plant
by the authorities. A. f. of L. Or.
ganizer Flood, together with Presi.
dent Fitzpatrick and Secretary Mock.
els of the Chicago Federation of La.
Dor are assisting the strikers, who
were unorganized when they sus-
pended work. About 10 languages
including Turkish and Magar, is
spoken by these workers.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-03-31
NEWS AND VIEWS OF
THE WORLD OF LABOR
WAVES OF ILLITERATES
AFFECT WORKERS LIVES

WHEELING, w. Va.--Edtor Hilton
of the Wheeling Majority makes this
vigorous defense of organized labor S
demand for immigration restrictions
"By a beautiful arrangement of the
employers, working class progress to-
ward a higher standard of living has
heretofore been retarded. When men,
by organization, secured better con.
ditions the employers brought
in thousands of an alien race. When
that race organized they brought in
another accustomed to lower stand
ard. Wave upon wave of immigra-
ton has thus held the American work
ers down to a subsistence level; every
time they were in a fair way to get
control over their labor power by
class solidarity, new group, unused
to American ways, unable to grasp
American ideals, unable to speak the
American tongue, have been swept
here by INSCRIPTIONS employers and
steamship agents.
"Wave after wave has washed
away our economic and political edi.
fices as they were slowly reared by
sacrifice and struggle Thus the la
Dor movement everywhere has been
brought to demanding an immigra-
ton law that will restrict orr new
arrivals to those capable of being
talked to and reasoned with.
"The brotherhood of man is a law
of nature that can be effective only
when it benefits both parties-can
be adopted only when it conforms to
the first law, self preservation"
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-03-31
ARE WORKERS "uNGRATEFUL? ?"

BOSTON.-At the banquet of the
Boston Paper Trade Association two
sides of the social uplift question in
industry were presented. Some of the
speakers urged music in the factory
and football and baseball as amuse-
ments, with an occasional banquet
for foremen and workers, which was
declared to be good investment.
Congressman Winslow of Worcester,
however, was not impressed with the
effectiveness of social uplift He
said workers do not appreciate the
measures adopted "in their behalf"
and he wanted the efficiency experts
to tell him why it is that, with all
this uplift, the fellows who strike
first and stay out longest are work.
ing in factories that treat them
best" Congressman Winslow pro
tested against manufacturers who
happen to be enjoying temporary
prosperity paying scale of wages
above that which the average manu-
facturer can afford.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-03-31
CREDIT BILL AGAINST CITY
WORKERS AND FARMERS

(From Committee on Industrial Re
lations, Washington, D. c.
Representative Lindberg Of Min
nesota says in a report against the
fake rural credits bill known as the
Moss Bill in this congress:
This proposed rural credit system
avoids taking anything that the banks
want Since they want everything
that is OF value, the farmers are Of
fered nothing of value in this bill"
The bill is positive, definite in
jury to working people of the cities
as we'll as to farmers.
If this bad Moss bill is enacted it
will make it more difficult than ever
for the city worker or the tenant
farmer to get access to the land-or
for the borrowing farmer to get re
lief.
The same banking monopoly that
has its grip on factory industry Will
extend its power, through this bill,
over agricultural industry
A right rural credit system will de
yelop better credit facilities through
the assistance Of the government and
cooperative organizations of farmers
and tenants" as the main report of
the Commission on Industrial Rela.
tions recommends.
Have your congressman and sena-
tors kill this sham Moss Rural Credits
Bill-which is designed by the pri-
vate banking monopoly to delay real
rural credits and to destroy the op-
of the landless man to de-
velop the manless land.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-03-31
MINERS WANT LEGISLATION

WILKES BARRE, Pa.-Miners il
the anthracite district have started q
non-partisan movement for the elec
tion of candidates who are favorable
to the following Legislation:
An amendment to the workmen's
compensation law, increasing the
amount to be paid for total disability
and extending the time for which pay.
ments shall be made; also compensa.
tion for occupational diseases.
Old age pension law.
The extension of the bureau of the
unemployed so as to make it opera.
tive in all parts of the state.
An amendment to the law providing
for mothers pensions, and increasing
the amount to be paid.
More clearly defining the rights,
powers and duties of the state con.
stabulary (cossacks) to the end that
there may be no conflict of the au-
thority between municipal authorities
and the state organization.
Improvement of the mining laws.
Compensate the parents of children
who are forced under the law to re-
linquish jobs in order to attend school.
Repeal of the law by which public
service corporations compel payment
for water, light, gas and electricity
not used.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-03-31
PRESIDENT GOMPERS
URGES CONGRESS TO
PROBE PORTO RICO

WASHINGTON" Rights assured
Porto Rico workers under Spanisl
domination are, denied them now
declared President Gompers, las
Wednesday, before the senate com
mittee on Pacific islands and Porte
Rico.
The A. F. of l.. executive urged
that congress appoint a commission
to investigate conditions in that isl
and before legislation of fundamen
tai character is adopted.
and let that commission accept
every courtesy from Porto Rican Of
ficials," he said, "but let it 60 to the
heart of the people, victims of cruel
injustice by exploiters who have been
given every assistance by the gov
eminent"
Senator Vardaman asked President
Gompers if this was the same crowd
of buccaneers that is in the United
States"
"They are more conscienceless, for
these forces in this country can not
run amuck as they do in Porto Rico"
replied the unionist, who spoke from
first-hand knowledge because Of his
recent visit to that country.
1t was stated that in the present
strike of agriculturalists men are
clubbed, orders are issued that meet
ings of two or more persons shall not
be permitted, and workers are as
saulted, threatened, coerced and in
timiated against exercising their in.
herent rights. President Gompers sub
mitted a mass of testimony and cor.
respOndence to the committee rela-
tive to the treatment of workers. He
read one typical letter in which a
government official defended a police
man who dubbed strikers. The Off
cial said that if the policeman did not
club these strikers, the latter might
become dangerous, and that since
the strike was over the policeman
would be reprimanded."
In closing his appeal that the SEN
ate committee favor Porto Rico in
vestigating commission before any
Porto Rico organic legislation is
passed, President Gompers said:
"The organized workers of Porto
Rico is the only element that will
bind the ties between that country
and the United States. Every oher
element stands for destruction or are
5eparatists."
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-03-31

PEELED to enjoin any and every kind
of picketing. In other words, in the
state of Illinois, they say, there is no
such thing, in the eyes of the law, as
peaceful picketing. Not even sin.
gle person may walk in front of a
factory or shop whose employees are
on strike for the purpose of quietly
presenting arguments or facts to
misled applicants for jobs.
why? Because the judges say
that some pickets are violent or
threaten violence; that some pickets
use abusive epithets. Because some
pickets walk in groups and by their
mere presence intimidate certain
workers; that peaceful picketing is
sometimes a 'pretence,' that actual
pitcketing being aggressive and law
less, designed and calculated to in
spire fear and prevent men from ex-
ercising their right to work where
they please.
"This is singular logic. Is an inno-
cent man to suffer and have his legal
rights taken away from him because
another man has overstepped the
bounds of the law? Is peaceful pick.
citing illegal because some persons
call violence peaceful? Violence in
any case is illegal. Then why not
make peaceful picketing legal and
hold to an accountability under the
general statutes applying to all those
who engage in violence?"
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-03-31

en- Will NOT continue indefinitely to
work for wages that force them tn
live below their concepts of what con.
stitutes fair standard Of living"
After thorough investigation. the
main or Manly report Of the United
States Commission on Industrial Re.
lations, signed by Frank p Walsh
John B. Lennon James O'Connell and
Austin B. Garretson, declared:
The physical well-being. mental
development and recreationaI needs
Of every class of population demand
that under normal circumstances the
working day should not exceed eight
hours"
In a recent telegram to Carl Beck
of the Labor Center Association. Jas
O'Connell, president of the Metal
Trades Department of the A. F. Of r.
and member of the Committee on
Industrial Relations, said:
There is neither energy, inclina-
ton nor opportunity for the man or
woman who works ten or +walva
hours per day. The worker only be-
comes a work machine. The darkness
under which he creeps to and from
his work hides his misery and pow
erty from the world, and often from
himself; daylight and a chance to see
stir up discomfort necessary to arouse
action"
The demand for an eigbt.hour
day" declared Austin B. Garretson.
president of the Brotherhood of Rail.
road Conductors, and member of the
Committee on Industrial Relations.
is not only ethically but biologicalIv
and socially well founded, and. in
connection with the movement Of
trains, is the basic element of the
widely heralded motto Safety First"
Out Of the long work day and out
of low wages and unemployment and
the degrading conditions of life that
follow long hours of exacting and ex-
hausting work spring such undis-
ciplined riots of misery as the recent
one of Youngstown, Ohio.
In its demand for the eight-hour
work day the organized American la
Dor movement is laying the essen.
tial foundation to enduring economic
Justice and to the best citizenship for
the republic.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-03-31
Elght-HOur Movement
Is Growing

(from Committee on Industrial Re
lations, Washington, D. O.
WASHINGTON.-The organized Ia
Dor movement of America is rallvine
as one man to its demand for an s.
hour working day. Never before has
this demand been so insistent and so
compelling. Never before has labor
mad such magnificent opportunity to
enforce by its own efforts the appli.
| cation of working day that gives the
cltlzen who works the time and op-
portunity to become, in the words of
President Gompers of the American
Federation of Labor, "a human being
with intellectual desires and cray
ings"
The Labor Center Association of
New York City has just recently Civ
en- fine assistance to labor to express
and get before the American public
its righteous demands for the eight.
hour day. All groups and organiza-
tions and agencies of publicity that
recognize the rights of labor are Civ.
ing voice to the same compelling de.
mand
The splendid work of Samuel Com.
pers, voicing the organized labor
movement, has placed the eight-hour
day on an impregnable rock of jus.
tice and righteousness. President
Gompers said:
The individual who works eight
hours or less does not each day ex-
haust his energy. He has time for
recuperation and something more.
His mind is more alert and active. |
He is capable of more vigorous and
more effective work. He goes to and
from work at a time when we'll
dressed people are on the streets. He
really has time and opportunity for
comparisons and forming de.
Slres. He has longer time to stay at
home, sees other homes better fur
nished, and consequently wants a bet
ter home for himself. He wants
books, pictures, friends, entertain
ment In short, he becomes a human
being with intellectual desires and
This change makes him
more valuable worker. Because his
standard of living has changed he de-
nands higher wages. Men and wom
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-03-31
TRANSFERS ADVANCE

SCRANTON, Pa.-Union shop con
tracts have been signed by the team
sters' union and draying companies
of this city. The work day will be
nine hours and a 54-hour week, time
and one-half will be paid for over
time, and work ends on Saturday at
pm, with Sunday care for horses
abolished. The following wage rates
are agreed to: Drivers of two horses,
SIS per week; single team, $13; chauf,
feurs, $1S; barn men, SIS for a week
of 10 hours.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-03-31
INJUNCTION JUDGES
DENY FREE SPEECH

CHICAGO-"It may seem strange
that the question whether peaceful
picketing is legal in some of our
states should have to be seriously
discussed at this late day." says the
Illinois State Federation of Labor
Weekly News Letter
Have not American citizens the
fundamental rights of free speech,
moral suasion and the like? What
is peaceful pcketing? Nothing but
another name for the exercise of
these rights. To use the public
streets, to move about peaceably, to
approach and present facts and ar
guments to fellow workers, or would
be workers, in search of jobs-this is
peaceful picketing. How can it be
illegal?
"In all states where peaceful pick
citing is enjoined and punished by
Judges without sanction of organic
or statutory law the need of persist
ent education and agitation of the
question is most urgent Organized
labor cannot surrender this right in
a single state.
"In Illinois the situation is very
peculiar. In recent cases, Chicago
Judges have held flatly that, no mat
ter what they might personally think
under old supreme court decisions
in truth, mere dicta-they are COM
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-03-31
BIG EARNINGS IN STEEL

NEW YORK.-The annual report
of the United States Steel Corpora.
tion shows that during 1915 this CON
Germ earned $14O,250,O 900, or an in,
crease of $5S,5O3,54S over the pre-,
vious year.
The annual report of the Bethle-
hem Steel Company shows a net in.
come for 1915 of $17762,S1212, as
against $5,59OO2O.1S in 1914. This is
equal, after preferred dividends have
been paid, to 112 per cent. on the
common stock, as against 33 per cent
in 1914.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-03-31
HUGE PROFITS IN LOCOMOTIVES

PHILADELPHIA its report for
the year ending Dec. Is, 1915, the
Baldwin Locomotive Works shows net
earnings of $3,510,3S3, against $751;.
754 during the preceding year.
The production of the year amount
ed to $19,339, 1874 of locomotives and
the other usual products of the works,
and to $2,743,077 of other work result.
ing from the war
The Baldwin concern styles itself
an open shop which means that a
trade unionist jeopardizes his position
if he openly advocates organization
by the workers.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-03-31
STATE COSSACKS FAVORED

ALBANY, N. Y.-A mounted state
constabulary to relieve the national
guard from doing strike duty was
urged at conference in Gov Whit
mans office by delegation that in
sisted the state Should life the re-
striction that now keeps so many
young men out of the militia" 1t is
states that Gov Whitman suggested
state police bill be introduced in
the legislature to test public opin.
ion"
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-03-31
WIRE MEN RAISE WAGES

JOPLIN, Mo.-Electrical workers
have won their strike against the EN-
pire District Electric company A
one-year contract has been signed.
Wages are increased As cents day
and the company agrees not to dis
criminate against any employe be-
cause of union affiliation. These
workers recently organized under jur-
isdiction of the International Brother.
hod of Electrical Workers,
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-03-31
A. T. of L. Wants
Peace Conference

Washington, d. c.. March 26, 1916.
All Countries:
Friends and Brothers. - Will you
send a representative to attend a La
boris World Peace Congress? This
congress to be held at the same time
and in the same city as the represen-
tatives from the different countries
will meet to determine the terms of
peace.
The American Federation of Labor
convention, held November, 1914
four months after the war began
adopted a resolution which provided
for the calling of Labor Congress
for the same time and place that the
general peace congress shall be held,
which will determine conditions and
terms of peace at the close of the
war. This action was officially COM
municated to all national trade union
centers. The proposal to hold la.
Dor congress was generally discussed
by the various national labor move
ments during the past year and some
Of them have officially approved the
plan.
In other countries, thought is con-
centrated on the immediate and COM
pelling problems of daily life-prob-
lnrpc or oil oil
upon the future. We appreciate the
intense strain with which our fellow.
workers of Europe await the outcome
of the days struggle on the battle
field and the ultimate decision of the
war.
We are not unmindful of the issues
involved for which men are shedding
their blood and giving their lives. We
too have been confronted by national
problems which have grown out of
war conditions, and now our great
concern is that out of the horrors, the
suffering, the destruction of war, |
there shall come greater opportunity, |
freedom and protection for those who
do the worlds work-the toilers of |
all countries.
Everywhere the wage-earners by
service have proved their loyalty to
concepts of honor their patriotism,
their value as men and women. In
the past they have borne not only the
burdens of fighting during the war,
but have been weighted down by the
war debts and readjustments attend. |
ing return to peace conditions.
The workers can refuse to be the
victims of the blunderers, the evil
plans, the ambitions of those respon-
sible for this war. In their struggle
against oppression have been born
yearnings for human freedom, for bet
ter opportunities, for justice in life
and work. During the centuries they
have made rogress-sometimes slow,
it is true, but always progress. 1t
has been a long fight from slavery to
the present degree of freedom
BIG CHANCE AHEAD
There is great opportunity in the
future for democracy and
freedom. A century ago the feudal
system died in the Napoleonic wars
that convulsed Europe and the third
estate established their right to free t
dom and participation in the affairs !
of government and society.