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The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-07-21
Republican Party's Crooked
ness Exposed in Colorado
What We May Expect in Washington if Colonel
Hartley Is Elected Governor

to rivet the chains of Industrial
tyranny on its employees.
There can be-" says the court, re-
ferring to conditions proved to exist
in the Colorado coal fields, mo free,
open and fair election as contem-
plated by the constitution, where pri-
yate industrial corporations so
throttle public opinion. deny the free
exercise of choice by sovereign
electors, dictate and control all cleo
ton officers, prohibit public discus
sion of public questions, and i'm
perially command what citizens may
and what citizens may not, peacefully
and for lawful purposes, enter upon
election, or public territory"
EVERY ACT OF CORRUPTION
DESCRIBED BY THE SUPREME
COURT WAS COMMITTED LATE
IN THE YEAR 1914. AFTER THE
DATE WHEN ROCKEFELLER' s
AGENTS HAD SWORN THAT PO-
LITICAL ACTIVITY HAD CEASED,
AND AFTER JOHN D. ROOKIE
TELLER HAD PRACTICALLY AS
SUMED Personal CHARGE BY
SENDING MACKENZIE KING TO
COLORADO AND HAD FORMU-
LATED HIS MUCH ADVERTISED
COLORADO PLAN.
They were committed, says the
court, long after all disorder had
ceased, and when the federal troops
were in charge of the district
To corroborate its findings, the
Supreme Court quotes the admissions
of f. H. Weitzel, highest field officer
for Rockefeller. who personally or
dered the democratic candidates kept
out of the eight closed precincts on
the ground that they were agitators
The whole case is summed up by
the court as follows;
I'VE are unable to find a precedent
where like, or similar conditions, have
Continued on Page Two)
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-07-21
President Wilson's Views
On Mexico

the greatest disaster in American his
tory. Mr.. Walsh was in position TO
speak not only for himself, but to
speak with knowledge for the working
people of the United States.
The American workers and pro-
ducers who earn what they get and
earn more have expressed a deep
sense of contempt and resentment for
the American parasites or exploiters
who would have other American men
and boys give up their lives and
slaughter Mexican men and boys, to
protect the property which these
parasites or eXploiters have filched
from Mexican poems and workers.
With equally fine scorn the president
voiced this deep popular resentment.
81 am not the servant Of those
who wish to enhance the value
of their Mexican Investments"
he declared. q am the servant
of the rank and file of the people
of the United States"
Mr. Wilson quoted from the i'm
perial incarnation of force and MUIR
der known as Napoleon the Great"
the saying Of his last years, his dis
illusioned years, Force will not ac-
complish anything that is permanent"
The same First Napoleon declared:
World politics is fate" President
Wilson, disclosing himself to the New
York Press Club. as he said: AS the
fallible human being that I am" init
mated that the tide Of circumstance
might carry him and his administra-
tion, against his will and AGAINST the
will of the American people. into war
or into militarist intervention with
their weak and distracted neighbor."
But his purpose against it and his will
against it We're disclosed in his quo
tation of the prayer Of unknown men
and humble women"-"Mr' President.
do not allow anybody to persuade you
that the people of this country want
war with anybody And he gave the
further substance Of this prayer: "Of
course, we know that you cannot gov
ern the circumstances of the case al
together, and it may be necessary 60
so into Mexico for war;, but for Gods
sake do not do it unless it is
necessary
The committee on industrial rela-
tions, hearing the sentiment and, as
we'll as it can, diffusne the sentiment
of the millions Of American working
men and their families concerning
militarism and sham patriotism and
intervention, will testify that the
president has interpreted that senti-
menr Alright
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-07-21
(FrOm Committee on Industrial
Relations.)
By Dante Barton.

Washington, d. c., July 2O.-"Do
you think the glory of America would
be enhanced by a war of conquest in
Mexico? Do you think that any act
of violence by a powerful nation like
this against weak and distracted
neighbor would reflect distinction
upon the annals of the United States ?
DO you think it is our duty to carry
self-defense to the point of dictatiOn
in the affairs of another people? The
ideals of America are written plain
upon every page Of American history" ."
From speech of PRESIDENT
WOODROW WILSON to New York
Press Club, June 80.
President Wilson, servant of the
republic Of the United States, ex-
pressed the fine faith and the fine
soul of the plain American people in
his great speech on the Mexican sit
uation to the New York Press Club
the night Of June 30.
To express strongest approval and
gratitude to President Wilson for that
expression of American honor and
justice, is in itself an act Of simple
faith and loyalty to the American
labor movement. Such commendation
Of the president is an obligation of
true Americanism, if "Americanism"
is to be worthy Of its origins and
traditions.
The American Federation of Labor.
under the direct leadership of
Samuel Gompers, and all other out
spoken groups and parties Of Amer
lean labor, have worked directly for
months, and indirectly for years alons
the lines laid down so clearly by the
American president
Il get a great many letters, my
fellow citizens" said President
Wilson, from important and in
fluential men in this country, but
get many other letters. l get
letters from unknown men, from
humble women, from people
whose names have never been
heard and will never be recorded,
and there is but one prayer in
all of these letters: Mr. Prest-
dent, do not allow any one to per-
suade you that the people of this
country want war with anybody"
Frank P Walsh, chairman of the
committee on industrial relations, has
said recently in a published state
ment that war with Mexico would be
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-07-21
FOR UNIVERSAL
EIGHT-HOUR DAY

Il hold that the eight-hour day is so
incontestably right that the demand
for it is not a subject for arbitration
1t should be taken as matter of
inalienable right through the eco
nomic power of the workers. Not
only should no man be compelled to
work more than eight hours a day;
but no man should be permitted to
work more than eight hours a day
except with the consent Of his fellow
workers. and under conditions which
they impose, by their collective bar
gaining power, to see that the one
man does not invade and imperil the
rights Of his fellows. I hold further
that the right of the workers to col
lective bargaining and the right of
every worker to be protected by his
fellow workers from arbitrary dis
charge are also tn einalienable rights
of modern industry and they also are
not subjects for arbitration Frank
p. Walsh.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-07-21
EVERETT SOCIALIST MAY
BE SENT TO CONGRESS
CFrom Milwaukee, Leader.)

(FrOm MllWdukeee LedueI.J
If the socialist vote in the Second
congressional district of Washington
can be doubled over the 1912 vote the
district can send a socialist to Wash
ington next fall. r. j. Olinger, an
electrical worker, described by his
fellow socialists as the highest paid
wage slave in Everett" is making the
run for congress.
The campaign that will be waged
in the Second district for Olinger's
election will fairly sizzle, once it gets
under way. A live committee has the
plans in hand. These plans include
the establishment of four socialist
weeklies in the district, which will
probably be made permanent institu-
tions.
Union help is looked for as Olinger
is a member of the Electrical Work
ers' Union and all the members of
the union are socialists. All that
socialists of Everett have to say just
now is. "Watch the State of Washing
ton this year,"
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-07-21
CO. OPERATORS TO CONFER

Staunton, Ill.-The second annual
convention of the Illinois State Co
operative Society will be held in this
city beginning Monday, July 81, to
consider among other things, "the
advisability of making our organiza-
ton a National Consumers Co-opera-
tive Society and to devise ways and
means of inaugurating wholesale
department" 1t is stated that the CO.
operative movement is growing as
never before. and that "a large num-
ber of societies have proved beyond
any possibilities of doubt the sub
stantial advantages that the co-opera-
tive movement is to the workers and
their families"
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-07-21
St. Paul Unions Win
A Big Fight in Court
ASSOCIATION is DENIED RESTRAINING ORDER
DICKSON

the plaintiff, against his will, to con-
duct his business in accordance with
the desires of the defendants and not
in accordance with his own desire, and
to that end have threatened to coerce
all those dealing or desiring to deal
with the plaintiff by means of boy
colts and secondary strikes, and have
threatened directly to interfere with
plaintiffs employees and to coerce and
intimidate them into abandoning work
for the plaintiff"
No specific facts were alleged in
this complaint, according to Judge
Dickson's memorandum of the reason
ing leading to his conclusion. The
utmost the court could find of solid
fact in the complaint was that certain
union workers had refused to haul
sand because the Grant Company s
business was non-union, and that
others had refused to use the com
pany's tools for the same reason.
"There is nothing unlawful in this, -
the court found.
The anxiety of the Grant Company
about union men being "coerced" to
quit working for a non-union concern
by fines imposed by the union, must
have been immensely relieved by
Judge Dickson's statement that union
fines do not constitute coercion. The
judge declared:
"Any individual may abandon his
union at will, and cannot by any legal
method be compelled to pay a labor
union fine. He belongs to and acts
with a union or not just as he pleases,
and his choice in the matter is based
on economic considerations. Self-in-
terest and a desire on the part of each
individual to do the best for himself
he can under economic circumstances
is at the bottom of the whole scheme
1t is a very idle threat to threaten a
man with fine he cannot be com
PEELED to pay, and the paying or not
paying of which is a matter of his
own judgment and choice, and the
payment of which it is merely a con
dition of retaining certain contractual
relations with others"
The case was tried on May 10.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-07-21
SHINGLE WEAVERS GAIN

Inglewood, Wash. - The Weber
Single Company, operating two
mills, has accepted the wage rates of
the Shingle Weavers' Union. Other
mills have done likewise and Presi-
dent Brown reports STEADY and per-
manent gains continue to mark the
progress of the shingle weavers' fight
for a restoration of the old scale of
wages" Substantial gains have been
made in the Columbia river district.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-07-21

st. Paul, Mimi, July 20.-The rights
of organized workers in this state to
do collectively what the law does not
forbid them to do individually has
been affirmed from the bench here in
an almost unprecedentedly emphatic
and fearless manner. Frederick n.
Dickson, judge in the Ramsey County
District Court, in denying an applica-
tiOn for a temporary restraining in
junction against the union building
trades organizations of st. Paul, has
declared:
"Any man may refuse to work for
or deal with another man, handle his
products or work with his tools for
any reason sufficient unto himself,
and what he can do in this respect
individually, he can do collectively by
agreement with others, and through a
federated agency"
The George Grant Construction
Company, a member of the National
Association of Manufacturers, made
the motion for the injunction. A N.
A. M. attorney, Walter G. Merritt,
prominent in the American Anti-Boy-
colt Society, was sent by the associa-
tion to press the motion. The motion
was argued at length The substance
of the complaint, as summarized by
Judge Dickson, was:
"That the defendants, who are labor
unions, members and officers of labor
unions, and the st. Paul Building
Trades Council, federated agency of
said several unions, have, with many
other persons unknown, unlaWfully
conspired in restraint of trade and
competition to control the market for
labor in the building trades, and to
obtain a monopoly thereof for the
members of their unions in violation
of the penal statutes of the State OF
Minnesota; that these defendants and
others unknown have entered into a
conspiracy to destroy plaintiffs busi-
ness, and to that end have threatened
unlawful coercion of those dealing or
wishing to deal with the plaintiff, and
that defendants have conspired among
themselves and with others to compel
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-07-21
HITS LIABILITY COMPANIES

Jackson. Ohio.-ln speech last
week Ex-Governor Cox. made this
reference to the effort of private liza
bility companies to destroy the Ohio
compensation law
Instead of cheerful acqWescencc in
an evolution that every humanitarian
impulse indorses, the liability insur-
ance companies continue to be domi-
mated by promptngs of brutality and
greed In an attempt to re-establish
their harvest of dollars, made out of
injured workmen and industrial
deaths, they are seeking by a plan,
artful and insidious. to so emasculate
the workmen's compensation law as
to kill IT,"
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-07-21
STAGE WORKERS
ELECT OFFICERS

Local Union No. $50, l. A. T. S. E.,
held their regular meeting last Sun
day, July 10TH and elected officials
for the new term. The following
brothers were elected Arthur Peter
son, president; F. c. Goldthorpe, vice
president; Mark Bebeau, recording
secretary; Bert Webster, financial
secretary; George Fauber business
agent, and Nick Rudebeck, sergeant
alarms.
Labor's Great Peace Parade was the
subject of much discussion during the
meeting, and it was decided to have
a comedy float, and they promise
something startling and novel, so
unionists can look forward to seeing
something that is worth while, for
judging from past experiences, we
know that when they say they will do
things, we'll! something is sure to
happen.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-07-21
PEACE MOVEMENT UNDER
WAY IN GERMANY

Berlin (via London) Scientists, in
dustrialists and representatives Of
commerce and agriculture have
formed a German national committee
under the chairmanship of Prince Won
Wedel, says the Koelnische Zeitung,
with the aim of awakening a uni
form understanding of the German
people for an honorable conclusion Of
peace which shall guarantee a secured
future empire In doing this, says
the Koelnische Zeiung. "all one-sided-
ness" is to be avoided.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-07-21
TRADES
COUNCIL
N E w S

The Council was called TO order
with Brother Sam Roberts in the
chair. Credentials were read seating
Brothers Olinger, Roberts and G. Vim
gen of the Electricians, P. F. Dorsey,
f. G. Sartor and North of the Cigar
makers, |. Mcdonald from the Rarbers
and Bebeau, Stewart and Fauber from
the Stage Workers.
The Council endorsed the appeal of
Mrs. Smith of Marysville, president
of the Anti-Tuberculosis League, and
will petition the county commissioners
to proceed with the erection of the
county sanitarium.
The Labor Day committee Brother
Olinger made an excellent report
Things are sure hummins for a big
turnout
Longshoremen report good, en-,
thusiastio meetings. Their orsanj2a-
ion has gotten out a small paper on
the strike situation and it teens with
good, live reading matter and news.
The names of all business men in
Everett who favor organized labor
and signed it's petition will be pub
lished shortly in the Journal, also
those who are our enemies.
A committee is out looking up the
Kernels record. Things will look
black for him by the time they get
through.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-07-21
NOTICE TO LABOR TEMPLE
STOCKHOLDERS

The semi-annual meeting of stock
holders of the Everett Trades Build
ing Association will be held in Labor
Temple Saturday evening, July 29th,
at eight o'clock. Semi-annual election
of officers and other business of ut
most Importance to stockholders will
be up for action and a full attendance
of the Board is desired.
e. p. MARSH,
2t ecretary-Treasurer.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-07-21
(From Committee on Industrial Re
lations, Washington, d. O.
By George p West.

Washington, July 0.-"Fraudulent
and infamous prostitutions of the
ballot was resorted to at the last
election by the republican organiza-
ton of the Colorado coal fields on be-
half of John D. Rockefeller's Colorado
Fuel & Iron Company. This is the
latest charge brought against the
men who put over Governor George
Carlson, Sheriff jeff Farr and the
other Law and Order" candidates
who succeeded in the last election.
Who charges it?
Frank p Walsh?
Guess again.
The Supreme Court of the State of
Colorado!
In a decision that confirms all
Walsh said about the corrupt methods
of the Rockefeller company, the
highest court in the state orders
Sheriff Jeff Farr and all his coal
company crew to step down and out
and turn over their stolen offices to
their democratic opponents.
The same infamous and fraudulent
prostitution of the ballot" that gave
Farr his bogus election also swelled
the plurality of Carlson, the coal
company governor now in office. But
because the case at bar concerned
only the result in Huerfano County,
Carlson is left undisturbed
The decision and opinion just
handed down by the Colorado Su-
preme Court constitutes an amazing
expose of high-handed intimidation,
coercion and corruption practiced by
the coal company and the republican
party. The court finds that the coal
company WAS the republican party,
and that party's candidates merely
the servile tools used by the company
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-07-21
CARPENTERS STRIKE

Pittston, Pa.-The Carpenters union
has been forced to call a strike to
contractors to pay wage rates
accepted by other employers in the
wyoming valley.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-07-21
ROSA LUXEMBOURG PUT
UNDER ARREST IN BERLIN

Amsterdam.-The Volkszeitung of
Liepsig says that Rosa Luxembourg, of
the editorial staff of the socialist
newspaper Vorwaerts, has been ar
rested again at her home in Berlin.
The reason for the arrest has not
been made public.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-07-21

Criminal proceedings against Rosa
Luxembourg and others were begun
about a year ago on account of al
legged reasonable articles in the
monthly Internationale, which was
suppressed by the German govern
ment. She was subsequently to serve
year in prison for accusing German
officers of abusing private soldiers.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-07-21
TEACHERS EXAMINATION

will be held at the Everett High
School s a. m, August 3-4-5, 1916.
MRS. r. A. SMALL,
County School Superintendent.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-07-21

Kodak Films developed for cents.
Prints &c and up. Juleens Studio.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-07-21
WANTED-AN EDITOR

T. Applications wanted for the \
! position of Editor of the Journal. :.
j. Must be a live wire. Address j
j. Board of Control, Labor Journal. :
i Applications to be in Sunday, i
+ August 9th. j.
!, !
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-07-21

Trunks, Bags, Repairing - Everett
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The daily progressive-miner., 1916-01-25
s Ews FROM ANCHORAGE

Mrs ollio Gray. former resident <a property owner of the town sr- rived yesterday moning oa the Northwestern from Anchorage. where she says that sho bought . p'eea of property and built good auiiling that she has been occupying foe . restaurant, and claimed to have done well. She came 10 settle seao business and will return to AnchOrAge as soon as it is settled
 Mrs. Gray say that tho Weekly Alaskan. D Socialist weekly puhli- aioR as Anchorage. got into what might have been serious trouble just tefere she Jeff. It appears that the paper in question made some dis
 sing nemarkS against some Ital. aa .9horers In retadiation. the Ital- ans marched to the office and wefe @ enalned to make an end of this
 aaSe. hals fortunately. it was final ' tiled Mrs. Gray has great con
 f,denee in the future Of the town
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TEN DOLLARS AN OUNCE FOR
 POSTAGE

The first settlement on the pres eat site of San Franeiseo dates frOm 1776. l. consisted of . Span ish military pos. (presidiol and the Franciscan mission of San Fran ciSco e Asis. h ISs6 tha settle raent of Yerta Busna was estab- Lishs1 in little core southeast Of Telegraph Hill. The name San Er@ncisc0 vas. however. applied 10 all three settlements The United States flag was raisa3 over the town in iS46. and the population rapidly increased. reaching perhaps 900 in May. 1s48 The news of the gold discoveries was followed b. crowds cE fortune seekers. 50 that by the end q Is4S .ha city had an esti- E2.asad population e z1-oa0. From tAas sinaa on San Francisco has grown rapidly. The first regular overland main communication wita the Easz was established by pony express n 1880. the charge for post age bsing 5 for half ar ounce. In 1889 sha completion of the Central Pacific Railway 10 Oakland marked --s beginning Of -ranseontinentaI -9nluaanieatisn--tU. g. Geological Survey.l
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WHAT IT COSTS T0 REAR
 T.. S- ARMY OFFICER
sFrosn Botssoa Glossel


 Fsxurss are being prepared as tho War and navy departments sO sheN sAo eSaS eest of turning cut sailor and soldier officers St the Naval academy and West Point.
 The preparedness programs which wils bs presented to congress and zsue rsx~n5 figures printed about the eose of educating these students have interested she army and navy general sssffs and they have de ssra.ains,i to find our JuSt how much i- amounts to-
 @T A2vs never taken Ccc-as5oz so find oa.4 .ha exac4 cost fur each man. sai1 Sseze...z af tho Navy Daa5e.s. .-ts. la.saa "a look into sa.e matter anu sse Wlasre scnae pso- uls ges the haS2s for eOnssn3srg thai ss coSt upwards of Sl6-oc0 70 ssfuszs.e 8 naval officer ! have been told that tha expense apQrox- ssgasss Sl200o. buf I think tha1 Ls . es7 exaggerated
 When asked concerning she sgaEs- meuz u,a3s by a prominent writer .ha4 i4 ccs5 Seo.Gtl6 h ssn3 a boy through West Po5ne. s12g,2tl through Annapolis, and onIy S15Q9 through E4Evar1 and other big universities, sRe secretary sai6 he could not speak f0- the war department, b1. 2s rsrar,ia,5 tha navT's school u w-cua8 be found thar every school whsrs military seisaea is taught Is more expensive than other lnsei- 5utfoas-
 The main difference between ths expense of running the serves schools and ether universities. the secretary po'z-ad out. is tha costly Es.rzgheru2lia ussd n drilling zhs men single g,.sess ot fi15ng arms sReA as the l4-iaeA E4vy guns and ehe big eo2s3 5stsnse guns costing uEszr5s ot Sl0001e apiece
 These, he sas. probably vgould t.s rad fur o14 of saiovzaents f rfey were uses5 1T institutions like H4r- Tzu5 and Yale