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The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-06-02
THE SWEAT SHOP

The sweat shop saps the vitality of
the humblest worker in the industries:
it deprives him of fresh air and sun
light; it is breeding place of con.
tagious disease. The white plague,
known as tuberculosis, flourishes in
these dens of iniquity.
The sweat shop reduces the worker
to a condition of servitude, and robs
him Of the last vestige of indie
pendence. 1t means long hours and
low wages, combined with poor sani-
tary conditions; it is species of wage
slavery based on industrial injustice.
The sweat shop robs childhood of
sunshine and the playground; it re-
tards the mental and physical de-
velopment of the children. It is
national disgrace and a reproach on
modern civilization.
The work in the sweat shop COM
mences early in the morning and ends
late in the evenings; there is no clos
ms houl' II 10 Il perpetual llllJ Gil
quilted in a helpless and hopeless in
dustrial abyss.
The trade union movement has an
imperative duty to perform The wage
slaves toiling in the sweat shops of
the country have to be rescued from
the inferno in which their spirits are
crushed, their health sacrificed. The
lowest paid and hardest pressed work
ers in the social scale are entitled to
full consideration. 1t is of equal i'm
portance to the general welfare to
save the sweat shop workers from de-
struction and raise their wages as it
is to raise the wages of the best paid
workers.
In the state of New York, where the
sweating system in the tenement
houses is growing constantly, the ad
verse decisions of the courts in past
years have nullified legislation tend
ing to eliminate this growing evil.
Nothing short of a constitutional
amendment by the legislature and or
ganization seems to be able to prevent
these dens of infamy and degradation.
-Cigarmakers' Journal.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-06-02
The Nan With the Hoe

Slave of the wheel of labor, what to
him
Are Plato and the swing of Pleiades &?
What the long reaches of the peaks of
song,
The rift of dawn, the reddening of the
rose?
Through this dread shape the suffer
ing ages look;
Times tragedy is in that aching
stoop;
Through this dread shape humanity
betrayed,
Plundered, profaned and disinherited,
Cries Protest to the Judges of the
World.
A protest that is also prophecy.
o masters, lords and rulers in all
lands,
Is this the handiwork you give to
God,
This monstrous thing distorted and
soul-quenched?
How will you ever straighten up this
shape;
Touch it again with Immortality;
Give back the upward looking and
the light;
Rebuild in it the music and the
dream;
Make right the immemorial infamies
Perfidious wrongs, immedicable woes
o masters, lords and rulers in all
lands,
How will the Future reckon with this
Man?
How answer his brute question in
that hour
When whirlwnds of rebellion shake
the world?
How will it be with kingdoms and
with kings
With those who shaped him to the
thing he is
When this dumb Terror shall reply
to God,
After the silence of the centuries?
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-06-02
A CHEAP TRICK
is FRUSTRATED
ATTEMPT OF EMPLOYERS ASSO-
CATION INTERESTS TO STAMP
PEDE DEMOCRATIC CoNVEN-
TON FOlLED BY QUICK WORK

An interesting story comes from the
North Yakima last month. That it is
so long in reaching the readers of
this paper is due to the innate mod
esty of the principal characters,
which include a prominent spokesman
for the employers association and
prominent labor leader.
1t seems that there was an earnest
effort on the part of certain delegates
to the democratic convention to pre-
vent the endorsement of the principle
of partisanship to which Gov.
Ernest Lister, leader of the party in
this state, had subscribed in speeches
previous to the meeting Early on
the day in which the matter was to
come up for final action the streets
of North Yakima were found Uttered
with the familiar little "pluggers"
used in political campaigns, reading:
NON-PARTISAN
Means
Will Organized Labor
Support Such?
The plugger bore union label,
and the union men present at the con-
vention Immediately took steps to
ascertain whence it had originated.
The label and the key number accom-
panying showed that the pluggers had
been printed at the Mechanics Pub
fishing Co. shop in Seattle. This
sounded innocent enough until re-
course to the city directory showed
that the Mechanics Publishing Co. was
the property of F. W. Phelps-and
then great light dawned.
Mr.. Phelps is the gentleman who
came to Seattle several years ago to
show the labor movement where to
get off. To him the employers asso-
citation are indebted for a great many
of their most excruciatingly ridicu-
lous ideas of the formation and opera
ton Of labor unions, and to him has
flowed a steady stream of subsidy for
various publications inimical to labor
which he has issued from time to
time. The identification Of Mr.. Phelps
with the "pluggers" showed the source
of the conspiracy and Immediately the
union men delegates to the conven-
ton issued reply "plugger" which
read as follows:
NON-PARTISAN
ELECTION
Was Endorsed by the
WASHINGTON STATE
FEDERATION OF LABOR.
Will Organized Labor
Support It?
YES!
And thus the pleasant little con-
spiracy of our friends the enemy was
nipped in the bud.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-06-02
BY Edwin Markham

CThis poem. which was written after
seeing Millefs worldfamous painting,
was published in 1899 by California
school principal and made a profound
impression. 1t has been hailed as the
battle cry of the next thousand
years.
Bowed by the weight Of centuries he
leans
Upon his hoe and gazes on the ground,
The emptiness of ages in his face,
And on his back the burden of the
world.
Who made him dead to rapture and
despair
A thing that grieves not and that
never hopes,
Stolid and stunned, a brother to the
OK?
Who loosened and let down this
brutal jaw?
Whose breath blew out the light
within this brain?
Is this the thing the Lord God made
and gave
To have dominion over sea and land;
To trace the stars and search the
heavens for power;
To feel the passion of Eternity?
Is this the dream He dreamed who
shaped the suns
And marked their ways upon the
ancient deep?
Down all the stretch of He'll to its
last gulf
There is no shape more terrible than
this
More tongued with censure of the
worlds blind greed
More filled with signs and portents
for the soul
More fraught with menace to the
universe.
What CULTS between him and the
seraphim!
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-06-02
TRADES
COUNCIL
N E w S

Credentials were received from the
Everett Typographical Union No. 40
for Brothers A. w. Stanley and B. I.
Quien, as delegates from that organ
ization. Neither was present.
A telegram was read showing that
the observation-disclosures paints are now
fair; they were ordered stricken from
the Unfair List
Building Laborers reported that
they had secured an increase, for
common laborers, from $3.50 to SO a
day
Label League will hold a card party
this evening, with the eats included.
Everybody invited.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-06-02
THE POLITICAL SUPERMAN

Before 1916 every republican poll
tician seems certain that Theodore
Roosevelt will be back in the repub'
lican fold. Despite the libel suit with
Barnes, the alliance of that gentleman
with Murphy, the corrupt and scan
dalous Invisible government alleged
to be the result of that alliance, de-
spite all the frothing at Chicago re-
garding naked theft" and the bitter
recrimination of Taft, and the In
sistence on social justice" Roose-
welt is confidently expected to return
to his republican vomit, and his wal
lowing in the mire. The only pro-
gressive senator in congress, Mr..
Miles Poindexter, has already an
nounced that he will be a candidate
to succeed himself on the republican
party platform.
The politicians are rarely wrong in
matters of this sort They know one
another too we'll to be mistaken in
political forecasts of this kind.
How will Mr. Roosevelt explain
matters to his constituents? He won't
have to. Nobody will question his
Judgment. Armageddon is anywhere
he wants to stand and do battle for
the Lord
Here is the answer that silences all
questioning. We take it from the YER
batim report of his cross-examination
by Mr.. WINS in the Barnes libel case:
Rooesvelt-We took the advice
of our lawyers. l KNOW that
Justice was done.
Ivins-How do you know sub
stantial justice was done?
ooseveIt-BECAUSE I DID 1T.
Ivins-Do you mean that any
thing you do is right because you
do it?
Roosevelt KNOW that when
I do thing, it is RIGHT. |
KNOW substantial JUSTICE has
been done That's exactly what
I DO KNOW.
Is there a single progressive in the
land that would have sufficient cour-
age to stand up and question Theo-
dore on his apparent desertion of the
progressive cause after listening to a
These fellows were bold enough IN
1912 to follow Roosevelt out of the
republican party. They will be sur
ficiently weak and cowardly to follow
him back into it in 1916. Roosevelt
KNOWS what Justice is-even Social
Justice. His followers don't, and
daren't even pretend they do,-The
Call IN. ".
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-06-02
MONEY FOR GOOD ROADS

The United States senate has
passed a bill appropriating $S5,000,O0O
for good roads, providing an equal
amount be spent by the states. There
is no question whatever about the
need of good roads. But the senate
overlooked one very important mat
ter in connection Herewith.
In the absence of any provision to
the contrary, the federal governments
contribution of $S5,OO0,O0O will be
raised, as is all other federal revenue,
by indirect taxes on food, clothing
and other things used or consumed by
the people The greater part of the
states share will be raised by taxes
that have practically the same effect.
Al the same time the roads built will
increase to an enormous extent the
value of lands adjoining them. So
that the people will pay taxes on
what they produce and consume, in
order that land owners may be en-
riched.
That this is a fact has been con-
coded on more than one occasion by
Mr. T. Coleman du Pont, president of
the National Good Roads association
and candidate for the republican NOM
nation for president of the United
States Mr. du Pont once offered to
build a 200foot road at his own ex-
pense throughout the length of his
native State of Delaware. AS large
land owner along the route of this
proposed road he would have been
reimbursed through increased value.
He mentioned as reason for this
offer the fact that the state should
build the road rather than a private
individual but that he did not care
to wait for the state to make up its
mind to do so. He holds that the
should not only condemn
the land needed for the road, but all
the land on both sides of it, so that
it might be recouped for its ex-
penditure with a profit besides. He
would not have this land sold, but
held and leased to users by the gov
eminent
There is still time to include in the
good roads bill the plan advocated by
Mr.. du Pont. It is far superior to
the plan of putting the entire expense
on taxpayers and giving the entire
gain to land owners.
But simpler method would be to
levy a direct tax on land values, ex-
elusive Of improvements. That would
get the money from those who get the
benefits. without burdening pro-
ducers of wealth 1t may be said in
addition. that all public revenue
should be raised in that way, since
all benefits, besides road building,
conferred by government, cause in
creased land values as well. But the
good roads scheme offers a fine
chance for a beginning at doing
things in the right way.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-06-02

people awaken to the true nature OF
capitalism and majority shall turn
to socialism. AS long as they place
their government in the keeping of
political parties that are dependent
upon the True Profit and bound 10
sustain it, they need hardly expect
that the creature will rise superior
to its creator.
The political mice may talk bravely
of belling the plutocratic cat when
the cat is playing with it's velvet paw,
but once 1t stretches out its claws
their courage oozes away and they
run valiantly for their holes.
Safety first!
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-06-02
Those Happy DAYS

Remember the eyes of the nation
are on you" exclaimed the con-
stituent.
81 know it," replied Senator SCR.
ghum. "And the nations getting MOD
acutely discerning every day. T
time is gone when a man can assn
an impressive pose and get by as
optical illusion. "-Washington Star.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-06-02
PUBLICITY FOR PLUToCRATS

Pitiless publicity which President
Wilson promised should be invoked by
his administration to cure whatever
economic ills the antitrust law and
the new freedom should fail to abate,
is not appealing to the president with
the same force that it did when he
was giving voice to it's curative
qualities.
Basil NJ. Manly, who has been in
vestigating the income tax frauds, has
found that the provision in the law
for secrecy offers security to decep-
ton and collision and corruption,
through which the government is
cheated He found instances where
the government has been defrauded
of more than a million dollars, which
would have been difficult if the pitt
less publicity which President Wilson
promised had been permitted.
The income tax law provides for
secrecy, yet it gives the president and
the secretary of the treasury author
ity to make public the records.
Secrecy has ever been a safeguard to
fraud The income tax law which
was in force at the conclusion of the
civil war, before the supreme court
reversed its decisions and held an
income tax unconstitutional, was
.emasculated in 1870 by an amendment
Ito insure secrecy. The returns fell
lin one year from 94,8S7 to 74,775.
After having made the law ineffective,
congress then used it's failure" as an
excuse to repeal it,
Mr. Manly shows that the great
tax thieves are the American multi
milionaires" He reports:
The evidence tends to show that
in one case aIone-the estate of
+. V. Hardness the published
facts indicate evasions involving
in taxes and penalties more than
100000
The evidence to show the Rock
efeler foundation is a device by
which John d. Rockefeller has
escaped taxation upon more than
$4,000 900 of his annual income.
The evidence reveals the inef-
tiveness Of the existing income
tax law and shows the great loop
holes left by "jokers' in the act,
through which hundreds Of mil
lions of dollars have so far sue
ceeded in avoiding taxation.
There has been no "pitiless pub
icity" from administration sources to
expose the tax-dodgers and force con
gress to strengthen the law Instead,
President Wilson, when urging con
gress to porvide more revenue, sug-
gested taxes that would fall upon the
masses Of the people The admins
Itration is fearful that if it shall urge
higher taxes on wealth it will be left
without a leg to stand on in the next
election
Mr.. Wilson Is quite well aware, as
is every intelligent man at Washing
ton that the moneyed interests can
make or unmake American statesmen
They control the sources of public
opinion. For the president of the
United States to challenge the reign
ing plutocracy-to seek seriously to
cripple its privileges or prerogatives
would be as suicidal as 1t would be
for King Alfonso to challenge the
authority of the Roman church in
Spain or for Sir Edward Carson to
acclaim the pope's sovereignty in
Belfast.
There can be little Roadway made
toward curbing the power Of Ameri
can DlutOcracy until the American
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-06-02
Two Methods

81 buy my wife everything she
wants. How about your"
Il keep mine wanting a few things
just to be sure that her interest in
me is Observation-Disclosures City
Journal. ~.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-06-02

Felix Diaz has just landed in Next
co in the belief that there is a good
opening down there for a new revolu-
ton conducted on sound, conservative
Herr Id.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-06-02

An old Indian chief, visiting a
western city, was invited into an ice
plant. where he witnessed for the
first time in his life the artificial pro
duction Of ice Looking on in aston
lshment he exclaimed
"Uhl Heap smart white man!
Smarter than God Almighty! White
man make ice in summer time; God
Almighty have 10 wait for winter
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-06-02

Now that the Apache scouts re-
cruited to aid Gen. Pershipg in Mexico
have been supplied with wrist watches,
maybe a plain citizen will be per-
mitted to wear one without exciting
invidious comment.-Chicago Herald.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-06-02

A general uDheaFaI of the masses
o2 Europe against imperialism after
the war. the outcome Of which viii be
the formation Of federation Of
European states on democratic lines,
Is the forecast Of ] Koettgen, made
In a recent address in Philadelphia.
Prior to the war Koettgen was for
twenty years London correspondent
of the Berlin Vorwaerts, leading so
cialist newspaper Of Germany, and
the Vienna Arbeiter Zeitung
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-06-02

the Labor Temple and get a petition.
take it out in your neighborhood All
with all their power to discredit dire%
get it filled. You won't find it hal
to do.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-06-02
LABEL LEAGUE TO
GIVE CARD PARTY

This evening at p. m. the
Card and Label League will en-
terrain unionists and their friends at
cards supplemented by the good
eats Be therei
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-06-02

On the basis of the published state
ments of the cost of the war, the
100000 donated to the war fund by
King George will pay for thirty min
utes of MISUNDERSTANDING Southern
Lumberman.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-06-02

Jack Costello The finest OF Cloth
ing made to measure. $40 TO $40.
Union Made.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-06-02

Jack Costello. The finest of Cloth
ing made to measure, $40 to $40.
Union Made.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-06-02

Trunks, Bags, Repairing - Everett
Trunk Factory, 2815 Rockefeller.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-06-02

PatronIze YOUR Advertisers.
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1916-01-07
Clarks

Mrs. Frank Frichie has return
ed after Spending Xmas in Selma.
Miss Thelma Markham spent a
few days in Clarks visiting
friends.
Miss Myrtle Sweeny is spend
ing Xmas holidays in Clarks.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. Colqujt Of
Conroe, Tex, are visiting lela-
tives here.
John Pahington returned We'd
nesday from Piedmo' t, no,
whe.e nc spent the holidays, His
wife VIII not return for several
days.
E. E. Tarver spent Tuesday
and Wednesday il C'arks. He
has accepted d position in Ctos-
sett, Ark.
'lle New Yer Banquet HIS
bean po5tponed. The .:yhts wi.
rem ais cn till after Iaidnight,
ana the Whistles VII le blown.
l,ast s ln6av was Church Day
in clark. 1t Wa.s a good uaY for
the great cause. Go to church
next Sunday!
The Raraca class is meeting
ii the Public Library room now
Two temperate lectures wert
given at the Hall "Wednesday
) night.
Every child who attends Sun
day School received a good gif
last Sunday.
Ninety-nine have already sign
: ed the prayer meeting resolution
cards. The church is hlghl
e gratified.
f The big mill is not runnln
: now on aceount of repairs.
a Miss Hazel Hollis will max
g Clarks her home for a while.
(The above was omitted las
: week. Ed
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1916-01-07
NOTICE POLITICAL
The paTish Democratic EXccu,

The Parish Democratic EXecu-
tive committee. Parish Of Cajd-
well, IS hereby called to meet al
tie Court House, Columbia La,
at noon Tuesday January 18th.
1915, for the purpose Of select
ing Commissioners and Clerks to
serve at the Democratic Primary
election. to be he'd January Is,
1916. and to attend to such other
business as may properly cone
beEore said Committee.
All candidates for parish Off
ceS, are hereby notified to fur
nisa on or before said date, the
names Of one qualified electo:,
for each voting pre1iuct, to serve
IS Commissioner or Clerk.
Candidates for ward Offices,
are hereby notified, to furnish
the names Of one qualified eI2c.
Tor, to serve as Commissioner or |
Clerk at the precincts III their
..>J
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1916-01-07
ALL AUTOS MUST
REGISTER FEp. !

Baton Rouge, La, Jan. lon
the first day of january The Of
ice Of the secretary Of state was
thrown open to automobile own
ers for the registering Of their
cars. Several thousand ears nave
to be registered before the first
OF February or the owners will
be subject to a fine of from S. to
$25, or Imprisonment, or both,
at the discretion of the court,
therefore Assistant Secretary Of
State Richard Flower calls this
matter to the attention Of auto
owners, and urges that they
act promptly in registering tier
cars.
IF they all wait until the last
minute to buy 1915 licenses, sGme
are sure to be delinquent and
subject to the penalties Of Act
No. $50 Of 1914, which provides
for non-registers, - declares Iir.
Flower. If all car owners oil
the state respond promptly md
DO not delay registering, The
work will be greatly facilitated
and none will be delinquent on
the first Of February. All we ask
is cooperation. l."
With the increased burden of
registering the cars of the state
placed on the shoulders Of the
secretary OF state and his assist
ants, the regular annual reports
OF insurance companies and va
rloas other corporation reports,
together with the election re-
turns of the coming primary, all
crammed into the first two
months Of the coming year, will
leave very little time to be Will
ed away by that force, according
to some of the assistants.
The license fee for automobiles
is IS cents for each horsl aaNas:.
provided, eairsse -u-rasat.~sss=-....aaraan
whole license is S.. Motorcycles
are assessed a fiat license fee O.
So per annum under the proyls-
ions of the auto registration act.
Motor trucks are assessed a fee
of $3.50 per annum. Persons,
firms and corporations dealing in
motor vehicles are charged a Zee
of one motor vehicle, On the max
imum horse power of each special
make Of motor vehicles handled, |
provided the dealers handling
both new and second hand NO
tor vehicles pay the license on
new makes only. Those handling
secondhand motor vehicles x
clusitely are charged a fee q
$40 per annum.
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1916-01-07

We sell the Sweet and Pure
and Golden Crown -four and
Sweetheart meal. They are fine
goc ds. let rs supply your needs.
Louisiana Central Lumber Co.,
Clarks and Standard, La. adv.
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1916-01-07
Gyayson.

Mrs. Lon Hawthorn Of naor
poIJock is vis;tina bar naro,ts
Mics Inaz / ,a,Inlfrio,' spent j lew
Iovs with Miss Peal Warner this
.'.raI,
Wrs q A R;gps entertained
vaadav n;obt in honor Of the
,an;ar class Refreshments were
,,rved 70 tha following: Alma
, ~, Io~ono wsrror Dathna
~, -.>',,nnr;os ,ra. patr:.t Katie
a. v,yay md ,-gffio T,antr;D,
.1r,ra,>o, I,or,a++ f,,r,is ,Tar1ison,
,,ro,,, Earo,,ton Robert hfeNGijh
49, Aeroo ,7u,6erR,,rE, Asa
Ar ,uo3;4h o,l yv;il,,r pnnnh,;as,
11rs To~.~oi, Co,.g hiss accent
al no.;t;o1 n Bros 2Wsy 4
=" . 'c,.n .tv, Ig,n,r.,r -
E .,,o rn-., th;. oos;f;on 81,
,..>1 80. - b., nod
Iarps CARO-. oa Grace, La.
~, ,,ca,.1,,,. .s,,e resi-
l. o's...., H..,,,.. 40 IN. VIZ
;..,o T.. ~ al rrle >,
eS.s, Tail. a5ara1ith and E,r
T q wills wcrp roarrjed Dec
o. 1o1o Paw Chairman cfffc;at
oil Tbov vii ma ke Skies the
horne.
~, and Ms Rav;;) Of VIM
G IA a,1 Mr ard Mrs. Flower
of lana arn visiting relative
hnre
. Misses Mamie and ,Jera Wa
nar Hilda Mitchell and Gordo
G1;tcholj are srending Xmas hol
oavs here
Eon,v Robinson, Tomm
p;,,o,s ord Pohert Mex eithen
lT,,Ianoera homo far the holiday
Dalton Roden and Clarene
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1916-01-07
Married

Miss Zelma Gore of Kelly and
Mr.. Walter Carroll Of Clarks
were united in marriage at the
court house here jar. /. They
make Clarks their home.