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tale must wait for twenty four hours. Then, can promise you, you will be entertained and possibly edifed. l want you to assure MF, Hapnay that he will suffer no further incoDvepi- encer
 This assurance was promptly given. You can take up your life where you left off," was told. Your flat, which probably you no longer wish to occu- py. is waiting for you, and your man is still there. As you were never public ly accused, We considered that there was no need of a public exculpation. But on that of course. you must please yourself"
 We may want your assistance later on, MacGilivray." Sir Walter said as we left.
 Then he turned me loose.
 Come and see me tomorrow, Han nay. I needn't tell you to keep dead ly quiet. If l were you l would go to bed for you must have consider able arrears 0f sleep to overtake. You had better lie low. fot # one of your Black Stone friends saw You there might be trouble'
 1 felt curiously at loose end. Al first it was very pleasant to be free man. able to go where ] wanted with out fearing anything. haq only been 2 month under the ban of the law and 1t was quite enough for me.
 ] went tQ fbe Savoy and ordered very carefully q vaFy good luncheon and then smoked the best cigar the house could provide. But l was still feeling nervous. When l saw anybody look at me fin the lounge I grew shy and wondered if they were thinking about the murder.
 After that I took taxi and drove miles away up into North London.
 l walked back through fields and lines of villas and terraces and then siums and mean streets, and 1t took me pretty nearly two hours All the While my restlessness was growing worse. l felt that great things, tre- mendous fbiGgs, were happening or about to happen. and ], who was the cogwheel of the whole business. was out of it.
 tsoyer would be landing at Dover. Sir Walter would be making plans with the few people ip England who were in the secret, and somewhere in the darkness the Black Stone would be working
 l felt the sense of danger and i'm pending calamity, and l had the curl oas feeling, too, that 1 alone could avert it, alone could gTappis with it. But l was out of the game now. How
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certain document from Whitaker, and after that he will be motored to Ports mouth. where destroyer will take him to Havre.
 His journey is too important for the ordinary boat train. He will nev- CT be left unattended for a moment till he is safe on French soil. The same with Whitaker till he meets Rover That is the best we. can do, and it's hard to see how there can be any miscarriage. But l don't mind ad- hitting that I'm horribly nervous. This murder of Karolides will play the deuce in the chanceries of Europe"
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Ieur tOudy duu wear huuSoH . rig. You're about his size. You have hand in this business and we are talk ing no risks. There are desperate men against us who will not respect the country retreat of an overworked off cial"
 When l first came to London l had bought car and amused myself with running about the south of England. so l knew something of the geography
 l took Sir Walter to town by the Bath road and made good going. It was a soft, breathless June morning, 1t was delicious enough swinging through the little towns with their freshly watered streets and past the summer gardens of the Thames val ley I landed Sir Walter at his house in Queen Anne's gate punctually by halfpast II. The butler was coming up by train with the luggage.
 The first thing he did WAS to take me round to Scotland Yard. There we saw prim gentleman. with A clean shaven lawyers face.
 I've brought you the Portland place murderer" was Sir Walters intrOduc- ton.
 The reply was & Wfy smile. Tt would have been ' welcome present Bullivant. This, presume. Is Mir. Richard Hannay, who for some days greatly interested my department"
 MT. Hannsy will interest 1t again He has much to tell you. but not to- day. For certain grave reasons his
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CHAPTER XII. At Scotland Yard.

A FTER breakfast he asked me If n 1 could drive car.
 A Well. you'll be my chauf- = - feur today and wear Hudson Is
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(to be continued)
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CHAPTER -. At Sir Walters Home.

~HE road led through wesA
 of great beeches and then into
 shallow valley, with the green backs of downs peep
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-09-01

A speaker at band of hope meet
ing in small town was recently i'm
pressing upon some boys and girls
the ACCESSIBILITY of neither tasting nor
touching strong drink in any form.
Promise to have nothing to do with
it, and keep your promise" he said;
then he told them a little story.
A boy from the country, who, before
setting out for large city, had
promised his father and mother to
have nothing to do with intoxicants,
was induced to enter rattle, and
CHANGED to win a bottle of port wine.
The moment the wine was in his pos
session he felt uneasy and unhappy.
why" he asked, why was this lad
unhappy"
please, sir" piped a bright little
girl, "becos e 'adn't corkscrew."
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS

In the Superior Court of the State of
Washington, in and for Snohomish
County-No. 1881.
In the Matter of the Estate of Charles
c. Bishop, Deceased.
Notice is hereby given by Edison
Huntington Bishop, administrator of
the estate of Charles c. Bishop, de.
ceased, to the creditors of said estate,
and all persons interested or having
any claims against said deceased, to
exhibit the same with the necessary
vouchers within one year from the
first publication of this notice, towit:
the 25th day of August, 1916, at Of
fees 206-7 Stokes Block, Everett,
Washington, the same being the Of
fees OF the attorney. r. ]. JFaussett,
attorney for the administrator of the
said estate.
Dated this 18th day of August. 1916.
EDWIN HUNTINGTON BISHOP,
Administrator.
First publication-August 25, 1916.
Last publication-Sept. %, 1916.
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ATTORNEY JOHNSON
AND POLICE COURTS

City Attorney Johnson considers
himself perfectly competent to con-
duct police court cases and so eX-
pressed himself when the mill owners
thought it necessary to furnish him
with an associate. Nevertheless the
wishes of the mill owners prevailed
and a man selected by the voters as
public prosecutor was supplanted by
examination throughout.
1t seems that a taxpayers meeting
might be called to discuss the strike
and to authorize a committee to in
vestigate as to whether the Single
Weavers are asking anything I'M
reasonable. If it should be found that
they are not then the Gill policy, in
effect in Seattle might be recommend
ed. If the employers are simply stub
born or are determined to root out
unionism, stock and branch, then they
should be obliged to bear the cost of
such action themselves.
Despite the fact that the Clough-
Hartley, the Cargo and the Jamison
mills will not pay the scale being
paid by 80 per cent of the mills of the
state to their old employees, it is true
that they do pay that scale and more
to strikebreakers, according to the re-
port of the strike breakers themselves.
Consequently when the pay of gun
men, stools and recruiting agents is
taken in addition, it is unquestionable
that it is costing them far more to
manufacture shingles than scale-pay-
ing plants. The difference between
what is offered and demanded is 21a
cents per thousand; that is, 21a cents
on an article that sells for $3.50 Two
cents of this amount is to the sawyers
and one-half cent to the packers, and
payment of this will not amount to
over $3.50 per day on the accounts of
the largest mill in the city. The de-
mand of the Single Weavers is
single-it is this and this alone
Wages to be restored to what they
were before the cut of last year
1t is believed that the only class of
labor to have its wages reduced dur
ing the last two years is Single
Weavers. Most men, both those work
ing at trades and unskilled labor, are
getting a raise, if anything, and ex-
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cepting Shingle Weavers, it will be
difficult to find any class of labor in
the United States asked to take cut
from what their wages have ever
been.
1t is right that the manufacturers
of Everett should be on an equality
with other manufacturers in the state
in the matter of wage scale. The
equality, when they insist on paying
less, is brought about by a strike,
which is costly to them and puts the
scale paying manufacturer on an
equality with them.
The disturbing factor in the single
business is the logger, who closely
watches the market and raises prices
whenever the market stiffens. His
strong economic position enables him
to do this and the cooperative mill he
uses as most effective lever. Strikes
blacklisting and scabbing but adds to
the number of cooperative mills. II
the Everett weavers are beaten and
blacklisted they will be driven to CO
operate and then because of lack OF
capital will be the prey of the logger
But the logger will prey on private
owners as we'll until all are simply
working while the logger reaps the
benefit The remedy would seem to
be for the mills to put themselves on
wage esuality, and instead of form
ing combinations against labor, to
combine against the logger and fight
to get their share in whatever raise
may take place in the single market
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IMPROVEMENT OF
LABOR CONDITIONS
Keynote of the New York Electrical
Exposition

Keynote of the New York Electrical
Exposition
The keynote of the New York Elec-
trical Exposition of 1916, which will
be held in Grand Central Palace, New
York City, October 18th to October
21st, will be the improvement of
working conditions in factories and
shops. 1t is a generally conceded fact
that electricity has accomplished
more than any other single agency in
lettering laboring conditions in every
branch of industry. Especially in the
large cities, where space is limited,
has it proven the Good Samaritan"
of the working man. Individual motor
drive on machinery in addition to be-
ing far more efficient, has eliminated
dangerous betting which served
chiefly to stir up dust for workers to
breathe. Electrically driven blowers
and ventilators now carry away nox-
ious fumes and vapors and death
dealing dusts. The method and
means by which these and many other
healthful and sanitary things are &C.
complished will be shown by working
exhibits.
Lighting and its effect upon the
worker is just as important as the
air which he breathes. Innumerable
accidents many of them fatal, have re-
suited from poor lighting and it would
be impossible to calculate the number
of serious cases of eye strain and
diseases of the eye, as well as COM
plete loss of sight, which ave resulted
from bad lighting. The entire Elec
trical Exposition will be shown under
the light which experts have decided
upon as the ideal light for all working
conditions. 1t is a blush shade of
light, very restful to the eye, and con-
tanning all the properties of true day
| light. There is no doubt that the 1916
Electrical Exposition in New York
City will be of great interest to all
workers as we'll as to employers and
factory owners, who will find ii a
source of many valuable suggestions
and helps in improving conditions.
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scalded by tears, or valor to hearts
that have closed their doors to hope.
Let us rear the wall of self-denial,
over which all must climb TO reach
the greater goals of life. Let us
stand forever at pillow, at violin, in
store or factory, with devotion to our
duty, and lead ourselves to that place
where we can do good. Let us tear
the veil from the ugliness of idle
luxury, let US flay ourselves from the
lilac lanes of passion let US try
humbly to perform all those noble
things which, accomplished in OBJ
security or achieved in the glare of
public notice, have become golden
threads in that marvellous weave we
call civilization. Let us do our duty,
for duty is king, aye more than king;
he is the foundation of religion, the
father of courage, and the adornment
of every useful man and woman.
We may pass through this life but
once. Any good thing, therefore, that
we can do, any kindness that we can
show, let us do it now. Let us not
defer it nor neglect it, for we may
not pass this way again. And in the
realization that if we laugh, the world
laughe with us, while if we weep, we
weep alone, let us look upon the
sunny side, let us see the sunshine in
the face of both youth and age, and
let us so live that when we leave
others will say of us: The world is
better, in spite of his faults, for his
having lived" So let us smile and
laugh and sing with the poet:
Rejoice, and your friends will seek
you;
Grieve, and they turn and go;
They want full measure of all your
pleasure,
But they do not want your woe.
Be glad, and your friends are many;
Be sad, and you lose them all;
There are none to decline your nee
tdreQ VINE,
But alone you must drink lifes
gall"
In the consciousness of having done
the best that it could with the means
at its command to raise the standards
of life and increase the happiness of
those who toll that they may live, the
union labor movement of America
stands unashamed of it's work, has
pride in its achievements and is de-
termined to continue it's efforts on
and on forever until that happy day
shall come when it may no more with
truth be said that Mans inhumanity
to man makes countless thousands
CHARLES PERHRY TAYLOR,
ecretary-Treasurer Washington State
Federation of Labor.
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Labor's annual holiday brings up
many memories. The thoughtful mind
is apt to turn back to that day when
no one honored the toiler in industry,
when those who with their hands per-
formed the useful tasks of life were
regarded as but little better than
beasts of burden, hewers of wood and
drawers of water The history of
humanity is so brief, so little is known
of the real age of mankind upon this
mundane sphere, that investigators
must accept Outlines hazy tradition in
lieu of accurate history, yet almost
within the memory of an individual
the whole mental attitude of the body
polite has changed remarkably to-
ward the toiling millions.
But a few generations ago men who
worked with their hands were slaves,
serfs. servants. Today in civilized
countries it is a mark of honor to be
useful TO human society. Not more
than a few hundred years ago men
might be hung for disobeying the
commands of industrial masters, might
be imprisoned for debt, might be
branded like cattle or mutilated like
criminals, in the name of the law, in
a misguided conception of mans right
TO misrule his fellow human being.
Even vet the seemingly impossible
gulf in many countries between the
different social strata of human so
ciety is the wonder of students of the
human race, and the wonder increases
as one gives thought or INDUCES hope
for a brighter future. The processes
of nature are so mysterious, it is sc
difficult to understand the reason fol
the existence of many seemingly nat
ural things, that one may well pause
and consider all the problems of life.
Mans noblest study is man, ye
how little do we seem to understand
one another how little do we seem tC
understand ourselves. Nature ha,
planted in each human unit a deter
mination to live, to possess, to con
quer and to a certain extent we seen
bound 10 the rule that self-preserya
ton must be our first and only law
Yet We feel in vague way our de
pendence upon one another and in ouI
crude effort we have evolved social
life to supply the human craving for
companiOnship and cooperation. Yet
even while partially satisfying that
human craving, we go on preying on
one another with low cunning and
hypocrisy.
How complex the human heart
how it yearns for justice and for
kindness; but, oh, the pity of it, how
unwilling is that same human heart
to be just or kind to others! How
great the hope for happiness! How
small the desire to take happiness
into the live Of our fellow men, Man )
inhumanity to man has made count
less thousands mourn ever since time
began. Man, made in the image of
his Creator, lives as though a true
child of the Father of Evil. To his
fellow man he is oppressive, to
women, brutal; to the children of
other men, he is a beast and a tyrant.
Well might the sweet singer of
ancient time raise his voice to the God
of Heaven and ask: What is man,
that Thou are mindful of him. For
man began in the Garden of Eden as
a murderer of his brother, began as
a weak dupe of the first siren Of
earth-herself the mother OF man
kind-began as transgressor of wise
and beneficent law, and has been
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LABOR DAY

committing errors and crimes daily,
hourly, ever since.
Yet we should not look always upon
the dark side of the picture. The
rays of hope eternal spring everlast-
ingly in the human heart, and man
has achieved an amount of knowledge,
has acquired a self-control, has at
tanned proficiency and quality for
service to his fellows through cult
walton of the thought of his duty to
himself Compare the habits and Gus
toms of a few brief years ago with
those of today. Consider the changes
in all industrial, social and civic life.
Mark we'll the struggles Of nations
and classes for freedom, their Her
culean efforts to throw off the burden
of the oppressor of every land and
cline. Note the upward tendency of
human thought and action, see the
enlightening and ennobling efforts of
hundreds of thousands of self-sacri-
ficing men and women, whom, weak
though they may be, weighted down
with the sorrows of others as was
the Man of Calvary, still go on trying
as best they may to tighten the bur-
dens of those less strong. Alongside
the slaughterhouse of war see the
angel of mercy with Red Cross relief.
In the MOL of industrial exploitation
see the labor organization with its
/ insistent demand for the compensa-
ton of the injured workman. Beside
/ the debasing treatment usually &C
corded to the woman worker by COM
mercial greed, see the quiet, unob-
| trusive friend trying to save the toiler
from her ultimate fate in the streets
or the river.
The sun shines for all, and all the
good of life is here for the enjoyment
and blessing of every human being
if we can but bring ourselves to that
state of mind in which we may but
do our duty to ourselves, for in doing
that we can not fail to do good to all
mankind. Without desire to write a
| preachment, these thoughts intrude
when considering the annual holiday
of Labor. There has been so much in
| left to regret, there is still so much
! for which to rejoice, and there is sc
much justification for hope for the
! future, that the predominating thought
of this day should be one OF happi
ness, not of sorrow. We have come
such a poor little way together, we
have had such trials and heartaches,
We seemingly have done so little, we
have done so much wrong, that we
face our ourselves with shame and
deserved condemnation; but see
others are glimpsing the vision OF
brighter days, in their lives and in
their hearts are being shown the evi,
dences of determination to aspire to
higher, nobler things; the administra.
ton of law and justice, the public
conscience, are awaking to the spirit
of the brotherhood of man, and into
the pinched lives of starvlings comes
the smile of contentment as the
dreams of yesterday become the hope
of today and the realization of to-
morrow.
Mankind, shaking off the brutality
of its primitive existence, rising in
its consciousness of its oneness with
Omnipotence, thrusts back the cruel
shadows of the past and rises in its
power and in its goodness to give
peace to troubled hearts, bread to
those who hunger, loneliness to eyes
that have seen only sordid things,
laughter TO faces that have been
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-09-01
LABOR WANTS

Abolition of the sweatshop system.
Naturalization of telegraph and
telephone.
Abolition of the contract system on
public work.
Sanitary inspection of factory
workshop mine and home.
A workday of not more than eight
hours in twenty-four.
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MARSH S WEEKLY LETTER
Continued iIon4 Page u

phatic NO on every referendum
measure. They wanted national
woman's suffrage and national prohi-
bition. They wanted the power of
cities to regulate their own public
utilities.
asked the convention to put in the
platform a plank condemning the use
of the injunction in labor disputes
unless it were clearly shown that it
was necessary to protect life or
property when the ordinary process
of law had absolutely failed to give
such protection. | asked further that
they advocate speedy hearing on ap-
plication for injunction and right of
trial by jury in contempt cases.
didn't ask that the injunction be con-
demned in toto, only that its abuse be
condemned. But there were men in
that convention, not union fellows
either, who wanted the whole injunc-
ton process unsparingly condemned.
That convention had lost all fear of
the judiciary. BY that | don't mean
that its members were lacking in re-
spect for courts, but they had thrown
to the winds the old tradition that the
king on his throne and the judge on
his bench can do no wrong.
People Believe in the Unions
There are today many more people
who believe in the things organized
labor stands for than there are who
do not. If it were possible to get into
one political party all the voters in
this country who believe in the right
of men and women to be possessed of
all material things that make for COM
fort and happiness, as against the
right of a favored few to make the
rest of us slave that they may enjoy
those blessings, that political party
would sweep the country at the next
election. Make no mistake about that.
Just as sure as the sun shines
some day all these forces who stand
for better things in life for the toiling
millions are going to converge, and
when they do the day of Special Privi-
lege is over. We are apart now on
tactics to be pursued, methods to be
followed, that is all. There is no I'M
bridgeable chasm between these re-
form forces, we can and will come to-
gether. Perhaps not in our time, but
il we have builded for our children
our work will have been we'll spent.
A Beautiful Story
l once read a beautiful story of an
old gray-haired father who came to a
stream across which there was no
bridge. He picked his way across,
now slipping on some treacherous
stone, now plunging into the ice cold
water. After he got across he hunted
old logs and debris and slowly built a
homely bridge across the stream. An
observer of the old mans painful toll
asked him what he was doing that for
when he was already across. "My
boy" said the old man, he is back
there a few miles, he is young and
frail, don't want him to have as hard
time crossing as l did" Isn't that
the essence of the labor movement?
"My boy, l don't want him to have as
hard time crossing as / did"
Aren't you glad you belong to that
movement, old sober face? Aren't you
just little ashamed to think you have
been hanging back and slowing down
the whole procession with your gloomy
speech and action? Forget it, old
fellow, and fall in with a smile, it's a
big game, it's worth your best efforts,
and we need your cheer.
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Explanation; The small sum asked
from each one is based on his con-
tribution to the industrial fund of the
state, which has been generally APP
preciated as just and fair to all. We
hope for an immediate response, and
inclose an addressed envelope for
that purpose. Numerous propositions
have been and are constantly being
presented that vitality affect your
business and its future. You can not
afford to ignore the present serious
situation, which this organization is
continuously opposing.
Respectfully yours,
EMPLOYERS ASSOCIATION OF
WASHINGTON.
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