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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-12-07
FIRMS ENrEt1
ORDERS FOR MI <iTIDNS

rinh-Grcnt Rritaiu IS r'or=antairr tn"
'ros"cutton OF tn" var. This means that
The .li"a ar" going 20 pay NOR. attention
20 whining til" G"rrn"nS than tn.
dtN:-~ion q war commerce :" N" hands
81 british nrruS. \ necessary result 90! this
Viii II" an increase given :" America. Thht
means NOR" tuuuitior orders. nor" ~tncl
purchases and bigger shipments Natural.
-. .'"cks "f ;hc International Mercantile.
Marin" rose and In sympathy With them
N'liuit" Gulf and West Indies advanced
S'S'h-lt appears tina Congress will not
iar" nut amy embargo '.NrCris oi food,
ani ""ns"nuentlN not on ANYTHING.
Soy"uth-iounr Din@ !. starting another
revolution II Mexico. That ought 10 S.nl
Ne Nican Petroleum and Sm"lt"rs turblinr
hut u dtd not today. for thcs" stocks ar"
no longer Eun-shy.
NEW TORN, i''rcmhcr s.-Morcau,u. ma
per. { Sterling. StNty-day bills. 81 7lt.
""mm"rc,ai N'>ty d'y I'LL, "n banks, N7i'.
Comncrcirl siNtN.i"y hills. SAL: i"nn,l 4
st'.,2; cahl,s, 500 ~ Ear silver 7Sh.
Mexican collar. 80. G"y"rnm"n; bonds.
steady. Railroad bonds. irregular Tim.
loans. Nt"ady: hH'y and ninety days ANA
IN months. ror cent. Cali money. strong !.
TNlia. rate.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-12-07

KEW ORLEANS Dcycub.r
w wa, towa5h IN. cnd % no session t6,!.y
LIVERPOOL Than eSpcc'cd srGrfrJ ~ ~ ~ -
"hrd trend. anI 70 some ,hr.nt III.
count. '.''''i 'I''H &c
ABOUND m" 0pcninT traiiur months ,-o
y 10 - ipiUtS over yssisrl.v'. ,T.,-.
.hH 40 Nancs er'hnally Increased Scvcrai
recovered. 4 part ~ III. ,m,.,T,. - IVA
~ Day app.hr"d based on "tpecT.ii"n. -,
uuI.lsi gIgEing rCturns IN the census
port due FRIDAY. TIL. nnrke, closed s,.a,,,
bac,lchlly AT the hiEhes, Clo.Inv b.Js
beGeHhcr 1919: January. 1864! March ia,
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-12-07
RICHMOND FRUIT MARKET.
Wholesale Nunfniinns

% Y. 9 trrlIshaw & Con
edmond Va. December 5 1911.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-04-28
ONLY ONE-FIFTH OF FER
TILE LAND IN USE

Statistics published by Secretary
Houston of the Department of Agri-
culture reveal the suggestive fact
that only one-fifth OF the arabic lands
of the United States are being titled.
Think of it! A great territory cap
able of yielding enough and to spare
for a half billion of people if it were
available for productive purposes
under a system of production for use
instead of for profit.
But the opening up of this land for
the use of our unemployed millions
would still leave the bulk of the pro-
ducers in poverty so long as the ma
chinery of production and the mines
and mills and means of transporta-
ton remained under private owner
ship.
Total adjustment of the capitalist
system is the one and only means to
general wealth, health and happiness.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-04-28
DEFENSE OF OUR
PLUMBING LAWS
(By JOHN WATSON, Sanitary En-
gineer, Everett Wash.)

(By JOHN WATSON, Sanitary En-
gineer, Everett, Wash)
The question of good plumbing
laws should be thoroughly understood
by every human being, more so than
some of our civil laws. Where can
you find any one who would accept
two feet for one yard, or 1900 pounds
for one ton, etc? There is a stan.
dard of measurement, and the gov
eminent, both state and national, en-
ploys inspectors to enforce them for
the benefit of the people, which is
just and proper
A movement is on in all parts of
this great nation of ours for better
sanitary conditions, but this can only
be brought about by having a stan
dard law for state or nation and the
proper men to enforce the same. I'm
til then the public will be subject
to short weight and measurement in
the installation of plumbing in their
homes and public buildings.
The foundation of good sanitary
laws is based on some physical law
or other; for instance that all
plumbing fixtures should be prop
erly trapped and vented. The reason
for this is due to atmospheric pres
sure The atmosphere at ordinary
sea level eXerts the enormous pres
sure of fifteen pounds on every
square inch, thus one can readily see
that trap not vented is subject to
espionage, thereby leaving the sewer
gas unhindered to flow freely into
rooms wherever located.
Pure atmosphere contains carbon
dioxide to the extent of 4/100ths of l
per cent. Carbon dioxide is very i'm
pure and it should never be present
der any circumstance in larger
portions than 6/10Oths of per
cent. This gas is a non-supporter of
fe and combustion. In all our mine
.Ep.osions carbon dioxide played the
most important part, running about
-o lO0ths of 1 per cent.
The Panama Canal district is
wing example of what good sanitary
'2nditions will do for men in the
way Of health and efficiency-with-
'ut these the canal would never have
]een finished
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-04-28
TWIN ROOTS OF EVIL

Thomas Campanella, 1912.
We also affirm that poverty is the
principal cause which makes men
vile, deceitful, fraudulent, thieves,
intriguers, vagabonds, vicious, false
witnesses, etc, and that riches are
the cause of pride, of ignorance, of
treachery, Of presumption, Of deceit,
Of vain glory, of egotism, ETC., and
that it is contrary to the good of the
community that there should be rich
and poor. Men will be rich when
they have what they really want, and
this state of things can easily be at
tanned Labor must be distributed
in such a way that work will not in
jure men. but will contribute to make
them better and healthy
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-04-28
A MEXICAN STATESMAN

Gen. P. Elias Gales, military gov
ernor of the state of Sonora, Mexico,
apparently knows more about states
manship than most Legislators on this
side of the Rio Grande, and more
about political economy than some
very distinguished professors in our
universities
Recent press dispatches tell that
General Gales is about to revise the
tax system of the state, so as to make
it square with common sense. When
he gets his system in working order,
the dispatches say, "the owner of a
small tract of land, who cultivates it,
will escape lightly, while the owner
who does not will have to pay a stiff
rate The tax on improved city prop
erty will be light, and that on vacant
lots correspondence heavy"
Let Gales put his plan into opera
ton, and in a short while conditions
in Sonora will put to shame Ameri-
cans who pride themselves on their
superiority. The land owners of So
nora will either put their land to
some use or let others do So In
either case opportunities will be open
ed to labor and capital in a way that
might be done in this country also, if
we would revise our own tax systems
on the lines proposed by Gales.
Though the wording of the dis
patches indicate that it is Gales in
tention to have a different rate of
taxation for improved and unimproved
land, it does not follow that this is
anything more than careless report
ing. At any rate, while that would
be better than the American system,
it would not be the best possible
way. To get best results, it would
but be necessary to assess for taxa
ton no other property than the value
of the bare land, irrespective of i'm
provements, and tax all at the same
rate. The tax should equal the rental
value. That would be enough to dis
courage holding of land fgr any other
purpose than for use, and would not
interfere with industry. Good luck
to General Gales and his enlightened
policy. May he help to give American
legislators some badly needed lessons
n craftsmanship.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-04-28
TRADES
COUNCIL
N E w S

Credestials were received for
Bro. H. B. Ross and Bro, Zook from
the Transfers. Bro. Ross was seated.
Bro. Zook was absent, owing to illness
in the family.
Upon request of President E. P.
Marsh, the regular meeting of the
Everett Trades Council will be held
on Friday of next week, instead Of
Wednesday, the object being to hold
an open meeting for the discussion of
some of the inititive and referendum
measures now before the public. Sew
eral competent speakers have been
secured for the occasion and the pub
lie is cordially invited to attend this
meeting.
R. R. Donnelly & Co., publishers,
who are distributing a miniature edi-
ton of the Encyclopedia Britannica
through Sears Roebuck mail order
house, are unfair to organized labor.
Talk this over.
The Standardization Window
Shade Roller Co., of Newark, N. j., is
unfair to organized labor. Strike
is on.
The Joint Council of the Transfers
will meet in the Labor Temple on
May 4th.
An invitation to organized labor was
received from Local Solidarity to hear
Emil Herman on After the War,
What?" at the Labor Temple on the
evening of May list. Admission free.
VISIT THE ROSE.
At $50 the Council adjourned and
went in a body to the Rose Theatre to
see the new one-act play, The Union
Label" Manager St. Peter is to be
congratulated upon his wisdom in
bringing this snappy act to Everett.
Everybody declared The play is
great" Every union man and women
in Everett should make it point to
see this splendid lesson in the evils
Of the so-caled open Shop Get
your friends and neighbors to visit
the Rose today or tomorrow. Satur-
day is the last day it will be given.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-04-28
The Turning Point
lBy Theodore Teepel

The United States is now at a turn
ing point in its economic history. In
the last half century it has made
marvellous strides in the development
of wealth producing Oabor saving
machinery. 1t is probable that a Civ
en- unit of labor power produces five
or six or perhaps ten times the wealth
it produced with the crude machinery
of fifty years ago. We have actually
reached the stage when it is not the
poverty, but the plethora of produc-
ton that is our greatest dread.
Statesmen lie awake at night won
dering what to do with the overpro
duction, but, fortunately, scattered all
over the land are small groups OF rad
icals moving to amend the thoughts
of these statesmen by inserting the
term under consumption" for cover
production"
All the world is divided into these
two schools of thought-over produc-
tionists and under consumptionists.
The over productionists believe that
poverty is necessary and even a bless
ing. They believe with Nautilus that
population tends to outstrip produc-
ton, thereby causing poverty and
some even say that war is necessary
to decrease population
The reader may ask how an over
productionist can have such beliefs
when the very term that designates
him is a contradiction of his theory
| The writer also wonders on that
score, but thta is not the point The
point is that nearly all reactionaries
believe in the over production theory
of hard times. In other words, they
believe that over production is the
cause of poverty. Or, to state it in
terms that even the dullest can under
stand, it is solemnly declared that
over production is the cause of under
production.
That certainly is reduction to ar
absurdity, but millions of people, in
Guiding nose of our statesmen anC
Legislators, believe that very absurdity
to be profound truth. Is it any won
der that the world is cursed witt
war, poverty and misery when the
whole social structure is built on the
ridiculous postulate that hard times
poverty-under production are caused
by over production?
The turning point referred to above
is this: Up to now the theory tina
abundance is the cause of poverty has
been prevailing belief, but from now
on tens of thousands of seekers afte1
truth are going to make the stand
patters defend their theory. The over
production hard times superstition i:
going to receive jolt from which i
will never recover.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-04-28
UNION BRINGS RETIREMENT

Holyoke, Mass-The contract of
newly organized Transfers union is
being generally signed by teaming
contractors in this city. The new
rates provide for $13 a week for single
team drivers, $14 for double team,
and SIS for three-horse drivers. Over
time shall b epaid at the rate of time
and one-half of the regular rate after
nine hours. Fourth of July, Labor day.
Thanksgiving and Christmas are rec
ognized as holidays
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-04-28

(By Berton Braley)

(By Berton Braley)
Out of chaos, out of murk
arose and did my work;
While the ages changed and sped,
l was toiling for my bread.
Underneath my sturdy blows
Forests fell and cities rose,
And the hard, reluctant soil
Blossomed richly from my toll
Palaces and temples grand
Wrought | with my cunning hand.
Rich indeed was my reward
Stunted soul and body SCARED
With the marks of scourge and rod.
|, the tiller of the sod.
From cradle to the grave
Shambleo, through the world-a slave
Crushed and trampled, beaten, cursed
Serving best, but served the worst,
Starved and cheated, gouged anC
spoiled
Still l builded, still toiled,
Undernourished, underpaid,
In the world myself had made.
Up from slavery l rise,
Dreams and We nders in my eyes.
After brutal ages past
Coming to my own at last,
| was slave-but | am free!
| was blind-but u can see!
I, the builder, I, the maker,
|, the calm radition-breaker,
Slave and serf and clod no longer,
Know my strengthened who i
stronger?
am done with ancient frauds,
Ancient lies and ancient gods
All that sham is overthrow,
I shall take and keep my own.
Unimpassioned, unafraid
Master of the world I've made!
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-04-28
CREDIT GIVEN UNIONS

Iowa City, Iowa-Dr. Lorin Stucky
of the department of economics. Iowa
state university, has written a book
on "The Iowa State Federation of
Labor in which it is stated that
practically all reform legislation in
this state was first advocated by Iowa
unlon1sts. Included in the list is the
Australian ballot, bureau of labor sta
ustics, workmen's compensation,
compulsory education, child labor
laws, the state tuberculosis hospital,
parcel post system and laws protect
ing workers in shops, mills and mines
Trunks, Bags, Repairing Everett
Trunk Factory 2S15 Rockefeller.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-04-28

Every minute that passes, some
worker in this country is injured. Ev-
cry sixteen miutes some worker dies.
Thirty percent of these injuries can
be prevented. Five hundred thous,
and workers are suffering from some
occupational disease, while 1900 900
are in poor health through some in
dustrial cause
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-04-28

First British Workman "r Sec If
says ere a working ma No France
as just woke up aht ov - trance
larstin' seyenty-seVen days am though
is wife repeatedly called 'm by name
e was oblivious to the ia That She
was there"
Second British Workman "NarveI
lous! Wot a gift, 'Erb."
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-04-28
STATE LITERACY
TEST is PASSED

Albany, N. Y.-The state assembly
has passed the Malone bill which
provides that all railroad employees
connected with the operation of rail-
road trains, orders, signals. and tele-
phone and telegraph communications
shall be proficient in the use of the
English language.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-04-28

Germany's declaration of war on
Portugal finds the latter with a large
stock of German ships on hand to be
used as targets for the submarines
Chicago Herald.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-04-28
WenKnownSpeaker
to Talk Here


What's Wrong With the World"
VIII be the subject of a lecture by
Mr.. Peter Collins, of Massachusetts,
at the Everett Theater, Friday, May
5th, given under the auspices of the
Everett Council of the knights of
Columbus. Mr.. Collins is recognized
throughout the United States as
most effective platform speaker, and
a skilled debater.
( Mr. Collins has taken part in more
public platform debates than any
man in America, and during the past
/ two years alone has had IA public
joint debates from Massachusetts to
Louisiana, and from Iowa, Minnesota
and Ohio to New York and New Jer-
sey, besides meeting thousands of
others in impromptu discussions at
his lectures
At all of Mr.. Collins lectures the
open forum prevails and every one
in his audience is afforded the privi-
lege of asking any questions and be-
ing assured of an always courteous
prompt and convincing answer
During the past five years alone
Mr.. Collins has spoken to over 1,000,-
900 people in the United States and
Canada, and has travelled nearly 100,-
900 miles.
Some years ago Mr. Collins served
as International Secretary Of the In
ternational Brotherhood of Electrical
Workers, Editor of the Electrical
Workers, and as a member of the
Illinois Industrial Commission, one
of the first commissions in the U. S.
that made possible great code of
laws for the health, safety and COM
fort of the workers in that state.
This code of laws has been copied by
many states and has received the ap-
prevail of sociologists and statesmen
, the world over
This commission also reported to
the legislature the recommendation
for legislation limiting the hours of
women workers
The bill adopted to cover the rec
ommendation has stood the test of
the Illinois Supreme court and the
, Supreme court of the United States.
1t is chiefly as fighter against
the progress of Socialism that Mr..
Collins functions at the present time,
which accounts for the fact that his
lectures are being given throughout
the United States under the auspices
of the Knights of Columbus. His &C.
tive supporters are gathered from all
elements interested in discrediting
the Socialist party as political or
ganization. He speaks of Socialism
as "the workers greatest enemy" In
his public attempts to sustain this
point Mr. Collins has never, so far as
we can learn, brought forward the
official platform and principles of the
Socialist party in support of his dec
laration. That he is an orator of
great ability seems to be generally
agreed upon.
The capitalist press of the nation
have been most glowing in their edi-
torial appreciation of Mr.. Collins and
have everywhere devoted many col
umns of their news space to his mes
sage. The following are but a few of
the thousands of press comments:
"Mr Collins record lends serious
weight to his opinions. New York
World.
Peter Collins is an eloquent ora
tor. His oratory and zeal caused him
to be recognized as leader. Boston
Daily Post
HE has few peers as an orator and
is a man of brilliant attachments. -
Herald, Pawnee, III.
Mr.. Fred X. Baker will preside at
the Everett Theater meeting.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-04-28

Somebody has suggested Mr.. Ford
for the presidency. Is there no stop
ping these Ford jokes? - Nashville
Southern Lumberman
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-04-28

wood & Son carry the Federal
Paints as good as the best, 1925 per
saI. Wall Paper, a complete line.
2So5 Rockefeller. Ind. 36S-Y.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-04-28

Our prohibition brethren are less ac-
tive than formerly in pointing out
that Francisco Villa never INDUCES
Columbia Star.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-04-28

The map makers certainly are
lucky bunch. Just when they've cover
ed all the European field, along comes
a popular demand for maps Of Next
co.-Philadelphia North American.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-04-28

Perhaps Carranza is afraid there
may be some BARRIERS in the punitive
expedition -Cleveland Leader.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-04-28

Get No Mar Varnish Stain for your
furniture or floor at Wood & Sons,
2S06 Rockefeller. Ind. 368-Y.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-12-08
"MY SINGLE Vote"

Corrected official returns give
Wilson a plurality of Sc in New
Hampshire and Hughes a plurality
of 1872 in Minnesota. Pluralities of
this scant size are decidedly toe
close for comfort. The results are
encouraging in one way, as they in
dictate disposition On the part OF
voters to think for themselves and
TO vote for candidates and not for
party emblems. They are also a
warning to the men who say my
single vote will make no difference, "
The stay-at-homes in one good, sized
town in New Hampshire could have
swung the vote the other way Yer
mont Phoenix.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-12-08
w ell Managed.

1t looks to US as though Editor
Howe of the Bennington Banner has
sized up the situation quite accurate
ly when he said;
The Republican campaign in YER
mont was well managed and the
state committee needs to make no
apology. President Wilson was ire
mendously stronger than his party,
not only in Vermont where he ran
six thousand votes ahead, but all
over the country with the exception
of his home state of New jersey.
1t was this personal strength Of the
president that carried him to victory
and not any failure. on the part of
the republican campaign either in
Vermont or anywhere else. The
fact is that the Democrats, with the
exception Of the president, did not
do quite as well in Vermont as u fnaI.
The croakers should remember this
side Of the story also. st .Johrsaarv
Caledonian.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-12-08
STATE PRESS
Hard to Keep Neutral.

There is a shortage of pickle stuff,
so the much advertised 81 varieties
may be reduced to 81. Caulifower
sold as high as 500 a ton in Rutland,
N. Y, this fall. AS Abe Martin says:
With saur-kraut ups cents a quart,
it's hard to keep neutral. -St.Johns-
bury Republican.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-12-08

Now don't go Etoo strong on the
promise made by the Republican
party and the governor-elect Horace
F. Graham, for retrenchment of
state expenses. Promises are all very
good but there are certain other
matters in this line to be given fully
as much weight. In the first place,
the people demand, and progress
calls for advancement and mainten-
ance of the best in all lines of state
government. We must have better
highways, better schools, better
public institutions to care for the
unfortunate and state wards, and to
keep pushing ahead in these lines it
takes money and more money. About
all the place where the axe Of re-
trenchment can cut without a retro
grade is in the commissions and
number Of judges in the administra-
ton of the judicial department. 1t
looks good on paper to see the pro-
posed retrenchment but when the
matter comes up for action it is quite
different. Those branches of state
government which it is proposed to
trim generally have friends enouph
to keep the process from doing real
harm, and when the final acts are
sanded and busted there is generally
indellibIy remaining new offices
enough to more than make the num-
Der good that have been so impress
sively(?) Topped off. Don't figure
that state expenses will be any lower
after the session Of 1917 gets its
work done, although Governor Ora
ham and the Republican party have
promised and carefully figured out
a plan of retrenchment. We would
give no more for Governor Graham's
promise than any other Vermonter
of equal experience for-well, he's
only human after all.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-12-08
NermOnt's Gain in Population
Small.

The bureau Of the census figures
that Vermont's population has in
creased in seven years by 1856 per-
sons, the figures in 1910 being $685.
956 as against the estimate of 364,-
322 on Jan. l, 1917 If the estimate
should prove to be approximately
correct, Vermont would be satisfied,
although the per cent of gain is ex-
tremely small. There are some in.
fiuences at work which have a ten
dency to reduce Vermont's popula-
ton, and If the gain in the industrial
centers can more than offset these
losses it will be decidedly pleasing
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-12-08

The American jackies showed an
increased efficiency Of 20 percent at
their target practice last fall. Get
ting pretty near the bull's-eye every
time, for the American navy has the
highest score in gunnery of any navy
in the world. The man behind the
gun in the American navy is prepar-
ed, although pessimists dole out the
cry of unpreparedness.