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The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-04-20
WALSH DAMNS
WATER GRABS
Enormous Incomes Are Based on
Unnatural Possession of Re
sources. He Declares

WASHINGTON, d. C.-An enor-
nous grab at the public wealth has re-
Gently been made by big corporations
with the help of the United States
Senate. The Shields water power bill,
which has passed the Senate and is
now in the House of Representatives
of Congress, is the worst attempt to
get the natural resources of the people
into private hands that has been pulled
off in years.
The bin will give away all the water
power of all the navigable rivers of
the United States.
Vigorous and unrelenting prosecu-
ton to regain all land, water power
and mineral rights secured from the
government by fraud" was recon-
mended by the main, or Manly, report
of the Commission on Industrial Re
lations.
The enormous incomes and inherit
ances that imperil our republic and the
enormous power over others that go
with these fortunes" said Frank p.
Walsh, in a recent statement issued by
the Committee on Industrial Relations,
"are based on the unnatural posses
sion by comparative few of our
mines and our highways of commerce
and Of most of our richest farming
lands"
The workers can stop this grab if
they will act quickly and protest to
their Congressman. What is left of
the peoples earth here in America,
and what can be taken back from priv
ilege grabbers, should be controlled
and developed by the people for the
people.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-04-20
People Are Restless and Threat
en- to Rise Against Gar
Nicholas

Russian circles are profoundly
stirred by the following statements
made by the Socialist representative
Tscheidse in the Russian duma:
what have we achieved during the
last l8 months of war;" asked the So
cialist. Amid incredible losses of blood
we approached the slogans which the
government had given out in the be-
ginning of the war. But the slogans
were different then from those we
hear today.
During these l8 months of blood
shed and perpetual suffering we have
been overwhelmed with the most
shameless lies ever spread in the his
tory of the nation. Whole nations have
been staked on false cards, although
they were built up during centuries of
civilization.
"NoW we are consoled with the hope
that the war is not over yet, and that
it is only just begun. But has not the
war been already one of victories for
our opponents? Belgium, Serbia,
Montenegro and Poland are devastat-
ed, and the people Of Grusinia and the
Mohammedans are still worse off.
They have been wiped off the earth.
Greece, Roumania, Persia are facing
the same fate.
What has become of our great
ideals? Those who used to be for dis
armament are today assuming the at
titude of Markov. Instead of interna-
tional arbitration courts, we see piracy
and treason on the throne.
Tricked to the Trenches
at will not do to put all the blame
on the Germans. Our own govern
ment is wiping its feet on information
al laws. The war cry of the allies is
not national freedom and the harmony
of all classes. On the contrary, indus
trial labor has been militarized under
the cloak of patriotic phrases. The
policy of annexation and imperialism
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-04-20
Overwork, Coupled With Low
Wages, Undermining Health
of TOilerS

Overwork and underpay are the
principal forces at work in breaking
down the health of American working
men and women.
This is the conclusion of the United
States Public Health Service in bull
letin just published dealing with the
effects of modern industrial conditions
upon the lives and happiness of 3d.
100000 American wage earners.
DR.. b. S, Warren, surgeon, and Ed
gar Sydenstricker, statistician, of the
Public Health Service, are the authors
of Public Health Bulletin No. 76, en-
titled Health Insurance, Its Relation
to the Public Health" which shows
the conditions in American industry
today. This report recommends a
plan for compulsory health insurance
of wage earners, to be administered by
the State and Federal governments.
Its outstanding feature, however, is
the indictment of present-day social
and economic conditions.
Each of the 30000,000 workers in
the United States loses on the average
about nine days every year on account
of sickness alone" says this report.
The causes of disease are given as fol-
lows:
Occupational Diseases Blamed
The occupational hazards of disease,
irregularity of employment, unhealth-
full conditions of living, the employ
ment of women in industry under mod
ern conditions of work, particularly of
married women, and the economic dis
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-04-20
SPLENDID SPIRIT
IN EVIDENCE
SnOhOmish County Convention
Has Large Representative
Attendance

With practically every local in the
county represented, the Snohomish
County Convention of the Socialist
Party met in the Forum Sunday, April
10th. The convention was called to
order at ten o'clock by County Secre-
tary Ulonska. Much routine business
was promptly disposed of and the con-
vention listened to the annual report
Of the work performed in the county
during the past year. The report
showed that Snohomish county had
more than held it's own in propaganda
and organization work during the past
year. The convention gave consid-
Grafton to the subject of Socialist
Study courses and report was submit
ted by the Executive Committee on
this subject.
The following comrades were nomi-
mated by the convention for the Coun-
ty Executive Committee: Charles
Roth, Lakewood; R. w. Thompson,
Monroe; w. E. Cady, Pleasant Hill; j.
| H. Gilmore, Birmingham; e. B. Cas-
well, Arlington; Bell j. Kietel, Birm-
ingham; George Bartlett, Richmond
Precinct; Mike Kronholm, Bryant; j.
M. Salter, Everett, and w. j. Fortson,
Home Acres.
Nominations for County Board of
Trustees were as follows: H. Lester,
Edmonds; B. Burton, Arlington; w. S.
Keller, Monroe; A. H. Hansen, East
Stanwood; F. G. Crosby, Everett, and
Otto Anderson, Everett.
For County Secretary: w. j. Moody,
Monroe, and S. V. Bonnevie, Everett.
A splendid example of cooperation
was shown by the members of the con-
vention in the unqualified endorsement
of the work of the Northwest Worker
Board of Trustees by their reelection
as members of the Press Committee.
Comrades Morrison, Carman, Ulonska,
HUSKY and Watts were elected as
members of the Press Committee. A
vote of thanks was extended the COM
mittee upon motion of the convention.
Carl Ulonska and j. M. Salter, as
a special committee from the Execu-
tive Committee, presented to the con
vention the plan of harmonizing the
press activities of the State. The
convention voted that the State Or
ganization shall take ownership of the
Northwest Worker when the State can
show itself out of debt and a paid-up
circulation of five thousand subscrib-
ers. The convention by unanimous
vote endorsed the County Executive
Committees plan of county autonomy
and urged the locals to give the mat
ter their earnest support and Coop
Grafton. The convention also voted to
call a mass convention of the Snoho-
mish County membership to nominate
candidates for the county political
ticket on May 81 in Everett. All mem
bers are requested to be present at
this mass convention.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-04-20
CLASSIFIED

please stop at Regent Street," said
the passenger inside the bus, curtly.
Fright, sir" replied the conductor,
obligingly.
Presently he rang the bell, and the
bus stopped in the middle of wide
and very muddy street.
Here you are, sir" said the con
ductor.
Cant you drive little closer to
the curb" growled the fussy passenger
as he prepared to alight.
Right, sir!" said the con conductor
again Then he shouted loudly to the
driver: Pull up closer to the pave
ment, Bill The gent cleans his own
sw-Tit- Bits.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-04-20
RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED

The following resolutions were
adopted at the convention of the So
cialist Party of Snohomish County,
Sunday, April 16, 1916:
Be it Resolved, By the Socialist Par
ty of Snohomish County, Wash, in
convention assembled this 10th day of
April 1916: That we favor a short
platform, both State and National,
cutting out all surplus verbiage, which
8 only confusing and designed to catch
votes.
Be it Resolved, That the Socialist
Party of Snohomish County owes to
Comrade Maynard Shipley, late editor
Of The Northwest Worker, vote of
thanks and appreciation of services
given freely for mere pittance for
nearly three years, during which time
he raised our County paper to a place
among the highest of the propaganda
press of the movement, and bespeak
for him the hearty support of the
Comrades everywhere in his illustrat-
ed lecture tour.
Be it Resolved, That in the North
west Worker the Socialist Party of
Snohomish County has the most eff
cient weapon for fighting the capital
list system that we can have and that
we do not favor turning the paper over
to the State Office before the State
has demonstrated its ability to conduct
a paper in at least as efficient a man
ner as our County owned press.
Resolved, That the Congressman for
this district, and the U. S. Senators
for Washington be requested to use
their influence to have the report Of
the Industrial Relations Commission
printed in sufficient quantity for gen
eral circulation.
Be it Resolved That we condemn
the Non-Partisan League as being de-
signed to hamper the Socialist move
ment by confusing the minds Of the
workers with fake issues.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-04-20
MAY DAY CELEBRATION
IN SEATTLE ~

The Socialists, combined labor and
radical organizations of Seattle will
celebrate May Day international La
Dor Day. on Sunday, April goth, at
Dreamland, Seventh and Union, com
mencing at 2:30 p. m. COmrade L. E.
Katterfeld will speak. A good must
cal program will be another feature of
the celebration. Admission free. In
the evening, at 8 o'clock, a social
dance will be held. Admission SOC;
ladies free. You are invited.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-04-20
FAVORITE REGULATIONS

Before leaving the state Comrade
Mrs. G. II. Lockwood left US several
copies of her "Book of Favorite Reel
tations," and we are now offering
them for sale through this office.
The book is dedicated to the
Working Glass in Revolt" and is well
gotten up. 1t is printed on good pa
per and full of illustrations. 1t is
different" from other books of reel
tations in its makeup and contains
the following poems: This Is Ny
Duty; The Worlds Need; Progress;
The Sack Of Flour; God Give Us Men;
Thanksgiving Song; Two Hands; The
Honest Burglar; Who's Who; The
Calf-Path; Once in While; The
Workers; Two Horses; Who Is a So
cialist?; Have You Heard About Per
Capita ?? The March of the Hungry
Men; The Song of the Factory; Broth
erhood; The Broader Brotherhood; My
Creed; The Little White Hand; 1t Must
Be Cettled Right; The Turn of the
Road; Inasmuch; Reform; Requiem;
Than and Now; Courage; The Gates of
the Future; But One Leads South.
The price of the book, containing go
pages, is 25c, postpaid. Send to this
office at once for a copy.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-04-20
THE NEED OF SOCIALIST FAITH
MAN BECOMING HIS OWN EVOLVER
BY George ID. Heron.

Yes the world will according
unbee without
religions
materast well BY
this civilization the thoughts and the emotions of
absorbed the struggle bodily So capitalist
mankind thinks and of
era loss and long think and act shall be
world of british modes and tragic And if the prevalent unbe
lief in life social skepcsm further abound the degrade
the will deepen accordingly But if think
spiritual quality making material forms the joy
full the souls free then life will
evouonthee will be a real ascent of
Nor if this conflict with the economic Interpretation Of society
history hitherto evolved under the
Evolution, thus far unshep
herded social choice by faith and intelligence Yet evol
faith
his evover Every uplifting
light the place of the evolution blind
chanceful evolution chosen humanity directed And
Socialism deliberate lay the will Of the
folding ends of history nvokes the faith
shall
challenge the
1t Karl Marx the and of
the belief the proetary the immediate
believed
shed The world before
Socialist No capitalist
o Socialists
Socialism
well
faith in the world the catastrophe of the humanh descent the
world he
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-04-20
SOCIALIST SAYS RUSSIA IS
FACING SERIOUS TROUBLES

is the aim of the allies, not the liberia.
ton of Europe from Prussian militar.
ism.
eve Socialists indorse the position
Of the Zimmerwald conference, we
make war on war, we are for peace
without annexations and without war
indemnities.
Bureaucracy in the Saddle
bureaucracy is united by bonds of
blood with those elements which ex-
pect from this war a return to the
darkness in the seventeenth century,
We are living in the richest country of
Europe, but we are suffering for the
lack of coal, wood, bread and meat.
We are face to face with the terrible
catastrophe of a reduction of the titled
area, and our supply of cattle is being
exterminated.
"ln the present crisis, we witness a
disorganization of our transportation
system. We are without railroads and
factories, without technical experts,
without specialists. To offset these
losses, we have only an administration
which is truly classic in it's incompe-
tence and corruptness.
"The government is mobilizing the
industries, and it's aim is merely to
rob the people. The government claims
to work for the improvement of labor
conditions. In reality the government
ordered those unforgettable assaults
on the workers in lula and Ivanovos-
nesik, and it orders new arrests of
workers every day.
Workers Must Get Control
"The militarism of industry is mere
ly veil for the miltarization of the
workers. And this means slavery.
"Now we have only two possibilities
Either with the people against the
government, or with the government
against the people. 1t is our duty to
tear out of the hands of the usurpers
the power to harm the people, to make
the people supreme. If we do not do
this, then our country will face a social
and economic ruin. The people alone
can save our nation, and in order to
do so, they must act quickly"
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-04-20
THIRTY MILLION ARE INDERPAID
AND GO HUNGRY, U. s. REPORT

advantage at which u large proportion
of wage workers and their families
are placed as the result of low wages
and insufficient annual income.
The report makes it clear that eco
nomic disadvantage" as cause of
disease overshadows all the rest. For
example, inadequate diet is set down
as the first of "uhhealthful conditions
of living" and the report says:
'lncome statistics published by Fed
eral and State governments in the last
few years indicate that considerable
proportion of the families of wage
workers have not been able to main
tain diet that will provide for proper
nourishment.
"A larger proportion can maintain
an adequate diet only at the sacrifice.
of healthful environment and of other
items which go to constitute rea-
sonable standard of living. There can
be no doubt that nourishing food is
sacrificed in large number of in
stances in order to obtain some of the
comforts and amusements and to graf
ify some of the wants which are en-
tirely natural and to be expected Of the
average American"
Less Than Half Enough
"An examination of a number of
studies of the budgets of American
workingmen's families indicates that
the point of adequate subsistence is
not reached until the family income is
about $500 year." the report con-
tinues. LESS than half of the wage
earners families in the United States
have an annual income of that size, ac-
cording to all statistics of income for
workingmen families"
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-04-20
ELEVEN GOOD MEN
Failed to Help Him
Goes Back to Prison

WALLA WALLA, Wash.-Eleven
times he got job and held it until
He told his employer he was on pa
role from a reformatory.
Then, one after another, the eleven
discharged him,
Not because he wasn't making good.
Simply because he had committed a
crime stealing some meerschaum
pipes from cigar store. The State
was giving him another chance to be
a man.
And so, when no one would give him
the chance to redeem himself, George
Cole, 26, and seriously in need of
money for necessities, forged a So
check.
Now he goes to the penitentiary.
Goes to the penitentiary as con-
firmed criminal because II good men
were too good to let his hard work,
loyalty, honesty and desire to atoms
for his lapse over-balance the theft of
some meerschaum pipes
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-04-20

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Shipla-
coff introduced two labor laws in the
Legislature. One of the bills is spe-
cific in it's nature and aims to amend
a certain feature of the Compensation
law. The other is rather general in
its nature, and, if enacted into a law,
would probably accomplish more good
for the coming generation of the State
than any other law passed during the
present Legislature, says its. author.
This bill provides that the age limit
for employing children should be
raised from IA to Is.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-04-20

WINNIPEG, Manitoba.-True bills
against former Premier Redmond Rob-
lin and his associates, charged with
completely in Parliament buildings
graft, were returned by the Grand
Jury at Winnipeg Assizes. The indict-
ments constitute an important legal
step toward actual trial of the accused
ex-Ministers. In addition to Sir Red
mond, James h.-fTc WIDEN, former At
torney General, and George E. Cold
we'll, former Minister of Education,
were indicted
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-04-20
OLD PRESS COMMITTEE
REELECTED SUNDAY

The old press committee of the
Northwest Worker was reelected from
list of ten nominations at the con-
yention held in the Forum last Sunday
The committee consists of Peter
HUSKY, w. l.. Carman, Carl Ulonska,
C. P. Morrison and H. w. Watts.
These comrades will continue to guide
the destinies of the paper for the next
year.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-04-20

Ground has been purchased and
work will soon commence on a build
ing which will be occupied exclusively
by the Butte Socialist Publishing Com
pany and the State and local organ
ization of the Socialist Party. Plans
for the building, which are now being
drawn, call for a structure that will be
suitable for the purpose of the Social
list party of Montana, which is now ex-
periencing a rapid and healthy growth
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-04-20

WASHINGTON. - Investigation is
under way by agents of the Depart
ment of Justice into statements re-
ported to have been made at Licking
ton, KY, by w. E. D. Stokes, New
York millionaire, to the effect that he
was backing Felix Diaz, nephew of the
late Gen. Porfirio Diaz in the revolu-
ton which the younger Diaz is said to
have launched in Southern Mexico
against the Carranza government.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-04-20
NEWS IN BRIEF

ALBANY ssemblyman Abraham
J. Shiplacoff put one over" on the
Legislature by distinctly establishing
his position in the Assembly as a So
ciaist member. During IA discussion,
after leaders of both majority and mi
nority had spoken, Shiplacoff demand
ed the right to addres the House. OBJ
lection was made on the ground that
both sides had aired their views,
whereupon Shiplaaoff retorted that he
was "hs own leader" He wob, and
made his speech
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-04-20

The radical students at the leading
girls colleges of the country have
made themselves obnoxious. Vassar
and Wellesley have been more troubled
by the plague of radicalism than Yale
and Harvard. The women students
have shown a deplorable tendency. to
think for themselves.
This is to be ended. 1t will be end
ed not by expelling the radicals at
present in college, but by not permit
ting any more to enter.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-04-20

The farmers around Chicago made
good their threats to dump milk into
the bitches rather than see it go to the
dealers who have refused to meet their
demands for Il ll-cent increase in
price. The dealers found their bot
Ting plants closely picketed by farm
ers armed with eggs and other mis-
siles ready to prevent the delivery of
any milk by seeding farmers. All the
companies except the Borden Co. have
given in to the farmers.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-04-20

ROME.-Advices received here say
that several women were killed in re-
cent disorders in Vienna, Prague,
Trieste and Agram. Crowds of wom-
en- attacked the government offices,
demanding bread and the conclusion of
peace. The troops were called out and
fired upon the crowds, killing several
of the women.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-04-20

Franz Mehring, for many ylars an
associate editor Of The Neue Zeit, the
scientific organ of the German Social
Democracy, chief historian of the Ger
man Socialist movement, and most
brilliant journalist of the European
Socialist movement, has reached his
SEVENTEEN birthday. The German So
cialist movement owes him much and
is fully aware of 1t. His birthday has
been the occasion for many express
sions of regard for the old fighter.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-04-20

GLASGOW.-The Clyde Workers
committee, which for some time has
resisted the attempts of the govern
ment commissioners to abolish union
conditions in munition factories, has
aroused the bitter hatred of the i'm
perialists and, by trying to call a
strike for the purpose of protecting
the unions, has laid itself open to
charges of treason.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-04-20

Comrade Conant of Auburn says
that Comrade Hunton's poem, eff Pm
to Be Soldier" is a dandy and that
parents ought to teach their children
that poem so that they can recite it
in school and at parties. The poem
was published in last weeks issue.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-04-20
JAMES p, THOMPSON

National Organizer of the |. W. W.
will speak in The Forum, Sunday aft
ernoon, April %. The subject will be
Work, Overwork and Unemploy-
ment." Admission is free and the
lecture commences at 2 p. m.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-04-20

Local secretaries are requested to
see that all the information contained
in their Local Directory, published in
this paper, is correct. If it is not,
kindly notify us.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-04-20

TRENTON, N. 1.-THE Court of
Pardons has announced that it had de-
cided not to grant parole to Patrick
L. Quinlan, who is serving a two to
seven year term in the State Prison
here in connection with the Paterson
silk strike of 1918.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-04-20

Sheboygan, Wis., Socialists elected
H. C. Hinze, Alderman, and Adam
Mueller, Supervisor, both for the Sew
enth Ward, and c. Guehlsdorf, Super
visor, in the Eighth Ward, in the re-
cent city election.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-04-20

Comrade Ryan Walker informs US
that he had capacity meetings at Pay
cite, Caldwell and Nampa, Idaho and
that people were turned away,
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-04-20

Hasea Stout, well known Socialist
at Glendale, Arizona, was elected to
the City Council of that city at the last
election, receiving majority of four
over his opponent. Comrade Stout is
the first Socialist to sit in the Glen
dale City Council.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-04-20

LONDON-The British army in
France, which numbered 10000 in
August, 1914, now numbers 100000.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-04-20

Just what you want! Mule Skin
Gloves. Buy them from Adam Hill,
1929 Colby Ave-. soc a pair.