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The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-06-08
COST OF LIVING IN
THE Is RISING
BUYING POWER OF A DOLLAR
STEADILY GOING DOWN FED
ERAL REPORT SHOWS.

Prices of staple foods in the United
States increased on an average of
per cent from February Is to March
Is last. Figures made public by the
department of labor show that all
meat prices increased, as did the price
of sugar. Eggs, milk, flour and po-
tatoes were cheaper.
Prices advanced 8 per cent during
the year from March, 1915, to March
1916, and prices on March Is, 1916,
averaged per cent higher than for
the entire year of 1915. Eighteen
foods increased in price during the
year ; five did not change, and three
were lower.
A table covering prices for the last
Is years show the purchasing power
of 81 has decreased steadily in all
foods.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-06-08
ULONSKA TO DELIVER
SEVEN LECTURES FOR
LOCAL NORTH YAKIMA

Local North Yakima has asked
for seven dates for the Carl Ulonska
lectures. This local seems to be the
Invest in the state just at present. At
date of writing Comrade Shipley is
delivering a series of four lectures,
one each day for four days, to crowd
ed houses. Comrade Ed Maurer, mem
Der of the State Executive Committee
is one of the live wires in that local
and it is greatly through his efforts
that the series of lectures are being
held.
If one local san take seven Ulonska
lectures in one week, surely your local
can take one lecture. Look into this
right away. If there is no local in
your town, get busy and arrange for
a lecture and help build up a local.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-06-08
NEW INVENTION
THREATENS MAINE
SARDINE WOMEN

BANGOR, Me.-If the plans now
being perfected by an inventor con-
nected with the American Can COM
pany of New York work out success
fully, the entire business of packing
sardines may be revolutionized The
inventor, who is now working on de-
vices for cutting and eviscerating her
ring preparatory to packing them, is
said to have practically perfected
machine that will displace the hun
dreds of female operatives and that it
will automatically put the cooked fish
in the cans as neatly as it can be done
by hand.
The sealing machine introduced
fifteen years ago threw ninety per
cent of the male labor out of employ
ment. This machine was decried at
it's first appearance and was thought
impossible, but subsequent events
proved it to be entirely practical and
today none of the two million cases
of sardines packed in Maine are sealed
by hand.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-06-08
By ]. l.. Engdahl.

Labor's biggest opportunity is here!
Let labor unite and make the most of
this grand opportunity!
There were never so many workers
in the land demanding more bread for
their families, more hours of leisure,
better conditions under which to la
Dor.
There was never such a demand for
organization on the part of the men,
women and children who toll, as now.
The desire to struggle for some
thing better is in the heart of labor,
TODAY! 1t is a struggle full of life
and hope.
This struggle must be crowned with
success.
1t can be crowned with success be-
cause:
Never before has the army of the
unemployed been thinned to it's pres
ent proportions; its ranks so depleted
Never before have the masters of
industry been bidding for the brain
and Drawn of labor as they are doing
now.
Never before has the voice of labor
been as commanding as now; sounded
so threatening to the ears of the mas
ter class.
Labor must make big step in ad-
vance now because:
When the war is over, as it soon
must be, the hordes of the hopeless
will leave the shores of Europe and
come to the United States looking for
jobs, to compete in the labor market.
When the war is over the munitions
industry will collapse, hundreds of
thousands of workers will be thrown
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-06-08
FORCE UP THE PRICE OF THE
BLOOD AND SWEAT OF LABOR

out of employment, the unemployed
army will be recruited again to it's full
strength; the workers will be bidding
against each other for the jobs.
When the war is over the millions
of soldiers in Europe will return to
their jobs across the sea, and there
will be no call for the products of
American labor.
The labor situation in this country
today is the product of q months of
bloody slaughter in Europe. In the
early months of the war, the skilled
labor needed in the munitions plants
demanded and received increased
wages. The eight-hour day was won
almost over night, especially by the
machinists, where previous years of
unremtting struggle had not brought
it about.
Workers were drawn to the war in
dustry from other industries. The
opportunity to fight and win grew
and grew. Note the rebellion of la
Dor in the Pittsburg district. See the
thousands leaving the gates of the In
ternational Harvester company and
other huge corporations in Chicago
and Milwaukee.
There were no unemployed to take
their places, no freshly arrived hordes
of immigrants from Europe hungry
for jobs. Labor went on strike and
factories and mills closed. The solid
arity Of labor was irresistible.
Labor is losing it's fears and fore
bodings. 1t is willing to fight. Win
ter is gone. Spring is urging the mass
of toll to take up the battle for it's
rights.
When the Milwaukee munitions
manufacturer warned labor to stick
to its sausages sauerkraut, and black
bread, for the present prosperity
would soon be a thing of the past, he
was merely voicing his own fear.
Labor intends to have something bet
ter.
When the Chicago money monarch,
from the bottom of his granite heart,
advised the workers to "Cut out the
nickel shows and SAVE" his advice
fell on deaf ears. 3,
The price of the sweat and blood of
labor is going up. Let it mount high
er and higher. Let it rise until it has
absorbed all the profits of capital
Labor's biggest opportunity is here.
Let labor everywhere unite and
make the most of this grand oppor-
tunity,
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-06-08
100000 WORKERS ON STRIKE
REPORT SAYS

According to a statement of the
Department of Labor, strikes and lock
outs throughout the United States
have been unusually numerous.
The last six months produced 1869,
and, in April alone there were 26S
Most of the April strikes, the report
says, were due to the demand for la
Dor to fill war orders. Decreases in
immigration have brought about a la
Dor shortage, although immigration is
now picking up.
1t is stated that the largest number
of the strikes have been in the metal
trades in many states. More than
half were in New York, Massachusetts
Pennsylvania and Ohio. April strikes
involved about 100000 workers.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-06-08
UNION MASS MEETING DISCUSSES
ACTION OF THE COMMERCIAL CLUB
Adopts Resolution Calling Upon Business Men
of Everett to Withdraw from the Club on
Account of Unfair Action Taken

opportunity to present their side of
the case This request was promptly
refused, and without hearing the shin
gle weavers' side of the case at all,
the report was adopted; and
Whereas, This report is biased,
prejudiced, one-sided, and untrue; it
deals with the question of the open
shop, which is no part of the single
weavers' demand, it was inspired by
the mill owners and passed by those
whose interests are with the employ
ers.
Therefore, Be it Resolved, That
this mass meeting of Everett citizens
hereby voices its resentment at the
single weavers being denied hear
ing before being convicted by the Ev-
erett Commercial club, and hereby
pledges itself, Individually and col
lectively to refrain hereafter from
patronizing in any way any member
of the Everett Commercial club; and,
further,
Resolved, That we call upon all
business and professional men, who
share our injured feelings at the I'M
fair action taken by the Everett Com
mercial club to Immediately withdraw
from that institution, and at the same
time notify organized labor in writing
of their actions to the end that our
friends may not be unconsciously in
jured by our actions at this time"
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-06-08
A FRIEND OF LABOR (D

1t took Governor Ernest Lister, who
sometimes boasts that he was "once
a union man." to appoint to the posi-
ton of State Labor Commissioner,
which ever since its inception has been
held by member of organized labor,
non-union man. If the governor
keeps on in just this way the Repub-
licans will be able to beat him with a
yellow dog, even though he has in his
various commissions and their en-
ployes the greatest political machine
ever built up by any governor in any
state.-Union Record.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-06-08
SWISS WORKERS
DEFEAT TRUST
S. S. at Meeting Hears of the
Growth of Co-Operatives i'm
Europe in Spite of War

When the whirlwind of the Euro
pean war struck the cooperative
movement of the various countries,
|belligerent and neutral, it unexpected
ly changed to a life-giving zephyr,
with the net result that in England
alone 10000 new members were ad-
mitted into the Cooperative Stores
League in 1914. This and other facts
were presented at discussion meet
ing of the New York Chapter of the
Intercollegiate Socialist Society.
"This increase was more than twice
the increase during the year before
the war;" said Albert Sonnichsen, edi-
tor of the Cooperative Consumer. He
added:
"There is not country in Europe
in which the cooperative movement
does not show an enormous increase
since the war. Particularly is this
true in neutral countries. In Switzer-
land the co-operatives have grown so
strong that not long ago they engaged
in struggle with the meat trust, the
most perfect combination of it's kind
in the world, and in a week they broke
it. By the use Of the boycott the
Swiss cooperative movement forced
the meat. trust to ask for terms and
brought it out"
DIR. j. P. Warbasse, the chairman,
said, in sketching the nautre of CO.
operative: "a group of consumers
get together to buy more cheaply.
They grow, perfect their organization,
buying from the wholesaler in guam
tity until they become wholesalers
themselves. When there are a suf-
ficient number of wholesalers, they
become wholesalers themselves, de-
velop on this level until they are
strong enough, and then go back to
the point of production and become at
once producers and consumers"
A striking point brought out by DR..
Warbasse was that while the German
government was seeking to enlist the
aid and support of the Socialist move
ment in the conduct of the war, it was
now, as always, bitterly and unceas-
ingly fighting the cooperative move
ment.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-06-08

WASHINGTON, June IA mil
lion-dollar- a-day navy bill was re-
ported to the House by the Naval AT
fairs committee.
While the bill carries by specific
appropriation $241 ,449, 1919, projects
provided for obligate the Treasury to
an additional $119, 4S5,142, a total of
1850, ,293.99 for the fiscal year. The
specific appropriations given an in
crease of $91, 7S7,2S7.1' over that of
last year.
Additional obligations upon the
Treasury for which appropriations are
named in the bill are as follows:
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-06-08

Several hundred men and women
gathered Sunday afternoon in the
City park in response to call issued
by organized labor to discuss the ac-
ton of the Everett Commercial Club
at recent session declaring against
the shingle weaver strikers and for
the "open shop"
Thomas Altman presided. The ses-
sion lasted two and half hours.
Those who spoke We're: J. G. Brown,
president of the International Single
Weavers' Union; E. C. Daley, G. w.
Louttit and h. j. Faussett.
The following resolution was adopt
ed at the meeting:
Whereas, Some days ago the board
of directors of the Everett CONNER
cial club made an alleged investiga-
ton of the strike of the single weav-
ers of this city. Without inviting n
single weaver, without seeking a
particle of information from the Shin
gle Weavers' Union, and without the
authority of the membership of the
club itself, the one-sided conclusions
of the directors were given to the
press with the clear intention of ere
ating prejudice in the minds of the
public against the striking single
weavers. Later, when the matter was
to be considered by the entire mem
bers of the club, request was made
that the single weavers be given an
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-06-08
SENATE MILITARY COMMITTEE
TO CONSIDER SWISS PLAN

WASHINGTON.-The Senate mill
tary affairs committee agreed to take
up, next Wednesday, the Chamberlain
universal military training bill, mod
eled on the Swiss system.
All able-bodied males between the
ages of II and 2S, who are citizens or
have declared their intention to be-
come citizens, would be liable for
training under the bill.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-06-08
Million Dollars for Every Day of Year,
Navy Budget Approved by House JingOes

Projectile plants, $7O5,611.
Philadelphia dry docks, $3,000,000.
Equipment depot and supply station
at Philadelphia, $4,000.
Gun shop, District of Columbia,
100000
Dry dock, Norfolk, Va, $3,000,000.
Laboratory, 100000.
Naval reserves, 100000.
Armor plate plant 100000.
Increase in ships, $100,S43,000.
The expenses and pay of the Naval
Reserves are not included in the bill,
nor are the expenditures in Hawaii.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-06-08
UNION TO OPEN
COMMISSARIES
Cloak Strikers VIII BE Given
Food at Eight Central Dis
tribution Centers

Eight commissary stores will be
put in operation by the International
Ladies' Garment Workers Union and
the Joint Board of the Cloak and Skirt
Makers Union to provide food for the
100000 New York men, women and
children affected through the lockout
by the Cloak, Suit and Skirt Manufac-
turers' Protective Association. The
employers have declared their deter
mination to starve the workers into
submission, so the commissary stores
will be an important factor in the I'M
ions fight. President Benjamin
Schlesinger, of the International Un-
ion, said that the commissary centers
will act as direct reply TO the star
walton policy which is back of the en-
ployers' lockout, and will give the
strikers all the necessities of live
hhood."
These centers will be established
under the name of the Cloak Makers
Cooperative Stores"
These big stores will carry supplies
of bread, butter, potatoes, flour, eggs,
herring, sugar, tea and coffee, and
will be distributed free to the strikers
presenting strike cards. Arrange
ments have been made with milk COM
panies to supply milk to the strikers
in their homes. A number of delivery
companies have volunteered to fur
nish delivery trucks and autos, should
it become necessary to deliver sup
plies to the homes of the strikers.
The International Ladies' Garment
Workers Union intends to invest
S250,000 in these provision stores. A
committee, to locate vacant stores and
lofts for the commissionary centers,
consisting of Miss Mary Dreier, Miss
Florence Wise, Miss Malinda Scott
and Miss Nose Schneiderman, of the
Women's Trade Union League, has
been appointed, and it is putting these
plans through with all possible speed.
The Manufacturers Association has
not met with success in the attempt
to win the workers back to the shops
by denouncing the union leaders. Let
tiers mailed to all strikers charged the
strike was brought on by the officers
to fill their pockets. At mass meet
ing of strikers, the following resolu-
ton was adopted in reply to the asso-
cations letter:
1--WE regret the crocodile tears our
bosses are shedding over our bitter
circumstances, and we are very thank
full for their promises which they have
found necessary in their last literary
announcement to their dear 'unem-
ployed workers. Under their sheep
skins beat wolves hearts, fact well
known to workers from their bitter
experiences of many years. We be-
lieve our condition can be bettered
only through our own efforts, through
unity in our mighty organization.
with full confidence we hurl back
the accusations against our organiza-
ton and against the men at the head
of the organization. The shameless
ness of the bosses did not surprise us.
We wish to assure them that we know
who are our leaders and who are our
misleaders, and therefore we declare
that, through the help of our organi-
cation we will carry on our fight as
long as it will be necessary, until we
achieve the victorious end"
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-06-08

A second international conference
of Socialists, similar to and growing
out of the one held at Zimmerwald
last September, met at some place in
the Berner Overland in the last week
of April.
There were present three members
of the French Chamber of Deputies
Pierre Brizon, of Allier; Alexandra
Blanc, of Vaucluse, and Raffin-Du-
gems, of Isere; five Italians--Prampo
lini, Morgasi, Modigliani, Musatti and
Dugoni; two Germans-A. Hoffman,
member of the Prussian Landtag, and
II. Fleissner, member of the Alsatian
Landtag; from Serbia, T. Katzlero-
witch; from Switzerland, GRADER,
Grimm and Maine. The French and
German comrades present were not
official representatives of the party in
their countries.
1t is stated that several members Of
the German Reichstag tried to come,
but were prevented from crossing the
frontier; also that a number of Eng
lish, French, Austrian and Hungarian
Socialists were hindered by the au-
thorities from attending.
War Blame on All Rulers
The conference issued manifesto
addressed to the working people of all
lands, which begins by putting the
responsibility for the war on the rul-
ing classes of all the belligerent ma
tions, without distinction, repeating
the following paragraph from the
manifesto adopted at Zimmerwald.
The ruling powers of capitalist
society, in whose hands lay the
fate of the peoples, the mOnarchi-
cal and republican governments
alike, the secret diplomats, the
great employers organizations,
the bourgeois practice, the capt.
talist press, the churches-all
these must bear the responsibility
for this war, which has grown
out of the social system of which
they are the beneficiaries and the
advocates and which is being
waged for their interests.
After almost two years of slaugh-
ter and destruction, says the mani
festo, after millions of men have been
killed and other millions crippled, mil
lions of families cast into mourning,
ruins piled on ruins and priceless pro-
ducts of civilization destroyed, the
warning nations find themselves in
blind alley. No decisive result has
been obtained, and the governments
think only of hurting still more mil
lions of men into the caldron of blood
and fire.
Conflict Means Ruin for All
"No victors and no vanquished-or
rather, all vanquished, all ruined, ex-
hausted, bled whitehall will be the
balance-sheet of this war. The ruling
classes may assure themselves that
their fantastic dreams of imperialistic
world are not on the way
to fulfilment.
Courts continue to prove that only
those Socialists have served the inter-
ests of the peoples to which they be-
long, who in spite of calumny and per-
secution, have stood out against the
nationalistic frenzy and demanded i'm
mediate peace without annexations.
"Workingmen of city and country,
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-06-08
KARL LIEBK NECHT WILL
FACE COURT AS TRAITOR

A Berlin dispatch says that the
court which conducted the preliminary
hearing of DR.. Karl Liebnecht, Social
list leader, decided he should be prose-
cuted for treason. Liebnecht was ar
rested for having participated in
peace demonstration on May day.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-06-08
SECOND 'ZIMMERWALD" MEETING OF
SOCIALISTS CALLS FOR WAR ON WAR
Conference Declares Ruling Powers of Capitalist
Society Must Bear Responsibility for
EurOpes Great Conflict

the governments and the imperialist
cliques and their press are telling you
that you must stick it out (durch-
halten) in order to liberate the subiu-
gated nationalities. OF all the mis-
leading cries that have been raised,
this is the grossest.
What Real Aim Is
The actual aim of this gigantic
slaughter is, for some of the govern
ments, to confirm what they have won
in numerous wars of conquest in CEN
turtles past; for others, to make a new
division of the spoils in order to en-
large their own share, to annex new
territories, to dismember more peoples
and reduce them to the rank of helots.
"YOur governments and their press
tell you that you must go on to the
bitter end in order to destroy militar-
ism. Do not let yourselves be de-
ceived. The militarism of each nation
can be destroyed only by that nation
itself.
"Your governments and their press
tell you also that this war must be
fought to the finish in order that it
may be the last war. This also is de-
ceit. Never has war killed war. On
the contrary, war rouses the desire
for revenge. Violence breeds violence.
"For every sacrifice you make, your
oppressors demand yet another; nor
do the bourgeois pacifists show any
way out of this internal circle.
There is only one practical method
of preventing future wars-that is,
the conquest of political power by the
working class and the abolition of the
capitalist property system. Lasting
peace will come only as the result of
Socialist victory.
"Who are they that urge you to
fight on to the end? They are the
"Who are they that urge you to
fight on to the end? They are the
originators and the beneficiaries of
war. The reactionaries who sit at
home and rejoice in the slaughter of
the Socialists and trade unionists who
have threatened their privileges.
Workers Are JingOes' Victims
"They control the lying press that
poisons the public mind. They have
full freedom to agitate for the con-
tinuation of the war. You are the
victims. You have only the right, to
hunger, to silence, to martial law, to
the censorship, to prison.
while they wage their class strug-
giles against you still more cruelty
than before, they preach to you the
gospel of 'Burgfrieden'-of peace be-
tween classes. While they ruthlessly
exploit your poverty and need, they
seek to make you commit treason
against your class and take away
from you your greatest strength, your
faith-Socialism.
The manifesto welcomes the grow
ing demand for peace in all countries,
and closes with an emphatic appeal to
the Socialists of both the neutral and
the belligerent nations to redouble
their efforts to arouse the masses
against the war-lords, to resume the
class struggle at home and force the
speedy ending of the war, without
annexations, indemnities, or any other
concessions to imperialist greed.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-06-08
MAYNARD SHIPLEY
LECTURE DATES

Sunday, June 11-Everett.
Monday, June 12-Bayview.
Tuesday, June Buckingham.
Tuesday, June Buckingham.
Thursday, June 15-Everson.
Sunday, June 18-Everett.
Monday, June 19-Everett.
Tuesday, June 20-Bellingham.
Wednesday, June Buckingham.
Thursday, June 22-Bayview.
Friday, June 23-Lynden.
June 25 to 28-Tacoma.
June 20 to July Aberdeen.
July 3-Olympia
How many sub cards do you want
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-06-08
KIRKPATRICK WINS DEBATE

Reports from Springfield, ILL.,, indi-
cate that George R. Kirkpatrick, So
cialist candidate for vice president,
had walkaway in his debate on mill
tarism with Burr Mcintosh, play
wright, war correspondent, personal
friend of ex-President Taft and Gen.
Leonard Wood. The military crowd
turned out en- masse to see Kirkpat-
rick smothered by this matinee hero
of the munitions barons. But, accord
ing to reports Of the battle, Mcintosh
was verbally slaughtered and practi-
cally acknowledged it. Kirkpatrick
is no doubt now ready for another
forensic battle with another represen-
tative Of the jingoes.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-06-08

PITTSBURG.-By unanimous
vote, delegates representing 10000
miners from District No. 5, United
Mine Workers of America, in conven-
ton here, rejected the new wage scale
signed several weeks ago in New York
at conference of union representa-
tives and coal operators.