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The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-03-01
ROTTONl FIRST-AID ~
BILL PASSED
"JOker" in Bill Makes It of Lit
tie Benefit to
Workers

On the face of it's employees
throughout the state might be led
TO believe that the Reed Mccoy bill
as passed by the State Senate was a
concession to workers. 1t looked like
an increase of 80 per cent over what
they are getting under the present
frst-aid bill. But instead of being a
benefit to workers the Reed-McCoy
bill is of distinct advantage to the
employers Of labor.
There is a "jokcI' in the Reed Nc
Coy bin which provided that no com
pensation shall be paid an injured
worker out Of the state fund for the
first week of his disability unless the
injury incapacitates him for 80 days
or more.
Statistics assembled by the state
industrial insurance commission itself
show that the average period of tenn
porary disability under the present
compensation act is only rs days. This
joker in the MCCOY bill means
then nothing more or less than that
in the average injury case one weeks
compensation that is paid under the
old law will not be paid under the
new.
When you consider the enormous
sum that this joker would virtually
fitch from injured workers, : is easy
to understand why the men back of
Reed Mccoy bill were willing to per-
nit an increase of 80 per cent or
such matter in the lump sum COM
pcnsatlon now paid for permanent
partial disability. The one weeks
compensation Topped off in the case
of minor accidents would reimburse
the fund several times over for the
larger payments in partial perman-
ent disability cases.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-03-01
WHITE PLAGUE
TO RULE WHILE
POVERTY EXISTS

tuberculosis will continue to raw
age the human race as long as pow
erty exists, declares the tubercle ba-
cillus himself in an autobiography"
printed in the current Medical Review
of Reviews. Says the tuberculosis
germ" as reported by Victor Rob-
inson, editor:
"By drugs alone can never be con-
quered. Am l then destined to mas
sacre man forever? AS long MS the
mass of mankind is submerged in
the depths of existence will continue
to reap rich harvest. While mil
lions of human beings are overwork-
ed, undernourished and ill-housed, |
shall Stay one out of seven.
"The lords of creation thrust the
others into the back-alleys of life
and think they are rid of them. But
am the revenge that the Stun takes
on the West End. First | visit the
rotting howell, but later l enter the
mansion with the marble pillars. The
rich mans child romps with his we'll
fed dog in the park, where half an
hour ago a tuberculosis employee pass
ed and coughed and spat. cling
to the dogs hair and so l enter the
rich mans home. His daughter
drives to the ball in her limousine,
but when she puts her slippered foot
upon the sidewalk, l, who came from
the mouth of a consumptive washer
woman, attach myself to the hem of
the lady's silken robe. Thus l am
promoted from the kitchen to the
lrawing room.
MAN could overcome me if there
were more sunshine in his houses, and
more sunshine in his heart. But as
l pass from one to the ether, and see
the greed and cruelty of mantle
same today as when he worshiped
other gods-I think that for years to
come | will bring the Great White
Plague and whiten the earth with
tombstones."
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-03-01
$4,000 VERDICT FOR SON
OF SLAIN UNION PICKET

ST. LOUIS, Mo.-William Savignac,
10 years old, was given a $4,000
judgment in the Circuit Court against
the John O'Brien Boiler Works Com
pany, for the death of his father,
Albert Savignac, a union boilermaker,
Who was shot while on picket duty,
in front of the boiler works in Octo-
Der, 1915.
Sagivnac was killed by John S.
TcIin, a company guard" Tolin and
some of his fellow gunner pleaded
that Sayignac attempted to attack
them and that the shooting was ac-
cidental. The coroner's jury found
for TOlin, but the evidence in possess
sion of the friends Of Savignac was
so strong that they continued the
legal battle. The verdict given by
the Circuit Court virtually convicts
Tolin and the firm that hired him.
The union picket was killed three
months after strike had been called
at the O'Brien boiler works.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-03-01
WHO LIED?

Last week we published an article
regarding the mixup between the
Commercial Club and the new ship
building company, but a statement
was published in the Everett Herald
purporting to come from Mr.. Donohue
the superintendent of the shipbuildinp
firm, stating that there was no truth
in the statement. This letter was
either a lie or else the employees OF
the company must be lying.
There are several things in connec-
ton with this matter, however, that
cannot be denied. One is that scows
of lumber were being loaded for this
firm when the order was suddenly
given to stop loading. Another is thai
the firm is getting its hardware fror
Seattle and another is that the old mil
is being got into shape for the cutting
of the lumber.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-03-01
SHIPMENTS ABROAD
BLAMED FOR FOOD
CRISIS IN NATION
Vegetables Sent to Warning Ma.
tons Despite Crop
Shortage Here

Shipments of vegetables to Europe
from the already shortened supply
in the United States is one Of the
main causes for the skyhigh prices
now ruling in this country. And
these prices will continue to 90 high.
er and higher each month as SUP
plies here become more and more de
pleted and until the 1917 crops are
harvested.
The 1916 potato crop was $4,000
900 bushels short; nevertheless there
have been shipped abroad nearly 3,
100000 bushels of white potatoes il
the last II months and the price per
bushel, as shown by the United State
government reports, has jumped from
"a cents bushel in December, 1915,
to $l.57 ~ months later. This was
the wholesale price for immense
shipments Of thousands of bushels at
time. In the last month it has
gone up considerably more. Potatoes
were retailing IN Chicago from sc
cents to 81 peck, compared with 30
and 40 cents a year ago.
Many thousands of bushels of po-
tatoes that have been sent abroad
from the supply in this country dc
not show in the statistics of the bu.
reau Of foreign commerce of the fed
eral government. These are potatoe,
Used in canned meat stews made by
he meat packers for Europe.
We have tried on two occasions in
The past week to get these facts be
fore the readers of The Everett Daily
Herald, but the editor thought they
night not be good reading so they
never appeared. If we could reach
people of the United States witt
these and similar facts for one Who'll,
year the Socialists would sweep tn,
country. Our candidates must b,
elected to office so that we can con
srol few more of the sources of in
formation.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-03-01
HE SPEECH
IS INPERILED
arIua- Snr Bill Just Passed by
t# 5c4,es Senate by Loose
Wording Allows Abuses.

Slipped over in the heat of the
war fever and with but little consid-
cation. the Senate adopted the Over
o''l ostensibly aimed at
~ IONS of German spies in
-7 cY1sry, 100000 of whom we :
-2 - in existence. The bill COZ
sy Ta ent measures and was
~ the department of justice
administration.
terms are so drastic as to make
on-ole any agitation tending to
c cate disaffection of interfering with
the success of the military forces.
uch loose wording imperils the right
/ free speech, free press and the
IF public assemblage, and would
r." of muzzling pacifsts
3 an> criticism of army
-.---.aa-.as ene"t OF graft. The pen
atty for violation is in some cases
10th il others life imprisonment.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-03-01
AUSTRALIAN STATE RAISES
ITS OWN SUPPLY OF BEEF

Melbourne, Australia-The Queens
land state labor government now owns
about 10000 head of cattle on the
state cattle runs. The meat is sup
piled to the state butchers. Still more
ranches are to be acquired, and it is
thought that by the gradual widening
of operations the American meat trust
will be finally squeezed out of Aus
tralia, since it is in Queensland that
the trust is operating. Later on sheep
ranches are to be acquired, The oper-
atoms of the Queensland state gov
eminent are finding unanimous ap-
prevail with the people of the state
except of course the capitalists and
the representatives of the American
meat trust.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-03-01
FUEL AND LIGHT
SHORTAGE ACUTE
III EUROPE
Many European Nations Are Suffer
ing From Lack of Coal
and Oil

STOCKHOLM--Scayeity OF fuel and
lighting facilities las brought a3ou
serious crisis in northern and ssn
trail Europe. Denmark is tae latest
country to be seriously affected,
Copenhagen is now nearly as dark
as London. The theatres in Chris
tiania, Norway, have been closed to
save coal and light for the cos1uun-
ity.
In Germany the fuel and lighting
problem is acute and Berlin no lsng-
er blazes with light as hitherto.
Conditions are distinctly worse in
Austria, where IN the cr1ntry d.s-
t'1cts the people are taking the Law
into their own hands, chopping down
trees regardless Of ownership when
the fuel sheds are empty.
In Russia the fuel and lighting
problem is serious.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-03-01
JOHN SPARGO TO
LECTURE IN SEATTLE

rs- .s ..-Alng issue today, be-
fore the American people. What at
titude the labor movement should as
sumo towards the war, is a subject
for discussion in all intelligent labor
circles.
.o'r Spargo, the we'll known auth
O s~r ;ecturer and authority on var
1888 -cc.&l problems, will deliver a
lure IN Seattle on Socialism and
az He speaks under the auspices
If the Young Peoples Socialist
league, Friday evening, March 16, at
:.even's Hall, Fourth Ave. and West
lac
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-03-01
TIME OF TRIAL
DRAWING NEAR
Jury Panel Drawn for Everett
Free Speech Prisoners-De-
Tense Handicapped for Lack
of Funds.

The trial of Thomas H. Tracy,
first Of the II free speech prisoners
to be tried on charge of murder
growing out of the attack of the Sno-
homish County sheriff on the steamer
Verona last November, draws near.
March + is the date set, and much
work must be done in the meantime
TO assure a fair and unprecedented
jury.
The defense is greatly handicapped
for lack of funds, but is making a
gallant fight. Attorneys Fred II.
Moore and George W. Vandeveer are
tireless and have gathered a corps OF
assistants who are enthusiastically
carrying out the defense plans.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-03-01
BRITISH JAIL NEARLY so
SIM FEM SYMPATHIZERS

LONDON-Nearly so arrests of
Sim Fem sympathizers in Ireland
were reported in Dublin dispatches
Friday.
The only information obtainable as
to the cause of the arrests was that
they were made under the defense of
the realm act.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-03-01

ST. LOUIS, Mo.---Dangerous condi-
tons under which the boiler works Of
he unfair Hene Boiler Company are
operated were illustrated when two
men were crushed TO death while
working under a boiler weighing more
than 1000 pounds. The victims were
harles +. Proctor, a pipefitter, and
Toward Duncan, his helper. Boiler
nakels at the plant struck in July,
1915, and the fight has been on ever
'incc. The plant has been "iun" with
trikebreakers, under the protection
Of private detectives and strikebreali-
'ng agents.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-03-01

CALGARY, Alta.-By a vote of
more than two to one, Calgary has
adopted the proportional representa-
ton system in the local government.
The system to be used is the same, in
general principle, as that adopted by
Ashtabula, Ohio. The election is at
large. Each voter has only one vote,
but he may express on hi. ballot any
number of alternative preferences.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-03-01

PRINCE RUPERT, B. C.-The
shipping of halibut fishermen under
a "share agreement" instead of a
wage schedule has resulted in several
recent instances of large earnings for
crews that happened to profit by the
unusual catches of certain vessels
The most striking instance is found
in the case of the four-men crew of
he Director. The Director brought
II 10000 pounds of halibut after fish
ng for Is days. The fish sold for
ahout $4,000. The balance remaining
fer taking out all expenses was d.
ided among the members of the crew,
md each man received Sl60.75, or
30.71 per day.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-03-01
AMERICAN PEOPLE
REJECT AGITATION
FOR JOINING WAR
Meyer London Declares Conflict
Is Wanted Only by the
Munition interests

Meyer London made his best speech
Of the year in congress during dis
cussion of the army appropriation
bill when he denounced the attempt
to drag the United States into the
war for the benefit of munition max
ers. The only Socialist in the house
said what the old party pacifsts had
avoided saying, that if war came, it
would be "a war for the right Of the
powder barrel, with the American
flag on the barrel, giving it the sane
tity of everything that the flag rep
resents."
London pointed out that ".he
light to declare war involves the right
to refuse to declare war;" and show
ed that the question before Congress
and the country was whether, HAVING
refused to go to war with Great Bri-
tain because she destroyed our com
merce with Germany, we should now
go to war with Germany for trying
to destroy our commerce with Great
Britain.
People Answered Question
"The question:" he said "aIready
has been answered by the American
people. One of the belligerents al
ready has denied the freedom of the
seas to American commerce and the
great masses of the American people
have refused to accept TIE idea of
going to war because of that iujurv
to commerce. Shall we fight for the
privilege of carrying on commerce
with belligerent nations? That COM
merce, so far as exports is concern
ed, is confined principally to the bust
ness Of supplying the belligerents
with munitions.
Attacks Food Spectators
London spoke again next day, and
to subject more immediate to the
average worker. He called attention
to the so-called bread riots in New
York.
Scathingly he attacked the food
spectators who "have the consumer
by the throat" and declared it to
be browning shame of our civiliza-
ton that in the greatest market of
the country there should be women
and children crying aloud in the street
for food to save them from starva-
ton. In the midst of time of gen
eral prosperity, and in the city where
the greatest of the huge fortunes
created by the war traffic had been
gathered, the families of the working
class are suffering for lack of suf-
ficient food and clothing, of fue, aad
adequate shelter.
Little Talk on Food
The Socialist congressman alluded
to the weeks and months spent by
the national legislature in discussing
national military defense, and said
that not even few minutes had been
spared for consideration Of tire prob
lem of feeding the people. His urged
that congress take up his bill calling
for national system of control Of
the supply and distribution of food.
Would this proposed national con-
troll of food supply be permanent, o.
merely temporary" asked Tess, Ohio
reactionary.
"All progressive steps are origin
ally temporary" London replied, "but
after the people see the good they
do, they become permanent"
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-03-01
SEATTLE ELECTION

CCmrade Jacobs received vote of
1887 at the primary elections of the
Seattle city council for councilman.
He was the only candidate put up by
the Socialists.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-03-01
BREEZY BITS
BRIEFLY TOLD

MEXICO CITY.-Chinese laborers
of the state of Yucatan have organ
lied labor union named "rhe A5so-
citation of Laborers Of the Chinese
Colony of the Peninsula" The union
will strive to win better conditions for
its members. Members of the work
mgmcn's congress Of Yucatan have
pledged their aid to the Chinese in
their contest against their eternal
enemies, the capitalists.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-03-01

Socialist teacher, woman, Normal
graduate, experienced, wishes posi-
tion for the coming year. Address
Normal Teacher" care of Northwest
Worker"
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-03-01
ELIZABETH G. FLYNN
TO SPEAK IN EVERETT

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn and Fred
Moore, attorney for the Everett l. W.
WIS, win deliver lectures in the Red
Mems Hall next Saturday evening,
March Bird, at pm. Admission free.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-03-01

ALLENTOWN, Pa.-The Central
Trades and Labor Council has asked
Congressman Dewalt and Senators
'enrose and Oliver to vote against
any proposition that will plunge the
United States into war. The central
)ody demanded that the question of
var be submitted to referendum
ote of all the people before any ac-
ion is taken by Congress.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-03-01

FITCHBURG, Cal. 49, cooperative
buying of ali domestic articles as a
means of combating the high cost of
living has been decided upon by rep
resentatives of more than fifty fam
lilies of this community. Arrange
ments will be made with farmers and
others who supply foodstuffs and
other necessities of life to cater to the
organized families.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-03-01

DETROIT, Mich.-Michigan Social
lists will meet In State Sonvration on
March / /, to nominate justice of the
Supreme court, two regents for the
university, a superintendent Of public
instruction, and two members of the
board of agriculture.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-03-01

TOPEKA, Kan.--The open shoppers
Of Kansas plan move in the legis-
lature to kin the 9-hour law covering
work on state, county, township and
city buildings. The open-shoppers
'eem to think that by knocking out
the 8-hour law they will discourage
the organized workers from demand
ing Il shorter workday.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-03-01

ST. LOUIS, Mo.-Union printers
have sirned an agreement with st.
,.ouis newspaper publishers for an 8
per cent wage increase. The printers
have been receiving $50 week. The
new scale gives them an approximate
weekly wage of $3.50. The union
day continues at seven and half
hours.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-03-01

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. -- Socialists
from indianapolis and Indiana and
many from outside the state will hon
r Eugene Y. Debs at dinner to be
,iven here March IS. Debs will DO
he principal speaker.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-03-01
EVERETT SLAVES
GETTING RESTLESS
Bosses Will Fire Every Agitator
And Then Everything
Will be D. X.

Employees of the Weyerheauser
Timber Co., of Everett, sent petit
ton to the company manager on Feb
ruary Ii, asking for a general in
crease in wages stating that the in
creasing cost of living was making it
almost impossible to keep the wolf
from the door on the scant wages
But the bosses of this company are
not the good, kind benevolent sort
but the kind that make it business
to sweat the blood out of its slaves
for ten hours a day for about $22r
a day, 50 the following communica
ton was handed to all the foreme'
with instructions to read it to tn,
employees. Nothing has been done
by the men since, but one of these
mornings the mill owners will be tear
ing their hair and yelling for men.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-03-01
Everett, Wash, Feb. II, 1917.

Everett, Wash, Feb. II, 1917.
Employees, Weyerhaeuser Timber Co.,
Mill "a"
Your petition has been presented to
me by your committee. AS manager
of this company, my policy has been
to give every man Il square deal, pro
mote and build up within our own or
ganization, and in genela al to promote
the welfare of you men. | have es-
tablished contract work, task work,
efficiency system and in each instance
have given the employees the big
end of the saving.
We have also paid the very highest
wages of any saw mill and have made
the Weyerhaeuser Mill the best mill
on the Pacific Coast for the working
man.
During the nine years l have been
here, building up this business, there
has appeared among US an element of
agitation and disloyalty. How strong
IL may nc, w NV hHo", bul Will
soon find out, for | am going to weed
it out, and any-man We may have IL
our employ who is dissatisfied with
the treatment we are giving OF
preaching disloyalty to you men
want him to get out, for we are go
ing to get him out as soon as he car
be located.
After this is done, | will be very
glad to consider your petition on its
merits.
W. II. BONER,
Manager,
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-03-01

@ we are taught that "to have"
e.. s-rc sr;-.ar and ITO be" is nothing.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-03-01

Bargreen's GOldeA Drip Coffee. I'm
psrAAi Tea Co. lasT HsWitt Avs@aa.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-03-01

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The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1917-03-31
MlselvlNGs.

When John was too far down the
road to wave at them longer, Edith
and the children went back into the
house which wore that just moved
in aspect than which there is probably
nothing more discouraging except a
cyclone. There we're three trunks in
the living room, barrels and pack
ing case IN the middle of the kitchen
floor. The living room chimney
piece was piled with books tied up
with clothesline. The reading table
its legs wrapped in burlap, groaned
under a mass Of folded curtains orna
ments. dishes toys and odds and
ends nobody knew what to do with
Never mind. thought Edith smoth-
ering sigh and tying on her biggest
apron, It would be more cheerful
when things were TO rights Avs
soon as She Mad me children settled
nicely in the new stone school house
which was Arcardias proud boast
and found scrubwoman and hun
dress, and learned where to do the
household marketing and arranged
for a regular milk supply and order
ed the paper sent and saw about the
garbage man. and the ice delivery
and got the windows washed and the
curtains up, and the rugs down, and
the electricity turned on, and had
bought a little new furniture to eke
out everything would be all right
The thought crossed her mind that
Johns job Just going to town to
work seemed simpler than hers.
But she promptly crushed down the
thought and set TO work.
BY mnchume Edith was too tired
to eat but when Virginia and little
Jack thumped nolsly onto the porch
and into the house clamoring for food,
one glance at their rosy faces gave
her new strength and cheer.
Then Lillian Blake came over. Til
looked a bit tagged toe
"Come on. Eide, let's 90 marketing
I'm going 10 murder the man that
keeps the grocery phoned him this
morning for some things and what do
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1917-03-31
MASS MEETING

On Monday night April 2nd, at 7.8O
o'clock there viii be mass meeting
held at the city Han in Guthrie, for
the purpose OF protesting against in
yolyng this country in the European
war This meeting viii be called for
that purpose, and ! Will address the
meeting and would like to have every
man and woman in the city Of Guthrie
who is opposed to involving this
country in the European war present
in order that our congressman and
senator's may know what the true
sentiment Of The people of Guthrie
and vicinity is upon this question
FRANK DALE.