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The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-09-21
TUBERCULOSIS
CONFERENCE
IN PORTLAND

To bring the war aspect of the
tuberculosis problem prominently to
the fore, program of unusual
interest has been arranged for the
Northwestern tuberculosis Confer
ence to be held in Portland, October
Is and 10th.
Under the general head of "Diag-
nosis of tuberculosis in War Times"
number of interesting reports on
various phases of diagnosis, will
be given Monday morning, October
18th. One in which every citizen
should be vitally interested is what
Constitutes a Diagnosis of Tuber-
culosis Sufficient for Rejection From
the Army"
The statistics of tuberculosis as
war problem will be presented at the
Monday afternoon session of the
Conference, as well as the import
ance of Red Cross Seals in the anti
tuberculosis crusades. The feature
of the two days program, perhaps,
is the mass meeting on Monday eve
ming when the subject, Tuberculosis
in a Nation at War" will be authori-
lively discussed In addition, plays
and motion pictures will be shown
and several musical numbers given.
On Tuesday, October 10th, national
state and local war programs against
tuberculosis will be revived, educa-
tional methods discussed and plans
formulated for aggressive work in
the Northwest along the lines of ed
ucation institutional provision, clinics
open air schools, nursing and organ
ization.
Delegates from the six states,
Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Mon
tana, Wyoming and Utah--represent-
ed in the Conference will be in at
tendance and matters of special in
terest to this great North Western
group. will be emphasized The
Conference is also designed to pro-
vide place of meeting and forum
for those who cannt attend the
Natinal Meetings, and to bring the
facilities and aid of the National AS
sociation to bear on the local situa-
tion. Plan to attend this great
patriotic and humanitarian meeting
and help devise an effective cam
paign against our common foe-tu-
berculosis.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-09-21
ENGLISH LABOR WARNED

MANCHESTER, England, Sept. l..
The plea of the Employers Par
liamentary association that it "is
not out to fight labor" is not wholly
accepted by the Cotton Factory
Times, which warns labor that, while
the employers may not attempt an
aggressive opposition, sit would be a
to assume that it's existence
is not one of many warnings to la
Dor EXAMINATIONS to tune themselves
up to concert pitch"
The employers have not organ
ized for fun or philanthropy, but
have been found to further the en-
ployers' interests, says this paper,
which concludes:
"After the war labor will get
what it got before the war and al
ways will get, namely, what it has
power to take"
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-09-21
(By Harold Callender)
Why bill" Cleary Was Deported.


The case of William B. Cleary,
who was deported in one of the cat
tie cars, illustrates the inclusive ma
ture of the elections. Cleary had
long been disliked by the Copper
Queen Mining Company, and with
good reason.
Cleary started the practice of law
in Bisbee in 1906 with defense of
w. D. Semple, newspaper editor
who was tried on a trumped-up
charge of sending obsence matter
through the mails. The matter in
question was printed testimony at a
divorce trial. Semple's real offense,
it is said, was the defeat of a
water franchise that the Copper
Queen company wanted Before the
trial of Semple the Mining company
brought pressure on Cleary to in
duce him not to take the case. A
friendly" minister told him he was
bright young man, and, because the
company had its eye on him, he would
be a success if he only behaved.
| But he would not. He frequently
was warned to leave the town years
before the July roundup"
Cleary also has been an attorney
in numerous labor cases, though never
a retained lawyer for any union He
was an early advocate of the initia-
tive, referendum and recall, and was
influential in inserting those provis-
ions into the state constitution. When
Cleary, with Judge Samuel Pattee,
was named to codify the state laws,
he provided against injunctions in
labor strikes. A fight on this was
made, and still is pending in the
Arizona Supreme Court. He was
one of the leaders in the enactment
of the Eighty per cent law" in
1914, providing that eighty per cent
of the employees of firm employ
ing more than five must be citizens
of the United States.
The mining companies fought it,
and had it declared unconstitutional.
(They tell you now at Bisbee that
the plan is to make it an american
camp" though the foreigners were
brought in by the companies to keep
wages lowD Cleveland H. Dodge
himself and other officials of his
company were indicted by federal
grand jury in 1914 on charge of
sending arms to Mexico in violation
of the Presidents embargo, and it
was said that Cleary had hand in
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-09-21
LONGSHOREMEN
SIGN UP NEW
LABOR TREATY

WASHINGTON, Sept. during
the past week the International Long
shoreman's association, through T. V.
O'Conner of Buffalo, it's president,
signed a separate "labor treaty" with
the United States Shipping Board and
the War Department, Navy Depart
ment and owners of Atlantic, Pacific
and Gulf steamship lines. This
agreement is better than the one
signed recently by the crafts in the
shipyards with the shipping board,
since it specifies that union wages,
hours and conditions" in the several
ports shall be recognized.
A special national commission and
local commissions representing the
various parties to the agreement will
decide all industrial disputes as to
the loading and unloading of ships.
The central board will act only when
local adjustment is found impossi-
ble
Refuses to Enter Agreement
Although it is not found in the
language of this agreement, it is a
fact that the Great Lakes are not
brought under the new plan. Long
shoremen there will continue to strike
as before.
This is because the Steel trust,
through it's control of the Lake Car
riers' Association of steamship lines,
refused to enter into any agreement
with the longshoremen. The same
course was taken by the Steel trust
in the case of the recent agreement
of the international Seamen's Union
and the associations of licensed Of
ficers with the owners of steam and
sailing vessels on the Atlantic. the
Pacific and the Gulf. The Great
Lakes remain outlaw territory.
1t is possible that at the meet
ing of the Lake Carriers Associa-
ton next week more conciliatory
policy will be adopted If so, the
and even more, the sea-
men, will gain a fine triumph. An
drew Furuseth is authority for the
statement that the secretary of COM
merce, by merely enforcing the plain
provisions of the Seaman's Act, now
ignored by his inspectors on the
lakes, could at any time whip the
Steel trust into line as to its labor
policy in the lake trade.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-09-21
PRIVATE OWNERSHIP OF NATURAL
RESOURCES MUST BE ABOLISHED

ambition. 1t was intended to give
an opportunity for life, liberty and
the pursuit of happiness.
When the principle of individual
ownership was first resorted to the
United States was wilderness. Re-
sources existed for all, and in abund-
ance. Since that time free land has
disappeared. The whole economic
foundation of life has been revolu.
tionized. There is no more free
land and the frontier has disap-
peared.
Each change in economic condi-
tions gives rise to new needs and
new relations. Social forms are
modified because the basis for life
is altered. Two generations ago the
country's adjustment to life includ-
ed a safety valve in the form of a
frontier. The frontier meant cheap
grazing land, free agricultural land,
free timber and free minerals. To-
day each first-class piece of land in
the United States has it's price.
Sooner or later the American pub
lie must decide whether system of
private property in natural resources
can work advantageously after free
land disappears. Up to the point
where land ownership carried with it
no monopoly power, many legitimate
justifications could be urged in it's
favor. Now that private property
in land almost inevitably carries with
it the power to lay monopoly tax
upon the industry of the community,
the situation takes on a very diff
ferent aspect.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-09-21
There Are Civilized People There

There Are Civilized People There
And what does Bisbee think of it
now? There are many to be found
in the town, the silent many, who
resent this most glaring of indus
trial outrages in recent years. Even
among the business men there are
dissenters, though they quite natural
ly aren't shouting about it. They feel
that it was, on the whole, an l. w. w.
victory, for the conduct of the L.
w. w. leaders and the strikers who
joined them temporarily, brought ad-
miration. Everything was set for
a battle. If there had been the
slightest rsistance a battle would
have been. For the gunmen, as
becomes gunmen were longing to
shoot; they fired at rabbits and cat
tie during the tedious trip atop the
cattle cars, and they even fired
around several men who left the
cars at stops.
The only peaceable, lawabiding per-
sons in Bisbee that day were the
strikers and their silent sympathiz-
ers. Everybody else was doing his
best to terrOrize. This the people
of Bisbee realize. Several women,
freer from abuse than the men, took
food to the refugees in the bull pen,"
and these are Outspoken in their dis
approval.
| wouldn't work for a gunman,"
shouted a shOpgirl at her employer
as she passed him July 12.
This is a felony, and l don't
favor law-breaking," said a lawyer
There are many like that.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-09-21
TO PROSECUTE SELLERS
OF ROTTEN EGGS

Several prominent Pittsburg busi-
ness men and firms have been caught
in the rotten-egg business through a
campaign which is being extended
throughout Allegheny County by the
agents of the Dairy and Food Bureau
of the Pennsylvania Department of
Agriculture, according to a dispatch
from Harrisburg.
Twenty prosecutions were ordered
by State Dairy and Food Commits
sioner James Foust, who declared
that he would break up the rotten
egg traffic in Pittsburg if an ag-
gressive campaign and repeated pros
ecutions would bring the guilty ones
not against any cold-storage agencies,
but against men and firms who have
offered for storage or have stored
consignments of liquid or canned
eggs.
Recently agents of the dairy and
food bureau secured samples of the
canned eggs. When the samples
were examined by the chemists of
the department they were found to
be rotten and unfit. for food pur-
poses. Some of the eggs were in
the liquid and unfrozen state when
secured, while others were frozen in
solid masses, but the evidence of the
food bureau is so complete that it is
ready to prove that even the frozen
masses were unfit for food when
they were offered for storage.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-09-21
PRESIDENT WILSON INTERVIEWS;
BOSTON MAYOR DAMNS FRAME-UP

The news has just leaked out that
President Wilson interviewed to save
Tom Moneys life on May 18th of
this year, or six days before the
day fixed for his murder. The
Presidents intervention was prob
ably dictated by the demonstration
of the workers of Petrograd in front
of the American Embassy a short
time after Mooney was railroaded on
the glaring perjury of the Infamous
Oxman. The American mission was
then in contemplation, and no doubt
the Presidents advisors thought it
better that the mission meet the
Russians with clean hands. And so
the news was conveyed to Russia
that Mooney was not hung on per-
jured testimony as the Russians had
been led to believe and that the whole
thing would be thoroughly investi-
gated and justice done Mooney.
The news of President Wilson's
intervention was kept very secret
probably because its publication
would have helped in the exposure of
the Frame-Up. It's publication now
is more accidental than anything else,
and is bound to have good moral
effect. The President would not
have taken such stand unless he
thought there was good justification
for it. 1t is therefore hearty well
coined by the defense.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-09-21
Continued From Last Week.

Continued From Last Week.
(The following is sent out, after
ten days investigation by Harold
Calender, by the National Labor De-
fense Council as faithful picture of
Bisbee, the Arizona mining town in
dustrial despots have converted into
the Belgium of America. Under
cover of "patriotism," these profi-
teers have committed by atrocities
against American workmen, which,
committed by Germans against Bel
gans, have stirred Americas fight
ing blood. So far, their criminal
lawlessness has not aroused action
by the state or nation).
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-09-21

strike? Nothing except that other
workers whom he never knew might
have justice. 1t is the application
of the broadest spirit of brotherhood.
Men of this type, men who can
overlook self, men who can risk
their all for the good of their fell
lows are the sort of men that
America ought to welcome to citizen
ship with open arms. The labor
movement feels insulted by the action
of the judge and his uncalled-for
comments in connection.
In conclusion, we ask the public
to realize the strong provocation
that caused the unions. to take the
stand they have; we ask our fair
employers to be mindful of the bane-
full influences of the lumber trust
in opposing all advanced conditions
for labor, and we ask that all in
fluences unite with the workers in
ending once and for all the domina-
tion of an inhuman and unpatriotic
class Of employers.
The men on strike are coming to
the aid of the General Strike COM
mittee, representing
SHIPWRIGHTS AND JOINERS,
METAL TRALES COUNCIL,
BUILDING TRADES COUNCIL,
TIMBER WORKERS UNION,
SHINGLE WEAVERS' UNION.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-09-21
(By Scott Nearing)

(By ScOCC NeaTlnS)
This generation realizes with diff
ficulty the meaning of a frontier.
In colonial days the man who was
disgusted or discouraged stepped to
the edge of civilization He fed,
clothed and outfitted himself-not
at public expense, but at natures
expense
Today, the United States is bound
ed by the oceans and by Mexico and
Canada. There is no frontier-no
"free for ALL" America is living a
new life.
With the ending of the nineteenth
century the free land in the United
States vanished. Long before that
time the best of the natural re-
sources-timber, minerals, water
power and fertile agricultural land
had been labeled "mine" by rel
atively small group of powerful in
dustrial and financial interests. The
ownership of agricultural land was
still widely scattered. The owner
ship of the most important timber
and mineral resources was being rap
idly concentrated.
What will be the result of this
private ownership of natural re-
sources? The time has come when
that question must be faced and
analyzed scientifically.
While resources were free for the
asking, no man could put a price
upon them and demand to be paid
because of his land ownership. The
moment that free land disappears,
land ownership commands a mon
opoly price. In the centers of trade
and industry this monopoly power is
enormous. Where it is exercised
over very rich resources, like coal
lands or timber lands, the monopoly
power of private ownership is like
wise very great. Consequently, i'm
mense prices are paid for pieces of
land that short time ago were prac-
tically valueless. Thus the hard,
unyielding rock soil of Manhattan,
all of which was sold by the Indians
for a few dollars, is now valued in
places at upwards of $40,000,000 an
acre. This immense valuation is the
result of the presence of population,
of trade and of industry. The own
er of the land need have done moth
ing in the way of improvement.
The land upon which the city of
Boston stands was valued at $780,
100000 in 1890, and at $672,000,000
in 1910. The interval of twenty
years resulted in doubling of these
land values. The farm land of the
United States was worth $4,000, ,000,-
900 in 1900 and $28,OOO,000,OOO in
1910. During the same period the
value of farm land in Illinois rose
from 81 500, 100000 to $4,000, 200, ,O00;.
in Iowa from $3.50, 100000 to $2,-
50,000,000; in Kansas from $1,000,-
100000 to $780, 100000. The fact
that the land is limited in amount,
and is in great demand, is sufficient
TO place upon it a high monopoly
price.
The private ownership of natural
resources was scheme that was de-
vised to stimulate thrift, energy and
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-09-21
COnscription By the Protective
League"

But the part of Bisbee that claims
to be Bisbee and consequently the
part that appears to be Bisbee, is rep
resented by Mr.. Ruth, secretary of
the Citizens Protective League.
Ruth said to the writer that he would
enjoy hanging an |. W. W. most any
time, and boasted of having carried a
Winchester July -, His great and
insuperable indictment was that they
"agitated" and "spoke treasonably,"
Asked what they had said that was
traitorous, he couldn't recall.
"The strikers" he said chad a well
developed plan to blow up the water
works and burn the town. They
would have done it July 1S or IA, if
we hadn't headed them off. They
meant to drive us out of town, and
we only beat them to it,"
When asked what evidence he had
of this, Mr.. Roth said it was widely
Continued on Dape fourl
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-09-21
THE BOILERMAKER

| will sing you a song of the toilers,
Of the boys in the overalls blue,
Twill be of the man who makes
boilers,
1t is time he was getting his due.
I'm hep to all triangulation,
And the plotting of lines parallel,
Pm the lord of boiler creation,
And ships, tanks, and kettles as well.
Come on you kid with rivet,
Take it away, set it out in the sun,
We want things right as a trivet,
SO we can get this riveting done.
My face may be grimy and greasy,
But l always work out my lap,
The work that | do is so easy,
Quite often 'tis done with snap.
With hammer and bang and rattle,
| toll and sweat for my buns,
Like the tumult and din of a battle,
Hear the ear-splittering noise of the
guns.
'Tis true Pm as deaf as an oyster,
I've a hump in my back like a gnu,
There's never monk in a cloister,
Who tends to his beads like | do.
AS to why I'm bold boiler maker,
And tinker with staybolt and flue,
There's never cook or baker,
Who kneads the dough like l do.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-09-21
LABOR DEFENSE COUNCIL
INVESTIGATES THE BISBEE OUTRAGE

that Indictment. In the cooks and
walters strike in 1916 the mayor, the
secretary of the Chamber of Com
merce and ministers of Bisbee sent
for Cleary, who was then in Cali
fornia, asking him to return and
help settle the strike which they
feared might become violent. He re-
turned and defended the cooks and
walters arrested for picketing. So
"Bill" Cleary was one of the men
the Copper Queen held as undesir-
ables.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-09-21

The selective- service law specific
ally prohibits the acceptance of sub
stitutes for men selected for mill
tary duty. The obligation is per-
sonal and cannot be transferred.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-09-21

We have repair shop in connec-
tion with store and have an expert
repair man in charge of same. We
make a speciality of repairing motor
cycles, bicycles, typewriters, cash
registers, guns and revolvers. We
also do lock, safe and key work. Tel
ephone and we will cali for your
work and return same when repaired
at Arthur A. Baily's Sporting Goods
and Hardware Store. Both Phones 75
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-09-21

So long as we have good soups for
our soldiers we care not who makes
the songs.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-09-21

This warning will apply to Amer
lean labor also. If labor ever does
get enough it will have to be taken"
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-09-21

Who remembers when there was
nothing to discuss but the age of
Ann?
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-09-21
A STATEMENT TO THE PUBLIC
BY FIVE Big SEATTLE UNIONS

The readers of the Journal are
asked to not fail to get first hand
information relating to the strike
against 10-hour lumber. The unions
involved are the only sources of cor
rect information as to what are their
objects and aims. Then read the
following statement to the public
authorized by those unions:
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-09-21

Continued ON page four)
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1917-08-21

have annoImce5 pians of spending
s@t.clg for a social center at the camp
who're any sammy viii be welcomed
Methodist Of Ecrs Worth also have
launched campaign for S10rco
Which VIII be rpcht by that denomina-
iion not strictly in religious work, bu,
in the general movement to keep tho
soldiers cheerful and to supply their
wants in any way possible.
B. D. Freening of Duluth MINI, and
Roy Smith Wallace, of Philadelphia
Penn, are the guiding spirits ir the
war service board, both having been
edtailed here by the war department
commit lion on training camp activi-
ties, to direct this work Both are
prominent business mon and civic
leaders in their home cities.
Louis j Wortham. editor Of the lei.
Worth Star-Telegram, is chairman Of
the board and other monbers include
a score Of the leading business mems
and womens club workers.
The religious work at the Camp
Bowie will be directed by the Y. M. G..
a. under the general direction Of ".
a. Scott Of Dallas, detailed to como
here There win be fifteen undor Sec
rotaries to assist him. Tho Y NJ. @.
a will send leading minister's Of thol
United Staets here to preach to the
soldiers at short Intervals
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1917-08-21
orIain Of Moon In Doubt.

Many theories Of the origin of the
moon have been advanced, but all
seem to present some difficulties.
Our satellite furnishes us many un-
solved Problems A belief in the
metcoric origin Of the moon is now
quite general According to this be-
lief the earth was surrounded in the
early stages Of it's existence by ring
Of meteoric matter Tho material
forming the ring gradually gathered
into one mass, our present moon.
whose pitted face gives evidence Of the
bombardment 1t received from me-
teoric masses within the ring. Accord
ing to this theory our satellite has al
ways been a dead world cold and
lifeless mass Of meteoric rock. It has
never felt the pulse Of life or under
gone the mighty changes that have
passed over its ruling planet. 1t has
remained a cold and silent witness
to vast evolutionary processes going
on upon a neighboring world such as
1t could never experience for IT.
self.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1917-08-21
7sa 5}3H 2R
Red Cross Headquarters al Carnegie
Library-P Phone l452


Phone all news Tor the Red Cross
column to 745.
key packed a box on Friday afternoon.
/ pr Smith and Mrs. Cotterall have
completed hospital bed shirts.
/
Several ladies' Of the Methodist Mis-
aionary society hemmed towels and
made comfort bags last Friday after
The Macoabees sewed At the Red
Gross rooms for the first time on Fri
ms present.
Miss Elizabeth Powell has turned in
finished gray muffler
The regular bi-mouthly meeting of
the board Of directors of the Red
Cross viii be held al 7;45 o'clock this |
evening at headquarters.
Mrs. Kalkhom one Of the knitting
instructors. issues this notice: "Tol