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The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-06-07
MOTHER OF FOUR
MAKES FLAGS AT
3 CENTS A GROSS
LOvejoy Calls Sweatshop Labor Real
Dissertation of Emblem
Rejection. Rate High

patriotism! Dissertation OF the
flag!" exclaimed Owen r. Lovej0v,
secretary of the national child labor
committee, while attacking the at
tempts to suspend child labor laws
because of the war, in the Russell
Sage foundation building, New York
LET me explain why | am wearing
this flat badge on my lapel
at was secured by an Investigator
for the Association for Improving
the Condition of the Poor. In teue~
ment down on Second avenue, she
found mother and four children.
ranging from 5 to 10, turning out
these flags. The mother had a. three
month old-baby at her breast There
were eight in the family, and they
lived in one inside room, windowless.
They were working all day, and far
into the night, making these badges
at three cents gross. And. SD tail
ing, they made about 81 a week.
"And, of course, they must sus-
pend the child labor laws in arder
to push this trade, because we ean-
not carry on the war without flags
Good God, friends! Talk about desc
Grafton of the flag! If that isn't ala
insult to the flag, l want to know
what isl"
Army Rejects 80 Per Cent
Lovejoy instanced the record of
so per cent reflections of wM1ld-bS
enlisters in the army, in places RS
far apart as New York city and Onln,
during a period of three months, and
the 100000 illiterates of 10 years
and over in the country, as cof2dG-
tions which called for the safeguard
ing of labor laws.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-06-07
FRENCH SOCIALISTS WILL
GO TO CONFERENCE

A telegram to the Council nj
Workmens and Soldiers Deputies ia
Petrograd announced the unanimous
agreement of the French Socialists To
the international conference proposed
by the Russians.
1t is reported that a French dele
cation will also be sent to the
Stockholm conference.
The Russian-called International
Socialist conference will be held in
Stockholm between July Is and SO,
according to a decision reached by
the Soldiers and Workmen's Council
Thursday.
Final approval Of the date WIS Eeft
to the Dutch International Socialist
bureau and the Belne commission
(This conference is not to be coEa-
fused with the Socialist peace coz
ference, delegates for which are ROW
arriving in Stockholm and to which
the United States refused passports
to Victor L. Berger, Morris Hillouit
and Algernon Lee.k
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-06-07
WORKERS VOICE SOON
TO BE HEARD, WARNING

"The voice Of the workmen and
soldiers will soon be heard in Lon
don, Paris, Berlin and Vienna" de-
clared the Berlin Vorwaets, Socialist
organ, in an editorial commenting on
the entrance of Socialists into the
Russian government.
Gail governments-ours as we'll as
our enemies-will soon face the ques-
ton Of whether they are ready for a
general peace without annexations
and without indemnities' as a basis
for the peoples freedom" the edi-
torial continued "The question can
be answered only in the affirmative
or the negative.
"The Imperial German chancellor
cannot refuse to reply to the Rus
sian Socialists as he refused to reply
to his own countrymen."
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-06-07
BRITISH WORKERS
BREAKING DOWN
UNDER HEAVY STRAIN

LONDON.-The report of the mu-
nitions committee of Parliament
shows that the working class of
England is beginning to break under
the strain of two years of over
speeding in the making of NUM-
tions.
Not only the men, but the wo-
men and children, have been Slapped
of their vitality, and, despite the
long hours, production of munitions
is beginning to lag. Managers and
foremen are also suffering from the
strain.
The commission recommends that
the workers get their weekly day Of
rest and no overtrain by overtime
work.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-06-07
AS OTHERS SEE US

america is no democracy" says
Editor Ture herman, chief of the
Politken, organ of the Swedish So
cialists party.
America is an extremely CAPT.
talistic country. The big industries
hire and arm ruffians to shoot down
their laborers when there are dis
putes. America never came into
the war from ethical aims. 1t came
because the capitalists had begun to
fear for their investments in the
entente countries. The American
government must be upset Violence
must be used, if peaceful methods
fail. 1t is capitalistic and capital
ruled. Now the people must rule"
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-06-07
AS BAD AS CAVELL
KILLING

"The murder of Edith Cavell by
the Germans made the world shud-
der. But her murder was no more
horrible and less bloodedIy calcu-
lated than the murder of Rena
Mooney, which will soon be accomp-
lished in the courts of California
unless the Americas people demand
iii no uncertain tones that she and
herhusband, Tom, and the other in
nocent men who are under indict-
ment, are given a fair trial.-Frank
P. Walsh.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-06-07
MUST CONSCRIPT
WEALTH FIRST
SAYS WATERS
President of Canadian Trades and
Labor Congress Sets Forth
Attitude of Labor

The attitude taken by the Cana
dian Trades and Labor Congress was
we'll stated by J. c. Waters, preSi-
dent Of the congress, in his address to
the General Committee of the Coun-
Gil of National Defense at Washing
ton, d. c., recently. He said:
"Our position in Canada is that
material wealth must be conscripted
That we insist upon. But we nave had
no such cooperation from the i'm
perial government as is reported here
today by the English delegates. I
have personally cablod to Premier
Lloyd George, and our Canadian
premier has cabled him at my re-
quest, asking that the British NUM-
tons board in Canada require some
safeguards for the condition of la
Dor, in its munition contracts. Thus
far we have been ignored.
thine after time the workers of
Canada have been almost at the
point of causing civil war-to such
an extent have our appeals been ig-
nored by the government.
Labor Must Decide Value
at is for you to determine the
value of the guarantees of condi-
tons which may be made to you
here. We in Canada have had to
refuse to concede anything to the
employers because the government
will give us no guaranty for the flu
ture. We know that we must fight
the same set of employers after the
war as before; we know that they
will try to get cheap men to do their
work. We know that thousands of
our men are coming back, MANNED
and crippled, and the pensions paid
are wholly inadequate. | have been
asked what would be a fair rate
of pension to keep d man alive in
Canada, and my answer is that it
should be 500 a month.
81 beg of you, do not let hysteria
of the moment cause you to surren-
der more than you can win back.
appeal to you not to let the spirit
of patriotism lead you into hatred
and thirst for vengeance. Soon
we must have peace. The workers
all look forward to peace in the
world, and they know that they must
all be brothers again, meeting around
the council board to consider how the
workers shall earn their living. 1t
is to the time of peace that we must
look"
The message of President Waters
was received with hearty applause by
those present, with perhaps the sole
exception of Mr.. Samuel Gompers,
the distinguished and doughty presi-
dent of the American Federation of
Labor Washington dispatches as
sert that Gompers sat in chilling 81
lence during Waters speech and
while the audience was expressing
its approval by applause.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-06-07
RADICAL HINTS OF
GREAT REVOLUTION

STOCKHOLM, Hint that Hungar-
ian radicals are planning a "demo-
cratic revolution" was given by the
Hungarian socialist delegate, DR..
Hunfi, in an interview to the United
Press.
"a democratic revolution in the
mid European countries" he said,
"is not only an interior question,
but it is one of the greatest i'm
portance in general to European
politics and vital step toward
peace and international solidarity"
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-06-07
SEDITIOlV
(By Chas. w. Erwin

81 consider the Sedition law to be a
nullity as absolute as if Congress had
ordered us to fall down and worship a
golden image Thomas jefferson.
jefferson possessed a clear political
vision. His knowledge of the past
history of the race convinced him
that under any form Of government
the owning class, a minority, would
seek to enslave and keep enslaved the
nonpossessing, toiling majority. In
the first part of the Declaration, aft
err stating that the function of gov
eminent was to secure life, liberty,
and the pursuit of happiness for the
people, he FASTENED to proclaim the
greatest bill of rights ever penned by
the hand of man, until Marx and En-
gels issued their immortal appeal to
the working class of the world for the
founding Of an industrial democracy.
The writer wishes he had the pow
er to give to these words of Jeffer-
son such vividness that every toier in
the United States must see their i'm
mense import:
"Whenever any government be-
comes destructive of these ends it is
the right of the people to alter or
abolish it, and to institute a new
government, laying it's foundations on
powers in such form as to them
shall seem most likely to effect their
safety and happiness.
And yet some puny political pros
titute, some legal lackey, with the
intelligence of gnat and an educa-
ton worthy of the simian stage of
mental development, will hurl the
words "Revolutionistw "Sedition!"
at forward-looking men and women
as if these words were badges of
dishonor
When the monarchists and aristo-
Gratis of the country succeeded in
placing upon the statute books of
the United States, in 1898, Sedi-
ton law which was enforced for a
few years, the wrath of the author
of the Declaration of independence
was magnificent. Even at this late
day ones pulse quickens and the
blood suggest as Jefferson's attacks
upon the lords of misrule of his
cay are read. An aroused public SEN
timent compelled his choice by the
electors, in 1880, as president of the
United States, and one of his first
acts was to pardon all the victims
of judicial tyranny under the law
of Sedition.
Nay, more than this, when legal
lackey in the Eastern states, to
curry favor with jefferson, sought
to punish an editor for some lies
he had printed about the president,
jefferson rebuked him sternly, writ
ing that it was of infinitely mere
Importance that freedom Of press
and speech should be upheld than
that any one should be punished for
uttering lies about him, no matter
how infamous they might be. Con-
trast the action of this intellectual
giant with that of some of the
pygmy panderers to plutocratic rule
in this day and generation
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-06-07
THEY THINK WILSON'S
DECLARATION is
A HUGE JOKE

Even a handful of Bosnians, rep
resenting a race, mainly of illiterate
peasants without ideals, sluggishly
scraping truck paths in the noun
tain valleys of southeastern Europe,
are honored and sought-after guests
of the Stockholm Socialists. Nobody
seems to want, much less regard as
a vital necessity, that American la
Dor delegations sit in the councils
which are planning a new world.
There is a notable lack of enthusiasm
for American and President Wilson's
declaration of it's aims.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-06-07
ITALIAN SOCIALISTS
PLAN FOR PEACE

The Socialist party of Italy has
begun an anti-war and pro-peace
movement in accordance with the
propaganda now being conducted by
the Socialists of Germany, Austria
Hungary, Russia and other belliger-
ent and neutral countries.
This decision was taken at a Sc
cret meeting held in Milan, in which
all of the 40 Socialist deputies par
ticipated, together with delegates of
the Central Confederation of Labor,
which represents practically all the
organized labor Of Italy,
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-06-07
NAVY IN BAD HEALTH

The house refused to appropriate
$3,500,0O0 asked by the administra-
ton to provide adequate hospital ia
cilities in the navy and our good SEN
ate suppressed the recent testimony
of Admiral BREASTED, surgeon gem
eral of the navy, who described the
epidemics in the navy. The condi-
ton of health in the navy where
humps, scarlet fever, and spinal
meningitis are said to be epidemic.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-06-07
LORD EUSTACE PERCY
GIVES L. s. ADVICE
ON CENSORSHIP

A Washington dispatch says that
Lord Eustage Percy, an English ex-
pert on censorship, is advising the
postoffice authorities in the United
States. This is not a joke: Over
a hundred years ago the farmers and
mechanics of New England sent
another Lord Percy and his troops
in ignominious flight at the battle
of Lexington. Wake up, America!
Your liberties are fast slipping away.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-06-07
FIGHTING-WHAT FOR

In Canada, returned soldiers are
walking the streets looking for work
while the Orientals are holding down
the jobs. Hindus have been given
work in almost every trade. Women
are working on an average for about
Is cents an hour less than the men
whose places they have taken. Less
than three per cent of the men
who are now working in the Van
couver Island mines are Canadians.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-06-07
MRS. MOONEY TO HANG
IF FOUND GUILTY

The state is determined to de-
mand the death penalty if Mrs. Rena
Mooney is convicted of completely in
the preparedness parade dynamiting
on July %.
This was clearly indicated when
the state, in examining talesmen, ex-
cused all who declared they have a
prejudice against hanging a woman
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-06-07

Sssshh, Treason! Sedition! There is
a traitor in North Yakima who is
distributing the Socialist Party's
Proclamation and Program Against
War" The city authorities have sent
for Sherlock Holmes to try and dis
cover the criminal.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-06-07
OMAN HELD FOR TRIAL
FOR INFLUENCING CASE

SAN FRANCISCO.-Frank C. Ok.
man was ordered held for trial on a
charge of trying to induce F. H.
Rigall to testify falsely against
Thomas J.. Mooney, convicted as a
preparedness parade bomb conspira-
tor. Oman was star witness against
Mooney.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-06-07
REPEAL DRAFT LAW

Write today to the congressman
of your district and demand that he
take immediate steps to repeal the
select CONSUMPTION law, Make it in
the form of a petition and get others
to sign it.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-06-07
PARIS STRIKES CONTINUE

PARIS-Strikes continue in TIE
various women's industries, Including
the women railroad employees. who
are asking an increase in wages Phe
companies made concessions, OUT
these were not sufficient to sxs5sf'g
the claims.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-06-07
GERMAN SOCIALIST
RADICAL HELD UPON
CHARGE OF TREASON

COPENHAGEN-Herr Westmeyer,
radical Socialist member of the
Wuerttemberg diet, has been in
dicted for treason, alleged to have
been committed through the distribu-
ton of leaflets.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-06-07
PARIS WOMEN CARRY MAIL

PARIS-Wearing trim dark blue
uniforms and glazed straw hats with
French tri-color ribbon, the first wo-
men letter carriers made their ap-
pearance on the streets.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-06-07
URUGUAY IN GRIP
OF GENERAL STRIKE

BUENOS A Tres. - A general
strike Throughout Uruguay has been
proclaimed by the Federation Of
Labor.
Dispatches from Montevideo gaze
hint of the governments fear of tro1a-
BILE in announcing that soldiers Ut
the regular army had replaced al
police.
No newspapers were published
throughout the republic.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-06-07
ALE SAME MEXICAN MAN

The mayor of Vancouver, B. c.,
has refused to allow the Vancouver
Trades and Labor Council to hold a
massm Getting to define attitude on
CONSUMPTION. More Democracy.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-06-07

Comrade Mrs. Kuhn, of Lowell
donates one dollar to help the North
west Worker.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-06-07
RUSSIA DEMANDS
PROFITS FROM WAR

The following cable dispatch from
Petrograd was received by the Jewish
Daily Forward from it's correspond
ent:
"At a joint meeting of the repre-
sentatives of the government and
Russian industries the minister of
labor, Skobeleff, has demanded all
profits due to the war should go to
the government. 1t was decided to
draft corresponding legislation and
to have it brought up before the
Constituent Assembly.
If you are too poor to buy a LIB
erty Bond" it is proof conclusive that
YOU ought to be a member of the
Socialist Party. Send to the North
west Worker for an application
card.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-06-07

Selective CONSUMPTION is just sep
aratisg the sheep from the goats and
the workers will be the goats.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-06-07

Before buying a Liberty Bond"
renew your sub.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-06-07

81 consider the Sedition law to be a
nullity as absolute as if Congress had
ordered us to fall down and worship a
golden image. Thomas jefferson.
The Detroit times., 1917-06-21
HUSBAND
GAVE HIS BABY
ONLY PAPER CAP

All that J. Max Culehan ever gave
HIS wife for their baby was a Hal.
lows'en paper cap. Mrs. Ida Guile
han told Judge Codd Ia divorce
suit. Thursday morning Culehsn h.
making contest and may be On a
position 20 claim possession Of tho
youngster he Do an automobile
salesman and according 90 his wife.
earns 5000 a month
Attractive Ia appearance. Mrs.
Culehan told the court how an cid.
erly doctor was forced 10 threaten
Culehan with q beating 20 prevent
him from desertins her three days
after their baby was horn
The Culehans were married IN
1910 The child Us months old
Cu,ehan Was not'i n court alt vie
nesses were on hand 20 testify for
him.
The Detroit times., 1917-06-21
AUSTRIAN
TROUBLES
INCREASE

BERNE, June 21.--.The movement
which has resulted In The downfall
of the Austrian cabinet bears all the
earmarks OF revolution in it's In.
cipiency. according 10 private ad-
vices received from Vienna.
While the primary cause OF Count
Clam Martinic's resignation was op-
position OF the Polish nationalists. 81
was pointed out that this party is
supporting the Czechs In their de
Inard for a separate kingdom OF 30
hemia and those Of the Slays who
are demanding a separate southern
principally created out OF Austria's
dominions. Thus three formidable
movements for secession are now
Joined In one powerful anti-goyorn,
ment plan.
Proceedings in the Reichsrat last
week. heretofore suppressed. were
reported today TO have included very
frank speeches by The Poles and
Czechs. The Poles declared they
demanded "a united and independent
Poland not The farcicsl kingdom OF
Poland which Germany and Austria
have pctonded TO croatia"
The Detroit times., 1917-06-21
PROMISES
ST SPUDS
next FALL
Detroiter Says Farmers
VIII Grow Them
On Contract

There IS w7Ur0 90 thc hish cost
IL living ans neaeataly a gentle
hunrrg 20 rapac.ous and
ccytly mWFrnsu n DE Plan o..
Charles a Glo. rcd "a salesman
aith cHces at SO 2io Congress
bl.fHus fo s1 POTATOES neA' lh
-rr bushrl
tttre Is every inJ-
caf.oa thaf f.e E.1s Wili 5l retaii.
Ing gt Tho gr1ccre- and market iur
an lclst S. o4sac Farmers ans
wiling to plant right now unitr
contract 20 deliver at S. husael-
State Market Director Mcbride is
.urraugirr aah fho lr state bank
TO give ,he farmers seed
Tile b4nas M, furnishing ulo
funds on sadie. contracts, many thoW
sa1ds % bushels already having
been contracted ior by tarsighted
consumers who are willing % put
up The cash now
The state market director wants
as many orders FROM Detroit as pos
slble. as letters pouring into be
state preuaredness committee have
shown thar me farmers VIII grow
as many potatoes on these terms as
they can got orders Cor.
The cash for fhe orders IS oepos-
tied hero IN me Federal State bank
These funds are kept 20 back up
The sales contracts against v'h ca
the up state banks are furnishing
the farmers money for seed
The uncertainty q crop condt
tions is practically eliminated py
the provision thar The farmers are
NOT TO count on q return 90 more
han 30 bushels 20 tho acre q plant.
! ing 20 I'LL their orders. while Is s
/ possible and likely that The rcrn'n
will be from 100 20 l25 bushels an
acre. according 70 Mr. Goodspeea
It is a good chance for anycus
who wants 70 provide nov for fau
food economy said Mr. Mcbride
1T saves by eliminating the middle.
man"
Arrangements have been made Tor
the delivery Of the spuds by Frank
NJ Foster. Of the Gram Bernstein
Motor Truck company, Of No S44
/ Jenerson-ave.
About ZOO bushels already have
been ordered by Detroiters M
Goodspeed says that persons wish
ing 20 order on this plan should
make out their checks 20 the Fed
eral state bonk or deposit the money
for their orders there No order e
accepted FOR less than five bushels
The potatoes are 70 be delivered
I hy Nov l.
W x. Prudden. Of Lansing has
given IAN order for $4,000 worth q
potatoes on these terms. it's DO
clared.
The Detroit times., 1917-06-21
81 Nrcv nv
AM TN
STOCKHOLM
AIDING ENEMY
~ ARTRUR z. MANN

ktqI CORES p0nfcgt United Pret9
STOCKHOLM, 1une 2i.--Tbe self
styled American delegates 70 the
German-called Socialist peace con
ference played directly into the
hands ~ The Germans today They
notified The Observation-Disclosures com
mlttee that they would recommend
that the present conferences bo
mad permanent turnout the perio1
OF tho war.
This dts exactly into German
plans The Prussians are exceed
ingly anxious 20 have the meeting
here drag along in order that their
peace plotting may be continually
carried on.
The Detroit times., 1917-06-21
AMERICAN
DESTROYER
RAMS sub
TeutOn American In
Crows Nest Spots
Foe Vessel
BY j. ". PEGLER.

star Correspondent Cnited Press
BASE OF THE AMERICAN NAVY
FLOTH.I.A N ENGLAND. June 81.
"A German submarine was rammed
and sunk by an American destroyer
after a German born American blue
jacket had spied our the under water
craft. according 70 the story told BY
the crew Of a certain American sea
watchdog which returned 70 port to-
day
This is the FIRST German suoma-
rine the story Of whose sinking has
been told By crews Of the American
patrol Hotlla.
The destroyer in question was
cruising thru a calm sea Directly
ahead the forward lookout sighted a
periscope. The submarine 10 which
II VAS attached almost Immediately
submerged. BY that time the &c
stroyer was 40 close 20 the spot
where the periscope had showed
that its guns could not be defressea
sufficiently 10 fire.
Every member 81 the destroyers
crew crowded the rails. eagerly
scanning the water for the sub-sur-
face shadow which would reveal the
enemy craft.
In the midst Of this eager watch,
German born sailor in the crows
nest frantically shouted-"There she
is" pointing directly alongside the
destroyer. The American command
er Instantly swung his ship and
those on board declared they felt the
impact OF collision.
But even II ;he submarine vas not
rammed. those who told the story
said today IL was likely another
antI.submarine device" which was
Immediately brought into play BY
the American destroyer, finished the
lob.
Folks back home In the United
States can rest assured that the
American aotilla here is In the
thick OF things Yesterday Ger.
man U-boat torpedoed a British ship
at the very gates OF the port where
the American destroyers make their
base-and az a time when two Amer.
lean vessels Of the feet were con
voying H.
The Americans destroyers were
swinging In circle about their
charge when the submarine sud
denly popped torpedo and immedi-
stely disappeared beneath the sur
face. One OF the crew % the vessel
was killed by the explosion. One
or the American ships landed the
remainder Among the survivors
was William Mcdonald. or Buffalo.
y Y