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Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1917-03-26

l275 MEN now UNDER INNS
Stss.e Troops Of tho Northwest WIN
Be Used in Guarding bridges
and Railways

pcrf1oud Mar ~ Wfkh "a S4E
Oregon national guard, is completely
|mobilized today and ia now awaiting
further orders.
The call was received late last
night. BY midnight the mobilisation
was well under way and guard o.
hcers announced this morning thst
mobilization was completed.
0fncers Of the guard. with the Co
operation OF citizens. committees m
civic bodies. are nov endcavoring To
enlist .the militia MP 70 full styeGSth4
This Is "patrictic week" n OREGON.
and the mobilization call finds TIE
state crs s4hised TO take up the militia
recruiting campaign with vim.
Eight hundred coast artillerymen.
one troop Of cavalry and one batteSy
|of field artillery-about 1000 nen.
In all-have not been called out, but
ARE awaiting orders. N
San Francisco. Mar. 26.The mili-
tia Of the Pacific coast answered the
call to the colors today. Under ord
ers received at midnight from the
war department, seven national guard
regiments, comprising the infantry q
the states Of California. Oregon,
Washington. Idaho and Montana took
steps today preliminary to mobilixa-
tion. California is marshaIling three
regiments and the other states one
each.
While the specific purpose has not
been designated for these troops. Il
Is understood that they will be used
in policing railways and other means
Of communications, In guarding ship
building plants, arsenals and indus
trial plants Of use to the government
should war come.
The regiments will be held In read
mess to await the order Of Major
General J. Franklin Bell. command
ing the Western department Of the
army.
While the plans to mobilize these
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-07-21
PERTINENT LABOR GOSSIP CLEANED AT The NATIONS CAPITA

American and foreign vessels, is by
far the greatest and most important
OF anything that has transpired in the
shipping world for a long time. Our
activities were in line with the provi-
sions of the Seamen's bill. abolishing
involuntary servitude and removing
the remedies given to foreign govern
ments and foreign shipowners, to ar
rest seamen who desert in ports of the
United States. Seamen, being given a
right on American and foreign vessels
alike to demand one-half wages or
half the wages earned by them and
unpaid, in American ports, have been
able to enforce that right. .~:..,
Wage Raise or Dcsertion.
I am informed that seamen COM
ing here on foreign vessels sent. to
American ports to compete in Ameri-
can trade leave their vessels unless
the master voluntarily guarantees
them an increase in wages which will
bring their average earnings up to a
par with the average earnings of AM
erlcan seamen, and other seamen in
American ports who have already ar
rived at the American standard. The
seamen then take the precaution to
see that there is incorporated in their
new contracts Of hiring, provision
that they shall be paid off in ports
OF the United States only. This as
sures that they will always be dis
| charged in a port paying wages as
high as the ones in the United States,
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everywhere in these industries. The
metal trades unions are organizing
right and left, with total gains in
membership which outdo anything in
their history. But in order to get bet
ter pay and maintain reasonable hours
they have to keep tying up jobs. This
is not pleasing to the government. It
hinders the war preparations. The
sooner the necessity for these strikes
is removed, by concessions demanded
last March and April by all Of the
unions involved, in their letters to the
government, the sooner the strikes
will cease.
Hold Pension Hearings.
Old age pensions for civil service
temployes have again been urged upon
congress at a senate committee hear
ing. The same old arguments have
been made, the same objections raised,
and men like Arthur. Holder, legislat-
i've agent Of the A. F. of L., have once
more suggested that plenty Of men
who have grown old in private indus
try could stand retirement pensions,
too. - =
Among the witnesses was Thomas
F. Flaherty. general secretary Of the
National Federation Of Postoffice
Clerks. He told OF how the postmaster
recently appointed in Washington, as
soon AZ he took his seat began to dis
miss the older employes-the men
who had spent 90 e so ysars Of their
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the last week of June and the first
half Of July, remains a mystery. Both
sides admit that something is under
way, but refuse to talk, 'for reasons of
public policy"
Some time ago there was a demand,
by the Building Trades Council at
Chillicothe, Ohio, that the union shop
be made the rule for construction of
all the army cantonments-a matter
of $50,000,000 worth of work. This
suggestion has been one of the things
taken up in conferences. Probably it
; will not be accepted by the Council of
National Defense The government
: has never declared union shop any,
where. On the other hand, many gov
ernment plants have been almost SOL
idly organized, and this is assumed to
be the prospect in the places where
the building trades unions are strong
enough to handle a cantonment.
If any agreement between the gov-
ernment and the unions is reached as
to cantonment work, an agreement
should be reached with scarcely
; greater trouble to cover all Of the mu-
! nitions work, the steel making, the
! shipbuilding, etc. Then. If the ad-
ministration is sincere in wanting fair
conditions established, there will be a
chance to bring all Of the supplies fac
tories under some labor agreement
4 also. ~ r. q.
! .s. J.. May Cause Scandals. s3s
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-07-21
(By Special Correspondent }

WASHINGTON, July 19.-Andrew
: ruseth, who has been working at
problem of getting Atlantic sea-
ard shipowners to come to terms Of
cement with the International Sea-
rs union, ever since he secured the
sage of the Seamen's Act on March
,t.91P. quotes another endorsement
,lais plans. Furuseth has always
med that if the United States
ul4 force the foreign shipowners to
THEIR crews the American scale Of
,;esi the American merchant marine
ll& sweep the seas. He has MAIN
:. .edl that the Seaman's Act, permit
VI 4;he foreign sailor to desert in our
-, would level up the wages of
!. ifgn shipping.
:, .ow comes the forty-first annual
ort of the Legal Aid Society of
w York, of which Charles E.
lghes is president, and Leonard Nc
, e attorney. McGee says, in part:
'''N@ve before has the seamen's
tn4h been called upon to assist in
wing construed so many questions of
y. lowing to the changes in the old
it4ttes, due to the Seamen's Act
, effect of the Seamen's bill as en-
u led. particularly as to the provi.
us relating to advance notes on ad.
1 ce wages, and the, right of sea.
to collect half their wages ir
.erican ports, as applicable tc
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-07-21
PROHIBITS NIGHT
WORK FOR WOMEN
in BADGER STATE

MADISON, Wis.,, July 19:-The
state industrial commission has pro-
hibited night work for women in
manufactures and laundries In
Wisconsin. Night work is declared
to be work performed between the
hours OF 8 p. m. and 8 a. ID. : Pen,
canning factories are excepted.
The commissions order is the re-
suit of hearings upon the petition
of the Wisconsin state federation of
labor and other bodies which urged
the prohibition of all night work
for women and a reduction of day
labor to eight hours. The commis-
sion dispOses only of that part of
the petition which relates to night
work in manufactures and laun-
dries and gives notice that it will
make further investigation of other
industries.
This order of the commission
merely restores the provisions of
the law Of 1913. In a decision last
year the supreme court construed
an ambiguous statute as meaning
that an eight-hour limit applies
only when all of a woman's work
Is done at night time.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-07-21
PLAN CAMPAIGN To
UN|ON|zE CHICAGO
STOCK YARD HANDS
Windy City Federation Says
Low Wages and Bad Condi-
tions Compel Action.

CHICAGO, July 19.-The Chicago
Federation of Labor is backing a
move to unionize the 10000 workers
in the Chicago stockyards. Charges
were made that the federation was
taking advantage of the labor arising
from the war to put the plan through.
Edward Morris, president Of Morris
& Co., packers, said efforts of the fed
Grafton would be futile because work.
ers are laboring under ideal condi-
tions.
Resolutions characterizing the pack
ers as "tyrannicar' and charging them
with maintaining conditions of Gin
.dustrial slavery" were adopted and a
conference of representatives Of
unions maintained in connection with
forms of labor identical with those
in different departments Of the pack
ing industry was called for the near
future.
Text of Resolutions.
Following are the resolutions:
Whereas, Because they are unor
ganized, many thousands of workers
employed in the stockyards have been
forced by the tyrannical meat packers
down to depths of poverty and indus.
Iildl SIdSc1y IAoI SOuSI4eUlo a. udIAoAeA
disgrace, and
Whereas, Now is the best season in
the history of America for oppressed
labor to organize and secure its rights;
therefore, be it
Resolved, that the president and Sec
retary Of the Chicago Federation Of
Labor call conference as early as
possible of representatives of all trade
unions with jurisdiction over workers
in the stockyards for the purpose of
|launchinE:x and .earrxinE on a, united
In the protecting ranks Of organized
labor the vast army Of exploited men,
women. and children in the meat pack
ing industries Of Chicago.
Negroes Supplant Whites.
Edward Nockels, secretary of the
federation, asserted that white en-
p1oyes demand $3.50 day wages
| while the poorer living conditions of
colored labor make it possible for the
negroes to work for $1.25 a day.
'As a result" said Nockels, "thou-
sands of whites at the stockyards are
jobless, while the packers are growing
; fat on the lower standards Of negro
labor
John Fitzpatrick, president Of the
federation, will direct the work of
i unionizing.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-07-21
DANBURY HATTERS'
HOMES ARE SAVED;
CASE IS SETTLED
Union Official Ayers D. + Loewe
Firm Has Squeezed Men
to Last Cent

DANBURY,. Conn.,, July 19.-The
famous Danbury hatters'. case was set
tied last Saturday and 141 hatters'
homes saved from auction when D. E.
Loewe, head of the plaintiff firm in
the boycott action, signed a release
freeing the defendants from all
claims.
The amount of money involved in
the settlement was not announced.
Upon leaving the meeting at which
the release was agreed on, Martin
ters' union, said:
ID. E. Loewe & Co. have squeezed
the United Hatters to the last cent
Formal release papers were filed
Monday and the famous case was
withdrawn from the federal court at
that time.
Loewe, his attorneys and members
Of the firm met United Hatters' off,
cials and their lawyer, w. F. Tam
many, in a final effort to come to an
agreement Saturday. The auction sale
of homes in Danbury, Bethel and Nor
walk to satisfy Loewes boycott de-
mand claims was scheduled to begin
last Monday.
When the meeting began Loewe was
demanding at least $250,000. His legal
claims totaled $262,OOO. The hatters
were willing to pay 100000.
Full power to make 4. settlement
was vested in union, officials by the
141 hatters whose homes were in dam
ger atsa meeting Fr!dayea tttsrnoon.
The Dafbury hatters' case grew out
of a boycott declared by. the union
against the Loewe concern. The indi-
vldual members Of the union were
sued by Loewe under the Sherman
antitrust law. Judgment for over
100000 was secured. The case was
fought to the supreme court of the
United States and IA years spent in
litigation.
After the judgment the hatters paid
100000 on account, but accumulated
interest kept the debt around the
quarter million mark until the hat
ters' homes were ordered sold and
their bank accounts seized to satisfy
the judgment.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-07-21
COMMITTEE WOULD
CONSIDER DEMANDS
OF MEN; DISCHARGED

NEW YORK, July 19.-Presi-
dent Maher of the Third Avenue
Railway company has discharged
four employees who asked for a
conference that the demands Of the
men they represented might be con-
sidered.
Last year this corporation battled
with the Amalgamated Association
OF Street and Electric Employees, and
these workers have developed a
solidarity which Maher would de-
stroy by victimization tactics.
The New York World, in an edi-
tOrial comment ON Maher's latest
break, declares his treatment of the
committee twas foolishly and de-
spicably autocratic."
''It makes no difference" says
this paper, "whether these men
spoke for union or only for them
selves; they should have been heard.
Instead of that they were instantly
dismissed from the service of the
corporation. If there is any method
known to foolhardy tyranny better
calculated to stir up, trouble in in
dustry we never heard of it,
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-07-21
WILL HOLD HEARINGS
ON CHILD LABOR LAW

WASHINGTON, July 19.-Hearings
will begin July "a at the Department
Of Labor here on tentative rules and
regulations for carrying out the child
labor law which goes into effect
Sept. 1. The hearing will be conducted
by the advisory committee to the at
torney general, the secretary Of COM
merce and the secretary of labor, who
are designated in the law as board
to make and publish uniform rules
and regulations.
Tentative rules and regulations have
been drafted by the children's bureau
as basis Of discussion, and producers,
manufacturers, dealers, and others in
terested are invited to appear at the
hearing. The law prohibits products
Of industries employing children un-
der certain ages for shipment in in
terstate or foreign commerce.
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! Companies Want No Unions.
'rd strike, and tie up the whole
per industry, rather than let them
away with this deportation game"
the statement made by one of the
est men in the mining trades when
got the news. He Is not an I. w.
He has no use for them, and
es they may be eliminated from
@situation. But as the facts of the
oee deportation gradually come in
, headquarters, it become more and
le evident that the I. w. w. strike
used merely as a pretext for
- by. the Phelps-Dodge officials.
ected by Walter Douglas. heavy
'estor in copper mines. These mine
nagers run true to type-they want
get rid of unions.
It is probable that the I. w. w. will
out of the situation in Arizona,
ce federal troops are to take charge,
the members of the International
lion of Mine, Mill and Smelter
connected with that body and now
:iliated only with the State Fedora
n of Labor, will remain. They will
sorb a majority of the men who
We been stampeded into the I. w. w.
ganization. All Of these thousands
miners will refuse to be deported
Ywhere by anybody. They will prob
l}y convince their senators and rep
sentative in congress that there is
other side to the deportation issue.
en- public opinion will take another
I'm, and the companies will have to
IN up with these local unions for
living wage for the period Of the
lr.
While speaking of the big I. w. w.
are, it is just as we'll to set down
re that the governor of Idaho did
t send any telegram to Washington
king for help or saying that the I.
=. w. were creating a reign of ter
r. He wired Senator Borah that
ere were some strikes in the logging
mps, but there had been no vio-
ace or terrorism of any kind. The
:ikers' demands were being met.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-07-21
ANTI-SWEAT SHOP
LAW EFFECTIVE

TRENTON, N. j., July 19.-Anti-
sweat shop legislation, passed by the
last general assembly, took effect last
week. No portion of a dwelling can
hereafter be used for manufacturing
purposes without state license that
must be renewed every six months.
Each room must contain at least 250
cubic feet of air space for each per-
son employed in the day time and not
less than 400 cubic feet for each per-
son at night. Strict regulations as to
sanitary conditions are also provided.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-07-21
HARASS DELEGATES WITH
THEIR ADR0lT PROGRAM
Resolutions Condenins Government Are Defeated-Hau
and Lawson Are Reelected And Virginia
Awarded 19 18 Meeting.

E. G. Hall of Minneapolis and succeed
president and secretary respectively
neo State OF Labor They elected without opposition
the of held
day and Wednesday of this week.
the outset OF the convention the Socialists styling themselves
liberals attempted thwa
the trade union delegates by injecting into the proceedings artfuy
drawn resolutions which, passed. would
unamerican policies dealing grave foreign which are
now taxing the utmost the hearts and
Finally when they found they could Job the Socialists
boted the ntion.
In instance the majority defeated emphasis resolu-
ons not clean phrd
ent crisis r
Ihe first resolution drawn by the Socialists protested against
eminent employment of
Fort Smelling The committee
on committee oom but brought before
by where Vandenberg of Minneapolis began plea
tor adoption His talk brought abrupt
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-07-21
-'lSBEE DEPORTATION IS
DECLARED Fl A SUBrERFUCE
i -. State e1es'"'ts;' esS'ts; Sc: &c. Con" : =.
:, Get Rid of Labor Unions -rrr.,- Vilson Requests
Governor Campbell to Intercede- Corporation
Raids Dangerous to Government.
9'''e cAp,toI s1%c aSS: t'o,"s

WASHINGTON July l9-Pedent Wilson's telegram to
Campbell of Arizona, asking him to the deportatons of k
W. miners and others from the big of the state
good deal significant than first reading
reflect the belief Of the of labor transmitted the
dent that these raids by the PhpDodge corporation officials and
uar miners and lot of union and Socialist ymphzers
dangerous the One high official the A.
}of L. recently
the hour of the raid he would probably have been herded
fae the of gum along with the hundreds his po
friends who given that treatment.
The situation be which the copper companies
willing to settle the strikes by grant of and
ions decided to en working class agor be found
did, for the Now they have mixed the W. w.
tao with the regu lot of small business who
Hunt parisan tat Arizona
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-07-21
FEW IMMIGRANTS
ARRIVE IN MAY

WASHINGTON, July 19.-The fed
eral bureau Of immigration reports
that 16,o22 immigrants were admitted
to this country last May. This is the
lowest figure in years, and is tho di-
rect result of the war and the Bur-
nett immigration law In May, 1916,
the arrivals totaled 37,925; in May,
1915, 32,363, and in May, 1914, 1885,
S48.
Last May but one lone immigrant
came from Bulgaria, Serbia and Mon
tenegro. In May. 1914, the number
from these countries was 1922.
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lives in making the service what it
1s-because they were too old for
efficiency" Flaherty suggested that
the workers have right to a stake in
the industry, and he believed the gov
ernment in these days of good ex-
ample should set an example for other
American employers in the payment
OF retirement pensions.
Senator, McKellar: Of Tennessee is
chairman of the civil services commit
tee which is running the hearings.
Letters should be directed to him at
the Senate Office building.
. - r
Would Eyade Law.
Flaherty is on the trail, once more,
Of Postmaster General Burleson. Bur
Lesson is trying: to evade the law which
directs him to promote from the rate
Of $1,100 to $1,000 a year 1T least IS
per cent Of the clerks in the former
grade, each. year. Burleson has i'm
posed test for promotion which will
prevent more than about s per cent
from getting the raise. .:s..--> So.
Representative Tague Of Massa-
chusetts has introduced q resolution
providing that the s and 10 per cent
raise in pay granted other government
employees by the last congress shall be
given also, to postal employees. This
would foil .Burleson.. by giving even
more than 800 raise TO the msn In
the $l,100 class.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-07-21
NO LABOR SHORTAGE
ON CALIFORNIA \ FARMS
Except in One copEnty, Reports
Committee to State Council
:. : -. Of Defsxsess2s - = :

SACRAMENTO, CAL, July 1s.-Ex-
cepting Imperial county, there is no
farm labor shortage in California, de-
spite the fact that crops are being har-
vested in many parts of the state, is
the gist Of a report made to the state
council of defense by it's committee on
resources and food supply.
The reason for farm labor shortage
in Imperial county, it is stated, is that
workers are unwilling to go into this
extreme southern section of the state
because Of poor housing conditions
and the extreme heat.
The report is based upon informa-
ton obtained by the committee from
the University of California farm ad-
visors, who have conducted the inves-
tigation.
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II you are f1ghtlng Tor the rights
OF labor in this state, for Gods sake
take wholehearted stand against this
government which is traitorously
crushing the heart Of the workman"
Vandenberg began. In a moment the
convention was in an uproar.
Treason, throw him out" 1--WE will
not listen to such talk" and like cries
arose as the old line members of the
organization started for the platform
on which Vandeburg was standing.
pa President E. G. Hall, with the assist
~ance Of the sergeants-at-arms,- re-
stored order and warned the speaker.
A vote was taken and the resolution
defeated by 220 to 80.
Safety Commission Assailed.
The next resolution called for a spe-
cial session. of the legislature to re-
peal the Jaw. under which the Mime
sofa Public Safety commission op-
crates. Should the governor fail in
calling the legislature in special ses-
sion, it was resolved that a statewide
strike in all lines Of labor be called to
be effective until such time as the
commission was dissolved. After a
heated debate, in which it was pointed
out that the labor organizations of
the state have no representative among
members Of the commission, the
body voted down the resolution by ap-
proximately the same vote as the first
resolution.
The third resolution which was
voted down was to the effect that the
federal government be asked to define
the object of the war and on what
terms this country will be willing to
make peace.
Anticonscription Lost.
A heated debate resulted from the
introduction Of the fourth resolution
which asked, that the government re-
peal the conscription act This reso-
luton met the same fate as the others,
as did a resolution favoring the con-
scription of wealth.
The last two resolutions presented
favored the stand taken by the Nom
partisan league with regard to the
conscription of wealth and that SYM
pathy be expressed for the downtrod-
den 1aborers of Ireland, Belgium,
France, England and Germany. These
(ContinueI1 IN r.1. o\
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FORM REGULAR UNION

PORTLAND, Ore, July 19.-Motor-
men and conductors employed by the
local traction company have aban-
doned their mutual admiration society,
which was officered by the company,
and have joined the Amalgamated AS
sociation Of Street and Electric Rail-
way Employees.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-07-21

SAN FRANCISCO, July 19.-The
farm labor famine" predicted some
time ago has not materialized, says the
San Francisco Bulletin.
"Only one county in the state, which
is as hot as it is fertile and, there
fore, does not tempt the migrant lab
orer, reports an acute shortage Farm
labor is more independent than it used
to be, but that is not to be deplored.
Migrating workingmen will have to be
treated better than has been the GUS
tom, and this in the end will work for