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The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-11-09
THE Y. NJ. c. A. TO MAKE
A WAR FUND DRIVE

Under the leadership of that in
defatigable citizen, William How
orth, drive will commence Mon
day to raise a war fund for the Y.
M. c. A, actively engaged in aid
ing and entertaining the soldiers in
camps, at home and in trenches
abroad.
Last Monday Mr.. Howorth, who
has undertaken to lead this drive.
entertained about so citizens at
lunch at Wiser's cafe, where an or
ganization was affected to do this
work for the boys in khaki The
allotment for this district. Snohom-
lsh and Island counties, will be SOL
600, of which $17,5OO goes directly
to war work mot a cent for admin
istration) and $500 to the Y. M.
c. A. for its local needs for the
year 1918.
Mr.. A. NJ. Chitty was chosen
manager; F, R. French, secretary;
A. L. Crosby, treasurer; Jerome A.
Powers, chairman of publicity.
There is an executive committee
with the following members: f. H.
Metzger, chairman; D. A. Duyree.
j. G. Eddy, C. R. Frazier, Robert
Moody, j. T. McChesney, c. E.
Spurgeon, Clyde Walton, f B. Town
send and H. w. Shaw.
The sums to be collected have heen
allotted as follows:
Everett, $14,0OO-war fund S10-
800, Y. M. c. A. local S3,5OO; Lowell.
1880; Arlington, $500; Edmonds.
$3.50; Gold Bar, $50, Granite Falls.
5000; Index, 5000; Lake Stevens
$3.50; Marysville, $500; Monroe.
5000; Snohomish, Sl,5OO; Stanwood.
$500; Sultan, 500; Startup, 500;
Three Lakes, $3.50; Island county.
$500. Total, S21 900.
Headquarters have been opened at
'S2O Wetmore. Both phones, Main
;96.
Inc Following team captains were
famed today to handle the work in
everett; M. T. Altman, W. P. Booth
~ Il. Conner, Carl Knapp, R. w
Manning, Clayton M. Williams. Tom
hartley, F. A. Durr, F. G. Schock
:. c. Sheraton
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FARMERS AND THE
LAND VALUE TAXES

A revision of ideas is due from
those who think that farmers cannot
be persuaded of the justice or ne.
cessity of land value tax to raise
Federal revenue. The big farmers
convention at st. Paul on September
Is to 20, attended by thousands of
delegates from every trans-Missis-
sippi state, has knocked that idea
sky high. 1t demanded among 9TH
er things, Federal tax of two per
cent on unused, or inadequately used
land.
To be sure it was not so long ago
that the suggestion of such a tax
would meet with a very unfriendly
reception in any gathering of farm
ers. But that was due to mis-
conception. They did not distin-
guish between land and land values.
Plutocratic papers and politicians
had deliberately misinformed them
SO that they mistook a land tax to
mean a tax on the area of land,
instead of it's value. Strong op-
position was the result. But more
recently they have been studying the
question and learning their mistake.
Moreover, there are object lessons
in many agricultural communities
where spectators are holding un-
used lands and asking enormous
prices of would-be purchasers who
want to cultivate it.
And now Congress in levying taxes
for the war is about to add enor-
mously to taxes on consumption
without putting a penny upon these
holders of vacant land. "The farm
II does not want land values taxed"
S the excuse given for this rank dis
These Congressman had |
,etter wake up. Farmers are be-
ginning to realize that a land value
AK is to their interest.
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Settle Clifton Strike

CLIFTON, Ariz.-Final settlement
OF the strike Of copper miners in
the Clifton Morenci-Me district
has been in progress since July 1,
was announced Wednesday by Sec
retary OF Labor William B. Wilson,
chairman of the federal industrial
commission investigating labor con-
dltions in the Arizona copper camps.
approximately 1000 men are af-
fected.
The commission consists of Will
liam b. Wilson, secretary of labor;
Col. j. l.. Spangler, of Pennsylvania:
Col. j. l.. Spangler, of Pennsylvania;
II. Walker, of Illinois, and Felix
Frankfurter, of New York, is acting
as secretary of the commission.
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Metal Trades Council announced
that meeting probably would be
held Monday to determine upon an
appeal to be wired to President
Wilson.
The New Scale
Journeymen machinests, molders,
blacksmiths, anglesmiths, pipefitters,
boilermakers, shipfitters, pressmen,
angle and frame settlers, riveters,
clippers and Caulkers, aceteylene
welders and electrical workers, $525
per day.
Painters and plate hangers, S.
Sheet metal workers, copper
smiths and flange turner's, $6.
Heaters, foundry carpenters, fur
nacemen and punch and shear men,
$3.50.
Pattern makers, $50.
Planermen, countersinkers, drill
ers and reamers and holders, $420.
Machnest specialist, $4; rivet
heaters, 9o.I0, ana laboferS, S325.
Wages for Helpers
Helpers are now divided into two
classes, as follows:
Machinests, pipefitters, sheet met
al workers, shipfitters, electrical
workers, molders' helpers, $3.50.
Blacksntths, doppersmiths, slab,
plate hangers, hook tenders, flange
fire and machine helpers, and cast
ing cleaners, $500.
For wooden shipyards the mini
mum rate for caulkers is fixed
at $3.50; shipwrights, joiners, boat
builders and millmen, Sc, and la
oorers and helpers, 1925.
Full Crews at Work
Employees of the various yards
said that full crews reported for
work Monday
McKillop said that several thou
sand employees would undoubtedly
Iuit work, and that he, himself,
would advise them to do this.
The new scale, which is lower
than some scales already being
paid by some Seattle yards, is
over than the scales promised on
he first of the year by other
ards, officials say.
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on the financiers and the leaders of
industry it appealed to the organi-
zers of labor to help. Up to the
time the war began labor had been
non-militant. Having partly pro-
tected labor against the danger of
exploitation by capitalists for their
own benefit in war work, the labor
unions began to organize themselves
for war Ninety-six per cent of
the men in the Army come from the
industrial classes. The Trades Unions
abandoned for the period of the war
their strongest positions, the right
to strike, the non-dilution of labor,
the regulation of hours, the limita-
tion of non-skilled work.
America enters the war in more
favorable conditions. She has had
over two years in which her plants
have been busy on the production
of war material Her people are
accustomed to great tasks of or
ganization, and the output of suf-
ficient guns and shells, small arms
and material of war will not be the
problem to her that it was to us.
America possesses another advantage
in that very large proportion of
her people are accustomed to open
air life and to the use of the gun.
The two main things to be urged
on America are, | believe, the i'm
portance of guarding against Ger
man espionage and the wisdom of !
building up real citizen army, on
the basis of universal service.
l urge the building up of citi-
zen army based on universal service
because l am opposed to the mill
tary spirit. l recognize that the
only way to defeat militarism is to
De organized against it, but it is
only by a nation having at its call
;he trained manhood of it's people
hat it can hope to stand against the
menace of a carefully organized au-
planned to the last man for
var and for conquest, such as Ger
many represents. This is a fight
or world freedom and for no less.
Ninety per cent of the white race
If the world are today engaged in
var, and the issue at stake is the
uture of free institutions through
ut the world.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-11-09
BEN TILLET, ENGLISH LABORITE,
TELLS WHO CAUSED BLOODY WAR

Despite our former pacifist atti.
tude, the forces of labor in England
have supported the Government
throughout the war. We realized
that this is fight for world free
dom against a carefully engineered
plan to establish world autocracy.
The real answer to those who still
declare that the war was devised, in
stigated or encouraged by England,
can best be found in the condition
of our country when war broke out.
We were wholly unmilitary and
wholly unprepared. The entire
structure of our national life had
been built up on the supposition that
we would never again be engaged
in really great war that would tax
our resources to the full.
We had no national army and no
universal system for the defensive
! training of the people. Our Navy
was not prepared for the menace of
the submarine. Our financiers had
taken so few steps to guard them
selves against war conditions that
had not the national credit been
quickly mobilized our banking sys-
tenn would have been ruined. Our
industrial and manufacturing life
were untitled to meet war demands.
The problem of making them fit had
not even been faced
Our statesmen had not given suf-
ficient weight to the fact that Ger
many's remarkable and carefully fos-
tered industrial growth had great
ly added to her offensive strength.
Against her army of millions, equip
ped as never army was before, we
hand an army of 100000 to put in the
field. Even this small number
were not fully equipped to meet new
conditions. For every one big gun
that we possessed, Germany had
hundred. Germany had discovered
that battles are won not so much
by men but by shells, and that the
nation which could produce the most
shells and the biggest shells must
overwhelm the other. She was pre-
pared to produce them. We were
not.
lndustrially, our lack of prepara-
ton was equally evident. We had |
allowed our ship-building industry
on the Thames, invaluable to the ma.
tion in war time to be destroyed.
British plants that might be adapted
for the manufacture of war material
mad been allowed to decline. Raw
essential in modern war,
such as the bases out of which the
chemicals for high explosives are
made, had been taken wholesale out
of the country.
Germany knew our unpreparedness
+ we did not. | was one of those
Who, seeing the danger of general
european conflict ahead, would have
lsed the international forces of La
'or to prevent it by organizing and
establishing universal strike of the
workers. of Europe if the rul-
RS declared war. Had such a strike
'een carried out in all the coun- j
ries, it would have made war i'm /;
possible. When | proposed this to
he German labor leaders shortly {
efore the present war began, they I
old me that l proposed it not be-
ause | loved peace but because Eng {
and was afraid of war.
And it is a remarkable fact that, {
t the last Trades Union Congress {
which | attended in Germany as I
elegate from the United Kingdom, /
he proposal for an international 4
trike of labor against war was OPP
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by the Germans.

Germany's industrial preparations
were as thorough as her military
plans. The vast new iron ore re.
sources obtained in Alsace as part of
the spoil of the Franco -Prussian War
were utilized to establish a domin-
ance in the steel trade and to bring
Germany to the position of the sec
ond steel producing nation in the
world. This great steel output was
systematically poured into the Unit
ed Kingdom in such way as to
check and break down British man.
ufacturing plants.
The Germans for years devoted
great efforts to acquire a MONOPOLY
OF certain manufactures essential for
the production of war material. They
devoted special efforts to the by
products of our coal fields, the raw
material out of which they manu-
factured their high explosives.
These by-products were bought up
and cleared out of England to the
utmost in the months before the
war, and it was one of the ironies
of the situation that most of the
high explosive shells used against
our troops during the first year of
the war, were manufactured from
raw material previously obtained
from us.
Before the war broke out. Ger
many had destroyed the Birmingham
optical industry and given herself
a virtual monopoly in optical goods.
We found that not only had our
manufacturing trade in telescope
sights been destroyed but all avail
able telescope sights had previous
to the outbreak of the war been
bought up by the enemy.
In order to manufacture war ma
terial we required gauges, gauge
making machines and lathes. There
were none to be obtained. The Ger
IdIlS Udu CIlefn.
Perhaps the most remarkable ex-
ample of the way in which the war
spirit was fostered among the Ger
nan people, was found in the manip-
llation of organized labor. There
vas an International Transport
Workers Union. At a Congress at |
Munich few weeks before the war
opened the German delegates urged
ne not to propose resolution call
ng upon labor of all nations to strike
war was declared. They said
hat they could not attend any Con-
,ress where such resolution was
ven proposed, and that they would
lot dare to return and face the or
they represented if it
we're so much as discussed. At the
ime thought that their attitude
vas influenced by fear of the mill
ary now think that it was in
luenced by their military spirit and
ohCi bCiicI III COIIllIR herman
ictory.
In England when war began the
ntire basis of our national life had
D be reconstructed. At first it was
tile better than chaos. Our little
rmy of 100000 men thrown against
ne enemy served to show us what
reat forces we must have. The
len were willing enough to come
orward, but there were not enough
soldiers to train. them
here were not enough weapons to
luip them and there was no ma
1inery obtainable with which to
lanfacture the weapons in time. We {
ad one source of strength, vast (
,serve wealth. =
After the Government had called
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-11-09
PACIFIC COAST STRIKES AND
PROSPECTS OF SETTLING THEM
Dissatisfaction Expressed by the Organized
the Wage Set.

With the Northwestern member
ship of the International Brother
hood of Electrical Workers threat
ening separation from the San Fran
cisco part of the Pacific Coast Dis
trict unless the California Unions
obey the mandate as expressed in
the recent referendum to strike, the
settlement of the telephone trouble
seems no nearer solution than the
day it began.
New Mediation Zone
TACOMA, Nov. 6.-Advising Ore
gon and Washington telephone oper-
ators to organize mediation zone
in which new working agreements
would be prepared independent of
California, William Delaney, repre-
sentative at the recent California
conference, presented his report to-
day to a conference of Northwest
telephone workers. The conference
now shifts to Seattle, where the
strike committee will meet with one
delegate from every local in Wash
ington and Oregon to formulate
agreements.
Werner z. Reed, Secretary of the
Presidents Mediation Commission
today that the commission
would arrive in San Francisco this, |
Friday morning, to take up the tele-
phone strike.
Secretary Wilson and other mem
)ers of the commission including, E.
P. Marsh urge the telephone opera
.ors to adjust their differences with
he Pacific Telephone and Telegraph
Company, until, the presumption is,
he Labor Commission has an op-
to use its efforts to set
lie the differences.
The Northwestern operators and
inemen have called their delegates
way from San Francisco.
The telephone employees of San
Francisco declare that their fight for
of the union is already
Won and therefore there is no neces-
ity for a strike.
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trunks, Ladies Handbags, Leather
Goods and Repairing at Everett
Trunk Factory, 2s15 Rockefeller.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-11-09

And just as you say that you will
not change your style of living a
starving baby dies in France.
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PORTLAND, Ore, Nov. 5.-No
action will be taken by local union
officials regarding the decision of
the federal meditation board in San
Francisco in connection with the
shipyards wage controversy, until
the delegates from Portland have re-
turned and made their report. Lead
ers of the unions which were out on
strike declare, however, that the wage
increase decided upon by the media
tion board is far from satisfactory
and predict that the unions will not
In Seattle
SEATTLE, Nov. 15.-Announce-
accept it.
ment of the new wage scale by the
federal adjustment board at San
Francisco Sunday, which will settle
the labor difficulties in Pacific Coast
shipbuilding plants, met with dis
approval in Seattle
The increase amounts to from 10
to 35 per cent above the old scale
paid at San Francisco, but is lower
than the minimum now being paid
by Skinner & Eddy Labor officials
declare the new scale will enable
employers to reduce the wages of
the men now getting more than the
minimum.
Dan Mckillop, president of the
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NOT A WORD is SAID ABOUT
DEMOCRATIZING GERMANY!

So far as any provision in this
document is concerned, Germany is
to remain an autocracy, intact and
formidable, uncurbed and unchanged
left free to build up for another
brutal blow against the peace and
civilization of the world
True, the committe urges the Ger
mans to work for characterization,
but it is weak urging and stands
merely as an afterthought to a pro-
gram that is specific and emphatic
on almost every other point.
Here is the way this fraudulent
peace program" would juggle peo-
Piles and boundaries to help Ger
many:
1t would restore Armenia to Tur-
key-Turkey the handmaiden of Ger
many and the butcher nation of the
world, next to Germany.
1t would cut Finland from Rus
sia.
1t would bring Czechs into
union under Austria.
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"MADE IN GERMANY BRAND ON
"STOCKHOLM CONFERENCE''
Every Plank in Amazing Document Bears Berlin Unmstakab
Samp-NOt Word About Decentralization of Great
AutOcracy-DvsOn of Belgium Proposed

would have to be penalized for Ger
many's crime.
Autonomy for Flanders and Wal.
lonia in Belgium!
This means dividing Belgium in
two parts, setting Walloons against
Flemish. 1t means no restoration of
Belgium in national sense. In ad-
dition to the international restora-
tion fund counterfeit indemnity to
Belgium from Germany is asked,
this to be fixed by The Hague court,
which seems to have nothing to do
with an indemnity to restore Bel
GUM.
In the case of all other nationali-
ties in question and all other ter
ritories, the readjustment provided
in the program is at the expense
of the entente allies, with Germany
the gamer in every instance, either
through dirct control of territory
or through having such territory
created into buffer states.
The Stockholm" program is re-
vealed as a German program, with
not single count in it's favor.
And stronger than any sign of
commission in the document is its
cardinal sin of commission.
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Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1917-11-21
DENMARK.


German sailors from the auxiliary
cruiser Marie will not be interned. be
ing regarded as shipwrecked. Nine of
them already have gone TO Berlin.
The American dollar dropped TO a
T5-cent basis November 4 in conse-
quence of general slump. Exchange
rates on Copenhagen fell ten points, to
$50, and apparently the bottom has
not been reached. The Stockholm
quotation, which of late has been set
ting the pace for Copenhagen. declined
to pa. which is six points below the
equivalent Copenhagen level, allowing
for minimum of II per cent on Swed-
ish over Danish money. BY the time
Copenhagen has absorbed this margin
the Swedish quotations may be relied
upon TO drop again. The bearish Scan
dinavian view of foreign values was
manifested toward all exchanges. Ster-
ling fell to 2S per cent below parity,
marks 40 per cent below par. For
some reason American exchange has
led the recent decline. dropping 11is
cents within a month. Bankers give
various explanations, none of thcm
very satisfactory, for such a slump
ia money whose intrinsic worth they
say is not open to the slightest ques-
ton. Some attribute it to the sus-
pension of Danish-American CONNER
cial relations, although this would up
ply with equal validity to Danish ex'
change in America.
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No Cause for Action.

The arrest of Peter Leach was
brought about by the activities of his
buXOm wife. relates an exchange. The
couple were facing the judge.
Peter was a ne'er-do-well, come-day-
go-day, shiftless sort of CHAP, his
main object in life seeming to be that
of evading honest, toll. Not only thai ;
he had contracted the habit of com
ing home full of booze" and beating
his thrifty wife.
The testimony, to which the judge
had listened patiently for an hour,
was brought to close after which
his honor said: "It seems to me, Mrs.
Leach, that this is a case where
prosecution is possible for non-sup-
port"
The woman drew herself up TO her
full and massive height and exclaim-
ed in tones filed with honest rebuke
"Oh, your honor, they can't bring
that up agin me! I've took In washin'
an gone out scrubbin' for tn last ten
years an give him what you might
say was a fine Twin! No, he can't
bring that agin' me, judge"
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1917-11-21
ACID POISONING!

The most eminent physicians recognize
that uric Ard stored UP In the system is
the cause % govt and rheumatism, that
this uric acid poison is present In the
joints. muscles. or nerves. BY expert
mentinE and analysis at the Invalids'
Hotel and Surgical Institute in Buffalo.
n. T., DR.. Pierce discovered q combina-
ton of native remedies that he called
An-u-ric, which drives out the uric acid
from the system. and in this way the
pain. swelling and Inflammation subside
II you are a sufferer from rheumatism
backache. pains here or there, you can OBJ
tain Anuric. double strength. at any drug
store for 90 cents. and get relief from the
pains and Ills brought about by uric acid .
or send DR., Pierce 10c for trial pkg Anu
ric which you will find many times more
potent than lithia and eliminates uric acid
almost ss hot water melts sugar A short
trial viii convince you. Send a sample Of
your water to DIR. Pierce and Il will be
tested free OF charge.
Anuric Is a regular Insurance and life
saver for all big meat eaters and those
who deposit li1ne-sslts In their joints.
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AS Old as His Son.

Sixty days in the workhouse was
the sentence. but it had nothing to
do with the startling reply of the pris-
oner, standing before Judge Pugh to
receive justice on a charge of assault,
relates the Philadelphia Press.
The usual number Of questions was
asked. Then the judge inquired:
Your father HvingT"
"Yes."
How old is her"
Same age as me-"
Judge Pugh glared.
81 said how old is your fatherr
"As old as l am, your honor"
Take careI" warned the court
Now, answer properly"
Il have" said the prisoner. "He be-
came my father the same day became
his SON."
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Island of Mindoro.

So prolific was the Island of MlndOro
in the Philippines at one time in the
production of rice that it was popular
~ called "the granary of the Philip
pines" Sugar, cotton. hemp, and 9th
er crops thrive on the island. when
properly cultivated. Yet it's economic
conditions are extremely backward.
and large part of its population is in
a constant state of poverty. 1t has al
together about $4,000 inhabitants.
Among these are $4,000 Tagalogs, 1900
Mangyanes, 1000 Visayans. and of
uocanos less than 1000. OF the whole.
large proportion of the remainder are
densely ignorant.