The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-01-26

and l assure you that my sympathy
is with you in your efforts to better
the condition of your fellow laborers.
81 hope you will not only have a
successful meeting, but that you will
have such a good time that you will
want to come often"
President E. p. Marsh then took
the chair and announced that the con-
vention was ready for business.
In the afternoon session President
Marsh read his annual report to the
convention, a document covering
every phase of the labor movement
in the last year and making wise
recommendations founded on exper-
ience and a full knowledge of his
subjects.
Extracts from this report will from
time to time be printed in the
Journal.
President Marsh read a supple
mental report covering industrial hap
penings in Everett during the year
just past, which will be published
serially in the Journal, commencing
this week.
(The most important acts of the
convention will be published from
week to week as space will allow.)
Routine business occupied the time
Of the Convention the remainder of
the day.
On Tuesday morning C. R. Cot
trell of Kent, addressed the Conven-
tion on the subject of municipal
markets. He urged the trades union
lists and the forums to get closer to-
gether to forward the interests of
both, to the end that both might be
freed from frauds and extortions of
middlemen. He showed most con-
clusively how the producer and con-
sumer by getting together might very
materially reduce the cost of living
and eliminate the enormous waste
that is now so common.
Secretary Charles Perry Taylor
made an exhaustive and instructive
report, extracts from which will be
printed in the Journal in future issues.
One point is here emphasized, that,
notwithstanding organized labor has
decreased in numbers owing to the
operation of the prohibition law (more
properly called Anti-Saloon law,
legislating out of existence the Brew
cry Workers, the Bartenders anu de-
creasing the number of other workers
engaged in the handling of intoxicants,
other unions show an increase in
membership, strength and activity.
M. H. Kaufman of Bellingham, that
indefatigable thinker and worker
along progressive lines, addressed the
convention on the subject of old-age
pensions for men and women over 60
years of age. He showed the evils of
land speculation and advocated the
taking of unearned increment in land
values for public use. He warned the
unions against the coming of hard
times, when war would be made by
predatory interests against organized
labor.
The reports of the seven vice-presi-
dents were full of good cheer and a
showing of a gain in all districts ex-
cept the seventh (our OWN and the
prospect of winning over apparently
insurmountable obstacles in that one.
The report of President Marsh and
Seventh President Francoise
gave a true statement of the condi-
tions in this, the Seventh District.
Before adjournment Monday after
noon the convention sent telegram
to the Legislature protesting against
the bill introduced by Victor Zednic
of King, providing for compulsory
military training in the public schools.
Mrs. Davies, who has collected valu-
able data regarding tuberculosis and
conditions leading to that illness, as
found in mills of the state, read a
splendid paper Tuesday AFTERNOON
before the convention. The paper also
contained a list of accidents and
causes leading up to them. Mrs.
Davies advised unionists to demand
of their employers the installation of
blowers to carry off dust that dam
ages health.
In the afternoon of Tuesday, Miss
Montgomery delivered an eloquent
} and instructive address on "child well
fare"
Late in the afternoon, Monday, an
official photograph was taken of the
convention. No Bertillon measure
ments nor thumb prints.
Doctor Ernest o. Holland delivered
a thoughtful and instructive discourse
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