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The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-04-27
VOLUNTEER SYSTEM
AND CONSUMPTION

"The Volunteer system is the only
lust, democratic and effective means
of raising an army says the Amer
lean Union Against Militarism. Cam
ada has enrolled over 100000 men
without CONSUMPTION; Australia,
100000 without it, recently defeating
CONSUMPTION for overseas service by
an overwhelming vote Of the people.
If Canada with population of
100000 raised a volunteer army Of
100000, what ought the United
States do in that line with popula-
ton of about 1OOO0O,O00?
One man, Theodore Roosevelt,
guarantees to raise two volunteer
divisions, about 10000 men, for SER
vice in France. If one man can do
this what is the necessity of conscrip-
ton?
If the government will but show a
determination to conscript wealth to
pay the cost of this war there will
be absolutely no necessity for the
CONSUMPTION Of sailors and soldiers.
The thing to do is to convince the
people that the wealth of this coun-
try will be compelled to forego pro-
fits during the war and pay the cost
of it, then the enlisted sailors and
soldiers will feel that they are get
ting something like square deal.
If such a course be followed, and
the United States be reckoned among
the victors, nobody now living will
ever see another great conflict.
When the nations of all the world
shall have decided to compel accumu-
lated wealth to pay the cost of war,
then there viii be no more wars.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-04-27

The workers of Everett are making
extensive preparations to celebrate
international Labor Day this year
in way that is BETTING this i'm
portant occasion.
For some weeks a committee of
eight or ten persons, representing
the Trades Council, local unions and
other organizations wishing to par
ticipate, have been working out the
plans for the coming event, as a
result of which a most interesting
program has been arranged for. The
celebration will be held in the Labor
Temple and the program will begin
at 8 o'clock sharp.
The speakers of the evening will
be Ernest P. Marsh of Everett, and
James Bradford of Seattle. R. j.
Olinger will act as chairman Those
who have heard Mr.. Marsh and Mr..
Bradford speak on other occasions
will need no urging to attend, as
they are both well known as speak
ers of the highest abilities. Those
who have never heard them should
without fail, take advantage of this
opportunity.
Wagner's band has volunteered to
furnish number Of selections. In
addition to this there will be vocal
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-04-27
SCOTT HEARINGS
RESIGNATION IS
NOT ACCEPTED

Free speech was sustained at
meeting Of the trustees Of the Toledo
University, when that body voted to
file the resignation of On. Scott
Nearing. The Toledo Labor Leader
says:
Professor Scott Nearing will re-
main a member of the faculty of To-
ledo University. This results from
the meeting of the board of trustees
held Tuesday evening at the univer-
sity building.
The session was heated one and
some hard words passed. The vote
to file the letter Of resignation was
five to four. Labor's representatives
voted to retain Nearing.
Trustee Miller later sought to have
Nearing appear in a week to state
his views on patriotism. His resolu-
ton was lost, five to four.
President Stowe made brief talk
in which he advocated that the resig-
nation be filed.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-04-27
ANNUAL CONVENTION CALL

Headquarters of the International
Single Weavers Union of Amer
lea, POP Maynard Building, Seat
tie, Wash, April Is, 1917.
To the Officers and Members of
Local Uions-Greeting:
In pursuance to the constitution,
you are hereby notified that the fiji
teenth annual convention of the In
ternational Single Weavers Union
of America will be held in the Labor
Temple at Everett, Wash, beginning
Monday morning at 10 o'clock, May
81, 1917, and will continue in session
from day to day until the business
of the convention shall have been
completed.
Representation
Subordinate unions are entitled
to representation in the conventions
of the international union according
to the following apportionment, to-
wit:
Locals with one hundred 100)
members or less, two delegates; for
each additional fifty (50) members,
or major fraction thereof, one dele
gate additional. Voting strength of
delegates shall be one vote for each
delegate.
Only members in good standing
are eligible to election as delegates
or alternates to international con-
ventions. Delegates shall hold Of
flee until their successors are elect
ed. Local unions to be entitled to
representation in international con-
ventions shall have their per capita
tax paid up to within sixty (60)
days preceding the date of the con-
vention. This shall not apply to
local unions organized during this
period.
The expense of the attendance of
said delegates to the conventions of
the international union shall be de-
frayed by the subordinate unions
they respectively represent.
The secretary-treasurer shall pre-
pare a roll of the delegates-elect,
and place thereon the names of
those persons and such persons only
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-04-27
ENTERTAINMENT PROGRAM FOR
INTERNATIONAL LABOR DAY

solos, instrumental numbers and APP
propriate recitations.
The refreshments will be in charge
of Mr.. Dan Warner of the Cooks
and Walters Union. This part of
the entertainment promises to be
one of the most important features
of the evenings program. The Meat
Cutters and Butcher Workmen's
Union has volunteered to furnish
sandwiches, another a ham, while a
number of individuals have expressed
their willingness to contribute in
various ways. This spirit of CO.
operation assures us that it will be
a good place for hungry person to
be.
Those wishing to donate anything
in the way of eatables may bring
their contributions the evening of the
entertainment. The committee in
charge would appreciate it if all
such would call White 1872, or Blue
Ats, some time before the event.
AS large crowd is expected, it
will be necessary for as many as
possible to contribute something,
however little, in the way of refresh
ments.
Don't forget the time and place,
Tuesday, May LIST, at o'clock, at
the Labor Temple. Admission is
free and all are welcome.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-04-27

as shall be shown to have been
elected in accordance with the laws
of the international union and sub
ordinate unions. In case of contest,
the names of the parties claiming
election shall be submitted to the
international union for decision.
Where unions have not complied
with the laws of the international
union the names of the delegates
from such unions shall not be sub
mitted.
The president and secretary-treas-
urer of the international union shall
be delegates-at-large to all conven-
tons, with one vote each, but shall
in no case be delegates from local
unions of which they may be men,
bers.
Do not allow favoritism to influ-
ence you in selecting delegates. Be
fully represented. Be represented
by your ablest, most experienced
and faithful members.
Hotel Headquarters
Headquarters during the conven-
ton will be at the Mitchell Hotel,
corner of Hewitt and Lombard Ave-
nues, Everett. This hotel is one
half block from the Labor Temple.
The following special rates have
been obtained: Per room, one occu-
pant, $1.00 per day; per room, two
occupants, $3.50 per day.
Fraternally,
VIM. H. REID,
international Secretary-Treasurer.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-04-27

Complying with the request of
Commissioner TO Agriculture, E. F.
Benson, the Journal has set aside the
space requested for the use of the
committees who have in charge the
production of food staples to meet
the anticipated shortage the coming
year Read the commissioners APP
peal in this issue.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-04-27

A Massachusetts legislative COM
mittee favors a two-platoon system
for municipal firemen. The act is to
apply to communities which accept it
at elections held on petition of Is per
cent of the voters.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-04-27

economic asset-his labor power
the landlord and the capitalist, act
ing up to the same standard Of
patriotism, must be required to sac
rifce their land and capital"
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-04-27

To meet the hoggishness of va
cant land holders in raising rentals
on unused city lots and other par
cells of land the application of the
CONSUMPTION idea might not be a
bad scheme. The man or woman
who would make profit from the
countrys misfortunes is a disgrace
to the flag.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-04-27

Fickertism in San Francisco is not
having such smooth shedding just
now, but the murderbund at the
Golden Gate has the Malta backed
off the map.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-04-27

If any act be more cowardly and
brutal than the acts of the CONNER
cial clubs sheriff and deputies at
Beverly Park on October 80 it was
the firing upon helpless men in the
water at the City Dock on November
5. Such men are not the stuff of
which good soldiers are made.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-04-27

"Big Business" with all it's Little
Tricks" was walloped hard in the
San Diego election held recently,
The good citizens elected Louis j.
Wilde for Mayor over George Mar
ston by a majority of 300.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-04-27

Los Angeles garment workers are
100 per cent organized.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-04-27

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The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-04-27

Kansas City, Mo, has new labor
temple.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-04-27

Trunks, Ladies' Handbags, Leather
Goods and Repairing at Everett
Trunk Factory, 2815 Rockefeller.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-04-27

Try GLUE RIBBON" Cigar, SC.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-11-28
NORW4Y INFESTED
WITH GERMAN SPIES
Many Have Been Caught, Some Sent to
Jail and Others Expelled from
the Country.

Christiania, Nov. 2s.- Correspondence
of the Associated Pres Norway during
the last half of this year has had the
same experience of German methods as
the United States went through before
it entered the war, spies working every
where under the direction of espionage
centres in the neghboring countries,
Sweden and Denmark
Thanks to the work of the police, es-
pecially in Christiania, many of them
have been caught, some sent to jail and
others expelled from the country.
Several mysterious fires in great in.
dustrial plants and storage houses have
aroused country wide suspicion against
every German, Swede and Finn. During
the last half of the year there have been
twenty one such fires here, two or three
occurring together The great store of
provisions in Trondiem belonging to the
British importing agency was burned
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-11-28
GRANITEvILLE.

A meeting of the Red Cross will be
held, in Miles hall Friday afternoon at
80.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-11-28
SINN FEN KETTLE
KEEPS BOILING
Purpose Is Said to Be to Keep the Nerves
of the Government on Edge for
Fear of Some Terrible
Event.

Dublin, Nov. Correspondence OF
the Associated Press) The Sim Fein
agitation continues to steam without
boiling over into actual rebellion. The
purpose of the Sim Feiners is alleged to
be to keep nerves of the government on
edge, to produce the impression that they
mediate very dreadful deeds, and at
suitable moments to provoke the govern
ment action as an evidence that England
is holding down Ireland by force. Their
notion is said to be that the military
measures taken against them prejudice
England in neutral countries, and in Rus
STA.
The attitude of the military comman
ders is that it is their business to check
anything that could facilitate another
armed revolt The last time they were
caught mapping and besides, incurred a
formidable list of casualties in killed
pay three million pounds because it was
obliged to admit responsibility for the
failure to protect the lives and property
of peaceful citizens. They are resolved
that that shall not happen again. That
is why they have forbidden drilling, or
uniforms, or professions.
"A disciplined DOuy Oh HleH marching
in military formation, and trained to the
word of command, even if armed only
with hurleys, could outmaster any local
police fo.ce and control any town. Hence
such professions are prohibited. To-day
there were to be Sim Fem national pa
rades in uniform all over ireland with
a great meeting in the neighborhood of
the Curragh camp! That has been pre-
vented.
The military. authorities are particu
larry keen on preventing the acquisition
of arms. The Sim Feiners main hope of
getting arms is not from Germany but
from the British army, and there is
constant activity to steal or purchase
arms from individual soldiers.
For the pre- ent the government is in
the position that through the conven-
tion it is offering the Irish people home
rule. But the convention drags along
without coming to decision. If it |
should not form a plan of government |
Ireland will be left where it was at the |
beginning, with the knowledge that there !
can be home rule for twenty-six coun- !
ties, and that Belfast will not come in !
and cannot be forced in The situation
then would be that the government /
would be obliged to suppress the Sim
Feiners.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-11-28

with loss of several million dollars.
1t proved to be of incendary origin.
Two canning plants with great exports
for Great Britain were burned, and a
condensed milk plant with exclusive ex-
port trade to England was destroyed
with more than million cans ready for
shipment.
Three planning mills in different parts
of the country were burned. Their out
put was being used for boxes and crates
for export. The other day another plan
ing mill in the vicinity of the govern
ment's fire-arm mandatory at Kongs-
berg was burned during the night and
while attention was directed toward this
fire burglar was detected in the fire.
arm factory. The press states that Ger
man plotters in this cause tried to blow
up the government factory.
Foreigners have sought and in some
cases obtained employment at the gov
eminent munition plant, and later have
been discovered to be German citizens,
some of them even officers in the German
army.
The press is warning the people to look
for criminal spy in every German in the
country.
In order to keep such undesirable
guests out of the country and prevent
the increasing number of foreigners of
a poor quality from drifting into Nor
way, short bill was passed by Parlia-
ment forbidding foreigners who have ar
rived since August, 1914, to stay here
more than two weeks without special
license.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-11-28
TO INCREASE FARM EFFICIENCY.
That Is Purpose of Agricultural Exten-
sion School in Washington.

i. II. Loveland county agent OF Orange
county, has sent out the following state
ment concerning the agricultural extern
sion school to be held in the village OF
Washington from Dec. 3 to Dec. 8:
Are YOU interested in increasing the
efficiency of your farm and home in this
year of war, high price and labor short
age? If So the extension school in agri'
culture and home economics in Washing
ton Dec. 3S gives you this opportunity.
This extension school is five day con-
ference held by the Vermont agricultural
extension service in cooperation with
the Orange County Farm bureau and the
Washington grange. The session will be-
gin Monday afternoon, Dec, 3, and con-
tinue mornings and afternoons until Fri
day afternoon, including Wednesday
evening. The agricultural session will
be held in the school hall, the home eco
Monies session in Odd Fellows hall.
The agricultural work will be taken up
by talks, demonstrations, and confer
ences of the ways and means by which
we can handle our dairy herds, our 9th
er live stock, our crops and our general
farm management to get more profitable
results and do our bit for our country
with increased production,
The home economics lectures win take
up in a similar way the selection of
foods, the handling Of our household to
save labor and expense, increase health.
and conserve foodstuifs for our boys and
allies across the water.
Both the county agent and home dem
agent will be present ready
to develop plans for future organization
and work in your community.
The schools have been held for the last
four years in different towns of Orange
county with great interest and success.
| believe you will find it well worth
your time to be present at as many ses-
sions as possible of the school at Wash
lngton. 1t is an opportunity which win
not come again soon to the community.
Please urge your neighbors to be pres
ent also.
Hoping to see you in Washington Dec.
}-S. L. II. Loveland, county agent.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-11-28
K4ISER'S PUBLICISTS
BELI1TLE AMERICA
Seek to Make German People Believe
Yankees Can't
Fight.

Amsterdam, Nov. 2s.--The German
press is beginning to figure on bow eff
fectiye Americas fighting men will be
according to papers received here yester-
day.
Apparently the German government
has started its propaganda machine at
work to make the public believe that the
United States isn't efficient German
papers contain lengthy articles by ex.
perts attempting to belittle the Ameri-
cans as fighters.
Dr. Dernburg, once head of the Ger.
man propaganda in the United States,
spoke recently at Karlsruhe, declaring
ii was doubtful whether America
would be able to supply any large num-
Der of troops at any time soon.
''The aims of America and the en-
tente are Incompatible he added
America rejected their ideas of a trade
war and their plan to smash Germany
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-11-28
A 75o-MILE PIPELINE
Will Conduct Oil from Rumania Wells
Into Austria.

Amsterdam, Netherlands, Nov 2s.-A
pipeline $50 miles long is about to be
laid, according to a German automobile
journal, between Ploesti, Rumania, and
oderberg. on the Austro- German from
tier. This pipeline viii convey oil di-
rect from the Rumanian wells through
out the entire width of the Austro- Hun
garian monarchy to the very door of the
industrial districts of German Silesia. At
present, railroad freight run up the price
of 900 marks for ten tons at the well
mouth 10 5000 marks at the German
frontier. BY the projected pipeline the
cost of transportation is to be reduced
10 only 30 marks for the same quantity
The estimated outlay for constructing
the lines Is fifteen million marks.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-11-28
TRIBUTE TO AIRMEN.
Premier Lloyd George Called Them
"Chivalry of the Army"

London, Nov 2s.--"The Chivalry of the
Army" was the title bestowed upon the
British air forces by Premier Lloyd
George in a tribute he paid to them in a
recent speech in the House of Commons.
The premier was moving vote of
thanks to the British armies and navy.
OF the aviation service he said
THE heavens are their battlefields,
they are the cavalry of the clouds. High
above the squalor and the mud, so high
in the armament that they are not visi-
bic from earth, they fight out the eternal
issues of right and wrong Their strug
giles there by day and night are like a
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-11-28
ALLIES TO IGNORE TRUCE.
ENJOYS in Russia to Treat Trotzky Note
as If II Had Not Been Received.

London, Nov. 2s.-The Times Petro-
grad correspondent saws he has learned
from an authentic source that there was
a meeting Of the foreign ambassadors at
the American embassy Friday night. at
which It was decided 10 ignore the note
Of Leon Trotzky. the Bolsheviki foreign
minister, demanding an armistice. Il
was decided, the correspondent adds, TO
treat the note as if il had not been re
ceived.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-11-28
MUST STAND
OR BE SHOT
Orders Applying to Those
Who Resist Capture in
Barred Zones
WILL APPLY TO
ALL u. S. PORTS
Aliens Who Trespass Will
Be in Danger of
Death

Washington, Nov 2s.-Guarding OF
waterfronts by police and troops as be-
gun in New York will be extended to all
ports in the United States under the
terms of the presidents alien enemy
proclamation. The extension will be
made as fast as arrangements can be
perfected.
1t was said yesterday there is no in
tention of declaring martial law in such
zones in the generally accepted sense of
the term. Aliens in such territory, how
ever, who resist capture win be shot on
sight.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-11-28

cry record is an epic. They are the
knights OF the war, without fear and
without reproach. They recall the old
legend of chivalry, not merely by the
power of their individual exploits, but
by the nobility of their spirit, and among
the multitude of heroes we must contin-
uously thank the chivalry of the army"
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-11-28
GERMAN STAFF OFFICERS
ADVISING LEVINE
The Entente Allies Are Being Sold Out
BY the Bolsheviki
Crowd,

London, Nov. 2S.-Information was re.
ceived here yesterday from Petrograd
that a number of German staff officers
have arrived there and are acting in an
advisory capacity to Nikolai Lenine the
Bolsheviki premier.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-11-28
AMERICAN STEAMSHIP
ACTION TORPEDOED
Twenty-0ne Survivors Landed at Port
Camarinas, Spanish Dis
patch Saws,

London, Nov. 2S.-The American
steamship Aet@on was torpedoed on Sun.
day dispatch from Cormna, Spain, re-,
ports Twenty one survivors have ar
rived at Port Camarinas. Three boats
with the remainder of the crew are miss
ing.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-11-28

Miltonic conflict between the winged
hosts of light and darkness.
They fight the foe high up and they
fight him low down, they skim like
swallows along the ground, attacking
armed men in their trenches. They scat
ter infantry on the march and destroy
conveys. Every flight is romance, ev-
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-11-28
ROB PAYMAsTER OF $4,000.
Six Men Jump from Auto and Hold Up
Brewery of5eizl

Toledo. NOV. 2S-SiN men jumped
from an automobile Yesterday. beat An.
ton Comes. paymsster 81 the Heuhneg
Brewing company. ard escaped with 81 +
CO n cash and cheeks.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-08-27
INSTANCE HOW STATE
CENSUS PROVED VALUE
British Recruiting Office is Furnished
With Fifteen Hundred Names

The files of the Maryland State
Census Bureau were made use of un-
expectedly and the possibility of their
future usefulness to the state was
demonstrated when the British re-
cruiting office in Baltimore was fur
nlshed with typewriter list of all
British subjects residing in Baltimore
and adjacent territory, which list
showed names, addresses (street and
wards) and ages. They were further
separated as between England, Ireland,
Scotland, Wales, Canada, India and
British West Indies.
II is interesting to note that while
the statistical data from the census
enrollments had not then been fully
tsbulated and the request was such
that could not have been anticipated,
yet the typewriter information was
furnished within IL hours after re-
quest had been made, the total British
subjects numbering about $500.
As the Maryland census included all
msles above the age of 16 years. the
tabulated statistics will eventually be
put to various important uses.