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The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-03-23
ADAMSON LAW is
CONSTITUTIONAL

The Supreme Court of the United
States handed down a decision declar-
ing the Adamson law constitutional
last Monday, reversing Federal Judge
Hooks ruling in the Missouri, Okla
homa and Gulf railroad test case, en-
joining enforcement of the Adamson
act and holding it Unconstitutional,
null and void"
The decision was read by Chief JUS
tice White with Justices McKenna,
Clarke, BrandJis and Holmes con-
curing and Justices Pitney, Day, Nc
Reynolds and Vandeventer dissenting.
This may be regarded as coincident-
al with the agreement signed between
the railroad managers and brother
hoods earlier in the day.
This decision establishes the power
of Congress to regulate hours, wages
and working conditions, and it is also
a tremendously long stride in the di-
rection of a universal 8-hour day.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-03-23
TRADE COMMISSION
FIXES PAPER PRICES

The Federal Trade Commission,
acting unofficially, has fixed the
price of white print paper at $3.50
per 100 lbs, which is nearly 100 per
cent above the cost of production
and nearly 400 per cent less than
what the trust was charging.
Of course the Federal Trade Com
mission had no authority to do this
but did it on request of the paper
manufacturers who were about to be
indicted for violation of the antitrust
and interstate commerce laws.
The trust magnates chose this
method of avoiding trial and almost
certain conviction with Imprisonment
and heavy fines. The greedy do get
good sometimes.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-03-23

troduced during the year 1917-too
damned many!
A legislature of fifteen members as
proposed by Senator Cornwell would
feel the weight of it's responsibility
and could be trusted to make the laws
clear and to shovel out of the stat
utes the vast accumulation Of mud
with which they are encumbered.
The Journal suggests that central
councils and trade unions devote a
little of their time to the serious con-
sideration of Senator Cornwells bill.
Don't say there's no use, it will new
err pass" things have come to pass
you never dreamed of, and if this
one-house legislature of few members
comes to be discussed generally by
labor and civic organizations they will
hammer it into shape so it will pass.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-03-23
TOO MUCH LAW"

It has become an adage in this
country that we have "too much
law" We do not have to "stop, look
and listen" very long nor scarcely
think at all to realize the truth of
the saying. Not only the laymen
but the lawyers recognize it.
So eminent a jurist as Hon.
Stephen J. Chadwick of the Wash
ington Supreme Bench, made this
very clear in his address to the
Seventh Convention of Washington
Municipalities in this city last Octo-
Der 18th to 14th). The judge said:
Eve have more statutes than we
should have with reference to munich
pal corporations, in fact, we have
more law of all kinds than we ought
to have. l have seen it asserted re-
Gently that within the last five years
something like forty thousand stat
ues have been passed in his country.
No session Of a legislature in the
United States has been allowed to
pass without changes, bills, and new
acts. No man can now say what the
law is. The attorney who is consult
ed, no matter how learned he may
be, does not know what the law is
until a test case has been made and
brought to the court. No question
comes up of any Importance in NUM-
cipal affairs without some test case
being brought to the courts. The Su-
perior Judge does not know what the
law is, so he sends it up to the Su-
preme Court, and the Supreme Court
does not know what the law is until
after the next legislature has met. l
think that is the state of the law,
and then they begin it all over again"
It would seem from the above
that our legislative system needs
reformation. At least one member
Of the Washington Legislature has
suggested a remedy for the evil Fol
lowing is the proposition:
"OLYMPIA, Jan. ga one-house
legislature Of fifteen members who
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-03-23
COULDN'T DO THIS
IN OLD MEXICO

COLUMBUS, O., March 1O.-The
Pennsylvania railroad has not sue
ceeded in holding score of Mexican
laborers shipped from Waco, Texas,
to Barberton, near here. A beautiful
picture of shower baths, clean rooms,
good meals and an opportunity to
attend school has been dispelled by
rate of $3.50 day, dirty hunks,
no baths, no night schools and an
exorbitant rate for meals.
The MeXicans have refused to work
under these conditions and the state
industrial commission is investigat-
ing their grievance.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-03-23

shall meet annually is proposed IN a
bill by SENATOR Cornwell, which was
introduced in the senate this morn
ing.
THE bill proposes an amendment
to the state constitution, recasting
the provisions for the use of the
peoples power to initiate and refer
bills and changing completely the
present system of apportioning rep
resentation in the legislature.
at is required that a census Of the
state be taken in 1925, after which
there shall be a new apportionment.
Until the new census is taken the rep
resentation in the legislature will be
three members from each of the five
congressional districts.
"In 1920 the fifteen members will
be elected for terms of two, four and
six years, and every two years there
after one-third of the legislature will
be elected.
Members of the legislature will
receive $4,000 a year salary and they
are required to meet annually"
Our legislatures are too large and
unwieldy. Too many members think
they are elected for the sole purpose
of making laws. The new member
begins to find out about the time the
legislature adjourns what he is there
for and he has a vote which he didn't
know how to use for the benefit Of
the majority of the voters who elect
ed him. The salary he receives does
not pay him for living in Olympia
during a legislature session. He feels
sponsibility to his constituents very
lightly, knowing they are forgiving
or so utterly Indifferent to their own
interests that they don't seem to care
how much harm the legislature does
them.
Under Senator Cornwell's scheme
it would be different. There would
be only fifteen men responsible to
the people, paid an adequate salary,
who would soon make a business-a
science of legislation. They would
have plenty of time to enact, repeal
and amend laws, to the desired end
that we would have fewer statutes
and better ones.
There are forty-eight state legisla-
lures in the United States. Washing
ton has one of them in which there
We're about 721 bills introduced. Let
us suppose there were introduced in
the other legislatures a like num-
Der, then there were 34,608 laws in
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-03-23
"THEY CAN'T HANG
ME, CAN THEY?''

Was the question asked of the
Sheriff by John Vandell last Monday,
when he was convicted of the murder
of E. W. Olson, late chairman of the
Industrial Insurance Commission.
The sheriff assured him that CAPT
tai punishment had been abolished in
Washington.
Life Imprisonment! And Vandell
still clings to life. The greatest
punishment that could be given him,
and he deserves it.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-03-23
BATTLE OF TRUTH
AND FALSEHOOD

The conviction of Billings and
Mooney for the bomb tragedy in San
Francisco, was effected by the most
questionable methods ever known in
a court of justice. One man SEN
fenced to life imprisonment and an
other condemned to death on the
testimoy of prostitutes, pimps, dope
fiends and proven perjurers, is
pretty picture to look upon.
Notwithstanding the statements of
reputable witnesses since the trial,
Mooney was unable to secure a re-
hearing. The Chamber of Commerce
and the United Railroads thirst for
his unon blood and they loudly de-
mand their pound of flesh.
But the labor of a continent is
aroused and demands a fair deal
for the two men convicted and the
two men and one woman to be tried.
Money is needed to do this, and
the advertisement for the "Frame-up
Booklet" in this paper will show you
the way to contribute. Read it and
give from 10 cents up to the cause
of justice.
Israel Weinberg, a union carpenter,
will be the next one of the five to
come to trial. The International
Workers Defense League, composed
of forty-four San Francisco unions,
asks you for badly needed funds to
conduct the defense.
"The adverse verdicts in the Bill
ings and Mooney cases have thor
oughly aroused labor all over the
country. Here in San Francisco the
accredited Union Labor delegates to
the Defense League have increased
100 per cent.
"The Central Federated Union of
New York, has demanded a Federal
investigation of the bogus plots,
about in the Mooney trial
by Prosecutor Cunha.
"Such representative labor men as
Daniel J. Murphy, President of the
California State Federation of Labor,
Paul Scharrenberg, Secretary of the
same organization and editor of the
Coast Seamen's Journal; George
Tracy, President of the San Francis
co Typographical Union; and Frank
P. Walsh, chairman of the Industrial
Relations Committee, have given
whole-hearted support to the theory
of innocence of the defendants.
"Hon. w. Bourke Cochran ad-
dressed huge protest meeting in
Carnegie Hall, New York, Wednes-
day, March IA. He will speak at
another meeting in Chicago on Sun
day, the 25th inst. Wherever labor
meetings are held in large centers,
the brilliant attorney will be found.
the monstrous death verdict passed
upon Tom Mooney has stirred every
drop of fighting Celtic blood in his
veins, ana ne VIII not rest content
until it has been reversed.
"By a vote of forty to four, the
Salt Lake City Federation of Labor
has endorsed the principle of a ma
tional strike, as a protest against the
convictions of Billings and Mooney.
"Many central labor bodies have
approved the suggestion of the Ala
media Central Labor Council and the
Building Trades Council, that a La
Dor Jury sit in the Weinberg and
remaining trials.
"These are a few of the activities
of Organized Labor all over the
country"
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-03-23
PRINCESS

Marguerite Clark's host of admirers
will be delighted with "The Fortunes
of Fiji" her latest Famous Players
work. She simply will not have a
fortune and buys expensive gowns,
hats, furniture, even dogs to get rid
of it.
This film is a praiseworthy addition
to Miss Clark's list of delightful
screen successes.
At the Princess Sunday and Mon
day.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-03-23

witnesses ("citizen deputies"). All
so far agree that the first shot came
from the Verona There has been an
actual admission that something hap
pened at Beverly Park and there will
be more of it.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-03-23
TO CLOSE AT 8 p. M.
ON SATURDAYS

The Meat Cutters and Butcher
Workmen started an agitation for the
closing of shops at 9 p. m. on Satur-
day evenings. Wednesday, E. R. Ad-
ans, F. Bausmann, Ben Westmoreland
and Otto johnson, constituting COM
mittee of the meat men, called a meet
ing of merchants to consider the mat
ter of looping one hour off Saturday
nights. The meeting was held in the
rooms of the Merchants Association
Wednesday evening and an agreement
reached to close the stores at o'clock
instead of at 10 as heretofore.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-03-23
Germ, you have avoided a national

Germ, you have avoided a national
calamity.
eve would be delinquent in true
sense of gratitude if we failed to ex-
press our sincerest appreciation of
the action you have taken. We trust
that it promises long period of
hearty cooperation between the rail-
road arrangements and their en-
ployes."
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-03-23
EXTRA SESSION

President Wilson has called the
Congress to meet in extra session on
April 2 at noon, "to receive q com
munication concerning grave matters
of national policy which should be
taken Immediately under considera-
ton"
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-03-23
i" SlgnedJ
FRANKLIN X. LANE,
"W. B. WILSON,
DANIEL WILLARD,
SAMUEL GOMPERS."

The committee sent the following
letter to Elisha Lee, chairman of the
conference committee of the rail
roads:
Plan Accepted
"We are in receipt of your favor
of this date, placing in our hands
for immediate adjustment the mat
ter of the differences between your
committee and the railroad brother
hoods.
"We have brought this letter be-
fore the brotherhoods with the state
ment that in our judgment it was ad-
visable to put into effect the pro-
visions of the Adamson law whether
it be held valid or otherwise. This
was acceptable to them. Thus by
your own action, urged thereto by
the highest reasons of national con-
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-03-23

The /. w. w. trial in Seattle is
dragging it's slow length along. The
trial commenced on the 5th of March
and may be said to have just com
menced. There has been some con-
testimony by the states
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-03-23
If Unconstitutional

eve next sought some adjustment
that would be effective should the
law be held unconstitutional. In this
regard many propositions were made
to both sides until the railroads ex-
pressed a willingness to place the
whole matter in the hands of the
committee. This action proceeded as
the letter of the railway managers
states, from a desire to demonstrate
to the country that the railroads
would not allow their own concep-
ton of railroad policy to stand in
the way of the fullest use of the
roads at a time of severe national
strain.
"The committee considered the
matter and decided that in view of
the action of congress in passing the
Adamson law and the necessity for
immediate action, that it was best
to adopt at once the memorandum
agreement of the previous day as APP
plicable under all conditions. Then
the provisions of the eight-hour law,
by agreement between the roads and
the men became the basis of the set
Element and whether the supreme
court holds for the validity of the
law or against it, there will be no
strike.
UlC;mpadl
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-03-23
RAILWAY STRIKE
Is .AVERTED

The 10Th of March will be long re-
membered for the remarkable hap
penings affecting the conditions of
railway employees in particular and
labor in general.
The most remarkable conference to
settle wages and conditions of labor
ever held in the world took place on
that date.
The conference was between four
great railroad brotherhoods with w.
G. Lee as spokesman, the railway
companies of the United States with
Elisha Lee as spokesman and COM
mittee of mediation appointed by
President Wilson, constituted as fol-
lows Secretary of the Interior Lane,
Secretary of Labor Wilson, Daniel
Willard and Samuel Gompers, presi-
dent of the American Federation of
Labor.
After long and anxious hours of
elaboration the railway managers
through Elisha Lee, their spokesman,
announced that through motives of
patriotism the railroads conceded the
demands of the brotherhoods.
The agreement was signed at 5:15
a. m. The rising sun was touching
the tops of neighboring skyscrapers
as the conference arose from it's COM
pleted labors, when w. H. Carter,
of the Firemen and Enginemen, look
ing out of window exclaimed
"Why, look out there! It's the
dawn of a new day"
The Council Statement
The mediation negotiations and
their result are summed up in the
following statement issued at 6
o'clock by the committee from the
Council of National Defense:
eve desire to express our appre-
citation of the large and patriotic ac-
ton of the railway managers COM
mittee which has put beyond perad-
venture the possibility of nation
wide railroad strike. The railroads
have met the full demand of the Ad-
amson eight-hour law. This conces-
sion was secured as the elimination
of two days and nights of negotia-
TONS
"Our effort was to secure a post
ponement of the strike which was
fixed for Saturday night. This post
ponement was secured by presenting
to the railway managers memoran-
dunn agreement drafted by the broth
erhoods which, with some particu-
larity, expressed the provisions of
the Adamson law. We asked the rail-
roads to agree that if the Adamson
law was held to be constitutional
that this construction and applica-
ton would be given to it.
"The railways agreed to this at a
joint session between the brotherhood
chiefs and the managers. And with
much difficulty the chiefs stayed the
strike, an act that was vital to the
success of our efforts at further
mediation.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-03-23

The fav0rite smoke is the "San Rey'
Havana cigar.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-03-23

Patronize YOUR Advertisers.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1917-01-19
BRAINS SOON TO BE
BOUGHT ON MARKET

st. Louis, Mo-, January iG.-Ditch
diggers, possessed % nothing more
than cast-iron stomachs or sound
hearts. may go rolling around IN
limouisines In the near future AMI
have eggs for breakfast every day.
Dyspeptic billionaircs may equip
themselves with brand-new stomachs,
warranted to- stand New Years
eve every night in the year. by she'll
ing out few sheckels.
Thick headed sons of the rich may
acquire Thomas A. Edison brains as
Christmas gifts by dispensing with =
years allowance at college.
DIR. William Sadler. of Chicago,
speaking at gathering in East St.
Louis. brought these words of cheer
to the poor and rich. Such progress
has been made toward transplanting
human organs, said the doctor, that
in the near future wealthy persons
will take mortgages on the stOmachs,
brains, hearts, etc, of poor but
healthy men. and foreclose when the
mortgagors die.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1917-01-19
Notice In Bankruptcy.

In the District Court of the Unit
ed States for the western district OF
Kentucky.
In the matter of Dundee Mercan.
tile Company. Bankrupt. in Bank
ruptcy.
To the creditors of Dundee Mer-
camille Company. of Dundee. in the
county of Ohio and district aforesaid.
bankrupt.
Notice il hereby given that on the
9Th day of January. A. ID. 1917. the
said Dundee Mercantile Company was
duly adjudicated bankrupt, and that
the first meeting OF creditors will be
held at the law Office of Dean q Dean.
in Greensboro, Kentucky. on the 26th
day of January, A. d.. 1917. at 2 p
m, at which time the said creditors
may attend. prove their claims. ap-
point trustee. examine the Bank
rupt and transact such other bust
ness AZ may properly come before
said meeting.
Petition filed December 5th, 1916.
j. A. DEAN.
Referee in Bankruptcy.
Greensboro. KY, Jan. 18th, 1917.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1917-01-19
FEDERATION BACKS LABOR
ANTI-PROHIBITIO LEAGUE

greensboro, KY, Jan. 16--The
kentucky State Federation of Labor
went on record to-day indorsing a
resolution adopted by the Kentucky
Labor AUTHORIZATION League de-
handing that distillers and wholesale
liquor concerns recognize organized
labor. II the request Is denied sep
aration of the brewing interests from
that of the distillers will be ask
ed.
Delegate Max Traut read tele-
gram from Typographical Union. No.
10. Louisville, protesting against the
State Federation of Labor taking
definite action on the question at
this time.
The session will come to a close
tomorrow with the election of Off
GERS and the naming of the next
meeting place. Ashland will prob
ably be chosen as the meeting place
for 1918.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1917-01-19
GEORGE w. BUNGFR
DIES VERY SUDDENL>

Mr.. George Winfield Bunger fei'
dead Saturday morning aNOnt seveu
o'clock in the kitchen of his home
on Clay street. Due to his mature
age he had been feeble for som,
'ime hut had not suffered from hear
trouble until the fatal attack came
Mr.. Burger was one of the best
'nown citizens of Ohio county an
would have been So years old l.
June. He came from Elizabethtowr
at the age of Is. and later married
Miss Jane White who, with one
daughter, Miss Mary Bunger, sur
vive.
The deceased was known as a fear
less man and several times risked hi
own life acting as peacemaker. III
was at one time deputy sheriff o.
Ohio county.
Rev. r. ID. Bennett conducted fun
eral services at the Baptist church
Sunday afternoon after which the re
mains were inferred In lakewood.
Hartford Lodge No. 675. Masons, had
5ha sc Of the burial.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1917-01-19
Uncle Abb Chapman Dead.

Absalom Chapman, one OF our old
est citizens, passed away at eight
O'Clock on Tuesday evening, Jan. 8,
1917, after an illness of several
months OF kidney trouble incident
70 old age. Uncle Abb, as he was
Familiarity known. was born June "a,
1888, and had been married twice.
His first wife was Miss Mary Anna
Brown; to their union was born five
children, four OF whom survive;
Mrs. p. ii. Hobby. James Nc, Mrs.
Richard Hobby and William Bailey
Chapman. His wife Anna Brown.
died Sept. 10, 1868. On May IS.
1870, Uncle Abb married Miss Juda
Loney and this union was blessed
with the following living children:
Ellis. Mrs. John Carter. John H..
Mrs. Leslie Chinn. Henry L., Charles
A. and Mrs. Phociap Wade. Aunt
Juda. his second wife, died juno 6,
1909.
Uncle Abb united with the Bap-
fist church at West Providence nj
the age OF 20 years and Lived a con
slant christian life. He having ox-
pressed 10 his family physician, Or.
J. s. Smith, with whom be talked
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1917-01-19
Bad Habits.

Those who breakfast at eight
o'clock or later, lunch at twelve and
have dinner at six are almost certain
to be troubled with indigestion. They
do not allow time for one meal &c
digest before taking another. Mo-
less than five hours should elapst
between meals. If you are trouble,
with indigestion correct your habit,
and take Chamberlain's Tablets, an
you may reasonably hope for quicl
recovery. These tablets strengthen
the stomach and enable it to per
form its functions naturally. Oh
tainable everywhere. Il
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1917-01-19

Billy" the faithful collie, who
has for many years called himself n
member of the family of DR.. Il. b.
Pendleton. has passed away. AS a
neighbor puts it, "he was the friend
of the little girls and dreaded enc
my of the midnight prowler." But
BILLY" has still greater honor. II
was he who gave the alarm when the
school building burned here a few
years ago. Barking loudly he ran
from one place to another until his
master was awakened and appear
ed to learn the cause of the uneasi-
ness of his pet. The cause was not
long in doubt for the building next
door was in flames and had the col
lie not given the alarm it is very
likely that DR.. Pendleton's house
would also have caught. BY this act
he won a warm place in the hearts
of the Pendleton household and the
death by poisoning has caused re-
greet.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1917-01-19

Mr.. A. w. Logan, Judge John n.
Wilson, Mrs. II. p. Taylor. X. X.
Riley and others have been feeding
the birds during the bad weather.
On the grounds of Judge Wilson.
where they are fed, can be seen az
many as twenty-five Kentucky car
dinals, red, gray and other species
of winter birds. Mrs. n. p. Taylor
has about as many and on the
grounds of MIR. Logan can be seen
doves, cardinals, jays and others gal
ly feeding. At brush pile in the
rear several hundred doves, quail
and other species gather regularly
for their meals. Those adopting the
plan are urging that others join
them.