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The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-11-30
ORGANIZED LABOR AND FARMERS
URGED TO COMBINE INTEREST
Towney Nonparan League President Makes Plea to Amer
can Federation of Labor-Denounces Profeers

sorbed the difference" | want to
ask you now: How you got that
money!"
Laughter and Shouts of "NO"
Answered Him
Mr.. Townley then asked if the
workers got the money that dis
appeared when harvesting machines
which cost $25 to produce were sold
to the farmer for $225 and again he
was greeted with shouts of mo"
"No, hardly think so either" re-
piled Mr.. Townley. 81 think most
of this money goes to the men who
work the worker and farm the
farmer and it will continue going
to them unless we organize to pre-
vent it"
Townley Questioned After Speech
Mr.. Townley got an enthusiastic
ovation and after the conclusion of
his speech scores of delegates crowd
ed about him asking him questions
about the farmers movement. eff
you are as much interested in TAX
ing care of your surplus as we are
in taking care of ours, we can get
together all right" said one dele
gate and this sentiment was gen
orally approved
Two resolutions, one requesting the
United States government to take
over and operate the flour milling
industry "at the earliest possible
moment in order that the milling
autocracy, which for years has ex-
plotted the workers of the city and
the producers of the country, be con-
Quoted for the benefit of the people,"
and the other asking that the labor
unions of North Dakota cooperate
with the National Non-partisan
League were introduced after his
speech.
The American Federation of Labor
by an overwhelming majority also
decided to take a more direct and
active interest in political affairs
and to hold its annual convention in
June, before political conventions
meet, instead of waiting until No
vember, after the# elections are held.
The address of President Town
ley is really epochal in way, for
it is the first time that the Amer
lean Federation of Labor, the great
est labor organization in the world,
has been invited to cooperate with
the farmers and this invitation was
extended by the head of the largest
farm organization in the world.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-11-30
LABOR AND THE LAND

Organized farmers and organized
wage earners are fast coming to
realization that they are common
sufferers from our system of land
tenure. In California another strong
coalition of farmer and wage Garner
has just been formed under the
name of the California Union of
Producers and Consumers. Mr.
Paul Scharrenberg, secretary-treas-
urer of the State Federation of La
Dor and a member of the State I'M
migration and Housing Commission,
is secretary of the new organiza-
ton. In an editorial in the Coast
Seamen's Journal, of which he is
editor, Mr.. Scharrenberg points out
that the new organization can serve
both farmers and wage earners by
working for reform of taxation,
exempting improvements from taxa
tion and placing more of the tax
burden upon privilege and big in
terests," and for "land for the land
less; government aid and encourage
ment in opening land to any per-
son able and willing to cultivate it;
this to include taking land from
speculators and the reclamation of
uncultivated land"
Mr.. Scharrenberg is one of the
best executive officers serving state
federations of labor in the country.
And he is also the most ardent
champion, among labor men, of the
taxation of land values as a remedy
of our economic ills and the best
means of achieving economic free
dom. The Public.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-11-30

study reports that 1860 per cent of
the employees received less than Is
cents an hour. This last is the
group of the unskilled. In the
steel industry per cent Of the
workers earned less than IA cents
per hour, and 20 per cent under Is
cents"
While the latest available Govern
ment figures used by DR.. Parker are
for several years back, it is to be
remembered that the Department of
Labor record show that the cost of
living has since risen faster than
wages.
''The Federal immigration Com
missions report of 1910 announced
that not one of the twelve basic
industries paid the average head of
family within one hundred dollars
year of the minimum for family
subsistence and that two thirds Of
the twelve industries paid the fam
ily head less than five hundred and
fifty dollars year. Professor Fank-
furter's brief before the Supreme
Court in the minimum wage case,
(1916) alleges that half of the wage
earners' families in the United States
have an income below that needed
for adequate subsistence. To quote
the authoritative research of War
ren and Sydenstricker of the Fed
eral Public Health Service In the
principal industries, fully one-fourth
of the adult male workers who are
heads of families earned less than
81, 200, one-half earned less than
5000, and less than one-tenth earned
as much as $1,000 year.
an reference to the even more
vital statistics of total family in
come, these two investigators say;
The conclusion is also indicated that
one in every ten or twelve work
ing class families had at the time
of the investigation, (1912-1914 an
annual income of less than $500 a
year, that nearly third had in
comes of less than $500, and over
half of the families had incomes of
less than $3.50 year."
In conclusion DR.. Parker quotes
these words written by President
Woodrow Wilson in 1913:
Don't you know that some man
with eloquent tongue, who did not
care for the nation, could put this
whole country into a flame? Don't
you know that this country from
one end to the other believes that
something is wrong? What an op-
portunity it would be for some man
without conscience to spring up and
say: This is the way! Follow mel
and lead in paths of destruction.
We are in a temper to reconstruct
economic society as we were once
in a temper to reconstruct political
society"
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-11-30
ARE OPPOSED TO MILITARISM;
FAVOR PEACE ON WILSON'S TERMS

Reichstag Peace resolution of July
10, calling for peace without
forced acquisitions of territory" and
without political, economic and fl
nancial violations;" witnea the
strikes, riots and mutnies through
which the German people have eX-
pressed their discomfort at the fail
ure of their governments to act in
the spirit of that resolution. We
hold that our Government should
welcome, in unmistakeable terms,
every sign Of democratic strength in
Germany, to the end that the Ger
man people may be encouraged in
all attempts to establish a gov
ernment responsible to them.
Discussion of Peace Terms
Only if the German people are as
sured that the Allies are not fight
ing for selfish imperialist aims are
they likely to attempt democratic or
revolutionary movements during the
war We must convince Germany
that we are not fighting to destroy
her national integrity or take away
her territory, that we are the enc
mics Of German aggression but the
friends Of a German democracy. For
this reason we believe that discus
sion of war aims and peace terms
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-11-30
DIFFERENCE IN
CIVILIZATIONS

The following paragraphs are TAX
en- from a Wheeler syndicate letter
by VIM. Allen White, once Embassa-
dor to Germany, than whom no one
knows the ruling class of Germany
better:
"The civilization of the allies is
based essentially upon fellowship, hu-
manity, brotherhood. The German
civilization is based esst ntially upon
materialistic philosophy which
holds that might makes right, and
has no other tenet modifying that
conclusion. And the awful vanity
of Germany molding that philosophy
in it's heart and pushing that phil
osophy upon humanity ruthlessly
with scientific frightfulness is the
whole reason for the war.
eve are dealing with a new kind
of creature. The Germany which
turned its back upon Heine and Schil
Ter and Goethe and Beethoven and
followed the Prussians to the logical
end of the materialistic philosophy
of force, stands with its back to
the wall and will live or die for its
creed. If it lives, that creed will
go. uber allies and Christianity will
fail in the world"
Deutschland uber allies" be
Il,
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-11-30
COMPETITION IN
RED CROSS SEAL SALES

Unanimously accepting the chal-
lenge of Red Cross Seal leaders in
West Virginia, Kentucky, Nebraska
and other states in the same popu-
lation group for leadership in the
interstate competition for the Ma
tional Pennant, Washington work
ers are bending every energy to
place Red Cross Seals in every COM
munity in the state. The pennant
will be awarded to the state max
ing the highest per capita sale.
Three million seals have been as
signed to Washington, which means
that every man, women and child
in responsible for at least two seals.
Washington now occupies fifth place
among the 16 states, grouped ac-
cording to population. Place her
at the top. Agents are needed at
once. Volunteers are being recruit
ed from every walk of life to take
part in this great national campaign.
Inc sale opens December ISL, CLOS
ing December 22nd Every one
can render patriotic service by help
ing finance the campaign against
tuberculosis. Red Cross Seals cost
only a penny each and are the Lib
erty Bonds" of this war Place one
on each letter and package and
show the world that Washington
is taking the first line trenches
against tuberculosis.
Write for seals today. Address
the Washington Association for the
Prevention and Relief of Tuber-
culosis, GIG Cobb Building, Seattle,
Washington.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-11-30
AMERICAN INDUSTIALISM DOES
NOT MAKE MEN PATRIOTIC

NEW YORK, Nov. 20.-"American
industrialism is guaranteeing to
some half of the forty millions of
our industrial population a life of
such limited happiness, of such re-
strictions on personal development,
and of such misery and desolation
when sickness or accident comes,
that we would be childish political
scientists not to see that from such
an environment little self-sacrificing
love of country, little of ethics, little
of gratitude, could come"
This is the conclusion of Dr..
Carleton H. Parker, professor of
economics at the University of
Washington, in an article in the cur
rent "Atlantic Monthly" telling why
such an organization as the |. w. w.
is unpatriotic.
"War, to the American labor
world, is an episode" says DR.. Par
ker, and for them the making of a
living, which completely dominated
their thoughts before the war, runs
on through the war period itself.
Following out this argument, there
fore, patriotism rests upon the de-
gree of satisfaction and content
with which labor views it's lot. The
labor mind in America is in pro-
found unrest and it is the impera-
tive duty of those Americans on
whom falls the duty of thinking and
planning to accept such facts as
all-determining, and not to misuse
the moment by useless, if admirable,
moral Indignation. 1t is needless to
point out with what handicap the
President and those devoted citi-
zens must work in their effort to
create at this eleventh hour in our
social evolution that patriotism and
unity so imperatively needed by the
nation"
And then DR.. Parker sets forth
the amazing cold facts with regard
to economic conditions in America.
They should be considered with ref
erence to the further fact that near
ly half of the agricultural land in
this country remains uncultivated
and that opportunity on the land is
denied to millions of the very men
who could make best use of it, be-
cause our taxation system permits
spectators and monopolists to hold
land out of use and reap rich har-
Ivest in unearned increment.
Says DR.. Parker.
"In 1910, of the 30,091 ,564 male
persons in the United States who
were listed as bread-winners, approx
imately 10,4OO,O00 were engaged in
that unskilled work from which the
migratory class is recruited. Under
what conditions did this population,
which furnished the present migra-
tory group, work? What was their
wage, and how long period in
each year were they employed? A
typical Chicago slaughter house in
1912 paid so per cent of the en-
ployees less than 20 cents an hour.
This company worked their men on
an average thirty-seven and half
hours a week, and this gave the 55
per cent of the men who averaged
seventeen cents an hour weekly in
come of $6.37.
"In the steel industry the gov
ernment report of 1910 shows that
20 per cent of the employees worked
seven day week with a twelve hour
day, and 43 per cent twelve-hour
day six days u week. This Federal
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-11-30
WOMAN'S UNION CARD
AND LABEL LEAGUE

The Label League met last Fri
day night in an interesting session
at the Labor Temple. The League
organized Red Cross AUXILIARY and
elected officers, as follows:
President, Mrs. B. f. Tyler; sec
retary, Mrs. Viola Francois; dele
gate to National League, Mrs. Julia
Altman.
There will be an auxiliary meeting
at the residence of Mrs. Dora John
son this afternoon at 1880.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-11-30

tatives to negotiate peace terms IN
accord with this concept we NAM
tain that the basic provisions of the
peace treaty should be formulated
with regard to the rights and wei
fare of the men, women and children
constituting the nations rather than
the governments of the nations. The
governments should be only an in
strumentality of the people, instead
of dominating and actuating their
lives.
"We hold that the same principles
should apply to relations between ma
tions and that secret diplomacy
should be replaced by diplomatic
representatives responsible to the
people of their own nation and re-
ceived by either the parliament of
the country to which they are ac-
credited, or by a representative Of
the people, responsible to them.
"Working people have never been
properly represented in diplomatic
affairs. We insist, therefore, that
the Government of the United States
provide adequate and direct repre-
sentatives of wage earners among the
plenipotentiaries sent to the peace
congress, and urge upon the labor
movements Of other countries to
take like action.
1--WE urge the tdOption of the fol-
lowing declarations as the basis upon
which peace must be negotiated: ,...
A Meaningful and Significant
Declaration
"G) The combination of the free
peoples of the world in common
covenant for genuine and practical
cooperation to secure justice, and,
therefore, peace in relations be-
tween the nations.
"(2) Governments derive their
lust power from the consent of the
governed.
"(3) No political or economic re-
strictions meant to benefit some ma
tions and to cripple or enbarrass
others.
"(4) No indemnities or reprisals
based upon vindictive purposes or
deliberate desire to injure, but to
right manifest wrongs.
go Recognition Of the rights of
small nations and of the principles:
NO people must be forced under
sovereignty under which it does not
wish to live
"(6) No territorial changes or
adjustment of power except in fur
therance of the welfare of the peo-
pies affected and in furtherance of
the world peace.
"In addition to these basic prin-
ciples, which are based upon declara-
tions of our President of these Unit
ed States, there should be incor-
porated in the treaty that shall con-
stitute the guide of nations in the
new period the following declara-
tions:
"Q) No article or commodity
shall be shipped or delivered in in
ternational commerce in the pro-
duction of which children under the
age of 16 have been employed or
permitted to work.
"(2) Involuntary servitude shall
not exist except as a punishment
for crime whereof the party shall
have been duly convicted.
"(3) Establishment of trial by
iI11,V
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-11-30
MIGRATE TROTSKY

Comes the news that Leon Trotsky,
who took refuge in this country from
the vengeance of the Cars govern
ment, is bitter against the U. S,
Eve should worry" all pro-Germans
and agents of the crazy Kaiser are
bitter against the U. S.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-11-30
DESPISED GOAT
FAMILY FRIEND

A prize foster mother for the
under-nourished baby, conserver Of
orphaned potato peelings and desert
ed banana skins, miniature COW to
ornament the back yard-this is the
exalted position to which the once
despised goat has risen.
According to William Hislop, pro
fessor Of Animal Husbandry at the
State College Of Washington, the
milch goat is the solution of the
milk problem for the family that
cannot buy clean milk and cannot
afford or can not secure certified
milk The milk is just as clean as
the mixer will keep it, the goat is
easily cared for and the amount Of
milk given is Just enough for family
use.
Milk Not Unfragrant
Goat milk produced under clean
conditions is not as unfragrant as
imported goat cheese would make us
think. Where goats are supplied
with plenty Of clean food, where the
does are kept in a sanitary stable
and the milk handled as milk should
be handled. the product NAV even
surpass the certified milk that sells
in cities from 20 cents quart up.
A vacant lot is paradise enough
for the milk goat. Here she will
combine wedding with milk produc-
ton, earning her board as a gar
dener and furnisbine milk rs
bonus. But although she can not
live on browse alone she will eat
only five cents worth of such feed
as alfalfa and soy bean hav each
day.
A milch goat recently bought for
SS5 brought two babies successfully
through the hot summer and sold
for more than she cost. The mother
of the cbildren tool cara IF +,o
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-11-30

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The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-11-30

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Look at the Sonora The handsome "buge" lines
typical of the finest furniture produced by patented
methods and are exclusively Sonora's.
Study the Sonora. Examine the important detais-she
long running motor, the control, the automatic
STOP sound box, duplex tube envelope filing system ETC.
Hear the Sonora. 1t plays all types of disc records The
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Pacific Exposition
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-01-21
WOULD BAR CONSTABLE
FROM SPANIEL TRIAL
Defense Objects to Testimony as to
What Prisoner Said When
Arrested.

SAN ANGELO, Tex, January "
The trial of Harry ]. Spaniel, charged
with killing his wife at Alpine ias'
July, continued today with the tesu-
mony of three state witnesses. Spanei
is under indictment also for the muir
der of Lieut.. Col NJ. c. Butler.
The defense objected to the testimony
of J. w. Yates. a constable at Alpine
as to what Spaniel said immediatel.
after his arrest. and the judge ordered
the Jury to retire and directed Yates te
proceed. The court reserved decision
as to the admissibility of the testi-
mony. Yates asserted that after being
placed in Jail Spaniel asked:
Are they both dead
When informed that both his wife
Mrs. CRYSTAL Holland Spaniel. and But.
Ter were dead Yates said SPANIEL cried
out: 90 my God. o my God!'
Asked why he did the shouting; &C &C,
cording to Yates, Spaniel replied: i
don't know"
Yates is expected to take the stand
Monday. when the courts decision re-
garding his further testimony prooapiy
will be made.
Spanell's trial for killing Col. Butter
recently was set for next Thursday. as
it was believed the present trial would
have been concluded by then.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-01-21
CHOSEN CHIEF CLANSMAN.
Gen. H. 0den Lake Heads Family
Organization of That Name.

Cen H. Oden Lake, national COM
mander of the Army and Navy Union
was made chief clansman of the Lake
Clan of England and America at q
meeting of the local clan of the family
last night in the red room of the New
Ebbitt House. Permanent organization
of the clan was effected at the meeting
Other national officers made perma-
nent at the meeting last night are
Deputy chief clansman, Simon Lake
Connecticut: second deputy chief clans
man, James l.. Lake. North Carolina
third deputy chief clansman, Edgar
j. Lake. California: fourth deputy CHIEF
clansman, Lytton l.. Lake, Missouri
chaplain, Rev. l. B. Lake. Virginia: mu.
steal directress. Miss Luella Lake. New
Jersey; chancellor. Col. Richard p
Lake, Tennessee: scribe Miss Janet w
Lake, Washington, d. c.: treasurer
Fred o. Lake. Washington. D. c.; regis
trar, Mrs. Maude A. Lake, Florida; his
torian, James z. Lake, New Jersey, and
editor, William c. Lake, South Carolina
An invitation to the national clan
to hold it's annual convention in this
city June and was extended by the
local clan.
1t is the purpose of the clan to bring
together those of Lake origin and t
perpetuate the history of the LAX
family. II is proposed to perfect his
tory of the family where each member
of distinction is to be registered.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-01-21
SUIT OVER TELEPHONE TAX.
Abatement of Assessment in Prince
Georges County Contested.

Special Correspondence Of The Star.
UPPER MARLBORO. Md, January
2O.-The authority of the state tax
commission to review and abate an as
sessment made by the mayor and COM
mon council of Hyattsville upon the
personal property of the Chesapeake
and Potomac Telephone Company To-
Gated within the corporate limits of the
town. the right of the telephone COM
pany to appeal to the state tax com
mission for an abatement of this as
sessment, and the company's conten-
ton that its personal property was ex-
empt under the code of public general
laws of Maryland. are contested in a
petition filed in in the circuit court
here
The last will and testament of John
W. Collins of Seat Pleasant. Prince
Georges county. has been admitted to
PROBATE and record here. The bene-
Mrs. Lille V. Homer. Miss Isabelle Col
Inns and John F., Walter and william
S. Collins. Deceased left real estate
in the District of Columbia assessed TO
approximately $4,000, and several
pieces of property in Prince Georges
county assessed for $500.
During the week the following mar.
rage licenses were issued by the clerk
Of the court here: Charles II. Sullivan.
thirty-three years. engineer. and Ger
trude NJ. Campbell. twenty-five years
both of Washington: James Zacha ria Ii
Owens. sixty-four years. farmer. and
Mary Ann Lorenzo. ffty-eight years.
both of Tuxedo. Prince Georges county
John ID. Rowe, cashier. twenty one
years, of La Plata. Charles county. and
Maude Pearl Young twenty-one years
teacher, OF Aquasco, Prince George
county.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-01-21
CRIT1cIsEs THE PRESIDENT.
Suffrage Worker Complains of Stand
on Anthony Amendment.

President Wilson was charged with
Inconsistency by Miss Anne Martin,
chairman OF the national Legislative
committee of the Congressional Union and
leader of the national suffrage lobby
here. at a meeting in the unions head
quarters yesterday. She insisted that
the President was the leader" OF his
party when measures that he was &C
lively interested in were up for con-
sideration In Congress. but that in the
case Of other measures, notably woman
suffrage, he was merely follower"
ION January g." said Miss Martin
President Wilson told a deputation oil
the Congressional Union that the ma
tional suffrage amendment could be Sc
cured only by party action. and that he
the leader of his party, must follow
and not lead his party.
Ten days later he visited the Capito
and. as leader of his party. demanded
of the steering committee of the Senate
certain important measures before
March 4. including the Porto Rico bill
granting suffrage to the men of Porte
Rico