Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1918-03-22
V|CE.PRES|OEN1 CALL
VISITS OLYMPIA UNIONS
"LABORS INITIATIVE CAMPAIGN
IS ON; THE SPIRIT OF co.
OPERATION is SHOWN EVERY.
WHERE" SAYS FEDERATION
OFFICER.
(By Harry CALI

The trades unionists and farmers
of this state have agreed on a pro-
gram that includes initiative meas
ures numbers 81. 80 and 33.
Measure No. 81 is the marketing
and transportation bill. Its main
provisions are as follows:
(1) Provides that cities, counties,
port districts and townships may own
and operate mills. warehouses, store
houses. elevators. grain bins, cold
storage plants, wood and fuel yards.
(2) May buy directly at Wholesale
all forms of food products and fuel
and resell and distribute the same
at wholesale or retail to the inhabi-
tants.
60 Provides that such corpora
lions may sell food products and fuel
on commission for the producers
thereof.
~ Provides that such corpora
lions may own and operate -four
mills for milling grains and cereals
for -four and meal and sell the same
directly to their Inhabitants.
90 Provides for q complete trans
portation system, collecting food.
products from the farmers and dis
tributing them to the consumers.
co. Enables such corporations to
own and operate telephone and
power systems.
1t is highly important that in
these days of stress. every useless
effort should be done away with.
People who are not actual producers
should not be permitted to make q
profit from the efforts of those who
do produce.
This measure, II enacted into law,
will eliminate waste, reduce the cost
to the consumer and, by its elimina-
ton of the middleman and profiteer,
will permit Of the payment Of q
higher price to the producer. 1t is
really an extension Of the Seattle
port district principle, which no one
can successfully deny has been Of in
estimable value not only to the
people of Seattle but to the entire
Northwest
The natural tendency today is con-
troll by the people and this measure
is big step in that direction.
From the viewpoint of the wage
Garner, increases in wages have not
nearly equalized the increased cost
of living: the useless. non-pr0ducer
fixes the price to the farmer and for
the consumer. Wage increases have
not decreased the relative difference
between the purse Of the wage
Garner and the possibility Of good
living. The farmer Is not to blame /;
he gets but a small part Of the in
creased cost Of living. and this will
continue as long as our present
wasteful system Is In use.
This measure will surely secure
the approval of all farmers and
wage earners In this state and ought
to secure the approval Of all patriotic
citizens who really want to do con-
structive thing to help win the war
Measure No. 50.
This Is labor's anti-injunctiOn
law and its purpose Is to curb the as.
sumed power Of the courts In indus
trial disputes.
Injunctions are judge-made. based
on precedence that goes back to the
old English law that placed property
rights above human rights.
Labor Is not a commodity, or an
article Of commerce" declared the
congress Of the United States when
1t passed the Clayton amendment tc
the Sherman antitrust law, and
which was signed by President vii
a: son. This amendment removed labor