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The Twin City star., 1918-11-02
AMERICANS BUYING DIAMONDS.

Among facts disclosed In the Investigation con-
Quoted by the council Of national defense to learn
the buying trend in civilian trade during the war
are a decided increase in sales Of small diamonds
and q falling off in sales Of sizes from one-half
carat upward. This is attributed to the great
increase in price and the tendency Of people to
buy diamonds by price alone; that is, they have
perhaps $75 or 500 to put in a stone, and 1t
brings them much smaller jewel than the same
amount would procure year or two ago.
Watches are In great demand, especially wrist
watches which have been enormously popuarized
by the war.
The Twin City star., 1918-11-02
SINGLE SHOES NOW SOLD IN LONDON.

One Of the many pathetic side lights on our
war is reflected in advertisements published by
British shoe merchants, which vividly impress
upon ones mind the sacrifices that many of our
sons and their comrades are CALAMITY making.
Owing to the large number Of crippled veterans
of the western front, London dealers In mems
footwear now sell single shoes for one-half tho
prices Of pairs. To quote an advertisement that
recently appeared in fashionable illustrated
magazine: wartime boots at 26/3 pair or
1872 boot. The single boots, rights or lefts are
for those men, who have been SO unfortunate as
to lose a leg."-Popular Mechanics Magazine.
The Twin City star., 1918-11-02

It Is the ambition Of most sea cooks to get on q
big ship In wartime. cooking on the smallest
vessel is an essential calling but the big vessel
with Its modern equipment and efficiency organi-
zaton appeals strongly to the type Of young man
now taking up cooking for Uncle Sam.
The large vessels carry several cooks A 5000
ton freighter has a chief cook, second cook, who
Is also baker, and a third cook, or cooks mate.
The chief cook IS usually the meat cutter also.
and In these times scientific meat cutting as well
as cooking, Is required the merchant fleet and
taught in the shipping boards floating cooking
schools.
The Twin City star., 1918-11-02

NS4H1IJ1T S1llo hIl71E NZ-4ZJ A4E
SSC41ED rae .SO0 NZIy
Sea Cooks of the
New Merchant Ma
rine Are Trained for
the Difficult Task

OOKING at sea Is not what it used
to be in the good old days" that we
read about. "A hard biscuit and
slice of cold salt beef" which Dana
mentions in 1.-Two Years Before the
Mast" as his usual meal after q
long. hard watch off Cape Horn. is
no longer the diet Of the American
merchant sailor.
The modern sailor man is we'll
The Twin City star., 1918-11-02
UNDERSTANDING the Bible.

I believe that the Bible is to be un-
derstood in the plain and obvious
meaning Of Its passages; for I cannot
persuade myself that book intended
for the instruction, and conversion Of
the whole world should cover its true
meaning in any such mystery and
doubt that none but critics and philos-
ophers can discover it.-Daniel Web
Ster.
The Twin City star., 1918-11-02
Public Good.

There never was found in any age
Of the world, either religion or law
that did So highly exalt the public
good as the Bible.-Bacon.
The Twin City star., 1918-11-02
With Christ's Aid,

With the power Of Christ perfected
in my weakness, am equal to every
temptation, competent for every duty,
equipped for every struggle, the mas
ter of every fear.-W. l.. Watbinson.
The Twin City star., 1918-11-02
Nothing Changed
But the Price


When your dealer asks yeu sx esnlp
apiece for your old friend Sight Drsh
don't get the idea that hs h tryins 70 pui
something over on you.
The plain truth Of the matter l. shsI
our labor and other manufacturing costa
have increased % much that We had the
choice Of cutting down the size Of the
Sight Draft cigar. using inferior tobacco
rsr raising the price one cent
We believed you would rather have
the same old Sight Draft quality, The
same old size, even If Il cost you penny
more. 30, from now ON Sight Drafts win
be six cents. t-r
Try q Sight DRAFT today. It's worth
ok cents and you experienced smokers
KNOW Il Il. w. K. Gresh 4 Soma
makers. w. 8. Conrad Co., st. Paul,
Wholesale distributors. -AdvertisemsuA
The Twin City star., 1918-11-02
CALLING A HALT.

Senator Fudge relates an amusing anecdote-"
"If it's new, all right But I don't care to
listen to stale story just because 1t is tackled
Journal
The Twin City star., 1918-11-02

Theory is vine from which facts
are sometimes gathered.
The Twin City star., 1918-11-02

Are you a delinquent subscriber
II SO, why rot send your subscrip
4ion1
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-17

Our Thanksgiving Dinner
this year will be as always a
very simple, home-like affair,
There will be plenty to eat, but
the menu will list only the good
ld-fashioned dishes that all Of
us enjoy so much. The tables
will be set, as always, in home
fashion. The linen, the dishes
the silverware, the vase OF
flowers. will invite and cheer
you.
If there are in New York
(there must be thousands OF
them men and women who
cannot get back home tor
Thanksgiving Dinner, | hope
to have the pleasure OF enter.
tanning as many Of them as |
can, and promise to give them
their fill Of the same good
things that they would get IN
their own home.
Our dinner starts at | clock
in the afternoon and will con-
tinue until as late at night as
our patrons desire.
ROBERT D. BLACKMAN,
Proprietof
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-11-17

pUCKWHEAT is approved! The great
- American breakfast is "endorsed by the
Food Administration.
Now think of the difference between buck
wheat batter - and a pile of golden brown
f1aky buckwheat cakes Oh, say!
Cooking trick Same with tobacco; it's appe-
tzng cooked Try Lucky Strike Cigarette it's toasted
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-05-10
PRIVATE INSURANCE
LOSES

cor UMBIA. Ohio, May Com
non Pleas Judge Evans has dis
olved an injunction against the state
Industrial commission which would
lay this board from ousting private
insurance companies from Ohio.
The commission insists that the
tate workmen's compensation law
intends to accomplish this purpose,
and it is acting accordingly. Last
December the companies secured an
'njuntion against the commission.
The latter has been assisted by the
Ohio state federation of labor in its
fight for tate-compensation only.
SecretaIy-Treasurer Donnelly of the
state federation of labor says that
Judge Evans action marks another
step toward the elimination of the
insurance companies from the work
mems compensation field in Ohio.
The companies have appealed Judge
Evans decision.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-05-10
EDITOR DEFENDS
THE TELEGRAPHERS

SAN FRANCISCO, May 6. -Edi-
tor Barry, of the San Francisco Star,
defends the Commercial Telegraph
ers' union in its present contest
with the Western Union Telegraph
company.
Probably there is today, no class
Of skilled workers worse paid than
the commercial telegraphers of the
country" he says. "This is due to
swo reasons-the systematic suppress
sion Of all efforts at unionzation,
and the fact that two large cor
porations-the Western Union and
the Postal Telegraph Company -
have an absolute monopoly of en-
from the Atlantic to the
Pacific, and from Canada to the Gulf
of Mexico.
ignoring the temporary bonuses
wages are but little higher than 90
years ago, though government sta
t:stics show an enormous increase
N living expenses.
Nov, the operators, relying on
'ublic sentiment and the DISPOSE
ION of the government to accord
freedom Of contract between en-
'loyers and employed, together with
he right of combination, purpose
% pursue their organization, which
has been surreptitious, and to defy
he secret rules of the Western
'nion forbidding the exercise of this
light. They announce that they
will not attempt strike, but are
repaired to face a lockout"
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-05-10
ENDORSES SEATTLE'S
NEW POWER SCHEME

President D. z. Skinner, of the
shipbuilding firm of Skinner Eddy.
has written letter to Mayor Han
son, of Seattle, saying;
Il wish to advise you that | have
become thoroughly convinced that
the efficient service we have receiv-
ed with the abnormal increase in
our demands in our shipbuilding in
dustry have been met even beyond
any anticipatons we could have had.
This helped to coordinate most ma
terially in the efficiency we have
shown in the nations emergency in
constructing ships in the shortest
time known in the world.
We heartily indorse and wish to
encourage the project for the new
source of electric current for the
city under the new proposed bond
issue, and we do so realizing that
we probably are as heavy taxpayers
to participate in the cost of this
project as any one in the city"
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-05-10

SECOND RED CROSS
WAR FUND CAMPAIGN

Beginning on May Goth and end
ing on May 27 the second Red Cross
War Fund campaign will open. Or
ganization for the drive has been
perfected for the Everett and SnO-
homish County Chapter with Will
liam Howarth chairman. The other
officials of the drive with whom the
public will confer are Manager F.
B. Martin, Chapter War Fund Cash
ier l.. L. Crosby, Chairman of Pub
licity Judson c. Carter, Chairman
of Speakers w. r. Conner, Chair
man of Transportation F. C. Shera-
ton, Chairman of Lists and Esti-
mates E. NJ. Metzger.
There are fifteen districts outside
of Everett in the county with head
quarters in towns most accessible.
While the drive has not COM
menced it goes without saying that
under its good leadership the last
day will see the amount allotted to
SnohOmish County oversubscribed.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-05-10
MOONEY COURT ORDER
is NOT CONSISTENT

MADISON, Wis, May Elm an
editorial entitled THE Case of
Mooney" the Capital Times says:
"Laboring men all over the coun-
try believing Mooney to have been
convicted on perjured testimony,
asked that the authorities give him
another hearing. The president ap-
pointed a commission to investigate
the facts and on its report he wired
the governor for clemency for
Mooney. Thereupon certain busi-
ness interests protested that the ac-
ton of the president was an i'm
pertinence' and demanded that the
law take its course and Mooney pay
the forfeit of his life The haters
of organized workers have taken up
the demand for MONEYS life and a
local paper re-echoes the savage
cry.
What travesty on Justice What
an example to set before the world!
The courts of justice that do not
hesitate to set aside a verdict for
damages against a corporation or
cut down verdit for damages
because it seems too high can find
no relief for man who has been
convicted upon what appears to have
been perjured evidene. When the
copper companies of Bisbee, Ari-
zona, unlawfully deported men guilt
less of any offense, when these com
panies interfered with the draft by
refusing to allow the men to re-
turn to their homes to enter the
government service under the law.
no word of protest ever fell from
the system press. A report of a
special commission showed that the
copper companies were guilty of
great outrage against the working
population of Bisbee. But nothing
has been done to punish these pow
erful offenders.
1T were better for the country
that the impression only too we'll
founded, that there is one course of
justice for the laboring man and
another for a wealthy employer be
changed before it is too late"
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-05-10
UNITED IN SPIRIT AND PURPOSE
WE ARE FIGHTING FOR FREEDOM
AND EQUAL OPPORTUNITY FOR ALL

ing the wounded, the agents of
mercy and those who bear the white
flag of truce.
We are fighting for the ideal
which is America-equal opportuni-
ty for all. We are fighting for
political and economic freedom-na-
tional and international.
We are fighting for the right to
join together freely in trade unions
and the freedom and the advantages
represented by that right
Our country is now facing crisis
to meet which continuity of war
prodution is essential. Workers, de-
eide every industrial question fully
mindful of those men-fellow Amer
lcans-Who are on the battle line,
facing the enemies guns, needing
munitions of war to fight the battle
for those of US back at home, doing
work necessary but less hazardous.
No strike ought to be inaugurated
that can not be Justified to the men
facing momentary death. A strike
during the war is not justified un-
less principles are involved equally
fundamental as those for which fell
low citizens have offered their lives
their all.
We must give this service with
out reserve until the war is won,
serving the cause of human free
dom, intelligent, alert, uncompro-
missing wherever and whenever the
of human freedom is in
5olved.
We are in a great revolutionary
period which we are shaping by
molding every day relations be-
,ween man and man. Workers of |
America as well as all other citi-
.ens have difficult tasks to perform
hat we might hand on to the fu-
ure the ideals and institutions of |
America not only unimpaired, but
and purified in spirit
md in eXpression-thus performing
he responsible duty of those en-
rusted with the high resolve to be
rec and reipetuate freedom.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-05-10
WHY GOVERNMENT
ADVERTISES FOR
UNION SHIP MEN

WASHINGTON, May 6.-Certain
sections of the United States senate
shuddered when it was announced
that the United States employment
service would recruit only union
men for work in Puget Sound ship
yards.
Secretary of Labor Wilson poured
oil on the troubled waters by this
letter to Senator Hollis:
THE statement is alleged to have
been made that the officers of the
employment service conducting this
reruiting announced to the public
that no one but union men would he
employed and sent to the SHY yards
IN Seattle. This statement is quite
correct, but the senate should know
that the ship-building companies in
The Puget Sound district have a
written agreement with the metal
trades council of that district to
employ no one but union men. Con-
sequently it would be useless for anv
agency to recruit any labor for
these shlpyards other than union
labor. 1t would not only be use
less but misleading and work
great injury on non-union men. who
might leave positions in the middle
west and go to Seattle only to
flnd that under the agreement be-
tween the unions and the shipyards
they could not be employed. The
agreement between the shipbuilding
companies and the metal trades coun-
III in that district has been in ex-
stence for a long time. This de-
partment or no other branh of
he government is a party to the
contract, nor was it urged by the
government.
The shipbuilding companies have
simply agreed to the closed union |
hop in that district, and the agree
nent is defended by the shipbuilding
companies and the Seattle Chamber
II Commerce and other EMPLOYERS
n that district as a measure of
'reat efficiency, and the speed with
which the shipbuilding companies in
nat distrit are turning out ships for
he shipping board indicates the
aiue of the plan under which thew
re working. If you will refer to
ne speech of Chairman Hurley. of
he shipping board, at New York
n March 26, you will find that he
1akes particular reference to the
reater speed in ship-building Oh the
'acific Coast than elsewhere. 1t is
rue that the United States emplov-
lent service of this department sup
lies absolutely all of the labor.
9th skilled and unskilled, going into
ne shlpyards in the Puget Sound
istrict."
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-05-10
UNION COAL MINERS ARE LOYAL
AND SHOW IT BY WORDS AND DEEDS
Martin Fyzk President of District TO- United Mine Workers
Tells of Things These Men Are Doing

tionalities among these miners, but
President Martin Flyzik requested
that the solution of this matter be
left to the officers and the member
ship of the unions to deal with in
their own way. The splendid spirit
of loyalty that is now manifest
among these men proves that Flyzik
was right.
Responsible Unionism Wins
The solid, responsible, constructive
organization of wOrkingmen under
the guidance of the American Fed
GRAFTON of Labor is here once again
demonstrated to be real benefit to
the country, and out of it there is
schooled a splendid American citi-
zenship. The men have won for
themselves industrially splendidly
improved conditions of work and
living, and the country is enriched
by having the membership of this
big union as its most loyal suppor-
ters.
Here is the way the men in some
of the camps of the district sub
scribed: Tono, 129 men subscribed
$4,000; Black Diamond, the quota
of which was $4,000, subscribed $780,
900; Carbonate, whose quota was
$4,000, subscribed $4,000; Roslyn-
Gle Elum, S80,000 subscribed $780,
600; Fairfax, 90 men subscribed $17,-
600; New Castle, 300 men, subscrib-
ed $4,000; Bayne, where the men
made no subscriptions in the first
and second loans. all except two sub
cribod in the third loan, and these
Two had valid excuses; at Issaquah
all but five subscribed. All of the
above We're exclusive of the amounts
subscribed by the mine companies.
The men Of the district are now
assessing their membership from
1ne-half to one per cent upon their
wages for war purposes for the
!ulation Of the war, regardless of
Red Cross and Liberty Loans.
(The above excerpts are taken
rom the informative matter on the
bird page of this number of The
Ournal, contributed by the H. o.
'eifert Co., entitled, What Our
Red Cross Is.D
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-05-10

OLYMPIA, Wash, May 8.-The
men who are members of the United
Mine Workers of America, District
No. 10, which comprises all the men
working in the coal mines of the
state of Washington, speak AZ diff
ferent languages and dialects and
come from all parts of the world.
Yet practically all of these men have
gone "over the top" for the govern
ment in the recent Liberty Bond
drive, and they have oversubscribed
the amount allotted to the several
districts in which they live and
work.
President Martin Flyzik, who has
been at the head of the district union
for several terms, declares that there
are no more loyal men in America
than the membership of this great
labor union, the majority of whom are
of foreign birth. Like most all
trade unionists these men are op-
posed to militarism and wanted to
see this country kept out of war
Many of them had grown heart-sick
of militarism and autocracy in the
old countries.
Good Work of the Union
At the beginning of the war, they
were not just sure about it, and
many opposed it and were especially
suspicious of the proposal for CON
'cription. Thanks, however, to the
splendid constructive organization
# which they were all members the
'reat problem was coolly threshed |
1ut in their union meetings and when
hey understood clearly the issues in
Iolved in the war and it was made !
lear to them that this was truly I
i war for democjacw, they were then
Nhole-heaHtedly for the government
md its full war program, even sub
to the selective draft law
Is the most democratic way in which
national army might be organized
With the burden falling equally upon
III classes of society.
In the beginning the government
authorities who were charged with
down disloyalty attempted
o interfere with some of the ma
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-05-10
THE TELEGRAPH
OPERATORS ARE
STANDING PAT

Wednesday evenings Seattle Un.
ion Record says:
Everybody standing by their
colcrs and waiting action by the
government" was the message sent
out from the headquarters of the
lockout telegraphers this morn
ing. Government action is expect
ed to result from the conference in
Washington today and as means
of putting the state delegation in
congress in possession of the facts
in the case Mayor Ole Hanson this
morning sent the following tele-
gram to Senator Wesley l.. Jones:
"Action of the telegraph compa-
MES in locking out employees un-
American and unpatl'iotic. Public
sentiment here entirely with work
ers. Locked out employers are sell.
ing thrift stamps and their conduct
is highly commendabe. Every wa,
urge quick settlement. Companies
do not seem to realize that this j.
the United States and not Ger
many"
Selling Thrift Stamps
While they are waiting for Unci,
Sam to tell the Western Union and
Postal that this is 1913 and tina,
the workers have right to organ
ne, the locked-out men and girls
are passing their time selling thrift
stamps. Numbers Of the girls, wear
ing red. white and blue ribbons, in
wade the downtown streets and
many stamps have been sold. Rep
resentatives of the Mother Ryther
home will request the girls to assist
in the tag day sale on next Sat
urday, when the home will endeavor
to raise $4,000 for the construction
of much needed building. A num-
ber of the girls have stated the.
would take up the work.
Other Unions Assist
In the meantime the operators
must live on something besides ex-
oectations for final justice, and sew
eral local unions have voted sub
;tantial donations
Vice-President J. F. Campbell
'aid today: "If the war board does
Tot compel the telegraph companies
@ recognize that American workers
lave unquestioned right to organ
ze, a strike tying up not only COM
nercial lines, but all railway tele-
;raph lines attempting to handle
commercial business, is inevitable"
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-05-10
WAR BASIS NECESSARY
FOR LASTING VICTORY

CHICAGO, May 6.-Every ounce
Of national power that is misdirect-
ed is an ounce of power lost in the
struggle against Germany, writes
Professor Harold Glenn Moulton of
the University of Chicago, in urg-
ing the necessity for placing Ameri-
ca on war basis.
The writer says the United States
government is aware of this necessity
but it is important that every citi-
zen understand what developments
are in store for US to the end that
we may cooperate in fullest measure
with the government in its efforts.
Prof. Moulton quotes Hon. r. H.
Brand, vice chairman of the British
war mission to this country, who
said:
"The ravenous demands of a mod
ern war compel every nation at war
to choose between peace and war;
if they have elected for war, they
must order their economic lives ac-
cordingly; they must turn their in
dustry from a peace to war basis,
and they must see that every war
demand has prior claim to every
peace demand"
Prof. Moulton is not impressed with
the claim that Germany "is nearly
done" Instead, the educator de-
claIes that "the evidence of the past
year points to an opposite con
clusion"
He shows that whatever success
Germany has thus far secured is be-
cause of industrial organization
coupled with a merciless military
machine, while England and France
were depending the first years of
the war on "muddling through"
"As soon as it became apparent
that the war would be long-continu
ed" he writes, Germany set about
the eliminating of all non essential
industries; factories which had been
producing luxuries were converted
into munitions or supplies plants,
where possible; and where this was
not possible they were closed down
and the laborers transferred for war
service in essential industries.
Germany thus early got right
down to brass tacks.
"All useless efforts, all waste mo-
ton, as far as possible, was thus
eliminated-everything was arrang-
ed with an eye single to military
victory"