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The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-07-26
ORGANIZED LABOR
REPRESENTATIVES
ON GOVT BOARDS

The Cincinnati Chronicle, (labor
paper), has compiled the following
list of members of labor organiza-
tions appointed on government
boards and commissions:
Council of National Defense
Samuel Gompers, president A. F.
of L., member Advisory Commission,
also chairman Committee on Labor.
Advisory Council, Department of
Labor-John B. Lennon (tailor) !;
John Casey (plumber); Agnes Mes
tor (glove worker).
Railroad Wage Commission-W.
S. Carter, director of the Division
of Labor, president of Brotherhood
of Locomotive Firemen and Engine
men; J. A. Franklin, assistant direc-
tor, president of Brotherhood of Boil
er Makers and Iron Ship Builders;
A. o. Wharton, president Railroad
Employers Department, A. F. of
L.; F. A. Burgess, vice president
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi-
neers.
Representing labor on War Labor
Conference Board-Frank J. Hayes,
United Mine Workers; William l..
Hutchinson, president of Brother
hood of Carpenters and Joiners; Will
liam H Johnson, president Interna-
tional Association of Machinists; T.
A. Rickert, president United Gar
ment Workers.; Victor Olander, vice
president Seamen's International
Union.
War Prison Committee--JohnM Man
ming, secretary of Union Label Trades
Department, A. F. of L..
Excess Profits--T. w. McCul-
Tough (printer), adviser to Treasury
Department.
Rehabilitation of Soldiers-C. H.
Winslow (sawsmith), member of
Committee to Draw Bill.
u. S. Mission to Russia-James
Duncan, vice president A. F. of L.,
president the Granite Cutters In
ternational Association of America.
Presidents Mediation Commission
to Investigate Labor Conditions OIL
Pacific Coast and Mountain Region
e. p. Marsh (printer); J. H. Wal
ker (miner).
U. S. Shipping Board, Labor Ad-
justment Board-A. j. Berries, sec
retary-treasurer Metal Trades De-
partment, A. F. of L.
Cantonment Adjustment Board
j. r. Alpine, president Plumbers
Information Union.
Housing Commission Board-Wil-
liam j. Spence, secretary-treasurer
Building Trades Department, A. F.
of L.
War Industries Board - Hugh
Frayne (Sheet Metal Workers., Or
ganizer, A. F. of L.
Emergency Contract Award Com
missiOn-John Donlin, president of
Building Trades Department, A. F.
of L.
Advisory Council to Emergency
Contract Award Commission John
r. Alpine, president Plumbers In
ternational Union.
| War Savings Certificates Commit
tee L. Baine, secretary-treas-
urer Boot and Shoe Workers Union.
Fuel COMMISSIONS. P. White
(coal miner), assistant to Fuel Dr.
rector.
Harness and Saddlery Commission
w. E. Bryan, president Interna-
tional Union of United Leather
Workers.
Food COMMISSIONS. w. Sullivan
| (printer).
Committee to Fix Price of Wheat
and Meat W. Sullivan (printer) ;
W. M. Doak, vice president Broth
erhood of Railroad Trainmen.
Speech Bureau, Department of La
bor-E. P. Marsh (printer), direc-
tor.
Longshoremen's Agreement. V,
O'Connor, president of Information
al Longshoremen's Association.
Price-Fixing Committee, War In
dustries Bosrd-Hugh Frayne
(Sheet Metal Worker), organizer A
F. of L.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-07-26
TOMBSTONES FOR
WESTERN UNION NOW,
MEAT PACKERS NEXT

Wy SIlCSLCI W IiShb III ava
tional Labor JournaD.
NEW YORK, July 12.-Greed
writes its own epitaph in these tur-
bulent days. Carlton, of the Wes-
tern Union, wrote the eptaph of the
telegraph greed when he refused to
listen to the pleas of organized la
Dor.
The beef packers wrote the cpl
taph of beef greed when they piled
up profits so huge that govern
ment commission declared "they have
preyed upon the people unconscion-
ably"
Leather and a dozen other staple
industries, have written the epitaph
of their special kind of greed in the
same way-by soaking the people at
time when the good old business
of soaking is supposed to be dead
and embalmed.
was blIllC NllCI CCNs
when dragged to light, would bring
forth the mild comment, isn't it
shameful" with perhaps an inves-
! tigation of some kind or other serv-
ing in the remonstratory capacity
of slap on the lower ARMAND
that would have been the end of it,
But is different now, matesl
We new have the spectacle of
;rec'al federal commission bringing
n a report DESIGNATED especially to
serve as the basis for a war profits
tax that shall take away from greed
that which it prided itself upon get
| linz.
We know that the packers will be
shorn of their pelf, even as the
packers shear the sheep and then
slaughter them. We know that this
monsho Gus evil is to be its own UNI
doing And if there is any hesita-
ion about the funeral ceremony we
will raise such a howl as will bring
the cover mental undertaken on the
dead run.
1t is not only the wild eyed ones
who yelp about greed and huge pro-
fits today. 1t is the whole nation
Never was there such a chorus of
editorial condemnation of the vest
ed interests as that set up when
the truth came out about the packers
and their monumental greed
Oh, lady, lady, what yelp it was
Colossal hoggishness, said The
Evening World, And it was even
| so.
When a bunch of pirates swell
their profits 400 per cent, as the
packers did, then it is mildness to
'ay Colossal hoggishness," but two
years ago there could not have been
mustered such chorus of roasting
as we have with us today among
those newspapers that usually stand
serenity by while the public is pluck
3D. Time changes. So does though.
Today we live in a time when
The common good must be served.
The American Federation of Labor
set up standard for the nation
when it said to both worker and en-
ployer: Do nothing that you can
not justify to man on the firing line
in France!
That's why this damnable greed
has got to be choked, and that's
why it will be choked
MIR. Swift would cut fine figure
justifying that 400 per cent increase
in profits to company of dough
boys in the front line cover there"
l have a picture of him standing
up in the mud in the center of
she'll crater telling the boys how pa
triotic it is to grab off that wad of
wherewithal.
see him telling the flesh and
blood men at the front how he col
| ects the iron men at home!
It's a great old picture!
If the gentleman ever started to
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-07-26

Luke McLuke says: After a wo-
man pays ten bucks for a Summer
waist she often finds that the waist
doesn't come up to her expecta tions.
But waists are not being worn very
high this summer.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1918-02-13

two bread regulations will be a consolation
brides when they their husbands never eating NOR
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1918-02-13

The word 'camouflage" might be somethingcnew un
ut its meaning is nothing new ut ALL Shakespeare is C
sed it more than once in Macbeth"
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1918-02-13
WIRELESS FOR ALL TO HEAR
instrument No Larger Than Fountain
Pen Enables One to Pick Up
Messages Nearby.

The fountain pen" wireless recelv-
er Is an established fact, for through
the use of the audiOn bulb DIR. Lee De
Forest has perfected little instru-
ment, no larger than some of the ex-
tra-size fountain pens In use by men
with heavy hands, through which II Is
possible for man to pick up wireless
messages at distances up to eight or
ten miles, says the Illustrated World.
The instrument depends entirely
upon the audion bulb for Its efficiency.
The. audion bulb, as most of those
interested In wireless knows, made
feasible the recent long-distance mes
sages sent out from Washington, and
its use for communication by wire also
made feasible the now common trans
continental telephoping between New
York and San Francisco.
The entire principle of the audion
bulb is to amplify sound waves, and
by making bulb small enough to be
placed In the end Of the fountain pen
tube Doctor De Forest has literally
made 1t possible for any "man In the
street" to pick up whatever wireless
communication may be going on In his
neighborhood.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1918-02-13
USE MOVIES TO TEST EYES
u Pictures That Are Properly Focused
Hurt, II Is Always Well to
Consult an Oculist.

You can use the movies to test your
eyes. If your optical organs are cor
rect and normal you can 60 to the
shadow theaters as much as you want
without fear Of harming the delicate
mechanism Of your eyes.
But If you see well-operated pic
lures where the focusing is properly
done, and find that your eyes hurt
hunt an Oculist; don't blame the
movies, says DIR. g. A. Balm, writing
on the annals of ophthalmology.
There is no surer way to inform
yourself of optical defects. The nor
NAL eye accommodates itself readily
to the fitting films of high grade,
while the subnormal eye makes it's
complaint very apparent after a steady
focusing upon pictures.
persons with no defect of sight
mechanism should be able to enjoy at
the very least four sittings of from
one and One-half to two hours dura-
ton each per week without discom-
fort" says Doctor Balm. mo perma-
nent harm has come or can come to
eyes from well-fOcused motion pic
lures"
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1918-02-13
Try a New Way.

1t is claimed that there are more than
100 ways to cook potatoes, from the
primitive land still probably the best
mat hods of boiling or baking with the
shirs on.to the most complex and sea-
soned dishes. Here are some OF the
ways known to the United States De-
pa.tment OF Agriculture. Have you
trie d them all. or do you know about
as many more9
Boiled, chips, lyounaise, mashed, pan
Drowned, salad, in chowders, baked,
oestrings, hashed brown, mashed
fried, stuffed, in fish cakes, in light
bread, plain fried, French fried, gauffre,
souffl., riced, in hash, biscuits, saute,
creamed, crcquet,es, an gra,in, soups,
in stews, in meat pie crust.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1918-02-13

getting results fr m his college course
at Lexington
O. II. II ,rdn sold to Beard Brothers
last week a bunch of 80 Burkshire hogs,
as pretty bunch of hogs as was ever
driven into Hardinsburg. They weighed
over 5000 pounds and brought him
around $500
B. F. Beard & Co. have made very
agreeable change in the arrangement
of their store. They have moved the
grocery department from the back of
the store to the right hand front as you
enter. The furniture stock takes the
place of the grocery department. 1t
helps the looks of the whole store.
Vic Robertson was over at Webster
last week and picked up pair of mules
from Finley Norton for S525. This il
the highest price yet paid for a pair of
mules in this county. They were hand
some high he AIDED well made mules,
and worth the money. Owen Parks
sold a pair for $500, and Geo. Lyddan
pair for $500. Webster farmers believe
In good stock, raise it and get the price.
600
Mules were in demand at Hardins-
burg Monday aud many sales were
made at good prices.
Farmers are now buying collars,
names, tracechains and britching and
getting ready to start plows wht
spring opens.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1918-02-13
VOLUNTEER FARM WORKERS ARMY.

huge volunteer farm army being planned in
York State Realizing the Importance of food helping the
the farmers that state have been aroused such
The farm workers will be carried Systematically the u
S. army.
Would not this be good plan for Kentucky Breckn-
ridge county,
just Breckenridge would get together
available farm worker to help them carry intensive and
systematic farming during this believe would
far greater results than each farmer working alone The help
problem handicap these days and the farm might relieve
the situation
Drastic measures will taken produce enough food
for soldiers and allies and right the time should be
thinking and planning the the profitable results
before the garden time is
The wealthy capitalist of the East this winter in
binary Pullman with other folks 1t reported that year
there thirty private siding of the society colo
MES of Florida and this they conpciouy absent The rich
well the making sacrifices in order win the
When read 2l79 troops the
cana which was sunk by German torpedo and 1O maybe
American soldiers lost makes blood boil and With fmer de-
termination than before America will fight with all that is
within her.
Don't complain groceryman when he tells you he
sell flour without certain of substitutes He selling
cordng the food regulations But he should sell you
without substuesthen it your duty to make complaints
Besides contributing lawyers Breckenridge county
Will give another young man to the service Of Uncle Sam when Paul
Lewis the cashier of the Breckenridge Bank of Coverpor
the next call We are giving our best
The word camouage" might something the sum-
but its meaning nothing ALL Shakespeare cited
used than in Macbeth"
The two bread regulations will be a consolation the
spring brides when they their husbands eating
biscuit.
In country the aftermath of mud nothing but
mud.
Stars that son-Ltfe-and that their moth
ers
This is "Father and Son" week.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1918-02-13
Common sense is genius dressed in rorhtn9
clothes.
Emerson
CAN 1T BE, THE SHOE FITS!

The Complaint Department of the Breckenridge News Clover
port KY:
Genemenn your issue of January 23rd letter of mine
appears headline "Fom Old Subscriber and from the large
size of the type looks like a headline tome.
Now you this sereotyped expression why not use
appropriately! 1t would look well letter from Linn Wiker
who has New York long that he thinks Twenty Min
from Broadway and only Camping Out" it
Chas Skiman, of Moganed Cha p Babbage of Louis
VILE Either of these gentlemen be fifty old have
known them wohd myself and satisfied
that Leon Mavock city, has known them ongerak him.
Why Mr. Babbage it only recently that came Ont West
up with the Counyyou need stop paper but allow
me to subscribe myself.
Respectfully yours,
2255 W. Oath St., Los Angeles Cal. Jno. W. Vest.
We have always heard John that when people get along
years they of the fact but really
did not know you had come to this stage in life.
When read letter pleasantly reminded that
since The Breckenridge News founded three years past
had been the Vest home Naturally felt compmented
and heading such used seemed appropa meaning
be personal.
But aa human nature very unceltan when you think
pleasing folks it's then all And have
taken us in all seriousness Or would dare think
the shoe fits" for honestly expect have you list
ten years longer at least!
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1918-02-13

The wealthy capitalist of the East South this winter in
binary Pullman with other folks reported that last yea
there thirty private siding of the colo
MES of Florida and this they conspcousy absent The
well the poor making sacrifices in order
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1918-02-13

When read of the 2179 American troops board the Tu
can which sunk by German torpedo and 1O maybe
American soldiers lost it makes blood boil With mer de-
termination than before America will fight with all that is
within her.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1918-02-13

Don't complain your groceryman when he tells you he
sell flour without certain of substitutes He is selling
cordng the food regulations But he should sell you
without ubtueshen it is your duty to make complaints.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1918-02-13

Besides contributing doctors and lawyers Breckenridge county
will another young the service Uncle Sam when
Lewis the cashier of the Breckenridge Bank Coverpor
the call. We are giving our best.
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1918-02-13

at sons-Life-and that to their moth
The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1918-02-13

getting results fr m his college cours
at Lexington
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-04-25
Wilson's leadership is throttlng profteering; the other is rally
ing the politicians to its defense.

Wilson's leadership is t~hrottlng proitee1ing; the other is rally
ing the politicians to its defense.
In President Wilson's book called "The New Freedom"
which is a text book of the Nonpartsan League, he describes very
wildly that the people are going to drive out the beasts that
prey" These beasts that prey are the %profteers. In this present
hour IN our national crisis no class of men in this country are rally
ing to the defense of President Wilson so rapidly as the American
farmers.
Although I am the Secretary of the Republican Central Com
mlttee OF North Dakota, l am convinced today that it would have
been a national calamity if Hughes had been elected president.
Mr.. Wilson recognizes, more 50, I believe, than Hughes could
have ever done, that this war will be fought in vain unless indus
trial autocracy in this country is driven out.
At this hour MI. Wilson is appealing to the country for ma
tional help to drive out these beasts that prey At this moment
we feel it is just a little time and then the government will take
over the packing industry Of America, and the oil trust, and COM
mandeer those vast exorbitant profits.
In this fight against industrial autocracyi in this country, such
weekies like Golfers, are now sharp-shooting at the President,
trying to destroy his political influence. A horde Of snipers, daily
newspapers and weeklies are trying to Sharp,,shoot our leaders
now President Wilson. Even some Of MI. Wilson's own party lead
ers are trying to betray him. The old standpatters in the Repub-
ican ranks are jockeying for position to block the plans of the
administration and then make the blockade a campaign issue to
get back into power.
Small wonder then that the farmers of the northwest view
with suspicion these sharp-shooting campaigns, the subsidized
press, and the partisan politics. 1t is only a repetition in another
way of the Minnesota fasco of government, despotizing the press
and peanut politicians when the effort is made to free our coun-
try from industrial autocracy.
Keep up the fight MI. Wilson, the farmers are with you.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-04-25
THE NEW JERSEY CAMPAIGN.

George L. Record, of New Jersey, has a nationwide reputa-
ton as a fighter for social justice and democracy. Back in the
ernor, it was Mr.. Record, whose skllful public questioning, brought
from the future President a declaration disconcerting to the state
bosses, who had hoped to control him. But Records greatest &C
tvty has been in fighting to make the Republican party OF hls
Tory element So it is not surprising that the predatory inter
ests view with alarm his entrance into the contest for the Sena-
tor Hughes. These thought that they could put over a candidate
of their own selection, by the cheap device OF waving the flag and
devotng so much time to protestations Of loyalty that there would
be no chance to talk about anything else. But RECORD has blocked
that game t@g 81" ~19 9..
q. i He enters the field with a platform expressing his views clear
iIy on all live issues. He stands for removal from the poor Of the
burden of war taxes, and he opposes return Of the railroads to
to national issues the same principles Of justice which he has been
trying e have applied in New Jersey. He is atstaunch advocate
Of the Single Tax, knowing that measure to be necessary TO relieve
industry Of unjust tax burdens and to open opportunities to labor
and enterprise. ~ s~ laf@ .y.1aeml.&9 1ssga
Naturally, this does not suit his plutocratic opponent, Aus
ten E. Colgate, who has more expert knowledge concerning manu-
|facture Of shaving soap than he has SO far displayed on matters
Of general interest. And Nh. Colgate warns the voters that Mr..
Record would put too great a burden Of taxahon upon the r1sh,
and that he rs preaching class hatred:" A. the same time Mr..
Record, "woud place an unjust burden On them" Apparently
Mr.. Colgate considers the farmers and the wealthy class as one
and the same group. -
Mr.. Colgate should wake up. No wellinformed politician be-
:ieves any more that the farmers can be fooled by false statements
concerning the Single Tax: There is too much evidence that or
ganized farmers are realizing the need of taxing land spectators
more heavily and of exempting improvements. Mr.. Colgate should
read the platform of the Canadian Farmers Non-Partisan Oranges,
and of such gatherings as the Producers and Consumers Conven-
papers of wide circulation have to say, such as Successful Farm
ing, The Farmers Open Forum, Farm Stock and Home, The Grain
Growers Guide, The Non-Partisan Leader, and many others. He
should learn the views of Congressman Baer, of North Dakota,
the only representative in the present body elected by an organ
lied farmers movement.
If he does this, it will surprise him to see how far behind the
as the campaign progresses, and will have cause to regret his
rash statements.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-04-25
A DISGRACE TO THE BENCH.

Judge John F. MCGEE. a member Of the Minnesota state safe
ty commission, while testifying before the senate military commit
tee this week, among other things proved conclusively that he is
not merely untruthful but a slanderous bigot as well and as such
he is totally untitled for the e1rnine which he disgraces by being
permitted to wear. In his testimony he is reputed to have SLAM
atty because the majority of them are members of the Nonparti-
san League. MCGEE seems to have the too common and highly
reprehensible habit of impugning the patriotism OF people who 40
not agree with him. He apparently thinks, or attempts to make
himself think, that his habit of thought and ideas are the only
Simon-pure, unadulterated, patriotic and high-minded ideas, and
that all those who do not agree with him should be promptly IN
termed or made to face a firing squad without loss OF time. His
official position seems but to impress him with the omnlsclence
of his wisdom. His charge that the Nonpartisan farmers are
rankly disloyal has been proven basely false-were proof neces-
sary-by the manner in which they responded to the Third Liber-
|ty Loan. The case of the North Dakota Nonpartisan farmer fail
ing or refusing to subscribe for his full allotment OF bond is
exceedingly rare, and in a multitude Of cases they have oversub-
scribed. They are supporting the Government IN every partlcu-
lar, and the charges made by this disgrace TO the bench are I'M
truthful, disloyal and unpatriotic. By reason OF tn, position which
he occupies he ought to at least be honest, though it is impossible
to concede honesty of motive or integrity Of purpose to a man OF
McGees type.
If the Souris Messenger is laboring under the impression that
the Courant man is so guIible as to declare war and commit as
sault and battery on no better evidence than that Of the unsup-
ported assertions of the anti-Townley press IT will be obliged to
revise it's opinion, as we have a most vivid and painful recollection
of having, q short time since, been accused land. the charge was
proven without an efort) of gross mendaclty for having been
guilty Of. reproducing some Of the oft reiterated assertions Of
these same sheets which the Messenger now asks US to accept
the very epitomes of truth. s
The latest to rush to the aid Of the Bottineau county intel
llectual pisrnires-who fondly innaglnes themselves 70 be news
paper men'-is the one-time notorious Lutte BTatten. Of the kug-
by Tribune. Birds OF a feather"
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-04-25
A r testimonial

A. Berthaume,
District Manager Lincoln Life, Fort Wayne, Ind.
Dear SIR
desire to thank the Lincoln Life for the prompt payment Of
claim of 100000 on my husbands policy, Leon Slyter. Il very
much appreciate the kindness and p1omptness used in looking af-
ter this matter.
The loss that we have SO recently experienced makes us feel
how vital is Life Insurance protection.
Very truly,
N N SLYTER.
The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-04-25

Germans who still believe that America is not in the war are
urged to inspect the Liberty Loan returns from North Dakota
and Montana-New York World.