The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-04-05
TRADES COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS;
SHORT, INTERESTING MEETING
Secretary Taylor Sends Letter Regarding Years Progress
Rena Mooney Speak Here the 2sth-Union Member
ship Is Growing.
Wednesday, April 8, 1918.

ident being absent, Secretary STAN
ley called the netting to order and
announced that it would be nec-
essary to elect a presiding officer.
Bro. Overman was elected.
Bro. Pilon took the VicePres-
ident's chair and Bro. Koockogy was
appointed Reading Clerk.
A letter was received from the
Carpenters saying their union would
20 down the line to save Mooney.
Rena Mooney Coming
A motion prevailed to make ar
rangements for a mass meeting to
hear Mrs. Rena Mooney on the 28th
of this month.
State Federation of Labor
A communication was received
from Charles Perry Taylor, Secre-
tary-Treasurer and Acting President
of the Washington State Fedora
tion of Labor, narrating the pro-
gress made by the Federation during
the year. Following is an epitome
of Bro. Taylor's communication:
To the Everett Trades Council:
Organized Labor in Washington
has had phenomenal increase of men,
bership the past twelve months,
there have been few strikes, though
those now on are being stubbornly
contested by both employers and
employees. Labor Temples are about
to be built in cities which have out
grown present quarters, and the
Trades Union Movement as a whole
enjoys the good will and esteem of
the general public as never before
in it's history.
Despite the overshadowing inter-
est in the great world war for free
dom in which we are engaged as a
nation, trades unionists are finding
time for exercise of that eternal Wig
ilance which is the price of Liberty
even here at home. In line with
this idea, the Federation is bending
every effort to aid the Joint Legis-
lative Committee to secure the nec-
essary number of signatures of vot-
ters to the initiative petitions for
Measures No. 81, Marketing and
Transportation Measure, which means
death to food and fuel profiteers;
No. 80, Anti-Injunction Measure,
which furthers industrial freedom
and discourages government by
Courts; No. 33, Nom Partisan Meas
ure, which abolishes partisan poll
tics and curbs the power of the
press when unjustly exercised. Are
the members of your organization
registered, and are they circulating
these petitions for signatures They
should be doing so.
Union labor has become so in
tensely loyal to the National Gov
ernment in its great crisis that the
Labor Movement is fast becoming the
criterion by which the patriotism of
other groups of citizens are meas
ured. In this connection, you are
urged to instruct your Secretary to
report to the undersigned the amount
of the investment of the organiza-
tion's funds in Liberty Bonds, and
also report the names and amounts
of investment in Liberty Bonds by
the members themselves for publica
tion in a Federation booklet, so that
our traducers may be given the lie
when they call Union Labor disloyal
This is important. Blanks will be
sent to your Secretary by the Fed
Grafton.
We should be glad that we live in
these stirring times, when every mar
and woman can be a soldier in the
war for the freedom all mankind
We will speak out, we will be
heard,
Though all earth's systems crack
We will not bate single word,
Nor take letter back.
Let liars fear, let towards shrink
Let traitors turn away;
Whatever we have dared to think
That dare we also say.
We speak the truth, and what car,
we
For kissing and for scorn,
While some faint gleamings we cal
Of Freedoms coming morn.
With fraternal greetings, you
friend and brother,
CHARLES PERRY TAYLOR.
Secretary and Acting President
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