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The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1919-01-24
CONDEMN POLICE FOR
BREAKING UP PEACEFUL
MEETING IN SEATTLE

The Everett Metal Trades Coun-
ell at its regular meeting on Fri
day, January II, adopted the fol-
lowing resolutions condemning the
Seattle police for breaking up the
mass meeting held by workingmen
in that city on the ] 9TH of January.
The Chief of Police of Seattle with
out doubt exceeded his authority.
Something should be done to teach
that fellow that it is his sworn duty
to preserve the peace, not to dis
turb it. The resolutions follow:
Whereas, the constitution of the
United States guarantees the right
of public assembly and. the right of
free speech, and
Whereas, we have learned through
the public press that the police au-
thorities of the City of Seattle,
Washington, on Sunday, January
12, 1919, grossly and unwarranted-
ly exceeded their authority in break
ing up an orderly meeting of citi-
zens of the aforesaid city, and
Whereas such autocratic and in
human methods are conducive to
discomfort and lawlessness.
Be it resolved, by the Everett
Metal Trades Council in regular
session, that we voice our disap-
proval and condemn the action of
the police of Seattle on the above
mentioned date; and be it further
Resolved that a copy of these
resolutions be sent to Mayor Ole
Hanson, of Seattle; and a copy to
the Chief of Police of Seattle: a
copy to the Union Record of Seat
tie, and a copy to The Labor Jour
nal of Everett
Approved by the Everett Metal
Trades Council, January II.
(Signed) c. F. RODGERS,
j. KEEGAN,
E. ARMSTRONG
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1919-01-24
METAL TRADES NAME
ADJUSTMENT BOARD

WASHINGTON, Jan. 1S.-The A
F. of l.. Metal Trades Department
announces that affiliates hav,
agreed on the following represen
tatives of International unions tC
serve as an Adjustment Board witt
like number representing the
Bethlehem SHIP Building Corpora
tion.
w. II. Johnson, President Ma.
chinists; Louis Weyand, Acting
President Boiler Makers; J, w
Kline, President Blacksmiths; J ]
Hynes, President Sheet Metal Work.
ers; J. J. Noonan, Acting President
Electrical Workers.
In circular to executives of af-
filiates, President O'Connell of the
A. f. of l.. Metal Trades Depart
ment, says;
The agreement is a new depart
ure from the plans usually adopt
cd for the adjustment of differences
between companies and workmen,
1t provides for an Tnternationals'
Committee to be composed of five
international officers of our organ
izations and five representative of
the company. This Board is to be a
clearing house and a final court of
appeal where grievances can be ad-
justed locally.
ut is the intention to establish
an office where the business of the
National Committee will be con-
Quoted by two secretaries to
be selected by the company and one
to be selected by our National Com
mittee. The expenses of these sec
retaries are to be borne respective
ly by each side Their duties will
be, among other and more import
ant things, to visit the plants as
Iue representative VI tue NdIloHdI
Committee with view to adjust
ing grievances that have not been
adjusted locally and to report their
findings and Investigations to the
National Committee.
I'VE believe we have accomplish
ed. in the bringing about of this
agreement, an achievement that we
can all well feel proud of because
we hope to be able to extend this
to other ship yards, singly or joint
ly, and to other large corporations.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1919-01-24
Increased Living Cost

Miller points out that the demand
of the men for higher wages to
meet the increased cost of living
finds striking support in the action
Monday Of Army officials, who. in
asking Congress for appropriations
for food purchases, specifically stat
ed that they figured on a 10 per
cent increase in the cost of living
during the present year.
Regarding the schemes that have
been used by the employers to fight
Organized Labor 1t is authorita-
lively stated at Metal Trades Head
quarters that large sums of money
are known to have been spent by
certain firms in the past few days
to test the strength of the Metal
Trades Council and defeat the
strike.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1919-01-24
SEATTLE METAL TRADES STRIKE
CAME Off ON SCHEDULE TIME

For months it has been the
opinion of the best informed men
in union circles that an attempted
enforcement of the Macy Board S
wage adjustment would not be ac-
cepted by the employees Of the
Puget Sound shipyards in the face
of the increasing cost of living.
The Macy Board seems to have
adjusted the wages downward when
there was every reason for increases
in all trades affiliated with the
Metal Trades Council and all other
trades for that matter.
How long will it take to teach
the truth that reductions of wages
when prices of all necessities are
rising do not set well on work
mems stomachs?
The Seattle Union Record of
Tuesday gives the following report:
"All reports indicate that the
strike has been called absolutely
clean,' said Chairman 4. e. Miller,
Of the Conference Committee. at
noon Tuesday. "The men have
walked out en- masse and none have
remained at the plants.
The shipyard workers have taxi
en- this action with solid unanimity
in spite of the strenuous efforts
that we know for fact were made
to cause dissension in the matter.
Rumors were circulated around the
yards late Yesterday afternoon that
the conference Committee had at
$3.50 p. m. absolutely refused to
put to a referendum vote an offer
of SIS day for helpers and laborers
and S61a cents an hour for me-
chanics.
Needless to say, no such offer
was made, but at the request of
certain shipbuilders the Conference
Committee was in the office all day
prepared to receive any reasonable
proposal.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1919-01-24
REHABILITATION FOR CRIPPLED
WORKERS URGED BY SECY WILSON
Says Passage of the Smith Bankhead Bill Foremost Need
in Industrial Reconstruction

Those who serve the nation in
the trenches of industry deserve a
better fate, when injured, than to
be thrown upon charity or cast up
on the human scrap heap"
This declaration is made by Sec
retary of Labor William B. Wilson,
urging the early passage of the
Smith-Bankhead bill to provide vo-
cational rehabilitation for crippled
industrial workers as an immediate
measure of industrial reconstruc-
ton, in a statement just issued to
the Association for Labor Legisla-
ton, which has been actively work
ing for the enactment of this legis-
lation.
Workers who have been MANNED
in industrial accidents should be
restored to physical health, trade
skill and self-respecting employ
ment, just as disabled soldiers and
sailors are now being rehabilitated
under legislation recently passed
unanimously by Congress" says
Secretary Wilson's statement.
There are at present more than
100000 permanently incapacitated
workers in the United States, who
would find salvation through voca-
tional rehabilitation, and this num-
ber is being increased at the rate
of 500 yearly. Within rela-
lively short time after the conclu-
sion of peace, the work of rehabili-
tating the wounded soldiers will
come to an end. The facilities,
technique, institutions, and highly
specialized teaching experience
should not be allowed to lapse in
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1919-01-24
Reports of Unions

The Butchers reported good
meeting and an election Of officers
The Cooks and Walters had a
fine meeting and report things go
ing well with their union. There
were twenty limitations. The Lin
coin Hotel proprietor refused to
sign the unions wage scale and de-
clares he won't pay it. The In
ternational Union has informed the
Everett local that it cannot admit
Asiatics to membership. The union
will post cards bearing the names
of all houses fair to the Cooks and
Walters.
The Electrical Workers had a
good meeting. They reported an
enjoyable entertainment Saturday
night with the Telephone Operators
for guests. See report in another
column. A banquet was a feature
of the social and there was much
more to eat than was desired. So
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1919-01-24
Swain Compares Figures

Compare the wages of the work
ers with the profits of the ship
builders The figures speak for
themselves
In 1917 the Government paid
the Seattle yards $145 per ton for
the ships. At this figure the build
ers were able to pay an increase Of
S175 per man day. This amount
ed to $3.50 a ton, or S66. 900 per
ship of $500 tons.
In July, 1918, the builders were
paid S1675O per ton, and admitted
that the cost of construction, Gov
ering everything, was 100000
per ship.
AN S,S00-ton ship at $165.50
per ton brought the builder a price
amounting to S1,474,0OO. Taking
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1919-01-24
THE TRADES COUNCIL DISCUSSES
VARIETY OF INTERESTING TOPICS

A letter was received from the
Illinois Department of Labor en-
closing two speeches on Labor
made by Gov. Frank. o. Lowden,
Governor of Illinois. The speeches
were ordered printed in the Labor
journal. They will appear in flu
ture numbers.
A letter was received from the
Metal Trades Council relating to
the breaking up of a peaceful meet
ing by the Seattle police on the
18th of this month. Resolutions
enclosed were endorsed by the
Council and will be found on an
other page of this issue.
The committee on the Lincoln S
Birthday dance to be given by the
Council reported progress. The
Committee will visit affiliated
unions to boost the entertainment.
See advertisement on the second
page.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1919-01-24
Should Pass New Law

If there were a law on the stat
ute books requiring that members
of the Legislature should be able to
read, and should familiarize them
selves with the political history of
the state, the nation, and the world,
they would not be so blind as to the
significance OF passing events,
which easily convince every read
ing and thinking person that the
day of imperialism, of boss rule,
minority government and the secret
domination of government in the
interest of profits is rapidly passing
from the face of the earth.
This ghost" of party defeat,
which is but mild form of the
ghost of Bolshevism in world pol
itics, will move the legislative ma
jority to make many concessions to
the popular demand for construc-
tive legislation. The threatened
flood of idleness and of widespread
unemployment and possibly of act
ual want among returning soldiers
will, also, become a matter of grave
concern as it develops. But as yet
the only subst antial interest shown
by legislators in returning service
men eXhausts it's concern in put
ting few of them, who are friends
of members, on the legislative pay
roll, and in the memorial to Con-
gress to give each soldier $500
bonus when he is discharged. The
problem of seeing to it that the
wage scale is maintained, that stan
dards of living are not lowered
since the universal destruction of
war has been discontinued, and that
industry is unthrottled so that en-
ployment at comfortable returns is
provided to all are matters which
are entirely beyond the comprehen-
sion not only of the "rubber-stamp'
followers of the legislative machine
but even of its most powerful and
influential leaders here in Olym-
pia.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1919-01-24
Men Walk Out

With splendid solidarity and great
enthusiasm the workers in the va
rious shipyards walked out prompt
ly at 10 o'clock. There was con-
siderable excitement and a great
deal of cheering as the men crowd
ed the broad gateway of the Skin
ner and Eddy plant But there was
no disorder whatever Moving pic
lures of the scene were taken by
camera men perched on the tresue
of the elevated railroad.
Asked if the skinner and Eddy
plant would attempt to continue in
operation, one of the principal Of
ficials of the firm replied, How
can we, when we have no men left
to operate it?"
Some statements that have been
made regarding well-paid foremen
working in the interests of the en-
ployers have met with the emphatic
of r. ]. Malone Of the
Boilermakers' Union, who states
that some of the best union men in
his organization are working as
foremen.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1919-01-24
That Hebe Bull

E. II. Stuart, the head Carnation
Milk gink and Jas. Goldsmith, have
gone to Olympia to urge the passage
of soldiers relief bills. Goldsmith
is a canned goods broker. What's
the matter with your eye? Does it
hear good? Stuart will not at this
time ask for relief for his under
paid cannery employees. These two
philanthropic profiteers own a
$15O,O0O bull. Wonder if the leg
islature fiXers will ask them to "tie
their bull outside?'
We strongly suspect they want
the Legislature to stop talking
about adulterated milk, eh, Hebe.
Hebe is the name of the stuff, said
to be made of low grade milk and
vegetable oils.
Sheriff McCulloch has declined an
invitation to a convention of the
National Franchise Detective AS
sociation Secret Service of the Unit
ed States" to meet in the Hotel AS
tor, New York. If the name of the
association were an aerial cable it
would be long enough to reach to
New York and one could slide to
Gotham in a basket suspended from
-
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1919-01-24
SMITHS SZE-UP
OF LEGISLATURE

Joe Smith, the staff correspondent
of The Seattle Union Record, makes
a size-up of the personnel of the
Legislature which is not likely to
inspire confidence in that bunch
of solons. He says:
During the war period practically
all wartime organizations and ac-
tivities were conducted in a highly
autocratic manner all active heads
of war organizations and commit
tees being "hand-picked" by lit
tie coterie of lf-proclaimed pa
triots of superior virtue. This
brought to the surface as Chair
man of County Councils of Defense
and of Red Cross Committees a class
of citizens who had either never
taken an active interest in public
affairs or whose activities had been
distinctly of the safe and sane va
riety. With this froth floating on
the surface of public life a large
number of these noisy patrioteers
were elected to the Legislature, par
ticularly from the smaller counties
where press and public, out of a
commendable outburst of real pa
triotism faithfully followed and ha-
bitually praised the activities of the
leaders and committee chairmen
chosen for them.
Naturally these men are gross
ly ignorant or openly hostile regard
ing progressive measures of recon
struction, and most of them upon
their arrival at Olympia have fallen
into the "rubber-stamp" class who
are handled, traded, voted and de-
livered by the active machine lead
orc
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1919-01-24
VIM. w. ROBINSON

Died, at his home, 1918 Grand
Avenue. at $3.50 p. m. Tuesday last,
William W. Robinson, aged 2S.
Mr.. Robinson was the head of the
VIM. w. Robinson Motor Co, 2S17
Rucker Avenue. He was a son of
Thomas Robinson, the lumberman
He is survived by his wife, his
father, mother, three brothers and
one sister. Deceased was a brother
in-law of G. w. Goldthorpe, the well
known painter.
A private funeral service will he
held today at 10 a. m, at the chapel
of n. h. Challacombe. Following
the service the body will he taken to
Seattle for cremation. The family
request that flowers be omitted.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1919-01-24

| to disuse. Crippled workers arc
with us always. The need for their
rehabilitation is permanent and
Nntinuous."
The Smith-Bankhead bill author
ICES the Federal Board for Vocation
al Education to assist the various
states in the vocational rehabilita-
tion of their own MANNED victims
of industry and appropriates funds
for matching state expenditures for
this work, dollar for dollar, Secre-
tary Wilson points out. 1t embod-
les no new principle, new method,
or new machinery. 1t merely en-
larges the scope of the original
Smith-Hughes act, creating the
Federal Vocational Board, and it's
recent extension to cover disabled
soldiers and sailors, so as to provide
also for crippled working men and
women.
by passing the bill at once,
Congress will prepare the. way for
the necessary state cooperation,
the Secretary continues. Most of
the State Legislatures now in ses
sion will not meet again for two
years. While soldiers and sailors
rehabilitation is a national duty,
this work for disabled industrial
workers is a joint federal and state
obligation. In several states prep
arations for this legislation are al
ready under way, and federal action
now is necessary if state action is to
be shaped most effectively for CO.
operation in this important and
enlightened work of labor conserva-
ton"
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1919-01-24
NORTHWEST PRINTING
TRADES CONFERENCE

Delegates to the Northwest Print
ing Trades Conference assembled in
Tacoma last Monday for the tenth
annual meeting. There were dele
gates present from the five affili-
ated trades-Printers. Pressmen,
Stereotypers and Electrotypers,
Bookbinders and Photo Engravers.
Everett had no delegate in the Con-
ference this year and The Journal
is without an official report of the
proceedings at this date.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1919-01-24
LANE TELLS CONGRESS
PLAN TO AID SOLDIERS

WASHINGTON, Jan. 1S.-At ar
informal meeting of the members OF
Congress, held in the House Cham
ber, Secretary of the Interior Lane
urged favorable consideration of his
land reclamation plan.
| An appropriation of 500, 900
is asked for the reclamation and oc-
cupation of 215, 100000 acres of till
able soil in this country by return
ed soldiers.
AS outlined by Secretary Lane the
plan provides that discharged sold
iers shall be employed at current
wages on vast reclamation schemes
in practically every state and that
later they will be permitted to Sc
for farming purposes, the Govern
ment furnishing money to pay for
the cost of development. This
money, together with the full cost
of the land and interest, will later
be returned to the Government.
THE project will not cost the
Government a penny" Secretary
Lane said. Full payment for the
land will be made within 40 years.
We are not asking that the Govern
ment make an appropriation to fur
ther a charity scheme. The soldiers
would not consent to such a scheme,
anyhow.
"They merely desire that the
Government help them for the time
being. If that help is given the
Government will be ultimately
much the richer"
Necessity for haste in making the
approximation was pointed out by
Secretary Lane. Soldiers are being
discharged from the service at the
IdLt VI ilOttSdluS ~ dhJ, hiiu PtO-
vision for employing them should
be made soon.
"It would be unthinkable that
the Government should permit these
men to search in vain for work" he
said, after they have willingly
given up good jobs to help the
country in it's time of need, ready
to sacrifice their lives if necessary.
Who can say that the demand for
labor will not soon be satisfied,
and that these soldiers will have to
drift aimlessly from city to city,
living from hand to mouth?
"If this country appropriated an
amount in proportion to that con-
tributed by Australia it would give
$4,00O,000 for the work. However,
500, 100000 will provide the en-
ployment of 100000 men and will
result in the development of $4,000
farms, and that will serve well as
a beginning"
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1919-01-24
Fear Party Defeat

One powerful influence which
may shake this sparty machine from
its complacency before the end of
the season is the ghost of party de-
feat which stalks constantly
through the local and state councils
of the Republican party. Party
leaders who are sincerely concerned
for party success in this state, re-
call with chagrin and shaken con-
fidence the fact that in the last two
presidential elections Washington
has given a majority of votes for
Democratic candidates for both
President and Governor. They know
that if the state is to be made safe
for Republicanism" in 1920 some
thing must be done in Washing
ton.
Very naturally, however, this
concern does not affect the party
leaders who are merely agents for
public utility and. other special m
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1919-01-24
ROBERTS WILL ATTEND
CONVENTION IN CHICAGO

The board of education last even
ing voted to send Superintendent A.
c. Roberts to Chicago to attend the
annual meeting of the school super
intendents of the country who CON
vene there in February.
He will visit Berkeley, Cal. on
the trip to get first hand informa-
tion on the Junior High School plan
which is said to be meeting with
favor over the country.-Tribune
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terests. These leaders have no in
terest in purely party success since
those interests find it just as easy
to work in one party as the other,
and in addition to this are too short
sighted to forfeit the corporation
profits of their political victories
of today to save themselves from
the threatening disasters of tomor-
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1919-01-24
MRS. DONOVAN DIES

Mrs Katherine Donovan, wife of
M. M. Donovan, and sister of Mrs.
Ed. f. Whitaker, and Mrs. Anna
l.. Thornton, of this city, died at
the family residence in Seattle early
Saturday morning. Mrs. Donovan
was confined to her bed since
Thanksgiving Day.
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Smoke Chas. Sheets CHALLENGE
10c Cigar.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1919-01-24
Carpenters Go Out

III spite OF t0e orders or the Bu-
get Sound Maritime District Coun-
ell, United Brotherhood of Carpen-
ters, who Monday night issued or
ders to the local shipwrights to re-
main at work, they are all out with
the rest of the workers in the in
dustry.
Secretary John Ince, at his head
quarters in the Georgian Hotel.
stated this morning that the action
was taken because the local ship
wrights had no right to affiliate
with the local Metal Trades Coun-
ell. He said further that the ac-
ton was partly due to jurisdiction
al disputes with the Boilermakers,
Iron Shipbuilders and Helpers and
the Shipyard Laborers, Riggers and
Fasteners.
Our attention was first called
TO the classifications in the blanket
agreement a few days ago said
lnce, and I Immediately called the
Council together and this action
was taken"
The Maritime Council claims that
it is the only body which has the
right to make agreements for tho
Shipwrights.
Business Agent Rowan, of the To-
cal Shipwright's Union said today
that Shipwrights were out because
the plants closed down on the de-
parture of the other workers. Con-
fidence is expressed at strike head
quarters that the Carpenters will
remain out until the strike is over.
Engineers Endorse Strike
At the largest meeting ever held
in its history Steam and Operating
Engineers Local No. 40 Monday
night unanimously endorsed the.
strike action of the Metal Trades
Council and its Conference Commit,
tee n
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Make Big Profits


at is admitted that the build
ers at the present time are getting
Sl86 per ton, which for an $500
ton ship means a price of $780,
500. 1t is further admitted by the
builders that the present cost or
construction of these ships is ST.
$4,000. This allows a profit Of
$2S6,S00. If the full demands OF
the men were met the builders
would still have left a net profit
of $200,80O per ship at the present.
time,
'The Skinner and Eddy Corpora
tion sold two ships to Japanese in
terests for the sum of $5,O00,OO0.
The admitted cost of each ship was
$1,000, 200, which gave the firm a
net profit on that ones deal of S.
600, O,OOO!'
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Continued on Page Four)
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the admitted cost of construction
from this amount there was left n
net profit Of $474,00O. If the rates
asked by the Metal Trades Council,
amounting to an increase of $685.
600 per ship, had been paid, the
builders would have had a net pro-
fit of $408,o0O, on last summers
figures.