The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1919-01-10
January /, 1919.
TO Affiliated Organizations:

Within a few days the biennial
session of the Washington State
Legislature will be in session at
Olympia, and President Short will
be in Olympia to present to the
lawmakers drafted bills embodying
the legislative desires of the last
Federation convention and the re-
cent Federation Conference on Re-
construction held in Seattle in con-
junction with the Executive Council.
Be prepared, should he request as
sistance, to give all that lies in
your power.
The readjustment period is upon
US, and industry will be subjected
to severe strain. Great gains in
working conditions and great i'm
provement in wage standards have
been achieved by the organized
trades unions since the outbreak
of the World War for Freedom.
These Improvements and industrial
betterments must not be relinquish-
ed. Let your slogan be: "No re-
duction in wages; no increase in
hours of labor; but more industrial
improvement for the workers
through increased trade union or
ganiZation."
The State Federation of Labor
is now employing three women or
ganizers, Mrs. Edith Downing in
Spokane, Mrs. Ida Levi in Seattle,
and Miss Florence Hogan in Ia
coma. Every assistance should be
given them by the Local Unions
and Central Councils of their cities.
The Program of the Washington
State Federation Of Labor on Re-
construction has been printed in
generous quantities and is ready for
distribution to Local Unions, Coun-
ellis or Label Leagues to the num-
ber of members or delegates in the
local organizations, free of charge.
If you desire copies for distribution
to the membership of pour own
organization, send mail request to
the Secretary of the Federation, and
he will mail you package Of the
programs. Federation officers will
attend to the distribution of these
phamphlets to the general public
and to allied organizations.
Efforts are being made by the
employers in the timber industry
to perpetuate as peace time or
ganization the Loyal Legion of Log
gers and Lumbermen headed by
General Disque under auspices of
the War Department. While it was
patriotic duty not to interfere
with this organization while the war
lasted, in order to cooperate in
spruce production for airplane man
ufacture, that crisis passed with the
ending Of the war. Workers in that
industry should now abandon the
Loyal Legion and join the Interna-
tional Union of Timber Workers.
which is the only bona fide labor
organization for their industry. 1t
only can give the logger and saw
mill worker self-government in the
trade unionism. The Loyal Legion
will be controlled by employers.
Every union should encourage these
workers to join the Timber Workers
Union.
Secretaries who have not yet mail
ed to the undersigned the Liberty
Loan report cards should do so at
once, as the copy for the Honor
Roll Liberty Loan Book is about
to be placed in the hands of the
printer. Unless your cards are re-
ceived by January s, your reports
thereon cannot be included in the
publication.
There are few organizations
that are very negligent in the pay
ment of per capita tax to the Fed
Grafton. A call for per capita tax
is mailed to each secretary of an
affiliated local organization at the
beginning of each quarter. Failure
to pay per capita tax for six months
automatically causes the suspension
Of an affiliated organization, and re-
afflliation can only take place by
the payment of all back per capita
tax, not exceeding one year In
other words, suspended organiza-
tions are liable for payment of one
wears back per capita upon reaf-
fihation. and there are no exceptions
TO this rule. Let your organization
be one of those paying per capita
tax regularly in advance and