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The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1919-03-21
ILLNESS FOUND
THE CHIEF CAUSE
OF DEPENDENCY
Health Insurance Law Urged
to Tighten Burden of Char
ity and to Protect the Sick
Workers.

recommending the adoption of
health insurance, such as that pro-
vided in the Davenport-Don
bill, as an immediate need, the New
York State Board of Charities in
it's annual report just submitted to
the Legislature declares that more
than Is per cent of dependency is
due solely to sickness, and that a
large percentage of the sick get no
medical care.
More than 3s,00O,0oo year is
being spent for maintenance alone
of the various charitable organiza-
tions in New York State reporting
to the board, it is stated, which is
by no means the total cost of charity
since a great many charitable or
ganizations are not Obliged to re-
port.
Health insurance, according to
the Board, will Tighten the heavy
burden of charity while tiding the
workers and their families over
periods of illness, and stimulate
measures of prevention.
The close connection between i'll
ness and poverty is given recent
confirmation also in the report of
a study of dependency in Baltimore
conducted by the Bureau of State
and Municipal Research at the re-
quest of the Alliance of Charitable
and Social Agencies. The investi-
CATION disclosed that illness or
physical disability is most frequent
cause of poverty. In that city physi-
cal causes were responsible for AZ
per cent of the dependency cases
examined.
In Ohio it was found by the Off
cial investigating commission that,
among those who in times of econo-
mic distress seek aid from the pri-
vate relief societies, 35 to so per
cent of the dependency is due to
sickness.
Urging the enactment of a Work
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1919-03-21
SOLDIER AID LAW
IN NORTH DAKOTA

There is one measure on the
whole North Dakota program that
is brand new. That is the Soldiers
Relief bill, giving to each North
Dakota boy who was in service dur
ing the war $25 for each month
that he spent with the colors, the
money to be used as first payment
on a home or in continuing the
soldiers education. Since that bill
was passed the United States Gov
ernment has taridly fallen into line
with a much less scientific bill,
which gives $50 to each soldier,
without regard TO how long he was
in service. other states may also be
shamed into doing something for
their returned soldiers.
This one bill may be regarded as
something of an experiment. Bul
North Dakota is willing to have it:
record in behalf of the soldiers
compared with what any other
state has done--or has failed to
do.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1919-03-21
AMERICAN WOMEN CHOSEN TO help
LABOR IN THE PEACE CONFERENCE

President of the American Fedora
tion of Labor, who holds the distin-
guished post of Chairman of the
Commission on International Labor
Relations of the Peace Conference.
To them will fall the task of secur-
ing humane working conditions for
women, as we'll as the full suffrage.
Miss Schneiderman and Miss An
derson were selected by Mrs. Ray
mond Robins, President of the Ma
tional Women's Trade Union League,
and appointed by President Wilson.
Their appointment bears the hear
ty endorsement of President Com
pers.
'Not only will we speak for the
women of America and the world,
said Miss Schneiderman today, but
we will stand for the rights of la
bor everywhere.
To-day it is the soldiers of in
dustrv who must carry forward the
banner of democracy" she said,
"and the nations of the world must
unite all their resources to train
and to equip their citizens SO they
may use the full powers of their
minds and spirits to defend the de-
mocracy so dearly won.
president Wilson, in permitting
rs to attend the Peace Conference,
is merely giving practical express
sion to his declaration in Boston
and at the Metropolitan opera
House in New York that it is not
the statesmen of the world who are
awaiting the treaty of peace, put
the people-the common people,
the workers.
"Miss Anderson and l will GO
first TO London to exchange Ideas
with Miss Mary Macarthur, OF the
british Womens Trade Union
League. and Miss Mary Bondwinz'
Of the General Federation OF Wo-
men Workers. Then we will go to
Paris. We expect to be gone about
two months.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1919-03-21

mems Health Insurance La" 1oi
the protection of sick workers ano
their families the Ohio Commission
declares that "a systematic method
of meeting the expenses and losses
incident to sickness would prevent
many from falling into destitutlon
and would provide a stop-gap to
the otherwise endless chain of sick
ness and povery."
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1919-03-21
PAINTERS SOCIAL
TUESDAY EVENING

Next Tuesday evening, March %,
Painters Union No. 339, will have
a social meeting at the Labor Tenn
Pile. The business meeting will be-
gin at o'clock and the social at s.
There will be good speakers, good
eats and music. The members are
specially requested to take their
families along.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1919-03-21

A collection OF falsehoods, WOW
en- into a STORY" of literary merit
is in circulation protesting against
justice for Thomas j. Mooney and
Warren X. Billings. Look out for
it. 1t is interesting reading. 1t is
issued in pamphlet form and bears
this title: Americas Greatest Per-
il, the Bolsheviki and the Mooney
Case"
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1919-03-21

A woman testifying before the
United States War Labor Board
claimed that she had been employed
in a Virginia factory at wages OF
liz cents an hour at the begin
ming and later received $40 pei
week for work similar to that for
which men we're paid $15 per week
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1919-03-21

wharfage charges and related the
better conditions existing in other
cities. The Committee will con-
tinue it's investigations.
Reports of Unions
The Butchers reported they had
given a successful dance.
The Cooks and Walters Initial
ed two applicants; pulled all union
help out of the Mitchell Hotel
asked again that union men avoid
patronizing the Jap restaurant on
Hewitt Avenue, Bayside.
The Cigarmakers reported that
some retailers were charging &C and
&c for &c cigars made in Everett
They pointed out that cigars were
classified by the Internal Revenue
Bureau, the class marked on the
stamp and also marked by the
manufacturers. Glass "a" should
be sold for sc, class "B" for &C to
&c and class "C' from SC to 15c
Smokers take notice.
The Lathers had good meeting
The Machinists reported good
meeting with seven limitations and
eight applications and are making
arrangements to give banquet in
the near future.
The Painters had a good meet
ing with one initiation.
The Plumbers had a short meet
ing, initiated one applicant and
partook of a "hard times feed
The Piledrivers had very inter
esting meeting and were addressed
by International President Os'
born, who made an instructive and
interesting talk.
The Stage Employees had a good
meeting and elected Bro. Stoddaro
to preside over their deliberations
for thesensuing term.
The Shipyard Laborers had
fine turnout. They reinstated Bro
Rasmussen and voted 62 to to
return to work Tuesday.
The Timberworker had a fail
meeting. They announce they VIII
buck the Loyal Legion of Loggers
and Lumbermen to finish.
An amendment was introduced
changing the name of the Everett
Trades Council to the Everett Cen
trail Labor Council. First reading
A motion prevailed that COM
mittee of five be appointed to for
mulate a plan to bring all unions
under one head, that is one central
body. It was claimed this would
concentrate the efforts of labor in
the city and give it greater facility
of action. Delegates Watson, Ha-
vens, Kicker, Beck and Dean were
appointed.
The over-crowded street car SER
vice on North Colby Avenue was
brought to the attention of the
Council. In the mornings and ev-
enings when the large number OF
working men are going to and re-
turning from work passengers are
packed like sardines, resulting In
great discomfort and no little dan
ger. The Secretary was instructed
to write to Mayor Merrill asking
him to use his good offices to in.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1919-03-21
LABOR LEGISLATION
IN NEXT WEEKS ISSUE

Next week The Journal will
print a summary Of bills favorable
to labor passed by the Sixteenth
Legislature and bills inimical to la
Dor which failed of passage, compil-
ed by VIM. NJ. Short, President of
the Washington State Federation Of
Labor
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1919-03-21


ance for Labor and Democracy
We've won the war.
Do we stop now and take life
easy?
We do not,
Our job is only begun. We may
be five years finishing it-maybe
ten.
No matter, we have to do it.
Either that, or we all go to
smash.
What is the job that we have be-
fore US?
Briefly, it is to put the world
back on its feet. That is a full siz-
ed job.
The world just now is one Of the
finest wrecks know to history. Our
civilization hangs on us like q bit
of gauze. It looks all right from a
distance, but good smash with a
No. 10 boot, so to speak, would rip
it beyond recognition.
Specifications? Sadly too plenti-
full!
Four years of destruction. Ev-
erything going for war. War, saw
ing our freedom and our opportun-
tiles to go forward democratically,
has sapped our resources, speaking
in a world sense.
Many nations are literally starv-
ing to death.
Thousands of acres of land have
been destroyed and their popula-
tions thrown back upon acres al
ready full.
Belgium, Rumania, Serbia-three
nations shot to pieces. Nothing left
but ruins. Everything gone.
Buildings razed; machinery wreck
ed or stolen.
4NOl lLCl IL dllOS a luCA4OAy VI
horror. The whole nation impover-
ished. One-siXth of the very soil Of
the country put out of use by war.
Italy, impoverished, hungry,
without raw materials, without
coal.
Coal-everywhere the same story
not enough of it to fire the boil
ers of industry.
England, largely in the same pre-
dicament. She must be fed.
That is not the end.
In Russia anarchy, called Boil
shevism. In Germany and Austria,
no one is quite sure what. In Tur-
key, abject misery.
In Warsaw and Constantinople,
the same story. Babies almost all
dead.
Few places on the map of Eur
ope and Asia are anywhere near
normal.
Moreover, they lack the tools
and the food to become normal
without help from the outside.
Saved from one disaster, these
nations face another.
1t is part of the price of victory.
But victory will mean nothing if
starvation conquers now.
Starvation must be conquered if
civilization is to survive. Starva-
tion never reasons. 1t cannot. 1t
wrecks and ravages. 1t tears apart
all within its reach. This is natur-
al law.
There is just one remedy for
starvation-FO0D!
Reason is tottering already to an
appalling degree. If it totters much
further we shall witness chaos out
of which no man can tell what will
come.
Men are ceasing to have that
sense of responsibility toward 9TH
er men without which our intri-
cate life of today can scarcely
stand.
Food must go to the starving
peoples of the world. Much of it
must be given outright to those
who have given their all to the
common cause. With food must
go seed, agricultural machinery
clothing-all the things that near
salvation and rehabilitation.
We must do this! There are tive
reasons-though either one woulC
be enough!
1-Justice demands that the
helpless be helped.
2-Our own self preservation de-
mands it-for one-half of the
world cannot stand with the other
half in ruins.
So, having fought nobly to save
the world from autocracy, we must
now give as nobly-and speedily
to save it from anarchy
The American people must see
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1919-03-21
COUNCIL.
WOULD SUPPLY WHAT
CONGRESS- OMITTED

Congress adjourned without max
ing an appropriation to carry on
the work of the Employment Ser
vice of the Department of Labor.
The Employment Bureau is one of
the most important divisions of the
Department, and just now, when
there is much labor unrest because
of Unemployment, Congress kills
this important service.
The National Council of Defense
now is trying to do what Congress
left undone. According to the fol-
lowing press dispatch the Council
has made beginning:
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1919-03-21

Jan Paderewski now suspects
that the liveliest Pole gets the
biggest lemon.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1919-03-21

The question often arises wheth-
er it is a fair increase or merely a
fare increase.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1919-03-21

With the unemployment agita-
tion increasing, the Committee was
believed to be necessary because of
the 80 per cent reductions of the
United States Employment Service.
1t will take over the soldiers and
sailors work of the service.
Appeals were telegraphed today
to all governors, mayors of the
principal cities and chairmen of all
State Councils of Defense asking as
sistance in the work and suggesting
the immediate opening of state and
municipal employment offices to
succeed the ones of the Federal Gov
ernment that will be closed March
%. The Board will take over the 3
600 branch agencies of the Welfare
Association, which have been direct
ed by the Soldiers and Sailors Bu-
reau of the Employment Service.
Col. Arthur Woods, of New York,
Liason Officer of the War Depart
ment, in charge of soldiers employ
ment, is chairman of the Committee
Other members are Chairman
Hurley, of the Shipping Board; AS
sistant Secretary of the Navy
Roosevelt; Nathan A. Smyth, De-
partment of Labor; G. l. Christie
Assistant Secretary of Agriculture
B. S. Cutler, Commerce Department
S. F. Bush, Industrial Board; E. ].
Ayers, Interior Department; Elliott
Goodwin, United States Chamber OF
Commerce; Matthew Woll, Amerl-
can Federation of Labor; Director
Clarkson, Council of National De-
fense, and John w. Hallowel, OF
Boston.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1919-03-21
TRADES council
Wednesday, March 10, 1919

Wednesday, March 10, 1919
President Moncur called the
Council to order at p. m.
The following communication wa:
received and filed:
Everett, Wash, March 12, 1911!
To the Everett Trades Council
Dear Sirs and Brothers-On Feb
ruary 26th, 1919, a motion was mad,
and carried that Railroad Boiler
makers and Helpers of Local 500
withdraw from the Everett Trades
Council. AS all railroad men are
under District Lodge No. 49 and tha
the Everett Trades Council has ne
jurisdiction over District Lodges ir
which we are governed.
Yours fraternally,
GRANT WIRICK,
President.
LEE MAIN.
Financial and Corresponding
Secretary.
On request of the Building Trade;
Council John Thueson and -
Larson, plumbers, were placed or
the unfair list.
The committee appointed to Sc
cure the placing of a film entitled
Fit to Fight" received from the
United States Public Health Ser,
vice, to be shown as an education
al matter in the fight against ven
ereal diseases, reported that, in con.
junction with the Rotary Club
permission had been received from
Manager Mckee to put the film or
in the Orpheum Theater.
On Friday at noon the picture
will be shown to men only; on Sat.
urday at noon to women only, anc
Sunday from 10 a. m. to l p. m
it will be shown for men only. Nc
admission will be charged,
The Carnival Committee report
ed arrangements had been made
with the City Commissioners and
that the arrival of Manager Bah.
cock was now awaited to close the
deal.
The Legislative Committee re-
ported the following resolution
which was adopted:
Whereas, it has become eviden
that a campaign is being made from
one end of this country to the othel
to stifle the principles of League
of Nations, which means so much
to the cause of labor, and humanity
Whereas, the Senate of the Unit
ed States must adopt the treaty con
tanning the clause for a League o.
Nations by a two-thirds vote before
it can become a law; therefore bt
it
Resolved by the Everett Trade;
Council at it's regular meeting helc
March 10. 1919, that it endorses the
League of Nations. and be it fur
ther
Resolved. that a copy of these
resolutions be sent to our Senator:
in Washington. demanding that they
cease their antagonistic attacks OF
same, even if they cannot see fit tC
think as the majority of fairmindeo
citizens do at this critical time II
our country's history, and work fol
and support the League of Nations
The City Dock Committee report
ed what information it had receiv,
ed General discussion of the sub
ject was INDUCED in and the
Council showed its intention oi
sitting the matter to the bottom
Several delegates gave their ex'
periences in the payment of high
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1919-03-21

Smoke Chas. Sheets CHALLENGE
10c Cigar.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1919-03-21

Start in now with the slogan A
Job for every service star"
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1919-03-21

Try BLUE RIBBON" Cigar. &C.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1919-03-21

wharfage charges and related the
better conditions existing in other
cities. The Committee will con-
tinue it's investigations.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1919-03-21

WASHINGTON, March 15.--
To provide employment for re-
turned soldiers and sailors, an
Emergency Committee of the
Council of National Defense
was organized today. ,
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-08-29
STATE NEWS.

Spearfish-The residents of Spear
fish are taking interest in a special
election, which is to be held here Sep
TENDER 16, for the purpose of sub
hitting to the voters the proposition
of issuing bonds of $4,000 for in
Sailing a new waterworks system.
Sioux Falls-R. A. Arlington, of
Montrose, values his jaw at $4,000.
At least he will attempt to collect
that amount from Lawrence thinner
another Montrose man, for breaking
his jaw during a fist fight. Suit was
filed in the circuit court here.
Ravinia-This city is putting in IL
and 14-inch pipe to run into Lake
Andes. About 5000 feet of this pipe
is to be laid. Preliminary and per-
manent surveys have been made and
the contract for the work will be let
next month. 1t is estimated the work
will cost 100000. Bonds for
$4,000 will be floated in the near
future.
Rapid City-Pennington county is
moving to have a new court house
There Is a well formed plan afoot to
place before the voters at the next
election the proposal to folat a coun-
ty bond issue of $1,000,O00. OF this
sum it is planned to use $500, 900 in
the building of a court house. The
balance, il Is said, will be utilized In
the construction of good roads.
DeSmet-It having been demon.
strated during a recent fire, when the
Catholic church building was destroy,
ed, that the pressure of the loca.
waterworks system is not sufficient
for first-class fire protection, an agi.
tation has commenced for the cree
ton of a standpipe, which would give
the necessary pressure in the mains
DeSmet has no bonded debt, and il
is planned to issue bonds of from
$4,000 to $4,000 to erect a stand.
pipe. q
Sioux Falls-A Canadian soldier
by the name of Cameron, who a few
weeks ago was picked up on a Brook
ings county highway in an uncon.
scious condition, and who has since
regained his health in a hospital tt
which he vas taken, was SEN back tc
Canada by the B~rookings Red Cross
He will be cared for by the Canadian
government. The Red Cross investi.
gated his Ease and found him worthy
of assistance. He also was found to
be quite an interesting person and he
is related to the celebrated character
Long John Clengary" in the Jack
London books.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-08-29

A tomato weighing ove two pounds,
raised by Mrs. L. 0. Mayer of Kinder
hook, Pa, Is attracting considerable
attention, due to the early and large
growth. It Is the only one ripened on
the stalk. It Is of the Stone variety.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-08-29

ouards Saved 1850 Persons In Year.
Twelve hundred and fifty persons
were saved from drowning last year
By the United States coast guard
service
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-08-29

There fs but one honorable, upright
and proper course to be pursued by the
great nations Of the world. including
China and japan. Let China keep her
treaty; give Japan an opportunity to
do what she has pledged her national
honor to do; cease this attempt to
Juggle. this country into war with ia
pan; defeat this proposed amendment
which arrogates to ourselves the right
to annul Q treaty between China and
Japan and sets at naught q treaty made
during the stress of battle between our
co-beligerents and Japan before we en-
tered into the war: bring Japan and
China into this world league and as
sure as the sun shall rise tomorrow
japan will keep her plighted faith and
China will receive complete present JUS
tice and assured future protection.
ION the other hand force this breach
of contract by China: drive Japan out Of
this league by insulting her honor; re-
lieve her from her treaty by first brcak-
ing II yourselves and thereby INSTALL
ing her In her impregnable position Of
right Of conquest and China is doomed.
The other European nations cannot help
her because they are tied by their own
treaties, and you will not mak war on
Japan to help China after she has
broken her treaty.
"If these be friends of China. thAD
God AAYA chinA from har frisndA"
Gilpin observer., 1919-02-27
BRITISH DEFY FOES MINES
invention Of Naval Officer Enabled
Ships to Push Into HelgoIand
Blight.

London.-Mines and mine fields were
rendered obsolete by the development
of the "paravene," the invention of
Lieutenant Burnley and consistently
urged upon the British navy by Ad-
mlral Sir Hedworth Meux. This in
strument was officially adopted by the
navy early in 1916 and was so success
full that special factories We're built
for its construction.
It is now learned that the British
grand fleet on several occasions pushed
right into the blight Of Helgoland,
which, If mines mean anything, would
have been a death trap for ships. Ger
man experts never solved the mystery.
From the time of Its adoption to the
close Of the war only two warships
were reported having been sunk by
mines. The most recent use of the
"paravenes" was on the occasion of
British warships entering the Baltic
through closely mne-strewn area.
The steel wire mOOring ropes of the
mines nre said to have been cut by the
paravenes as string ia cut by scis-
sors.