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TO LOCAL UNIONS

If you will have the Secre-
tary, or some other officer,
write short notes of such of your
proceedings as you desire pub
lished for the information of
other Unions and the public, and
drop them in the journal mail
box in the Labor Temple, they
will appear in the next mum Der
of the Journal.
If received later than We'd
nesday afternoon, or if too long,
publication can not be guaran-
teed in the issue of that week.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1919-04-18
ACCIDENTS TO TWO
SHINGLEWEAVERS

Verne Gilbert, Shingleweavcr,
lost the first joint of the little fin
ger of his right hand at the Ever
best Mill at $50 Wednesday.
Tommy White, formerly we'll
known Shingleweaver in Everett,
lost all except the middle finger of
one of his hands in one of the Bal
ls.rd mills last week. Bro. White
was recently discharged from the
army.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1919-04-18
Grievances

Under the law no grievance can
be considered by the Convention
which has been decided by a pre-
vious Convention, except upon the
recommendation of the Executive
Council, nor will any grievance be
considered where the parties thereto
have not themselves previously held
conference and attempted to adjust
the same,
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1919-04-18
THE THIRTY-NINTH CONVENTION
AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR

the American Federation Of Labor
six days previous to the opening of
the Convention, and will report i'm
mediately upon the opening thereof
at Atlantic City, hence secretaries
will observe the necessity of mail
ing the duplicate credentials Of
their respective delegates at the
earliest possible moment to Wash
ington, D. c.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1919-04-18
Credentials

Credentials in duplicate are for
warded to all affiliated unions. The
original credential must be given
to the delegate-elect and the dupli-
cate forwarded to the American
Federation of Labor office, A. F. of
L. Building, Washington. d. c.
The Committee on Credentials
will meet at the headquarters of
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1919-04-18

high cost of living from the Los
Angeles Central Labor Council made
a report favoring its endorsement.
Laid over for one week.
Bro. Overvold, the Committee OF
one on the Mooney case, asked
what action the Council intended
to take ON the recommendations of
the International Defense League.
Made special order for 8 o'clock
next meeting night. The joint
Councils adjourned.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1919-04-18
CARPENTERS HAD
A FINE MEETING

The Carpenters Union had a
well attended meeting Thursday
night, the 18th. There were two
applicants initiated, and four mem
bers taken in by card. All mem
bers were reported working.
P. w. Dowler, General Organizer
for the Brotherhood of Carpenters
and Joiners, made a short call in
the city Saturday evening, shaking
hands with few of the boys. He
left on the 8 p. m. car for Seattle
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1919-04-18
PHONE INCREASES

The increase in phone rates FOR
the period of the war" reach a pref
ty figure. In Seattle the subscrib-
ers pay $4,000 a month and
S575.0O0 a year. The increase is
zoe to 75c from each subscriber.
The increase in the State is about
$1l2,5OO per month, and about
$1,50O,000 per year.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1919-04-18
Resolutions-Time Limit

Under the American Federation
of Labor Constitution resolutions Of
any character or propositions to
change any provision of the Consti-
tuition can not be introduced after
the second days session without
unanimous consent.
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THE EVERETT LABOR COUNCILS
HOLD INTERESTING JOINT MEET
Wednesday, April 16, 1919.

wednesday, ApIll 10, 1919.
The joint meeting of the Metal
Trades, Building Trades and Cen
tral Labor Councils was called to
order at p. m. by President James
Ballew, of the Building Trades
Council.
Chairman Watson, of the Anal
gamation Committee, suggested
that Delegates coming in late dur
ing the discussion of any question
be barred from asking question, as
detrimental to the Councils and a
waster of time; that financial
questions be not discussed at these
tryout meetings.; that visitors be
seated in the center of the hall and
delegates along the sides; that the
roll call and minutes of each Coun-
ell be read at each joint meeting.
The suggestions were adopted.
A. F. of L. Reconstruction
The Seattle Central Labor Coun-
ellis A. F. of l.. reconstruction prop
osition was taken up.
Delegate Myers moved to endorse
it. An amendment was made to lay
it over for two weeks. This was to
give members time to study the
proposition.
Delegate Michel moved an amend
ment to the amendment providing
for the reading of the proposition
each meeting until it was placed
upon it's passage.
The motion to lay over for two
weeks and the amendments were
passed, and the proposition ordered
printed in the Labor Journal.
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A. F. Of L. Building,
Washington, d. c.,

HpIll D, i5JJ.
To all Affiliated Unions, Greeting;
You are hereby notified that, in
pursuance of the Constitution of the
American Federation of Labor, the
Thirty-ninth Annual Convention OF
the American Federation of Labor
will be held at the Steel Pier, At.
lantic City, n, j., beginning at 10
o'clock Monday morning, June 9,
1919, and will continue in session
from day to day until the business
of the Convention has been COM
pleted.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1919-04-18
CARD OF THANKS

We wish to thank the many kind
friends for their sympathy shown
during our late sorrow, for the beau
tiful flowers; the service of autos,
and for the fraternal regard of the
Pilchuck Tribe No. AZ, I. O. r. NJ.
Mrs. c. +. Steffy and Children.
Mr., and Mrs. A. Eagleton and
Family.
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Representation

Representation
Representation in the Convention
will be on the following basis:
From National or International
Unions, for less than 1000 mem
bers, one delegate; 1000 or more,
two delegates; 5000 or more, three
delegates; 10000 or more, four
delegates; $4,000 or more, five del
egates; $4,000 or more, six del
egates; 12S,OOO or more, seven del
egates, and so on; and from Central
i Bodies and State Federations, and
from local trade unions not having
a National or International Union,
and from Federal Labor Unions, one
delegate.
Organizations to be entitled to
representation must have obtained
certificate of affiliation (char-
teri at least one month prior to
the Convention and no person will
be recognized as a delegate who is
not a member in good standing of
the organization he is elected to
represent.
Only bona fide wage-workers,
who are not members of, or eligible
to membership in other trade
unions are eligible as delegates
from Federal Labor Unions,
Delegates must be elected at least
two weeks previous to the Conven-
ton, and their names forwarded
to the Secretary of the American
Federation of Labor Immediately
after their election.
Delegates are not entitled to
seats in the Convention unless the
tax of their organization has been
paid in full to April 80, 1919.
1t is, of course, entirely unneces-
sary here to enumerate all the i'm
portant subjects with which our
forthcoming Convention will con-
cern itself, but the reminder is not
at all amiss that every effort must
be made to broaden the field and
means for the organization of the
yet unorganized workers; to strive
to bring more effectually than ever
better day in the lives and homes
of the toilers; to defend and main
tain by every honorable means in
our power the right to organize for
our common defense and advance
ment, for the exercise of our nor
NAL and constitutional activities to
protect and promote the rights and
interests of the workers: to assert
at any risk the equal rights before
the law of every worker with every
other citizen; to aid our fellow
workers against the effort to en-
tangle the workers in the meshes
of litigation before the courts in
the several States; to make effect
i've in our every day lives the prin-
ciple declared in the law of our
Republic (the Clayton law, That
the labor of a human being is not
commodity or article Of COM
merce"; to arouse our fellow-work-
ers and fellow-citizens to the dan
ger which threatens to curb and
take away their guaranteed rights
and freedom; to meet and help solve
the vexatious problems of peace and
reconstruction. These and other
great questions of equal Importance
will, of necessity, occupy the atten-
ton of the Atlantic City Conven-
tion.
Therefore, the Importance of our
movement, the duty of the hour and
for the future, demand that every
organization entitled TO representa-
tion shall send its full quota of
delegates to the Atlantic City Con-
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1919-04-18
STATE WORKMEN'S
COMPENSATION
NOT BUSINESS"
ST. PAUL, Mimi, April 12.-The
State Senate has defeated the bill to
create a state-controlled workmens s
compensation fund.

ST. PAUL, Mimi, April 12.-Be-
cause the Minnesota State Fedora
tion of Labor urged the passage Of
a workmen's compensation law,
managed by the State, private in
surance companies claimed that this
is the first step to put the State
into business and that the State
will eventually destroy "private in
itiative."
This claim was answered by Hon.
Asher Howard in a speech before
the House of Representatives, in
which he said
This bill simply permits the
State of Minnesota to spread this
tax over the industries of the State
in a fair and equitable manner in
order that sufficient funds (and no
more) may be collected to pay the
benefits the injured Minnesota
workmen are entitled to, and if it
cannot be justified wholly on the
theory of taxation it cannot be JUS
titled at all.
There are some activities which
properly belong to the State and
this is one of them. The State of
Minnesota went much farther in
interfering with private business
when it established the binder
twine and farm machinery plant in
the State penitentiary and when it
took over the weighing and inspec-
ton of grain than it goes here.
When the Federal Government es-
tablished farm loan bank system
it took one-third of the revenue
away from many country banks.
When it established the parcel post
system it interfered with private
business as conducted by the eX-
press companies.
And when you ask me why the
State of Minnesota, if it is to rem
der the people of the State the serv-
ices required under this act, is not
equally justified in taking over the
grain and milling business, l reply:
That when your State enters the
grain and milling business it is
dealing with wheat and flour. Here
you are dealing with human flesh
and blood-with the tears of little
children and the sobs of the widow
at the grave of the husband and
father whose life was crushed out
in order that civilization might en-
joy the necessaries and comforts
and luXuries of life.
"In the one case you are dealing
with a business problem, Here
you are dealing with a humanitar-
ian problem that touches every
heart that beats in sympathy with
suffering, grief-stricken humanity.
And it is just as right and
proper that companies organized
for profit should be permitted to
collect $1OO,OOO,OOO for Red Cross
purposes and turn $6O,OOO,OOO over
to those the fund was intended to
benefit. as it is that insurance COM
panies organized for profit should
do that thing in this field
Every dollar collected from en-
ployers (less the actual cost of ad-
ministering the fund.- should be
passed on to the injured workmen
or those dependent on the killed. -
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1919-04-18

Fred X. Overman. not finding
clerical work at the Courthouse to
his liking, has resigned and re-
turned to work in the Herald Of
flee
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1919-04-18

Harry Botting, of the Pressmen S
Union, was married last Sunday to
an Everett young lady without the
Journals consent. Harry and his
bride will reside in Portland.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1919-04-18

At a special meeting of the
Typographical Union Wednesday
evening. Bro. o. S. Jones was
unanimously elected to represent
Everett printers at the Northwest
ern' Typographical Conference, to
be held in Portland next Sunday
and Monday.
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Labor Temple, Seattle, Wash,

March II, 1919.
To All Organizations Affiliated
With the American Federation of
Labor.
Greetings:
The Seattle Central Labor Coun-
Gil respectfully urges your careful
and thoughtful consideration of the
enclosed proposals for the recon-
struction of our organization along
lines dictated by present-day indus
trial conditions, and earnestly re-
quest your most energetic co-opera-
ton in bringing about these essen
tial improvements in the interests
of the wage-earners.
President Lincoln, speaking at
Hartford, in 1860, said: Thank
God we have a system of labor
where there can be strike. What
ever the pressure, there is point
where the workingman may stop y
Yet what does the right to strike
avail us if we strike in such small
units as to make us an easy prey to
those who seek to exploit us? AS a
matter of fact, the more effectually
we prepare to strike, the less strik-
ing We will have to do.
Let us remember the advice of
Wendell Phillips: "Organize and
STAND TOGETHER. Let the Ma
ton hear a UNITED demand from
the laboring voice"
Sometimes rivals criticize us be-
cause of our obvious weakness, but
we have nothing to fear from rivals
so long as we will profit by expe-
rience and through the application
of results of our best thought and
study keep strengthening our or
ganization according to the dictates
of common sense and practicability.
Believing that the above repre-
sents the sentiment of an over
whelming majority of the member
ship of the American Federation
of Labor, this Council submits the
following propositions to you with
the modest request that they be
analyzed and judged solely upon
their merits, and if you feel as we
do, that you put forth your utmost
efforts to carry them into effect.
WHEREAS, Experience of the
most ardent and loyal unionists in
carefully and deliberately planning
TO invoke the use of the strike
weapon as a last resort in their ef-
forts to secure certain measures OF
Justice especially at times when
delay might prove fatal to their
cause have demonstrated weak
nesses in our organizations which
should be promptly remedied, nota-
BILE among which is the necessity
of as many as twenty unions rep
resented in one plant (and desiring
to act as a unit under a blanket
agreement) communicating with
hat number of internationals for
sanction and securing twenty re-
)lies, all of which must harmonize
before joint action can be legally
AIKEN, the detrimental effect of
which must be obvious to all; and,
WHERE'S, The continued exist
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as important, there arrived from
the United States just at that criti-
cal time a supply of food that en-
abled the Government to increase
the food allowance.
With increased food allowances
the danger was deemed to have
passed
To anyone that knows the people
of Holland it would be impossible
to exaggerate the warning of this
incident.
Ordinarily among the most quiet,
orderly and reasonable of people,
when they were beset with hunger
and could see nothing of hope be-
fore them, they prepared a bloody
revolution and made up list of
their fellow citizens that they pur-
posed to slaughter.
Attitude of Socialists
We also note that while organ
lied labor and the moderate Social
lists had no part in the plan, men
in Holland generally believe that if
it had succeeded organized labor
and the moderate Socialists would
have been compelled to join it.
If these things can happen in
Holland they can happen in any
other country in Europe. Literally
any other country. They most as
suredly will happen unless some
thing is done to eliminate the con-
ditions that cause them.
Practically the whole proletar-
ian Holland stands for the League
of Nations. No one knows what
might happen if that hope should
be disappointed.
Hope and food. The United
States can supply both and save the
world from the imminent threat OF
chaos.
Because what almost happened
in Holland is the thing that may ac-
tually happen in at least five other
countries.
And what ought most to compel
us to stop and think is the fact that
the actual living conditions in Hol-
land that brought about this crisis
were not so bad as they are today
in nearly all these five.
Also, | should like to suggest one
other thought;
What Bolshevism is and what 1t
means we can see from its work in
Russia.
But Russia, we say, will event
ually pull itself together escape
from the madness that now threat
ems it and win back to sufficiency
and order.
No doubt, but it will win back
only through the help of other ma
tions.
Suppose all other nations were IN
the state that Russia is in!
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1919-04-18
F. (Jack) Bakeman, a pioi

J. F. (Jack) Bakeman, pioneer
printer of Snohomish County, has
taken a situation on the Belling-
ham Daily Journal. Everybody in
Everett knows and likes Jack, and
wishes he may find pleasant sur
roundings in Bellingham.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1919-04-18

Help Europe drive the wolf from
the door, but don't make America S
poor pay the bill.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1919-04-18

We were not made the worlds
granary and garden spot to extort
profits from the needy.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1919-04-18
Slow Starvation of a Nation

Under these conditions Holland
slowly starved. The entire popula-
tion became noticeably gaunt and
hollow-eyed.
Diseases, especially consumption,
began to fill the churchyards with
new graves. Consumption amount
ed almost to an epidemic.
There was little coal. No house
hold was allowed to have a fire in
more than one room. Most of the
factories ceased to operate, or ran
on part time.
The government was able to keep
the railroads in operation on great
ly reduced schedules by comman-
deering the coal that came from
Hollands one deposit. But this was
poor in quality and small in guam
tity.
Rather than see great popula-
tions in acute distress, some of the
factories that closed continued so
long as they could to pay their en-
ployees. Nevertheless, the suffer
ing was great and widespread.
Among these unfortunate people
the Bolshevik propaganda began
and was carried to astonishing
lengths. The world never knew at
the time how close Holland was
coming to a terrible conflagration.
A Bolshevik uprising was plan
ned exactly like the Spartacus re-
volt in Berlin and to be timed by it.
Thousands upon thousands of dis
tressed workingmen were armed
and supplied with ammunition. At
given signal they were to arise,
seize the Government and put to
death every conspicuous employer
and business man.
The lists of the doomed were
prepared. They were to be shot
without delay or formalities.
Then the Soviet Republic of Hol
land was to be proclaimed.
The arming of the proletariat
was easy. Military service is uni
versal and each soldier when he
leaves the army is allowed to carry
I
narily he has no ammunition, and
on this occasion the revolutionists
were found to have full supplies of
ammunition-made in Germany.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1919-04-18

Take over the City Dock. The
people need it.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1919-04-18

Consider the question of building
the Edmonds road
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1919-04-18

The report of the Lincoln Hotel
Committee was laid over for one
week.
The Committee appointed to con-
slider the communication on the
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1919-04-18

The case of Holland gives us a
good SOLDERING lesson in what the
United States can do and ought to
do to save civilization.
For fifteen months before the
armistice there had been practically
no meat to be had in Holland eX-
cept horse meat and very small
quantities of that. There was not
scrap of bacon, pork or mutton.
Of bread there was an allowance
of 200 grammes for each person a
day. That means a piece of bread
not much larger than an ordinary
roll.
Of fats of all kinds, including
butter, no person could have moA
than one-half pound in ten days.
OF milk, the allowance was one
tenth of a litre a day, or about
half small glassful. But even
this was very uncertain.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1919-04-18

While you are enjoying the
benefits of your own organiza-
ton give some thought to the
aid and encouragement of others.
Help them to enjoy the benefits
of organization.
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Smoke Chas. Sheets CHALLENGE
10c Cigar.
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Try BLUE RIBBON" Cigar. sc.
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ARRIVAL OF FOOD
BEATS BOLSHEWSM
IN NETHERLANDS
to Nation Avelted by
Timely ShipIoads from
United States

(By Charles Edward Russell. Writ
ten Especially for the American
Alliance for Labor and Democ-
raCy.
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PUBLISHED IN
THE INTEREST OF +
ORGANIZED LABOR
Arizona republican., 1919-04-20

A big fire like the one Friday, when the U plant burned entailing a loss of over home" the ever-present fire peril But ev small in comparison to the loss of the small holder or rancher who is inadequately pr( loss and suffers a devastating fire.
 Such fire is a warning and an admonitic fient insurance to to cover any possible los We write policies in all reputable compani, DON'T DELAY-DO IT TODAY.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1919-10-23
REMINDED HER OF SALMON
american Traveller in Europe Con.
fesses She Would Have Welcomed
Dish Once Despised.

elisabeth Fraser, traveller and
writer, was talking at diplomatic re.
ception in Paris about her recent ex-
periences in Vienna.
1T is difficult, said Miss Fraser, "to
satisfy ones hunger there, even at
hotels that cost SIS. a day. =
Eating my unappetizing dish Of
mashed turnips, which frequently COM
posed the principal dish of the menu.
thought regretfully of the salmon I
once dlsdained on Canadian trip"
Miss Fraser laughed. ~"
Il was travelling in the back coun-
try OF Canada, where salmon-boiled.
orolled, In salad, creamed, as outlets
Inquired at every meal and became
very monotonous. = :.
is there nothing else for break.
fast! 1 asked the hotelkeeper one
morning as whole fish and pot of
mustard was put before me. sFs
Nothing else?' the man exclaimed.
why, there's salmon enough there
fol six, amt there?'
Yes 1 admitted, but 1 90 NOT
want salmon
wen, them my host replied curt.
~, fire into the mustard"
~
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1919-10-23

DR.. Livingston Farrand, the great
est authority on public health in Amer
lea, served in France as the head of
the fight against tuberculosis He now
succeeds Henry P. Dawson as head
OF the American Red Cross. Dr. Far
rand recently visited Seattle, Spo-
kane and Portland and conferred with
representatives of Red Cross Chap.
tiers of Alaska, Idaho, Oregon and
Washington. 'The Red Cross faces
problems in the postwar period more
serious, if possible, than the problems
of the war itself. Not great amount
OF money, but the membership and
hearty cooperation of every American
citizen is what is needed to help the
Red Cross to solve these problems,
which threaten our national vitality.
and which, unless solved, will rob us
OF the fruits Of victory" said DR.. Far
rand. ~ Fl Z 4