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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-09-24
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS.

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sacrifice price. Cut this out Send
70 your country cousins. They buy
fine pianos MANLY n. RAMOS, 1e6
North Seventh
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fine pianos MANLY n. RAMOS, 1os
North Seventh.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
FINE watcAes-sf rcu wans 60 Buy =
real watch. JAHNKES. ei3 East
Main street. Is the place. Your old
watches always taken In exchange
REAL ESTATE-FOR SALE.
G. L. ana n. l.. Denson rcr Farms ana
city property.
AUTO SERVICE
Carbon Burned Out. NC Per Cylinder.
A L. FLEMINc'S WELDING SHOP.
SIT West Broad.
esxby Service. rord Carss saxHy
COLUMBIA SERVICE STATION.
Starting and Lighting Batteries Fer All
Make of Cars h STOCK Ready
Fer DefAveEx.
Auxom obile~, Acc~s.erAss, Tires. Eta.
BARGAINS IN USED CARA
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FOR All Ktnds Hense Painting, Cali On
A. 4. CLEMENTS. the contractor. He
will save you money. All work guar
antesd. Call Randolph 4O54-W. 11uA
Hull street, South Richmond, Va
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1919-05-30
MACHINISTS NO. 70
URGE 4O-HOUR WEEK
FOR METAL TRADES

Taking a leaf out of the book OF
the Seattle Building Trades Coun-
Gil, which recently established for
the present season, at lesat, 40
hour or five-day week, which gives
about 1000 building tradesmen a
full Saturday holiday, Seattle Ma
chinists' Lodge No. 70 has started
a campaign to induce the Seattle
Metal Trades Council to establish
the same short week in the ship
yards and other metal industries.
The Metal Trades Council has been
asked to submit the proposed
change in working conditions to
the rank and file of its twenty
affiliated unions, which have a
combined membership exceeding
$4,000. The metal trades in Seattle
and Tacoma have since last fall
been working a 44-hour week, TAX
ing Saturday afternoon off.
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HOW LITTLE MOTHER"
SEES POOR RUSSIA

Flooded with tears and blood,
Russia means and cries out TO the
world. She is a living body, and
her tortures cannot be looked upon
cold-bloodedly as an extraordinary,
never-before-witnessed experiment
in social evolution She is alive.
and every pore of her body is
shedding blood.
Our greatest, deepest, most im-
mediate need is the creation Of con-
ditions under which the Russian
people will be able to convoke an
aIl-Russian constituent assembly.
Russia will never be quiet and sat
isfied until her representatives,
freely chosen by the entire popu-
lation. will establish a CONSTITUTE
ton for the State, viii lay the
foundation for a stable, democratic
government, insuring laws that ac-
cord with the will and desires of
the Russian people. catherine
Breshkoysky, in her Message to
the American People"
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cooperate with the State Fedora
ton in matters of common welfare
and in politics.
With the purpose of carrying out
this idea, the executive committee
was instructed to attend the annual
convention of the Washington State
Federation of Labor to be held in
Bellingham next month, to seek to
form a political alliance with the
Federation and the State Farmers
organizations with which the Fed
Grafton co-operates in matters po-
litical.
The Americanism resolution
adopted by the convention declared
that 1--WE stand for no doctrine of
ruin or destruction; that we believe
in the government of our represent
atives, and stand as 100 per cent
Americans ready to defend our
principles
Another important resolution
dealing with the same general sub
ject adopted commended the stand
taken by Congressman Albert John
son, of Washington, in favor of the
stringent restriction of immigra-
ton. After adopting this resolu-
ton the convention added a plank
to it's reconstruction program, de-
handing that legislation be passed
by Congress closing the Nation S
gates to immigration for at least
five years.
The convention went on record
by resolution as favoring the estab-
lishment of the initiative and ref
erendum and recall system in ma
tional politics, and as demanding
that all great public questions be
submitted to a referendum vote of
the people.
The convention decided to make
Seattle the permanent headquarters
of the Welfare League and to hold
the first regular convention in that
city in January.
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MISS JULIA O'C0NN0R
WOULD REORGANIZE
TELEPHONE GIRLS

Spending five busy days in Seat
tie. Miss Julia O'Connor, of Boston,
President of the Telephone Operat-
ors' Department of the information
al Brotherhood of Electrical Work
ers last week started campaign
for the reorganization of the Seat
tie Telephone Girls Union, which
once had virtually 100 per cent Of
of the 900 switchboard girls OF the
CITY. but which suffered various re-
verses during the war. partly on ac-
count of the unfriendly attitude to-
ward organized labor of A. S. Bur
Lesson, Postmaster General and eX-
officio Wire Controller for the
United States Government.
Miss O'Connor told organized
labor in Seattle that she was not on
the Coast to agitate for Coast
wide strike of the switchboard
girls, but to build up militant or
ganization in every city and town
that would enable 10, 900 girls to
obtain without a strike, except as
a last resort, the wage increases and
the betterments in working condi-
tions they have asked in vain of the
Pacific Telephone & Telegraph
Company and Wire-C Controller
Burleson in the States of Washing
ton, Oregon, California and Nevada.
Miss O'Connor, who is only %
years old, but a born leader, re-
ceived a warm welcome in Seattle.
Miss O'Connor led the success
full strike of the New England tele-
phone operators and defeated Gar
Burleson most decisively and told
Seattle unionists that a 100 per
cent organization of the Seattle
girls would put the entire North
west into line for a reorganization
She promised to return to Washing
ton after the A. F. of l.. convention
next month, to continue her reor-
ganization work.
She is now in California and will
go from that state to the A. F. of L.
meeting, where she will have the
honor of being seated as one of the
few international union presidents
of her sex ever seen in a federation
meeting.
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MACHINlSTS PLAN
ORGANIZING DRIVE

Northwest District No. 26 of the
International Association Of Ma
chinists, meeting in annual con-
vention in Portland, decided to con-
duct an intensive organization cam
paign during the coming year and
will devote especial attention to
the now unorganized communities
and to the auto mechanics and ga
rage employees who come under it's
jurisdiction. Up to the present
time the auto mechanics have been
rather neglected by the trade union
movement in all but a few of the
larger cities.
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THE M. & M. A. GETS
A HOT, HARD PUNCH

Seventy-fiye men and women
tailors Of Los Angeles struck to Sc
cure decent living wages They
rad been working as bushelmen
and women in eight of the largest
clothing stores in Los Angeles,
Captain Charles T, Conneu. rep
resenting the L. s Department Of
Labor, attempted to effect set
Element, but he soon found the
Merchants and Manufacturers As
ISOLATION had prevented the cloth
ing men from dealing with the
strikers: otherwise Captain Con
nell would have been successful in
settling the trouble
The Los Angeles Central Labor
Council and the Citizen" the Of
ficial journal of Los Angeles or
ganized labor entered the fight on
behalf Of the strikers The "Citi-
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THE RAILWAY MEMS
WELFARE LEAGUE
FOR AMERlCANISM

Voicing the sentiment of the or
ganized railroad workers of the
entire state, not only as unionists,
but as citizens and voters, special
convention of the recently formed
Railway Mems League of Washing
ton, held in Seattle Sunday went on
record as denouncing the destruct-
i've doctrines of the Bolsheviki and
as standing squarely for representa-
tive government and 100 per cent
Americanism.
More than 100 delegates, repre-
senting virtually every railroad di-
vision point in the state, attended
the convention, the purpose OF
which was to ratify the constitu-
ton and bylaws submitted and
Professionally adopted at the first
meeting of the organization several
weeks ago
A general program for the re-
construction period also was dis
cussed and adopted.
All unions of railway workers
are eligible to membership in the
local councils that the League is
forming throughout the state. and
at the special convention the dele
gates represented not only the big
railroad brotherhoods, composed of
operating department men. but also
nearly a dozen other international
unions and brotherhoods of crafts
employed in railway maintenance
work and the transportation trades
allied with the railroad business.
One Of the few important changes
made in the common welfare pro
gram previously submitted was to
make it plain that the league has
no intention OF making itself an
economic organization dual or rival
to the State Federation OF Labor.
but that its cardinal purpose is to
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1919-05-30
SEATTLE CENTRAL
LABOR COUNCIL VS..
DUAL UNIONISM

The Seattle labor movement
which has been rather unduly toll
Grant of mass actionists" and 9TH
er ultra-radicals in recent years.
has been awakened to the danger of
such liberation and the Central
Labor Council has just condemned
as dual organization and a men
ace to the entire labor movement a
newly formed organization known
as the Federated Unions, the al
legged purposes of which are ia
function as a distinctly economic
organization" to bring about gen
eral revision of the trade agree
ment system with the purpose OF
lining the workers up for mass
strikes and other quick and de-
cisive" moves.
The promoters of the Federated
Unions accused the Labor Council
of frittering away too much of it
time on resolutions dealing witt
world politics and national govern
ment affairs, besides dabbling too
deeply in local politics, which tbs
radical holds himself to be no
concerned in. That there was more
than a grain of truth in the criti
cism Of the Labor Councils pas
record was recognized by many
unions that were thereby induced
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Office Hous 10 a. m. to a p. m
No Charge for Examination

The doctor in charge, on account
of having been in the United states
Iarmy service, has not been able tc
visit the different cities for the past
seven months, but from now on viii
again make his regular calls. He is
graduate in medicine and sur
gerry. and is licensed by the state OF
Washington. He visits professionally
the more important towns and cities
and offers to all who call on this
trip. consultation and examination
free except the expense of treat
ment when desired,
According to his method of treat
ment he does not operate for chronic
appendicitis, gall stones, ulcers Of
stomach, tonsils and adenoids.
He has to his credit many Won
derful results in diseases Of the
stomach, liver, bowels, blood skim
nerves, heart kidneys, rheumatism
sciatica, leg ulcers and rectal all
ments.
If you have been ailing for any
length of time ana do not get any
better. do not fail to call, as i'm
proper measures rather than disease
are often the cause of your long
standing trouble.
Pan,an,ber above date that eX-
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to send delegates to the new central
body.
Resolutions introduced in the
Central Labor Council pointing out
the dual character of the new or
ganization resulted in the charge
being openly made and only weakly
denied that the |. w. w. had a fin
ger in the Federated Unions pie and
that behind the scenes emissaries
of the Canadian One Big Union
were pulling the wires to bring
about secession from the A. F.
of L. of the entire Seattle labor
movement.
The result was that the self
styled 'sanely radical" delegates
lined up with the conservatives to
put through the resolution de-
nouncing the new central labor
body. The organizers of the new
body, however, threaten to continue
their activities, though a number
of the influential local unions have
since withdrawn from the Federal
ed Unions as requested by the Cen
trail Labor Council.
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THE "WOBBLIES"
ARE IN OUR MIDST

There is great excitement among
newspapers over the l. w. w. con-
vention in Chicago. The newspa-
pers discover that the |. w. w.
plans a campaign of agitation to
'foment labor troubles" and that
its goal is nothing short of revo-
luton"
These suspicious are we'll found
ed. The strange thing is that a
number Of persons are just begin
ming to discover what the I. w. w.
is trying for. Newspapers-and
persons-who are just finding out
that the l. w. w, one of whose
slogans is strike at the ballot box
with an axe has revolution as its
goal, have only their own blindness
TO thank for their tardy discovery
The only source of satisfaction is
that the l. w. w. is small in num-
bers and is not likely to grow larg-
er. When Americans cease to be
Americans, cease to think in terms
of democracy and cease to strive for
reasoned progress, then the I. w.
w. may produce Lenine and
sweep the country into ruin la
Russo. The year in which that
happens, however, has not yet been
written on the calendar.
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BEWARE OF THAT
"OLD WAGE" FRAUD

The following editorial of time
ly interest to all workers has been
sent out for the use of the public
press by the press bureau of the
American Alliance for Labor and
Democracy, of which Samuel Com
pers, President Of the A. F. of L., is
the head;
Jobs for heroes?
Make way for the soldier worker.
Help him toward his immediate
need--a job.
That's good as far as it goes-but
look out for the employer who
wants workers at reduced wages.
True, he will say: Sure, | want
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him at his old wages"

him at his old wages"
Many soldiers will fall for that
without realizing that it means a
reduction of nearly one-half the pay
he was receiving two years ago.
Few of the returning men know
that the purchasing power of their
dollar has been reduced by about
one-half in the past few years.
When he buys his civilian clothes
he will get the first jolt, but full
realization will not come until he
settles down to the old grind.
There is much Unemployment
that seems to be unavoidable. There
is widespread unnecessary unem-
ployment Especially is this true in
industrial centers. There is a con-
gestion of jobless workers in many
Eastern cities.
Many soldiers, deceived by the
glamor of the hero worship and
wild welcome in Eastern cities,
have made the mistake of return
ing to Atlantic ports with their dis
charge bonus, apparently thinking
the days of joy and nights of glad
ness were to be prolonged forever.
All he had to do was to take a job
and then gather with his wonderful
new-made friends.
The recoil is sad, disbursement
is doefuI. Some of the "hard
boiled" employers are taking ad-
vantages of conditions to get cheap
labor. They are offering the "old
wages on the old job"
We owe it to our returning men
that they should not be robbed OF
just wages. We owe 1t TO our
selves that wages be not cut at this
time.
Warn the soldiers and sailors
who are coming home. Let every
organized worker be on the alert
Talk this in meetings. Get the un-
derstanding of the RELATIVE
WAGE and insist on an income that
will be adequate to maintain" not
only the reasonable standard of
life" outlined in labor's new inter
national bill of rights, but a high
American standard. Resist the in
sidious wage cutter.
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AT LAST

During the flu epidemic in San
Francisco, when all public meeting
places were closed, and the entire
population was compelled to wear
masks to prevent the spread of the
disease, drunken man was over
heard muttering;
Well, I'm an old man, but ! have
lived my time and am ready to quit.
! have lived to see four great things
come to pass the end Of the war,
the churches closed, saloons left
open, and the women muzzled. "-
Judge.
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zen handled the matter in force
full, truthful manner.
Two men and one woman circu-
lated extra copies of the Citizen"
The police didn't know what they
arrested them for.
The woman, Miss Anna Wilkins,
was arrested while selling papers
in front of the clothing store of
Harris & Frank, and was the first
to be placed on trial. Judge Thomas
P. White was engaged for the de-
, Tense.
Following extracts from the
I"Citizen's" report of the trial are
interesting:
In addressing the jury, Attorney
! Thomas p. White denounced the
| Merchants & Manufacturers AS
ISOLATION for its attempt to deprive
working men and women of Los
| Angeles of their constitutional rights
and to trample under foot the rights
Of a free press, rs well as the right
of free speech and free assemblage.
Instead of appealing to the SYM
pathy of the jury and calling atten-
ton to the fact that the defendant
was a poor working woman, Attor
ney White flayed the merchants for
their autocratiC attitude toward the
tailors, and denounced the profit
eering that had been resorted to
during the war, and is still going on
among certain business men, who
have made it nearly impossible for
working men and working women
to live.
Attorney White wanted to know
who is running Los Aneeles-the
Merchants q Manufacturers Asso-
citation, or the common people? He
asked that the defendant be acquit-
ted, as she had violated no law, but
was the victim of grasping, greedy.
money -Crazed individuals who had
used the police in an effort to keep
down wages.
ut is evident that the jury thor
oughly agreed with the sentiments
expressed by Attorney White, as a
verdict of acquittal was rendered
seven and one-half minutes after
the case was submitted to the jury"
AS an after-clap of the trial the
Citizen gives the following:
1T is interesting, to say the least,
| that President Woodill, of the Mer-
chants & Manufacturers Associa-
ton resigned the presidency of that
/ organization the day the jury &C
quilted the woman striker for SELL
| ing extras. Whether he refused TO
! rrr r,1r e, IL.
! Zeehandelaar. Secretary of the NJ
| & NJ, The Citizen does not know.
/ but The Citizen does know that
/ Rice. the new president of the NJ. q
/ NJ. is as hostile to organized wage
/ earnerS as is Zeehandelaar It is a
/ toregone conclusion that Rice will
/ back up the eight clothing store
/ merchants in their attitude toward
the striking tailors.
But now that they cannot have
strikers put in Jail for turning the
/ llght OF publicity upon Employers
who are involved in a fight with
/ Labor, what will Rice and Zeehan-
/ delaar do to try to brighten the
working people, m the hope that
they will not demand living wages ?
quit" ''
The Zeehandelaar person is so
well known for his devilish deeds
that he deserves to be enrolled with
the late Mr.. Shylock, "demortaliz-
ed by Citizen Shakespeare, and
Mr.. Hohenzollern. The character
istics Of the two last named cele-
brities are admirably combined in
Mr. Zeehandelaar.
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Counties. where unionism has been
more or les strongly opposed IN
the past. The campaign, the SOFT
drink workers say, will be maze
statewide If the results expected
in the Puget Sound District are at
tanned.
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SOFT DRINK WORKERS
FIGHT FOR UNIONISM

The Seattle and Tacoma locals of
the Brewery and Soft Drink Work
ers International Union, are CON
Quoting joint reorganization
campaign to organize the soft
drink factories of King and Pierce
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THE OFFICIAL BULLETIN OF THE
WIN. STATE FEDERATION OF LABOR
CONTINUED from Page One.)

ON Page One.)
man at the head Of the movement
is worse than useless To accom-
plish things requires tact and wis
dom, not brute force and threats,
and because the latter policy has
not been the policy of the Presi-
dent of the Federation he is mark
ed for defeat by the ultra-radicals
and doomed to walk the plank" if
the irrationalist has his way.
In Secretary Charles Perry Tay-
Tor the Federation has the most
painstaking, methodical, efficient
official that any state labor organ
ization has on its roster. Conven-
ton after convention has compli-
mented him upon his ability, hon
esty and thoroughness No man in
the State of Washington is better
suited to fill the office Of Secretary
Treasurer.
Secretary Taylor has been CON
fronted with the huge task of
keeping the Federation on a sound
financial basis His has been the
job of advising and counselling
with local unions, and by this
means keeping them in the Fedora
ton. Like President Short, he has
his enemies, but not one single one
of them can say that he is not eff
ficient or capable
Is it to be, then, the policy of the
Bellingham convention delegates to
change officials, particularly at
this momentous time, simply be-
cause some one does not like them?
Are we to change the policy of the
| Federation because we cannot gain
unanimous approval for all the acts
of it's officers? Are we to adopt a
new policy for our state organiza-
ton because agents Of the |. w. w,
and the Reds" desire to bring
about that change?
Efficiency and service should
count above all things Let men
be judged by their official acts. not
by the grumblings of disgruntled
individuals. When the convention
hits it's stride watch these two men
in action and if they are remiss in
their duties, if it is found their
work is faulty or that they are not
fitted for the positions they hold, |
it will be ample time then to pass
judgment on them.
All of us make mistakes. All of |
us do not please all persons, but to .
TRY is the main thing, and if ever
two men have tried to make the
Federation an institution of which
every union worker can be proud.
those two are President Short and
Secretary Taylor.
And as you would guard your
home, guard your Federation. and
through it your movement, not by
shotgun methods, but by the power
of reason and understanding, that
when the Bellingham convention
meets the Federation and it's off
Gals will have the full endorsement
and hearty cooperation of the labor
men and women Of the state.
We have travelled far on the road
to progress in this State of ours.
The advancement has not been as
rapid as many Of US have wished,
but we have gained with each pass
ing day, We have the confidence
of the people of the State and we
must retain that above all else, for
without public approval and con-
fidence we cannot exist.
Our Federation must be presery-
ed You, delegates to the conven-
ton, are to be the judges of its fu-
ture. Choose wisely and we'll,
! CEhTTI NENTpAI
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My uncle left me only $4,000.
Wonder if could break his will?"
Sure thing, He must have been
crazy to leave you anything. -
Boston Transcript
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81 can read Cholly like a book, )"
You're foolish to strain your
eyes over small type. Cleveland
Press.
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she-But you only volunteered
just as peace was proclaimed.
He-Er--yes. You see, exactly,
I-er-wanted to see it was car
ried out properly.-The sydney
Bulletin
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Doe Boy-Why does she close
her eyes when she sings?
Pay Silent Because she cant
bear to see us suffer. Over Here.
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