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The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1920-12-10
THE OFFICIAL BULLETIN OF THE
WN STATE FEEDER ALTON OF LABOR
INDUSTRIAL CONFERENCE MEETS-EMPLO OVERS AND
WORKMEN GET TOGETHER


called Industrial the
Friday thorough of
revising the workmen compensation law occurred and
this Legislature
H. OF E. S
hazardous industries
eight months
of lack the providing
enacted Senator Alex Posen, of Hoquiam
strongly of the doctor
of
the elimination
substantial
of
the include all occupations, and the elimination of red tape
readily obtanable
provision the law making widows retroactive
prevailed authorizing the
committee of
Commission that the joint committee will be named
will its deliberations Immediately list of
submitted by President Short Chairman Hughes the
follows: Clair Covert president International Timber Workers.
United Mine Workers; W.
Building Council; Chas. w Doyle, Seattle Central
Wood Tacoma Metal Trades Council
Building Trades Council j. N North
and delegate from Spokane the
Fred Norman of Raymond former chairman labor
committee last Legisure Roscoe of Everett member of Cooks
The Council the
that the President of the Federation
be a
addition considering Improvements in the Industrial Insurance
will the consolidation of Industrial
in weeks of the Bulletin
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statement is as follows:
"The Longshoremen's union of
Everett deem it their duty to the
general public of this city in stating
their side of the controversy with
the contracting stevedoring firm
represented by Mr.. Alex Carlson.
"On Wednesday, December l, Mr..
Carlson ordered two gangs of men
for the steamship Steel Ranger. A
gang of longshoremen such as re-
quired on the Steel Ranger in every
port of the Pacific Coast consists of
Is men; one hatch tender, two sin
gle winch drivers, four men on each
side in the hold, four men on the
dock or scow making loads.
"As the representative of the
company and our business agent had
differed as to the amount of men
required to make loads, the former
insisting on having only three men
instead of four. On timbers of
large dimensions it requires suffi-
cient strength to raise them so as to
be able to get the sling around them.
On smaller lumber which has to be
piled on a block it requires two men
to each load.
"The interests of the company's
representative must have been the
saving of one mans wages, which, in
our opinion, would delay the regular
work of the entire gang, and would
IN the end amount to loss instead
of a gain.
ITO all appearances the stevedor-
ing company must have contracted
for the loading of the said vessel.
'ln the speedy dispatch of vessels
calling at this port we can cite sew
eral instances where they furnished
lCngshoremen to vessels on a per-
centage basis.
I'VE admit that when vessels ar
rive in numbers that we are unable
to furnish skilled men to load them
all and are forced to give them men
who are not experienced in that line
of work. But in all such cases we
have always given the citizens of
this city the preference before any
nonresident, whereas the stevedoring
company on several occasions threat
ened to send to outside cities for
men whom they knew were not
any more experienced than the men
we did supply them.
"The question of the open or
closed shop, as to the statement in
local paper, entirely protects the
contracting stevedoring company.
regardless of the interests of the
steamship companies in this port. At
the present moment, as far as the
closed shop of the longshoremen is
concerned, we have approximately
90 non-members of this organization
employed on the local waterfront.
The effect of the closed shop is to
the interests of the steamship COM
pany. We wish to state that at any
time, day or night, rain or shine, we
can supply them with a sufficient
number of skilled men in accordance
with the water traffic of this port
as compared with any port on the
Pacific Coast, which we believe is
more beneficial to the city of Ever
ett and the steamship companies
than under a system where they
would have to send to outside towns
OF pick up any "floater" on the
street who wanted to make stake"
to get out of town.
"The open shop as proposed by the
Puget Sound Stevedoring Company
equal to the system under which
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1920-12-10
Kidding Ourselves"
Says Business Paper

Chicago, Dec. 4.-The American
Contractor" calls on business men to
drop the cry Of government inter
ference with business
"Why not quit kidding ourselves ?"
asks this publication, which declares
that government interference with
business is a very much overworked
phrase and the inconsistency of
some of those who make use of it
would be ridiculous if general bust
ness conditions were less grave.
THE organized business of the
country always favored government
interference in business when that
interference placed the peoples
money, taken through taxation, at
the disposal of the business inter
ests.
"If the government can interfere
with business and hand the rail
roads 10000 900, and interfere
with business to the extent of plac-
ing a billion dollars at the disposal
of exporting when exporting Is a
real embarrassment to the nation.
how silly and how selfish it is for
business interests to come forward
WIN AllN NAN VI EbN Ni AilAANhAL lltANA
ference when the government at
tempts something in the interest of
the average man and woman.
when it is suggested that the
federal postal savings bank should
pay depositors g or 4 per cent and
lend the money accumulated I'm
these banks to home builders at 5
per cent what howl against gov
ernment interference in businessn
THE farmers and the cotton
growers are real angry because the
government refuses to interfere in
business to the extent of taking
care of both, and yet the farmer
and the cotton grower is such a
conservative individual, so thor
oughly converted to private initia-
tive that if it were proposed to
place the government in control of
the coal industry and deprive the
robber barons of America of their
power to exploit and profiteer, they
would turn down the proposition
cold.
eve are wonderful people! We
are a lot of other things, too, but
we don't believe in government in
reference with business except
when we can make something at
the governments expense"
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Smoke OLYMPIC 1Oc Cigar.
Irish-English Truce
May Be Arranged

Arthur Henderson, leader of the
British labor mission to Ireland,
seems to have hit upon plan to
stop hostilities in that unfortunate
land.
London, Dec. 6.-Events are rush
ing rapidly toward an Irish truce.
Lloyd George is clearly considering
favorable reply to Father O'Flan-
agans suggestion that the govern
ment should make a definite move
toward peace.
Arthur Henderson, returning here
tonight from Ireland, told London
Herald representative that every
where in Ireland a marked desire
for peace existed. He has seen per
sons of every class and shade of
thought in Ireland, he emphasized,
and reported that one and all said
the same thing: 1--WE are tired OF
this awful strife and want peace"
Henderson is convinced that the
present moment affords an oppor-
tunity for an Irish settlement
He does not ignore the Difficult
ties in the way Of the achievement
Of this, but nevertheless feels that
if a sincere effort is made toward
peace and a cessation of provocative
acts it will assist in laying the
foundations Of a constructive set
tlement of the large questions in
vOlved.
The only alternative would mean
using armed forces to reduce the
present chaos in Ireland and an at
tempt to break the spirit of the
Irish people.
1t would be futile to deny that
England has the power to inflict
further widespread suffering upon
the Irish people and to destroy the
economic life of the country, but
even when England has done her
worst, it would still be necessary to
find a basis of settlement founded
upon Irish consent.
Henderson urges an immediate
conference and attempt at concil-
iation. The first essential, he de
clares, is a period of quietude and
a cessation of all acts of violence
or provocation. Then, Henderson
says, a definite effort should be
made to arrange armistice terms at
a conference between British and
Irish representatives
"Were this DONE" he said, Il have
reason to know that the full weight
of the heads of the Catholic church
and of the Irish labor movement
would be used to secure a cessation
of lawlessness and disorder through
out the period of the negotiations. "
From Dublin, Henry W. Nevinson
wires today a rough outline of
the terms which, after converse
tions with various representative
leaders, he considers might be ar
ranged with a view either of bring
ing about a meeting of representa-
tives of the Dahl Eireann and the
British government, or of calling
into being a constituent assembly
made up of delegates from the Dahl
Eireann and from Ulster.
These terms are:
l. All British armed forces, espe-
cially the black and tan, must be
withdrawn and confined to barracks.
2 Sim Fein must deposit its
arms in the custody of the parish
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indications evidence that pitched battle the
of
spring Wage have already been put in effect of
the of bringing about general reduction and for the
sderaton hours.
The Timber Workers International Union is preparing plans for
reductions The
timber industry like every other line of employment have followed far
and in order that the standards that formerly prevailed
in
the industry, small
the
asked of all
market
fight the Shour
other line this
of increase in their hours of labor.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1920-12-10
AntituberculOSis
War on White Plague

"That single one of the far
reaching activities of the Washing
ton tuberculosis Association, its
medical service, established in jan
uary of this year, is sufficient re-
ward to those who literally buy
Christmas seals is coming to be the
opinion of the medical men of the
state" said DR.. Raymond J. Cary,
medical director of the association
"The Christmas seal, as a financial
agent, is all powerful"
"The medical service consists of
permanent and occasional clinics; a
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1920-12-10
WHO'S TO BLAME
FOR DRIVING
THE SHIP AWAY

The public has learned there is, or
was, quarrel on the waterfront,
which caused the steamship Steel
to Seattle to load lumber. The pub
lie learned that that quarrel was be-
tween the Puget Sound Stevedoring
Company and the Longshoremen's
Union. The public was misinformed
The quarrel was between stevedore
named Alex Carlson and the Long
shoremen's Union.
Below is printed statements from
both sides which appeared in the
Herald Friday evening:
CarlsOn's Statement
yesterday | told the union dele
gate that l wanted only three men
on each sling working the Steel
Ranger" said Alex Carlson, repre-
sentative Of the Puget Sound Steve
doring Company. 81 was told that
four men had been listed from the
union to work each barge, and that
they were going to stay.
"Now, we will put as many men
on the work as is necessary. We will
not hold up a ship just for the want
of an extra man or two. We have
been using four men to scow when
small lumber was being loaded. The
lumber for the Steel Ranger in the
particular hatch where the trouble
started was of large size and there
was absolutely no need for four men.
There was barge of creosoted lum-
ber which was more difficult to han
die. We made no objection to using
four men there. We should have
been willing to put on six or dozen
men if necessary.
"We believe we are just as compe-
tent to judge how many men should
be required for certain work as the
union is.
"The list system used by the
union results in our getting many
men who are entirely incompetent.
We have no choice whatever in plac-
ing men under the system used. 1t
is true we have the privilege of dis
charging men, but that gives no
satisfaction.
at is not the union we are fight
ing; it is the system they have of
forcing disagreeable demands on us
that we object to.
"Many of the members of the
union are not at all in sympathy
with the system used by the union.
These men generally have families
and want to see stable conditions
prevailing.
"The floating members who are
here today and there tomorrow are
the ones who are causing most of
tho trouble. They don't care much
whether they work steadily or not,
yet they seem to dominate affairs in
the union"
LongshOremen's Statement
The following statement furnished
by the business agent of the Long
shoremen to a reporter of the Herald
was printed in Fridays issue of that
paper, and is correct with the ex-
ception of a few minor details the
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1920-12-10
President Wilson
Gives Good Advice

Washington, Dec. 7. - President
Wilson today called on congress to
enact program of legislation which
he said would put the United States
in the forefront of a movement to
make the spiritual power of democ-
racy prevail throughout the world.
In his final regular message to
congress, which was sent to the two
houses today by messenger, the
president said that there are two
ways in which the United States
can lead in establishing the doc
trine of Fright makes might" in the
world. These ways, he said, are;
First, by offering the example
within her own borders of the will
and power of democracy to make
and enforce laws which are unques-
tionably just and which are equal i'll
their administration.
"Second, by standing for right and
justice as toward individual nations"
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1920-12-10
Seal Your Mail With
The Stamp of Health

Tuberculosis kills producers-chief-
ly men and women between the
ages of Is and as
1t claims workers-active men and
women in the homes, the office and
the shop.
1t causes 10000 deaths in the
United States every year.
1t costs the United tSates in dol
lars and cents about S500,000 an
nually.
More than 100000 persons in this
country are suffering from active
tuberculosis right now
Most of this waste could be pre-
vented.
tuberculosis menaces every COM
munity, every home and every indi-
vidual.
And yet it is durable and prevent
able.
1t is spread largely by ignorance,
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1920-12-10
Harlin's Friends
Think He Will Win

The friends of Robert H. Harlin
are encouraged by reports from the
east to the point of believing their
candidate for president of the Unit
ed Mine Workers of America will
win over John l.. Lewis the present
incumbent, who is considered too re-
dictionary. Reports are that Harlin
is sure to carry the states of Penn
sylvania, Ohio and Illinois, three of
the largest mining states in the
union.
Harlin is president of District No.
10, this state, which is expected to
give him practically a unanimous
vote.
The lineup is Robert H. Harlin
for President and Alexander Howat
for Vice-president against John L.
Lewis and Murray for the same
offices respectively. Lewis and Muir
ray are the present incumbents.
Let us hope that Bobby Harlin,
our own man, will win.
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priests or other selected persons.
8. During the truce the country
councils must agree to carry out the
ordinary law and to main order with
police or with Irish volunteers, both
unarmed.
4. All political prisoners must
be released on parole, to return to
British custody if the truce fails.
5. The government must guar
antee that its officials will carry
out whatever terms may be agreed
upon.
6. The truce would be terminable
upon "a hours notice if its main
tenance should appear hopeless and
isolated incidents or attacks should
upset it.
Smoke CHALLENGE 10c Cigar.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1920-12-10

carelessness and neglect.
The National tuberculosis Asso-
citation and its 1900 affiliated state
and local organizations wage CON
tinuous winning war on tuberculosis.
The work of these organizations
is financed chiefly by the sale of Tu-
berculosis Christmas Seals.
Buy and Use tuberculosis Christ
mas Seals.
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front now and the longshoremen are
working under their agreement. That
agreement provides overtime for
Sunday and legal holidays. On the
first of November, Carlson asked
gang of men loading ship to work
on election day which had been de-
clared a legal holiday. They did
work and had to go to Seattle to
get their pay, as Carlson violated
the agreement.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1920-12-10

Change and progress are law
of the social world,
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1920-12-10

Smoke CHALLENGE 1Oc Cigar.
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LongshOremen's Statement

LOngshOremenS Statement
The following statement furnished
by the business agent of the Long
shoremen to a reporter of the Herald
was printed in Fridays issue of that
paper, and is correct with the ex-
ception of few minor details the
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Smoke BLUE RIBBON So Cigar
Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-07-08

County of Audrain, state Of Missouri,
to wit:
One and one-seventh Il I'D Of an
acre of land described as follows, to
wit: Commencing at a point 60 feet
North of the North West corner Of
Lot 16, Block 8, of Benton City and
running North 1875 feet, thence West
go feet, thence South 1875 feet,
thence East to the point of beginning,
all in Section 2, Township so, Range
s West, hereby reserving Is feet on
the East end of said land for street
purposes as per deed recorded II
Pook 80, at Page 500, also %reserving
and accepting 24O feet off the West
part of said described tract, all in
Benton City, Audrain County, Mis-
,ouri.
Said conveyance was made in trust
20 secure the payment of a certain
Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-07-08
10 Years Ago.

DR.. f. D. VanDeventer was instant
ly killed when he was struck by the
Chicago & Alton Hummer" at Lad
donia.
The First Christian Church of this
city called Rev. w. A.. Shullenberger
of Trenton to the ~pastorate of the
local church.
DIR. R. W. Berrey, past exalted
ruler of the Elks lodge, left for De-
troit to attend the national Elks
convention.
Miss Mildred Whitney was elected
to head the expression department of
the Visitation Convent in St. Louis.
George Branham, colored, was &C
cidently shot by James Mckinney,
also colored.
Marques Wallace, o of DR.. A. A,
Wallace, was elected to teach Greek,
Latin and French in the Fishburn
Military Academy in Virginia.
Work on the new water tank for
the Mexico Power Company was
nearing completion.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-07-08

come the plaintiffs and file by leave
Of Court, their petition and affidavit
and it appearing to the satisfaction
of the Court that the defendants
above named, except Rufus S. Pear
son, cannot be summoned in this ac-
ton and it is ordered by the Court
that publication be made notifying
them that an action has been COM
meneed against them in the Circuit
Court of Audrain County, Missouri,
affecting the title to the following des-
cribed lands and tenements in Aud
rain County, Missouri, to-wit:-
Begin at the Northeast corner of
Lot No. 80 of Survey No. 1882, run
thence South to the North boundary
of Monroe Street, thence West on
North line of Monroe Street 1874 feet,
thence North to the North line of
said Lot 80, thence u East 1874 feet
to the point of beginning, all in the
City of Mexico, Missouri"
Which said action is returnable on
the first day of the next term of
said Court to be held at the Court
House in the City of Mexico, the
County and State aforesaid on the
9th, day of September 1920, when and
where you may appear ard answer or
otherwise defend such action; other
wise plaintiffs petition will be taken
as confessed and Judgment rendered
accordingly.
Given under my hand this 14th, day
of June, 1920, in term time.
(SEAL) E. F. ELLIOTT,
Clerk of the Audrain County Cir
cult Court.
A true copy from the record.
Attest f. F. Elliott, Clerk.
Fry & Fry, attorneys for Plain
tiffs. 1S-4t
Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-07-08
20 Years Ago.

The Knights of Pythias were plan
ming to erect a new lodge hall.
Their were two cases Of small pox
in Mexico.
Henry Meyer, the contractor, start
ed to remodel the Shootman building
on the corner of Jefferson and Mon
roe streets. Many new improvements
were planned for the place.
]. E. Sallee, foreman for the Reg
ular Baptist, was planning to open
a book binding business In the old
Leake Hotel building.
Col. Goodwin, new commandment at
Missouri Military Academy, and his
family arrived to make their home
here.
Mrs. Walter Williams and children
of Columbia were the guests of Mrs.
R. D. Worrell.
John Dyke was building a launch
to be put on the waterworks lake.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-07-08

promissory note in said deed of trust
fully described and whereas, default
has been made in payment Of said
note and interest.
Now therefore, /, Theo. ]. Williams
the Trustee named in said deed At
trust, at the request of the legal
holder of said note, will on
FRIDAY, JULY 9TH, 1920,
Between the hours of nine o'clock in
the forenoon and five o'clock
in the afternoon of said day
proceed to sell the said real estate
at Public Vendue to the highest bid
der at the East Front Door of the
Court House, in the city Of Mexico,
Audrain County, Missouri, for cash,
to pay said debt and the cost and ex-
pense of executing this trust.
THEO. J. WILLIAMS,
Tat Trustee.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-07-08
YESTERDAY
IN MEXICO
40 Years Ago.

Hon. D. H. Mcintyre Of Mexico
was q candidate for the nomination
of encouragement of the state.
James Carroll was a candidate for
Secretary of State, subject to the
primaries.
Professor Blanton had just return
ed from Virginia. At his alma mater,
Hampden Sidney College, the degree
of Masters of Arts was conferred
upon him.
Col. J. J. Haden was a candidate
for the legislature.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-07-08
TRUSTEES SALE"

WHEREAS, Ionic NJ. Owen and
Willie f. Owen, his wife by their GER
tain deed of trust dated September
oath, 1912, duly acknowledged and re-
corded in the deed Of trust records,
within and for the County of Aud
rain, in the State of Missouri, in Book
80, at Page 391 conveyed to the I'M
dersigncd Trustee, the following des-
cribed real estate, situated in the
Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-07-08

Mr.. and Mrs. Tom Cox of St. Louis
Mrs. Trussel of Moberly, and Miss
Helen Cox of Moberly were in Mexico
Thursday on their way from Moberly
to St. Louis. While here they were
the guests of RMS. W. W. Boillot.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-07-08

Charlie Hanger of st. Louis, form
crly Of Mexico, was a visitor here
Friday. Hanger has resumed his
practice IF law after serving for sew
eral years as a lieutenant in the
United States army.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-07-08

Frank Bruton, formerly of this
city, who has a splendid position with
Proctor & Gamble, of Kansas City,
was a visitor in Mexico Thursday.
He says Gus T. Graham, formerly of
this city, has accepted a position with
Proctor & Gamble and will be located
in the future in California.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-07-08

Frank Kelso, manager of the La
Crosse Lumber Company, hung a vest
containing a gold watch and chain, on
a hook in the office of the company
Friday. When he returned to get
the vest, the watch was gone.
The pickpocket had very carefully
detached the timepiece from the
chain. and stuffed the loose end Of the
chain back in the watch pocket.
Kelso has no idea who the thief
was.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-07-08

Renfro Gibbs of Cape Girardeau is
the guest of his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. c. R. GIBBS. He will leave Sum-
day to motor to Billings, Mont, with
his sister, Mrs. E. R. Price, who also
has been visiting Mr.. and Mrs. Gibbs.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-07-08

Mrs. Marsh and Miss Pauline
Marsh who have been the guests of
Mr.. and Mrs. ". W. Pollock, went to
St. Louis Thursday, From there they
VIII 20 to their home in Enid, Okla.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1920-07-08

Misses Pearl and Nellie Fite, Of
Boonville, are guests of Miss Ruby
Clark and other Mexico friends and
relatives.