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The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1920-09-03
Freight Cars Idle;
Shortage Not Real

Chicago, Aug. 28.-The Illinois
Agricultural Association has com
pleted a survey of the alleged freight
car shortage and Secretary Thompson
of the association says:
"This survey shows pretty clearly
to the farmers of Illinois the excuse
of car shortage is largely camou-
flage, given to cover up some real,
deeper reason for the present trans
portation inefficiency. And to search
for that reason will be the next job
of the farmers business organiza-
ton"
Members of the association made
daily records of the car initials and
numbers of all cars at 494 stations
located in As different counties for
seven consecutive days. OF these 494
stations, l46, or 29.5 per cent, re-
ported some of the same cars on
tracks the last day of the count as
were on the tracks the first day of
the count.
"At all stations" says Secretary
Thompson, 1924 cars were listed
the first day, and of these cars 938
out of 1924 cars had not been moved
from the country point for seven
consecutive days. This is just a little
over 10 per cent Of the cars at such
points.
1T is very moderate when we say
that the total number of new cars
which the railroads say they need to
meet the transportation requirements
Of the present moment is not a patch
to the total of immobile cars now
idling by the weeks and months in
terminal yards and on side tracks at
country points.
mine operators say they were
forced to idleness many days each
week, leading to the strike of the
miners, which recently tied up the
mines just when the farmers were
needing coal for threshing. At this
same time before the strike in Chris
tian county, at Clarksdale and at
Willeys, two trains of coal cars,
totalling SO cars, were reported
empty at both first and last days of
the count.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1920-09-03
The Railways Are
In Very Bad Shape

Charles S. Mcllen was formerly
president Of the New York, New Ha-
ven and Hartford railroad He was
president when the government ex-
posed the rottenness of its manage
ment and was compelled to retire.
Mellen says that he was a goat"
for the Morgan interests and that
had he been permitted a free hand
the New Haven would not have got
into bad odor with the public. He is
recognized authority on the subject
of transportation, whether or not he
has been guilty of the things charged
against him.
This is by way of preface of a
statement recently made by Mellen
to the effect that the railroad situa-
ton is as bad as it possibly can be,
and that he has no hope of an i'm
mediate or remote Improvement He
leaves the inference that private
management is being put to its final
test and must inevitably fail High
transportation rates, he says, will not
be helpful, but, on the contrary, will
work havoc with the railroads, be-
cause they now have invoked the law
of diminishing returns.
The express companies, too, have
kept pace with the railroads in de-
creased efficiency, and the parcels
post, government-operated, h e
largely supplanted them as public
agencies. Their delivery is bad and
they cannot escape the penalty of
past wrongs.
Railroad problems, says Mellen,
are largely financial. High rates
must be paid for money, and that
means higher transportation charges
and diminished traffic and lessened
revenues. The railroads are travel
ling a vicious circle, where every
spiral negotiated leaves them worse
off than when they started.
This will not be pleasing to rail
road investors, to whom little hope
is given. Mellen says the Esch-
Cummins bill is flake" and that
it cannot do the things expected of it.
IL is a somewhat fatuours effort to
cure with palliatives ills that are
deep-seated and fundamental.
Men who know something of the
railroads tell the same story when
they speak their minds. Private own
ership is going through new pro-
cess of dissolution, and the end is
just a matter of time. Every eco
nomist in this country who has dis
cussed the transportation problem has
declared that the point of safety has
been passed in transportation rates,
and that the higher they go the
lower will railroad revenues fall.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1920-09-03
Prophecy Comes True

1t was predicted when the rail
roads were returned to private con-
troll that the experience would cost
the nation a tidy sum. Estimates of
operations during five months show
that these predictions were entirely
too conservative. The federal treas
ury will be mulct for a sum of nearly
%600,000,000 to pay operating deficits
guaranteed by the Cummins- Esch bill.
In other words, it will cost the gov
eminent more for six months Of pri-
vate operation than for twenty-eight
months Of government control.
After September this burden will
be transferred directly to the poe
kets of the people. They will be
compelled to pay in increased freight
and passenger rates the large sums
that have been coming directly out of
the federal treasury. In addition, it
will be learned that in addition to
this direct tax for railroad use, the
consuming public will be compelled
to pay four or five times over in
multiplied rates and the profits that
are taken as they are passed from
middleman to middleman.
This is the harvest that is being
reaped from the Cummins-Esch bill
1t was charged that it was the most
niquitous Legislation ever approved
by Congress. 1t promises also to be
the most burdensome The public
" elfare has been completely sacri-
feed to the demands Of private
greed. The whole nation has been
crushed under a heavy burden for nc
better reason than that private rail
way managers may continue to badly
serve the public and deal generously
with investors.
There is certain to be reaction
to the transportation act that will
those who were in any wise respon-
sible for it. The American people
proverbially good-natured, will not
forever tolerate a situation that SC
shamelessly disregards their interest
When the full enormity of the Cum
mins-E sch bill is brought home tC
the nation the end of private owner.
ship will be in sight. Then the pub
lie will calmly and seriously take
up the only rational alternative, gov
eminent ownership and democratic
control of the railroads.
We are paying more than billion
dollars year for a fetish-the false
theory that there are inherent bene
fits in private ownership and that its
boosted initiative means service anC
economy Of operation. 1t is just thu
other way round, fact that is APP
parent to everybody who has seri
ously studied the question.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1920-09-03
Farmer-LabOr Party
Campaign Meetings

Meetings are being held every eve
ming in various parts of Snohomish
County creating Farmer-Labor Party
sentiment and pushing the organiza-
ton work Of the Farmer-Labor Party.
Last Friday night, although the
weather was most unfavorable, quite
large meeting was held in Monroe,
where Geo Louttit, candidate for
Judge of the Superior Court, A. G.
/ Zeibell, w. J. Fortson and j. II. An
derson talked.
Last Saturday night about $50 peo-
pie attended the meeting in East
Stanwood, although it poured down
rain all night Monday night large
meeting was held in Stanwood, j. II.
Anderson giving an organization talk
at both meetings. The Farmer
platform is read and talked on at
all these meetings. Many members
were written up at both meetings
and the Farmer-Labor buttons are
being worn now all over the county.
Last Monday night Geo Louttit
and w. J. Fortson addressed meet
/ ing of farmers only in the town of
! Sultan. No effort was made to get
the town people out to that meeting,
| but the town of Sultan will go pretty
strong for the Third party.
| Next Tuesday night a meeting will
be held in Silvana and Wednesday
night in Hartford.
Mr.. Ananaias Ferry
The ex-service man, Ferry, who
spoke on the streets of Arlington a
week ago against the Farmer-Labor
| I 1
all other progressive organizations,
has been holding meetings in every
town in Snohomish County and is
continuing his villifications. He adj
vertises the meetings as Non-Par-
tisan and the people, thinking that
the meetings are held under the aus
pieces of the Nonpartisan League,
turn out in large numbers.
In Gold Bar, Ferry had a large
audience and proceeded to tell them
all about the tax laws and the in
creased taxation of North Dakota.
When he finished one of the women
asked, "Will you please tell us again
about that law and the taxes? You
did not tell it to US as Walter Thorn
as Mills did, and we would like to
know who is right" The man
then proceeded to read the law and
was then told that he had not talked
as that law read. Questions were
shot at him steadily, and the people
were indignant that he had gotten
them out under false impressions,
but they state that his speech of lies
and villifications made more votes
for the Farmer-Labor Party than
they could have done talking for the
party.
1t is rumored that this man is
being paid by the Associated Indus
tries and many people believe it.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1920-09-03
Top Notch PrOfiteers

The United States has approx
mately 10000 millionaires, according
20 the officials of the Internal Reve-
nue. Service. This would be an in
crease of about $4,000 over pre-war
times, and would seem to indicate
chat Approximately" $4,000 gentle
men succeeded in getting away with
Approximately" $14,000,00O,000 while
American boys were dying in France.
1t would appear that % out of the
20 600 have incomes of 100000
cup" The Internal Revenue Off
Gals considerably refrain from in
dicating the exact altitude of some of
those incomes, or the names of the
fortunate possessors. They intimate,
however, that there are two gentle
men in this county who are close con-
Gestants for the distinction of receiv-
ing the republics biggest income.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1920-09-03
Food Prices Are
Still Going Up

Washington, Aug. 28.-The United
States bureau Of labor statistics re
ports that from June Is to July 10
of this year retail prices Of food
articles increased as follows:
Pork chops and eggs, 7 per cent
each; sirloin steak and round steak,
per cent each; rolled oats and
oragnes, per cent each; rib roast,
chuck roast, ham, fresh milk, evap-
grated milk and corn flakes, 8 per
cent each; canned salmon, macaroni
and raisins, per cente each plate
beef, bacon, butter, bread, corn
meal, navy beans, cabbage, baked
beans, caned corn, tea and prunes,
l per cent each.
The following price reductions are
reported: Onions, II per cent; po-
tatoes, IA per cent; hens, ? per cent
lamb, cheese, lard, flour, rice and
sugar. l per cent each.
For the seven-year period, July
1913, to July, 1920, the retail price
of sugar increased 1872 per cent: po-
tatoes increased 1868 per cent; flour
1874 per cent; corn meal, 1873 per
cent; rice, ia per cent; bread, 113
per CENT nam, LIZ per CeuI; ldlllp'
100 per cent; hens, 107 per cent;
pork chops, 101 per cent,
The large percentage increases
shown in corn meal, flour, sugar and
potatoes mean that in July, 1920,
meal cost, approximately, two and
one-third times as much as in July,
1913; flour, over two and one-half
times as much; potatoes, over four
and one-half times as much, and
sugar, over four and three-quarters
times as much.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1920-09-03
UNFAIR LIST
BARBER SHOPS

BARBER SHOPS
l. H. Turner, 1l04 Hewitt Barnhart Shop,
Monroe.
BUILDING LABORERS
Peter Jackson, L. Starke Emil Mitersbach
John Grant
CLUB ROOM
The ILL Club Room corner Cakes and
Hewitt avenues.
COFFEE AND TEA HOUSES
Mannings Coffee House ON Hewitt between
Colby and Wetmore; Jack o. Lantern, on
Colby, between California and Hewitt.
CONDENSED MILK
Libby, Mcneil & Libby, Packers and Can
ners; Carnation, Aster, Mt. Vernon and
Washington brands; Yakima City Creamery.
CONTRACTORS
Christ Kruppler & Sons and the Standard
Oil Bldg, at corner of Pacific and Virginia
ELECTRICIANS
F. r. Hare, electrical contractor; John
Thueson.
FISH COMPANIES
San Juan Fish CO., Seattle.
GENERAL MERCHANDISE
Buffers, the Star and the Navy. PoplaclI,
corner Hewitt and Lombard.
Bon Marche Of Seattle.
MEAT MARKETS
The Municipal Meat Market and its Prop
rietor, A. C. Snider
PLASTERERS
A. c. Wright, A. L. Knapp, Booth, w. L.
Porter.
PLUMBERS
Otto Merz, John Theuson.
SHIPYARD
The Norway Pacific.
MISCELLANEOUS
c. w. Anguish, 1906 Lombard; American
Packing Co, Everett Cal. Smiley and Sons ;
Fritz Gerald M. Anderson and house, 2l09l3
Rainier Avenue; X. J. Mccain, lumber deal
or, j. W. Johnson and building at 1926 Maple !;
Mr.. Burden and his house. 25l1 Maple street ;
Everett Fruit Products Co.. f. S. Lang Man
ufactiring Co. of Seattle.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1920-09-03

LOCAL UNIONS
BARRIERS Local No. 4d6-Meets 2nd Thursday
in each month. r. W. Solomon, President
1898 Rockefeller avenue: W. c. Davis, Sec
retary-Treasurer, 1873 Hewitt avenue.
Boilermakers' Union. Everett No. 5OO-Meets
the End and 4th Wednesday nights of eac
month, at the Labor Temple Fred N Lii
jenberg, President, 81 33rd St., Everett
Grant Wirick, Financial Secretary, Pine
hurst. All brothers invited to attend.
Electrical Workers, No. 1871, meets in Hall
No. l. Labor Temple on Monday at 8 pm
President j. f. Penturf Labor Temple
Sec j. M. Gibbs, 3ll9 Oakes, Phone White
367
Engineers, Local No. 7l9 meets every Thurs
day in Hall 5, Labor Temple. A. H. Herbst
President, l7l7 Colby. Phone Red 3l3
Harry c. Parks, Secretary 3OlS Norton.
Phone Black 9G2.
Longshoremen No. 1873, meets Monday nights
at $780, at 2SS9 Bond Street. President.
Frank Preston, 2939 Bond; Secretary L.
W. Stevens, 2939 Bond; Business Agent.
Harry jacobson, 2939 Bond. Phone 7O5.
Painters, No 339, meets every Tuesday at
St. Phone White 1851. H. Arends. secre-
tary, 2426 Virginia, Phone Blue S35
Piledrivers. Local 21lO, meets Tuesdays in
the Labor Temple. Morris Wilson, Presi-
dent, 1910 Lombard; j. H. Anderson, FL
ancial Secretary Labor Temple.
Retail Clerks, Local No. 44S-Meets every
Friday evening in the Labor Temple. E. R.
Iarbell, President, Bells Court; r. b.
Swalwell, Financial Secretary Bells Court
L. H. Black, Recording Secretary, Brodeck-
Fields.
Stage Empoyees-Arthur Patterson. Presi-
dent, ................... .........: Mark Bsbeau
Recording Secretary, 25l4 Virginia Geo
Fauver' Fin. Sec-Treas., 20l9 Colby.
Timberworkers, Local No. Meets LIST and
Bird Fridays and 2nd and 4th Sundays in
Labor Temple, at Z p m. J. c. Rath, Prest.,
Holmstrom, Rec. Sec, 2630 Lombard; M. A.
Meyer, Fin. Sec, 1927 Summit.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1920-09-03
INDUSTRIAL
INSURANCE
DEPARTMENT

The fatal accidents reported in the
Industrial Insurance Departments
Monthly Bulletin for July / to y,
and including in the month OF
June. numbered 30, Of which four
were in Snohomish County as fol-
lows: d. Sutherland, Granite Fails,
July IS; Stacy f.. Wright, TulaIlp,
July 3; Edward Tweedale, Three
Lakes, July 9; Gus Kraft, Index
July "a.
Admiralty Man Fell From
Gangpiank
On Nav 20. 1920, J. J. Hanson, an
employee of the Grays llarbor Motor
ship Corporation Of Aberdeen, car
ricd ON their payroll as a pipefitter
in their pipe shop on shore, was de-
tailed to assist in installing some ma
chinery in the ship "Forest King
then lying at their dock. He was IN
the act of taking some material
aboard the ship when, while going
over the gangplank, he lost his bal
ance and fell, striking on some tim
bers afloat between the ship and the
dock, and sustaining injuries from
which he died on the same date.
The gangplank was part of the
| dock equipment and did not belong
to the ship. Deceased had not yet
reached any part of the ship when
he fell,
The Commission holds this acct
dent covered by the Workmens Com
pensation Act, but the dependents
of the deceased have filed no claim
and indicate a disposition to proceed
in admiralty. Claim No. 1G44O7.
Admiralty Again-Piledriver On
ScOw In Tidewater Slough
On June 81, 1920, Charles H..
Powers, an employee of the North
western Lumber Company of Ho-
GUAM, was working on a piledriver
on a scow afloat in Campbell Slough,
and sustained a badly crushed thumb.
In this slough the tide GIBBS and
flows At certain stages Of the tide
the slough is navigable. At other
times the slough is an eXpanse of
mud flats. When the accident oc-
CURED the tide was in.
Because the slough is unmeandered
and not navigable except for logs,
the Commission holds the claim to
be under state jurisdiction and same
has been allowed. Claim No. 1G7149.
Baseball Not Covered
Inquiries have been received by the
Department from various sources
concerning BASEBALL when promoted by
an employer among his employees
for advertising or welfare purposes
and when the employees engaged in
baseball games or practice are kept
undpr nav the same as if thew were
working at their regular job.
Since baseball, whether profess
sional or otherwise, is not among the
occupations classified as extra hazard
Gus and has never been brought UNI
der the act it cannot be considered as
an extra hazardous employment
When conducted by firm engaged in
an extra hazardous industry for adj
vertising or welfare purposes it must
be considered like any other non haz-
ardous department of the business
and is excluded from the covering of
the act
This rule will not initiate against
the allowance of claims by EN-.
ployees injured while playing al
games on the employers premises
during noon hours or other intervals
regularly incident to the days work
1t is intended to apply only to the
semi professional baseball teams
maintained by certain employers fol
advertising or welfare purposes
where the games are played or prac
tice is conducted elswhere than OF
the premises of the employer.
9 |
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1920-09-03
Basic Income Urged
For Employing Class

Adelaide. South Australia, Aug. %
IF it is logical for the government
to probe the living necessities of
workers and set a wage on this ba-
sis, why can't this system be applied
to the employing class, asks the
Wesualian Worker, which demands
the appointment of basic income
commission to investigate the needs
of those outside the working class
that their incomes may be based
accordingly.
AT the present time the interests
Of the workers are protected" by
basic wage commission, arbitra-
ton and cancellation courts, wages
boards and a necessary commodi-
ties commission.
Here is a list Of functional bod
les says the Westralian Worker,
(which are employed ascertaining
what it costs the worker to live,
what minimum casually maximum)
wage shall be paid, ascertaining
what clothing he shall wear, or
what he may be permitted to eat.
The scale Of wage is thus based
upon the Dearest Of necessities, and
Cue sequel IS the same old story
with a raise in wages up go prices,
and incomes Of the land, finance and
trading fraternity reach out for an
added percentage at each turn.
The day has now arrived when
the workers should apply the method
of ascertaining what is a reasonable
basic income.
"Are stock exchange boodlers, land
value jugglers, interest money lenders
and food gamblers to be regarded as
above the law? Is it for them to
arrogate both in the matter Of what
they should pay and what they
should receive?
Labor is by every rule Of logic,
entitled 10 demand a basis income
commission"
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1920-09-03
Progressive Gains
In New Brunswick

Officers of the New Brunswick
Federation Of Labor reported to the
annual convention that they succeed
ed in amending the workmens com
pensation act, as ordered by the last
convention, despite opposition from
the Manufacturers Association. The
amended law provides for full medi-
cal, hospital and skilled nursing at
tendance from date of accident, in
creases the amount allowed for flu
neral expenses to 500, and increases
compensation for permanent partial
disability.
The federation officials also re-
ported that the minister of public
works promised that the words
union or prevailing wages" shall
hereafter be included in all govern
ment contracts.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1920-09-03
Schools Open

The public schools opened in Ev-
erett last Wednesday, September l.,
with very large attendance. The
Teachers Institute will be held Sep
TENDER 20, 80 and October I.
The county schools opened last
Monday.
st, Dominic's opened Wednesday
morning with a larger enrolment.
The new addition will accommodate
the fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth
grades.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1920-09-03
SHORT SHOTS

Smoke Chas. Sheets CHALLENGE
10c Cigar.
"Scotty" Walker is displaying the
Cooks and Walters house card in
his window at the corner of Hewitt
and Cakes.
Bro. c. W. Knapp and wife re-
turned Wednesday forenoon from
Yakima, whittier they went to visit
his brother D. L. Knapp, who was
seriously ill., He is not yet out
of danger but when Bro. Knapp left
his bedside the sick man had revived
and was considerably better.
Last Saturday, August %, the
city officially accepted the pipeline,
dam and other work included in the
contract with Burns & Mcdonnell;
engineers Of Kansas City. Since
June Is the city has been operating
the pipeline, but the legal transfer
did not take place until last Satur-
day.
The Cooperative Society of Eure-
ka, Cal, has leased a store building
for five years and will open to the
public next month";
Umbrellas, Trunks, Ladies' Hand
bags, Leather Goods and Repairing at
Everett Trunk Factory, 2815 Rookie
Teller Avenue.
Robert Bridges, who as things look
now, will be the Farmer-Labor cam
didate for Governor, will speak in
Spokane today. He will tell the
people why a great change should be
made in the political situation in
Washington.
The names of IS Republicans and
Il6 Democrats appear on the official
primary ballot. No others need APP
| ply But on the official ballot for
November 2 there will appear a list
of names which will again appear
on the official rolls Of the state
after the election. The owners of
these names will be Farmer-Labor
candidates.
Cox is forcing Republican Chair
man Hays to publish an itemized
statement of Harding's campaign ex-
/ penses before election. 1t is thought
these expenses will about equal the
amount Ole Hanson paid for Stone
& Webster's street car lines.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1920-09-03
LABOR NOTES

Bitter denunciation of the Denver
daily press because of its treatment
of the street car mems strike in that
city marked the convention proceed
ings of the Colorado State Fedora
ton of Labor. A strong agitation
for a daily newspaper, controlled by
organized labor, was developed
The Colorado State Federation of
Labor passed resolutions condemning
the non-union shop policy of the
Chamber of Commerce of the United
States were approved and an assess
ment of Sc a month on all members
to combat the non-union shop was
recommended by unanimous vote.
Five hundred dollars is being trans
ferred from the treasury of Seattle
,Boilermakers' Local No. 104 to the
fund being raised by the State Fed
Grafton of Labor to aid the Farmer
Labor party campaign. Authorize
ton for the payment of this money
was voted by the membership.
According to the latest figures
supplied by the u. S. Department of
Labor the index figure for the cost
of living in June was 269 as com
pared with an index figure of 100
for 1913. All commodities, con-
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1920-09-03

The minimum wage law providing
for the wages that shall be paid to
women employed in the District of
Columbia is constitutional, in the
opinion Of Associate Justice Bailey
of the District Supreme Court, who
filed a memorandum in court to that
effect.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1920-09-03

sidered in the aggregate, advanced
nearly 30 per cent in price from
June, 1919, to June, 1920.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1920-09-03

The average weekly wage in the
automobile industry in the United
States last year was $25.71.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1920-09-03
ROSTER OF UNIONS
CENTRAL LABOR COUNCIL
LOCAL UNIONS

Meets every Wednesday night at p. m. Cha5
q. Goldthorpe, President o. F. Wefferling
Secretary.
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Try "BLUE RIBBON" Cigars, Sc