The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1920-10-29
REFERENDUM
NO. us IN. G"
(By Frank Pease)


Ex-service men! You want a
honus? Sure you do. But where do
you want it to come from, out of
the small taxpayers, or out of the
war profiteers
Do you think neighbor Bill Jones,
who worked in the shipyards, in the
machine shops, or in some store,
and who owns little slot" next
door to you about the size of a
pocket handkerchief, with little
bungalow on it, and who is having
hard time to get by on the pres
ent high cost of living-do you
think HE should pay your bonus?
Or do you think some of the over
rich profiteers the big timber
trusts, railroad trusts, should pay
it?
Don't you know, Mr.. EX-service
man, that while you were in the
trenches, neighbor Jones was pan
handled by every flapper in the land,
held up by every "war driver"
shook down by every Liberty Bond
seller, Thrift Stamp Seller, War
Stamp Seller, until those fabulous
wages he was supposed to be re-
CclFlIIS disappeared Inc q on" Delii
in a hot furnace?
Don't you know that the corner
grocer, the shoe merchant, the cloth
ing merchant, the landlord, EVERY
BODY who had anything to sell,
simply SLAPPED on the price with
the sky for the limit?
And who did they boost prices on?
Why, your own people, Mr.. Ex-ser-
vice man, the Common People, Neigh
Dor Jones, Smith, Brown, wage-work-
ers, small taxpayers, YOUR KIND
OF PEOPLE.
And now, in this state, through a
red tape, complicated, eX-commission-
ed-officer-k of "bonus BILL" they
want to side step from giving you a
chance at making drive on these
same war profits.
Referendum No. 2, the bill they
are all squaking their heads off
about, will do the following things:
l. Increase the taxes of the COM
mon people, the small tax payer.
2. Feed a lot of bond brokers
good fat rake-off for selling the
bonus bonds.
g. Subtract all the money you re-
ceived as grant or loan" from the
Veterans "Welfare" Commission BE-
FORE you get your bonus-WHEN
you get it.
a. Feed a lot of clerks and red
tape staff in the string of scab
employment offices the "Welfare"
Commission is running across the
state. (Mr. Union Man, take no.
tice).
5. After subtracting the money
issued you as grant or loan" from
the "Welfare" Commission, this
money goes back, not into the state
treasury, but back into the "Wel-
fare" Commissions "revolving fund.-"
and when this fund has "revolved"
long enough paying the red tape
clerks, the eX-colonels, ex-captains,
eX-louis, etc, like the "kitty'' in
poker game, these will eat it all
up.
6. Makes you, Mr.. Ex-Service
Man, the victim of a red tap semi
charity scheme, and makes YOU, in
stead of the PROFITEERS, pay
your own bonus.
Referendum No. 2, is N. G., Ex-
service Men. Step on it, Vote the
Farmer-Labor Ticket, STRAIGHT,
for a dollar a day bonus to come
from war profits and untaXed prop
erty. Don't be satisfied or fooled
with cheap hand out of fifty cents
a day for licking the kaiser, cause
if you do, it will be long time
before you get even that, and years
and years and years before you
get anything else out of the war.
Don't let the profiteers get away
with it. They will laugh their
heads off if you fall for Referen-
dun No. 2, and Colonel" Inglis,
the bills inventor, will have addi-
tional proof that you are the easy
marks he thinks you are.
Vote the Farmer-Labor Ticket and
vote for YOURSELVES.