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The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1920-01-02
THE SURE CURE FOR
EXISTING UNREST

1t is plain that the main causes
of the general unrest among the
working people of this country to-
day is the concerted effort of organ
lied capital to demoralize and de-
stroy organization among their en-
ployees. Some years ago the same
effort was made. At that time the
plan they carried into effect was to
flood our country with hordes Of
foreign pauper labor Into the coal
fields, the mines, the steel indus
try, the great centers of manufac-
turing they poured.
The employers aimed to demor-
alize the market, make labor cheap
and bring union men and women to
their knees. How did it work out?
Organized labor came out of the
fray stronger and better organized
than ever.
But wait Among the great in
fluX of foreign pauper labor came
the socalled radicals, bred and born
in the conditions imposed by the
autocracy of Europe These i'm
migrants, cowed by oppression and
kept down by illitracy reduced
wages and made living conditions
unbearable to freeborn men and
women. Organized capital and the
capitslist press shunted the evils
growing out of this condition on to
the shoulders of organized labor.
The foreign born turned and or
ganized capital was compelled to
change its tactics. This time their
scheme is different. They're going
to bat on "Americanism, that is,
their conception of it. 1t is going
to be the great American plan of
the open Shop advocated by the
Associated Industries" the Loyal
Legion of Loggers mad Lumbermen"
and other organizations wherein the
employers have absolute ruling
power.
An Eastern judge, sitting in a
case wherein employees were being
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1920-01-02

turn to work individually and with
out any recognition of their union,
and which, of course, the miners
have refused to do.
1t is reported that approximately
80 of the unfortunate dupes that
the mine owners have imported to
Wilkeson are parading around the
mine property and through the
mining camp of Wilkeson with guns
strapped around their waists, and
indicating a condition that may re-
suit in a conflict at any time.
The State officers of the Miners
Union have laid the entire case be-
fore the Attorney General and the
Predisent's Commission appointed
to deal with the situation. Two
night letters covering the entire
situation have been sent by the
President of the State Federation,
one to Attorney General Palmer
and the other to the Commission,
both of which urge that the matter
be disposed of Immediately by the
Commission, and the Coal Com
pany compelled to carry into effect
the decision rendered by the govern
ment an RI w Whiph hoe hoon oooanta5
by the miners and operators every
where else throughout the Nation.
Unless an immediate settlement is
brought about the other miners of
the State may walk out any time,
as feeling is running quite high be-
cause of the pressure brought to
bear,4 by every branch of the gov
ernment, on tn eminers, to compel
them to observe all decisions rem
dered, and of what seems to be lax
ity on the part of the government
in enforcing their decision with
the same vigor when it applies to
a coal company.
However, it is expected that the
will dispose Of the
matter Immediately, and that the
entire matter in controversy may
be settled by the time this reaches
The press.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1920-01-02
TRIPLE ALLIANCE
TO HOLD CONVENTION

The State Triple Alliance is Civ
ing serious consideration and may
issue call within a few days for a
state convention representative of
The three basic groups composing
the Alliance, to be held about Feb.
II, either in the City of Seattle or
Tacoma. There is a general recog-
milton on the part of all concerned
OF the imperative need of creating a
permanent organization and one
providing adequate machinery and
finances through which the entire
state can be thoroughly organized
and all of the basic groups embrace
ed in an effective statewide ergan-
cation.
The plans now formulated by the
big business interests of the State
TO concentrate all of their power
and influence in securing the cleo
ton of an anti-Labor Governor and
Legislature, have brought home to
the Farmer and Labor interests, as
well as the entire progressive ele-
ments or the State, the Importance
OF formulating an effective non
partisan organization that will
make possible the uniting effectively
on the political field of all of the
progressive forces of the State.
Plans must and will be worked
out at this convention for such an
organization, and every local of the
Federation, and of the Railway or
sanizations, as we'll as every organ
lzation of Farmers in the State,
must be represented in the conven-
tlon. Action must take the place
oi discussion and controversy if the
interests of the great producing
masses of our State are to be given
'he protection they so badly need,
ana effectively combat the assault |
now being organized against them. |
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1920-01-02
SAWDUST KIND Of
"AMER|CAN|SM'

1t is a well-known fact the lum-
bermen, owners and operators, are
very we'll organized. But they deny
the right of organization to their
employees.
This creates class hatred-fo-
ments unrest and radicalism.
A few years ago there arose some
minor labor trouble at one of the
local mills and the workers struck
to enforce a recognition of their
rights.
All the mills in Everett shut down
in sympathy. Then they started up
in unison one bright morning and
did what?
They stationed a special officer
at every mill gate and no man
wearing union button was per-
mitted to pass through. However,
a number hid their buttons and
passed the gates.
Not very long after, suddenly a
general strike all over the Northwest
broke out to enforce the S-hour day.
The lumbermen said this strike
was fomented by the |. w. w.
We entered the war against Ger
many. Our Government wanted
harmony and efficiency. Our Presi-
dent appointed agents to investigate
conditions in the Northwest. Among
other things they reported was that
75fo of the men employed in the
lumber industry were members of
the !. w. w and they laid the blame
at the door of the Operators. They
would not allow the men to have an
organization of their own, and then
came along the I.W.W. The investi-
gators reported that unless the
S-hour day was granted there
would be another general strike.
Then the government instituted
the S-hour day.
Now our mills are again shut
down. The report is when the
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1920-01-02

wheels turn again a move will be
made to put over" the great LIS.
mo join No job" But hold. it
seems that some of the mills are
employing large numbers of aliens,
chiefly Greeks. 1t is a well-known
fact that a large number of ex-ser-
vice men are out of employment,
and are not very successful in quest
Of jobs. 1t can't be possible some
of the mills have turned away the
Yankee boy for the Greek? If so,
why?
1t seems the County Auditor has
run out of application blanks for
those wishing to declare their inten-
tion to become citizens of the United
States.
1t can't be that the mills have
told the Greeks to make applica-
tion for their first papers, join the
LIS. to keep their jobs, and let
the ex-service men continue to walk
the streets like tramps!
l wonder if that is the great
Americanism plan of the great and
only 4 LIS.
YANKEE BOY.
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Of today is worth about one-half
/ less than it was in 1914, and all
comp pensation paid today on a fixed
value of the dollar of 1914 is an
imposition and an intolerable
wrong to the injured employe and
to the survivors Of those killed in
/ industrial employment. Justice de-
mands readjustment of the COM,
pensation paid as herein indicated.
and in addition the compensation
allowed under the Federal Act
should be further amended as to
increase compensatory payment in.
certain injuries anC in cases of
death.
Under no circumstances should.
tie Federal Trade Commission, or;
any other commission or govern
mental agency have the right Or
authority to fix either wages or,
hours. To permit any governments
tai agency to perform such acts
would in effect destroy the right,
to freedom of contract; deprive our
people of their liberties and create
a government Of bureaucracy which
is desired no more than is a mill
tary autocracy.
To allow a governmental agency
n n nm in
your question implies would also
destroy the labor sections of the
Clayton Act it is evident beyond
a shadow of doubt that such an ex-
tension of governmental authority
would establish in our democracy
compulsory labor and encourage a
socialstic governmental control
over all the industrial and COM
mercial activities of our people.
As matter of fact, laws are not
self enforcible, and it is only where
they are supported by a permanent
and strong crystallization of public
sentiment and moral force that they
are effective without requiring the
elements of fear and of dire punish
ment to the individual or groups if
they are not observed. To make in
dustrial laws effective would re-
quire a system of espionage Of an
inconceivable magnitude, which
system would becoma so b,1rdor
some and intolerable that its at
tempted enforcement would render
impossible the accomplishment of
the end desired.
Experience has demonstrated
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1920-01-02
KENYON HENDERSON
BILL IS NEEDED TO
PROTECT FARMERS
Consumers Also Need Protec-
ton from the RapaCity
of the Packers

Statement by the Farmers Ma
tional Committee on Packing Plants
and Allied Industries of the Farm
ers' National Council, Bliss Bldg,
Washington, D. C.
The compromise made ty the De-
partment of Justice and the Big
Five Packers makes more necessary
than ever the enactment of the
Kenyon-Anderson bill to protect the
farmers, producers of live stock and
the public. The decree issued by
the Department 70 Justice is a
sweeping victory for the wholesale
grocers and a sweeping defeat for
the live stock producers, farmers
and consumers of America. 1t serves
notice in unmistakable terms upon
the American people that parties
guilty of the grossest forms of con-
spiracy in restraint of trade, and
to establish monopoly may appar-
emily, through agreement with the
Department of Justice, secure i'm
munity for their actions. Another
equally striking feature about the
decree is that under it the packers
may through holding companies
continue their explorations of the
people.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1920-01-02
UNFAIR LIST
BARBER SHOPS

BARBER SHOPS
L. H. Turner. 1104 Hewitt; Barn
hart Shop, Monroe.
BUILDING LABORERS
Peter Jackson, L. Starke, Emil
Mitersbach, John Grant.
CLUB ROOM
The LLLL Club Room, corner
OakeS and Hewitt avenues.
CONTRACTORS
Christ Kruppler & Son and the
Standard Oil Bldg, at corner Of Pa
ciflc 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.
MEAT MARKETS
Everett Avenue Meat Market. Riv-
erside; Carstens Meat Market, 2Sls
Colby.
CONDENSED MILK
Libby, Mcneil & Libby, Packers
and Gamers; Carnation, Aster. MI
Vernon and Washington brands: va
kima City Creamery.
PLASTERERS
A. c. Wright, A. l.. Knapp, Booth.
Tom Nygard, w. L. Porter.
PLUMBERS
Otto Merz, John Gheuson.
SHIPYARD
The Norway Pacific.
Textile Fabrics
scotch Woollen Mills Goods.
MISCELLANEOUS
c. w. Anguish. 1905 Lombard:
American Packing Co, Everett; Cal.
Smiley and Son; Fitz Gerald. Nj.
Anderson and house, 2lO9h Rainie,
Avenue; X. ]. Mccain. lumber deal
er, j. W. Johnson and building at
2526 Maple Mr.. Burden and his
house 25ll Maple street; Everett
Fruit Products Co; f. S. Lang Man-
utacturlng Co. Of Seattle. /
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1920-01-02
EXECUTIVE COUNCIL
STATE FEDERATION
MEETS ON JAN. 9

Sall for a meeting of the EX-
ec1tive Council of the State FEEDER
alton of Labor, at headquarters,
January 9, has been issued by the
President. The Council will meet
Jointly with the three standing
committees of the State Federation
of Labor, on Building Trades, Metal
Trades and Miscellaneous Trades
affairs.
This will be the first meeting of
those committees held under the
new constitutional provision. The
committees will meet to consider
all matters of statewide interest to
the organizations embraced in the
separate sections. The committees
are created by succeeding conven-
ton by caucuses of all of the dele
gates embraced in each particular
section. Several matters of Import
ance to the Building Trades, partic-
ularly in the Tacoma district, will
receive immediate attention.
The Building Trades Committee
is composed of Frank Cotterill, Sc
attic, Charles Richmond, Tacoma,
and Bert Williams, Yakima.
The Metal Trades Committee is
composed of Jas. A. Taylor, Seattle,
R. Hennessey, Tacoma, and c. H.
Middleton, Spokane.
The Miscellaneous Trades Com
mittee is composed of Alice Lord,
Seattle, w. R. Glover, Tacoma, and
o. A. Dirks, Spokane.
The work of all committees will
be thoroughly organized at this
meeting and plans for rendering
service to each department will be
formulated in consultation with the
Executive Council.
Other matters of vital Importance
to the Federation will be given con-
sideration by the Council.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1920-01-02
(By CHARLES EDWARD
RUSSELL

INC CDhOI1i<I.
The United States Senate is close
now to the choosing place between
war and no war, barbarism and civ
ilization, and which is it going to
pick?
Just before it adjourned in No
vember it picked war and barbar-
ism temporarily.
It's poor old shaggy Cave Men
crept out of their caverns, blinked
up at the sun, and piped:
What! No more war? No more
hatchet work? No more sending out
other men to batter one another
while we watch the fun and sell
'em hatchets? Not on your life!"
So they spiked the peace treaty
and went back to their caves.
1t will be up again probably just
after the holidays and the same old
skin-clad cSew will spike it for good
and all, unless intelligence on the
outside steps in to stop them.
The first fruits of what they did
in November were a wave of de-
spair that swept over the world, the
outbreak of terrible rioting in Italy
and a fall in exchange to a point
where American exports must stop.
No more exports, then no more
making of the things to be export
ed. That means that mills stop.
the mass Of unemployment is null
tiplied and the prophets see the
signs of panic. All here in Ameri-
ca
Then please note:
The peace treaty was defeated on
the pretended ground that we in
the United States have nothing to
do with the troubles of Europe nor
any other part of the world. We
don't care how much or how fast
European peoples go to the bow
vows. We are to live alone and
for ourselves, the hermit crab of
nations.
And the first turn out of the box
all this as an argument is smashed
TO pieces. At one blow it is prov
ed that We can't ignore Europe's
troubles. 1t is proved that any thing
that upsets conditions in Europe
upsets conditions here. 1t is proved
that in this age nations and peoples
are so bound together by trade and
commerce that what is bad for one
is bad for the rest. No matter how
much we may preach and patter, it
is utterly impossible for us to ig-
more the rest of the world.
In these days there is no such |
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1920-01-02
THE TREATY WILL Be KILLED
UNLESS THE PEOPLE GET BUSY

thing as profiteering by the mis-
fortunes of other nations. We are
all in one boat together.
Nevertheless the Senate will go
ahead and finish the job of killing
the treaty-unless the people inter-
fere to save themselvs.
There are two great reasons they
should so interfere and do it at once
and in a way that even the average
Senator can understand.
First, Article X of this treaty
makes war on the earth practically
impossible.
All the nations in the League
guarantee one another's territory
against foreign invasion. That ends
war. There is nobody left to in
wade or to fight.
If the treaty is defeated we serve
notice on the world that we still
believe in war, invasions and fight
ing. Having made a declaration in
favor of these savageries there is
no kind of doubt that We shall have
them. And anybody not stone blind
can see with whom we shall have
them. Also, by what influences we
are to be kept out of peace that we
may have them.
Second, that treaty contains the
Charter of Labor, the product of
the International Labor Conference
held in Paris last February and
March, the solemn declaration of
Labor's rights as hereafter they are
to be recognized in the world.
If the United States, after partici-
pating in this conference and hav-
ing hand in the drawing of this
Charter, now deliberately cancels it
all, then we stand before the world
as the most backword of nations
and a new club is placed in the
hands of the influences and the In
terests here that believe the time
has come to beat Labor into subjec-
ton.
The basic, primitive things that
Labor stands for are in that char
ter. The United States as nation
rejects and repudiates them. Ev-
cry grasping employer will instantly
seize that fact as an argument that
these rights do not exist.
But the Senate is not the real
ruler of this country. 1t seems to
think it is, but it isn't. The people |
have not yet abdicated, and with
out losing time the people should |
show this Senate what they think of !
a legislative body that belongs in |
the Fifteenth Century and tries to
operate in the Twentieth.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1920-01-02
MATHEW WOLL ADWSESW. \. HAYS
ON LABOR QUESTIONS OF TODAY
Chairman of Republican National Committee Answered by
ViCe-PTeSdent of American Federation of Labor

A short time past Mr.. Will H..
Hays, Chairman of the Republican
National Committee, submitted a
two-page letter to a number Of la
Dor officials in which he asked the
views of labor men on important
questions having developed out of
the relations of labor and capital 4.
Included among gst the labor Off
Cials to whom this inquiry was re-
ferred was Mathew Vol, Vice
I President of the American Fedora
tion of Labor, who is also Presi-
dent of the International Photo
Engravers Union, President, Inter
national Allied Printing Trades As
Isociation, and President of the In
ternational Labor Press of America.
Mr.. Woll's reply, which contains
series of nine questions propound-
ed by Mr., Hays, is as follows:
Questions one, two, and three
were answered in last weeks issue
of the Journal.
Question w.
Your fourth question is as fol-
lows
What changes should be made
in the Employers Liability Act?
How can satisfactory wages and
reasonable hours be assured, and
adequate productivity obtained?
Should the Interstate Commerce
Commission have the right to fix
wages as well as rates, and the
Federal Trade Commission or other
bodies the right to fix prices as
well as wages? Should the powers
of these commissions also extend
to fixing the hours of labor?"
If your question relates to the
Federal Compensation Law, then
permit me to say that the Act in
question has accomplished much
Sood. however, the compensation
provided to the injured and to the
survivors of those where death en-
sues needs amendment. First of
all, the compensation provided in
ali our compensation laws where
the amount is stipulated and arbi-
trGrily limited, needs Immediate
amending 70 meet adequately the
higher cost of living of today and
the great shrinkage which has TAX
en- place within the past four or
five years in the purchasing power
of the dollar, With the cost of
living having increased enormously |
the purchasing power of the dollar
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1920-01-02
IHE WILKES0N MINE
OWNERS STILL DEFY
THE GOVERNMENT 7

The Wilkseon Coal & Coke Co.,
Is still openly defying the govern
ment of the United States by refus-
ing to comply with the plan pro-
mulgated for the settlement of the
recent strike by Attorney General
Palmer The mine owners have re-
FUSED to restore the status quo and
nave insisted that the miners re-
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Continued on Page ThreeJ

prosecuted for picketing recently,
told the complaining employer that
he must come into court with clean
hands-not TO deny to workers
rights which he claimed and en-
joyed
Whenever Labor is given the same
standing before the law as capital
then, and not until then, will in
dustrial unrest disappear.
TIMBERWORKER.
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The union label stands primarily
for union industry. AS such it is an
indispensable complement of home
industry" or other shibboleth of
business, in the mind of the pur-
chaser who holds principle above
local pride
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The union label is weapon with
which the trade union arms the
fair employer and disarms the un-
fair employer.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1920-01-02
Conspiracy of Packers Proven

Volume IL of the Federal Trade
Commissions report on the meat
packing industry shows conclusive
the existence of conspiracy between
the Big Five to hammer down prices
of live stock and to divide the mar
ket among them. The hammering
down of prices for live stock and
hogs during the past few months
seems sufficient evidence of collu-
sion between the packers. In spite
of the decree the packers can go on
doing business at the old stand and
in the old way. The decree entire
ly omits all reference to business
in poultry, eggs, butter and cheese.
These products are not handled eX-
tensively by the wholesale grocers.
The formers who produce them,
however, know what it means to
leave the Big Packers free to ex-
tend their control over the handling
of these farm products. The decree
issued by the Government, after
agreement with the packers, in no
way breaks up or interferes with
the packers. control of the credit
which live stock producers must
have and which the packers have
used in the past to intimidate and
coerce these producers. Under this |
decree, rendered with such a flour |
ish of head lines, the packers can
holding companies and can |
keep their grip on food supplies. !
They can, through dummy stock |
holders own wholesale grocery
The farmers and the
alike will continue to be
1T the mercy of the billion dollar
known as the big
five Packers" We are not at all
that the press reports the
Big Five received the news of a
of the antitrust case
lgainst them with what appeared
o be enthusiasm. The sudden
hange from fear of Jail sentences
o receiving from the Department of
Justice praise "Well done good and
tithful servant" must have brought
'hristmas cheer to the Big Five,
hough it leaves farmers and con-
umers out in the winter SHOWS as
n the past.
The KenyonAnderson bill pro- I
ides the machinery for licensing
ackers stock yards, and live stock
ommission men, so that the Gov
could keep track through
uch effective methods of their con-
uct and compel compliance with
he law, AS cannot be done by any
ourt under the decree of the Del
artment of Justice.
The packers will now continue
heir campaign, begun Immediately
pom the announcement of the De-
artment of Justice, to make the {
ublic believe that no legislation is '
ecessary. More than ever before {
ne farmers and consumers must {
'ork together continuously and in {
silently for the enactment of the :
silently for the enactment of the '
enyon-Anderson bill.
moke Chas. Sheets CHALLENGE
10c CigsE ----r.- q
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The union label commands the re-
spect and protection of the courts
and state.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1920-01-02

The union label disarns opposi-
tion and conquers prejudice.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1920-01-02

The union label is invulnerable
to the injunction, the lockout, and
the blacklist.