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The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1920-06-18
Correspondence
Between Boss and
TimberwOrkers

The following correspondence was
sent West, published in the Union
accord, from which paper it was
clipped by a lady in Michigan and
sent back to Mrs. Mallory in Everett.
As showing the difference be-
tween the methods of the lumber
bosses and Underwriters Union in
District No. 2, the correspondence is
reprinted.
Bay De Noquet Company
Pine, Hemlock and Hardwood Lum-
Der, Lath, Shingles, Posts
and Ties
MAMMA, Mich, May 10, 1920
To the Employees who are men with
families and living at Mamma;
Realizing that men with wives and
children to support have much more
responsibility than the single man,
who can easily move elsewhere and
get employment, l want to make our
position perfectly plain to you, so
that you may make your own plans
accordingly.
We feel that many, probably most
of you married men went out on this
strike entirely against your own best
judgment. AS a result, however, you
and your families will have to suf-
fer with us. 1t is not our intention,
at present, at least, to ask you to
vacate the company houses you are
occupying, so long as former terms
and conditions are carried out and
the employees or property of the COM
pany are not interfered with or dam
aged. We expect the house rental
to be paid monthly in advance, as
! heretofore; also merchandise, provi-
sions and wood will be sold for cash
only.
My object in writing this let
ter to you is that many of you,
am proud to say, are my
friends, and my interest in the
welfare of you and your fami-
lies prompts me to warn you
that if you propose to con-
tinue your present allegiance to
the union, at the present sacri-
flee to yourself, you should
know positively and definitely
that there will be no work at
MAMMA, and | would strongly
advise you that you make your
plans accordingly.
AS Mr.. Good has told you, if any
of our men want to work on basis
of 10 hours, there is work for them
We will not start the mill, however,
until sufficient number have regis
tered as willing to go to work.
This letter is not written with the
intention of trying to influence your
Judgment in this matter, but to tell
you what the result is going to be
so far as the plant at Mamma is
concerned, and its effect on you and
think you all know me well enough
to know that | will keep my word.
Yours truly,
(Signed)
GEO. j. FARNSWORTH,
President Bay De Noquet
Lumber Co.
Answer
MAMMA, Mich, May II, 1920.
Mr.. George j. Farnsworth,
Chicago, Ill.
| Dear Sir:
Your circular letter to "employes
with families" to hand and carefully
noted by us. We feel, inasmuch as
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1920-06-18
Bulletin to LOggers
And Logging Railways

(Class 50)
A synopsis of the report of the
Inspector who investigated the re-
cent wreck Of a logging train, in
which six men were killed and about
twenty injured shows these facts:
The grade is y per cent
The cable was attached usually to
all trains descending.
The orders of the superintendent
were to always use the cable.
On this trip the cable was being
repaired. 1t was quitting time
and "MAN TRIP" The men
had on previous occasions gone down
without the cable and without acct
| dent.
This fact seemed to breed con-
fidence, but on April goth, the track
was wet The shaft on the engine
broke soon after the start and the
engineer was powerless to control
| the train.
Escaping steam prevented signals
to the men to jump.
| The cost Of this accident to Glass
so probably SIS, 00000-there is no
way of estimating accidents of this
! ldJulC dS JllC lIltIlIctI clGLCllNtAllNS
upon the survivors is not easily APP
lproximated, nor is the permanent or
partial disabilities.
The call for additional funds in
Glass so has been issued.
The prevention Of a recurrence of
such accidents lies with the Log
gers.
Positive instructions to engineers
not to start without the cable, where
its use is usual, should be enforced
Also imperative orders to engi-
neers to refuse to start with men
riding log loads would save the
fund thousands of dollars annually.
The accident was most lamentable,
and that it was preventable does not
lessen the grievous result. 1t is
sincerely hoped that it's lesson will
not 90 unheeded by the logging in
dustry Of Washington.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1920-06-18

Perhaps most of the propaganda
to forgive" our loans to the allies
springs from Wall Street rather than
from sympathy. The less the debt
ors have to pay to our government
the more likely will they be able to
pay our financiers billion or two
that is drawing eXtravagant interest
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1920-06-18
The Draper Home
Entertainment

Notwithstanding the difficulties in
the way of the Central Labor Coun-
Gil committee to secure an entertain
ment by the Draper Orphans Home
children for their benefit, the show
was given Saturday night to a
crowded house at the Princess
Theatre. The show was advertised
for Thursday but when the audience
began to arrive it was found there
was no stage in the theatre and the
stage owned by the Home was
brought here for the show Saturday
night.
Such a state of affairs reflects no
credit on the theatre management or
the city. They should know they
"can fool the people some of the
time" but-imagine the rest. 1t is
hardly fit for publication.
The children had to use their own
Home automobile for a dressing room
out in the alley.
All who attended the entertainment
were well pleased. 4,
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1920-06-18

Smoke Chas. Sheets CHALLENGE
loo Cigar.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-10

influence ships had been assigned to
companies in which officials of the
Shipping Board were or had been as
sociated," and that companies which
did not have "the standing or the finaN-
cial responsibility to insure safe and
proper management and operation" got
all tonnage applied for by that means
Predict Big Operating Loss
While many of the government ships
are making a profit, the report said.
others are operating at loss, and it
was asserted that there were many
who believed that final accounting
of the operations Of the ships would
show "a serious loss on the gross tom
mage operated"
Reviewing shipbuilding contracts and
valuable shipbuilding plants erected on
Lands owned or leased by the con-
tractor in several cases were not prop
eriy safcguarded as to title
the results Of these oversights, "
said the report, was that the United
States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet
Corporation found itself in the posi
ton Of owning a plant located on pri-
vately owned sites and 1acinr the
necessity of giving away or selling
these plants for small percentage Of
tthelr original cost to the owner or
lcssees of the sites"
Ihc report also charged that in some
cases attorneys who rcnresonted thc
feet corporation IN drawing the con-
tracts later engaged with the CON
tractors as counsel "to assist them IN
interpreting or in breaking or in at
tempting to break the Contracts"
Millions Overwhelmed
1t also was alleged that sonlo com
panies to which the corporation had
oVcradvanaced many millions OF dol
lars were unable to repay these over
adVances and that they worc permitted
all sorts OF eXorbitant claims to absorb
t1em. Numerous cases We're on record
the report said, "where doctors ve,er-
mary surgeons, BARRIERS, drv Goods
clerks and others Of similar inept call
lres. we're placed as inspectors over
work Of construction OF both plants
and ships"
In forcword to the report Mr.
Fisher said
"While desire to give full credit
to thc United States Shipping BOARD
for its Accomplishment of having con-
structed and launched under abnormal
and adverse conditions such feet OF
ships as it did, feel that this task
IS fully oqualled by the problem now
confronting the Shipping Board CT
creating and nourlshing an American
merchant marine. From this view
point the report presented herewith is
a sketch Of d proposed inquiry by this
committee designed to deal 6rst with
the problems which now confront the
Shipping Board and, second, with the
problems presented in its past accom-
pliShmentSn
New-York tribune., 1920-11-10

This destroys forever the, legend that
Clemenceau was the originator OF
unity of command, which he was sup
posed to have snatched from the oppo-
sition of England's pride
Rappel says: THE faults-irreme-
dable, alas-of the treaty are estab-
lished with terrible precision
"The truth is public property to-
day says Democratic Nouvelle. THE
great leader to whom we owe the VIC
tory was not even consulted by ms
country about the conditions which
should be imposed on the Germans for
our security. When informed of these
conditions he declared them to be bad,
and thought it was bis duty not to as
sumo responsibility THEREFOR
Will Stir World
Eclaire de Montpelier says: "On
the eve Of the arlnistice celebration
when the country is occupied with this
moving remem brance, 1t will be all the
better to realize. in the light OF the
great soldier words. with what lead
crs and with what virtues VIC won the
victory and with what men and with
what policies We COMPROMISED the frul,
thereof
"Marshal Foch's words Will stir the
World says Petit Narscillese 1T i
now seen that he speaks Is a soldie1
who does not know how to disguise
shat which. from his point Of viow, !.
The truth
.'Foch's declarations viii weigh heav
4 lily in international deliberations" ." say:
! the Radical de Marscilles 'To-d
! the Light bursts forth Clemenceal
made his peace like his policy against
New-York tribune., 1920-11-10

the steamship Cherokee, which put in
at jacksonville, Fla, for repairs. He
said the repairs could have been done
at the dock while the ship was loading,
but the local Shipping Board repre-
sentative proposed that the ship go in
10 dry dock for eight days. Mr.. Rich
ardson blamcd this condition upon the
absence QJ cooperation between the
construction and operating depart
,nents Of the board
Contractors Divided Work
Charging that in many instances
there was no competitive bidding on
contracts for repairs, the witness told
of one case in which .he repair men
assembled outside the office of the
Shipping Board and proceeded to ar
range bids so that the work would be
divided among themselves. Mr.. Rich
ardson declared that this condition will
not be corrected until a free and open
system of competitive bids is estab-
lished by the Shipping BOARD.
Another practice in vogue in all
parts Of the country, except on the
Pacific Coast, where it was abandoned
following the recent Shipping Board
scandal there, the witness asserted, is
that Of repair firms charging 25 per
cent of the total bill as sort of in
surance for the exigencies OF God and
unforeseen circums stances" in addition
to the so per cent allowed for overhead
and profit and the 10 per cent allowed
on the purchase of the needed ma
teral5.
Mr. Richardson charged that the
conditions described by him were con
stantly growing worse and declared
that inspectors who have made reports
to this effect have been forced out of
their jobs and ince mpctent men sub
stituted. He cited the case of an aud
itoY, employed at a salary of $4,000 a
position was that he had at one time
kept set of books for bartender in
Texas town.
Ships Lose Propcllers at Sea
Due to defective work and construc
ton, it is common thing for ships t,
lose their ropellcrs at sea, the witness
| testified. This happens almost ever,
day. he said. As an instance Of de
fective work he told Of case in which
a contractor had u large strip of stee
forging bearing the stamp Of the Ship
ping BOARD inspectors cut up and tht
approval stamps welded on to dctec
tive forgings and used in the construc
tion Of Shipping Board ships. He sale
that instances of this kind are many.
Mr.. Richardson ascribed these fraud:
to lack Of cooperation between thu
boards agents in the fields, the con
tractors and the home office OF the
Shipping Board, and said that The
reason why no convictions were OBJ
tanned in prosecutions brought in thcs,
New-York tribune., 1920-11-10

cases was that the charge made was
sabotage, when, in reality. the cases in
dicatcd clear attempts to defraud the
government.
The investigator also charged the
practice Of chandlery graft. He said
10 to 20 per cent Of the Shipping
Board's chandlery bills are duo to over
charges paid to masters and stewards
In most cases, he said, the prices are
so per cent higher than the prevailing
Who'll Gale market prices.
One FIRMS Gratuities S11 .000
Mr. Richardson cited as an instance
firm which, he said, had an account
of more than 1000 on its books.
most Of which had been paid as gratui-
ties to masters and stewards on Ship
refund part Of the money to the oard,
he said, bat he did not know whether
that had been done. He also main
;sincd that the packers pay great sums
annually to certain officials for the
privilege of supplying ships with meat.
ThF practice will continue. he SAID. as
long as the steward remains the pur-
chaser. receiver and disburser of the
ships stores.
Asked whether he knew what had be-
come OF the fittings OF the Levlathan,
Mr.. Richardson said he did not know,
and that the investigation was IN
charge of certain Mr.. Bowen.
He said that there WAS much evidence
in the files Of the Shipping Board that
companies have been accepting rebates
and that in the face of this evidence
the Shipping Board is still continuing
to do business with them.
Mr.. Richardson pointed out one case
in which a man received pay from the
! Shipping Board and had never been
aboard ship. He was exposed when
it, was discovered that he was employed
as house detective at the st. Regis
Hotel, in New York, while drawing his
pay from the government. His pay was
stopped ediately, and he was asked
! to make restitution.
The hearing will be resumed this
morning, when Commander A. B. Glenn
ent, assistant to Admiral Benson, will
appear to testify.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-10
French Mourn
CIemenCeau
As Fallen Idol
Press Is Unit i'll HaiIing
Foch as Shedding Light
of Truth and Barring the
Ex-Prenier's Character
Marshal's Foes Routed
Treaty Faults Are Estab-
Iished With Terrible Pre-
cision, Says One Paper
Special cable TO The Trt5m,c

Copyright, 1920. New Yorl, Tribune Inc
PARIS, Nov. 9-The French press
to-day devoted itself to lamentations
over the fallen idol. Clemenceau. One
Of the bitterest pills which the French
have had to swallow is the fact, re
vcaled by Marshal Foch, that the idea
Of unity Of command, which always
had been attributed in France to
Clemenceau, was actually the result Of
the initiative of the British.
Oeuvrc declares. "lt was a legend
solidly established that at the Doul-
lens meeting, Clemenceau was 'he in
vcntor of the unity of command which
saved us. This legend was all the
more solidly established because
Clemenceau himself took care to es-
tablish it,
Paper Seized Four Times
Bon Sor tells how, during 1919, the
paper was seized four times by the
Clemenceau government. 1t was seize,
on April n for publishing an interview
in which Foch said Of the treaty vha-
it say > nov, Oit HDlIl - iVA puOiioll AZ
q lew passages from this interview anC
ON June 20 and so for criticizing Gle
menceau's and Tardieus peace treaty
Nothing now remains Of Tardieu''
assertions" says Fclair. 'Tardieu
moreover, was in America when tn
armistice was prepared and signed
! Marshal Foch has seized Clemenceal
and placed him in the position tina
J Tardieu was preparing for Foch.'
The Rcpubliquc Francasc says
New-York tribune., 1920-11-10

some one and in sole service Of his ax.
glory"
New-York tribune., 1920-11-10
Hays, Back in Indiana,
Gets Big " eIcome Home
Neighbors Call the Republican,
Leader Bill and Democrats
Join Celebration

SULLIVAN, Ind, Nov. 9.-Home folk
who hailed him as BIZ. gave VIII II.
Hays, chairman of the Republican Ma
tional Committee, hearty welcome
when he came to his home here to-day
for short rest following the campaig gn.
Mingled in the crowd OF home foil.
were delegations from Indianapolis.
Terre Haute and surrounding towns,
who had come 10 pay respect to the
victorious leader
New-York tribune., 1920-11-10
Germany Cires Bonds
Worth $IO,08O, 600, 600

LONDON. Nov. 9.-Germany
has delivered to the Reparations
Commission bonds to the amount
of 6O,OOo,O0o,Ooo gold marks, the
value Of which IS approximately
e3,o00,000,0O0 at the present rate
Of exchange. This announcement
was made in the House of Com
mons to-day by Austen Chamber
lain, Chancellor Of the Exchequer.
The delivery Of the bonds is IN
accordance with the requirements
of the peace treaty, and the COM
mission purposes to hold them as
security for and in acknowledge
ment Of Germany's debt.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-10
$4,000 of Liquor Seized

SCRANTON. Pa, Nov. g. Seven hun
dred cases of bottled goods and sixteen
barrels OF whisky, valued at $4,000,
we're seized to-day by NJ. L. Malone, a
prohibition agent, on the premises OF
II. S. Stahler III this city. This is the
largest seizure made in this section
since the prohibition enforcement
amendment went into effect.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-10


PARIS, Nov. 9 by The Assoo;..
Press).-On behalf of ". ClemeSsas.ssaa
Tardieu to-day replied to Focs. De-
ing that Clemenceau obtained g
supreme command for Foch and ~. s.s
Ciemencesu was throughout the ma ma
p;on and defender Of Focn inste,S ,rsla .,
his enemy. o.
Dealing with the statement s,s,,.
tel to Foch that "M Clemencesnr' ~ osS ,os
bowed. and vita bad grace, to nv WI
pointment as supreme Communal ~
NJ Tardicu offers he tezs Of FosI,
appointment written the Pren;.sss s.s
hand.
Il was says NJ. Tardieu. "Fr.,
High Commissioner 20 the Tir;.e.ee
States a. that time, and I can say t'..sc st.se
Since the preceding January. hs4 4'..'; -,
instructions from Premier Clemsn,.aaeSes aes
20 work with the American goverr,..s gov1,,ress ! !
for thc institution of supreme '+,s nv n
lnand and If one put the ouest,or H.
who = the reply was 'Eocn.'' ''''a.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-10
Bulgaria Asks League Seat

GENEVA, Nov. 9 (By The Associated
Press J. Bulgaria's request for admis-
sion to the League OF Nations was re-
ceived at the headquarters Of the league
here to-day.
New-York tribune., 1920-11-10
Efforts at Corruption Common

Efforts on the part of contractors
and operators to corrupt employees OF
the Shipping Board are very common,
said Mr. Richardson. The methods
Of corruption are varied, he said. Some
times it y the auditor, checker or time
keeper whom it is sought to influence
The forms of corruption used are out
ward bribery gifts of shares or stock
IN the contracting concern and prom
lses Of better positions. Mr.. Richardson
averrcd With the advent of prohibi-
ton, the witness said gifts of liquor
are used as forms of bribery.
Losses suffered by the Shipping
Board because of delays and demur-
rage arc such, Mr.. Richardson declared.
that they are mounting at the rate OF
between $4,000 and $4,000 tor each
5000 worth Of repairs done
Mr: E!cMardson Cited the case Of
New-York tribune., 1920-11-10
Shipping Board
Charges Made
ln1nnqIlliiryHere La /
Two Special Investigators
for The Congressional
Committee Testify to
Allegations Of Frand
No Names Are Mentioned
Examinations Expected to
Last Several Weeks and
Involve Many Officials

The report made public in Washing
ton last night by the Congressional
committee investigating affairs of the
Shipping Board was submitted in evil
dence at a hearing held by the com
mlttee in the Federal Building ycster-
DAY.
Following its submission. testimony
port was offered By A. NJ. Fisher, sec
and s.a5is..cian OF the commit
tee. and }. +. Richardson, his assistant
Iestifyng to what he characterized
a. he boards inefficient. way Of doing
business, Mr.. Richardson asserted
that the Shipping Board cannot tell
now much OF its money is at present
IN the hands of the operators of ships
lie SAID 1t probably amounts to be-
tween Sl2},000,0o0 and S150000, 600.
Inc Comptroller had 10 way Of tell
ing what moneys belong TO The Ship
ping Board, as ships are always two
or three voyages ahead Of accounts,
Mr.. Richardson said and added that,
as matter of fact, an operator him
sell, under the present system. had
nc way of determining how much Of
the money with which he is working
belongs TO himself and how much to
the Shipping Board.
Mr, Richardson asserted that the re-
ports ci his investigations and others
were brought to the attention of chair
men OF the Shipping Board Z. n.
liurlcy. John b. Payne and Admiral
"lil1am ,. Benson. during their re-
sspective terms as chairmen. Some of
these reports, the witness testified.
were made by him IN person TO former
Chairman Hurley and Chairman Ben
son.
Mr.. Fisher. however, made it clear
that the report is entirely mpersonal.
making no charges against any high
officials Of the board.
Supporting his charge that the
Shipping Board had been mulcted BY
excessive repair charges, ~Mr. Richard
sor eitcd cases in New York, Norfolk,
Charleston and Jacksonville. In one
instance. he said, the Shipping Board
was charged sos for replacing a dam
aged port light when the charge should
not have been more than Ss
Other cases were cited by Mr. Rich
ardson in which white labor was
charged for and negro labor sub
stituted and skilled mechanics wages
paid where he pers only were employ i.
IN Savannah Mr.. Richardson asserted
that the Shipping Board paid from go
cents to one dollar an hour in wages
Ior white labor in cases where the con
tractors were really employing negro
labor at between 25 cents and 40 cents
an hour. in one such case, the witness
testified, the Shipping Board auditor
refused to give his approval to the
charge, whereupon the contractor took
ms bin to the boards district office in
Norfolk. where it WAS approved An
other practice in vogue, according to
Mr.. Richardson. is for shipyard to
receive contract and thea sublet it.
eXacting q profit Of 2b per cent without
IN any way contrbut ng to the result
Mr.. Richardson as rted that he was
in possession of complete documentary
evidence of the instances cited by hin,
and offered to produce it when called
upon 10 do so.
Efforts at Corruption Common
The Washington times., 1920-06-04
Chameleons Do Not Live Of
Air Alone.

To the Editor of THE TINES:
The circus is responsible for the
sale OF chsmeleons, and among the
purchases nearly all or many may
be under the mistaken idea that they
live on air-conseauently do not feed
the pets. Shakespeare is responsible
for the mistaken idea For once, or
for the first time his knowledge Of
natural history failed him. Does he
not make Hamlet say? "Of the
chameleon dish / eat the air, promise
crammed, you cannot feed Capons so.
when in Florida several years ago
| had mocking bird and used TO
place his pieces OF raw meat on the
window sill This meat would disap-
pear and could not understand where
IL went. One day l saw cham.
eleon come down the window sill ana
take 1t away. This Is not living on
air. ..
CHAMELEON.
The Washington times., 1920-06-04
Likes to Take Children Out at
Nixht Occasionally.

To the Editor OF THE TIMES:
Nobody but a father knows "hat
good it does children to take them
downtown once in awhile. They look
forward 10 it, and the bright lishts
always make them happy. their httle
faces lighting up with each ne"
bright thing. or course. We know
crying children in theaters are op-
jectionable, but all children don't cry
in movies, and when they do is time
enough to kick. IL Mr.. "Dismay oo-
jects TO children on the street win
their parents, let him remain at home
where the atmosphere probably suits
his temperament more, as the fathers
and mothers would not care to nave
him feel bad about their little ones
being out, for then he wouldn't DE
able to see this high outrage to the
babies.
UNITED STATES MARINE, A
FATHER OF TWO.