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Elbert County tribune and Elbert County banner., 1921-01-07
CROP VALUES
$167,595,613
WHEAT WAS LEADING CROP IN
COLORADO FOR
1920.
SEASON FAVORABLE
TOTAL AREA UNDER cUITIvA.
Tiok WAS s,e35, ,33s
ACRES.
Western s~~p.D.. usisa Ssv, ssr,e.D

Western ssvwspss Ussea N<vs serses)
Denver.-Colorado's 1920 agricuitur.
al output was the largest In the states
history. The total area under cultiva-
ton, according to compilations made
by the State Immigration Department
from reports Of county assessors, was
o,635,33 acres. or about 1880 acres
less than the acreage under cultivation
In 1913. The 1920 season was much
more favorable for crop production,
however. than the previous season, and
the total crop output, including fruits,
was many thousand tons In excess OF
that for 1919 A single example will
suffice to illustrate this increase. The
area devoted to wheat In 1920 was l..
Al. PAP acres, compared with 1924, ,5a4
acres in 1920. The production In 1920
was 27.11T,04S bushels, compared with
16,435. 1856 the previous year.
But the value of the crop was more
than $50. 100000 less than that of 1919,
due to the very sharp fall In prices OF
all farm products that begun soon
after harvest time and has continued
till the present time. The value of all
crops. including fruits, grown in the
state in 1920 Is estimated ut $167 7,554,-
600, compare with S199,947 900 for the
1918 crop. One of the heaviest de-
creases in value was In the potato crop.
The 1919 crop was worth, at prices
prevailing on December 1st last year,
S1s,S70.O0O. The 1920 crop, which was
only about 250.00O bushels short of
that of the preceding year, was worth
Mt prices prevailing December LIST only
SS, ,695, 900.
Wheat was the states leading crop
In 1920, both in acreage and value. Re
ports of county assessors show that
the area devoted to this crop was L.
AL ,242 acres, and the total production
was 27,117,000 bushels. This was
worth at prices prevailing on Decem.
Der 1st about $36,80S,0 600, while at
prices prevailing on September /, 1920
1t would have been worth about $685..
100000. About three-fourths of the
crop Is winter wheat, which is grown
chiefly without irrigation. Reports of
county assessors show that about one
half of the spring wheat is irrigated.
Corn ranked second among the
states crops in acreage and fourth In
value. The area devoted to the crop
was 1,203,792 acres, of which 70 per
cent was harvested for grain, 10 per
cent cut for fodder without being
husked, 81 per cent cut for silage and
e.3 per cent fed to livestock in the
field. The total value of the crop Is
estimated at a little more than $780,
100000.
Sugar beets ranked second among
the states crops In value and eighth
in acreage, while potatoes ranked fifth
in value and tenth in acreage Sor-
ghums ranked forth in acreage and
sixth In value.
Crop Production and Values for 1920
Compiled by the Colorado Cooper
ative Crop Reporting Service.
Wheat, 27,117,043 bu..S 366Os, ,OO5
Elbert County tribune and Elbert County banner., 1921-01-07
A 1ctaI loaa.

why did you discharge your new
clerkf"
'He was too accommodating" said
the grocer"
"whatr'
HE kept opening canned goods to
show lady shoppers they were In a
fine state of preservation n."-Blrming
ham Age-Herald.
Elbert County tribune and Elbert County banner., 1921-01-07

Destruction is a word that only
grows on dunghills.
Elbert County tribune and Elbert County banner., 1921-01-07
AN OPEN Letter
TO women
Mira. Little Tells How She
Suffered and How Finally
Cured

Philadelphia, Pal was not able to
% my housework and had to lie down
Elbert County tribune and Elbert County banner., 1921-01-07
Its Kind.

"Some scientist now rises to re-
mark that bees have language of
their own"
II bet they use 1t chiefly to make
singing remarks"
Elbert County tribune and Elbert County banner., 1921-01-07
S1e7,595,e18
Big Decrease In Livestock.

Reports from the Denver Union
Stockyards show decrease in-eyery
class Of livestock received for market
there in 1920 as compared with 1919.
The following table shows the receipts
for the two years:
Elbert County tribune and Elbert County banner., 1921-01-07

Experts connected with the Denver
Union Stockyards also estimate that
there Is decrease In the number OF
range cattle, hogs and sheep in the
state at the beginning of 1921 as com
pared with a year ago, but a slight In
crease In the number Of dairy cattle,
horses and mules. The value of all
livestock in the state at the beginning
of 1921 is estimated to be s151, ,317 ,07O,
compared with 500. 0.508,01O at the be
ginning of 1920. The biggest decrease
shown by any class of livestock was
for sheep. the estimated value of sheep
being sS,107 500.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1921-08-12
GOV. FRAZIER
WILL SPEAK IN
BELLNGHAM

Gov. Lynn II. Frazier, of North
Dakota, will speak in Cornwall Park,
Bellingham, next Saturday, under
the auspices of the Non partisan
League. Those fortunate enough
to hear the Governor will gain
lot of uselul information from one
most capable Of giving it,
Governor Frazier's friends tried
to secure a meeting to hear him
in Burlington, Skagit County, but
the hide-bound politicians Of that
county prevented it. They don't
want the people to hear what is
being done by the people in the
governors state. One thing is sure,
however, that Frazier and the Non
partisan League will never be able
to iniure the reputation Of the
G. O. p. in this state to the ex-
tent King Louis is doing it.
Next Friday, Geo. Frazier will
address an enormous meeting at
Point Defiance Park, Tacoma, un-
der the auspices of the County
Grange. Members of the Grange
from six counties will be present at
this meeting.
Other speakers Of state and ma
tional prominence will be William
Bouck, Farmer-Labor Candidate for
Congress from this district last fall;
Warren E. Stone, president Of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi-
neers, and Benjamin c. Marsh,
managing director of the Farmers
National Council, with headquarters
in Washington, D. c.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1921-08-12
Changes in Retail
Prices of Food

The U. S. Department of Labor
through the Bureau of Labor Sta.
tistics, has completed the compila-
tions showing changes in the retail
cost of food in July, in 10 principal
cities of the United States.
During the month from June IL
to July Is, 1921, there was an in.
crease in all but one of these cities
In Detroit, there was an increase
of Z per cent in Peoria and Provi-
dence, 5 per cent; in Manchester
and New Haven, per cent in Mo-
bile and Savannah, per cent; and
in Atlanta and Richmond, l per
cent. In Little Rock, there was a
decrease of one-tenth of / per cent
For the year period, July Is, 1920
to July Is, 1921, there was a de-
crease of 80 per cent in Providence
and Richmond; 81 per cent in Little
Rock; 32 per cent in Savannah; 33
per cent in Atlanta and New Haven
81 per cent in Manchester and
Peoria; and 35 per cent in Detroit
and Mobile.
AS compared with July Is, 1913,
the retail cost of food on July Is,
1921, showed an increase of AZ per
cent in Little Rock; 45 per cent in
Atlanta: 46 per cent in New Haven
81 per cent in Manchester; So per
cent in Detroit; Sc per cent in Rich
mond; and 81 per cent in Provi-
dence. Prices were not obtained by
the Bureau Of Labor Statistics from
Mobile, Peoria or Savannah in 1918
hence no comparison for the 8-yeal
period can be given for these three
cities.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1921-08-12
THE OHIO LAW
IS ENDORSED
Exclusive Fund Insurance for
Injured Workers Is Demand
of A. F. of l..

In calling for the prompt pas
sage of the Jones-Fitzgerald bill
now pending in Congress to pro-
vide workmen's compensation for
private employees in the District OF
Columbia, a resolution adopted at
the recent convention of the Am
erican Federation Of Labor strongly
demands the adoption of the eX-
elusive state fund plan of insur-
ance.
"The American Federation OF
Labor" says the resolution, ere
affirms its conviction based on years
Of practical experience that eXclus-
i've fund insurance and the elimin-
alton of private profit in workmen's s
accident compensation is advantag-
eous to wage workers, and urges
the early enactment of the Jones'
Fitzgerald District of Columbia
workmen's compensation bill with
out change from the exclusive fund
plan"
This favorable action pledges the
American labor movement to COM
bat the lobby and propaganda of
the interested stock insurance COM
panies that are seeking to strike
the exclusive fund from the bill
and leave the way open for taking
private profits out of the misfor-
tunes of workers in private em-
ployments at the nations capital.
At recent hearing on the bill eX-
perts from the United States De
partment of Labor representatives
of organized labor, officials from
states having exclusive state ac-
cident insurance funds in success
full operation and the American As
sociation for Labor Legislation, de
clared that exclusive state funds in
America and Canada have proved
success and that the stock insur-
ance lobby is engaged in a nation
wide campaign of misrepresenta-
tion against exclusive funds foI
workers insurance, and urged that
compensation insurance for District
of Columbia workers be carried by
an exclusive fund since experience
has Shown that exclusive funds, by
providing insurance at actual cost
result in savings of millions of dol
lars yearly to industry while at
the same time permitting increas-
ingly liberal benefits to injured
workers and their families.
private employees in the Dis
trict of Columbia are wholly with
out the protection of workmens
accident compensation law or even
an employers liability statute" the
resolution declares. "The Ameri.
can Federation of Labor has repeat.
edly appealed for the elimination OF
private profit in the operation OF
workmen's compensation laws. anC
at its Montreal convention endorsed
the Ohio workmen's compensation
insurance plan. Our representa-
tivcs have accordingly given THEN
support to the Jones Fitzgerald bill
modelled on the Ohio system"
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1921-08-12
SLAVERY ON AMERICAN SOIL IS
PROPOSED IN NATIONAL HOUSE
Sugar Planters Demand Bonded COOlies-LabOr
Calls on Nation to Protest

Washington, Aug. - Hawaiian
sugar planters are fighting tooth
and nail to score a victory by putt
ing through the house the coolie
peonage bill, known as II. J. Res.
III, introduced by Delegate j.
Kuhio Kalanianaole, representing
the Hawaiian territory in the house.
Kalanianaole is said to be prince
of the old royal house of Hawaii.
During the past week labor wit
nesses have been on the stand, with
most of the committee members
cross-examining them "as if they
were criminals" as Congressman
Raker of California said while Pres
ident George Wright of the Homo
lula central labor union was on the
stand.
Constantly advising members of
the committee, and interfering
questions frequently, are members
of the Hawaiian emergency labor
commission, as it is called, and at
torneys for the Hawaiian sugar
planters. There appears to be COM
plete harmony of thought between
these men and most members of
the committee.
Congressman Johnson of Wash
ington, Shaw of Illinois and Free
of California, by their questioning
have clearly shown their sympathy
for the coolie resolution.
Thus far the big points that
stand out in the controversy are:
1.-The sugar planters have been
back of the resolution at every step,
from the Hawaiian territorial legis-
lature to this congress.
2-The surface ground for their de-
mand for Oriental serf labor is that
labor shortage exists and that it
can be satisfied in no other man
ner.
3-Evidence shows that there is
no great labor shortage, that the
release of aliens from government
work in Hawaii will turn large
numbers back to the plantations
and that finally there is available
a more than ample supply of Fill
pino workers
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1921-08-12

question as to the duties imposed
by law upon the defendants. Does
the law prevent the union or it's
officers from telling its members,
in the employ of plaintiff, that if
they doc work, required by plain
tiff for offices with which the un-
ion is in controversy, they will lose
their standing in the union?
Or, to put the problem in another
way: Can a court of equity issue
an injunction to restrain the un-
ion or it's officers from so doing :?
This question must be answered
in the negative. Numerous cita-
tions of authority from ither iuris-
dictions have been made by counsel
which bear upon the question more
or less directly, but they are not
helpful in view of the fact that
our own legislature has disposed
of the question by the act: chapter
1856, laws 1919.
This act authorizes working men
to form unions for the purpose,
among others, "of lessening the hours
of labor" and to "carry out their
legitimate purposes by any lawful
means" 1t also provides that no
court shall issue any restraining
order in any dispute between en-
ployer and employe Involving or
growing out of dispute concerning
terms or conditions of employment.
unless necessary to prevent irrepar-
able damage to property or to q
personal right or to property
right of the party making the ap-
plication" for injunction. Further
the act provides:
"No such restraining order or
injunction shall prohibit any such
person or persons, whether singly
or in concert, from terminating any
relation of employment or from
ceasing to perform any work or
labor"
That a dispute" exists between
plaintiff and defendants concern
ing terms or conditions of employ
ment" is not open to argument.
Otherwise the parties would not be
in court. 1t may be serious or it
may be Fictitious, but it is dis
pute, and. under the terms of the
Statute, it is not for the court
to inquire into the character of the
dispute unless it invades "a per-
sonal or property right" of plain
tiff to his irreparable damage and
for which he has no adequate rem
edy at law.
1t is not contended that any per-
sonal right of plaintiff is encroached
upon. What property right of his
is invaded? There is no destruc-
tion of his property threatened. He
has no property right in his en-
ployes. If they are not under con-
tract for a specified term they may
quit either "singly or in concert" "
and he not only does not "suffer
irreparable damage" but he sus-
tains no injury cognizable, either in
law or equity.
1t is not open to question that,
under the statute, the defendant
union could call a strike, thus caus-
ing plaintiffs employees to quit sin
concert" What it has done is one
steb> removed from calling strike.
1t has merely threatened to call a
strike if the employer insists on its
members doing work for the speci-
fled printing establishments.
1t can not be unlawful to threat
en- to do that which is lawful.
The action is dismissed.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1921-08-12

4-That the basic wage for plan
tation labor now is II cents a day.
5-That plantation employees have
no voice whatever in determining
anything relating to employment
6-That the effect of the resolu-
tion would be to establish on Am
erican soil condition of serfdom,
peonage and slavery, with Chinese
coolies imported in bond; these
coolies to be liable to arrest and
punishment if they should attempt
to leave the work for which they
were brought to Hawaii.
That the trade union move
ment is solidly and unalterably op-
posed to thus destroying the prin-
ciple of Oriental exclusion and the
establishment of system of peon-
age and slavery for the benefit of
sugar planters.
President Gompers of the Amer
ican Federation of Labor, in a pub
lie statement, charged members of
the committee with so conducting
the examination of witnesses as to
avoid the real issue.
In this statement President Com
pers said:
During three sessions l have
watched the work of the house COM
mittee on immigration, having be-
fore it H. j. Res. III, which would
make possible the importation by
sugar planters of Hawaii of ap-
proXimately $4,000 Chinese coolies
in bond.
81 have listened carefully to the
examination of witnesses and it has
been almost impossible to determine
from the questions what is the
issue before the committee.
"The issue clearly is whether the
American principle of Oriental ex-
clusion shall be destroyed, whether
Chinese coolies shall be brought to
Hawaii in bond, and whether Amer
lea is going to permit the estab-
lishment in Hawaii of condition
of serfdom, peonage and bondage,
by which coolies shall be brought
Continued on Page q
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1921-08-12
Help the Bakers
Fight the Bosses
Seattle, Wash,
August 8. 1921
To All Affiliated

To All Affiliated Unions of the
Washington State Federation of
Labor.
Greeting: The recent convention of
the State Federation of Labor, held
at Vancouver, Washington, among
other things, endorsed the appeal
of the Bakers Union and Tacoma
Central Labor Council for financial
assistance in their legal fight with
the employers association, and in
structed that an appeal for such
support be issued by the State Fed
Grafton of Labor.
The open shop employers, thru
their organization some weeks ago
launched legal battle against the
Bakers Union and the Tacoma Cen
trail Labor Council that if sue
cessful in the courts would not only
defeat the Bakers in their present
fight for union wages and union
working conditions, but would es-
tablish a precedent through which
every other labor organization
within our State could be subjected
to the same vicious procedure. The
open-shop, anti-labor forces of the
country have been alarmingly sue
cessful in their influence over the
courts in behalf of their program of
destroying our organized labor
movement and with it the present
living standards Of the wage work
erS.
A determined fight must be made
by the wage workers of our state
against this vicious practice, and
in order to employ the legal talent
necessary for success, and to meet
the resultant expense, the support
of the general labor movement
should be given to every branch of
our state labor movement that may
at any time be subject to such at
tacks The Bakers Union and the
Tacoma Central Labor Council are
unable alone to raise the finances
necessary to continue such con-
test, and for that reason this ap-
peal is being made to the general
labor movement for additional fl
nancial support.
The Federation appreciates that
the treasures of large number OF
our affiliated unions are depleted
but strongly urges that every affil-
lated union that can afford to do
so make as large a contribution as
possible to this fund. Send all con-
tributions direct to the State head
quarters, and the same will be
turned over to those in charge of
the legal fight at Tacoma and a
proper accounting of all funds re-
ceived and disbursed will be made
to contributing unions as soon as
the fight is over.
Trusting that you will be able tc
assist in this fight, with sincere
good wishes. ] am,
Fraternally yours,
w. M. SHORT,
President, Washington State
Federation of Labor.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1921-08-12
THE CENTRAL
LABOR COUNCIL
Wednesday, Aug. 10, 1921.

Wednesday, Aug. 10, 1921.
President Moncur called the Coun-
Gil to order at 8 p. m. Delegate
Sharpless was appointed vice-presi-
dent pro tenn.
Sinners Meat Market, on request
of the Butchers, was stricken from
the unfair list.
Labor Day Committee
The Labor Day Committee re-
ported good progress in arrange
ments for the Labor Day picnic.
The picnic will be held at Silver
Lake. There will be dance in the
city. Keep your eyes and ears open
for further announcements.
The Council went on record as re-
fusing to place upon the Unfair
List any individual, firm or corpora
tion at the request of any union
not affiliated with the Central La
Dor Council.
The secretary was instructed to
write affiliated unions asking that
whatever funds they may contrib
ute toward the work of organizing
the Timberworkers be sent to the
Central Labor Council.
Reports By Unions
The Railway Carmen announced
that Bro. Percy B. Tyler had been
elected to represent their union at
the international convention at To-
ronto.
The Longshoremen have been too
busy of late to hold meetings.
The Theatrical Stage Employees
and the Sheet Metal Workers re-
ported good meetings.
The Timberworkers had a good
meeting. They reported the organ
ization of a union at Gle Elum with
time and a half for overtime and
double time for Sundays.
The Laundry Workers reported
the election of the following Off
GERS:
E. B. Higginbotham, president;
Cora Whitlaw. vice-president; Eu-
rene Palmer, secretary-treasurer
Zeta Downs, recording secretary;
Ella Johnson. guard; Eugene Pal
mer, delegate to the Central Labor
Council.
On motion the secretary was in
structed to write to affiliated unions
asking that the Unfair List pub
lished in the Labor Journal be read
at each meeting and that this be
made a regular order of business
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1921-08-12
Duncan's Address
To TimberwOrkers

Last Sunday night the Rose Thea
ter was more than half filled by a
mass meeting of the Timberwork-
ers to listen to an address by James
Duncan, secretary of the Seattle
Central Labor Council
Bro. Duncan cut out all the frills
of oratory and went straight at his
subject in plain English.
He told the workers in the lum-
Der industry the reason for their
helplessness in the hands of the
lumber lords.
They have heretofore depended
upon individual contracts with the
mill owners and the latter have paid
only what they wished and nothing
more. Their too long adherence to
the late boss owned union, the AIS
had left them even in worse con
through individual bargaining.
He plainly told the mill work
ers that if they remained unor-
ganized they deserved no more pay
and no better working conditions
than they are now getting and
would probably be compelled to take
less.
He showed his hearers that in
dustries, where organized, were
getting better pay and better condi-
tions because they helped them
selves. In fine Bro. Duncan tolC
the lumber workers that unless they
organized and insisted on collective
bargaining they would get less anC
deserve less.
1t is hoped the mill workers viii
take Bro. Duncan's advice, Join the
Timberworkers' Union and do some
thing for themselves, remembering
that God helps those who helT
themselves"