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The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1921-10-07

Everett and several of the larger
councils have already acted and have
set the necessary machinery in OPP
Grafton.
If your Central Council has not
acted on the question, it should do
so at once and join actively in the
general crusade to rid the world of
the curse of growing military and
naval ornaments and of unnecessary
wars-their natural offspring.
Central Labor Councils that have
not, as yet, acted favorably should
do so at once and be guided by
the advice contained in the appeal
of the American Federation of La
Dor relative to the plan of arrang
ing the demonstration. If the State
Federation of Labor can be of any
assistance to your body in helping
to make your demonstration a sue
cess, we are at your service, and
will gladly do all in our power to
assist you.
Yours for an effective nation
wide demonstration.
Fraternally,
w. M. SHORT,
President, Washington State Fedora
tion of Labor.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1921-10-07
Rail Bill In Jam; Sena.
tors Not Very
Hopeful
Administration Trying to Bolster Up
Roads BY Selling Securities

The Townsend -Winslow bill provid
ing a subsidy of $5O0,000,000 for the
railroads has been caught in the leg
islative jam of the senate and its
chances of passage at this extra
session of Congress are becoming less
each week. And this not the only
cause for alarm among it's advocates
Many Senators who were count
ed upon to vote for the bill because
it was an administrative measure are
wavering and not "a few have an
nounced their intention of voting
against it since meeting up with the
folks back home during the recess.
Realizing that the railroad bill can
not hope to pass until late this year
at the best, the administration is
selling railroad securities taken on
previous loans and is turning the
proceeds over to the roads. This
is being done through the rehabili-
tated War Finance Corporation, and
to date something like $100,000,000
has been obtained in this manner
This only serves to increase the in
debetedness of the roads without
benefiting the public in the way of
lower rates or improved service.
The legislative writer in the Wash
ington Post thinks the railroad bill
is in a desperate situation. He
writes: "The difficulties which lie
ahead of the administrations pro-
gram as to railroad relief are not
solely of Democratic origin Re-
publican opinion in the Senate is rap
idly disintegrating. There is no CO.
hesion, and so far as the Senate
is concerned there is no consistent
line of procedure"
Senator Cummins, chairman of
the interstate Commerce Committee
of the Senate, has been absent on
account of illness much of the time
since this Congress convened. He
is expected to resume the leadership
in pushing the railroad bill when he
returns to Washington next week.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1921-10-07
"Hit EN- Between the Eyes, Say Strikers,
When Company Spies Advocate Violence

Fesno, Cal, Oct. Amy one who
favors destruction of property in the
present oil workers strike should be
hit between the eyes, quickly" de-
clared the district council of oil
workers, in reporting their failure
to secure a settlement with the oil
owners.
During the war the government
set up arbitration machinery for
this industry, in California, and now
the oil owners want it smashed.
The district council gave this ad-
vice to the oil workers:
"After you have ceased work
watch with suspicion any man who
makes a statement about the de-
struction of property, remembering
that he is most likely the hireling
of the companies who have brought
this thing upon you. The best way
to answer him is to hit him between
the eyes, quickly, so that he and the
companies for whom he is work
ing cannot bring discredit upon you
and your organization
The union has organized law
and order committee of 2500 eX-serv-
ice men, members of the union.
These men are patroling the entire
field. Their especial Instructions
are to watch for company spies and
agents of the companies starting
fires and creating disorder. They
are also watching for bootleggers
that no "hootch" is distributed
among the 5000 strikers. No mem
Der of the committee is permitted
to carry firearms.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1921-10-07

The oil workers are thoroughly
organized and disciplined. In Coal
inga, this county, business men are
unanimous in their support Of the
strikers, and are flooding the strike
committee with offer Of assistance.
Sheriff Jones of Kern county has
refused to have company guards
sworn in as deputies.
No strike in this section was ever
waged with greater coolness and
calculation. This spirit is indicated
by the district council Of the oil
workers, which gives this advice to
the strikers:
DO not attempt to delude your
selves into the idea that you are
going to win any great victory, You
are simply going to show them that
YOU will not. go plum to hell with
out a struggle
Only certain sections of the oil
fields have been called out. The
other locals will remain at work
and each member will contribute
not less than q days work for the
benefit of the strikers and their
families.
The oil owners anarchy is indi-
Gated by this statement published in
the September issue Of the Oil Age,
one of their publications:
apparently, California is one of
the few, if not the only oil state in
the union where there was short
age Of tar and feather at the time
the l. w. W element and the So
called labor union leaders were car
rying things with a high hand while
the war was at its height
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1921-10-07
ORGANIZED LABOR RESPONDS
TO THE DISARMAMENT CALL

International unions are pledging
their support and in many cases are
circulating their entire membership,
urging support Of local demonstra-
tions and endorsing the plan in its
entirety.
1t is expected that within another
week the names of the disarmament
advisory committee will be made
public by President Gompers.
This advisory committee will be
composed of more than 100 of the
leading men and women Of the coun-
try, representing a wide variety Of
organizations and occupations. 1t
is expected that the committee will
establish machinery to remain for
the life Of the international confer
ence and that it will appoint special
committees to handle various lines
of specialized work.
Messages offering the cooperation
of non-labor organizations are being
received by President Gompers each
day.
Central bodies are reporting by
every mail and in nearly every case
they report that they are meeting
with enthusiastic responses to their
invitations to civic and other organ
izations to join in a great demonstra-
tion on Armistice day.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1921-10-07
Pullman Company
Signs With Unions
After Long Battle
Contract With Workers Recalls Bitter
Strike in 1898. When Leaders
Were Jailed

Strike in 1893. When Leaders
Were Jailed
The Pullman Car Company has
signed a union agreement with Sys-
tenn Federation No. 122 of the Rail
way Employees Department, Ameri-
can Federation of Labor, covering
all shop crafts employed in its op-
Grating department. The agreement
became effective September Is at
all points where the company oper-
ates shops.
This is the first time in it's his
tory that the Pullman company has
officially recognized or entered into
contract with labor unions. 1t
will be recalled that in 1898 one of
the worst strike conflicts the coun-
try has ever known was waged be-
tween the Pullman company and the
American Railway Union, and the
Federal troops were called out to
subiugate the workers.
Old-timers will never forget the
Pullman strike. Three members of
a committe which had presented GER
tain grievances to the superintendent
of the company were summarily dis
charged. This resulted in a stam-
pede strike of the workers in the
Pullman shops, some of whom were
members of the A. R. U. The latter
offered the company arbitration, but
this was rejected. The A. R. U.
in convention then declared a boy
colt on Pullman cars and notified
the Railway Managers Association
that it's members would not work
on trains in which such cars were
hauled.
Strike Leaders We're Jailed
The managers refused to eliminate
the Pullman cars and general strike
followed. Eugene V. Debs, president
of the A. R. u, and score or
more of his assistants were arrested
and thrown into Jail. The strike
was lost and the A. R. U. soon
thereafter went out of existence.
The present agreement follows
closely the national agreement ne
gotiated between the shop crafts
and the railroad administration be-
fore the roads went back to private
management, and was reached with
out reference of any dispute to the
United States Railroad Labor Board.
1t supplants company union" re-
Gently formed as a blockade to rec
ognition of regular unions, and which
was dismissed by the Labor Board
as denying workers proper repre-
sentation.
Credit is due D. F. Goble, of the
International Brotherhood of Electri-
cal Workers, and Fred Aten. of the
Brotherhood of Railway Carmen,
who conducted negotiations with the
managers of the company, as rep
resentatives of System Federation
No. 1872, they having been assigned
to that task by the Executive Coun-
Gil of the Railway Employees De-
partment.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1921-10-07
LIST SACRED
HARDING TELLS LEDOUX

tives Of the army Of unemployed
from New York, Boston, Philadel-
phia, Baltimore and other places, 100
in all-@who are waiting the word
from their chief to hasten to Wash
ington.
81 will use every peaceful means
at my command to secure publica
tion of the profiteer list" LedouX
declared in an interview. 81 will
remain a year if necessary, but
there is a power greater than the
power of resistance 6f any individual
or set of men, and that is the
power of public opinion moved by
high motive.
"The list will be published and the
profiteers will be called upon. NY
strategy will be peaceful, but the
thing will be accomplished"
President Harding was cordial to-
ward LedouX, the latter asserts, but
gave him little encouragement that
the government would reveal the
names of those who were denounced
by Former Comptroller Of the Treas
ury Williams as unconseionable profi-
teers."
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President Harding informed Ur-
balm Ledoux, apostle of the unem-
ployed, that the publication of the
names of profiteers before, during
and after the war, carefully pre-
served in the Treasury Department,
could be undertaken only as mat
ter of "dire necessity"
LedouX was closeted with the
President for twenty minutes, and
in his statement urged that the pub
lie be given the names of those
who are held responsible for the
present unsatisfactory industrial sit
uation. Those who made 100 per
cent and over out of the war
emergency, Ledoux holds, should be
compelled to "split fifty-fifty" with
the great army of unemployed. He
regards it as monstrous that mil
lions should be suffering for lack
Of food and shelter while the favored
few are "rolling in illgotten gains
Unless he receives favorable ac
tion from the administration, LedouX
says, he will summon his "human
Recommendation picked representa-
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1921-10-07
SAFEGUARDING
CHILD WORKERS

How one state has developed
unique methods of protecting her
Youngest wage-earners is shown in
report just issued by the U. S.
Department of Labor through the
Children's Bureau, describing the
employment certificate system in
Wisconsin. This report is the fourth
of a series dealing with the admin
istration of child-labor laws, pre-
vious reports having summarized
methods of administration in Con-
necticut, Maryland and New York.
In Wisconsin the State Industrial
Commission has control over both
the issuance of employment certi-
ficates and the inspection of indus
trial establishments. 1t has general
supervision over the commissions
power to interpret legislation
through its own rules and regula-
tions, which are legally binding.
Moreover, the commissions work of
protecting children from illegal en-
ployment is made more effective by
its power to bring civil action, in
stead of only criminal, for nearly
all child-labor violations; the EN-
ployer may thus be made to testi-
fly and to produce his records.
Children between IA and II years
of age must secure permits before
they can enter industrial employ
ment, and are afforded special pro-
lection in their work This is a
higher age than that prevailing in
most states. All important cities
and towns in the State maintain
vocation schools at which part-time
attendance of all employed children
between IA and II years of age is
compulsory. The industrial COM
mission is represented on the Board
for Vocational Education. The ap-
prentice laws, requiring in connec-
tion with shop experience a certain
amount of formal instruction, to-
gether with the vocational school
system, give Wisconsin a unique op-
portunity for leadership in the vo-
cational training movement.
In spite of its many advantages,
the Wisconsin law has several weak
points, the most serious being that
physical examinations of children
entering industry are not required,
however, such examinations are now
made mandatory in the largest city
Milwaukee, by order of the Indus
trial Commission.
The possibility of a child's work
| ing without a permit is reduced to
a minimum by an exceptional pro-
vision of the workmen's compensa-
tion law. If child of permit age
is injured while working without a
permit or in a prohibited occupa-
ton, his employer must pay three
times the compensation ordinarily
required and he cannot protect
himself from this additional risk
through insurance. The fear of this
clause and the operation of the
minimum wage law have resulted,
the Industrial Commission reports,
in decrease in the number of EN-
ployed children. The number of
employed children is likely to be
decreased still further through the
operation of laws passed at the
1921 session of the legislature.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1921-10-07
WE DON'T
PATRONIZE
LIST

BARBER SHOPS
l. II. Turner, ll04 Hewitt
Barnhart Shop, Monroe.
BUILDING LABORERS
L. Starke Emil Mitersbach, Phillips.
COFFEE AND TEA HOUSES
Mannings Coffee House Hewitt betweeI
Colby and Wetmore.
CONDENSED MILK
Libby. Mcneil & Libby, Packers and Can
ners
Carnation, Aster Mt. Vernon and Wash
ington Brands.
Yakima City Creamery.
CONTRACTORS
Christ Kruppler 4 Sons and the Standard
Oil Bldg, at corner of Pacific and Virginia.
Contractor Barry and Church at end of
car line in Lowell
F. H. Hare, electrical contractor; John
FISH COMPANIES
San Juan Fish Co.. Seattle.
GENERAL MERCHANDISE
Buffers, The Star Bon Marche of Seattle.
MEAT MARKETS
A. c. Snider the Rural Butcher in Mu-
nicipal Market Anne. IT9,.np.s
VIM. Plambeck.
Joe Waiiem and his house at the corner
of 1926 Lombard.
LAUNDRIES
Independent, Standard. Union. Paris and
Kriegers. -
MISCELLANEOUS
The Puyallup Fair.
o. W. Ward, Cement Worker.
NJ Anderson.
MIR. Burden and his house. 25l1 Maple
street.
Everett Fruit Products Co.
+. S. Lang Manufacturing Co., of Seattle.
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PATERNALIsM VS.. TRADE UNIONISM

indianapolis, Oct. 1.-The Penn
sylvania railroad is circulariZing
the country with a pamphlet which
eulogizes the paternal pension sys-
TEN of that corporation.
In opposition to this system is
the pension plan of organized labor,
illustrated by the International Typo
graphical unions pension system.
The difference between the two
plans are:
Railroad employees and officials
from IS to 90 years of age, in
elusive, who, after 80 years or
more in the service become dis
qualified from "active duty are
eligible" for pension.
The union printer automatically
draws a pension if he is 90 years
of age, has been in good standing in
the union for 20 years, and fails to
secure sustaining employment.
Railroads pension is based on l
per cent of the employees or off
cial's regular monthly pay for the
10 years Immediately preceding re-
tirement, multiplied by the years
he has been in the service of the
Pennsylvania railroad, but no pen
sion must be less than SIS a month.
Under this system if a worker was
employed 80 years and his average
monthly pay for the last 10 years
was $50, his pension would be 80
times so cents, or $24 a month.
The printer pensioner receives a
flat So a week without running the
risk of having his wages cut in his
declining years, and have these
rates the basis for his pension.
Wages earned by the pensioner are
not considered under the union sys-
TEN.
Pennsylvania railroad officials ad-
minister that pension. The printers
administer theirs, with every mem
Der Of the union-pensioners in
cluded-having a voice and vote in
its affairs
The railroad maintains its pen
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1921-10-07
(By President Gompers)

Make Armistice day memorable.
Make the great demonstrations a
success everywhere.
Leave nothing undone to impress
Americas conviction upon the in
ternational conference for limitation
of armament.
Secure the cooperation of all who
stand with the workers on this great
issue.
There is a great principle at
stake.
Workers, be true, everywhere,
Washington, Oct. 1.-Plans for
the national celebration of Armis-
tice day are developing rapidly. 1t
is now certain that on Friday, No
vember II, there will be one of the
largest demonstrations ever recorded,
bringing American conviction to TO-
Gus upon the international conference
for limitation of armament, which
will assemble in Washington on that
day.
Washington central labor union
plans to engage the largest hall in
Washington for the evening of No
vember II and has invited Presi-
dent Gompers to deliver the princi-
pal address.
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sion entirely by funds taken from
its treasury. This generosity is
always made public when the rail-
road wants to lower working con-
ditions or check a wage movement.
The union maintains its pension
by a stated assessment Of men,
bers.
The union printer never endangers
his pension when he strikes to i'm
prove working conditions. He does
not have some employer pass judg-
ment on his qualifications for pen
sion. If this earning powers are
reduced in his later years, this does
not affect his pension. His pension
is not a dole or a charity-it is
his because he paid for it.
The publicity this railroad gives
its paternalism indicates the mental
attitude of a corporation that ac-
knowledged it expended S800,000 in
1913 to maintain a private army and
has recently defied the United States
railroad labor board in an effort
to establish its company union"
and drive off its system every boni
fide labor organization.
The railroad states that during
the first six months of 1921 it paid
81 ,354 ,69203 in pensions. This is an
average of $2,7O9,38406 for the year.
Against this expenditure by one of
the country's mightiest corporations,
the International Typographical
Union, without brass band or news
paper publicity, quietly reports that
for the year ending May 81 last
there were 6S3 pensioners on the
rolls. and they were paid $700,128
during that period.
The two systems represent two
distinct lines of thought on the in
dustrial fied-the railroad, with its
paternalism, and the union with its
self help and independence.
The Pennsylvania railroad is the
recognized leader of the anti-union,
low-wage movement of the nations
transportation systems.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1921-10-07
RADIANCE OF BAD RUBBISH

, RADIANCE OF BAD RUBBISH
Officials of the American Manu-
featuring Company, with plants in
Brooklyn, st. Louis and Charleston
S. c.. makers of cotton bagging
have announced that they will move
their outfit to Calicut, India, because
of cheap labor to be hired there
Andrew Grattz, head of the con-
Germ, says that in Calicut mill oper-
atives can be obtained for 10 to
Is cents a day, with no limitation
of hours. Corporations that have
this attitude toward labor should be
urged in their departure from the
United States.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1921-10-07
Seattle, Wash,
Oct. |, 1921

To All Affiliated Unions of the
Washington State Federation
of Labor:
Greeting: The State President OF
the Miners Union has just addressed
the State Federation of Labor, by
letter, pointing out that appeals are
being received from the mining
camps for additional relief for the
families of the striking miners. He
points out in the letter that relief
work has already been undertaken
by the trades unionists of Seattle,
and suggests that the support of the
State Labor Movement should be
r;ven to the Miners Union which
is fighting for its very existence.
The Seattle Central Labor Coun-
ell has already created relief COM
mittee and the task of securing adj
ditional relief is we'll under way
among Seattle trade unionists. How
ever. if sufficient relief to meet the
needs of the situation is to be OBJ
tanned. every member of the trade
union movement in every section OF
the state must be brought into ac-
tive cooperation in great state
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President, Washington State Fede

President, Washington State FEEDER
alton of Labor.
N. B.-Call on your members IN
dividually to respond with anything
from dime to $500, or from a jar
of fruit to a sack of sDuds or flour
w. M. S.
Sept. 20, 1921.
To the Central Labor Councils
of Washington.
Greeting: Many of the Central La
Dor Councils of the State have al
ready responded to the appeal OF the
American Federation of Labor to
stage a monster demonstration for
disarmament" on November llth-
Armistice Day. Seattle, Spokane
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1921-10-07
EDITOR ILL

Geo. f. Higgins, Editor of the La
Dor Journal was unfortunately the
recipient of a stroke of paralysis
last Sunday, on the street car re
turning from Lowell at about 4;3Q
D. m. He is temporarily confined
to his bed, his physician not con
sidering the stroke very serious.