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The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1922-09-15
UNION VICTORIES
BRING PAY RAISES
TO NONUNION MEN
Miners Smashing Victory Will
Bring Up Living Standards
of DefenseleSS Producers
Steel Trust and Open Shop Mine
Owners Increase Wages
of All Workers

Further proof that organized la
Dor has checked the "deflation" cam
paign inaugurated by large employ
ing interests shortly after the sign
ing of the armistice that ended the
World War is found in an announce
ment by the United States Steel Cor
poration of a 20 per cent increase
in the wages of it's 10000 workers.
The Midvale, the Schwab compan-
les, and practically all other indie
pendent steel companies have fol-
lowed suit with similar increases.
"Voluntarily" wage increases aver
aging At per cent to 100000 nom
union bituminous miners in the Pitts
burgh district and several thousand
in West Virginia are additional evil
dence that the employers have had
enough, and that the wage tide is
now running in favor of the men.
Organized labor regards these in
creases as the fruit of the long and
bitter struggles waged by the coal
miners, railroad and textile workers
and other groups against attempts
of employers to lower their living
standards.
The union view is expressed by ].
j. DermOdy, vie president of the
Brotherhood of Railroad Telegraph
ers, with headquarters in Washing
ton.
Significance of Action
"Organized labor fights not for it
self, but for all workers." said Mr..
Dermody "Had the great strikes
of this year been lost the Steel Trust
would not have raised wages. The
unions are the guardians of Ameri
can standards"
Mr.. Dermody points out that these
wage announcements follow on the
heels of the smashing victory of the
organized miners, who for 20 weeks
fought successfully against wage
cuts.
The Steel Trust increase brings
the wage of common labor back to
$500 a day, 10 cents below the 1921
level. The 1915 rate was So day.
The highest point reached-in 1920
was $500.
The minimum 36-cents-an-hour rate
established by the Steel Trust COM
pares with a minimum rate of %
cents set up by the Railroad Labor
Board, with an average rate of 32
cents for all maintenance of way
workers and railroad shop workers.
The Wall Street journal the day
after the announcement said it would
be embarrassing to the railroad pres
idents, but later revised its view and
accepted the increase as "another
body blow" to the unions. ''The rails
while those organized are resisting
ing of wages of unorganized workers
cuts will not fail to carry tis lesson,"
says the Journal.
This is not the judgment of other
conservative journals. The New York
Evening Post. which represents the
employers point of view, regards the
advance as "sound economic moves
based upon timely recognition of ex-
isting conditions" The Steel Trust,
it adds. "realized that it must raise
wages in order to keep its men from
shifting to other shops and other
lines of production where wage
schedules are being maintained"
The New York Globe declares "the
adjustment in the coal industry may
have stimulated the corporation to
this enlightened action"
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1922-09-15
WANT No LOCAL AGREEMENT
RAILWAY SHOP CRAFTS DETERMINED TO
FIGHT TO FINISH
Federated Industries of Washington Distrbut-
ing Misleading Dope to Business Men

The striking shopcraf do not separate agreements
but national settlement and furthermore want all they
ask for and will rather stay for than give in This
the given by delegates to the Central Labor Coun
Gil from the shopcra strike The boys standing pat
and misleading dope sent out all the state by the Federated
Industries is lying propaganda used for the purpose of mead
leading the public.
The following letter and article be pub
shed labor paper think However believe it will be
distinct service members Of organized labor to read it.
The reader draw his conclusions.
Industries of Washington, statewide
gnaon comprising than three thousand business ab
shippers cooperation
in the Of helping
bring the railroad strike already lost by the shop crafts to
100 successful conclusion the shortest possible time
and consequently with the least possible inconvenience and loss
the public pub s ,..., .... -, u.n.,. o..,..os ,.eno
statement which the first official statement of the roads in the
State of Washington their attitude this crisis This
ment publicity this time offset the inspired union
publicity the effect that settlement" is hand
you publish this will be a distinct service
the state and to the patrons of publication of whom
shippers and all of whom interested in the conclusion of
this strike both from the standpoint of principle involved and Of
asking appreciate receiving
from you marked the issue containing this article
JOHN, H. McINrosH, Manager
possibility
mythical a of the
with full seniority rights according official of the
situation by aveg
already settled the railroads concerned
Despe carefully propaganda
contrary the entered losing fight from the day they
work the vacancies have been steadily filling On some OF the roads
the shops being manned as high as S5 cent of their original force
efficiency On other lines the forces smaller but
these lines rapidly
every
much the the
ponthe who have remained loyal the roads and the
the United the
be |
who
possible nations transportation
All this shows the folly of the the strikers
place in their national leaders when the latter advise them hold out for
national settlement The settlement the striker
vacancy provided
he has not committed overt act against the roads Many thousands Of
strike back the craftsman
family dependents fails while
taking
will openings
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1922-09-15
Il PR OF E S r"
(By Ella Wheeler WilcoX)

(By Ella Wheeler Wilcox)
To sit in silence when should protest
Makes towards out of men. The human race
Has climbed on protest. Had voice been raised
Against injustice, ignorance and lust,
The inquistion yet would serve the law,
And guillotnes decide our least disputes.
The few who dare must speak and speak again
to right the wrongs of many Speech, thank God,
No vested power in this great day and land
Can gag or throttle. Press and voice may cry
Loud disapproval of existing ills;
May crticise oppression and condemn
The awessness of weath-protecting laws
That let the children and childbearers toll.
To purchase for idle mionaires
Therefore, do protest against the boast
Of independence in this mighty land.
Call chain strong which holds rusted link.
Call no land free that holds fettered slave
Until the manacled slim wrists Of babes
Are loosed to toss in childish sport and glee;
Until the mother bears burden, save
The precious beneath her heart until
Gods soil is rescued from the clutch of greed,
And given back to labor let man
Call this the land of freedom.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1922-09-15

milk supply. and to talk and write a
little about the significance of high
infant morality rate. But most of
the things that We're done were in
the nature of humanitarian efforts
to relieve a present and intolerable
condition. The idea of preventing un-
necessary loss of life by preventing
illness was hardly yet born in the
public mind. The medieval notion
that mothers must enter the valley
of the shadow alone and with little
hope, still prevailed long after the
leading physicians had reduced their
material deaths to one or two per
cent. 1t was not considered to be
public disgrace to doom a baby to
lifelong blindness from ophthalmia
neonatorum, even though Crede's dis
covery Of the efficiency of a certain
treatment had been public property
for 40 years.
We are all slow and stupid, as well
as poor miserable sinners! But we
can and do learn. Whether we shall
protect our mothers and babies from
unnecessary death. illness and suffer-
ing by public or private means, by
national or state agencies, they are
bound hereafter to be somehow pro-
tected. A return to the old era of
blindness and stupidity with its hid
eous cruelties and immeasurable suf-
ferings, is unthinkable. Rather, we
shall go on to demand more and bet
ter conditions for those with whom
all hope of the world rests-mothers
and babies
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1922-09-15
WHY SENATE
COMMITTEE
FAVORS FORD

1.-TWO courses are open, one gov
ernment ownership and operation,
which in view of the character of the
project would mean not only failure
from the standpoint of income but
disaster to the hopes of the farmers
and other users of commercial fer
tilizer"
No advocate of government own
ership and operation can discount the
fact that the Muscle Shoals case is
not a good one to select in testing
out the policy of government owner
ship and operation.
"The alternative course is to sell
the tangible property to private in
dividuals or to a corporation on con-
ditions prescribed by congress, lease
the power at fair rental, and per-
nit individual American initiative
ingenuity to have an opportunity for
giving relief, if such there can be,
to not only the Southland, but our
entire country in the way of com
mercial fertilizer at reasonable
prices.
"Is this possible? Does Ford pro
posal promise such a consummation
We feel that it does"
We confidently believe that by ac-
cepting the Ford proposal under
which the governments Muscle
Shoals enterprises will be properly
worked out with competent admins
tration and direction, backed with
ample capital, this enterprise can be
made to serve the public welfare in
several important ways.
/. 1t will contribute to our ma
tional defense by providing supply
of the indispensable nitrates that
must be had for the manufacture of
explosives in time of war,
2. 1t will contribute to the ad-
vancement of American industry by
introducing a plan which provides
the means whereby hydroelectric
power ultimately may be had in the
United States as cheaply as in the
naturally more favored countries
such as Canada and Norway
3. 1t will contribute to the early
completion of permanent navigation
Improvement on one of the most i'm
portant of our inland streams, and
will do so under a plan which may
be applied on other American power
streams whereby the water power
furnishes the government with its
navigation facilities without cost.
A. 1t will contribute to agriculture
by providing a large scale produc-
tion of fertilizers produced under
most favorable manufacturing con-
ditions, which are to be maintained
abreast of progress in an art that
is developing rapidly. SUCH a
PLAN, WE SUBMIT, CAN REDUCE
THE COST OF FERTILIZERS AND
SHOULD BE ADOPTED.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1922-09-15
Mothers and Babies

From Dearborn independently
From the beginning of the habi-
table world. mothers and babies have
been; as long as creation endures,
mothers and babies will be, yet it has
taken a good many hundred years
for us to realize that mothers and
babies, between them. hold in their
hands most of the great questions
of the world really safe for these
two classes of the population, it will
be a quite desirable place In which
to live.
We were singularly stupid about
this, for the reasoning is as plain
and simple as that two and two
makes four: A happy, healthy moth
er usually produces happy, healthy
baby; a happy, healthy baby ought
to and can, if it has half a chance,
grow into a sound, normal child; a
sound, normal child ought to, and
will, if it has half a chance, grow
into an efficient desirable citizen.
Reverse the reasoning, and you see
that the time to begin to make eff
ficient and useful men and women
is before they are born. Oliver Wen
dell Homes told us this a long time
ago, and other great men have said
the same thing a great many times
Yet we are only beginning to get
some idea of the profundity of this
truth.
In the United States we did moi
bother much about mothers and ba
bies until after the twentieth century
was well under way. Then som,
few people began to get uneasy
about losing countless hundreds o.
babies every year in the hot sum
mer months. and began to disturb
themselves about the quality of thu
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1922-09-15
WE DON'T
PATRONIZE
LIST
BARBER SHOPS

BARBER SHOPS
l. II. Turner, 1l04 Hewitt.
Barnhart Shop, Monroe.
BUILDING LABORERS
L. Starks, Emil Mitersbach, Phillips.
COFFEE AND TEA HOUSES
Manning's Coffee House on Hewitt between
Colby and Wetmore.
RESTAURANTS AND CAFES
Montgomerys Ice Cream Parlor. 2s22 Col
by avenue.
Maryland Cafe. 2sOs Hewitt.
CONDENSED MILK
Libby. Mcneil & Libby. Packers and Cam
ners
Carnation. Aster. Mt. Vernon and Wash
ington Brands
Yakima City Creamery.
CONTRACTORS
X. BOgstade, mgr. Columbia College.
Columbia College.
Reed and Willard and building 23rd street
and Maple.
Emil Larson. Carpenter.
II. Mayes and T. Hoffer. carpenters.
ELECTRICIANS
F. r. Hare, electrical contractor; John
FISH COMPANIES
San Juan Fish Co. Seattle.
GENERAL MERCHANDISE
Buffers.
MEAT MARKETS
A. G. Snider. the Rural Butcher. in Mid
Star Meat Market. 18th and wstmore.
PLUMBERS
VIM. Plambeck.
Joe Walem and his house at the corner
of 1925 Lombard
LAUNDRIES
Independent, Standard. Union. Paris and
kriegers.
PAINTERS
Rainwater & Son. Painters.
A. ]. Jones, Sign Painter.
Steen Bros, painters.
MISCELLANEOUS
The Puyallup Fair.
o. w. Ward. Cement Worker.
M. Anderson.
Mr.. Burden and his house. 25li Maple
street
F. S. Lang Manufacturing Co., of Seattle
Union Oil Service Station. Cor. Rucker
and Pacific.
Mr.. Burns and building at 41st and Ruck
er avenue.
n14v,,arNsa Dsn.fc I0a
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1922-09-15
IMMIGRATION TO
RUSSIA LIMITED

Soviet Russia is not open to gener-
al immigration, even to the natives
who wish to return, on account OF
the unfavorable economic conditions
prevailing there at the present time.
With this policy of the Soviet Gov
ernment, the Russian colony has been
in entire accord. Re-immigration
has, however, been restricted and so
modified that only organized produc-
tive industrial and agricultural
groups are admitted into the country,
because the Soviet Government has
recognized the distinctive technical
aid that they can bring with them
and the extent to which they can be
instrumental in raising production
of necessities. The Russian colony in
America, fugitives from the political
and economic injustices of the Tzar-
list regime, welcomed the Russian
Revolution and the Soviet system of
government instituted by the Bolshe-
they have realized the present com
munist government in Soviet. Russia
Synonymous with the equitable dis
tribution of the land to and its pos
session by the peasants. The Rus
SldllS Ill IHlS COulITy, etDle-DoulSNi
men and women, steeled in the in
dustrial struggles of the workers in
America, almost like one, were bent
on returning to their native land and
partake in gains of the Revolution.
The war, the blockade, and finally
the horrible famine interfered with
and prevented this mass movement
of "back to their revolutionary Rus
sia." AS a result many of them lost
hope of their immediate return and
have been waiting for favorable
change in Russia's economic situa-
tion. Now that the ban against ad-
mission to Soviet Russia is gradual
ly being lifted and the Soviet gov
ernment issues the invitation for or
ganized industrial and agricultural
groups to settle there, the Russians
in America have again renewed their
interests, revived their hopes and are
once more flocking to return, if the
necessary permission is granted.
Smoke BLUE RIBBON 81 Cigar.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1922-09-15
SPENT BILLIONS
AS RAILROAD AID

The statement that the railroads
have received more than 81 ,50O, ,Oo0
600 from the treasury of the United
States since the passage of the Esch-
Cummins Railroad Law is absolute
ly accurate. The minority report OF
the senate committee on interstate
commerce (67th Congress, First Ses-
sion, Senate Report 261, part 2, page
81 says: .ooo -,
on which the railroads were returned
to privte ownership, and up to May
81, 1921, the United States treasury
has paid to the railroads in cash
81 ,158, ,291 ,357.34. During the same
period the government has loaned the
railroads $218,111, ,667. This makes
a total of $1,376, ,403, ,024.34 which has
been paid to the railroads during a
period of little less than Is
months"
During the last twelve months,
this amount has been increased by
the payment of $139, 9,469, ,450 during
the period from July 1, 1921, to
June 80, 1922, as shown by the state
ment of the United States treasury
for July Is, 1922. This brings the
total payment to the railroads since
the passage of the Esch-Cummins
law to the amount of $1,515,S72, ,474,
exclusive of the amount paid in June,
1921, and July. 1922, which are not
shown in any of the statements now
available to me.
The greater part of this sum was
paid to the railroads because of the
passage of the Esch-Cummins law.
This law provides for three different
sets of payments to the railroads:
1. Loans out of revolving fund
amounting to $300,000,000;
2. Guarantee of earnings during
the period of six months following
the return of the railroads to pri-
vate ownership; and
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1922-09-15
Cooks & Walters

This union at their last meeting,
September II. elected the following
officers;
George Wright, president; Sarah
McFadden, vice president; Carl Leon
ard, secretary treasurer; G. R. I'm
derwood, chaplin; Harriet Levin, in
spector; delegates to Central Coun-
Gil, Carl Leonard, George Wright,
Sarah McFadden; executive board,
Harriet Levine, Lillian Lewellen
Mrs. E. P. Gaffney, C. T. Roscoe,
Edna Toler, S. G. Jurgens, Carl
Leonard, George Wright, Sarah Nc
Fadden.
Grand Central Market Delicatessen
and Lunch was furnished with card.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1922-09-15

3. Provision for the postponement
of payments of the railroads indebt-
edness to the government for a per-
iod of ten years, instead of offsetting
such indebtdness against the rail
roads claims, as has been provided
in the contract originally made with
the railroads.
The INDEBTEDNESS Of the railroads to
the government on account of the
governments expenditures for new
equipment, road bed, and other cap
ital expenditures, amounted to ST.
200,000,000, and it offset against the
railroads claims against the govern
ment for alleged impairment of
equipment, would have more than
balanced all valid claims and left the
government a balance of cash due
from the railroads. The EschC Cum
Minis law. by opening the way for
postponing payment of the railroads
Indebtedness. thus required an enor-
nous additional amount to be paid
by the government after the loan of
$500, ,000,000,000 and the guarantee
of earnings during the six months
following the return of the railroads
to private control
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1922-09-15
FOREIGN BORN MINERS

Because foreign born miners in the non-unon Connelsve
region joined the strike the have issued order bar
from employment all Slovak Hungarans Poles and Savs
whether foreign born native bo those who remained
work through the strike Hitherto these foreign born
workers have been the solid buwark of the operators
unionsm In this strike the bulwar crumbd and the oper
seeking bulwark american labor largely
Negro This the first indication that the struggle
organized labor and employers who claim rule divine
entering phase Since the employers longer
doe alien labor they turning
the poenaties of Negro labor insulated by prejudice
against the forces of organization Perhaps
latng The strong enough
the prejudice against the "WOps may vet
break the prejudice against the NegoFrom
nubic
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1922-09-15
LORD BURNHAM AGAIN INVIT-
ED TO PRESIDE AT INTER
NATIONAL LABOR CON-
FERENCE

The governing body of the Inter-
national Labor Office has asked the
Director of the office to invite Lord
Burnham of England to permit him
self to be nominated as president of
the 1922 International Labor Confer
ence to be held in Geneva, Switzer-
land, in October and November. 1t
will be remembered that Lord Burn
ham officiated in the same capacity
at the conference held last year, and
it is rumored that he may be elected
to preside permanently at these an
nual meetings.
Lord Burnham is the proprietor of
the London Daily Telegraph, one of
the British capitals leading newspa-
pers. He served many years in the
House of Commons before he sue
ceeded to his fathers title and is
widely known for his administrative
ability. If Lord Burnham accepts
the invitation, the successful conduct
of the conference is assured.
Baseball and tennis are the nation
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1922-09-15
News Boys

Initiated three new members and
are devising ways and means to get
all boys carrying papers into line. A
100 per cent organization January /,
1928, is their slogan.
The newsboys ask the full coopera-
ton of all organized labor in their
attempt to organize all of the boys
and ask every one to insist his news
boy to have a card and carry a but
ton. Next meeting their charter will
be installed by Organizer Fred Over
man.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1922-09-15
Carpenters

The Carpenters withdrew from the
State Federation of Labor last Thurs
day. September 7. The policy of the
executive board in changing endorse
ment of political candidates is one of
the reasons
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1922-09-15

Director Albert Thomas, of the In
ternational Labor Office, was min
lister of munitions in France during
the war and for a long time member
of the House of Deputies. He has
the theory that the head of an in
ternational organization like his
should visit about among the nations
and personally remove the bumps
from the path of progress. If a mat
ter which concerns his office meets
with undue delay in any of the capt.
tails of Europe he goes to that capi-
tai, walks into the department con-
cerned, asks for the man in charge of
the matter in which he is interested,
insists that he dig up the papers and
make out his case as to why there
has been no action. 1t is usually
found that the delay is due to indif-
ference or neglect and that personal
contact is able to overcome these and
get action.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1922-09-15
Painters

At the meeting of the Painters
September IL, four new members
were initiated. Several new appli-
cants will be ready for initiation in
the neal future.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1922-09-15

A worlds record for continuous
speed in a passenger steamship was
made recently by the White Star
liner Olympic when she maintained
for several hours a speed Of 27.1
knots.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1922-09-15
Pile Drivers

Report that men are willing to
join the union just now. New men
are getting in from different parts
of the country, during the last few
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1922-09-15
LOCAL UNIONS

weeks between 40 and so new men,
berS were taken in.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1922-09-15

State Aid.-According to the Min
istry of Social Welfare, 25,350 per-
sons We're wholly supported by the
state during the month of June, 1922.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1922-09-15

Smoke Olympia st. Rigis, 1Oc, 8
for Zoe. adv,
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1922-09-15
Prague.

Smoke Olympia Capitol, 1Oc straight
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1922-09-15

Baseball and tennis are the nation
al sports of Japan.