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Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-08-31

be difficult to get them from this
agency to the retailers by IA very short
route and at low expense, but there
must first be organization all along
the line.
"Co-operators are realizing that
they must consider this great middle
man problem and reduce the load be-
fore they can make their selling agen-
eies successful. They realize that un-
less they do this, they have but add
ed another expense to products by
their organizations, and that no mat
ter how strong an organization they
may have in the way of controlling
production. the buying public must
be considered to make 1t successful.
Just think OF situation where the
middle interests get twice as much
for products as the grower gets. Do
you wonder that stuff rots on the
farm because of small demand and
that almost every workman uses ev-
cry available foot of garden room to
raise what he can?
Another point: When organizations
handle their produce all the way thru
they will know Just what the retailer
pays for the products and at what
price he should sell them 10 get
fair profit. They will be in posi-
tion to prevent profiteering in prices
and get the products to the consumers
at as low price as possible"
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-08-31
HOOUIAM IS SURROUNDED BY NATURAL
RESOURCES AS YET UNTOUCHED BY MAN

Hoquam, quaint in name, active in industry and facing
brilliant future situated deep water at the mouth of the Ho
quiam fourteen miles from the Pacific Besides be-
fresh water port with excellent andocked harbor
quiam the ahest west the Pacific Northwest where
rail meets steamer and is also the shortest line of travel be-
tween the United States and the Orient.
Hoquam and the Grays Harbor District which includes Alb
ereen and Cosmop enjoy shipping advantages
by other Pacific ports due location the great
and proximity to the Pacific Hoquiam ftyve
miles San Francisco than is Portland although the
latter city $50 miles by rail- The advantage
lists with regard Panama the Gulf Islands, Australia and the
Orient Hoquam has the advantage Puget
ports being approximately 200 miles closer to the markets of the
world than is Seattle.
Three transcontnental raoadshe Northern Pacific
Chicago Milwaukee St. Paul and the OregonWashington
Railroad and Navigation Company nion Pacfc) their
terminals in Hoquam and with the service rendered by the
rous steamship lines give this port excellent transportation
cities.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-08-31
CHANGE MEANING TO
MEET CONDITIONS

Anti-union employers are planning
a drive to impose on the public their
own definitions of the open" and
CLOSED" shop.
The scheme, which is fathered by
the Open Shop Employing Printers
association of Chicago, is designed to
make the public in general think as
do the anti-unionists. In the words
of Matthew Woll, president of the in
ternational -Engravers' union,
the plan Evidences the insidious
methods used by the employing class
es to shape existing institutions of
knowledge and information to obtain
their autocratic mastery over indus
try"
The open shop employers reveal
their plan to waiting world in the
June Open Shop News, their pet pub
licity organ. In a letter addressed to
the publishers of various dictionaries
they ask that the term "open shop"
be defined in the dictionaries as "one
in which persons may be employed
who are not subject to the dictates of
labor unions"
After revamping the old and ex-
ploded arguments that the union shop
destroys the freedom of the worker.
the non-unionists close with the sug-
gestion that the dictionary makers
write a new definition of the open
shop" The letter, which could hardly
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-08-31
Factory sites.

Hoquiam has over seven miles Of
waterfront, including harbor and river
frontage, and a number of factory
sites are available within the city lin
its. West Of the mouth of the Ho7
quiam river, a great tideflat area Of
fers industrial sites in practically un-
limited amount with the advantage of
rail and deep water connection.
Port Of Grays Harbor.
The completion of the Port of Grays
Harbor has centered the attention Of
shipping concerns on the special ad-
vantages offered to the exporter and
importer Three lines of fast steam
ships have inaugurated regular sery-
ice with the Atlantic coast ports and
other coastwise and eastern shipping
concerns are completing arrange
ments for service to Grarys Harbor.
Japanese steamship companies have
been securing data and have repre-
sentatives on Grays Harbor with a
view of opening through transconti-
mental freight service from the Orient
via Hoquiam and Aberdeen.
The Port of Grays Harbor includes
two hundred seventy-five acres of tide
land laying between the twin cities
of Aberdeen and HoQuiam. Excellent
factory sites at very low, long time
rental are available. Two slips, 800
and 400 feet wide respectively, and
1000 feet lond and dredged to a depth
of % feet at mean low water offer
satisfac tory berthing.
Port facilities include central pier
with adequate transit shed, open stor-
age space for twenty million feet of
lumber, electric crane and complete
cargo handling equipment, also COM
plete conveyor system for package
cargo. Coal bunkers and fuel oil tank
storage are being planned by port
officials to be available at an early
date. Rates are on a parity or lower
than other Pacific coast shipping cen
ters, and the Grays Harbor district is
taking its place as a world port and
is consequently experiencing an in
creasing and substantial development,
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-08-31
WORKING GIRLS Do
WITHOUT F|NERIES

Rated in proportion to earnings,
employed daughters contribute more
than sons, declares the women's bu-
rea of the United States Department
of Labor.
Aware that this claim is counter to
the prevailing opinion, the women's
bureau is nevertheless prepared to
back up it's assertion by actual facts
disclosed in a special investigation to
determine what use the average girl
in industry is making of her wage.
One of the most important objects
Of the women's bureau, it was stat
ed, is to nail the lie so generally cir
culated that girl workers squander
most of their wages in silk stockings
Continued on Page Five)
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-08-31
CONSUMER SHOULD
JOIN PRODUCER IN
BUYING, SELLING

c. E. Spence, state market agent,
in an informal discussion of co-opera-
tive marketing, made the statement
that he believed that no better start
for quick results could be made than
by a cooperative organization be-
tween producers and consumers to
handle farm products all the way from
the producer to the retailer or con-
sumer.
1T seems to me-" said Mr.. Spence,
that producers and consumers have
got to be their own middlemen and
II they would take over the middle
profits that are now added to the price
paid the farmers and divide them be-
tween the farm and the kitchen, that
this alone would mean much higher
prices to the grower and much lower
prices In the home.
Federal statistics state that 66 per
cent more is paid by the consumer
than the grower gets" said Mr..
Spence, "and this is too great a mid
die profit or expense for any indus
try to stand and be prosperous. I'm
der such load the products go to
the public at such a high price that
the families cut down their normal
needs; they buy only what they can
get by on, and consumption is ma
terially reduced. If this two-thirds
middle expense and profit could be
reduced to actual cost of handling,
and this divided between the grow
ing and eating citizens, both would
be materially benefited, i'm higher
prices to the grower and lower pri-
ces to the consumer
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-08-31

per annum for the last decade. The
six giant sawmills in Hoquiam have a
yearly cut OF approximately SOC, ,000,-
900 feet Of fir, spruce, cedar and west
ern hemlock. Six shingle mills turn
out annually over 450,O0O,04O shingles,
and six lath mills have a yearly out
put Of 70,OOO.OO0 pieces. Mill ship
ments by rail average 80 cars per day,
and one of the mills, in day of three
Continued on Page Eighty
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-08-31
INDUCTION FINDS
INO PLACE IN LABOR
STRIKES OF MEXICO
President obregon Assumes a Differ
ent Attitude From That Of Attorney
General Daugherty.

Government by injunction" as es-
tablished in the United States under
the Daugherty regime, finds no favor
with President Obregon of Mexico,
who warns capital that it must not
"place prejudices over and above the
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-08-31

principles Of justice and equity" in
refusing to settle strikes by arbitra-
tion.
President Obregon's firm refusal to
side with employers in the strike of
| textile workers in the state of Vera
Cruz, despite a public demonstration
staged against the government, has
just rec cently brought about a fair set
tlement of one of the most serious in
dustrial disturbances in the history Of
Mexico, according to Canuto A. Var
gas, secretary OF the Pan American
Federation of Labor.
Strike Of Textile Workers.
Mr.. Vargas has returned to Wash
ington, d. c., from Mexico City, where
he acted as an official observer" for
the A. F.. Of L. at the diplomatic ne
gotiations now pending for the rec
ognition Of the Obregon government
by the United States. In this way
he was able to get information about
the recent strike situation at first
hand.
Moer than 10000 textile workers of
Orizaba, in Vera Cruz. struck during
the batter part of June because the
employers refused to give medical at
tention to employees suffering from
vocational diseases, although 1t in
volved the payment of only about
$4,000 monthly to some 115 men. When
the strike threatened to spread to
the whole textile industry the gov
ernor Of Vera Cruz appealed to Presi-
dent Obregon to effect a settlement.
Summoned to Mexico City, delegates
representing both sides pledged ac-
ceptance Of President Obregon's pro-
posal for arbitration of the dispute.
obregon's Letter to Bosses.
Instead Of carrying out their part
Of the bargain, the employers repudi-
ated the pledge of their representa-
tives and refused to arbitrate. When
the chamber Of commerce and the
manufacturers of Vera Cruz appealed
to Obregon to force the men to return
to their jobs, the President issued the
following sharp note:
81 regret that the intolerance and
obstinacy Of the textile companies OF
Orizaba is the main obstacle to a re-
sumption of operations in that inn
portant textile region. Their obstin-
acy has carried them to the extreme
of refusing medical attention to their
employees, thus displaying their abso-
! Continued on Page Five.)
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-08-31
Plan Feasible.

ut doesn't seem to me that this
would be a very serious proposition
to work out Farmers all over the
state are taking up the cooperative
marketin plan and this is just the time
to take up a producer-consumer dis
tributing plan. With marketing assO-
Citations selling different commodities
from one central agency, it should not
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-08-31
Lumber.

Hoquiam's name has long been as
sociated with lumber for with Aber-
deem and the balance Of the Grays
Harbor district, lumber exports have
been in excess of billion board feet
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-08-31

Official Organ of the Aber-
deem Central Labor Council,
Hoquiam Trades and Labor
Council and the Washington
State Federation of Labor.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-06-24

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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-09-14
BEGINNING OF
EICHT-HOUR DAY
In Steel Trade Presents No
Serious Difficulties

BY international Labor News Service
New York.-The Federal Council
says of the beginning of the S-hour
shift in the steel industry:
"Press dispatches indicate that the
installation of the eight-hour day is
going to be a simpler matter than the
heads of the industry contemplated.
The reduction of the work period
from twelve hours to eight hours,
coupled with moderate reduction in
wages-from $480 to $500 day
has obvious advantages. 1t is re-
ported from Pittsburgh that the new
eight-hour day in the steel mills is
attracting workmen who have never
had any connection with the indus
try, and mill managers and employ
ment agents indicated that it would
not be long until the labor shortage
indicated last week would be over
come and all the plants would be in
full operation on the three shift sche-
dule.' New York Evening Post, Aug.
ust 22.) Thus it would seem that
the abolition of the twelve-hour shift
in the steel industry is not only tc
be accomplished without delay but
that one of the major difficulties an.
ticipated will not prove serious"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-09-14

By International Labor News Service.
Cleveland, Tenn.-Enemies of or
ganized labor in this district are find
ing that union men are not to be blff-
ed into surrendering their rights as
American citizens.
Anti-unionists discovered this when
they tried to use the law to stop the
organizing campaign of the Interna-
tional Molders' Union in Cleveland.
This is the story:
Several weeks ago j. j. Giglio, one
of the ''live wire" organizers of the
Molders Union, arrived in Cleveland
to organize the molders of two plants
here. He made good progress and
the employers. who are bitter foes of
organized labor, became alarmed
Evidently they decided to use the law
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-09-14
Organized Labor Halls
Recognition Of Mexico
AS Notable Achievement

By International Labor News Service.
Washington, d. C.-Recognition of
the Mexican government by the
United States brings to a conclusion
efforts in that direction that have
been consistent on the part of the
American trade union movement.
An exchange of kilograms by
American and Mexican labor signal
lied the formal announcement of
recognition.
President Gompers, pursuant to a
resolution adopted by the executive
council of the A. F. of L., then in
session, sent to the Mexican Fedora
tion of Labor the following telegram:
New York City, September /, 1928
"Mr. Eduardo Moneda, General Sec
retary,
confederation Regional Obrera
Mexicana
"Apartada Postal 14-53, Mexico, D. F
"By unanimous vote of the execu-
tive council of the American Fedora
ton of Labor now in session, | am
directed to convey to you and through
you to the organized wage earners
of Mexico, the fluctuations of the
wage earners of the United States
upon the resumption of full diplo-
matte relations between our respec-
tive governments. 1t is an achieve
ment in which we find deep satisfac-
tion and which, we feel confident, will
bring to our peoples new opportuni-
ties for mutual helpfulness and un-
derstanding. The relations of the
wage earners of the United States
with the wage earners of Mexico have
long been of the most friendly char
acter. We have been enabled to CO.
operate in many endeavors for the
mutual benefit of our peoples. The
official action of our government is
the final and satisfying seal upon the
friendship that our respective peoples
have never ceased to feel. We look
forward with you to new opportuni
ties of mutual service and helpful
ness in the cause of human freedom
justice and democracy.
SAMUEL GOMPERS.
President,
American Federation of Labor.
The secretary of the Mexican Fed
GRAFTON of Labor sent to Presiden
Gompers a message as follows:
Mexico City, September /, 1923
Samuel Gompers, President,
american Federation of Labor,
Washington, D. c.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-09-14
RECOGNITION
Of Unions Essential For
Industrial Peace, De-
clares Clergyman

Oshkosh, Wis.-"We can not have
industrial peace or national prosperity
until the employers of labor frankly
recognize the workers rights to or
ganize and freely choose his repre-
sentatives in the same way that he
chooses his representatives in govern
ment," said Rev. F. J. Haas, Phi. D.,
of St. Francis Seminary, Milwaukee,
in a Labor Day speech in this city.
The speaker declared that COL
lective bargaining is both natural and
necessary. ut is natural because it
is in the nature of human beings that
those who have common aims and
likes and aspirations should unite to
advance their common interests" he
said
Collective bargaining is necessary
because the individual wage contract
is very often no contract at all. II
is frequently invalid and unjust be.
cause it lacks the free consent of the
worker. When a laborer accepts any
wage that is offered him because hi!
family needs food or clothing or medi
cine, he is the victim of force. More
over, the worker who is obliged t.
bargain individually often accepts {
rate of pay less than the going mar
ket rates simply because he does no
know what the market rates are"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-09-14

''In view of Mexico's recognition
by the United States government, l
have the honor to extend congratula-
tionss in behalf of the organized
workers of Mexico for the intelligeE
and successful negotiations of rep
resentatives of both governments
and to express our recognition of the
efforts which you and your colleagues
had been making for long time to
the same end
"Fraternally,
EDUARDO MONEDA,
General Secretary of the Mexican
Federation of Labor"
In addition President Gompers sent
kilograms of congratulations to Sec
reatary of State Hughes and to Presi-
dent Obregon of Mexico.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-09-14
Sunday Law Is Invoked
In Vain Effort to Stop
Organization of Molders

as a weapon against the unionists,
judging from the action taken at a
Sunday meeting of molders addressed
by Giglio.
The meeting had just been started
when the sheriff appeared and or
dered that the men disperse. Giglio
told the officer that he had no right
to interfere with the meeting and the
sheriff withdrew, only to reappear a
few minutes later with a warrant for
Giglio's arrest on charge of viloat-
ing an archaic law prohibiting the
holding of weekday activities on Sun
days
Giglio examined the warrant and
found that it did not name him as the
alleged breaker of the law. He called
the sheriff's attention to this omis-
sion and the sheriff again left, only
to reappear second time with the
warrant correctly made out Giglio
then submitted to arrest and was
taken before local magistrate
When the hearing was held, Giglo
conducted his own defense The
prosecuting attorney, who is known
to be connected with the Hardwick
! interests, which control the plants in
Cleveland employing molders, ap-
peared against him. Despite an able
presentation of the right of citizens
to assemble peaceably on Sunday or
any other day, Giglio was adjudged
guilty and was fined $25
Giglio refused to pay the fine and
the judge sail he could do nothing
about the matter, as the sheriff was
charged with the duty of collecting
fines Giglio started to leave the
courtroom, when he saw the sheriff
standing near the door and walking
over to him. He told him he had re-
fused to pay the fine and asked the
sheriff what he was going to do about
it. The sheriff replied that he could
MT lock Giglo up and as the organizer
had no property in Cleveland, he
could not make a levy for the collec-
tion of the fine. There the matter
rested and Giglo left the court.
No attempts have been made 70
collect the fine and work of organiz-
ing the molders is still progressing.
A strike has been called in one plant
and unionism is the burning topic
among Cleveland molders.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-09-14

By International Labor News Service.
Washington, d. c. Information
made available through confidential
sources to international Labor News
Service enables this newspaper to
make public what is perhaps the most
astounding fact yet revealed in col :
nection with the famous raid on the
U. S. naval oil reserve by which the
Sinclair interests secured the lease of
Teapot Dome reserve in Wyoming.
1t is now made known for the first
time that every naval officer connect
ed with the naval oil reserves, in
Guiding one admiral, filed recommen-
dations with Secretary of the Navy
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-09-14

States Geological Survey had exam
ined the field and reported that such
drainage was impossible seemed to
have had no consideration when the
lease was made
DENLY Disreg arded Evidence
For the government the lease was
signed by Secretary Fall and by Sec
retary Denby. In signing the lease
DENLY totally disregarded the evi-
dence and recommendations submit
ted to him by the naval officers in
charge of the reserve. There is a
possibility that DENLY may be called
before the senate committee to ex-
Continued on page four)
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-09-14

New York.-More than 1000 bar
bers employed in 500 Brooklyn shops
won a wage increase after a short
strike.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-02
American Jock Rides French Horse To Win

PARIS, July 1.-(By Associated Press.)-Bahadur, French bred horse. owned by Leon Mantacheff, q Russian, and ridden by the veteran colored American jockey, Winkfield of Kentucky, today won the Pres ident of the French republic stakes of 100000 francs at the closing Of the metropolitan racing season in Saint Cloud Bahadur paid his back CTS 14 to 1.
 . Contrary to the Grand Prix de Paris, where styles predominated over racing today's contest. was a strictly business and big betting af- fair.
 King Alfonso of Spain had to be content with third place in the race. His four-year- Reuben, ridden by Lucien Lyme, American jockey, fin- ishing behind Serbia, owned by Mar eel Boussac. The few remaining ad- herents of the Bourbon dynasty bet heavily On the Spanish Kings horse.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-02
Two Players Cut In Riot Following Ump Forfeiting The Game

ST, PAUL, Minn., July 1.-Two Mill waukee players were cut and had to be treated at a hospital and Umpire Mullen was escorted from the field and club house by police in a small- sized riot at Lexington baseball park here this afternoon. The disturbance followed throwing of cushions onto the field in the ninth inning of the second game between Milwaukee and St. Paul and after Mullen had for feited the contest to Milwaukee. Mil- waukee won the first game.