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Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-11-23

Aberdeen-H Oquiam-Meets LIST Sun
day Of each month. Clarence Moore,
Aberdeen, SECRETARY.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-11-23

HoquIam Trades and Labor Council
HoQuiam = Meets every Monday
night, Trades and Labor Council
Hall, /. o. o. +. Bldg. c. e. Brown,
secretary.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-11-23

Meets first Thursday In l. 0. o. +.
hall, Cosmopolis. Fred King, presi-
dent; C. o. Merchant, financial sec
rotary.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-11-23

ond and last Wednesday night Of each
month at X. Of p. hall, Aberdeen.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-11-23

Sailors Union Of Pacific
Aberdeen II oqufam-Meets on every
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-11-23

Aberdeen-Aoqulam Building Trades
Council
Aberdeen and Hoquiam-Meets on
every Tuesday night at 400 q. Wish
kas, Aberdeen. Harry Gibson. bust.
ness agent, Aberdeen branch, IL N. "a
1P. n. Phone sos.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-11-23
Seattle.

Wheat - Hard, soft and western
white, $1.0O; hard and soft red winter,
northern spring and western red. csc;
Big Bend bluestem, S1.e2.
Hay-Alfalfa, $22; D. c., S24; tim.
othy, s25; D. c., S27; mixed hay, S2S,
Eggs-Rahcn, 45047c.
Butterfat-50@53c.
Cattle-Choice steers. $7.25@I76;
medium to good, $6.7507.25.
Hogs-Prime light, s70S.
Cheese = Washington cream brick,
25@27c; Washington triplets. 24026c;
Washington Young America, 25@2eC:
Tillamook triplets, I. Q. b., 2se.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-11-23

Aberdeen Hoquiam--Meets End and
4th Tuesdays at 100 No. @ st., Aber-
deem. T. Lund, secretary.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-11-23

Allied Printing Trades Council
Aberdeen HoQuiam-Meets LIST Sun
day In each month. alternating be-
tween Aberdeen and HoQuiam. Elmer
Salstrom, HoQuiam, secretary.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-11-23

MaehInlsts.
Aberdsen-HoQ uiam-Meets the ssc
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-11-23
THE MARKETS
Portland

Portland
Wheat Hard white, $1.o2; soft
white, $1.01; western white, 800;
hard winter, northern spring and west
ern red, 97c.
Hay-Alfalfa, s16.5O@17 ton; cheat,
s12@1s; valley timothy. S1S@19; east
ern Oregon timothy, $2O@22.
Butterfat-50051c
Eggs-Ranch, 42050c.
Cheese-Prices to jobbers, (. o. b.
Tillamook; Triplets, soc; longhorns,
sic; loaf, 32c per lb.
Cattle = Beef steers, good grade,
$6.75@7.5O; medium, $5.7506.75.
Hogs-Medium to good, $7.2507.65.
Sheep-Medium, good and choice
lambs, $1O.O0011.25.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-11-23
Central labor Council.

Aberdeen-Meets each Friday night
at 100 No. G st. w. L. Brackinreed,
secretary.
The Penn's Grove record., 1923-06-29
july FOURTH
Birthday OF This Nation

Wednesday, July 4, 1928, viii be
the ll7th anniversary of the day
when the Continental Congress de
clared the thirteen Colonies a free and
indepandent nation from Great Brit
ain. Thirty reasons are stated IN the
Declaration of independence. The
causes had accumulated for years.
mostly under the a|utocratic rule OF
King George III and a Tory majority
in Parliament. Parliament made con-
cesSions to the autOCratic king which
the Colonies would not endure. The
Wing party in Parliament, led by the
Earl of Chatham, did not approve e.
the war on the Colonies, hence We have
Edmund Burke's speech on "ConcIil-
alton taught in u high school liter
azure.
George III became an imbeeile in
l7SS, and undoubtedly it was his de
fective mental traits which caused TIE
burdens to be put on the Colonists
After his death in 1920. changes o.
policies led to the warm friendship
between the Mother country and these
United States.
1t has been principally the IES
instigated by papiSt principles.
the pro-Germans who have Ea--=- ~
political breezes TO keep alive
pejudices against the British B. -
years.
The success of tie American Re-
luton led to great reforms in G=a
Britain. While they have : N--
has not q veto a. p0"5r-1 a. --@
u President. In fact. adm
tlation is more easily e14--@-
The Penn's Grove record., 1923-06-29
WHAT DOES 1T MEAN

Next Wednesday will be July 4th.
the 147th anniversary of the Con
tinental Congress voting their indie
pendance. In the Declaration thirty
reasons are given. The goth reads as
follows:
"For a~bolishing the free system of
English laws in a neighboring Prov
ince, establishing therein an arbitrary
government, and charging its boun-
diaries, so as to render at once an
example and fit instrument for intro
ducing the same absolute rule into
these Colonies"
1t would be interesting if some his
torian would explain what that clause
means, as our teachers have failed to
do so.
The Penn's Grove record., 1923-06-29
Servant Girl Wouldn't Go In Cellar
Fearing Rats

Mrs. Topper, Plainfield, N. J., says,
Rats We're so bad in our cellar the
servant girl wouldn't go there.
Bought some Rat-Snap and it cleaned
all the rats out Rat-Snap destroys
rats and mice. Absolutely prevents
odors. Comes in cake form, no mix
ing. Cats or dogs won't touch it.
Three sizes, 35c, 65c, $1.25. Sold and
guaranteed by P. Jordan, 10 North
Broad STREET.
The Penn's Grove record., 1923-06-29
re and for Independence."

ware and for Independence"
The day was won. So, from the
5elfry of independence Hall, rang out
over the Quaker City the glorious
news-the thirteen American colonies,
strong in union, stood pledged together
for liberty.
The Penn's Grove record., 1923-06-29

Students in the Woodbury. High
School who failed in subjects are to
be given an opportunity to make good
in a summer school which was opened
in the high school last Monday.
Woodbury. students will be received at
no cost to the students, and outside
students will be charged $500 per
subject. Last summer this was found
to be a very practical method for stu
dents to make up work in which they
rad failed. and to secured advanced
standing in other subjects.
The Penn's Grove record., 1923-06-29
IN TERMS OF BARTER

A man who runs a farm in Virginia
sent to a newspaper in New York the
other day a letter in which he translat-
ed the cost of construction, at present
wages, into food at the price the
farmer gets. The examples are most
Illuminating:
1t takes 6312 Dozen, or 762 eggs, to
paw a plasterer for n day of eight
hours work.
1t takes 1712 bushels of corn, or a
wears receipts from half an acre, to
pay a bricklayer n day.
It takes % chickens weighing three
pounds each to pay a painter for n
DAYS work in New York.
1t takes - pounds of butter, or the
output from II cows, fed and MIXED
for - hours, to pay a plumber S14
1t takes a hog weighing IT'S pounds,
representing eight months feeding
and care, to pay a carpenter for one
days work.
Thus reduced to terms of barter,
.he charges made by skilled labor in
the building trades + startling. Yet
these are facts beyond argument.
lien in lines of endeavor other than
farming can figure how much of their
produced wealth they are compelled to
give in exchange for construction
work How much coal must a miner
dig in order to have his house paint
ed. How many volumes must a book
der bind that he may have a new
front porch?
Barter is never so we'll expressed,
however. as in terms of food. For
thar is the coin of the earth. All else
IN trade depends in n way or an
zr. upon it.
Money is only a medium of eX-
..aaEe. The dollar is a unit of ac-
count as stated in the first coinage
as gt Congress. 1t is not, never was,
za. newer IAN be a standard of value,
because values in the exchange of
q commodities and monies seldom stand
IL luvinE labor always consider that
a5o- has 10 De paid with the products
-7az 'a1or produces and is sold in eX-
change for money.
One VIII never understand finance
4a5 -ne money question until the idea
-,s dollar has not intrinsic value
a#f : To S--aAlaIu OI value. me CoIOi
~ geld IS intrinsic, but value is eX-
-rfssic. regulated by the supply and
temant Of products and seldom stands
TIE L. :. coinage laws defines 25.8
grains Of gold as a dollar, unit of ac-
count. The word dollar" designates
the price Of 25.8 grains of gold, but
ices not and cannot designate, the
value; that IS not how many bushels
e. wheat. corn, potatoes or berries,
aee how many pounds of cotton, hay,
cattle or hogs that a dollar shall buy.
Price Is q designated amount. Value
in exchange is variable. When you
SCI products You buy dollars if it be a
legal tender for debts. If the law
doesn't designate the note as a legal
tender for debts then it is a promise
70 pay.
Keep in mind that the dollar is only
& INIT of account and a medium of
exchange in the sale of labor and the
products Of labor. One laborer is paid
by the products of another's labor.
The Penn's Grove record., 1923-06-29

Approximately a third of tn
worlds population is white.
The Penn's Grove record., 1923-06-29

The first steel produced in the
United States was probably made in
Connecticut in 1928.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-11-30

federation of which you are the dis
tinguished leader
Permit us to tender you and your
associates this symbol of our admir-
alton and deep personal affection.
MAY God spare you in full posses
sion of all your faculties, for many,
many years, in order that you may
witness the dawn of that better day
of which you have been the prophet"
In his reply to this exhibition of
fraternity, President Gompers said:
Il am afraid at this moment, when |
am overwhelmed, am not capable of
expressing to you what is yelling up
in my soul to say. On behalf of the
American Federation of Labor, per-
NIT me to express to you my pro-
found gratitude and the deep appre-
citation which | know my associates
and | fell. And may the time soan
come when the men and women of toll
are united not only in organization,
but in spirit and in fact, and then will
come the great day of human justice,
of brotherhood, among men the world
over"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-11-30
CANAL EMPLOYEES
LOSE

Washington.-The United States
supreme court has decided against
Panama canal employees who would
prevent Governor Morrow, of the
canal zone, from charging them house
rent, and for fuel, water, electricity
and services in connection with quar-
ters. These charges were authorized
by an executive order signed by Pres
ident Harding in December, 1921
The supreme court held that the order
is valid. Attorneys for the workers
took the position that the order set
aside portion of the law creating the
canal commission, which built the
canal and that cong ress alone has the
power to change the law in any re-
spect. The house rent for employees
and other features of the law were
inserted because of climatic condi-
tions in Panama.
There are about 5000 American en-
ployes on the canal zone and deduc-
tions from their salaries and wages
for rent and other items are estimated
at $500,000 year.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-11-30
twenty-five Organizations
Agree on Amendment to End
Child Slavery in Nation

fessional Women's Clubs; Miss Mar.
garet c. Maule, Girls Friendly So
ciety in American Raymond P. McEl-
roy, United Textile Workers of Amer
ica
There is no question that should
appeal to the hearts and minds of the
people of our country like that of pro-
tecting children from exploitation, !"
said President Gompers after the
meeting. "The members of the per-
manent conference for the abolition
of child labor are all earnest men
and women, and they have organized
for the purpose of impressing upon
members of congress that the con-
stitutional amendment should be ap-
proved by congress so that this most
un-American child labor can be abol-
ished. Copies of thed propose
amendment will be sent to all mem
bers Of congress.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-11-30
new JAP FIGHT
For White Mans Land
Reaching Into u. S.
Congress

Washington.-Wes coast senators
and congressman are discussing meth
DDS to further restrict Japanese i'm
migration. They suggest that the
"gentlemen's agreement" with the
Japanese nation be abrogated and
that congress amend the immigration
laws so that all persons not eligible
to citizenship will be barred from
entering the United States
Following the United States SUI
preme courts decision that states
have the right to pass laws debarring
Japs from owning or leasing lands,
the court has handed down two more
decisions along the same line. In
one decision the court held that under
the alien land laws of Washington
and California, aliens held Ineligible
to citizenship can not own stock in a
land owning corporation. In the other
can not own or lease land are like
wise barred from entering into con-
tracts with land owners for division
of crops.
The "gentlemen's agreement" is an
understanding between the state de-
partments of the two countries that
no Jap laborers will be admitted to
this country 1t has been repeatedly
charged, however, that Japs are be-
ing smuggled into the United States.
1t is stated that there are now 10000
Japs in California alone. The agree
ment, it's opponents claim, is not bind
ing because it was negotiated only
by the state department, with the ap
proval of the president, and that the
senate was ignored.
If annullment of the agreement is
seriously considered by congress it
will reopen the entire Japanese ques-
tion, and may develop some feeling,
as has been the case on former occa-
sions.
The plan to prohibit immigration of
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-11-30

The defendants represented to
Judge Sharp that because of the hos
tile attitude of Sheriff Graybeal, and
other individuals in Greenbriar coun-
ty, fair and impartial trial could not
be had there. Judge Sharp after an
independent investigation of his own.
directed the removal of the cases to
Fayette county.
The indictments against Keeney
Mooney and Blizzard are in the iden-
tical position today that they were
two and a half years ago when they
were first returned by grand jury
in Logan county. On five different
occasions, in the courts of three diff
ferent counties, the Logan operators
have made determined efforts to
bring about the conviction of one or
all of these men. In each instance
they have met with signal defeat,
and with no progress to their credit
since the indictments were returned
in Logan county with the exception
of an acquittal of Blizzard on
charge of treason, and Keeney on a
charge of accessory to murder
About $40 men were indicted in
Logan county, but the efforts of the
operators have been concentrated on
the single aim of convicting and i'm
prisoning the three officials of the
district union. The cases will be call,
ed ap in Fayette county to be set
for trial. There is small likelihood
that another trial will take place be-
fore the spring or early summer. The
United Mine Workers probably have
a greater number of bona fide mem
bers in Fayette county than in any
other county in the southern half of
West Virginia.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-11-30
Short Workday Benefits
Employe and Employer,
w. D. Mahon Points Out

line of work having at least one days
rest in week that they can have to
devote to their own welfare and in
terest, and | would advise that we
continue our struggle for the one
days rest in seven Let it be made
a question of contract whenever new
contracts are to be made and where
laws can be secured let that be done
either through state of municipal leg
islative bodies"
The extent of the Amalgamated
Associations work for disabled and
aged members and the aid given the
families of deceased members was
summed up in the following para
graph from President Mahon's re-
port:
During the past term we have paid
1896 funeral, disability and old age
claims. The amount paid in funeral
benefits was $957, 1898; the amount
paid in disability benefits was S37,-
075.00; the amount paid in old age
benefits was $94, 10000, making to-
tai paid in funeral, disability and old
age benefits of 81 ,088, 8,63438."
The convention was one of the
most successful and harmonious ever
held by the organized street railway
men. Despite the fact that it was
held on the Pacific coast, remote from
the large Eastern cities, there was
large attendance from every part
of the country. Keen interest was
taken in the convention proceedings,
the delegates expressed themselves as
being confident that the gathering
marked big step taken by the street
railway men of America toward bet
ter conditions for themselves and
their families.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-11-30
OHIO DEFEATS PEN
SION

Columbus, Ohio.-At the recent
election Ohio voters rejected state
constitutional amendment which
would legalize old age pensions. The
proposal was urged by the Ohio State
Federation Of Labor and affiliates.
The new constitutional amendment
to the workmen's compensation act,
which was favored by the State Fed
Grafton of Labor and organized en-
ployers, was approved by the voters.
Under this amendment the ambulance
chasing attorney is put out of bust
ness, as the act gives increased awards
to injured workers and the depend
ents of those who are killed, but they
will be prevented from securing addi-
tional damages through the courts.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-11-30

BY International Labor News Service
Detroit, Mich-E Encouraged by their
success in recent years in gaining and
maintaining the 8-hour day, members
of the Amalgamated Association of
Street and Electric Railway Employees
of America are making renewed
efforts to gain the shorter workday.
Progress in obtaining the shorter
workday was stressed by Interna-
tional President William D. Mahon at
the eighteenth annual convention on
the street railway men, held at Oak
land, Cal, when he said in his annual
report:
During the past two years we
have been able to maintain the
shorter hours of labor that have been
established and in some places have
improved upon the conditions so far
as the hours of labor are concerned
and my recommendation to this con-
vention is, that the policy of secur-
ing wherever possible, the 8-hour day
for our people be continued and every
effort made to reduce the hours of
labor where they go over the eight
hours, down to the 8-hour day 1t
has not only been demonstrated to
our people that the 8-hour day is
beneficial but it has been, / believe,
clearly demonstrated to many of the
employing companies that the 8-hour
day makes for more efficient and sat
isfactory line of employees than did
the longer hours.
'In recent arbitration where |
was engaged the testimony showed
that the men in shop and repair work
were doing the same work in eight
hours that they had done before in
the 10-hour day, and wherever an
honest review of the benefit of the
shorter hours is made, it shows
great Improvement in the health and
conditions of the employees and
higher standard of efficiency which
results benefcially to the employing
companies"
Discussing efforts to get one days
rest in seven for street car men, Pres
ident Mahon said:
In many places we have estab-
lished the one days rest in seven and
Il 1o Il
that line during the past year. Some
places legislation has been attempted
While we have not been successful
in securing any great amount of leg
islation the agitation for the one days
rest in seven has been beneficial 1t
has attracted the attention of all
thoughtful people to our occupation
and to the necessity of men in this
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-11-30

other county for trial
Preliminary motions made to the
court as the cases were called to trial
were attended by sensational develop
ments, one of the chief of which was
the admission on the witness stand
of j. A. Scott, of Pikeville, KY, that
he is the hired agent of the Logan
Coal Operators Association for secur-
ing witnesses and evidence against
the indicted officials of the union.
Scott admitted that while he was a
bona fide resident of Kentucky he had
been employed as deputy sheriff
IN Logan county, under Sheriff Don
Chafin, and that upon relinquishing
this position, he became the employe
of the coal operators to continue the
work which he had previously per-
formed as deputy for the sheriff.
Scott further testified that in his
capacity as an employe of the Logan
coal operators he had paid money to
Sheriff L. L. Graybeal, of Greenbrier
county, in connection with the prose-
cution and conviction of Howard
Harrah, foreman of the jury IN trial
of Blizzard in that county last June
This jury failed to agree upon
verdict Shortly afterward, agents of
the sheriff's office made affidavits that
admissions had been gained from Har-
rah that he had received $500 for his
attitude in the jury room. Harrah
had been candidate for sheriff
against Sheriff Graybeal in the COM
ing election, and his success was con-
fidently predicted before the bribery
charg was made against him.
Friends of Harrah allege frame
up" for political purposes against him
by agents of the sheriff's office.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-11-30
EULOCIzE COMPERS
Sixteen Rail Employees Or
ganizatiOns Present Ad-
dress and Flowers to
La6Or's Chief

Washington White attending a
conference in this city, officials of
the 16 railroad employees organiza-
tions unexpectedly called at A. F.
of L. headquarters and presented
President Gompers an address and a
magnificent stand of flowers
The address was signed by l.. E.
Sheppard, of the Brotherhood of Con-
ductors, acting chairman, and E. j
Manion, of the Order of Tlegraphers,
secretary, "on behalf of the chief exec
utives of the associated railroad labor
organizations in conference assem-
bled." The address is as follows:
Brother Gompers: Today we cele-
brate notable anniversary in the
tory of the American labor movement
the forty third birthday Of the great
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-11-30
West Virginia Coal Operators
Suffer Bad Defeat as Accused
Miners Win Change Of Venue

BY international Labor News Service.
Lewisburg, w. Va.-Coal operators
of Logan county, banked behind the
prosecution of Frank Keeney, Fred
Mooney and William Blizzard. Off
cials of District II, United Mine
Workers of America, have suffered
overwhelming defeat in their fourth
attempt to secure convictions in con-
nection with the spontaneous upris-
ing of coal miners in this state two
and half years ago. Judge Samuel
H. Sharp, of the criminal court of
Greenbrier county, has terminated the
move to start a trial of the district
officials here by transferring them
to Fayette county in this state.
The action of Judge Sharp is in
accordance with motion made by
the defendants for change of venue
when their cases were called to trial
in the Lewisburg court The defend.
ants asserted that they could not Sc
cure fair and impartial trial in
Greenbriar county, primarily because
of thousands of circulars containing
reprints of rabid and violent anti
union propaganda from Industrial
Progress" publication at Washing
ton, D. c., which had flooded the
county. This publication is asserted
to be the organ of the National Asso-
citation of Manufacturers for carry
ing on an anti-union and "open shop
campaign in the United States.
Judge Sharp took cognizance of
these documents by directing that
the indictments against Keeney,
Mooney and Blizzard, pending for
more than two years in various coun-
ties of the state, be removed to an