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Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-02-09
STATE INDUSTRIAL
COMPENSATION ACT
\ MUST Be REVISED
BY WILLIAM N. SHORT.
President Of Washington State Fed
Grafton Of Labor.

One Of the most, If not the most,
Important problems confronting the
present session Of the Washington
state legislature Is that OF providing
adequate compensation for the vic
Tins OF industrial accidents through
proper amendment to the existing
Workmen's compensation law OF our
state. The responsibility in this con.
nection is Ear In excess OF that which
seems to be generally understood and
accepted.
The original law, enacted in 1911,
was the outgrowth Of the work OF q
commission appointed by the gov
ernor and composed of a number OF
representatives of labor, of the en-
ployers and of the public, which had
been. charged with the task OF max
ing thorough study of this problem
and to submit their recommendation
80 the Legislature for the enactment
e an adequate workmen's compensa-
ton law. At that time and for some
me preceding it the courts of the
tate had literally been flooded with
an ever-increasing volume of damage
cases for industrial accidents, and
he commission as a whole agreed
bat a measure should be enacted
providing for full and certain relief
1or the injured workman and that the
east compensation that should be
provided would be enough to provide
Or the physical needs of the work
nan and his dependents during the
neriod of his incapacity.
The legislature Of 1911, responding
70 the principle and purpose of the
Legislation, declared among other
things, in the preamble o fthe act,
that:
The welfare Of the state depends
upon its industries, and even more
upon the welfare Of its wage worker"
With every faith in the justice Of
all succeeding legislatures Of the
state Of Washington, the wage work
ers agreed to surrender all right to
civil action for the recovery Of dam
ages, and, satisfied with the original
provisions Of the law as they related
TO then existing conditions, they had
faith that succeeding legislatures
would respond to the needs of the
times and changing economic condi-
tions and uphold the spirit and pur-
pose of the original act This has not
been done, and It Is there that the
vast responsibility Of this legislature
to the wage worker of the state as
serts itself. His right to civil action
has been surrendered. The Iegisla-
ture is now the sole court to which
he can appeal for justice. II this
court fails him justice Is unobtain-
able.
In order that the present legisla-
ture may know the relation of the law
at present to existing conditions as
compared to its relation to conditions
in 1911, when it was first enacted, a
few facts in connect tion Herewith are
Continued on Page Three.)
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-02-09
CENTRAL LABOR
COUNCIL NOTES

The Aberdeen Central Labor Coun-
ell met in regular session Friday
evening, President Johnson in the
chair.
Bills for rent, postage and salaries
allowed.
Communication from Charles VIII
son. who is doing organization work
at Kelso, referred to the State Fed
Grafton of Labor.
The books Of the secretary-treas-
urer audited by committee and re-
ported correct.
On motion q committee Of three
men was appointed to provide enter
tainment for the lady delegates.
Brothers Kay, Flynn and Winberg
compose the committee. The COM
mittee to set date Of entertainment.
All delegates reported state OF
trade good.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-02-09
MORE \
REACTIONARY DAY BY
DAY IN EVERY WAY
Estate Federation suIIstin.)


SEATTLE, Wash, Feb. Slopes
for the enactment Of remedial labor
and progressive legislation are grow
Ing simmer as each day passes. Up
to date there has not been a single
measure of any importance to the gen.
eral welfare OF the state passed by
either house excepting the anti-nar-
cotic bill, which has passed the low
er house, but which is being held up
In the senate.
The BARRIERS examination bill will
be reported out this week and stands
a reasonable chance OF passage.
The labor committee Of the house
has reported out the eight-hour bill
for the lumber industry with a rec.
ommendation that 1t do not pass.
This will mean its defeat.
The committee has also reported
out the State Federatlon's bill COM
pelling contractors working for the
state to pay the prevailing scale OF
wages for all work done by them
that 1t paid In the closest Industrial
center. Their recommendation is
that 1t do not pass. However prom
ise for further hearing on the meas
ure has been obtained and the report
Of the committee has been held up
meanwhile.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-02-09
SMALL TYPE coNpEMNEn.

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Feb. g.
The movement of the national com
mittee for the prevention of blind
ness by minimizing the use Of small
type in text books and other printed
matter has been indorsed by the ex-
ecutive council Of the International
Typographical union. It is claimed
that much Of the defective vision Of
the present day is either caused OF
increased by eyestrain.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-02-09
eLAME .. $. AloA COURT.

WASHINGTON, Feb. S.-The Unit
ed States supreme court will prob
ably interested in the announcement
by Miss Grace Abbott, chief of the
United States children's bureau, that
more than 100000 children between
10 and Is years Of age are "gainfully
employed" In this country. according
to the 1920 census.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-02-09
EYEsrRAlN IN p. o.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 8. Ineffi
cient light in many postoffice work
rooms endangers the health and low
ers the efficiency of these workers
according to an announcement by the
postoffice department.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-02-09
Industrial Insurance.

Both these measures were acted on
by the committee without labor's rep
resentatives being given a hearing,
although they had appeared before
the committee and asked If any labor
measures would come before the COM
mittee, and were told they would not.
A number of anti-labor employers are
on the labor committee, although sew
eral Of its members are outspoken in
their support of labor measures.
The daylight kitchen bill was given
a hearing last weekend, but the COM
mittee divided 4 to on the measure
and no report has yet been made. A
rehearing by the committee will be
held, when It Is hoped to obtain ia
vorable report for the measure.
The industrial insurance commit
tee of the house has not yet met to
consider any of the measures provid-
CONTINUED on Page So
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-02-09
LESS HOMES OWNED
THAN RENTED IN u. S.

WASHINGTON, Feb. S.-H Home
owning is slumping In the United
States. According to figures fur
nished by the Federal Census Bureau
there are approximately 100000
more rented homes than there are
homes owned wholly or in part Out
of 24,S51,676 homes at the present
time, 13,236,7O9 are rented and A.
252,447 are incumbered. Despite
building and loan associations and
''own-a-home" crusades, the percent
age of renters is increasing and now
stands at "a per cent.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-02-09

NEW YORK, Feb. S.-Owners OF
houses and apartments rented to
wage earners boosted rents / per
cent between July and November
1922, according to a report of the ma.
tional industrial conference board.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-02-09

WASHINGTON, Feb. s.-On
house and lot costing $6,545.99 the
home owner has the advantage over
the home renter Of $276.95 a year,
according to figures compiled by the
American Institute of Architects.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-02-09
THE CHURCH AND SOCIAL DETERRENT

How Organized Christianity With Labor
By A. A. Hest, Pastor First Methodist Church.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-02-09

CONTINUED on Page 81
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-02-09

official Organ Of tie Aber-
cen Central Labor Council
Hoauiam Trades and Labor
Council and TIE Washington
state Federation Of Labor.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-18
NEW yoRK COTTON FUTURES


NEW ORLEANS. Oct. IA strong tone ruled in the early trading in cotton today but after advances of 36 to S9 points the market ran into a great deal iiquidation of long contracts and during most of the session thereafter the sup ply of contracts too liberal ito be readily absorbed. A gradual decline re- suited and the close was practically at the lowest, showing new losses of to 12 points. December rose to 2S,92c a pound in the early trading at range of 2s.46c to 2S.50c.
 highly favorable Liverpool market. but was mainly caused by more wet weather in the belt. The unfavorabe tone of the weekly crop and weather reports con tributed to the strength. It gener ally considered that the most unfavorabe part of the weekly reports was the men, tion of the nearly completed state of picking over wide areas in the eastern belt.
 steadied by the new storm warnings be- cause of disturbances in both the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean sea, but no new buying of consequence was aroused. Comment was heard that recent buying had greatly weakened the tchnical posi- tion of the market. Not only was the belt threatened by bad weather from the south but the outlook was for frost in portions of the northwestern section. Further rains were forecast for the east ern belt and fair and cooler for much of the western belt.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-18
BREAK OCCURS IN
 DECEMBERCOTTON AFTER EARLY RISE

NEW YORK. Oct. 17.-After selling up to 29.47 at the opening of the cot ton market today, December con tracts broke to 2s.s5, under renewed liquidation and closed at the lowest, with the general list closing barely steady. net unchanged to 20 points lower.
 The market opened firm at an ad- vance of 27 to 45 points on unex- pected higher Liverpool cables and reports of continued unsettled wealth CT in the south. October sold up to 3020 and January to 2S.S7, on cov- ering and fresh buying, but the ad- vance met great deal of realizing and there also appeared to be in- creased hedge selling by the south. Prices weakened and the market be- came easier when the weather re- ports came in showing much lighter precipitation in the southwest and when the official forecast for frost in Oklahoma and west Texas failed to further stimulate demand. Talk of an easier spot basis in the south, probably contributed to the after noon decline which carried prices to 29.55 for October and 2S.43 for Jan uary, or about 12 to 23 points net lower. Last prices were within point or two of the low on most posi- tion. The tropical disturbance which entered the belt from the gulf early in the week, is said to have just about lost it's intensity over Arkansas and while there was further showers in Texas and Oklahoma, the precipi- tation was much lighter. Another disturbance was reported near the Louisiana coast but it seemed of no great intensity and third disturb ance said to be developing in the Caribbean sea, was too far away from the belt to have much effect on sentiment. Private cables sald the advance in Liverpool was due to covering by trade shorts. butt local brokers reported less demand with increased volume of hedge selling by the south. These features were re- garded as emphasizing unfavorable conditions in the goods trade ana there were reiterated reports Of mlll curtailment. The weekly report Of the weather bureau fead unfavorably as to conditions in the southwest but was without much influence. Fort receipts 35,605. United States port stocks 66S,3 Exports 23,266, mak- ing 1,276,547 so far this season.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-18
CHARLIE. CHAPLIN DENIES HE WILL QUIT COMIC ROLE
Declares He Has No Desire To Be A Villain And Play
 In Death Scenes

CHICAGO, Oct. 17.-Charlie Chap lin is going to stay funny.
 The trick derby hat, the trick mus tache, the trick cane. the trick pants and the trick brogans will be with us for some time to come.
 All rumors to the contrary, Charlie announced here Wednesday, are blah He has no desire to play any death scenes in Camille" any poison scenes in Hamlet" or any hanging scenes in "Tess of the D'Urbervilles.
 ''When left Hollywood" said Chaplin. arriving here after a day of 20 speeches in Detroit, that ru- nor began chasing me around. l don't know where it came from, but surely not from me"
 Charlie's attitude is that he is as good as any actor he could hire, so why be a director? Still, if he gets an idea for a picture where there isn't any part for him, he threatens to produce 1t,regardless.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-18
POINCARE w \ N l $ RESTORAT| |ON IF. NORMAL NI0OR|||MI||AILL.C .CY Fl RSST $
Tells German Envoy Repara- tionS Body Will Then Ex-
 anime Berlin Proposals

PARIS, Oct. 17-When normalcy is resorted in the Ruhr, and Germany has resumed payments in kind, the separations commission. will examine German separations proposals.
 This answer was given Herr Won Hoesch, German charge de affaires at Paris, when he discussed separations in a 45 minute interview with Premier Poincare Wednesday.
 Von Hoesch pleaded that Germany could not resume payments in kind as she had no funds available to pay the industrial owners, Poincare re- torted that he did not believe in Ger man claims of poverty, pointing out that Berlin had managed the huge task of financing passive resistance over an eight-months period.
 Von Hoesch lengthily described Germany's financial situation. and handed the premier an aide-memoire concerning import licenses, the coal tax, and instructions to German of ficials in the Ruhr.
 Meanwhile, it is officially an nounced that negotiations have failed between Franco Belgian authorities in occupied territories and the Ger man railroad administration.
 Failure was due to the fact that the Germans insisted that some of the French demands--such as the de- mand that the allies be given two lHOTe IdltIodu lliS@ Cii ti,S t7"t of the Rhine-could only be settled by the Berlin government. This was contrary to Poincare's principles.
 The Franco Belgian command has therefore decided to employ whatever German railroad workers they may need, but they will continue to run trains only as far as the border of unoccupied Germany.
 A Coblenz dispatch to the Temps reports that work is being resumed in the Postal telegraph and telephone services of the Ruhr and Rhineland and that numerous German railroad men are coming into the stations ask ing the Franco-Belgian forces for employment.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-18
RAIL OFFICIALS TO MEET
Vice Presidents To Discuss Freight
 Rates On Export Grain

NEW YORK, oct. 17.-Eastern rail- road vice presidents, composing the Trunk Line association, will meet in New York tomorrow to discuss, 1t is reported, President Coolidge5s pro posal that freight rates on export grain be reduced.
 The executives, most ofNwhom are chiefs of traffic on their lines, also are expected to discuss suggested changes in the existing ration be- tween exports and domestic rates on
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-18
|. w. w. PLAN ATTACK ON CALIFORNIA LAW
Foot-Free Members Ordered To
 Flock To Pacific State

SACRAMENTO. Cal, Oct. 17.-At a meeting of Industrial Workers of the World, held in Chicago. October 9, 1t was decided to call upon all foot loose fellow workers" to come to California to unite in a drive against the operation of the state syndicalism law, it was declared here tonight by c. S Morrill,, superintend- ent of the state bureau of criminal investigation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-18
HAS NEW NAME
Laddie Buck, White House Pup, Is
 Rechristened ''PauI Pry"

WASHINGTON, Oct. 17.-Laddie Buck, the Georgia relative to Laddie Boy, presented to President Coolidge recently, today was rechristened Paul Pry" and officially accepted into the White House establishment.
 Paul Pry' takes his place as com panion to the wire haired fox ter rier Peter Pan" the other White House dog. The two reign supreme over the veritable menagerie which inhabits the broad White House grounds.
 Running close second to the dogs in importance are the two cats, Mrs. Coolidge's special pets. One is black and the other tiger striped.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-18
MARKET TENDENCY
 .IS UPWARD, BUT. DEALING OUTINE.
Observer BeWaiIs Statements Of Bankers And Writers
 Concerning Prosperity
By WALTER F. BROWN,
 Editor New York Commercial By Leased Wire To Age-Herald)


 NEW YORK, Oct. 17.-Wednesday's market was another routine affair except that the tendency was up- ward instead of downward, There was nothing significant about the fact ether than that the technical advantage for the moment faVoreo the buying side,
 "One market observer beWails the fact that bankers and financial writers have been telling the rank and file of Wall street that every 1 thing IS ak right; that the country ! is prosperous and that the credit po- sition could hardly be better; that grain crops are large, and so on.
 What evidence is there" he says, that these same leaders have gone into the stock market and bought stocks at any time within the past six months. It is all true enough, but the public procession won't start until somebody blows the bugle and leads the way"
 Bankers Not specuIafOrs.
 The trouble with his argument is that those who have been insisting that the stock market was out of line with actual business conditions, of whom the writer has been one, have been able to view things with a truer perspective because they oc- cupied an independent position and were not interested in the market from the personal standpoint.
 Bankers, as rule, are interested in the stock market only to the ex- tent of determining the value of col lateral offered to them for loans. They are not, as rule, and should not be, speculators. It is right enough for them to buy stocks for invest ment account when they consider them cheap, and there has been con siderable accumulation of this kind for some time.
 Roberts Says Business Healthy.
 Furthermore, when one becomes a speculator, whether he be a banker .sor writer, his mind is taken up with the story told by the tape to the exclusion of interest in his own particular lob. It would seem, therefore, that an unprejudieed view is more to be desired.
 Among bankers, Mir. George E. Roberts, vice president of the Ma tional City bank, is widely known as an economist whose reputation ex- tends far outside banking circles. In an interview Wednesday, he declared the business situation to be healthy.
 Business men," he said, "are over sensitive regarding the outlook. The violent fluctuations in business ac- tivity during and since the war have led many people to look either for a boom or a depression as normal developments. Neither is in prospect, but business is becoming stabilized on a level or reasonable prosperity. Conditions in Europe are slowly im- proving, but the importance of con ditions there as a factor affecting American business has been exag- gerated."
 It is rather. satisfactory to find ones own views so fully confirmed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-18
ACCEPTANCE WITHDRAWN
Knights Of Columbus. Decline To
 Meet With Masonic Club

WoONsOCKET, R. l., Oct 1.-The Wocnsocket Knights of Columbus, who accepted the invitation of the Woonsocket Masonic club to be it's guest at a joint social gathering next Tuesday has asked the club to post pone the event, but made no sugges- lion that it be held at any future date. President stephen A. Greene of the Masonic club, on receipt of the letter from Harold J. Kennedy, grand Knight of the local council, imme- diately cancelled all arrangements for the affair and issued statement ex- pressing regret that the movement to bring about a better understanding and tolerance had met with failure. . Mr. Kennedy refused to comment on the withdrawal of the accept ance.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-18
----------------------e - FREE SLAVES GIVEN

were free to all corners today in Bennes, the barbers, who are on strike, launching campaign to force their employers to accede to their demand for adequate salaries instead of depending upon tips. The strikers took care of their patrons in improvised shops which they set up tn cafes throughout the city.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-18
MINER PLEADS GUILTY
West Virginian Given Life Sentence
 In Logan Court

LOGAN. w. Va. Oct. 17.-Edgar Combs, union miner, charged with the murder of Deputy Sheriff John Gore in the 1921 armed march, pleaded guilty in Logan circuit court here today after Judge 1eobert Bland refused a change of venue for his trial. A sentence of-life imprison- ment was imposed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-18
RAIL RATE ON OIL CUT

WICHITA FALLS, Tex, Oct IA 20 per cent freight rate reduction on export oil from points on the Fort Worth and Denver City railway to New Orleans was announced here to- night in a telegram received by O.. M. Smith, general agent of the Den yer road.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-18
-----------------9e------ TELLS OF SHAVING
Woman Says Husbands Brother
 Acted in Self-Defense

AVON PARK, Fla, oct. 17.-L. s. Rogers killed his brother, John All ton, in self-defense, according to a statement Mrs. John Alton Rogers made to the sheriff here today.
 When John Rogers came home on the night of Novembc' IS, 1922, when 1t is alleged he was killed at his home in Coffee county Georgia, Mrs. Rogers told the sheriff that he was in bad temper and began to abuse her.
 M L. S. Rogers defended lVb, she said according to the sheriff, and in a row that ensued l.. s. Rogers shot hit brother, John, several times.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-18
9 nIE1N room RIOT

2 MANNHEIM, Germany, Oct IT, Three persons were killed, and IA wounded in clashes between food rioters and police here Wednesday.
 Police fired after repeated charges and failed to disperse plundering crowds.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-18
MARRIED IN JAIL
Birmingham Pair Arrested On Arrival
 In Nashville

NASHVILLE, Tenn, Oc- 17.-Upon their promise to 'go and sin no more" officials of the county jail here We'd nesday sanctioned the marriage of B. B. Berry and Mrs. Harry billiard in the dining room of the hoosegow.
 The pair wa arrested vixen they alighted from a train from Birming- ham, Ala, on charges of violating the Mann act. They left immediately for Birmingham.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-18
BANK STOCKS
(Par 1O)
SPOT COTTON

NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 17.-Spot cotton steady, quotations revised middling 25 points higher. Sales on the spot, 21S bales; to arrive, 1,2l5. Low middling. a7 soc; middling 950c; good middling, 3O 37c. Receipts. 5,25S; stock. 11S,Os7. quiet: middling, S1O5c.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-10-18
AUTOMOBTLES
AUTOMORILEs FOR SALE
ALL USED FoRDS
 REMARKED

WE HAVE REMARKED ALI. OF OUR USED CARS, CUTTING PRICES TO ROCK. BOTTOM. TO MOVE THEM THIS WEEK.
 NO. 1o.-1s2O model Ford tour. ing, equipped with 9 new tires and in good mechanical condition throughout; price <...ss..... .$1S5 NO. s4-1s22 model touring, equipped with self starter. de- mountable rims and good tires, in good shape; was $2S5; price cut to only .................. $23b NO. 37--1s2S model sedan. in~per- feet condition every way; full equipment; price was $475, now only .........'........ .$435 NO. 4s-192s model coupe, in good shape and fully equipped; a real z good buy for .SS25 NO. 44--1s22 model ton truck. equipped with stake body and good tires; was $500, now marked down to .s................. .$250 NO. 47--1s22. model Ford road ster; equipped with self-starter. demountable rims, etc.; for quick bdle IeAldlheQ Ios gee .%1OO N NO. 4S--1922 model coupe, fully {. equipped and in splendid condi- tion; was $375 and has been re- marked to .................. ..$325 NO. 4s-192s model sedan, in very good shape in every respect; dandy car for winter driving; marked down to $335 NO. 5s-1s20 model touring. runs mighty good, for .$165
 AND OTHERsI
 AND THEY ARE ALL REMARKED
 HANNA MOTOR co. 2124 AVENUE c. MAIN 500