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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-11-28

Charles Winslow. Charles Poor, BUR-
leigh Boyd, Bernard Lapidus, Glenn
emit Gregoire, Ernest Burns.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-11-28

A. r. Adams of Atlantic, Mass, was
a Tuesday business caller in the city.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-04-27
THE STREET CALLED STRAIGHT

Enlightened sehshness is vast Improvement
the other kind that it deserves respectful recognition But
after ALL enlightenment tackled selfishness only pair
Of pectaces that but slightly improve hopeessy blur
red and short vision If the world wants any further
than just in front of its toes it needs better vision than
that Enlightenment and seshness can't go far together
They don't match The Street Called Straight is straight
and WIDE but it isn't straight enough wide enough for
those two Yet down that street the world must go
later it the only thoroughfare leads anywhere
except to swamps deserts There is chart for it,
and its name is Enlightened Unselfshness.
Enlightened Unselfishness doesn't imply the enthus
asc surrender of purse watch and laundry the other
fellow. It doesn't demand that should turn the
other cheek to individual who has already stung good
and plenty one It simply the realization that
all arrangements be permanent Of reasonably
long endurance if it is only fer the selfish interest of
side or the other. 4a
Enlightened Unsefshness means that putting
thing over" somebody isn't smart but blind stupidity
Vhat is bad for side to bargain bound in the long
to be bad for BOTH Enlightened UnseIfshness
that honor is the keystone Of human relation and
that magnanmity is not luxury but necessary part
of the business of fe--Exchange.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-04-27

Organised teemstsrs Of Oakland,
Cal, have raised wages so cents a
day. This is q restoration OF the 1891
rate.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-04-27
PARTY LINES MUST
Be BROKEN TO WIN

Organized labor Is waking up to its
duty at the pOlIS and getting away
from the idea that my father was a
strict party man, and his politics are
good enough for me-" The refutation
of the sentence in quotation marks
was plainly evidenced at the polls in
severa Estates last year, thereby send
ing many men to Congress who favor
the cause of the worker, and while we
have made an excellent showing we
must not relax our efforts In attain
ing the desired majority.
The solution Of the problem is easy.
Party times must be broken. An
true, red-blooded union men must
vote for representative who have
proven their worth and friendship for
the common people before their cleo
ton regardless Of what they promise
to do II elected. Profiteering is the
crime that stifled contented industry,
and It viii continue to do so until we
check It at the ballot box. A con-
gresaionaI committee Is appointed to
investigate the evil OF inflated prices
on the necessities Of life, but what
can we do, and what win we do, af-
ter that report comes out telling us
what we already know? We must
first secure legislation that will pre-
vent profiteering or excess profits
Can we hope to get such legislation
from the big business" lawmakers
now in control OF our. national af-
fairs7 VIII we voters wait until It is
too late to correct our wrongs?
We have got a start In Dill Of
Washington, BroOkhart Of Iowa, La
toilette Of Wisconsin and others who
have proven their frinedship for our
cause. Cheer up, comrades, there is
q silver lining in this cloud. and we
can make It a majority IL we but aban-
don party lines and nominate and
vote for the men who win later vote
for our welfare.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-04-27

The members of the Tacoma LAun-
dry Workers union who went on
strike last Wednesday at the Tacoma
Steam Laundry, returned to work
again Saturday after the minimum
wage was raised one dollar by the
manager OF the laundry, Mr.. w. c.
Miller. This announcement was made
by the secretary of the Laundry
Workers. Gertrude Wetzel, who is a
great friend OF Mrs. Johnson, secre-
tary of the Aberdeen Laundry Work
ers' union.
Dissatisfaction with the conditions
that existed at this laundry resulted
in an open break between the union
and the management. All the laundry
workers walked out in this plant with
the exception OF one man and six
women out of total OF fifty-five en-
ployes
A final effort made by the business
agent Of both the Laundry Workers
and Of the Teamsters union. local 313,
to adjust matters with Manager Mil
ler failed, and thav were left with no
other alternative but to carry out the
instructions OF the organization.
The Tacoma Steam Laundry has al
ways been inclined towards the open
shop, many Of the workers employed
there having no union affiliation.
Some Of these recognized that their
interests could only be protected by
acting in consort with the union girls
and walked out. With the minimum
wage law of Washington jeopardized
by the recent court decision, the wom-
en- workers realize that their only pro
lection is in organization, and that
without 1t they will be at the mercy
Of unfair employers.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-04-27
NUMEROUS RAISED
BANENOTES PASSED

The raising Of United States cur
rency has become 50 serious that the
secret service division OF the United
States Treasury Department is warn
ing cashiers and others handling
large sums Of money to memorize the
portraits which appear on the differ
ent denominations Of the Federal Re-
serve bank notes.
Carl H. Getz, an authority on the
subject Of forgery and counterfeiting,
says: Ninety per cent OF the money
in circulation In the United States is
In the form OF Federal Reserve bank
notes. Ninety-five per cent OF the
raised currency in circulation are
these same bank notes. Crooks sue
ceed in changing the figures and the
letters. but they can't change the por-
traits" He advises the people to
memorize the portraits which appear
on the different denominations Of
bank notes, then 1t would be hard to
pass counterfeits OF raised currency.
This ought to be easy. because the
portraits which appear on these bills
are ones which every one remembers
from school days." he says.
"On a 81 Federal Reserve bank
note, washington, 50. Jefferson; S.,
Lincoln, so, Jackson; $40, Cleveland;
$50, Grant; 500, Franklin"
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-04-27
STATE FEDERATION
PRESIDENT SERVES
MOVEMENT WELL

William M. Short is fast making a
name for himself In the labor move
ment of the state and nation that he
may well be proud Of He is the out
standing figure. and made a reputa-
tion for himself as president OF the
State Federation during the present
and the three preceding terms, that
he received an almost unanimous vote
for reelection. He has all the quali-
ties SO necessary in a man occupying
the position as head of the state labor
movement
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, rec
ognizing that bhe program OF the
State Federation was sound and ex-
pressing the will of the people In and
out OF the labor movemtnt, supported
Short during the election of 1922. re-
sulting in the defeat of Poindexter
and certain amendments to the con-
stitution detrimental to the people. In
speaking Of the election of State
Federation officers, last Sundays pa
per had the following to say:
Work Outlined.
Billy Short Is going to be re-
elected president OF the State FEEDER
alton Of Labor for the fifth consecu-
tive time, this time without any oppo-
sition. . This is a well-deserved
tribute to a rugged character that po-
litical leaders of the state, of all par
ties, have come generally to respect.
some of them to fear-and not little.
MANY things possibly entered into
the surprising overthrow of Miles
Poindexter last fall, but not the least
wos the fact that in that campaign or
ganized labor in the state probably
voted more nearly as a unit than in
any campaign in the states history.
Short, working independent OF
party organization, fought Poindexter
with every ounce of his dynamic ma
ture, both In the Republican primary
Continued on Page Eighty
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-04-27
BRENERTON STAGES
BIG MASS MEETING
Estate Federation News.)

Trades uniOnists OF Bremerton, es-
pecially those employed in the navy
yard, held a monster mass meeting
Tuesday night of this week to discuss
the terms of the wage settlement re.
Gently made at Washington, d. c., af-
fecting all navy yard workers. The
president of the State Federation of
Labor was the principal speaker.
While certain wage increases we're
conceded in the decision handed
down, yet they were so meager as to
be generally unsatisfactory all
around, and the purpose Of the meet
ing was to bring home to the wage
earners of the navy yard the neces-
sity of maintaining a 100 per cent
militant trades union organization
among all OF the crafts in order to
fight for the same consideration for
navy yard workers accorded similar
craftsmen in private employment
where an organisation existed among
the men, strong enough to enforce the
union scale.
The meeting was complete sue.
cess. and a strong campaign of or.
ganization is on foot among all of
the men in the yard not now en-
braced in the trades union movement.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-04-27
'HIGH-UPS' SUPPORT
MINIMUM WAGE LAW

Governor Hart OF Washington, who
took the initiative IN calling q confer.
ence OF governors to crystallize pub
lie sentiment for an amendment to
the federal constitution to permit en-
actment Of adequate minimum wage
and child labor laws, was commended
In a resolution adopted at q confer
ence Of the National Consumers
League at q meeting held in New
York city the other day. The confer
ence Of the league was attended by
representatives OF California, Wash
ington, Wisconsin, North Dakota,
Kansas, Minnesota. New York, Mas
sachusetts and the District OF Co
1umbia.
A resolution adopted stressed the
need OF minimum wage laws in the
several states and the Importance Of
the continued Enforcement OF the
laws in such states as already have
them. Continuance Of the fight for
adoption OF the eight-hour and mini.
mum wage law for women IN New
York state, despite the supreme
court decision, was advocated. Mrs.
Frederick Nathan and Mrs. willard
Straight, philanthrOpists and million
aires; Mrs. J. Borden Hartman. Jane
Adams OF Hull House, and Felix
Frankfurter, professor Of constitu-
tional law at Harvard university,
were among prominent representa-,
tives signing the resolution.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-04-27
GARY CENSURED BY
M'NARY OF OREGON

Senator McNary Of Oregon has had
his ire aroused over the views ex-
pressed by Judge Ebert H. Gary.
chairman OF the United States Steel
corporation, who favors the removal
OF immigration restrictions. The
Senator sent the following curt letter
to the steel trust czar:
Il respect your judgment as q rule,
but your position In this matter I
think is entirely wrong.
q voted for the tariff bill and the
tariff on steel products, thinking
thereby to protect the American
workman and industries. Perhaps 1
should have voted for free entrance
of steel products and cheap labor
from other countries. / do not agree
with you that there Is a labor short
age, and am happy to note that the
administration is not following you
into Europe" W
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-04-27
IS
NOW MISDEMEANOR

The State Senate Of California has
passed a bill making it a misdemean.
or for any person wilfully to lie in
giving information for publication in
q newspaper.
II this law were to go into effect in
this state 1t would not have much
chance Of catching the plumbers Of
the Harbor in its meshes. They won't
even give the press truthful informa-
tion for publication.
During the strike the plumbers
were interviewed by a representative
Of The Labor Press. Our readers, not
finding any report OF the situation,
can picture In their own mind the re-
ception given the news gatherer. A
law forcing them to divulge some Of
the secrets would suit the reporters
better.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-04-27

According to the letter sent by
President GOmpers, the international
unions that have been petitioned by
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-04-27

Children Employed When Hardly
Large Enough to Lift Beets-Worls
Day From Nine to Thirteen Hours.

The report on ~child Labor and the
Work of Mothers nsthe Beet Fields of
Colorado and Michigan has just been
made public BY the Department Of
Labor through the Children's Bureau
II h conclusive proof that adequate
protective laws are In great need,
both as to the number Of hours OF
labor and the minimum wages paid.
The sections with which the report
is concerned were chosen as repre-.
senting two OF the three principal
beet-growing areas in the United
States, the western mountain and the
middle western area.
In two Colorado counties LOTS chill
dren under is years OF age and 454
mothers, and In parts Of three Miehi-
gan counties 763 children and s97
mothers doing beet field work were
included in the study. IN each sec
tion four.fifths OF the working chill
dren were less than IA years OF age
and one-f0urth were less than 10. A
large proportion Of the 8 and 7-year-
old children in the families inter-
viewed ond three-fifths OF the S-year-
olds had done beet-field work. One
of the mothers quoted as describing
q common custom said that her child
had worked lever since he could lift
beet"
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-04-27
CONVENTION CALLS
CULINARY WORKERS

The official call for the twenty-sec-
ond general convention of the Hotel
and Restaurant Employees Interna-
tional Alliance, of which the Culinary
Workers OF the Harbor are a part,
has just been issued.
The convention will convene Mon
day morning. August 13, in the city
Of Chicago.
The convention will be held at the
headquarters hotel. the Morrison.
The Culinary Workers Of the HarbOr
cities have not acted on the advisa-
bility of sending a delegate. The ex-
pense may make too great a drain
on their treasury.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-04-27
Labor Long Hours.

The work is monotonous and un-
suitable for children. Il interferes
with their schooling. The energy that
should be used in building strong
bodies in the growing boys and girls
is used instead by the sugar corpora
tions in coming dollars. To employ
these babies at all is bad enough. but
the report also says:
Eighty-five per cent OF the Colo
rado children included in the study
and 81 per cent Of those in Michigan
worked 10 II hours day. Two
thirds Of the children In each section
tcontinned On Page stxl
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-04-27

Official Organ Of the Aber-
deem Central Labor Council,
Hoquiam Trades and Labor
Council and tie Washington
State Federation q Labor.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-04-27
tstate FsderatIon BuIIetIn.l


The Seattle Central Labor Council
was warned last Wednesday night, in
letter received from President
Gompers, sent on behalf Of the exec
utive council. that the laws and poll
eies Of the American Federation OF
Labor must be lived up to or steps
might be taken to revoke its charter.
The letter set forth the fact that
several complaints had been made by
local unions at Seattle to their inter-
national unions to the effect that the
Central Labor body had not only op-
posed the nonpartisan political pro
gram Of the American Federation of
Labor. and Of the washington State
Federation Of Labor. but had worked
in direct opposition to that platform;
that communications from the Amer
lean Federation Of Labor were treated
with indifference and contempt; that
the officers Of the A. F. Of L., OF the
national and international unions, and
OF the Washington State Federation
Of Labor are repeatedly unjustly and
unwarrantably attacked and dem
nounced. and that the Central Labor
body Of Seattle devotes more time in
support of Soviet Russia and inde-
pendence OF India than It does to the
affairs Of the trades union movement
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-04-27

their Seattle locals had taken the
matter up with the A. F. Of L. and de-
manded that some action be taken by
the executive council Of the American
Federation of Labor. President Com
pers then asked Organizer c. o.
Young to make an investigation and
submit report on the subject to the
American Federation. OF Labor, and
which report had evidently been un-
der consideration at the last meeting
of the A. F. of L. executive council,
the result of which was the letter or
dered sent by President Gompers to
the Seattle council.
A letter setting forth the position
of the Seattle council on the subject,
and answering the letter received
from President Gompers, was pre-
prepared by Secretary Duncan Of the
Seattle council and indOrsed at the
last meeting and ordered sent to the
American Federation Of Labor.
Short Attacked.
According to reports of the coun-
Gil meeting, the president of the State
Federation OF Labor was violently at
tackled and charged with the prepara-
tion Of Organizer Young's report to
the A. F. of L., despite the fact that
he was in Olympia attending the
Legislature on behalf Of labor's inter-
ests at the time the report was pre-
pared and has never at any time
seen the document in question.
OF course, somebody had to be
CONTINUED on Page SKI
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1923-11-03
CONSTITUTIONAL
AMENDMENT Z

i n
ADDING A NEW SECTION TO
ARTICLE A TO BE KNOWN
AS SECTION 31A PROPOS-
ED BY CHAPTER 2s1, ACTS
OF 1922.
This amendment authorizes
the Mayor and City Council of
Baltimore to pay to each of the
Judges of the Supreme Bench Of
Baltimore City such annual sal
any as the said Mayor and City
Council shall from time to time
deem right and proper in addi-
ton to the annual salary now
authorized.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-02-27
BOOST AMOUNT
FOR STATE A. G.
Appropriations for Some
Purposes Are Increased

Revision of two bills appropriate
ing funds for the North Dakota Ag-
ricultural College at Fargo, made by
the house appropriations committee
and expected to be reported in TO-
day, increase the appropriations $685.
900 from the senate totals.
Increases made in senate bill No.
157, for the Agricultural College,
proper, follows: improvements and
Repairs--mechanica arts building,
$4,000; auditorium, $4,000; armory,
$4,000; trunk sewer $4,000.
The total appropriations for the
A. c. experiment station were de-
creased $4,000, from $293,350 to
$2S7,3 The changes made from the
senate figures we're: Increases from
$4,000 to $4,000 for demonstration
farms; $4,000 to $4,000 for cost ac-
counting and marketing work. De-
creases: Eliminated $4,000 for dairy
barn: $4,000 for animal nutrition
building; $4,000 for hog barn; $4,000
for animal building veterinary de-
partment.
The house committee approved un-
changed senate appropriations of
$4,000 for the pure seed lab0ra.
tory; $4,000 for the regulatory di-
vision; $51,420 for the oil inspection
department and $4,000 for the hotel
inspection department.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-02-27
ROSS WILL FILED
IN PROBATE

st. Paul, Feb. 27.-The will of
Mrs. Bertha A. Ross of St. Paul
who in 1921 won legal battle in
North Dakota courts for a $4,000
share in her fathers estate, was
filed in probate court here today
revealing to the public for the first
time knowledge Of her death of Feb
ruary 3.
Mrs. Ross legal fight attracted
considerable attention when she es-
tablished that she was a daughter,
born out of wedlock, of Erick Lysne,
wealthy banker of Devils Lake, N.
d. She was born in Norway so years
ago but lost trace of her father un-
til she learned of his death.
A decree awarding her $4,000 of
Lsne's $4,000 estate was filed in
North Dakota courts in October,
1921.
The will filed today was made in
1909, disposing of an estate Of $4,000
but it was announced that second
will disposing of the $4,000 will De
filed March 6.
After leaving several hundred dol
lars to lawyers in st. Paul and
Devils Lake who assisted her in her
fight for share of her fathers es-
tate, Mrs. Ross second will leaves
the bulk of her estate, mostly North
Dakota real estate, to relatives.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-02-27
LAHR MOTORS
DEALERSSEE
LATE MODELS
Enter Enthusiastic Discussion
With Factory Represent
ative Here
AGENTS ENTHUSIASTIC
Carloads Going Into Sections
Where Few Machines Have
Been Sold Before
AGENTS ENTHUSIASTIC

Forty-two Willys Overland mcr-
chants from over western North Da-
kota and eastern Montana are in
Bismarck today, attending a dealers
conference, as guests of the Lahr
Motor Sales Company. The meeting
opened this morning at 10000 O'clock
W. o. kiracofe, special representa-
tive from the Overland factory Il.
Toledo, and l.. Renther of the Com
mercial Credit Trust Company Of
Chicago were here to confer with the
WHY'S Overland dealers. W. A. Fred.
lund. special representative from the
United States Light & Heat Cor.
poration of Niagara Falls was also
in attendance.
bunch. 1--WE have never had as many
orders on file at this time of the
year. both retail and Wholesale, aS
we have now" said Mr.. Lahr today.
I'VE have carload shipments going
to dealers in towns where there has
never been carload of any kind of
automobile shipped before In "A few
towns where we have had no repre-
sentation, we now have two or three
who are competing for the agency"
"Therc are two reasons for this
remarkable interest in and demand
for Overland and WHY'S Knight
cars" said Mr.. Lahr. First, Of
course, general conditions have i'm
proved greatly during the past year,
and then the public now realizes
what a remarkable value there is in
Overland and Willys-Knight cars.
1t is simply going to be question
of obtaining enough. cars to take
care of our orders. This may sound
like sales talk but you just wait and
sec if | am not right"
After the business conferences of
the day the Lahr Motor Sales Com
Tany will entertain the Overland
merchants at banquet at the Nc
kenzie Hotel, and from there they
will go to the second show at the
Eltinge Theatre.
This meeting was supposed to have
been held on the 14th. at which time
the dealers were to have been the
guests of the Lahr Motor Sales Com
pany to see Fred Stone in "Tip Top"
However, on account of the blizzard
the meeting had to be postponed un-
til today.
Though the dealers spent most of
their time with the factory represen-
tatives discussing the new models,
many of them who have garages in
their home cities also were keenly
interested in exploring the big Lahr
Motors building, to observe the mo-
dern machinery and system used in
handling the big garage business.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-02-27
NEW POLITICAL
PARTY ENTERS
FIELD, RUM0R
Form New Independent VOt.
ers Association as Result
of Recent Conference

Rumors of third political unit
to enter the field was today's after
math of the conferences and dis
cdssions which resulted in the for
nation of--a new Independent Voters
association The break among some
of the leaders of the Democratic or
ganization in the state and Rcpub-
lican state central committee that
is controlled by Nonpartisans.
The rumors included one that a
prominent man in the state had
agreed to put up several thousand
dollars. some rumors placing it at
$4,000 for the purpose of launch
ing a third party.
1t was stated today by some Of the
Independent Democrats who were IN
strumcntal in demanding that Chair
man Woolcdgc call meeting of the
state central committee here Satur-
day that Mr.. Wooledgc reported over
the telephone that he favored Il
meeting but that the notice was ra-
ther short. 1t was asserted, however,
that enough members of the COM
mittee had signed n call for the
meeting to insure that it would be
held