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Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1924-05-23
BUYER AND SELLER
EQUALLYINTERESTED
IN COOPERATION
By W. c. Mumaw

Agriculture is a basic industry.
From it we get our food and clothing.
About 30 per cent Of our population
are directly engaged in it yet they
consume over so per cent of all our
manufactured products. Last year
the apple industry of Washington took
15O,O0O,O00 feet of lumber to make
apple boxes alone to say nothing
about the millions Of feet of lumber
these farmers used around their
farms in building warehouses and fix
ing up temporary quarters. M
It is hard to realize that the faller
In the woods is interested in the apple
crop of Eastern Washington, both as
to size and the amount of money the
farmer is to get for it. However, he
Is tremendously interested in the price
his wife pays for the box of apples
and that is the reason we are all in
terested more or less in the great
cooperative movement now going on
among the farmers.
Both Consumer and Producer
am reminded of book that used
to be in the Sunday school library
when l was boy, entitled Little
Johnny Two Boys" Every morning
when Johnny got up his mother COW
cred up two boys beneath his jacket.
One was Johnny Good Boy" and the
other was Johnny Bad Boy" Every
man is both producer and a con-
sumer. Heretofore he has been look
ing at it more from the consuming
end, not realizing that he is also in
terested very much in the welfare of
the producer.
In the first article written tried
to show the functioning of the cooper
ative in the local markets and in the
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1924-05-23
workers STRIKE ONLYAS last RESORT

point of fact the laboring interested in
the pubic Always the aboring man is interested in
- preserving industrial peace than either the employers
preventing strikes Always the strike costs the striking
laboring than it does anyone else True, the
public has indirect interest and the employer also has
interest," but the laborng has at stake than all
the rest When he strike whatever the final
suit may be- he makes the sacrifice of part of his e His
commodity the only thing he has to SELL is labor and that
part of his epenshabe stock in trade by the
period of the strike spos his hands and is lost to him
beyond recall The necessares of life for himself and his
family his hope of making himself independent for his old
age-a these things out when the strike Let
me, as one who knows the intelligent workingman to
that every such enters upon strike you
would go upon surgeons table for major operation
only last resort The aborng strikes because he
feels that his loyatynot to his immediate selfish inter
est but to his class to his calling his wife and children
and to other workingmen who shall come after him-de
mands that he make the George
Huddleston of Alabama in speaking favor of the Howell
Barkey Railroad Labor Bill
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1924-05-23
NEW STATE LABOR
ORGAN TO PUBLISH
FIRST ISSUE soon
WILL COOPERATE WITH LOCAL
PRESS IN STATE WIDE
NEWS SERVICE
Success Assured BY Management,
Which Is Made Up Of WeIl,KnOwn
State Labor Leaders

SEATTLE, Wash, May 22.-To fill
a long felt want in the labor move
ment of the state statewide weekly
labor paper to be known as the Wash
ington State Labor News and to be
the official organ of the State Fed
Grafton Of Labor viii commence pub
lication about the middle of June,
1924.
The state labor movement has long
felt the urgent need of such an organ
and it's publication has been under
serious consideration for several
years. The paper will cooperate and
coordinate with the work being done
by the existing labor press. The pa
per is establishing a statewide labor
news gathering agency and will carry
all available labor news from every
section of the state, so that the work
ers will be able to read each week
authentic reports OF conditions and
occurrences from every industrial CEN
ter IN Washington. The paper will
go into every community of the state
and will cover a wide territory not
now covered by the local labor press.
State and National News Service
The Washington State Labor News
will be devoted in its policy to the
support of TIE American Federation
of Labor spd The State Federation sf
Labor, and plans to provide the widest
possible state and national labor news
service, and viii also feature from
time to time special articles from To-
eel, state and national leaders Of the
trades union movement.
The paper win start piblicatioil a.
a standard 7-columns eight-page or
gan, and will be steadily enlarged as
the support gained for it warrants.
Advertising solicitors, who have been
in the field for some time, have met
with satisfactory response from busi-
Continued on Page Three.)
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1924-05-23
WHO CAN LAY CLAIM TO
OLDEST HARBOR HOME?

The management of the Own Your
Home & Merchants Exposition which
win be presented by the Grays Har-
Dor Realty Board at the Armory the
week Of June to is making efforts
to ascertain locations of the oldest
homes on Grays Harbor in point of
continuous residence.
1--WE would like to hear from old
residents who can answer the follow
ing question:" Harry Bolton, one of
the directors of the exposition, said:
~'What is the oldest home on Grays
Harbor in point of continuous resi-
dence? Who owns that home?
When was it built? Does the original
family or its descendants now occupy
it?
"Should there be any controversy,
we can probably settle it through an
examination Of the old record or by
means of a committee from the Real
Estate Board.
photographs, along with the his
tory of these old homes, will be one
of the features to be seen at the Ex-
position"
Mr.. Bolton stated that the infor-
nation must be sent in writing to
the Exposition office, which is To-
Gated in Room 1, in the Finch building.
Further information may be secured
by 'phoning the Your-Home &
Merchants Exposition office at Abb
erdeen, 2417.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1924-05-23
STEEL BARONS DODGE
PROPOSED WAGE CUT

PITTSBURGH, May %. =. Steel
barons have been throwing out "feel-
ers" on how wage cut would be re-
ceived, but the reaction has not been
favorable and they now loudiJ dis
claim any intention of reducing
wages. One spokesman for steel says
that the attempt 20 licuidate labor
"at this time" will not be successful.
Steel profits were high the first
quarter of the year, but a decline from
peak production has set in, and the
steel managers would not object if
workers could be induced 70 accept
lower living standards that heir un-
usual profits may be maintained.
The steel managers have their eye
on that 10 per cent wage increase
they made last year wnen forced
to abandon the long work day. At
that time it was necessary to raise
rates as workers could not be held
if the low hourly rate were applied to
the shorter work day.
Now, as compared with last year,
the demand for labor has lessened.
Because of this unemployment it was
believed the workers objections to
wage cuts could be overcome by prom
Using them work at lower wages.
This is the favorite tactics of wage
reducers.
If cut is agreed to by the steel
managers, one of the independent
companies, as usual, will take the
lead. The steel trust always has an
independent act as "the goat" in wage
reductions, while the trust poses as
Lady Bountiful when rates are in
creased.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1924-05-23
INDUSTRIAL PROBLEMS
INTEREST CHURCH MEN

PITTSBURGH, Pa, May 22.-The
second annual meeting of the Catholic
conference on industrial problems will
be held at the William Penn hotel,
this city, May 27 and %. Wages,
cooperation, collective bargaining,
women in industry, and industrial
problems and the law are some of the
questions that will be discussed.
Among the trade union speakers list
ed are: Miss Sara Conboy, secretary
treasurer Textile Workers Of Ameri-
ca; William P. Clarke, president
American Flint Glass Workers uni
on; and Peter ]. Conlon, vice presi-
dent international Association of Ma
chinists.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1924-05-23

second article l tried to show just
how our local co-operatives function
ed in an outside market.
To be successful the cooperative
must move the greatest amount of
material possible. That means that
they can't charge too much for it; IL
they do they defeat the end aimed at.
In other words, if milk costs too much
you as a consumer will take only one
bottle instead of two and the same
is true of eggs, apples, etc. The real
field of interest to both the producer
and the consumer is the spread be-
tween the $1.00 paid by the consumer
and the 35 cents received by the pro-
ducer. In fluid milk sold here on the
Harbor the producer is getting so per
cent, but it is possible for him to get
perhaps go per cent.
Milk Distribution Losses
Two of the main losses to milk dis
tribution are the bottles and sour
milk, all of which is in the so per
cent spread. Whenever you are tempt
CONTINUED on Page Three.)
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1924-05-23
LABOR PRESS MAKES
CHANGE IN EDITORS

A. E. Wolters, for the past
two years editor and manager
of the Labor Press, resigned
May 9th from the position he
has so ably filled and has moved
to Seattle, where he will be
editor-manager of the Washing
ton State Labor News, a new
state labor paper. His duties on
the Labor Press have been taken
over by Louis C. Hinman, a for
mer editor. "
In recognition OF his valuable
services Mr.. Wolters was pre-
sented at the Central Labor
Council meeting May 9th with a
Moose emblem ring, and a rising
vote of thanks given by the dele
gates present.
The Labor Press under the
new management expects to up
hold its present standards and
continue to add to it's value as
news and advertising medium.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1924-05-23

Here's William J. Burns longer head of the Bureau of
InFestigaton of the Department of Justice. R
The hne gfoWs longer Fall wenttOut. DENLY went out.
Daugnerty went out. Burns goes out tEsA sss
Burns hes been famous for seuh who hated labor.
He now hates something esehe hates Senatorial investigating
committees. -
But Burns is out He has resigned His day boss
the secret service is aesSss es fsss.gsssg -
Who win be the next to depart from nice comfortable desk
in high government circles? IA e4.ss fs-.r,#A
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1924-05-23

OAAACASA VI 8aAA VI tMc ADcE-
deem Central Labor Council,
Hequian Trades and Labor
Council and the Washington
State Federation of Labor.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1924-05-23
LESS WASTE in PRODUCTION AND
NOT WAGE CUT IS REAL ECONOMY

"The reduction in price should
come out of the elimination of the
middlemen and the present wasteful-
ness of production and distribution
not out Of wages and salaries; that
is, that it will be most profitable to
preserve the buying power of the
masses.
"This win, in turn, insure much
greater content among the masses
Of people, who will then have free
dom-not merely freedom to exercise
voice in government, but at least
a truer economic freedom
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1924-05-23

CLEVELAND, May 22.-Price re-
duction should come through the
elimination of wastefulness, not out
of WAGES and salaries, said Edward
Filene, Boston business man, in an
address at the annual meeting of the
United States Chamber of Commerce.
"Under good production and good
distribution which means, under
mass production and mass distribu-
tion-high standards Of wages will be
maintained, for it will be most profit
able to the producer" said Mr.. Filene.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1924-05-23

The Merchants whose ad-
vertisements appear in our
columns are Wide-awake,
progressive business men,
entitled to your support.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1924-05-23
COMPANY UNION"
DENOUNCED AS CLUB
TO BRIGHTEN LABOR
REPRESENTATIVE HUDDLESTON
ATTACKS OPPONENTS OF
HOWELL-BARKLEY BILL
Pennsylvania Systems Unions Cited
as Example of Company Con-
trOlled Employees. |

WASHINGTON, D. c., May 22.-
Company unions" are wholly the Gre
alton of the employer and in no sense
represent the workers, Representa-
tive George Huddleston of Alabama,
told the House in a vigorous attack
on the opponents of the Howell Bark
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1924-05-23
HOLD SECOND MEETING

The newly reorganized street car
men held their second meeting last
week Thursday and initiated three
new members. Prospects are good
for the future, and old and new mem
bers alike are prophesying a steady
growth.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1924-05-23
HARVESTER PROFITS JUMP

NEW YORK, May 22.-In its re-
port for 1923 the international har-
vester company shows a net profit
of s1O,274,376, after all charges and
taxes were paid. These profits were
nearly double those of the previous
year President Legge said that the
1923 profits are "far from normal"
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-11-27
Putting the Timber Wolf to Work

handling taught them to pull. But 1t
took months to do it. The animals
for some time bit f1erce1y at their
harness and snapped at whoever
came too close.
Chains were substituted for leath-
er in all parts of the harness that
could be reached by the mouths Of
the animals, and at last they seemed
to submit to their fate. They stopped
swapping and became more peace
able, so that they could be harnessed
and driven without the muzzles as
seen in one Of the pictures.
This appears to open the possibili-
ty of raising these wolves in captiv-
ity and starting their training when
SO young that some of their ferocity
might be eliminated without lessen
ing their great endurance.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-11-27

TV HE timber wolf which infests
the wilder regions Of Canada
and the Northwest has here
tofore been regarded as an unmit1-
gated nuisance and genuine danger
because Of its ferocity in attacking
not only other domesticated animals,
but also man himself. And in those
places where trapping for furs is the
chief trade, the timber wolf, through
his own skin is of no value, greatly
interferes with the work by meddling
with traps. eating cached supplies
and committing other depredations.
For these reasons the experiment
of Joseph La Flamme, trapper Of
Northern Ontario, in using these
wolves as sled pullers is interesting.
He took two full-blooded wolves
when very young and by careful
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-11-27

slave them, forcing them to work,
but never in any ms lance succeeding
IN making them adapt themselves "a
the Malay customs. The Negritoea
have always proved unwilling CAP
tives, refusing to- wear clothiag or
eat the food of their captors and In
variably dying after few weeks OF
captivity.
It was merely by accident that this
photograph was secured by G. Car
weth Wells, a British engineer and
explorer, when he planted imself in
a blind for the purpose Of Swapping
any stray deer that might pass his
way. The dwarf trio, attracted by
the chips of fallen tree, advanced
on a tour of inspection, and Mr..
Wells was able to snap the shutter of
his camera twice before they SUNK,
terrified, into the seemingly impene-
trable depths from which they had
come.
Children Sick and Unhappy.
Even in the brief glimpse of the
strange creatures that I was able to
CATCH" Mr.. Wells says, in telling OF
the incident, At observed several in
teresting things. The children, borne
on their mothers breasts, we're COW
cred with boils and their faces were
distorted with pain, while large
tears rolled silently down their
cheeks. & Their mouths were wide
open, but they never emitted a sound.
and / drew the conclusion that the
timid Negrito teaches its young thar
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-11-27

book to scientists and explorers. In
appearance they are typically negro
with coal black skin and fuzzy, kinky
hair, but they have no particular
home and no real language, making
themselves understood only by
means Of a sort of gihber. They are
not a tribe, these queer missing
Inks" for they have no community
life, but wander about through the
dense jungle in twos and thrces, sub
sisting on fruits and roots and occa-
sionally varying their diet with liz
ard, snake or monkey.
DWarfs Have No Shelter.
They live for the most part on, the
ground, building 10 houses or shell
tiers of any kind. and frequently
taking to the trees when molested by
other Jungle jewellers and protecting
themselves by means of their sole
weapon, a blowpipe or sumpitan,
from which they blow darts about
six inches long and poisoned with
the sap of the deadly upas tree. IN
the capture of elephants they are
very clever, placing upright in the
elephant tracks poisoned splinters of
bamboo, which the unsuspecting ele-
plant steps upon and jams his foot.
Although the poison does not usually
kill the beast, it causes his leg TO
mortify and he falls an easy victim
to the crafty jungle people.
For centuries these dwarfs have
been counted as legitimate prey by
the Malays, who hunt them and en-
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-11-27

Pythons that grow to a length OF
80 feet also abound, while croco-
diles OF the same length are some
times to be found as far as ten miles
out at sea, cavorting about with
poisonous sea snakes eight feet long.
that are marked with red and yellow
bands about their bodies.
AS In all tropical countries, the
jungle of Malay swarms with birds.
There are birCa of every possible
color, fitting like brilliant streaks Of
light from tree to trea, but the serin-
dit is unique among them Ia one re-
spect-he sleeps hanging head down
from his perch, his feet firmly
clutching the branch above and his
bright green body dangling at right
angles to the ground, looking from q
distance like some exotic flower
growing in mid-air.
An Immense Bfrd.
Occasionally the jungle warfarer
may be startled by the sound OF tree
mendous whirring and grinding, like
the noise made by a train of cars
passing by, and looking around him
to, discover the source sees flying
overhead huge black and white
bird, with a Widespread of FIVE feet.
1t is Father HornbiIl winging his way
to the place where Mother Hornbill.
walled up in a hollow tree, waits pa
tiently for his coming. For it Is this
birds pleasing domestic habit to shut
up his mate, safe from the distrac-
tons and alarm Of the outside world,
in the quiet recesses of dead tree,
there to hatch her eggs and raise her
young, while he goes scouting for
the family food supply. Too-frequent
visits to the hollow tree might attracv
the attention of other Jungle DWELL
ers, so Father Hornbill calls on his
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-11-27

wife at three-day intervals only, ant
then. by a strange provision OF ma
ture, brings up the lining Of his owT
gizzard. stocked with the food that ha
has consumed during the last three
days. and gravely hands it over tc
his spouse.
A Strychnine Diet.
Sometimes he varies the menu by
the addition Of quantity OF strych-
nine. not with any evil desire to rid
himself Of his mate, but because the
nux vonica berry III which 1t is
found is considered dainty tidbit
by all well-brought up hornbills, and,
strangely enough, has no harmful
effect on them.
Forty varieties Of monkeys are to
be found on the Malay Peninsula, In
GLIDING the rare gibbon. the onYy
simian that walks habitually up
right like man. Most of the mon
keys are extremely intelligent and so
easy to train that they are used by
the natives to gather cocoanuts from
the palms, which are SO difficult for
q human being to scale. Apparently
the animals understand the language
Of their dusky masters, for they obey
every command and prove them
selves efficient, If sometimes COM
planning, nut pickers.
Come, now" the Malay says. as
leads his monkey servitor to con-
venient cocoant palm. Climb that
tree and get me a nut"
The monkey grudgingly chambers
up the long, smooth trunk. Of the
tree and, of course, selects the small
est and most easily handled cocoanut
Of the bunch.
mot that one," shouts the master.
1.-THE big one on the other side," and
the animal, chattering angrily and
making outrageous faces, loosens his
grip on the nut of his selection and
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-11-27

NTD you ever hear an earth
worm sing? Did you ever see
fish climb a treo? Did you
ever pick up a full-grcwa deer and
put 1t in your pocket? Did you ever
see fox fly? Did you ever watch
a monkey fish? Did you ever see a
jungle dwarf? In short, did you
ever pay visit to the "land of the
missing link?'
Well, neither have most people in
this matter-of-fact age OF modern
science and civilization Out in the
Malay peninsula the place where the
real missing link" is to he found,
singing worms, climbing fish AID
flying foxes are sights that may DC
seen at any time.
Fish Climb Trees.
Here, on the mud fats of the river
banks are to be seen fish whose fms
are SO adapted fer locomction
that when the tide recedes they
Chamber along the ground to the
nearest tree and climb up into its
branches. There they survey the
surrounding landscape with an air Of
perfect ease and peace and when they
tire of the view descend again and
fop back into their native element.
But the strangest of all the strange
jungle inhabitants are the little
Negrito dwarfs, only four feet six
inches high, whose shyness has for
centuries baf4ed all attempts to make
friends with them, and whose life and
habits still remain a virtually closed
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-11-27

even crying must be done silently to
avoid detection by those of whom
they stand In such mortal dread"
Among the many and varied sounds
that go to make up the jungle chorus
is one that may be heard at almost
any time emanating from the ground
beneath ones feet 1t is shrilling,
whistling sort OF song sung by no
less a creature than the earthworm,
which In this upside-down land OF
Malay boasts a voice that It's humble
cousins in this country well might
envy. IN size and shape it is a pro-
totype OF the long, wriggly things
that perish miserably by the hun
dreds during the fishing season here,
but It's voices distinguishes 1t from
anything so plebian as the American
earthworn and marks 1t as thing
apart.
Then there are the foxes that fly
and not only foxes, but four other
kinds Of animals that propel them
selves through the air, as well as a
frog whose webbed feet, 10 times as
big as It's body. also serve as wings.
Tiny deer only seven inches high are
plentiful in the jungle, together with
tigers. panthers. peacocks, two kinds
Of rhinoceros, tapirs, elephants, the
seladang or wild bull, which is the
MISREPRESENTATION Of all cattle.
and the Jungle fowl, which is the an
cestor Of our domestic poultry.