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Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1924-11-07
u. S. PRINTERS PAY
GOES TO .S5-Sl.O5

As ranking republican member of
Joint committee on printing, Albert
Johnson, congressman from this dis
trict, waas a leader in framing and
passing a law this year which made
possible the raise in pay (announeed
below for those working in the gov
ernment printing office:
WASHINGTON, d. C.-Final an
nouncement of the new wage scale for
journeymen printers in the Govern
ment Printing Offices was made today.
following approval of the agreement
entered into by the public printer and
the committee selected by journeymen.
The new wages will be effective
for 'at least one year." commencing
tomorrow. The scale is as follows:
Compositors, including job COM
positors and monotype assemblers,
90 cents per hour; imposers and
makersup 81 per hour; proofreaders,
81 per hour; copy editors, $1.O5 per
hour; emergency and probational
linotype and monotype keyboard op-
orators 81 per hour; regular limo
type and monotype keyboard opera
tors, S1.O5 per hour.
There are two provisions in the
agreement, the first that the pay of
such emergency and probational key
board operators may be increased to
$1.05 at the discretion of the public
printer, based on their ratings, and
that such operators whose ratings
for period of three months are be-
low standard requirements may be
retained at 81 per hour as long as
their services are necessary.
Extra Time Arranged.
Extra rates of pay for night, Sun
day holiday and overtime work are
also arranged and approved by the
joint committee on printing.
In posting the notice of the new
wage scale Public Printer Carter said:
"The Public printer desires to con-
gratulate the printers on the satis-
factory conclusion of this negotia-
ton and to express his sincere ap-
probation of the fair and courteous
manner in which Edward S. Hantz-
mon, H. B. Barnhart and William L.
Kirby, the comm Sttee representing the
printers of the Government Print
ing Office, and Charles B. Howard,
president of the international Typo
graphical Union, conducted their con-
ference with him."
The former wage scale, placed in
effect on july 1, ranged from 80 to
95 cents per hour for the classes in
cluded in the new wage scale.
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AMAZING STORY OF BUILDING
AGREEMENT 1900 YEARS AGO

FREY EDITOR INTERNATIONAL MoLDER'S JOURNAL
TWO PARTS-PART TWO
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The Merchants whose ad-
vertisements appear in our
columns are wide-awake,
progressive business men,
entitled to your support.
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PLANS READY FOR
OPENING AT. OIL. FL
PAS0 CONVENTION
BORDER CITY TO BE SCENE OF
COLORFUL CEREMONIES.

BY international Labor News Service.
WASHINGTON, D. c., Nov. g.
With its annual report to the Ameri-
can Federation Of Labor Convention
completed, the executive council of the
A. F. of L. has adjourned after week
in session, to meet again just before
the convention is called to order on
November II in FL Paso, Texas.
It is believed at A. F. of L. head
quarters here that the Ell Paso con-
vention will be the most colorful event
of its kind ever held and perhaps the
most important.
An invitation to the delegates to
the convention to visit Mexico city as
the guests Of the Mexican Federation
of Labor was expected during the
council meeting by Roberto Haberman,
representing the Mexican workers.
Mr.. Haberman said that the Mexi-
can Federation of Labor is planning
the reproduction Of an Aztec village,
with it's ceremonials, at San Juan Te-
otihuacan, site of the two great Mex
ican pyramids, fifty miles from Mex
leo city, for the entertainment of the
American guests.
Elaborate ceremonials at the Ell Pa
so international bridge are being
planned for the opening days Of the
convention. The Mexican Federation
of Labor will go into convention on
the Mexican side of the river when
the American delegates begin their
convention on the American side.
Aside from the ceremonials at the
bridge, there viii be two joint ses-
sions Of both conventions, one on the
American side of the river and one
on the Mexican side.
In addition to the Mexican visitors
there viii be visitors from other
countries, including Great Britain.
Canada, and Germany.
The convention will be welcomed to
Ell Paso by "Ma" Ferguson, who, it
is expected, will then be governor Of
the state; by George H. Slater, sec
retary-treasurer Of the Texas State
Federation of Labor; by Mayor Dud-
ley of Ell Paso, and other officials,
as well as by William ]. Moran, edi-
tor of the El Paso Labor Advocate.
A feature of this years convention
will be a convention daily newspaper,
edited by working newspapermen COW
ering the convention for newspapers
throughout the country. This news
paper will contain only convention
news and will contain four pages per
issue.
Many issues of great Importance
will be before the convention for deei-
sion; there will be, of course, the an
nual election of officers.
AS soon as the convention adjourns,
delegates will leave for Mexico city,
to attend the Inauguration of Presi-
dent-elect Gales and to attend the
convention Of the Pan-American Fed
Grafton of Labor, which will open in
the Mexican capital on December 3.
Samuel Gompers is president of the
Pan American Federation of Labor
and viii preside over the convention,
as well as over the convention in FL
Paso. The convention in Mexico city
viii be attended by delegates repre-
senting at least a dozen American
republics.
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0fficial Organ Of the Aber-
deem Central Labor Council,
HOquiam Trades and Labor
Council and the Washington
State Federation Of Labor.
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INDUSTRIAL OUTPUT GAINS

WASHINGTON, Nov. 6.-Factory
employment increased 2 per cent dur
ing September, according to a state
ment by the federal reserve board.
The boards index of production in
basic industries, adjusted to allow for
seasonal variations, rose per cent in
this period. This was the first ad-
vance since January.
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STREET CAR MEN GAIN

BOSTON, Nov. GA board of arbi-
tration has raised wages 1-2 cents
an hour for 1000 employees of the
Boston elevated street railway com
pany. The blue uniform men, who
comprise the majority Of the employ
es, win receive a maximum Of 70 1-2
cents an hour.
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MEAT CUTTERS ADVANCE

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, Nov. g.
Organized meat cutters have secured
a new contract which provides for
improved working conditions. The
agreement has been accepted by sever
al firms that fomerly refused to recog-
nize the union.
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The most remarkable archaeology
cal find in recent years was the dis
covery of Tutankamen's tomb. The
burial chamber, with its rich evi-
dences of art and civilization, gave
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the consul who shall have been pro-
claimed on the fifth before the Cal
ends of May, in the most distinguished
metropolis of the Sardians twice
honOred with an emperor's temple,
in the twelfth most happy indiction
and on the fourth of the month
Deasius, we give to the most excel
lent Aurelanius, devoted commission
er and defender of the said renowned
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to the world a full
er understanding
of the splendors
and artistic de-
velopment of an
cient Egypt.
To the trade un-
ion world how
ever, the discover
les of W. H. Buck
Ter, the American
archaeologist, are
more interesting,
Tor he has brought
to light the build
ing trades agree
ment entered into
on April 27, 459 A.
D., by the building
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Bride and Groom
By HAL COCHRAN

Good luck to you both in your
married life; to you. friend groom,
and your future wife. We have
worn you out with our griefs and
tears, and our woes poured into
your patient ears.
And oftentimes we have drunk
with yeu full many a glass of joys
best brew. We've laughed together
and yet not wept, and many's the
merry tryst we've kept. Our hearts
are with you in all you do, and We
just want to say Good Luck" to
you.
God must have willed that you be
our friends, and that sort Of friend.
ship never ends. Our vanished
secrets are perhaps the best; we all
should be thankful for memory, lest
we sometimes forget what our lives
have meant as we've fully enjoyed
what the fates have sent.
Life bids us bravely smile and
wish that yours be the best of life s
love dish. Through all of your
loving smiles and tears, Good
Luck" to you both in the coming
years.
Copyright, 1924, NEA Service, Inc9
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Illustrated by George Storm
BY WILL NJ. CRESSY.


m LEVELAND. June 13.-WeIl.
the convention is over. Now
- to figure up the debit and
credit and strike a balance. ITO
the victors belong the spoils" and
to the victims belongs what is
spoiled.
cannot tell yet just which cate
CORY am coming under. But I
know I am going to get something
in recognition of the great work I
have been doing for our party. It
has not actually been promised to
me. but I have been approached. In
fact, have been approached twice
during the past week. Being a pro
hibitionist besides being we'll sup
Piled 7 could not listen to the first
proposition. But when they come to
you with tears in their eyes and beg
you to accept some political-er-
oh, yes-some political sinecure"
well, that is different.
Only I cannot think Of which
particular political sin" I want to
cure. At first I thought I would
be secretary of the treasury. That
ought to be a popular position. But
don't know. With the passing of
the bonus bill, the proposed fl
nancfng Of all the cropless farmers
out west, a $4,000 900 increase in
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the annual mail deficit, the financing
Of Muscle Shoals, the reduction Of
the surtaXes. government control of
the railroads, mines, shipping and all
the other non-paying business in
the country. I am afraid my public
life would be too much like my pri-
vate life to be interesting.
Then I considered the position of
secretary Of agriculture Being. as
I am, the proud but poor possessor,
and sole operator. OF two condensed
farms, one in New Hampshire and
one in Florida. 1 am peculiarly fitted
for this position. All the secretary
has TO do, anyway, IS TO send out
seeds in the spring and excuses in
the fall. And I have line of ex-
cuses for non-production that no.
body can beat.
Why, I could plant dogwood and
have it come up -sausages. But the
crop that is a cinch for me is lem
ons. Some years everyt hing comes
out lemons.
Then 1 thought for a while I
it, A sloth-no--a sleuth. One Of
those Burns men, who goes around
detecting crime. But there have been
so many crimes detected lately that
there cannot be many left.
I think I will stop off at Wash
ington on my way to the Democratic
convention and see what they have
10 offer.
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QUICK TALKS
ON MOTORS
AND MOVIES
Situation in America Differ
emit From That in Eng
land, Writer Thinks.
BY HERBERT QUICK

IN ARON SUMNER. one of the
X British law lords, has just
III denounced three modern in
ventions. They are:
l. The gramophone, which in
America is the photograph, because
at has corrupted the musical sense
Of England and America for nearly
a generation
In this he is clearly wrong. Those
who love good music can get good
records for their monographs. Those
who get bad music from their ma
( chimes never had any musical taste.
They merely give themselves away
with it.
2. The moving picture, because
/ it does little except stimulate the
passions ann act as a soporific for
the mind" Here I am with the noble
lord He is at least SO per cent cor.
rect.
3. The motor car. than which
Says he) know of nothing that has
done more to increase a feeling of
jealousy between the classes"
Not True Here
In England this may be true. It
is not true in America to any extent.
Once I passed a long funeral process
sion motoring on a road in Illinois.
Clearly the people in it were farm
ers. A local man who was with me
told me that they were most Of them
tenant farmers.
I have a hired man on my farm
who has car. It Is a second hand
six and the clutch slips some, but
out on the road 1t looks about as
we'll as any car which is not new. He
| is more nearly on an equality in
that car than at any other time with
the wealthy. He can go fast enough
to break any speed limit. He paid
$50 for II.
Flivver for $50
When hired men draw down from
forty to fifty dollars a month. in
this behivvered land. they can get a
runnable car for a months wages or
so. Such cars are cheaper than
horses ever were. They do not eat
anything when idle. AT thousands
Of factories, the cars of the en-
ployes clutter the place all up and
parking is a problem. And this
doesn't mean any. great affluence on
the part of the laboring men. either
When the bankrupt farmer has to
leave his farm. he piles the family
into the old car and becomes a gaso-
line tramp. The motor car has had
important effects on society. but as
to accentuating the class struggle in
this country. its influence is neg
Lgihle.
Thanks. largely. 10 Henry.
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by - Il ' IL lA<AAN VA IAN
ENV YORK, June 13.-The cor
I'M ner drug store is now about
as well and variously stocked
as the one general store in ANY
crossroads hamlet.
You can purchase most anything
in them-except drugs.
I tried to get a simple prescrip-
ton filed the other. day. I had to
visit five stores before could find
one equipped to do it.
And one of the clerks asked,
What color is it supposed to be?'
while examining the doctors orders.
If it had been a color chart instead
of a note in Latin he'd have made
a sale.
But you can get most anything
from a kit of tools to suit Of
clothes in the corner service station.
Handkerchief, shoe polish. fruit,
nah jongg sets, meals-most every
thing but drugs, and you can get
those if they're patent medicines.
a clerk in the average drug store
today must have served an appren-
| ttceshlp in a dairy lunch, shoe
store, hardware counter, near-beer
saloon, pool room, hospital and a for
tune teller's booth to be able to
cater to the needs Of his clients.
Women who make their perna-
nent home in hotels are the most
pitiful sights in New York. They
excite more sympathy within me
than the most ragged urchin of the
tenement section.
Middle age approaches with hur-
ried steps. Their faces become pal
lid; pouches project from beneath
their eyes, dimmed with searching
for something to do; they walk lag
gardly and whine constantly.
They have nothing to do. no in
terests TO enthuse them. Most Of
them have seen every play except
Uncle Toms Cabin" which they
contend was before their time. They
eat, sieep-and drink. Their walk
ing hours are devoted to a hollow
attempt to have good time"
Money and leisure, extravagantly
spent, are dangerous weapons.
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AfF @AA~%'Ash - Ill
NEA star Correspondent
n HICHEN-ITzsA., Yucatan. June
IL 13.-The walls OF history
totter as American archaeolo-
g digs in the Maya ruins OF Yucca
tan.
For, when the Maya mystery is
solved. the whole structure Of civili-
zations storw may crash to earth.
No less a hope has guided science
to ChichenItza. Here, experts Of
the Carnegie Institution are concen-
Itrating for the first largescale ex-
cavations in the entire Maya region
Among these ruins science will
search for the Maya Rosetta stone-
a treasure more precious than all the
golden LOOT Of Tut-Ankhamen' tomb.
Only suchAa key will decipher accur-
ately the shieroglyphic writings on
the countless sculptured walls and
columns of Chichen-Itza and the
older Maya cities.
Today, absolutely nothing is
known Of the beginnings Of the re
markable mother race Of the Amer
lean continent. But the theories are
varied and startling. According to
some archaeologists, the origin Of
the Maya is one with the origin OF
mankind
The disciples of DIR. Auguste lie
Plongeon hail the Yucatan peninsula
as the very cradle of human civiliza-
ton. They locate the site Of the Car
den of Eden near Chichen-Itza, and
name Abel the victim of the worlds
first murder. as the city's founder.
The eccentric French savant, who
labored among the ruins for the
greater part of his life. held that the
/ Egyptians received the rudiments OF
their culture from the Maya about
$50 centuries ago. In support of his
theory, he points to the striking SINH
larity CT custom, art and belief
among these ancient peoples. He
claims that the whiterobed priests Of
Uxmal brought into Egypt their ella
borate religious ritual and the doc
trine Of reincarnation in the days be.
fore a vast mainland had collapsed
to form the floor of the troubled
4ALldnIlC.
Some months ago I asked DR.. Will
| liam Gates, the highest authority OF.
Maya hieroglyphics, what he ex-
I pected as a result of the then pro
posed excavations in Yucatan. This
was his answer:
History will be rewritten. 1 am
already convinced from my own
studies of the inscriptions and from
other evidences that the earliest
Maya knew of the culture Of Egypt
and Asia. and that 10000 or $4,000
years ago there existed international
world communication.
Egypt woke us up to a world
back Of Greece and Rome. In the
Maya ruins we can family glimpse
world beyond Egypt, or at least
ono contemporaneou with its oldest
| civilization.
THE vast stretch Of country from
the Honduras borders of Guatemala
northward through the Yucatan
| peninsula is covered with the re.
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tlal.--ELllOr.
What was the Bill Of 1902"
a law introduced in that year by
Senator James Ross Of Pennsyl-
vania to regulate the electoral count.
It provided for a grand committee"
Of six Senators. six Representatives
and the chief justice. These. sitting
ia secret. were to settle all disputes
concerning electoral votes. The bill
was amended in the House so as to
give the committee the power mere
ly to take testimony. doubtful re-
turns TO be rejected only by a con
current vote Of both houses; this
was amended by the Senate so as to
cause returns TO be rejected unless
accepted by a concurrent vote. The
bill was lost. The bill is memorable
as the first open attempt on the
part Of Congress to arrogate to itself
the duty assigned by the Constitu-
ton by the president Of the Senate
of counting electoral votes.
Where is Spitzbergen?
IrfA the Actic, north Of Norway.
Who was Secretary Of the
Treasury during Taft's admins
tration2
Franklin MacVeagh.
How is the name Fiji pro-
nounced?
AS though spelled Fefe-with a
long e.
Why is the first day of Lent
called Ash Wednesday?
From the ancient custom OF
sprinkling ashes upon the heads of
those who were condemned to do
penance on that day.
Was Sir Walter Raleigh a
poet?
Yes, ne wrote a number OF poems
with merit enough to survive.
Among them: Now What Is
Love" Wrong Not, Sweet Empress
Of My Heart, 1.-The Lie" and "Hia
Pilgrimage"
How soon do orange trees
bear?
Usually within three or four years
from the time of planting.
What does Boscobel mean?
Beautiful thicket.
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grocer.
The worst thing about spring is
summer always follows it.
A hypocrite is a man who can't
even believe what he hears when he
talks to himself.
When describing whirlwind
taIl1er you can leave off the whirl.
A little cussing now and then
often helps the best Of men.
This year Is just about half gone
and the New Year resolutions are
just about all gone.
Married life in a fat during the
hot summer months has a tendency
to become too fiat.
The consumer gets a raw deal
when the cards are stacked.
Mary man sits around all de- =
wondering why he doesn't get his
pay raised when that is the reason.
An open mind is all right If you
know when to close your mouth.
Many people saving for a rainy
day find vacation time is a food.
Our objection to being a cham
pion prizefghter is you can't APP
point an assistant to do all your
work for you.
Trains Of thought are often de-
layed by excess baggage.
In South Africa they have discov-
cred a new blue baboon. After look
ing at his picture you can readily
see why he is blue.
You can't keep a good man down
or a good-for-nothing man up. 3
A man is often misjudged by the
company he keeps.
Many hands make light work, and
many hands make light Of work.
These are the days you miss a
man for a couple of weeks, then you
see him back home sunburned and
! broke.
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BILL TRIES
TO DECIDE
ON POSITION
He Doesn't Know Just What
Kind of Sinecure to
Accept,

The conventions over and Will Cressy
wants a political Job. He decides to visit
Washington to talk to the Republican
leaders about it, on his way to attend the
Democratic convention in New York He
discusses his plan in the eighth article of
his political series for The Indianapolis
Times
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