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ed:
1--WE, the undersigned, do hereby
certify that we have audited the
books, entries and vouchers of the
Secretary and Treasurer of indie
pendent School District No. IL, st.
Louis County, Minnesota for the
year ending' July 18th, 1925, and
find them correct in all particulars. I"
Signed,
L. SLABODNIK,
KENNETH DUNCAN,
j. E. THOMPSON,
VIM. OLnS, JR.,
THOS. HARRI.
Moved and supported that the re-
port of the audit be approved and
filed Carried.
The Clerk read the treasurer's
annual report as follows.
To the Clerk of School District No.
IL, County of st. Louis, Mime
sofa:
Dear Sir:-In accordance with
the requirements of law, l, j. E.
Thompson, Treasurer Of School Dis
trict No. IL, file with you for ap-
prevail by the Board and for pre-
sentation at the next Annual School
Meeting, the following financial re-
port for the year ending July 18th,
1925:
j. E. Thompson, District Treasurer.
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son and j. C. Russell.

son and j. C. Russell.
FOURTH PRECINCT - Willard
Esterberg and Elmo Starkman.
There being no further business,
the polls. were declared open and
were kept continuously and uninter-
ruptedly open for a period Of twelve
hours, and at the expiration of that
time, they were duly closed. A suit
able ballot box was provided and a
poll list was duly kept by the clerks
in each Of the voting precincts on
which were entered the name of
each person whose vote was re-
ceived.
After the closing Of the polls, the
judges, thereupon proceeded i'm
tnediately to publicly canvass the
votes cast at such election, and a
statement Of the result of such can
vass was duly proclaimed to the
meeting as follows:
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l, j. E. Thompson, Treasurer of
School District No. IL, ST. Louis
County, State of Minnesota, here
by certify that the above is true
and accurate report of all funds re-
ceived and paid out by me during
the school year ending July 18th,
1925.
]. E. THOMPSON, Treas.
Dated at Ely, Minnesota this
18th day of July, 1925.
Approved this 18th day of July,
1925.
L. SLABODNIK, Chairman.
KENNETH DUNCAN, Clerk.
Mr.. Kenneth Duncan offered the
following resolution ad moved its
adoption:
WHEREAS, The members of the
School Board of Independent School
District No. IL, st. Louis County,
Minnesota have examined the
vouchers and books of the Secre-
tary and Treasurer and have made
a report on same showing that
everything is true and correct;
BE 1T RESOLVED. That the
Treasurer's Annual Report be APP
proved and that the Chairman and
Clerk be authorized to sign the re-
port and present same to the An
nual Meeting"
Motion was supported by Mr..
VIM. Olds, Jr. and put to a vote.
All members voting in favor there
of, the resolution was adopted and
so declared.
Moved and supported that the re-
QUESTIONS for elementary text books
be approved and the secretary be
instructed to order the same. Motion
carried unanimously.
Moved and supported, that the
Board adjourn. Carried.
KENNETH DUNCAN. Secretary.
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Ely, Minnesota, July II, 1925.

Ely, Minnesota, July II, 1925.
Pursuant to notice. special
meeting of the Board of Education
of Independent School District No.
II for the purpose of auditing the
books and records of the secretary
and treasurer for the year ending
July 18th, 1925 and transacting
any other business proper to come
before stated meeting was called
to order at one o'clock P. M. On
roll call, the following members
were found to be present:-Duncan,
Harri, Odds, Slabodnik and Thomp-
son. Absent :-Gianotti.
The Board dissolved into com
mittee of the whole to audit the
books and records of the secretary
and treasurer for the year ending
July 18th, 1925. After completing
the audit, the meeting was called to
order and the following report offer
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Moved and supported that the two
candidates, Jack Gianotti and, Leon
ard Slabodnik having received the
highest number Of votes, be declared
elected to the Office Of school direct
or and that the clerk be instructed
to notify them Of their election.
Motion carried.
Moved and supported that the
next annual meeting be held between
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$1,000 per month for 91s months.
High School, Louise Gellerman,
$1,000 per month for 8 " months.
High School, H. Emil Ora, $4,000
per month for 9la months.
High School, Esther Eby, $4,000
per month for 91a months.
High School, Grace Garland,
$1,000 per month for 91a months.
High School, Josephine Teigen,
$4,000 per month for ga months.
Normal Training, Alice L. Colt,
$1,000 per month for 9h months.
Grade Home Economics, Margaret
Smith, $4,000 per month Tor sHs
months.
Grades, Clarence La Londe,
$1,000 per month for 91s months.
Clerk, Mary Rom, $500 per
month for IL months.
Moved and supported that the
recommendations of the Superintend-
ent be approved and the proper Of
ficers be authorized to enter into
contracts with those accepting posi-
lions. Motion carried unanimously.
Moved and supported that the re-
port of H. A. Berg with cash in the
sum of $369.95 received from the
sale of Electricity and supplies be
accepted and the money turned
over to the treasurer. Motion car
ried unanimously.
The Committee on Finance re-
ported that they had checked the
following bills and pay rolls and
recommended their payment:
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the hours Of nine o'clock A. III. and
nine o'clock P. M. Motion carried.
Moved and supported that the
minutes Of the annual meeting be
approved rs rexd Motion carried.
Moved and supported that the
meeting adjourn. Carried.
KENNETH DUNCAN,
Clerk.
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lied to enter into contract with
them, and that all other bids be re-
jected end certified checks returned.
Motion carried. Ayes:-Harri, Odds,
Slabodnik and Thompson. Nays:
Duncan.
Moved and supported that the
Board adjourn. Carried.
KENNETH DUNCAN,
Secretary.
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$551,115.29
Q1G nnA 1T

$551 ,115.29
School Orders unpaid, --$164, O09 1T
On motion duly carried, the treas
urer's report was approved and or
dered filed.
The following were appointed and
acted as Judges of the Annual Elec-
ton:
FIRST PRECINCT Andrew
Watilo. Jr. and A. ]. BONNER.
SECOND PRECINCT-Ma rtin
Skala and Mrs. w. d. Gallagher.
THIRD PRECINCT-Oscar Lar
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ANNUAL MEETING:

Ely, Minnesota, July 81, 1925.
The annual meeting of Independ-
ent School District No. IL, st. Louis
County, Minnesota was called to or
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CHURCH NOTES

@VVVVVVVVVvVVV VVVVVVVVVV~
BETHANY LUTHERAN CHURCH.
Service and Communion 1880 A. M.
REV. KARL NEWQUIST, Pastor.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
Church School, 80 A. M
Morning Worship, A. M.
Fl. RUSSELL BROWNE Pastor.
ST. ANTHONY'S CHURCH.
lst Mass, Slovenian Sermon) =
---------7:0 100 Al. M.
I'd Mass, English Sermon) 80
800 A. M.
Vespers and Benediction.
REV. FATHER MIHELCIC, Pastor.
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Revenue and non-rev-
enue receipts ------ 37a,S34.ss
51,115.29
Disbursements all sour
ces,- AZ, 576. SO
Cash on hand at the
close of the year, 2,53s.7
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-02-27
PRESIDENT SIGNS
ARBITRATION BILL

WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.-The
president has signed the United
States arbitration bill.
Under this law an arbitration
sward in q business dispute is
valid in the federal courts, and
has all the power of the federal
law. The act applies where par
ties to a contract agree to submit
to arbitration any dispute during
the life of the contract. If one
of the parties attempt to break
this agreement a federal court
can appoint an arbitrator to rep
resent him.
The new law, it is said, will re-
duce by one-half the number of
civil suits that now cucumber fed
eral court calendars.
Labor disputes are specifically
excluded from this act, which is
Of especial interest to trade union
lists because of their attitude to-
ward arbitration as a means of
adjusting disputes between men.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-02-27
GARMENT WORKE Rs
BEGIN SPRING DRIVE
|. TO BETTER CONDITIONS

By International Labor News Service
NEW YORK, Feb. 26.-As certain
a harbinger Of the approach of spring
as the grounding is revelt in the
garment industry. Usually at this
time there is wave of strikes in the
largest industry of this city-the
making Of women's clothing This
year is no exception. Spring il ap-
preaching, for there Is not one but
two strikes. Things are shaping up
also that with the arrival of tn nesr
seasons work even the importsnt
cloak industry may become involved
in another alteration. Ni
Just now some $4,000 workers, 05
per cent girls in the children's dress
and the house dress, kimono and bath
robe making trades, are on strike. Il
is in the nature of an organization
movement to extend the union to
smaller shops and also to win 20
per cent wage increase. The District
Council of the International Ladies,
Garment Workers, Union is in charge.
Similarly some 5000 workers in
the improved dress trade are nov
ing forward to extend the union
agreement to independent shops. This
Is the group that two years ago es-
tablished the 40-hour, five day week,
the first trade to do so in the United
States.
The new agreement calls for unem-
ployment insurance and a guaranteed
average as well as minimum wages.
This is one of the most interesting
advances that has yet been made in
collective agreement by union lab
or. A majority of these strikers also
are girls.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-02-27
''LOONEY GAS" HARMS,
SAYS YALE SCIENTIST

NEW YORK, Feb. 26.-Prof. Yam
dell Henderson of Yale university, ex-
pert on poisonous automobile gases,
has attacked the ruling by New Jer-
sey officials that the use Of ethyl gas
cline issnot injurious to the public.
The deaths of five workers and the
Insanity of score Of others who were
poisoned by tetratethyl lead in the
manufacture of ethyl gasoline at a
Standard Oil subsidiary at Bayway,
N. j., resulted in a verdict for the
company by a Union county grand
jury, at Elizabeth, N. J. State officials
then lifted the ban against this gaso-
line. The plant at Bayway has been
closed since last fall, when several
workers were placed in straight
jackets because of violent insanity.
Il The United States bureau of mines
Of Pittsburg has dissented from the
claim that '1ooney gas" Is dangerous,
and on this finding the New Jersey
grand jury acted.
TIE ezperiments of the bureau of
mines do not apply to real conditions, y
Prof. Henderson said. 81 am sorry to
hear that the New Jersey health au-
thorities have removed the ban on
the sale Of loaded gasoline, the So
called ethyl gas. It is the almost
unanimous belief of scientific men
that the use of loaded gasoline has
not been proved to be uninjurious to
the public
Ethyl gas is supposed to eliminate
"knocks" in auto engines. Prof. Hem
derson contends that automobiles US
ing this gas may throw a poisonous
lead dust into the air through the
exhaust.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-02-27
FIGHT FOR CHILDREN COMPARED
WITH STRUGGLE TO FREE SLAVES

By International Labor News Service
CHICAGO, Feb. 26.-Scarcely a
week passes there is not decla-
ration in favor of the National Child
Labor Amendment coming from some
Chicago minister, priest or rabbi.
The latest sermon on the subject here
was delivered by Rabbi Leon Fran of
Temple Judea. He said, in part:
"We have just been celebrating the
birthday of the great emancipator,
Abraham Lincoln. The whole nation
delights to give honor to the man who
redeemed our land from the shame Of
slavery.
Eve Of this generation are also en-
gagged in a great struggle for sman-
cipation of the child slave. A half
million boys and girls, manyo Of them
nader IA years Of age, are employed
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in the mines, mills and factories Of
this, the wealthiest country in the
world. Thousands of them are work
ing at night, and more than eight
hours a day. They are being denied
the natural rights of a child to edu-
cation, play and mental and physical
upbuilding.
"Just as Abraham Lincoln was told
that emancipation of slaves was
against the Constitution, against the
laws Of nature and even against the
win of God as expressed in the Bible,
so the champions of the American
child are being solemnly cautioned to-
day that a grant of power to Con-
gress to legislate for the protection
Of the child is an act against the in
tegrity of the Constitution, the rights
Of states, the honor of the home and
individual liberty"
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-02-27
NON-UNION BUILT HOUSES
DRUG ON FRISCO MARKET

BY international Labor News Service
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 26.-Non-
union built houses are a drug on the
market in San Francisco. Here is
the reason:
Resolutions pledging their members
not to purchase q home that has not
been built under strictly union con-
ditions have bean unanimously adopt
ed by every union labor organisation
in San Francisco at the request of
the San Francisco Building Trades
Council.
AS a result, houses built under the
so-called American plan" are going
begging for a purchaser, while the
union built homes are being sold be-
fore they are completed.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-02-27
MUSICIANS UNION ERECT
HOME IN SAN FRANCISCO

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 26.-The
Musicians Union of this city has pur-
chased a lot in the downtown district
on which is being erected 3 moderH.
up4Q date building to be occupied as
Raadduaftsfs Of the union.
When completed it will be one OF
the finest buildings in the business
section Of this city. The property is
valued at approximately $500, 900.
Needless to say that the building is
being erected under strictly. union
conditions.
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.P.I. STILL UNFAIR,
VIGOROUS FIGHT
ON, SAYS MCNEIL

Frank L. Mcneil, representing the
Defense Committee of the striking
printers and locked-out stereotypers
and mailers on the scab Post-Intelli-
gencer arrived in Aberdeen yesterday
and will spend few days on the
Harbor in an effort to acquaint
unionist with the high-ights of their
fight on the unfair New York owned
Seattle publication.
"The solicitors of this scab paper
will tell you the strike is over" said
Mcneil, "but we took out 143 men
on May 80 and every man is still out,
we have not lost one man. For
so days we had a truce with the
promise of a just settlement and
with the understanding the unfair
P. l. solicitors would not say the
strike was over. They violated their
word and truce in every manner, but
we are again on the job. The Sea-
attic circulation is away down and
the local advertiser admits he is not
getting results. We, with the help
Of the State Federation, are asking
the Harbor unionists to assist US in
cutting their circulation still lower.
We are spending about $4,000 .
month and we believe we are entitled
to the cooperation of all unionists
and others who believe in a square
deal"
Mcneil will address the Aberdeen
Central Labor Council tonight.
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Inc nigh schools can serve this
purpose in any community if they
are run as junior high schools-the
trying out of new courses, the elm
ination of useless subjects, such as
Latin, Spanish, French and German,
to pupils who are soon to go to the
plumbing shop, the bench and lathe" /"
said J. C. Wright, director of the
Federal Board for Vocational Educa-
tion, Washington, D. c..
Further Light on Subject
Lewis Gustafson, president of shc
convention, also threw a bright light
on the subject. He seemed to be much
enthused over the decline in the pur-
suit of higher intellectual attain
ments and apparently views with sat
isfaction the attempt to establish an
aristocracy of wealth and learning.
Mr.. Gustafson is said to be superin-
tendent of trade school at st. Louis,
Mo.
I'VE live in a great industrial and
mechanical age" he said. Labor
with the hands no longer is looked
down upon. There has been stan1-
pede from the white collar to the
overalls. Even the school teacher
has become carpenter and the
preacher has left the pulpit for the
plasterer's trowel at $1.75 an hour.
The automobile has made greasy
hands the fashion. The war had its
usefulness in this and the aeroplane
has helped"
Fakers Teaching" Trades !.
Mr.. Gustafson did not explain just
how 2 school teacher or = preacher
could become q skilled mechanic in
the twinkling of an eye. OF course,
IL is well known that takers are max
ipg. u PEnttg nanEIg ''tenchinRs the
use 81 carpenters tools, the trowel
of the briclrlayer or plasterer, how TO
set type and to do other useful things
by telegraph, telephone, letter, men,
tai telepathy and other hocus-pocus
means.
The Landis committee here in Chi
cago has spent large sums Of money
developing school" for scab build
ing trades mechanics, but the blamed
thing doesn't seem to work, for con-
tractors find little use for the alleged
mechanics after they have "graduat-
ed" The contractors who are in the
business to make money rather than
to fight the unions seem to be stub
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-02-27
AMERICAN PLAN
FAILS IN WAR ON
ORGANIZED LABOR
By FREDERICK W. ELY


SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 26-Quite
recently there appeared in several
daily newspapers published in East
'ern cities a report that "San Fran
cisco is now an .open-shop' city"
These reports" emanate. from the
Industrial Association, the so-called
american plan" organization of this
city, and the wish therein contained
is father to the thought, but these
alleged reports" are absolutely false
and without foundation in fact.
"War on Unions" Fizzle
For nearly three years the Indus
trial Association of San Francisco
has been fighting the unions," with
the following results:
Not a single union has been put
out of existence.
Many new unions have been organ
lied.
There are more unions in this city
operating under a union-shop agree
ment than there were before the adj
vent of the so-called american plan
ners."
Wages have increased and, in some
cases, hours of labor shave been re-
duced.
Every first class hotel and cafe in
this city has been 100 per cent
unionized.
The numerical strength of the San
Francisco Labor Council and the San
Francisco Building Trades Council
and their affiliated unions is far
greater today than ever before in
their history.
Mortgage Paid On Temple
The San Francisco Building Trades
Council has paid of a mortgage of
$4,000 on the Building Trades
Temple.
At municipal and State elections
during the past three years every
candidate sponsored BY organized
labor was elected by an overwhelming
majority vote over the candidate Of
the American planners" a. 4
The Labor Day edition Of or N
ized Labor" the oGieial Journal Of
Continued on Page Eightl
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OPERATORS TOLD BY
LEWIS MINERS WILL NOT
ACCEPT ANY WAGE CUTS

BY international Labor News Service
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Feb. &c.
John l.. Lewis, president of the Unit
ed Mine Workers of America, and
Philip Murray, vice president, have
just returned from brief tour of the
West Virginia coal fields of northern
West Virginia. A number of towns
where the miners have been evicted
from their homes were visited. The
visit went long way in strengthen
ing the morale of the strikers who
are making a determined effort to
win fight against a gigantic
redue rWaRes. sss.. !. t...s
a NUMBER Of operat0Es sof the
northern West Virginia field called on
the international officials at the Fair
mont Hotel in Fairmont. President
Lewis took OCCASION to explain to
the 0persiS,rs, that Il would be Inn
lpossfBEs Or ttle United Mine Work
ers to change its policy relative to
the wage question.
Il have checked up on every angle
Of the situation here" Mr.. Lewis told
the operators, "and am well satisfied
with the way business of the United
Mine Workers is being conducted by
the representatives in the field. The
aggressive campaign of resistance to
the operators who have broken their
agreement with the United Mine
Workers and others will be contin-
ued.
"The agreement made at Baltimore
between the Northern West Virginia
Coal Operators Association and our
organization on the basis of no reduc-
tion in wages will be protected with
the full influence of the international
union. The same is true as regards
the agreement made in New York by
and between the Monongahela Coal
Operators Association and the Unit
ed Mine Workers of America.
Regardless of any statement be-
ing made to the contrary there will
be no change in the policy of the
United Mine Workers of America up
on the question of wage reductions.
The future success of the coal indus
try and of our nation does not lie
along the pathway of reducing the
earning power of the mine worker and
forcing him into economic degrada-
tion"
In respect to the conditions in the
Fairmont field President Lewis said,
after his tour of inspection, that he
was "astounded at the preparations
made to intimidate, coerce and brow
beat our people by the non-union
coal companies at Grant Town, Bar
racksville and Dakota. | could not
believe my eyes when | saw search
lights and machine guns mounted and
swashbuckling gunner parading
around. 1t seems strange that these
conditions could prevail in a civilized
community. AS | saw these things
l just wondered what these nom
union coal operators wouldn't dol"
President Lewis announced that the
work of organizing the Fairmont
fields would continue.
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BUS DRIVERS GAIN

JERSEY CITY, N. J., Feb. 26.-
Bus transportation in Jersey City
and vicinity was threatened with
stoppage when the bus drivers de-
manded a wage increase of S. per
week and the elimination of fines.
Six separate companies were involv-
ed and each case was handled as a
unit. Compromise agreements were
reached allowing an increase Of from
81 to $S per week, with 81 per hour
for overtime and elimination of the
fines system.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-02-27
GOVERNMENT SPOKESMAN CONFIRMS
CHARGE SCHOOLS LIMIT EDUACATION

By Staff Correspondent international Service
CHICAGO Feb 2The charge by organized labor Chicago
that the attempted introduction of junior high schools the
system and intelligence tests into the public school
America is effort to limit higher education chosen
favored few and to confne the children of working
education which would equip them only for employment
and abore to be the
ton for vocational education recently held in Chicago
charge substantiated by high government officer
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-02-27
PEOPLE LIVE LONGER

ATLANTIC CITY, N. j., Feb. 26.
The death rate in this country de-
creased II per cent during the period
1911-1923, according to II. j. Miller.
vice president of the Metropolitan
life insurance company, at a meeting
of life insurance men here.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-02-27
ELECTRICAL WORKERS SETTLE

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Feb. 26.--
A wage controversy affecting electri-
cal workers in indianapolis, Ind, has
been amicably adjusted. Journeymen
and wire men are to remain at the
same rate as last year. Inside shop
men and fixture hangers are granted
an increase from 80 cents or 90 cents
per hour TO 81 per hour. New rates
are to obtain for one year.
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born about the matter and cling to
the old-fashioned idea that a fellow
should serve a full and regular ap-
premiership before qualifying as a
journeyman. The fellows running
the Lands school just can't pound
any modern" ideas into the hard
heads of these old timers.