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Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-01-30
PRINTERS HOLD ANNUAL J.
ELECTION OF OFFICERS

The printers at their regular meet
ing Of Local 57s held Sunday at 2 D.
m in Grayport Press hall, elected Of
icers for the ensuing year as follows:
J. F. Planting, president; A. D.
Moody, vice-president; Grover Boyle,
secretary; A. d. Moody, Wesley Day
and Fred Holthusen, executive board;
Louis Hinman, Alfred Lundgren, and
Emil YUM, delegates to Aberdeen
Central Labor Council; J. F. Planting,
delegate to Hoquiam Trades and La
Dor Council; F. z. Dancer, John Pres
ton and Lloyd Edmiston, Allied Print
ing Trades Council; John Preston, A.
D. Moody and Grover Boyle, Scale
Committee; Edwin Skrondal, SER
eeant-at-arms.
A resolution severely condemning
Gov. Hartley for his opposition to the
ratification of the Child Labor amend
n1ent was adopted and ordered sent to
the governor and members of the leg
isiature.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-01-30
FEDERATED PRESS SELLS
PLANI. eURIALS service

BY international Labor News Service
CHICAGO, Jan. 29.-The Federated
Press win discontinue the operation
Of its printing plant at 511 North
Peoria Street. Chicago, with tho be-
ginning Of February. The typeset-
ting machinery and other printing
equipment is up for sale at q greatly
reduced price. The Federated Press
viii, it is learned here, endeavor to
continue its struggle for existence
without the printing plant and will
issue a curtailed press service in
mimeograph form.
The reason assigned for the failure
of the Federated Press is the suspen-
sion Of publication Of large number
of alleged labor papers known to have
had Communist tendencies during the
last year or so. The revenue from
clients was cut down severely on ac-
count of these suspensions.
W. z. Foster has been the dominant
factor in the Federated Press and win
continue to exercise control.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-01-30
yfDIANA WORKERS FIGHT(
| FOR CHILD LABOR LAW

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Jan. 29.-
The campaign to have the Indiana
General Assembly ratify the Federal
Child Labor Amendment to the Con-
stitution has opened in earnest here.
State Senator Payne, who comes
from an agricultural constituency, de-
clared that he would like to see passed
a law prohibiting children from work.
ing in factories or long hours on the
farm, but took the position that the
proposed amendment was not specific
enough and said he should like to
know the kind Of legislation Congress
win pass If the amendment Is adopted.
A fight Is being made on the amend
ment on the ground that it is Social
istic" in tendency. Many members Of
the assembly, while opposing the
amendment, admit that the states
should raise standards in regard to
child labor.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-01-30
TYPO UNION OPPOSES TEACHING
OF PRINTING In STATE PRISONS

Council was ordered to re-establish
an employment bureau by officers of
the conference.
The Council went on record as sup
porting the postal workers in their
appeal for increased pay, the vote be-
ing unanimous. It was decided, how
ever, that the increase needed for the
boost IN wages should not come by
increasing the second class mail rates.
The Council was authorized to ad-
just local strike situations in fifteen
cisies as a result Of tire disturbances
caused by the 4z-hour week. The
meeting was attended by President
Lynch of the international Union, ].
W. Hays, secretary-treasurer, Seth R.
Brown, first Vice President. and
Charles N. Smith, president Of the
MaiIers' Trade District Union.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-01-30
MONEY FOR DIVIDENDS
. BUT mot FOR UNION MEN

''The oarpenter," official organ Of
the United Brotherhood of Carpenters
and JOiners, carries the following mo-
tice in full page bog in each issue:
"That the open shop is now favored
by the Stanley Manufacturing Com
pany Of New Britain, Conn.,, who man.
ufacture number of carpenters tools
known as the Stanley tools, was dec
laration recently made by Mr.. Stanley,
Jr., with Representative Charles N.
Kimball and Business Agent McGrath
at the plant Of the company. This
concern Is constructing a large build
ing at New Britain. The contractor
is the Aberthew Company Of Boston.
Non-union carpenters were found on
the job. On complaint of Messrs.
Kimball and McGrath, as representa-
tives of our organization, Mr.. Stanley
arranged the conference, and to their
astonishment made the above declara-
tion."
The Boston News Bureau, a leading
financial publication, publishes the
following;
Directors of Stanley Works, New
Britain, Conn.,, voted to recommend to
stockholders that common stock be
increased from $6,50O,O0O to $1O,4OO,
600, difference to be distributed in
form of stock dividend. Also voted
to retire 25 per cent of the preferred
stock, bringing it down to $4,000,000."
It appears that this concern, which
refuses to negotiate an agreement
with a union that is fighting for
American standards of living has
more than $2,O00,OOO to pass to its
stockholders in the form of a gift.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-01-30

INDIANAPOLIS, IND, Jan. 29.
The Executive Council Of the Interna-
ti9nal Typographical Union at a
meeting here, adopted resolution Of
protest against the proposed plan Of
extending the teaching Of printing in
state penal institutions over the coun-
try. It was explained that the Inter
national Union had no objections to
printing course in boys reform
schools. but would fight the attempt
to teach the trade to adults in prison
because such men would not measure
up 10 the high standard desired in
the trade and further because in
terms Of two years men would not
learn the trade and would not be will
ing 70 meet apprenticeship require
naents after their release from prison.
At the same meeting the Executive
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-01-30
CASE GOES
TO SUPREME COURT

BY international Labor News Service
CHICAGO, Jan. 20.-Donald r.
Richberg and David e. Lilienthal, at
torneys for d. B. Robertson, president
of the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Firemen and EnRinemen, are busily
engaged in preparing the brief in the
appeal Of Robertson to the United
States Supreme Court from recent
decision Of Federal Judge James H.
Wilkerson. The case has been moved
up On the Supreme Court calendar
and arguments will be heard in Wash
ington Tuesday, February "a.
Judge Wilkerson held Robertson
and ]. Mcclure, general chairman Of
the engineers on the Chicago & North
Western Railroad, in contempt for re-
fusing to obey q summons to appear
before the United States Railroad
Labor Board as witnesses in wage ne
gotiations that were under way be-
tween the engineers and firemen and
the managers of 48 Western railroads
last May.
The principal contention Of Robert
sons attorneys is that Judge Wilker-
SON lacked authority to act in the mat
ter, inasmuch as Wilkerson's jurisdic-
tion is confined to the northern dis
trict of Illinois and Robertson is a
citizen of Cleveland, Ohio.
The case of ]. Mcclure, which also
has been appealed to the Supreme
Court, will be argued at later date.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-01-30
UNION OFFICERS FINED
ORGONTEMPT OF COURT

By international Labor News Service
CHICAGO, Jan. 22.--In the midst
Of the greatest crime carnival ever
known - the history of Chicago,
and while public officers, metropolitan
newspaper publishers and the con-
trolling fnaneial interests were at
e1rh abo1f " suse u ti.1
appalling situation that they alone
ere responsible for. Cook County's
most notorious injunction judge found
time to heavily fine and jail officers
Of local union for contempt Of court.
Judge Denis e. Sullivan. Democrat-
ie injunction judge and pei Of Charles
G. Dawes, Republican Vice President
elect Of the United States, fined Peter
5. Shaughnessy, president Of the
Bficklagers Union, $500. and costs
and sentenced John J. Stretch, busi-
ness agent, to 80 days in jail. John
Campbell, another business agent,
vas fined $500 and costs, and Charles
Z. Wilde, assistsn% financial secretary
Of the union, was iined $50 and costs.
The defendants were charged with
violating an injunction issued by
Judge Sullivan in favor Of the Union
Contracting Company last May.
Peter S. Shaughnessy is well known
among trade union officers through
cut the United States and Canada,
and is a former fraternaI delegate
from the American Federation of
Labor to the British Trade Congress.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-01-30

By international Labor News Service
NEW YORK CITY, Jan. 2e.-The
battle Of the banks is on.
s'Trust Companies" a magazine
representing the trust company and
banking houses Of New York and
speaking for them and endorsed by
the American Bankers Association,
rs year or 80 cents copy) launch-
es an attack on the unionizaEion Of
bank clerks IN its current issues
The Bookkeepers', Stenographsrs'
and Accountants Union has made
such progress IN organizing UNDER
paid bank clerks that the banks
though not all Of them--have come
ont into the open through their mag
azine spokesman, in war on the union.
Here is the editorial in which the
battle is begun:
Banks and trust company manage
ments are justified in taking cogni-
zanee and proper steps to discourage
persistent and underhand tactics Of
professional union labor emissaries
who seek to inveigle bank employees
to become members of so-called white
collar unions. Repeated attempts Of
this kind, especially among clerks in
the larger banks and trust companies,
have invariably failed and there is
little danger that any such prosely-
ting viii gain any foothold in this
country. Nevertheless, the time is
propitious to stamp out boring from
within methods, not only to preserve
the wholesome spirit of cooperation,
but to impress upon doubling Thonl-
ases', or habitually Festive bank ena-
ployees, that they are injuring their
own welfare by paying heed to union
labor or collective bargaining bland-
ishments.
"It is to the credit of the great
body Of American bank and trust COM
pany employees that with only iso-
lated exceptions, they have Of their
own volition rejected every overture
from union labor sources. The Amer
lean Institute of Banking, which has
an enrolment of 53,79e, is formally
on record as opposed to unlonizatiOn
Of bank employees. They recognize
that no coercive methods on eollectiva
bargaining can take the place Of dill
genee, faithful service and merit for
securing advancement Or increuse i
eompensati0n. Likewise, bank enl-
ployeess reafize that in no branch Of
business or aefivity, does there obtain
such enlightened and liberal attitude
as among bank and trust eompany
managements in promoting the wei
fare, the independence and happiness
of the individual employees.
Leaders of the American Fedora
ton of Labor and their satellites, like
Ernest Bohm of the New York white
collar union, may as well understand
definitely that they are barking up
the wrong tree and that there is no
sopen season for such contemplate
devices as they employ IN trying to
inoculate bank men with their noxious
doctrines"
For reply the union goes on organ
izing and gladly accepts the guage OF
battle. They regard the editorial as
expressing the most reactionary point
Of view and as indicating what the
union is up against in the effort to
organize bank clerks 100 per cent
strong in New York.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-01-30

Winfield 7. Keegan Is the new
president Of the international Stereo-
tgpers' and Electrotypers' Union, hav-
ing been elected by referendum vote
to succeed Thomas P. Reynolds, vice
president. who became president on
the death Of President James J. Freel
last July and who served until Dee.
81, 1924. Mr.. Keegan takes Office
wen qualified By experience to make
an able president Of the Stereotypers'
Union. He is z native of New York
but has lived for many years in New
Jersey. He has been an active mem-
Der of New York Stereotypers Union
for 80 years and has served the union
in many capacities, including six
years IS financial secretary and 4
years as president. He represented
the New York union at 16 annual
conventions Of the Stereotypers' and
Electrotypers' Union.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-01-30

Warfare has ragged in the Commun-
list camp ever since the national cleo
tion, in which Foster received less
than $1,000 votes rs a candidate for
President of the United States. The
party has been divided into two fac
tions, one headed by Foster and the
other by Ruthenberg. The chief busi-
ness in life of the followers of the
two leaders since the election has
been to prove that the other was
guilty which led to the great fiasco.
The prize contended for in this dis
pute was the control of the party
and its sucker list" and the right to
'liquidate," to use q pct Communist
term.
Foster and his friends are on top
and happy; Ruthenberg is down and
out and in prison, and his followers
are anything but happy. It Is now
the aim of Foster to jolly Ruthen-
berg's friends into remaining loyal to
the party and, Of course, to continue
contributing to the exchequer.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-01-30
WITHRUTHENBERG BEHIND BARS REDSSEEK
TRUCE IN FIGHT FOR CONTROL OF PARTY

BY Staff Correspondent International Labor Service
CHICAGO 29-Now that E. Ruthenberg, secretary of
the Workers Communist Party of America is behind the bars
the Michigan pententiary of three
conviction of violation Of the Michigan syndeasm law
leaving W. Foster in undsputed control of the denes of the
party friends ndustrousy circulating the
port that Ruthnbg and Foster have composed their differences
is time all good Communists stop clawng and
scratching other like lot of Kilkenny and live together
ha~n.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-01-30
CASUALTIES OF CHILD LABOR

The stories Of 10 children killed or
mutiIated while Illegally employed are
told in a report just issued by the
Consumers League Of Eastern Penn
svIvania. These children, all be-
tween Is and 16 years of age, were
employed in such places as factories,
grain elevators, and stores, and were
the first 10 cases discovered in a
study Of industrial accidents to work
ing children. Two Of the ten were
killed, the others severely injured.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-01-30
EXECUTIVE COUNgIlN
STATE FEDERATION
SCORE GOV. HARTLEY

The Executive Council Of the Wash
1ngton State Federation Of Labor, in
session at Seattle. January 25th, had
under consideration several matters
that concern the interests and welfare
Of Labor in our state, and, among
ether things, il gave extended consid-
seration to the attitude and policy be-
ing pursued By Governor Roland H.
Hartley since he assumed his duties
Is Governor Of the State. In connee-
tion Herewith, it decided TO issue the
following public statement:
Like most other good citizens Of
the state, the attitude Of the Execu-
tive Council Of the Washington State
Federation Of Labor has been one Of
friendly and hopeful expectancy and
\ ready willingness to cooperate with
the Governor to the fullest in making
his administration Of the affairs Of
cur state government success. had
such q course been made possible for
ms
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-01-30

William ]. Tracy, new secretary
treasurer of the Building Trades De-
partment Of the American Federation
of Labor. has served the trade union
movement for Is years and in a num-
Der Of capacities. He held every Office
in Plumbers Local Union 1913 Of Phil
adelphia, Pa, and was also president
of the Building Trades Council of
philadelphia. He served as a mag
istrate in the municipal court in
Philadelphia from 1911 to 1918. For
the past year he has been commission
er OF conciliation in the Department
of Labor and prior to that time, chief
of the Pennsylvania State Bureau Of
Mediation and Arbitration, which is
part Of the Pennsylvania Department
of Labor.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-01-30

France warns Soviet government to
stop propaganda on French territory.
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-01-30
BANKS SCOLD NAUGHTY UNIONS

GOOD LITTLE CLERKS WILL NOT ORGANIZE.
SAYS FINANCIERs
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-01-30

However, like many other good
citizens Of our state, we were amazed
to learn through the public press Of
the attitude taken By our Governor
in repudiating the platform Of his
party, which he solemnly pledged the
voters of our state in the last cleo
tion to uphold, when in hts Inaugural
Address at the State Capitol he not
only repudiated that plank of the
state republican platform which called
for ratification Of the Child Labor
Amendment, but in burst of billings
gate branded members Of churches,
women's clubs, the American Legion,
Labor organizations, and other good
citizens Of our state, who are actively
supporting ratifcation Of the Child
Labor Amendment as 4pusilanimous
blatherskites, socialists, bolshevists,
and enemies Of the government"
emo seIf-respectins group Of eiti-
zens could in the face Of such insult
ing abuse sit idly BY and nncom-
plaineIy accept Il without also e TIE
same time aeceptins tie role Of COW
ardice which the labor movement Of
our site never has and never wiz
~
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-01-30

~Aldine injury 10 insult. Governor
Hartley has within recent days ap-
peared before the duly elected mem
bers Of the Legislature and in direct
violation Of his oath Of Office, which
obligates nm to uphold the constitu.
Continued on Page TwO)
Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1925-01-30

Official Organ Of The Aber-
deem Central Labor Council,
Hoquiam Trades and Labor
Council and the Washington
State Federation Of Labor.
Evening star., 1925-05-08

more equal distribution of their in
come" and speedily relieve our mis-
sion board from it's debt
The address was given out here at
the close of the session OF the mission
board of the church, at which it was
announced the Epworth League would
give 500. 200 TO help finance the mis-
sion work.
The bishops feel great concern in
the fact that the mission boards deh
cit in home and foreign departments
Increased from -S70i,0 last year to
81, ,2a5 900 this year, despite the fact
that a 20 per cent reduction had been
made in estimated appropriations.
Evening star., 1925-05-08
HELD IN REMUS CASE.
Missourian Taken in Florida on
Dry-Law Charge.

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla, May S.
Acting on warrant issued from the
office of the United States Attorney
General. United States Marshal j. +.
Cooper of Miami late yesterday took
into custody here Don II. Robinson,
indicted by the Federal grand jury at
St. Louis, Mo-, March 6. 1924, together
with George Remus, millionaire boot
logger" and others.
Robinson is charged with having
conspired to violate the national pro
hihition law through seeking to with
draw whisky from a warehouse with
out permit. Marshal Cooper said
that Robinson will be taken before
United States Judge Call at Miami
for a hearing.
Evening star., 1925-05-08
GREAT CIVILIZATION
/. UPBU|LD|NG URGED
Central West Is Ideal Place
for Development, Pro-
feSsor Says.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
. CHICAGO. May S.-The heart of
EAmerica-the Central West-prepared
by geologic forces for mans use for
thousand million years, was pictured
as the most favorable place for de
lNeloping a great civilization by Prof.
Forrest Ray Moulton of the Univer-
isity of Chicago in an address last
might at a preparatory school con-
ference.
The time and the place in which
we live are the most favorable the
world ever has had or ever will have
for the development of a great civil
ization.' he said. He embraced the
territory from western New York,
Pennsylvania and West Virginia to
Kansas, Nebraska and South Dakota
and from the Great Lakes to Ten
nessee.
Once covered by a shallow ocean,
he said, the region was made rich in
mineral deposits and soil fertility.
There is not in the whole world
another area in one body of equal
extent that nas so fertile a soil" he
said. The climate is about all that
could be desired for the protection of
food for mankind ana Tor stimulating
him to his best efforts.
Cites All Advantages.
Enormous quantities of timber,
grain, Ivee stock and fruit are produced
in this area. About one half of the
corn of the world is grown there and
Just outside of it about one-half of
the cotton of the world is produced,
I'm all this region" he continued, "a
single language is spoken. Its in
habitants are largely of single race.
There are no froptiers TO restrict and
hamper trade There is not a single
fortified town and no body of troops
to he supported.
within this circle there live ap-
proximately $4,000 600 people. who are
the wealthiest, best fed, best sheltered.
best clohted people in the whole world
of this or any other time"
Evening star., 1925-05-08
METHODIST BISHOPS
PLEAD FOR MISSIONS
Work Curtailed This Year Because
of Lack of Funds, They
Point Out.
By the Associated Press:

By the Associated Press:
NASHVILLE, Tenn. May, Setting
the general increase in prosperity in
the United States, the Bisheps of the
Methodist Episcopal Church. South,
in the annual Episcopal address yes
terday, deplored the stringent curtail-
ment of mission work neeessitated by
insufficient funds for carrying forward
program for the coming year equal
to that of last year. They called on
Methodists everywhere to make a
Evening star., 1925-05-08
GIRL WAS STOWAWAY.
u. S. May Deport Russian Who
Posed as Sailor on Transport. +.

HONOLULU. May 8.-The local i'm
migration authorities announced that
deportation proceedings had been filed
against Zoia Platnikoff, 49, Russian
girl, who arrived here last week on
the naval transport Chaumont. The
girl. dressed in in sailors uniform,
boarded the C'haumont at Shanghai,
whittier she was deported from San
Diego two years ago.
She said sailors furnished her with
food and drink on the 12-day trip and
that her presence aboard was not
known to the officers of the transport.
The officers learned after the Chau-
mont had sailed for San Francisco
that the girl had landed here. She
was located Wednesday.
A f1appers idea of being economical
is TO use less and less material in her
Evening star., 1925-05-08
Ordered to Training Camp.

Capts. Frank A, Haywood and
Theodore r. Maui, Quartermaster
Corps, at the Quartermaster Corps
School, Philadelphia, have been order
ed to Camp Meade, Md, for duty dur
ing the coming training season, fol-
lowing which they will take station at
Chicago.