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Monday, Nov. 25, 1912.
WHY A CANNERY BOY WORKER SAID: "THERE IS NO GOD!"
MARY BOYLE O'REILLY
TELLS OF LITTLE ONES
WHOSE LIVES ARE WASTED
CHILI) I.AP.OH ItKl'OltT SUPPHKSSKI)
At the national convention of the National Child Labor as
Bociation, in March, 1909, Owen R. Lovejoy, secretary of the
association, made this statement, published in the proceedings
"In the fruit canning sections of New York state, 18
months ago, a thorough investigation of child labor was
made, whit'h revealed such abuse of little < Li Mi en that the
dinners, hiding behind a technicality in the agreement with
those directing the investigation, insisted that they suppress
the pulilitution of the report, lest the publication ruin the in
dustry.
"Canners in the states not investigated would, it was
claimed, use this report mgmhmt their New York competitor*, al
thoiiKh TIIK HAMK AUUSEB ARE BBLIEYBD TO X.VIST IN
NKABLY EVKKY SECTION OF THK COUNTItY WUKUK CAN
NING IS BXTEKBIVE."
BY MARY HOYIiK O'KKIM/Y,
Hpeeinl Investigator for the Times
I have told you of tho women
of the canneries—their long
hours, pitiful ]>ay and hard work
ing and living conditions —but
what of the children?
Tommy Cecora, aged 15, testi
fies that he worked "during
peas" on a big sifter in one of
the biggest factories in north
west New York 108 hours in a
week —an average of about 18
hours a day. His mother adds
that on Saturday he started at 7
In the morning and worked
through till 2 o'clock Sunday
morning.
Tommy "got tired and quit."
There were five boys working
with him. One of them has
vanished. One has been sent to
THE BEGINNING
Do not postpone the opening of a sayings account simply
because of the smallness of your first deposit. All things, you
know, must have their beginning. The big things of today were
little things or yesterday—Remember, we receive deposits as
low as a dollar.
4 o/o BANKERS TRUST CO. BANK 4 o/o
CAPITAL $:t00,000.00
BANKERS TRUST BUILDING, TACOMA, WASH.
f-^^^^^^w Unloaded
W^^^^^^^Wf^ An Entire Carload
Christmas Pianos
Following a precedent established by us last
year, each Christmas season we shall provide
at this store at least one carload of SPECIAL
CHRISTMAS PIANOS for holiday trade.
This Year's Christmas Pianos
Six styles, eighteen in number, are here —all
bright, fresh and new —from one of Chicago's
foremost factories.
THE PRICES
$225,5275,5325
Values which other than at Christmas time are
retailed by us and generally throughout the
United States at $300, $350 and $400.
The spirit of giving pervades the atmosphere
of this store at Yuletide and we are going to give
you a $75 clean saving on any style of these
special CHRISTMAS PIANOS.
Eighteen little girls or bright boys will be
made happy on Christmas morning by finding
one of these pianos in the parlor.
WHEN YOU SEE THESE PIANOS
YOU WON'T BUY OTHERS
A Small Deposit Is All That Is Necessary Now.
These Pianos Went On Sale Today. ..]
9*A,^BetteT* l&ah&J rorJTh&Money
1115 C Street. . Between the Cables.
the reform school. One of them,
whoso pious mother urged him
after a weok of killing toil to
get up and go to church, answer
ed wearily:
"Go on—there ain't no God!"
Children of 10 years and less
often work all day and into the
night in many of the can factor
ies that I visited.
By an official ruling which
State Labor Commissioner John
Williams characterizes as "vi
cious," made la 1905 by Attor
ney General Mayer, the eannere
are exempt from considering age
limitations "in vacation time" if
the children work in sheds "un
connected with the factory"
without machinery. Some of
the "sheds" are about six inches
from the factory and many of
the sheds have machinery in-
DOMINICK PERRY, AGED 9,
WORKED ALL DAY FOR 2 3
CENTS.
stalled contrary to law.
Mayer has since l>een promot
ed to the federal bench by
President Taft.
A law effective October 1,
1912. slgi:ed by Governor Dix,
removes all hours of labor limi
tation;-, for boys under 18 and
for girls and women between
June 15 and October 15, the
principal canning season.
Moreover, workers in nearly all
factories are nameless—mere
numbers on time cards, of whom
no record Is kept, and therefore
labor-law cases and lawsuits for
injury are hard to prove, and
fanners do as they please. Still
conditions were so bad that a
few of the canners stopped us
iriK children In their sheds.
In August often nine out of
ten shed workers are children,
mostly girls. In one big shed I
On Edge of War Austria Watches Servia
Austria Is ngaln making a war
like demonstration on the Servian
border, Just as she did four years
ago when she. grabbed Bosnia
and Herzegovina, and mobilized
her army alonK the Danube ns a
warning to Servla to keep bunds
CITY DADS TO USE HAND
CAR ON TRIP FROM WORKS
Citizens who want to see how
Commissioners Mills, Lawson,
Seymour and Woods look as rail
road "paddles" may do so up
along Green river tomorrow. They
are all going up to view the work
from the headworks down. They
will take the train up and will
W'lint Tfxnns Adinlro
1b hearty, ■vigorous life, accord
ing to Hugh Tallman, of San An
tonio. "We find," he writes,
"that Dr. King's New Life Pills
surely put new life and energy
Into a person. Wife and I be
lieve the; are the best made."
Excellent for stomach, liver and
kidney troubles. 25c at Rrner
Malstrom Drug Co., 938 Pacific
ay
THE TACO*& TIMES.
IIOSIK MANIKEE, 5 YEARS OLD, AND HER SISTER CON
GENTINE, AGED 6 —FACTORY WORKERS.
saw 15 little wage workers; half
the shed was crowded with
child helpers between 6 and 12,
working silently, with labor-loos
ened limbs—free to work un
limited hours, EARNING FROM
:i TO 20 CENTS A DAY.
In cannery town after cannery
town in this rich section of New
York state mere babies have for
years depleted their energies and
mortgaged their future earning
capacity by premature labor.
On August 26 .Tacky" Piazza,
an 8-year-old boy, earned 19
cents, itnd Rosie Manikee, aged 5,
was paid an apprentice's 4 cents.
The canners blame parental
greed; the harassed parents
blame their own starvation
wage. Hut it matters not who
is to blame as long as factory
sheds are exempt from factory
law.
Nailed to roof supports in one
off. Here is a striking picture
showing how she guards her fron
tier.
Tills time Austria Is hopping
mail beoauM Bervla is winning a
seaport on tho Adriatic as a prize
of the Ualkan war. Austria Is de
termined that Servia shall not have
suih a port and may- fight to pre
vent It. For Außtrla Is jealous of
tho growing preltlffa of her little
neighbor, and slip hersalf would like
to acquire a seaport in Allianl and
another on the Aegean sea.
The picture shows an Austrian
watch lower on the Servian frontier
with Its sentinels constantly on the
lookout. Such outposts extend all
along the border, and are linked to
gether by the field telephone, ready
at any moment of the day or night
to Rive warning of the approach ol
Servian troops.
try to get a handcar from the N.
P. to come back on, working their
passage along the pipe line.
If they succeed in getting that
handcar a lot of Tacomans would
probably be glad to see them try
ing to operate it.
If they do not get the car it
will be a case of "shank's mare."
BLISS LEAVES
BIG ESTATE
(By United Press ]>ased Wire.)
NEW YORK, Nov. 25.—The
late Cornelius N. Bliss, secretary
of the Interior during President
McKlnley's administration, left
an estate valued at $4,851,854,
according to appraisal figures tiled
hero today.
shed were two wind-blown no
tices to the effect that children
under 1 0 were not welcome there,
and children playing about would
be sent home. Beneath these
siwns 4 6 frowsled little heads
from 5 to 11 bent soverly over
tho steady snipping.
TOOK SLICE
OFF FARM
To avoid a long curve and es
cape a couple of bridges the
Northern Pacific reconstructed its
line in Thurston county, dug a
new channel for the Chookuin
chttck river and butted the latter
at right angles up against tlie
farm of John Bansee..
The result wan that whenever
high water came It took a fine fat
slice off the Hansee farm, and
Kansee appeared in federal court
this' morning taking for an In
junction to stop the company
from continuing the river in Us
new channel, for a order to re
turn it to its old channel and for
about 17,000 damages for the loss
already caused by the high water.
SEATTLE FEELS
QUAKE SHOCKS
(Bf United Preu Tiimort Win.)
SEATTLE, NOT, 25. —"Do you
think there will be another?" is
tho question on everybody's
tongna here today as the result
of htree earthquake shocks Which
jarred this city at Intervals of an
hour last night. "Very ladylike
little temblors" was the statement
of the students who observed tlie
records made by the seismograph
at Washington university. There
was none of the upheaving mo
tion felt in destructive shocks,
but just a igentle shaking strong
enough to make everybody In
town take notice.
The first occurred at 7:20 and
the last, which was accompanied
by a low rumble, at 9:05.
12 MURDERED
KAM LOOPS, D. C, Nov. 2 5.—•
Twelve relatives murdered In
Mexico, including father, mothers,
three brothers aud three sisters,
is the horrifying intelligence con
veyed in a telegram this morning
to Miss Gertrude Beck, a millin
er of this city.
The massacre was perpetrated
by Mexican rebels and occurred
October 15 on the ranch occupied
by Mr. Heck at Pleasant Valley,
a short distance from Mexico City.
BREAKS A COLD,
, OPENS NOSTRILS
Tape's Cold Compound cures colds
and grippe in a few
hours.
The most severe cold will be!
broken, and all grippe misery i
ended after taking a dose of
Pape's Cold Compound every two
hours until three consecutive
doses are taken. ' t
You will distinctly feel all the
disagreeable symptoms leaving
after the very first dose.
" The most miserable headache,
dullness, head and nose stuffed
Xtp, feverlshness, sneezing, run
ning of the nose, sore throat, mu
cous catarrbal discharges, sore
ness, stiffness, rheumatism pains
and other distress vanishes.
j Take this wonderful Compound
as directed, with • the knowledge
that there Is nothing else in the
world, which will cure your cold
or end Grippe misery as prompt
ly and without any other assist
ance or bar after-effects as a 25
--cent package of Papa's Cold Com
pound, which any druggist can
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belongs in every home—accept no
substitute, 'Tastes nice—acU
•Mtir..
TOMMY CECORA, 18, WHO
WORKED 108 HOURS A WEEK.
And while the canners pro
fess that they do not want chil
dren they opposo remedial legis
lation to bar them from tho
sheds.
Tomorrow— "FHKK HOUSING"
AT THK CAXXKISIKS.
CAN'T BELIEVE IT
Representative C. Dowa Jlr-
Questen cannot believe he waa
turned tlo^'n for re-election de
spite the official count which
shows him 21 votes behind the
in tho 33 district and will ask
for a recount of the votes this
week.
HE RUNS STRONG
Howard Wright .socialist can
didate for Justice of the peace,
who resigned as a CMtdldatfl tor
supreme judge to run us justice
in Taconia, did not win out but
he ran ahead ot his ticket over
100 votes, polling 2.01G in the
city.
HE GOES BACK
Fred Wheeler beggod so hard
recently to be allowed to go back
to Spokane to his loving wife that
Judge Arntson allowed him to
depart When the police still
found him hanging around hero
a week hence they brought him
in.
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MRS. MYERS
ENTERS RACE
Mrs. ,T. L. Myers of South 85th
street has entered the school
lto;inl race as a candidate from
the south end of town. She took
nn active interest, tn the recent
bull mooso campaign and her
husband, who is In the Mybern
company, manufacturers of mir
rors, and art i.s ■ ■ocl&lllt.
Mrs. Myers has lieen her* IT.
years, coming from Canton, O.
ATTORNEY IN IT
E. F. Masterson, attorney, who
was a democratic candidate for
congressman at large in the re
cent primaries and lost out, is
going to try it for school board
now.
LIGHTS WENT OUT
Just as the tired Taoomnn set
tled down to read the evening
paper Saturday night at C:3O
o'clock the light* went out. It
was 10 minutes before they came
on again.
SICK HEADACHE? IT'S YOUR
BILIOUS LIVER! CASCARETS
You're billons! You have a
throbbing sensation in your head,
a bad tuste in your mouth, your
•jyes hurt, your skin la yellow with
dark rings under your eyes, your
lips are parched. No wonder you
feel ugly, mean nnd 111-tempered.
Your system is full of bile and
constipated waste not properly
panned off, and what you need is
a i leaning up inside. Don't con
tinue being a bilious, constipated
nuisance, to yourself and those
NraSjglJhj^lO CENT lso " '" rrMT ""Vmi'ih ■ i^B^S^^^^
PAGE THREE.
JUNGLESCENES
ATTRACT MANY
The crowds attending th«
Paul J. Itaiuey'B African hunt
pictures at the Tacoma theater
yesterday were treated to one
of the most novel and really sat
isfying exhibitions of motion pic
tures ever given in Tacoma.
These pictures were taken aft
er a year of hard work on the
part of Uainey ami other white
explorer* in the tangled jungleß
of wildest Africa and nearly ev
ery wild beast known to natural
history are shown in vividly life
like detail.
Tho African Hunt remains at
tho Tacoma for the week.
NEW PAPER
FOR SEATTLE
BBATTLB, Nov. 2, r.. —E. H.
Wells, formor editor of the
Beattta Star, is completing
plans today to start another even
in^ paper in this city. Wells ;ind
.lolui I. llartman, well Known at
torney, have organized the Sun
Publishing company and an
nounce that the first copy of the
paper will be issued in February,
BAZAAR ON
FINAL SPURT
St. Leo's bazaar will re-open
again tonight and continue until
Thanksgiving night when it will
clou with a grand ball. Special
chicken dinners will be nerved
thin week at th bazaar. Thus far
the returns to the managers hava
been very gratifying.
who love you, and don't resort to
harsh physics that Irritate and
injure. Remember, that your sour
disordered stomach, lazy liver,
and clogged bowels can be quickly
cleaned and regulated by morning;
with gentle, thorough Cascarets;
a 10-ccnt box will keep your head
clear and make you feel cheerful
and bully for months. Get Cas
carets now— wake up refreshed
feel like doing a good day's work
—make yourself pleasant and use
ful. Clean up! Cheer up!
