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THE LABOR JOURNAL
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VOL. XIX.
Union Labels
Mr. Union Man:
Are you looking for goods bearing the mark of honesty- bear
ing the mark of distinct ion. etc?. If so. you'll find more
(Jnlon made goods al mil mammoth store than you can find
elsewhere.
We are careful buyers and study our purchases well. It lias
been dearly demonstrated to us that in the Onion Made lines
We yet belter values, and can therefore quote you better prices.
Our term- to union people are pleasing. Ask about them.
Barron Furniture
Company, Inc.
Both Phones 304
2815-17 Colby Aye. Everett, Wn.
v in i o in made:
Call for them
nu
CIGAR
It is an ideal UNION MADE cigar, us good as the name.
U IN I O IN MADE
MURRAY'S SHOE STORE
Union Made Shoes
Huiskamp Bros. Shoes
For Women and Children
Brennan Shoes
MURRAY'S SHOE STORE
1707 HEWITT AYE.
GEO. ROSE
First Class Tailoring
Everything Union Made
laiO HEWITT AYE. EVERETT, WASH.
City Dye Works
LADIES' AND GENTS CLOTHES STEAM OR DRY CLEANED
Panama and Soft Hats
Cleaned and Blocked
8023% Rockefeller Aye. It—Ml Sun-el MO, Iml. tttMV
Have You Tried the
For the Whole Family
Ask For
Ask For
For Men
Phones; Ind. 299 V, Sunset 1162.
WORK CALLED ion and DELIVERED
LADIES' WORK A SPECIALTY
THE LABOR JOURNAL.
THE OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE EVERETT TRADES COUNCIL
Devoted to the Interest
EDUCATION THE SECRET VAN CLEAVE QUITS JOB
No Strength In Organ
izations Without It
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Organized labor has within it — <- 11~ the
elements of success or of destruction. It
mutters not how strong numerically we
ni#y lie nor how large our treasury, it
intelligence be lacking we will surely fail <
or mil' ]mt*|>e i^-i■. Do \<>it know tin' reason
that :i few men dominate the political,
machine, or the financial sit mil ion. or
the commercial situation? Because added
to ambition they possess an Intelligent
understanding of cause ami effeci in
their particular line of effort. Because
they have set themselves to work sys-:
tematically to study the field in the line
of endeavor they have chosen anil know!
the reason why such and such a move
ment w ill produce a certain effect. Il is
nol idiinl guess work with thera thai
make, thcni aide to dominate the situ
ation, bnl knowledge of conditions. I
Union men if they are ever to achieve
real success in the emancipation of hard
working surroundings must study and
read intelligently. The struggle and per
haps defeat of yesterday should teach a
lessen today. An analysis of the mis
takes of past struggles should tench us
how to avoid them in the future. The
world's brightest minds have recorded I
for us on paper economic tint Iks and the
'history of labor's groping* toward the
light. Do we read them and study them
and try to apply the lessons taught to
modern economic life? If we do not we
have failed in the mosl vital factor of
organisationi a proper understanding of
the labor movement. There can be no
strength without intelligence and no in*
telligence without thought and study.
There is no potent strength in just a
mere mass of matter; there must be
some underlying force to stir it into ac
tivity. Neither is there any potent
strength in I mere mass of men; there
must be some intelligent force to Rive it
power. That force is education coupled
to ambition Which, when set in motion,
will sweep the whole mass towards a
well defined goal. Every union man
should intelligently study the labor
movement and when we do that every
individual will be a potent, working
force. Too many men reason "what is to
lie. will be," or blindly follow the leader
be he right or wrong, "Education is nec
essary to organization, organization i>
necessary to education and fraternity is
the cause and effect of unity."
EVERETT TRADES
COUNCIL
Council met in regular session lust
Wednesday evening with President
Etourke in the chair.
Credentials of Irving Benton, of the
Musicians, weri' read and accepted. *
Credentials of A. W. Btrstton, of the
•arpcliters, were accepted and delegate
obligated and seated.
Report of special committee appointed
to confer with the laundry workers was
Accepted and the committee on organi
zation was instructed to visit the union.
Reports by unions:
Painters—Bumped up against Seattle
spirit. Union painters on (i. X. depot.
Machinists Expect General Organiser
Van l.cur. of district No. :t2. and Vice
President Hannah will be in Everett in
the near future.
Electricians—Two applications, one
mit iat ion.
Cigar Makers Pour by card, one in
itial ion.
Engineers One application.
Bartenders One initiation, one appli
es-! ion.
Carpenters —Five initiations] two ap
plications,
L-athera Eined a Seattle member for
working on <•. N. depot.
Delegates to the council do not hesi
tate to express their feelings towards
members of Seattle unions who »iii come
here to work on an unfair job
A committee WW appointed to devise
ways and means for an open meeting
in June to he addressed ley officials of
the Mehinists' International, who will lie
here during that month.
A im preaa committee bm been aa
pointed i<> bnU dose tor the shingle
Weaver. Urn trials md tribulatioaa of
tlu> bojM "ill up duly recordad anil tin
i ■bm ara expected Ua Im' m than
ipiixl hebavtm* >*» that the record will not
he ton doleful.
EVERETT, WASHINGTON*, I 111 RSDAY, MAY 80, 1000
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THE LABOR MOVEMENT IN EUROPE
Workingmen in Polities.
(By the Rev. ( harles Stelr.lc. i
There i- more Interest nn<] (greater ac
tivity In politica In England among
working people than there is in any
other country thai I visited and they
are making good. Alreadj the labor
party in Great Britain has in t'ln■ house,
of commons 31 members; but in addition
tn these, the miners' union has elected
jo members. These lalnir members co
operate In all legislation which affects
the interests of the masses of the people.
The appointment of John Burns to the
cabinet was a recognition nf the labor
U\ me; In parliament. Even t'liough they
are in the minority iii the house of com
mons the labor members are often in a
position to dictate legislation favorable
Ito labor, because they frequently buhl
the balance of power. It was due to the
entrance of workingmen into the politi
cal life of the nation Ill:tt the Tall Vale
I derision was reversed.
While probably two-thirds of the la
bor members are so ialists, only one
member of parliament was elected on the
socialist ticket. The lalior members were
elected Upon a bona fide trades union
ticket. They are not dreamers, these
men of labor. They are not working for
the passage of a resolution which will
! sweep out of existence nil the prevailing
ills in human society, meanwhile spend
iiu,' their time simply in limitation, but
they are opportunists, neoe| ting the next
thing. It is in this way thai they are
makins very decided progress. The bud
net presented by the prime minister o!
England and passed last wee], by parlia
ment, which provides fur old age pen
sions. opt-of-employment benefits and
many other reforms, i- largely the result ;
of the political agitation f the working
men in (iieat Britain. The liberal policy
adopted by the socialist trades union
ists in ptrUarncat of seeking to ob
tain these reforms. Un In one. has
aroused considerable antagonism on the
part of the extreme socialists who are
led by Victor Gray-son, the representa
tive o ft he socialist party in parliament.
These exacted the representatives f
the labor party who are socialists to
fight exclusively for socialist measures
and they resented the friendly relations
which have been maintained with non- ;
socialist labor M. P.'a and with the lib
eral party generall; . As a result of this
hick of confidence in that policy of the
Socialist trades unionists the ablest
leaders of the party, J, Ramsay Mac
donaM, Keir Bardie,PhilipSnowden and
Brace Glasler, \\i: iin a month resigned
from the council of the independent la
bor party, which is the socialist wing of
the labor party and represents about 15
per cent of the trades unionists active
ly engaed in the i itieal propaganda.
Tn Germany the political movement
among the workingmen is distinctively
socialistic, although I was told by the
leaders of the trades union movement
t'iiat only about lii per cent of the or
ganised workingnu n are members of the
■.iicinl-deniorrat party. Tow i- about the
same percentage i I sdcialists, therefore,
that is found anion" the trades union
ists, although the ifferenoe in the sit
nation is that the tier mans elect social
ists as such to esent them in the
rsiehstag, while i; England the repre
sentatives of the irkingmen are bono
fide trades unioni* - and the question
as to their being socialists or not be
log socialists i- 11 insisted upon. The
matter of the Englishmen's socialism is
purely personal, a- the question of his
religion,
Belgium contain- ne of the most ef
fective political orjj nlzations among the
working people in ay part of Europe,
f-shoring under mi y disadvantages on
secounl of the pre ous strength of the
opponents of labor the Belgium tradesl
unionists the co-op stives and the mu-1
tual insuraiiee societies are organised
into a labor party which, how ever. Is
| practically a socialist movement.
FIREMEN'S CIRCUS
WITH NORRIS & ROWF
Tin' ever populai Morris A Rowo cir
ICM is lulled to appear in Everett for
two performancea, ifternoon and cran
ing, anal k lug rtr ; parade in the
morning. Young ami old always go to
the circus and everybodv7 in Everett who
lean raise the price I a ticket will be in
I the lug tent when the show starts. The
'coming show will !•• something of a dc
pnrtiim from iched dad paifaimanaea in
that it will he nn.lei I lie auspices of tin'
Kverett fire laddies A percentage of the
receipts will he turned over to the Fire
men's udief association, which is a most
worthy cause.
of Organized En bor
SEATTLE CARD MEN
DO UNFAIR WORK
Claim Ignorance of Conditions Existing In
the Great Northern Depot.
Why " ill a man oarrying a union card I
lin his pocket deliberately walk onto fi i
job thai baa been declared unfair by j \
the building trades council! This is the 1
question (hat is agitating the minds of a
union mechanics In this city who months
ago placed the new G. N. ilojh.t officially t
unfair to organized labor, All of the :
buildiing trades locals in this city have I
refused to touch this work and have had
to see card men from other cities go to
work <'v the building, and some of them
have refused to conic off when told the 6
job was X. G. Woat make- the pill more
bitter to swallow i- the fact thai not a |
union in ibis city bail a personal griev- I
I anee against irhla job. ami if they bad '
been willing to ignore the trouble of an (
other outside local the work would not -
have been stopped ten minutes, To go I
bnoki When construction work first com i
nienced local bricklayers and carpenters t
were employed. They,findingOU*t that the v
foreman of the work and several cor t
penters be bad brought with him from t
Seattle were among the men who tried t
to wreck the Seattle carpenters' union v
during the -plil over the A. V. V. build i
rags, reported the fad to the Everett i
union and every known means was ex
hausted to get these scab carpenter- to i
settle up with the Seattle local. Failing t
|to get these men straightened Up, tie- -
union men walked oil the job. Not lie-j i
1 ' cause of .my g ienvanco over their treat 1
men! by the contracting company, but 11
because of a de-ire to protect tihe Seat 1
•tie ear penters' union which bad expelled i
these nun from membership. Further j<
I more the) believed in a closed -hop hi I
j tact and not in fancy. Now what hap 1
Hpened The bricklayers' national officer, v
after vainh attempting to induce the 10-P
nil boys to e,i back to work, -cut Se ,i
' attic biickhiye s onto the job over the 1 1
■ protest of pile local union. Ws dwelt on i I
• this action at some length in a former 11
1 issue. Then in rapid succession came 1
1 plumbers and gnstitters, eleetricisns, i
i painter-, lather-, plasterers all luit the I
■ last named trade Dairying union cards i
in their pockets, in each Instance they , 1
i were told b) members of the various 10-1
I eal unions the conditions -vi i oumiing j
I the work. One and all of OOVfSC they
elainusl to tie in ignorance of the fact
: that tUie job wa- unfair. We wooM not I
be unfair enough to IS) that they atl|
BIRDSEYE VIEW OF MONROE WASH.
BUSINESS SCENE OF MONROE. WASH
knew better. They may have been hon
est about it. Hut it seems strange in |
t thai
the lo al c.i.pentc i — visited Seattle in an -
attempt to straighten out the tangle: )
that diarict officers of several of the
trade, came here and looked over the sit
uation, that it should take so long a
-
the ears of the members of tan- in Se
tae! members ami the situation explain
ed. They were induced t.. quit and then
pici,l.-l iii mat case: A Seattle elec- i
triciau showed up otic .lav and when
he was talkel to -aid if be quit and
W«nt back his union would only send
somebody else up. Did be tell tin- truth?
If be didn't why was ii that after he
was indued to leave, other members of i
the same Seattle lo.al came onto tlie <
work? Could they plead ignorance'! N'l.vv ■
t'mt both t'ne Bvcrett union- of elec- I
trival worker- have protested again- - •
thi- a.tion. tin- business agent of the •
Seattle local. No. 217, want- particulars 1
of tlie trouble, claiming n i- all ab
solutely new to him. Oh, rat-' v
It is rather discouragiug to stand for 1
principle and sacrifice work to uphold 1
the tenet- of unionism and 'hen have I
some fellows who have taken the -am.
obligations that you have to uphold the
hand- of bis brother unionist come in i
and grab the work t'aat you won't touch I
I because it is scabby, It is rather exas
peraiing to mo a union tacitly give its I
consent to such actions on the put of i
it- members, it explains to a meat e\
tut why some union- never get any- |
'where from a nuc union standpoint.
; Why it is that the whole labor move
|menl creeps where it should wall, and 1
\ walks where it should run Because it
must -tagger nil.lei (Hie weight of a lot
jof fellow- who re really a detriment to
the cau-e tint who perforce mu-t cling
on like barnacles t" a ship Perhaps
they'll get innoculated with the true
union vims sometime, lor the good of
the trade union movement we hope SO
Give a copy of the Journal to your
lion union friend and ask him to sub
s -ribe for t)he paper that stands square
ly for the interests of the man who
toils.
THE LABOR JOURNAL
Is the official organ of the Trades
Council, and is read by the labor
ing men and women of Everett.
Here's Your H at—
What's Your Hurr>?
"Jpern si" \V. \an Cleave, according to
(iresx dispat lies, tendered hi- resigns,*
i
industrial alliance: while the dispatch
does not so state, inferential)) 1 at least,
it appears that the "Stead bunting of
■ Iceai-" was not ardently cherished by
Ihe "dough producers" in the alliance;
the aforesaid "d. p.'s" awakened to the
faett hit it'- one tbing to produce for
the advancement of an organization,
bul a cat of .1 different breed to feel
thai your dough i- being used to adver
tise a competitor's goods. As long at
the press mentioned Jeems Van Cleva
ns president of the Citizens' Indutrial
alliance, the ma/.uma was cheerfully con
tribute!, but "hen the new- writers com*
need to talk Bucks stove and rang
Win ( leave stuff was off and violent
kicks begun to be heard in that dear
old Sin booie. At that We believe the
alliance members, especially those in the
stove and range business, have made a
mistake, a tactical blunder, so to speak;
for while admitting that the Bucks
stove and ranges were frequently men
tioned in the press dispatches, the adver
tising was oi a negative value, and bad
•I'eems I n let abmo for another term
or two as president it's a moral certain
ty that the Bucks Stove and Rang no
pany's products would be about as pop
ular as that four-legged oreature called
Van (leave's abdication leaves a va
cancy ere.M ed by a vacancy, paradoxical
as thai may seem, and the only one that
will regret Jtemms' side-stepping act is
Davenport, of Bridgeport, for the nut
meg state disciple of Blackstone found
Van the easiest mark ever to get "bet
up" and fussy. Fare thee well Van
fun but the fiddler remains unpaid.-
Mixer and "-ever
ADVANCE WAGES TEN PER CENT
PITTSBUBG, Pa., May 18, —J -tnmmoe
me/nt was m.-«here today that 3o,t**W
«•! i ■ • \ —. • • the Iron and steel companies
having headquarters in this vicinity will
re cive an advance in wages averaging
10 ]"■,- pent -bine 1 or July 1.
Hip l niii'l States steel corporation
•as made no announcement of an in
• ise of w but it is said the Jones
& \! cLaupl lin Sti'id company, the IV
public Iron and steel company and other
inde] en.lent concerns would restore the
napes paid prior to the first of I;>>'
- ■
THE JAP IS
NOT WANTED
Are Trained Soldiers and
Ready to Act
l.alxir ngitat rs and labor papers arc
not alone in their analysis of the Jap
anese situation on the Pacific coast. The
senior press would have the people be
lieve thai the Japanese agitation is
spread only bj laboi discontents whose
side 111 i—i■ n it Ife U to to create race
hatred and stir up trouble gen,:
Thai there are other clasps of people
who view the situation in much the same
•!* the so-called "labor agitators"
however i- proven by the following e<li
torial expression i om Goodwin's Week
ly . published in Salt Uke City:
' h i- (food to see the men of the weal
poasl payinj p*|>e ial courtealsi to thi
admiral and cadets of the Japanesi
warships n..w in San Francisco bar
bor They express the real sentiment of
t ■■ peoph of the I'nited States toward
Japan and her people, which is alto
-■ '•' oi friendship, kindness and g I
'■There i- one feature of the n p
tlo which should be taken quiet not
of. At Lns Vngeies thousands oi reel
•lent Japanese rushed to the port to we]
come their country's sfhip* ami crews
fen thousand more met them at Sin
Francisco, nad -*till a greater number
will receive and welcome them on I'u
|«1 s I CH these many thousands
are trained soldiers. In the event of ■
wax, within three day* all these would
be M |>'ints on the coast where tiny
COUld receive arm- war munition- of sll
kin!- and such additional officer- as
might he ms'ded. Any one can see what
the conditions would Ik- on an unforti
Wed const and a njr a people units**] to
the disflpNne of a camp, knowing noth
ing of the movements of an num. and.
• ithal unarmed
The ban sugeatioa of such situa
tinn i- enough to fully juatifj the pro
te-t oi the men of tlo «em oosst ngninai
the "apaaese Immigration that has been
in -in . 1»0.,r.- the .lupniicHe
Bussian war And those men arc .lapa
ne-e and always will be and always
stand ready i„ o| M *> sin order that may
■to them from thi-ii home govern
ment."
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