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THE LABOR JOURNAL
Mention the Journal to the
merchant who solicits your patron
age through these columns.
Vol. XXII.
WHERE HE PAYS $5.00 FOR AN ALL
WOOL SUIT
The best Suits and Overcoats for the Winter are here and
ciin he bought now.
A genuine Pig Skin Football FREE with every $10.00
purchase in the Hoys' Store.
THE BRODECK CO.
1701-3 HEWITT AVENUE
We Give S. & H. Green Trading Stamps
OUTING FLANNEL
Night GOWNS
EXCELLENT GARMENTS
Well made of good grade Outing
plain white and a pfl
fancy stripes; ULsn V%
neck styles. Special. ITS ag*ii
each
Children's Rain Capes
Children's "Bestyett" Bain Capes, absolutely water 4^0,50
.; f.,.t colors in red and Mm-; sizes (i to II: a s»"
well made water proof sehoi WM
each cape. Very special, each
INFANTS' SHOES
Infants' Soft Sole Shoes, in
Black, Red, Brown and Tan. Ex
ceptional values. Specially priced
at 35<=
FLANNELETTES
Heavy fleeced Flanclcttos, for
kimono* and dressing sacques;
new patterns in figured nnd
floral designs. Special) yard -15c
W. H. CLEAVER -----
Both Phones 217 Hewitt and Rockefeller
Successor to Dolson & Cleaver
YOU KNOW THIS:
That a bank does not grow as this bank has grown unless
it adhers strictly to conservative policies, tieats its cus
tomers with due regard for THEIR interests, and offers
them the highest degree of security.
The facilities of this bank have Been expanded to keep pace
with this growth, and its present organization and equip
ment are unexcelled in capacity and efficiency.
CALL ROR THE
HAFERKORN SEAL
and
SOUDAN SECOND
Union Made by
Haferkorn Gipr Co.
Riley-Cooley Shoe Co.
PULL LINE OF UNION MADE SHOES
Both Phoneß 766 ™ Hewitt
If Boys' Suits
Overcoats
Comes from Brodeck'a, a big part
of -his task of looking well is al
ready done for him.
He is bound to eret good ma
terials and color, fine tailoring
and all the other essentials — he
can't get anything else in our
Hoys' Clothing Store.
REGULAR $1.25 VALUES
In plain colors and fancy stripes,
high or low neck igSL (gfc.f*
out i 1 r JjJ B jB
11.25. Special, c iach._.
Kino Muslin Corset Covers, em
broidery yokes and dainty lace
trimming. Special 25c
RIBBONS
Taffeta and Messaline Bibbons,
plain colors and a few fancies, in
widths up to 4 inches. Worth up
to 20c and 26C yard. Special,
yard lOC
Bank of Commerce
5c Cigars
THE
and
CORSET COVERS
THE LABOR JOURNAL
THE OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE EVERETT TRADES COUNCIL
Devoted to the Interest
Send Your Own
Men to Olympia
UNION CANDIDATES FOR
LEGISLATURE BEST QUAL
IFIED TO WORK FOR PRO
GRAM OF LABOR LEGISLA
TION.
rhls is the Journal's last opportunity
before colrtion to appeal to the voters
not to forget the legislative candidates.
It is as important that we semi the
right kind of men to the state legisla
ture as it is that we elect the right
kind of a governor or any other sl it.'
officer. It would be foolish lo elect a
progressive governor and then turn
around and elect a lot of reactionaries
to the legislature. The legislative branch
of our slat.' government is as Import
ant as the executive or judicial, and we
should bestow equal care upon its make
up.
Particularly do we appeal to union
men and women and their sympathizers
in this article. Organized labor of
Washington has labored long for the
passage of progressive legislation, Years
before the Initiative and Referendum
became a dominant issue in politics our
representatives were urging it upon the
legislature. The Women's Eight-Hour
law and other labor measures now upon
the statutes did not come because of one
session's activity. Year after year or-
Igani/.ed labor has been working for these
laws. Year after year our representa
tives have been in Olympia urging upon
legislative sessions the passage of rem
edial legislation. Year after year the
rank and file has been backing up the
efforts of their legislative committee
with petitions and telegrams; year after
year labor has worked to arouse public
sentiment to the demands of social jus
tice through the mediums of press and
the platform. Such remedial legislation
as we have secured has ben the result
of years of accumulative effort. Most
of it has been wrung from a reluctant
legislature. We are proud of the work
that has been accomplished, but it
shouldn't have cost so much effort. We
arc to blame for that in that we de
manded and expected labor legislation
and then voted for men to go down to
Olympia who were out of touch with
our program —men who had no sym
pathy for our cause.
We have an ambitious labor program
for the next session of the legislature.
We are going to ask the passage of a
law putting the paid employment shark
out of business: we arc going to try to
increase the amounts paid to injured
workmen by the Industrial Insurance
Commission at least SB per cent., and
the insertion of the First Aid clause in
the law; we are going to try to make
it possible for Ihe people to amend [
their state constitution through the
initiative. As it has done in the past.
so organized labor must do during the
coming session -viz., bear the brunt of
the fight for the desired legislation. The
logical tiling to do — the wise thing to
do—is to sond mon from our own rank*
to the legislature to work and vote for
our laws. If you were gain* to build
a bouse you wouldn't hire I blacksmith
to draw the plans, you would send for
an architect. You wouldn't hire a pro
eery man to do the construction work.
yon would hire a building mechanic.
Can't we use the same sense in electing
men to make our labor laws that we
would employ in planning and erecting
a house ?
Organized labor in this legislative dis
trict offers you three men from its own
ranks men who know wdiat labor wants
nnd needs—men who have been tried in
in the crucible of active service. John
Campbell, progressive candidate for sen
ator from the Thirty-eighth district; It.
J. dinger, socialist candidate, and Fred
K. Overman, progressive candidate, from
the Forty eighth legislative district, for
R. J. OLINGER
Socialist Candidate for State Representative, 48th District.
RVERETT, WASHINGTON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBEB 1, 1912.
state representatives, will stand every
tett that may he applied during a legis
lative session. They won't have to he
prodded into voting right—they'll vote
right, because their hrarts beat in sym
pathy with your wants. Those three
'men. if elected to the legislature, will
form a trio hard to beat. They'll stand
shoulder to shoulder upon every meas
ure- that COtnel up Involving your wel
fare. Instead of voting once again for
the enemies of labor, or even for the
"friends" of labor, why not try voting
for men from labor's own ranks?
The experiment i- worth trying, and
after all it wouldn't be an "experiment."
'It would be a cinch a cinch that there
'would be three men in the legislature
that would work in season and out of
season for your interests.
How to Vote
for W.W. Black
WRITE IN TME NAME OR USE
A BLACK STICKER ON LINE
BELOW NAMES OF OVER
TON G. ELLIS AND WAL
LACE MOUNT.
Judge VV. W. Black hat been on the
bench of Snohomish county for the past
eight years. Yon voters know his rec
ord. You know that lie hns made the
fairest, most impartial judge Snohomish
county has ever hnd. You know that he
never "threw the book" at a prisoner
or a litigant because the person at bar
was poor in this world's goods. Tt isn't
necessary to delve at length into Judge
Blade's record for the benefit of Sno
homish county voters -they know what
it is and approve It.
Judge Black is a. candidate for the
state supreme court. Wouldn't you feel
that you had a "friend at court" if he
sat on that tribunal? lie wouldn't be
found handing out favors to the com
| mon people, but you know that he
would do all in his power to see that
the law wasn't twisted all out of shape
to give the corporations the best of it
a? against the people. Tor instance, we
don't believe that Judge Black, as a
member of the supreme court, would
ever have assented to the opinion which
i overthrew the minimum wage law passed
'by the city of Spokane. It would be
worth something to have a judge write
a dissenting opinion once in awhile when
property rights were set by the court
above human right s.
At the bottom of your ballot will be
a double column, headed NOX-PAHTT
SAX JUDICIARY. The supreme court
column will appear as follows:
Judges Supreme Court.
Six Year Term —Vote for Three.
OYKKTOX G. FJ.US
WALLACE MOUNT
In the blank lines, just under the
name of Wallace Mount, write in the
innie of W. W. Black and mark an "X'"
in the square opposit*. Or, if yon have
a Black sticker, paste it on your ballot
lon the line under Mount's name.
Snohomish county ought to have a
union shingle weaver for sheriff, no mat
ter whkh way the election goes. Norland,
on the democratic ticket; McKae, on the
progressive ticket, and Lester, on the
socialist ticket, arc all union shingle
weavers.
The best campaign argument that Tom
Fleming can produce is his excellent
road building record. Politic*] parties
may Win or they may lose, but the
good roads remain as a testimonial to
business ability and efficiency in office.
If the bond issue should carry in the
county the county commissioners will
have a ureal responsibility UpOfl their
shoulders and a practical knowledge of
road building will be a valuable asset.
of Organized La bor
Bob Hodge at
the Coliseum
PROGRESSIVE CANDIDATES
FOR GOVERNOR AND LIEU
TENANT - GOVERNOR ARE
BILLED FOR NEXT SUNDAY
AFTERNOON.
Local progressives will wind up their
•ampaign with a monster mast meeting
in the Coliseum Rink next Sunday af
ternoon at 8 o'clock. Hob Hodge will be
the principal speaker and he will flay
the ttandpat gang without mercy. Hodge
cancelled all other speaking engagements
to spend his last week in his heme
county and his meetings this week have
drawn enormous crowds, lie has been
cheered to (he echo by his hearers as
he hurled his reply to his seandal-mong-
Ing opposition. Qovnor Teats, progri ss
ivc candidate for lieutenant-governor,
will also appear with Hodge at the Sun
day afternoon meeting. Teat- needs no
introduction to Everett unionists who
know of his splendid work in the last
legislature for labor measures. The
Compensation law is known as the Teats
bill (not the Hay bill) and was intro
duced and fought through the house by
the scrapping attorney from Pierce coun
ty. The Rink will scarcely hold the
crowd that will wish to hear Hodge and
Teats Sunday afternoon.
FRED K. OVERMAN
Progressive Candidate for State Representative, 48th District.
Facts About
Bond Issue
ARGUMENTS PRESENTED FOR
PROPOSED GOOD ROADS
BOND ISSUE, WHICH VOT
ERS OUGHT TO STUDY BE
FORE ELECTION.
The voters of Snohoniith county will
be called upon next Tuesday to vote
upon the proposed bond issue for the
construction of permanent paved trunk
ronds. Approximately ]-"> miles of road
are included in the proposed system. It
is proposed to reduce all grades to a !>
per cent maximum. Ihe roads will be
graded 24 feet wide, eight or nine feet
in the center of which will be paved by
the laying of a concrete bate five Inches
deep. The quality- of surfacing will be
determined after competitive bids have
demonstrated the durability of several
materials.
The bonds will run for twenty years,
at an estimated interrst rate of 4':. per
cent. The first year's tax to meet the
interest and sinking fund will be 3.(1
mills, and it will l>o less and less each
succeeding year until wiped out in the
twentieth year. A man whose property
was assessed at $1.00(1 would pay $.'I.OO
the first year and less each succeeding
year. Cnder the present system of
county road building, road district taxes
are paid only by the unincorporated part
of the county. Under the proposed bond
ing plan the bonds would be paid for by
lie following differen classes of ns-ess
able property: Cities. 43 per .cut: public
utilities, 22 |>er cent; timber lands. II
per cent: unimproved bind. 10 per cent;
farmers, about 15 per cent.
Building of paved trunk roads would
not interfere with nor d.day building
and improvement of laterals. The rond
d i-t riet s, after paying their share of the
hond tax, will still have available over
$100,000 every year for use in work on
lateral roads exclusively.
J. E. CAMPBELL
Piogressive Candidate for State Senate, 38th District
One of the strongest arguments in
favor of the bonda is the fact that the
road district! are now spending annually
175,000 in mere temporary repairs on
the trunk roads, These repairs have to
be Blade every year; on ibme roads
they' have to lie repeated from three to
five times in a single ieaeoa< The
share of the road district! in the annua!
assessments to carry the proposed bonds
would be about the same amount. It is
plain, then, thai the road districts are
Wasting 175,000 a year under the present
system, when the same amount would
pay their share of the bond tax. and
they would be enjoying the use of hard
roads. To illustrate: The present an
nual tax for temporary repairs, if con
tinued under the present system, will
amount in twenty years to $1,600,0001
At the end of the 90 years the roads
will Im l scarcely better than at the be
gtening, and the road districts will be
out of pocket $1.r>00.000. It would sure
ly be more business-like to use that $1,
--500,000 in building a system of durable
paved roads. At the end of U years
there will be permanent roads to show
for the money, the fanners will have
had twenty years' use of them and the
I cost in either case will have bean the
same.
Good paved roads would atttact farm
ers and home builders to this county and
insure a far more rapid development of
our rural section. The clearing up an!
settlement ot farm lands in n * the
assess; ible wealth of the county. EasY
transportation on county roads means a
boon to the farmers and city dwellers
alike.
\ local good roads enthusiast has Stjsi
The Journal -onic good arguments in
favor of the proposed good roads plan.
"Good roads, mm the OMokboM to Mm
public market. They an what is making
the Smith' public markets the great
su'.i-ss that they are. There are eight
trucks carrying vegetables to the So
attic public markets at the present time.
"With the hard surface roads pood nil
the year round a truck will leave the
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THE LABOR JOURNAL
Is the official organ of the Trades
Council, and is read by the labor
ing men and women of Everett.
The Wet and
Dry Question
EFFECT OF SO-CALLED DRY
REGIME UPON BUSINESS
AND MORALS ARE ONLY
PHASES TO BE CONSID
ERED.
One of the most objectionable features
of those local option campaigns is the
animosity and bitterness of feeling which
Beems to be Inevitably stirred up. Car
ried away with the fervor of the mo
ment, the most extravagant claims are
made and accusations couched in intem
perate language. There are "dry" fa
natics and "'wet" fanatics, men and
women who seem incapable of crediting
any worthy motives to their opponents.
A fanatical "dry" classes all the "wets"
with the riff raff of society, while, on
the other hand, a rabid "wet" classes
all "drys" with the early Puritans. Both
views are wrong. Why may not men
and women honestly differ on the (pies
lion of local option as well as on every
other public question without losing the
entire sense of perspective.
There are several thousand voters in
Fverett who will go to the polls next
Tuesday and vote wet from a conviction
that local option is a failure as a means
of dealing with the liquor problem. The
great majority of those voters will be
absolutely honest in their conviction.
There will 1m- other thousands who will
vote dry. believing that local option is
a remedy—if not a cure —for the evils
of intemperance and should be contin
ued in effect. The majority of them
will be honest in their convictions. This
question can be approached in a spirit
of toleration, but it very seldom is, if
the experience of every town which ever
had a "wet and dry" campaign is any
criterion by which to judge.
There are only two phases of this wet
and dry fight which assume any import
ance: First, the effect of a dry regime
upon the business life: second, the effect
of the same regime upon the moral life
of (he community. All argument, both
for and against local option, will lead
to these two propositions. The famous
nvangelltt, Hilly Sunday, painted a
glowing picture of the stimulating effect
the (losing of the saloons Would have
upon Everett. People would flock to
this city from every part of the country,
here to make their homes and rear and
educate their children in an atmosphere
free from the debasing influence of the
open saloon. Business men, manufac
turers, men of affairs and enterprise,
would locate factories and business es
tablishments in Fverett localise of the
moral atmosphere surrounding us. In
"dry Fverett" the salaries of the work
tttgUteU would go into legitimate ave
nues of trade. Xo Saturday night drunks
nor Monday morning headaches. A clear
eyed, clear brained working class would
appear for work Monday morning and
the wheels of industry would spin as
never before. The census of 1010 gave
us a population of 2.1.000. Would a
cen-us of 1918 show any increase in
that figure? If you have nothing par
ticularly to do tomorrow morning, walk
up and down our residence streets with
I notebook in band and mark down the
number of empty houses you see in
your morning's stroil. Xor can these
empty residences be explained away by
an assertion that "many new buildiiej
have been erected by home owners who
have left the rented houses for their
own homes." Throughout the year of
1012 the supply of carpenters has been
:|cl per cent under normal: bricklayers,
plasterers, lathers, plumbers, from 30
per cent to HO per cent under normal.
IluiMing tradesmen by the score have
boon compelled to leave their families
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