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Friday, February 9, 1917. —SHIRTS— —UNDERWEAR— —HOSIERY— —NECKWEAR— —HATS— —TROUSERS— H.E. Stiles 1721 HEWITT DRUGS AND KODAKS DEAN'S PHARMACY Formerly Darling's Try "HARRIS CONFECTIONERY" ICE CREAM 15a Plat, Mo Quart. 2711 Hewitt Aye. Pkones—«. S. MS, I*«. 454-T. STAR SHOE STORK E. E. WEBER, Proprietor 2109 Hewitt Avenue BOSTONIANS Are Union Made BUY HERE FOR STYLE, QUALITY AND SERVICE MEN'S SHOE STORE Beers) Bra*. Next to HaJsrhera a. BETTER LIVING AT LESS EXPENSE if You Buy All Your Groceries at the FARM PRODUCTS The Store That Put the "Crimp" In "High Cost of Living" In Everett Chris Culmback Wholesale TOBAOOO AND OIGARB 14*5. Hewitt Avenue Beth Phenes 2*7 UNION PLUM*IN« AND HEATING SHOPS R ML Wastover. R. Van Dyke. B. M. MalMvree. A. Millisrt r. w. ss*sf. A. P. Basset*. C. A Heals-. Strictly Fresh Churned Washington Creamery BUTTER 40 CENTS POUND Cow Butter Store Prince Cigar Store AND FOUNTAIN LUNCH NEXT DOOR TO ORPHEUM THEATRE Cor. Hoyt and Hewitt, one block from Colby MERCHANTS HOTEL All Outside Rooms; Clean, Airy Well Furnished. Rates Reasonable Under New Management If you haven't tried the SAN REV and Nickel Leader Cigars you don't know what you are missing. A. J. LEIBERSCHAL Manufacturer SMOKE THE COMMERCIAL, EVERETT F.D.S. & LITTLE HAVANAS ALL UNION MADE CIGARS IN EVERETT BY F. D. SARTOR RAILROAD EIGHT-HOUR LAW IS CONTEMPTUOUSLY DISREGARDED NEW YORK.—The heads of the railroad corporations are using the time in which they have held up the eight-hour day and the eight-hour law to try to force a compulsory arbitra tion act through Congress. The arbitration by the President of the United States and by the Congress of the United States, of last August and September, has been contemptu ously disregarded by the railroad cor porations. They have given a strik ing illustration of what they would do if this country should adopt a copy of the "Canadian Disputes Act", which forbids men to quit work pend ing an alleged investigation into the merits of an industrial dispute. Having refused to abid by the sol emn act of the supreme lawmaking body of the nation, the railroads, through such spokesmen as Elisha Frank Trumbull, Chairman of the Railway Executives' Advisory Com mittee, are using every agency of pub licity at their command to influence the public, and, if possible, the courts and the lawmakers, against the Broth erhood workers who have abided by the law and by the "conscience of the nation." Elisha Lee, speaking in Philadelphia before the American Academy of Poli tical Science, said: "If the Adamson act is found unconstitutional and the Brotherhoods threaten strikes to en force their original demands, the country will face the same situation that it did the last week in August." Even if that statement were true, the railroads' spokesman did not tell the fact that the reason a strike will still threaten is that the railroad corpora tions themselves tied the settlement up in court. But the statement is not true. Since August, when the Brotherhoods were making their demands alone, the Pres ident and the Congress and the peo-, pie, by their verdict in November, have added such a power to the power al- EVERETT'S INDUSTRIAL WARFARE (Continued from last week.) have been shed in vain. A different policy is noticeable on the part of newly qualified county peace officials toward the handling of the industrial situation which leads us to belive that common sense and discretion will be mixed with firmness in the policing of the county in time of industrial dis turbance, a combination that was sad ly lacking during the past adminis tration. Organization is the most instinctive attribute of human relationship. Men who thought alike upon any subject under the sun band themselves to gether into some sort of association for the promotion and study of that subject. Organizations of labor bring out the elemental instincts in men because they have to do with the struggle of man to exchange his labor power for the sustenance of life, and the struggle to maintain life is ele mental. It has always been a struggle of tooth and claw. The first instinct of men who work with their hands is physical. They earn their daily bread by the use of physical force and their instinct is to settle their labor prob lems with that physical force. They will withhold that force to compel the granting of some labor condition, or they will use it under strain of excite ment or in sudden anger against those whom consider to be beating down their working conditions. That is the primal, the instinctive nature of brute force. The use of diplomacy, of fin esse the invoking of legislation, is more subtle, more slowdy grasped, and can make strides only as the mass is educated up to a higher level. Edu cation is going on all the time in the labor movement. The worker is al most passionate in his demand for a system of school education which will develope the brain power of his child ren, realizing the mastery of brain over brain. It is because so many good people do not understand this evolu tionary process going on in the work ing world, that they condemn trade unionism because of its physical signs of violence. As the workers become educated and disciplined, physical combat declines and the settlement of labor disputes becomes a duel of brains rather than fists. Witness the Typographical Union, which has al most entirely done away with strikes and lockouts. The general public has a keen in- ready held by the Brotherhoods that everybody knows the railroad workers will win their rights, unless the cor porations can get some law to enslave the workers and to thwart the free force of public opinion. Mr. Lee admitted this when he said, "It is not a secret that the heads of the organizations (Brotherhoods) have in their hands full power to tie up the commerce of the country, road by road, territory by territory, or on all the roads simultaeously, if the Su preme Court finds the Adamson law unconstitutional." In other words, no matter what the court decides, the Brotherhoods will win the eight-hour day by lawful power backed by public sentiment unless the corporations can devise some machinery, controlled by them to prevent it. At the recent testimonial dinner to Samuel Gompers in New York, Judge Alton B. Parker said it was hard to realize, in this age of liberty, that at one time the English governing class had put through the "Statute of La borers" which provided fine and im prisonment for any able bodied man who refused to work if an employer wanted him to work. The very thing, against which Judge Parker expressed such righteous hor ror, is what the railroad corporations are now trying to do to American workingmen in this Twentieth Cen tury. They would install here insid iously a condition of Middle Ages serf dom. The four or five months in which the courts have been asked by the railroads to set aside the law of the land have been utilized by the rail roads in the furtherance of their whole campaign to frighten the people through misinformation. Their power ful and shrewd representatives in Washington and elsewhere are not only attacking labor, but are conduct ing a tremendous campaign against the public's control of the public's transportation service. terest in all labor problems, for the hand of labor touches every phase of ife's activity. None can escape the consequences of industrial strife and all share in industrial amity and peace. There was a time when the cloud on Everett's industrial horizon was no larger than a man's hand before pas sion and bitterness rocked the forces of industrial society. That was the time when constructive work might have been done by outside forces to ward bringing both labor and capital to amicable terms which would have prevented such shocking occurrences. When Everett was stunned with trag edy, in the crisis, the weavers listened to the advice of outside interests. Might they not have listened to that same advice when they were about to repudiate the principle of trade agree ments, a time when sober advice was needed, when the mill owners were in a conciliatory frame of mind? The general public has no right to stand idly by while the seeds of in dustrial bitterness are being sown, in tent upon its own affairs, and then, when trouble comes which draws it into the maelstrom of disaster, com plain loudly that an "innocent third party" is suffering. There is no "in- nocent" third party. It sometimes takes a cataclysm to jar us loose from our self complac ency. It took murder to drive home the truth that you cannot kill an idea with a club or a gun. George the Third tried that—and lost the Amer ican colonies. Regrettable as are the occurrences that marked the year of 1916 in the city of Everett, mistaken the policy of citizens and authorities, if an era of better understanding of these vexing social and industrial problems shall dawn, if the law of reason gain the ascendancy over the law of force, if the different elements of society shall in the end work more harmoniously and charitably together, the brutality, the suffering, the mometary loss, will be more than compensated for in the knowledge that we are perceptibly nearer the golden era when old things shall be swept away, when the dross and impurities in man's nature shall be purified in the better understand ing of mankind. Fraternally submitted, E. P. MARSH, PATRONIZE HOME INDUSTRY See that this Label is on the front of every box. MASS MEETING PROTEST AGAINST GOING TO WAR Monday night in the Labor Temple a mass meeting was held under the auspices of the Socialist Tarty to pro test against the United States going to war with Germany. Emil Herman, State Secretary of the Socialist Party, called the meeting to order and pre sided. After a few remarks explaining the object of the meeting R, J. Olinger was introduced and made a spirited address on war and the senselessness of workingmen engaging in it. The workingman does most of the fight ing and gets none of the fruits of victory. He gets nothing, win or lose. George W. Louttit, a gentleman whose name we failed to get, Jack Michel, L. E. Katterfeld, the Socialist candidate for governor last November, and Adam Hill also addressed the meeting. A motion prevailed to send letters of protest to President Wilson and to Congress. A motion carried to present the following sentiments of the meeting to the daily papers for publication: "The fundamental anarchy of our social system, the competition of cap italist groups, the colonial lusts, the intrigues and brutalities of imperial ism—the policy of rapine of some, the policy of pride and prestige of others —have created a bloody war in Europe. "The peril of drawing the United States into the bloody conflict has suddenly increased by the aggressive proceedings of the allies. Whatever may be the grievance of Germany and whatever may be the grievance of England, the United States should be, and is, able to keep its people out of the bloody conflict. "The transportaion of war sup plies from the United States to Eng land has culminated in the cutting off of diplomatic relations between the United States and Germany and given rise to the menace of the most revolting and frightful of wars. "Against this policy of violence and commercialism the workers of this country must raise their protest. They must express their horror of war and their intention to prevent it. "The working class of the world have nothing to gani by a commercial war. "It would be an act of mercy to ward the common people of those Eu ropean war cursed lands, if not a hand from this country were lifted at this time. Any action taken by the United States only aids the ruf fianly rulers to prolong the agony of the victims, while the ultimate re sult remains the same. The less the interference from the outside the sooner will the sucidal and murder ous game be brought to an end. "Therefore we, citizens of Everett, Wash., in mass meeting assembled in the Labor Temple this fifth day of February 1917, demand the presi dent and congress of the United States to proclaim the neutrality of this country and to make it unlawful to transport goods or persons from the United States to countries within the war zone." Try "BLUE RIBBON" Cigar, sc. LABEL LEAGUE NOTES Owing to the inclement weather the Label League has been holding its meetings but twice a month, the sec ond and fourth Friday evenings. On the alternate Friday afternoons the members entertain at their homes at cards, and the League has decided to name its club the Blue Cross Five Hundred Club. The gatherings are open to all who wish to attend. Each week the League will send a notice to the Journal of the next place of entertainment. Mrs. George Vingen will entertain the club next Friday afternoon, Feb. 16th, at her borne. 1112 Hoyt Aye nue. All are welcome. Mrs. A. R. Stauffer very charming ly entertained the club at her home on Maple street List Friday afternoon, and Mrs. S. J. Hart won first honor. WHITE HOUSE MARKET Tomorrow the old Oakes market, corner Hewitt and Oakes. will be re opened under a new name, "White House Market." This capacious build ing has been remodeled and thorough ly renovated and will be conducted as a first-class public market under the management of Mr. E. R. Adams. Patronize YOUR Advertisers. President TM LABOft JOUBMAL WAS APOSTLE PAUL A TRADE UNIONIST (By Rev. Charles Stelzle.) It has been clearly established that there were powerful labor guilds in cxistance two thousand years ago and practically every workingman belong ed to the guild composed of those who practiced his craft. In those days nearly every Jewish boy learned a trade, no matter what his social position may have been. So it happened that Paul, the greatest missionary in the history of the early church, learned the trade of tentmaker even though his father was so promi nent a man as to have the honor of Roman citizenship conferred upon him, and even though he had had the advantages of a thorough training at the university at Tarsus. This apprenticeship made Paul eleg ible to membership in the Tentmakers Union, and it is altogether likely that he became a member of that or ganization. We find in sacred history, that on at least one occasion, Paul made his headquarters in the city of Corinth with Aquila and Priscilla, simply be cause they also were of the same craft, namely ,tent makers. Here he worked side by side with them, preach ing in the synagogue on every Sab bath day. We have it from Paul's own pen hat he worked with his hands as he raveled from place to place, depend ng upon his skill as a mechanic to am his livelihood. Because of the necessity for constant travel and be cause of his dependence upon his trade Tor a living, it is more than likely that "aul identified himself with the or ranization that would be most helpful o him in order to secure employment. It is interesting to note that Paul isited first of all and established his neatest churches in the cities in vhich trade unionism was strongest. Unquestionably, he operated very 'argely through the labor guilds in :hese cities. It should be an inspiration to work ingmen everywhere to read the wond erful letters which this apostle-work ngman wrote. Thirteen of the books in the New Testament were written by Paul. Read his plea for the slave Onesimus in the letter to Philemon. Read his mas terful presentation of the university of the benefits of Christianity in ;very one of these epistles. Read that beautiful "love-letter" which he sent to the working-people of Philippi, when they sent him a "missionary basket" when he was in the Roman prison. Follow him in his fight for the •ommon people of every nation as it is told in "The Acts of The Apostles," and go with this workingman-preach er as he travels over almost the en tire then-known world, bringing a message of joy to the masses, who, for generations had been told by the philosophers that they "had no souls; :hat they were made of the same stuff is the dog which upon his death was kicked into the ditch" and then say that you are proud of Paul—Paul, the apostle-trade-unionist. ORDER FIXING TIME OF HEAR ING RECEIVER'S REPORT AND DIRECTING NOTICE THEREOF IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON, IN AND FOR SNOHOMISH COUNTY. Henry Anderson, Plaintiff, B. H. M. Lumber Company, a corpor ation, Defendant. D. O. Pratt, the receiver of the above named defendant, having filed in this proceeding his first report, setting forth in detail his receipts ami disbursements as such receiver, a list of all claims of creditors filed, and the amounts in which he recommends each of the same for allowance, the facts with reference to the assets of the defendant as yet not realized up on, and generally all his acts and do ings pertaining to said receivership; Now on motion of Baxter & Jones, attorneys for said receiver, it is ORDERED that the 19th day of February, 1917, at 1:30 o'clock p. m.. be and the same is hereby fixed as a time for a hearing on said report end the creditors of said defendant di rected to show cause, if any they have, before the above entitled Court. Judge Guy C. Alston presiding, at the Courthouse in the City of Everett, at said time, why said report and the matters therein set forth, should not be approved as filed, and said claims allowed according to the recommend ation of said receiver, and said re ceiver and his attorneys be made an allowance for their services and gen erally why the relief prayed for in said report should not be granted, and it is further ORDERED that notice to the cred itors of said defendant of said hear ing, b* had by publication of this or der in The Labor Journal, a newspa per of general circulation, in the County of Snohomish, and State of Washington, for two (2) successive weeks commencing not less than ten (10) days prior to such hearing, and that notice to such creditors whose claims are recommended for disallow ance in whole or in part in said re port, be had by mailing to said cred itors, a copy of said report not less than ten (10) days prior to such hear ing, together with a copy of this order. 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