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THE LABOR JOURNAL Mention the Journal to the merchant who solicits your patron age through these columns. VOL. XXIII. July 1, 2, 3, 4 EXCLUSIVE AGENTS BEST MADE SHOES FOR WOMEN The New Easter Clothes, Shoes Hats, Furnishings For men—young men and hoys will be correct in style, rightfully chosen and economically purchased, if they come from BRODECK S GREAT SPRING STOCKS. HIGH GRADE UNION-MADE SUITS Visit Our Popular Shoe and Boys' Store for Your Easter Needs The Brodeck Co. 1701-3 HEWITT AEVNUE Always Ask for Green Trading Stamps March White Sale of Ladies' Dress Skirts Special Values Up to $12.50 to Go at Ladies' Seperate Dress Skirts, exceptionally well f% made of Panama and Serges; all colors; also many J MX stylish black voilo skirts, good styles. Easily worth R.J /(j up to $12.50; March white sale W Ladies' Corsets Ladies' Corsets of coutil, mcdl- urn bust, long skirt, two pair strong hose supporters attached. Worth 76c; March White Sale at — Ladies' Shirt Waists FLANNEL SHIRTS Light gray flannel Shirts with collar to match, blue, black and lavender stripe effects. Worth up to $1.60, March White Sale at 98c W. H. CLEAVER Both Phones 217—Hewitt and Rockefeller. Successor to Dolson & Cleaver. Conservative Banking Intimately associated with the business interests of Everett for twelve years; Always making the welfare of its depositors a matter of vital concern; and Ever mindful of the highest ideals of conservative banking, This bank invites the consideration of business men and individuals to whose success it may contribute on the basis of prudence and safety. 4 Per Cent Interest Paid on Time and Savings Deposits CALL EOR THE HAFERKORN SEAL SOUDAN SECOND Union Made by =*== THE Kaforkorn Cigar Co. Riley-Cooley Shoe Co. FULL LINE OF UNION MADE SHOES Both Phonei 766 1712 Hewitt "KLA-HOW YAH" Petticoats Black Heatherbloom and strip ed gingham petticoats, deep flounces, well finished, excellent, quality. Worth 75c each, March White Kale 49c 49c FLANNELETTE WAISTS Pretty Klannellette Waists, in Shepard checks; also in blue and black grounds with light figures; all sizes; worth 79c each. March White 5a1e...59c BANK OF COMMERCE 5c Cigars THE LABOR JOURNAL LEGISLATIVE ! SYSTEM WRONG July 1, 2, 3, 4 (Special Correspondence.) OLYMPIA, Wash., March 16—If the people at home could only see their law makers in action during the last few days of a legislative session and understand how their most sacred rights are juggled and jostled about in a veritable bedlam of disorder, hurry and feverish excitement, they would never again take chances on trusting this time-honored, but sadly out-of joint, institution with the important duty of making laws. Imagine, if you can, the Condition that exists on such an occasion. Here are these two bodies of men, the sen ate and the house of representatives, vainly striving to examine and pass upon more than 1200 bils within a period of sixty days. It is a physical impossibility for any member to read over the list of bills carefully enough to get any intelligent understanding of them whatever, to say nothing of attending to his other duties or mak ing any necessary outside investiga tion of their merits. But for the first forty days members go on pilling up bills with reckless haste to get all of their pet measures in and under way Everthing drags while the ma chine members and the representa tives of the big business interests (the great silent forces of govern ment) are making their trades and driving the representatives into line for be it understood no member is to be alowed the passage of any bill that affect the welfare of his particu lar district until he promises to de liver the support that the machine demands. By the time the process of legisla tion has gone through all these ma chine requirements, remember that practically the last week of the ses sion is upon you. Then begins a wild scramble to get the goods de livered. By this time the members are all so securely tied up and bull dozed by the machine, that, outside of a few stanch supporters of decent legislation, the common people are forgotten. The judgment of big business is now ready to ride rough shod over everything, taking all in its mad swath and leaving little for the people but blasted hopes. The ma chine seems so overmastering in its splendid powers of organization, that most of the inexperienced members who are trying to do the right thing fall into despair, and the army of the people's defenders is reduced to its minimum as the closing hours ap proach. Yet it is at this fatal hour that the most important legislation yet re mains to be acted upon. Is it any wonder that under the stress of such excitement, when every one feels that it Is incumbent upon him to strain every point to secure his own pet measures, and all about him is the disorder of a crowd of fellow legisla tors, all like situated as to their bills, with uncertainty, trading and treach ery on every hand, that such a time the well oiled machine of the lspecia interest with their own speaker in the chair and trained, veteran leaders upon the floor, crush the hopes of the people and put through the special legislation that has so long cursed this corporation ridden common wealth? Legislatures, made up of represen tatives coming from certain elective districts, are a failure so far as good legislation is concerned and must be east aside as a thing that is obsolete. Aa long as the legislators represent districts tho districts will expect leg islation that benefit* these districts. To get these things for his district, the Individual legislator has forced upon him the demand that he deliver his vote on measures that the ma chines interests desire. Nine times out of ten the measure that the ma chine demands Is a thousand times more injurious to the people at large than can possibly be offest by the benefits of the particular local legis lation for which the member Is made to feel that It Is necessary for him to barter. Can anyone see the end to the evils of this pernicious sys tem of legislation by trades and bar ter? Nor is It any less disastrous to thus trade and barter in legisla tion than It would be to pay the mem bers so much cash outright for their votes on any measure. Buying for cash was the old system of controll ing legislation which an aroused pub lic conscience has largely driven out of practice. We will not have bet tered matters much, however, until we so curb the powers of legislators that It will be made Impossible for them to trade and barter In the passage of laws. This can best be done by extend ing the principle of direct legislation i until legislatures will no longer have J the power to enact laws, but only to 1 initiate t>ii.tt, ~ *l. ... * m *J*rv and will welcome any more of tl THE Of FICIAL PAPER OF THE EVERETT TRADES COUNCIL Devoted to the Interest CLOSING DAYS OF LAW-MAK ING BODIES A BEDLAM OF DISORDER IN WHICH ALL KINDS OF LAWS ARE EN ACTED. RVERETT, WASHINGTON, FRIDAY. MARCH 21. 1913. PRES. FLORE IN THE CITY SPEAKS TO JOINT MEETING OF CULINARY CRAFTS AND BARTENDERS IN LABOR TEMPLE—FIRST VISIT TO NORTHWEST. 1 The cooks, waiters, waitresses and bartenders met in joint session lust Monday evening to greet their inter national president, Edward Flore, ot Buffalo, N. Y. This is Mr. Flore's first visit io Everett, in fact to tin northwest, and he expressed himself as being very much impressed with this section of the country. He compli- mented the Everett locals very highly for the splendid shape they were in and stated that it was little short of remarkable that the bartenders were 100 per cent organized so soon after the local option election. Mr. Flore in his address touched on many mat ters pertaining to his organization and spoke of the labor movement general ly. He urged upon the members tlie necessity of co-operating with every other union in the city. "In view of the continual agitation going on against the liquor business, it behooves our people to be up and do ing," said Mr. Flore. "If we expect aid from other trade unionists, we must so conduct ourselves that the general public will hold us worthy of respect. To a great extent the future of our livehood lies in our own hands." A crowded hall listened to President Flore and at the conclusion of his ad dress, refreshments were served and the membership given an opportunity to become personally acquainted with him. He will return East by way of Spo kane and expects to be on the Sound again in November, attending the A. F. af L. convention in Seattle. Those old daugerretoypes of grand father and grandmother and Aunt Mary and mother taken just after the war —and then the quaint pictures of father —money wouldn't buy them from YOU. Are you forgetful of the fact that future generations will cer ish such pictures of you? Photograph jr B. J. Brush, 218-19 Realty Bldg. OH JOY! BASEBALL IS HERE Bugs, listen! Just one short week and the baseball season will be on in full swing. Next Thursday afternoon the local talent will hook up with Mc- Ginnity's Tigers out at Bobbins park and the season will be officially here. Will we all be there? Will we? Ask us! There'll be the biggest lot of de serted office desks in this burg come next Thursday you ever heard of. Everybody is anxious to look over the bunch manager Davis has corraled for us and the opportunity to see the "Iron Man" in action is too good to be missed. The proceeds of the game will be given to the Associated Chari ties and Anti-Tuberculosis society anrt this fact alone should draw the fans out in force. Eet 'er go, Mr. I mpire! PRES. WILLISTON SUFFERS BEREAVMENT. Wendell L. Williston, president, of the Trades Council, returned from Olympia Monday where he was called by the death of his father, who had been ill for some time from heart trouble. The Labor Journal voices the sympathy and regard of organized labor of Everett to Bro. Williston in his hour of bereavment and sadness. Death comes to all but that know ledge does not lessen the sorrow nor take away the sting. Whereas, God has called to his heavenly home the beloved father of Irother W. L. Williston; be it Resolved, that we, the members of the Women's Union Card and Label League, extend to Brother Williston and family our sympathy, and remem bering God doeth all things well, help him to bear the loss of one so dear; and be it further Resolved, that a copy of these reso- lutions be sent to Brother Williston, a copy spread on the minutes of our league, and a copy sent to our official Labor Journal for publication. (Signed,) WOMEN'S UNION CARD AND LABEL LEAGIK Viola M. Francois, Secy. Bro Jack Shute, president of Bel llngham Local No. 8 of Shingle Weav ers, Sawmill Workers & Woodsmen, was a visitor at the meeting Tuesday evening. Bellingham local has taken on a new lease of life and now has a nembershlp pf 150 paid up members. Bro. Shute is confident that What com will not lag behind the other counties in the state in the organiza tion campaign. people for their fiual approval, just at many of our national and inter national unions now do. Think it Two international presidents visited Everett in one day this week. Not so iV&ys Uy. tt la to laugni—me mum.. of Organized La hoi- IN MEMORY. H. I- HUGHES. IN HANDS OF COMMISSION SENATOR PIPER'S MINIMUM WAGE BILL, ENDORSED BY FEDERATION OF LABOR, PASSES BOTH BRANCHES OF LEGISLATURE. (Special Correspondence) OLYMPIA, Wash., March 11.—De claring that "The welfare of the state of Washington demands that women and minors be protected from condi tions of labor that have a pernicious effect on their health and morals, the state of Washington therefore, exer cising its police and sovereign power declares that inadequate wages and unsanitary conditions of labor exert such pernicious effect," that Piper minimum wage commission bill, which passed the senate several days ago, got by the house Wednesday after noon with a good, strong majority to its credit. Sections two and three of the bill declare; "Sec. 2. It shall be unlawful to em ploy women or minors in any indus try or occupation within the state of Washington under conditions of labor detrimental to their health and mor als; and it shall be unlayful to em ploy women workers in any industry within the state of Washington at wages which are not adequate for their maintenance. "Sec. 3. There is hereby created a' commission to be known as the 'In dustrial Welfare Commission' for the state of Washington, to establish such standards of wages and conditions of labor for women and minors employ ed within the state of Washington, as shall be held hereunder to be reason able and not detrimental to health or morals, and which shall be sufficient for the decent maintenance of wo men." Other important features of the bill are as follows, and indicate the powers and methods by which the commission will work: Scope and Power. "Sec. 10. If, after investigation, the commission shall find that in any oc cupation, trade or industry, the wages paid to female employes are inade quate to supply them necessary cost of living and to maintain the work ers in health, or that the conditions of labor are prejudicial to the health or morals of the workers, the commis sion is empowered to call a confer ence composed of an equal number of representatives of employes and em ployers In the occupation or industry in question, together with one or more disinterested persons representing the public; but the representatives of the public shall not exceed the number of representatives of either of the other parties: and a member of the commission shall be a member of such conference and chairman there of. The commission shall make rules and regulations governing the selec tion of representatives and the mode of proceedure of said conference, and shall exercise exclusive jurisdiction over all questions arising as to the validity of the procedure and of tin recommendations of said conference. On request of the commission, it shall be the duty of the conference to re commend to the commimssion an esti mate of the minumum adequate in the ocupation or industry In question to supply the necessary cost of liv ing, and maintain the workers in health, and to recommend standards of conditions of labor demanded for the health and morals of the em ployes The findings and recom mendations of the conference shall be made a matter of record for the use of the commission. "Sec. 11. Upon the receipt of such recommendations from a conference, the commission shall review the same and may approve any or all of such recommendations, or it may dispap prove any or all of them and re-comlt the subject or the recommendations disapproved of, to the same or a new conference. After such approval of the recommendations of a conference the commision shall isue an obliga tory order to be effective in sixty (601 days from the date of said order, or if the commission shall find that unusual conditions necessitate a longer period, then it shall fix a later date, specifying the minimum wage for women in the occupation afected. and the standard conditions of labor for said women; and after such order is effective, it shall be unlawful for any employer in said occupation to employ women over eighteen (181 years of age for less than the rate of wages, or under conditions of labor prohibited for women in the said occupations. The commission shall send by mail as far as far as practicable to each employer in the occupation in question a copy of the order, and each employer shall be required to post a copy of said or der in each room in which women af feceted by the order are employed. "Sec. 12. Whenever wages or stand ard conditions of labor have been made mandatory in any occupation, upon petition of either employers or [employes, the commission may at its 1 scope. CIGAR MAKERS ARE LAID OFF GENERAL BUSINESS CONDI TIONS GOOD BUT CIGAR IN DUSTRY ON THE BUM— SOMETHING IS DECIDEDLY WRONG ABOUT IT. What is the matter with the cigar industry in Everett? The mills are all running. There are as many peo ple here as ever. Merchants report that business in most lines is nod. There are as many cigars smoked by Everett people as ever, but the local industry is in rotten shape. What's wrong? Cigarmakers earn on an average $20 a week. Every cent they earn goes into the pockets of Everett business men. They trade at home and they don't hoard their money. As a rule they spend it freely; keep it in circu lation. Thirty cigarmakers working in Everett would put into circulation right here at home a total of $600 a week. Mr. Home Industry Booster, isn't that right in your line? Some interesting facts and figures have been gathered from two of Ev erett's leading cigar manufacturers. They all lead to the conclusion thai "something is rotten in Denmark." Mr. Haferkorn has been compelled to close down his factory entirely for a period of two weeks —a thing which has not happened before with him in four years. Billy says that in his eighteen years in business in this county, things have not been so dull in the cigar line. He should have twelve or fourteen men working. When he closed down he had only six. Mr. Sartor had seven men working when the, town was dry; he only has seven men working now and they were recently laid off for two weeks. These seven men, it must be under- Stood, are the skilled men, the union members. Both proprietors and employes art aggrieved at the lack of patronage on the part of Everett smokers of the home made product—and justly so. The man who makes his living out of Everett and sends his money a thou sand miles away for an article no bet ter, if as good, as the one made at home, hasn't much license to pose as an Everett booster. Seven cigarmak ers working in the city as against thirty who should be employed—sl4;> spent each week in Everett by tin cigarmakers instead of $600. Don't figures speak eloquently of something wrong? We believe the saloon men of Ev erett could help to change that condi tion and that they ought to. The cigar manufacturers and the cigar makers worked their heads off during the lo cal option campaign last fall to swing Everett from the "dry" to the "wet" column. They spent time and money, believing that an orderly license sys tem was preferable from the stand point of both business and morals. Billy Haferkorn is authority for the statement that from the Ist to the 15th of March he sold but 500 cigars to all the saloons in town. He states that the saloons average five or six thousand cigars each in stock and that not over six hundred are home made. Mr. Sartor states that during the month of February he sold less than six thousand cigars to all saloons. One cigar maker alone could make all the cigars of his factory sold iv Ev erett liquor houses during that month Business in the factory, he claims, is not as good as before the saloons opened and yet there are unquestion ably as many cigars of some brand or other consumed. What is the answer? We believe the saloon men do not realize the actual conditions and that when they do they will stand by the "Sec. 14. The commission may at any time inquire into wages, and eon ditions of labor of minors employed in any occupation in the slate and max determine wages and conditions of la bor suitable for such minors. When the commission has made fucli deter mination in the cases of minors it may proceed to issue an obligatory order Penalty for Discrimination. Sec. 16. Any employer who dis charges, or in any other manner dis criminates against any employe be cause such employe has testified or is about to testify,-or because such em ployer believes that said employe may testify in any investigation or proceed Ing relative to the enforcement of this act, shall be deemed guilty of a mis demeanor and upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of from twepty-five dollars ($25,001 to one hundred dollars (SIOO,OOI for each such misdenieauor. "Sec. 17. Any person employing n woman or minor for whom a minimum wage or standard conditions of labor have been specified, at less than said minimum wage, or under conditions of labor prohibited by the order of the commission; or violating any other of the provisions of this act. shall be deemed guilty of- misdemeanor, and shall upon conviction thereof, be pun ished by a fine of not less than twenty five dollars ($25.00) nor more than I picture houses TTTS LA?OR JOURNAL Is the official organ of the Trades Council, and is read by the labor ing men and women of Everett. FOLSOM ffITS STRAIGHT OUT ENERGETIC FEDERATION OR GANIZER TELLS SOME PLAIN TRUTH—WILL CON DUCT INFORMATION DE PARTMENT IN JOURNAL. The editor, K. P, Marsh, baa prof fered me space in eacli week's . of the Labor Journal that I might pre sent to its readers, and to the shingle weavers, sawmill workers and woods men in particular, the aims and pur posts, principles and practices, the achievements and possible achieve ments of the International Union of Shingle Weavers, Sawmill Workers and Woodsmen. Tin's is a gratuity 1 gratefully accept. This vigorous organizing campaign, initiated by the militant shini ers, is our chief concern. All who are Interested in either its suet ss, or failure, are invited to ask questions concerning the movement. All ques tions should be made In writing 311,1 addressed to (". J. Folsom, Labor Temple. An honest effort will be made to answer these questions I 1 this allotted space. and the "do-nothings." The "do-something" elemeni maki mistakes; but the "do-nothing" tie mentS make blunders. of oppression. That's where they blunder. Thtre is no validity to excuses of done the best they knew how, quit sufficient. essentially a 'do-something" affair That it is imperfect, that. It has made mistakes and is likely to in. ' c mi r< mistakes, is freely admitted. But with all its shortcomings, who would ii. ly that it is a great factor, yes, the sr st eal factor, in the moral, menta .phy sical and material advancement of the working class. Down in San Francisco the men em ployed in the planing milk ber yards receive $4.00 p< r day hours work. THEY ARE ORt ' IZED! The organ; atii • I p, ■■■ feet by any means. &] been made in the past and will, lie doubt, be made in the future. But in spite of its shortcomin. hat it not been of great benefit to thoe ■ wh in the mills and lumber yards? Yes, men who stood by them. The follow ing incident i.- Illuminating and is- on answer to the question, what's wrong? An agent for an Eastern brand of cigars recently canvassed this eft I with the following proposition: Fur chase one thousand clears and with that number we'll throw in a standard make of typewriter. Twenty t> • writers were thus given as pre! to Everett liquor men. Xexf month the same agent will give away with each 2.500 cigars purchased a $226 |adding machine. How can the cigar .firm do it? Search us. The typi [writers are in evidence that they did it. We don't blame the saloon men for wanting cheap typewriters —like one ourselves -but they ft 11 for the came at the expense of local men who were their best friends and are now walking the streets. The saloon cigar trade has its pecu liarities. One of them is that not one in ten patrons who take cigars specify the brand of cigar they want. They take what is handed them, If an Ev erett cigar was handed out the patrol! would just as soon have it. and a little rather if he understood conditions. Home made cigars ought to be given an even break with tie imported article —better than an even break in this case because it is just possible that but for the splendid work done by manufacturers of cigars and their employes, saloons might not be in Ev erett today. It is because we do not. believe that the liquor men realize what it means to this important in dustry that we are writing this article and writing it in a friendly spirit. Tf we thought it was utter disregard for the interests of the cigar makers, we wouldn't write in this spirit We would keep still now and raise nn al mighty holler next election time Some of the liquor boys are standing nobly by the cigar makers. Wo knew that and give them credit for it. But that the great majority are not- well, go back over this article and digest the figures again. And to the union men of Everett raise an almighty holler for a union, home made cigar every time you buy one and at whatever place. If you wont do that, don't expect the cigar makers to call for your label, or your working eanl. or employ you In any capacity. If there is any place in the world where there should be reeiprn ci<y ' 'Vitrtt- &c irktf^to'»^tfttr NO. 6,