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OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE EVERETT TRADES COUNCIL VOL. XXVI. LABOR'S INITIATIVE CAMPAIGN OPENED IN OLYMPIA BY HARRY CALL Vice-President Call Visits Olympia Unions and Urges Prepara tions For Big Drive For Signatures. First Vice-President Harry Call, of the Washington State Federa tion of Labor, spent last week in Olympia as the representative of President William Short, in urging signers for the three bills that are being initiated by the federation of labor and the state grange. Mr. Call appeared each night of the week before some one or two of the local unions, and is placing with them a large number of petitions for signatures. The unions are ap pointing committees to take direct charge of the work, and Olympia promises to roll up a large number of signatures. Mr. Call is also urging unaffiliated unions to join the state federation. He reports that up in his home town, Bellingham, which heretofore has been rather backward in the work of circulating and signing la bor initiative measures, that the boys are taking hold with great en thusiasm and that already several petitions have been fully signed and turned in. Mr. Call has also spent consider able time during his visit conferring with Commissioner H. L. Hughes, and Dr. J. W. Mowell, chief medical adviser of the Industrial Insurance Commission, on matters relating to industrial insurance and medical aid, in order that he may be prepared with the necessary information to advise workmen coming under the act as to their rights and the proper methods of protecting them. Mr. Call visited several local unions and explained the provisions of the three initiative measures put forward by organized labor. The trades unionists and farmers of this state have agreed on a pro gram that includes initiative meas ures numbers 31, 32 and 33. Measure No. 31 is the marketing and transportation bill. Its main provisions are as follows: (1) Provides that cities, counties, port districts and townships may own and operate mills, warehouses, storehouses, elevators, grain bins, cold storage plants, wood and fuel yards. (2) May buy directly at wholesale all forms of food products and fuel and re-sell and distribute the same at wholesale or retail to the inhabi tants. (3) Provides that such corpora tions may sell food products and fuel on commission for the producers thereof. (4) Provides that such corpora tions may own and operate flour mills for milling grains and cereals for flour and meal and sell the same directly to the consumers. (5) Provides for a complete trans portation system, collecting food products from the farmers and dis tributing them to the consumers. (6) Enables such corporations to own and operate telephone and pow er systems. It is highly important that in these days of stress, every useless effort should be done away with. People who are not actual producers should not be permitted to make a profit from the efforts of those who do produce. This measure, if enacted into law, will eliminate waste, reduce the cost to the consumer and, by its elimina tion of the middleman and profiteer, will permit of the payment of a higher price to the producer. D is really an extension of the Seattle port district principle, which DO one can successfully deny has been of inestimabel value not only to the people of Seattle but to the entire Northwest. The natural tendency today is con trol by the people and this measure is a big step in that direction. From the viewpoint of the wage earner, increases in wages have not ne.trlv enunlized the increased cost of living; the useless non-producer fixes the price to the farmer and for the consumer. Wage increases have not decreased the relative dif ference between the purse of the wage earner and the possibility of a good living. The farmer is not to blame; he gets but a small part of the increased cost of living, and this will continue as long as our present wasteful system is in use. This measure will surely secure the approval of all farmers and wage earners in this state und ought ©Ije 3£abor Journal to .-.ecure the approval of all pa triotic citizens who really want to do a constructive thing to help win the war. Measure No. 32 This is labor's anti-injunction law and its purpose is to curb the as sumed power of the courts in in dustrial disputes. Injunctions are judge-made, based on precedence that goes back to the old English law that placed property rights above human rights. "Labor is not a commodity, or an article of commerce," declared the congress of the United States when it passed the Clayton amendment to the Sherman anti-trust law, and which was signed by President Wil son. This amendment removed la bor and other voluntary associations not organized for profiteering from the operation of the Sherman law. People in the state of Washing ton have long suffered from the abuses of the injunction. Some of our judges are absolutely in accord with injunction rule. Labor does not seek the right to do irreparable injury to property. It does seek and will have a square deal. Our meas ure is patterned after sections 6 and 20 of the Clayton amendment. Labor has reached the point in this state when it will absolutely ignore all judge-made laws, and some people may save themselves a lot of trouble by supporting this measure. The measure is an ap peal for justice, and not the Bill Taft variety of justice, either. Measure No. 33 No. 33 is a non-partisan primary election measure. (1) It abolishes partisan politics in all state, county and municipal elections. (2) Enables you to make your choice for president in a presidential primary and to direct your delegates to national conventions as to planks you favor in national platforms. (3) Curbs the control exercised by the press under the direct primary system. (4) Contains provisions against corrupt practices in elections and thus purifies and safeguards your ballot. Our direct primary law has not purified politics in this state to any appreciable degree. Rather, on the other hand, it has been an incen tive to political dishonesty. It is not the primary law that was want ed; it is a law passed by a legisla ture that was reluctant to break away from grang rule. So they made it about as useless as they possibly could with the hope that its inefficient operation would forever discourage the idea. But party politics are doomed. Glaring evidences of this doom ap nea:- every day. The state of Wash ington cannot afford to lag in the procession. To place these measures on the ballot we need 37,701 valid signa tures. In this city the secretary of the Trades Council has the petitions, as well as a list of circulators. Any >f these people will be pleased to •all upon you and answer your 'questions. But you should call upon them. If you are not regis lered, you should do so at once. Urge all voters to register and sign all three of these measures. By SO doing you will be contributing a share toward making our state "safer for democracy" and thereby idding to the sum total of human happiness. ROBERT E. ANDERSEN ENLISTED IN NAVY The manager of the A. J. Mohn Jewelry establishment is now at Bremerton, Wash., wearing the uni form of a bluejacket. Mr. Ander sen, being of military age, exercised his privilege of choosing the branch of Uncle Sam's service be preferred and enlisted in the navy for the duration of the war. The Journal wishes him an oppor tunity to make a good record in the navy and a safe return to Everett full of honors. During Mr. Andersen's absence, Mr. C. M. Smith will manage the business of the A. J. Mohn Jewelry store. Try "BLUE RIBBON" Cigar, sc. INJURED WORKERS SHOULD NOT PAY ANY MONEY TO DOCTORS All Medical. Surgical and Hospital Bills of Workmen Injured in Haz ardous Employments Paid Either By State or Medical Contractors. OLYMPIA, Wash, March 20. — Workmen who are injured in the hazardous employments of this state, should pay no money to any physi cian or surgeon or hospital for ser vices rendered. All of these ex penses are paid either out of the state fund if the employer of the workmen is under the state fund, or they are paid by the physician or hospital holding the contract, where the workman's employer is under the contract plan. In any event the workman will pay for none of these things, and if any physician, sur geon or hospital undertakes to make a charge to him for any of these services, he should report the matter to either the First Aid Board or the Industrial Insurance Commission, at Olympia immediately. This warning is made necessary for the reason that it is being re ported here that there are some phy sicians and surgeons who are in dulging in this fraudulent and il legal practice. This is especially being done in cases where the in jury is of a minor nature, and is being generally practiced by the physicians who are interested in contract work, and chiefly with the idea, it is thought, to discredit the state plan. The state fund has hit these fel lows an awful jolt, by showing up the great profit there is in the medical treatment of injured men under the old' contract system. March first the deductions for treat ment of injured men under the state fund, was suspended for four months, because the fund, while taking care of two-thirds of the men in the state, had grown beyond all im mediate needs. Seeing that the state plan is the cheaper, the men and firms now under contract, see that they are being mulected for unnecessary sums of money and they would like to get out from under these contracts. Martin J. Flyzik, labor member of the State Medical Aid Board, will go down to the Gray's Harbor dis trict the last of the present week and spend several days among the men there, to talk over the situation with them and inform them of their rights under the law, which makes provision for all of these medical, i surgical and hospital expenses free of cost to them. Smoke Chas. Sheets' CHALLENGE j 10c Cigar. j UNFAIR LIST BARBER SHOPS I. H. Turner, 1104 Hewitt; William Whtttaker, Lowell; Barnhart Shop, Monroe; Independent, 1107 Hewitt. BUILDING LABORERS Peter Jackson, L. Starke, Emil Mit tersbach, E. Cloke, John Grant. CARPENTERS R. B. McAdams, Tyner, and N. E. Butts Amiel Larson. ELECTRICIANS F. R. Hare, electrical contractor; Globe Wall Paper Co.'s electric de partment; John Thueson. AUTOMOBILE CO. Everett Auto Co., the Garage building and the owner, Jack Gard ner. FISH COMPANIES San Juan Fish Co., Seattle. MEAT MARKETS Everett Avenue Meat Market, Riverside; Carsten- Meat Market, 2818 Colby. CONDENSED MILK Libby, McNeil & Libby, Packers and Canners; Carnation, Aster, Mt. Vernon and Washington brands. PAINTERS William Chribtenson, M. Koken, Globe Co., I. L. Swartz, H. E. Main, H. Patzrnan, IL O. Johnson, R. J. McGregor, J. C. Jensen, Carl Steen, R. D. Garner, E. Drolet, C. A. Barr. PLASTERS A. C. Wnght, A L Knapp, Booth, Tom Nygard, W. L. Porter. PLUMBERS C. R- Schweitzer, Otto Merz and Globe Paper Co.'s plumbing depart ment. STORES E. J. Long, grocery store Nine teenth and Virginia. Textile Fabrics Scotch Woollen Mills Goods. MISCELLANEOUS C. W. Anguish, 3505 Lombard; American Packing Co., Everett; Cal. Smilley and son; Fits Gerald. EVERETT, WASHINGTON, FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 191* TRADES COUNCIL Wednesday, March 20, 1918. President Vingen called the coun cil to order at 8 p. m. Bros. J. M. Gully, George Juneau and Charles Vann, presented creden tials from tke Bridge and Structural Iron Workers and were seated. Bro. R. H. McGoffney presented credentials from the Timberworkers and was seated instead of Bro. R. H. Mills. Bro. Wm. Griffin, of the Railway Clerks, presented credentials and was seated. The Bridge and Structural Iron Workers, Piledrivers' Local, present ed a new wage scale, which was en dorsed by the council. The scale is 50 cents under Seattle. Bros. Francois, Pilon, Snyder and Jurgens were appointed a committee to take charge of and arrange for the circulation of initiative petitions Nos. 31, 32 and 33. Reports of Unions Butchers reported a good meeting and announced a grand prize dance next Monday evening. See notice in this page.) The Cooks and Waiters had a good meeting. There were five initia tions and an election of officers. The Molders had a fine meeting. There were five initiations and two withdrawals. One of their mem bers, Arthur Scarr, was reported as having joined the colors. A new wage scale for all shops in this state was announced as $6.00, for machine molders and $7.10 for stove molders. The Plumbers reported a good meeting. The Painters had one reinstate ment and decided to affiliate with the Building Trades Council. Shingleweavers—One mill running, fourteen down. The Teamsters had a good meet ing, initiated two applicants for membership and elected two new delegates to the Trades Council. The Timberworkers reported a .rood meeting with fourteen initia tions. Next Sunday at Red Men's Hall, a mass meeting of Timberworkers will be held and C. O. Young, A. F. of L. organizer, will deliver an ad dress. The Label League reported its dance last Tuesday evening was a social and financial success. The Railway Clerks reported that their union was going through the throes of the birth of that organiza tion. The Firemen reported that Verne Henry had enlisted in the navy and was to leave yesterday for Bremer ton. A letter was received from Floyd Jones, another one of their members. Floyd says he hurt his left arm or hand the second day af ter his arrival at Fort Leavenworth and is on the convalescent list. He is in the aviation corps. Harry Call, First Vice-President of the Washington State Federation of Labor, was introduced and made a short, pithy address to the dele gates. He gave some instructions relating to the administration of the first aid, touching upon the medical contract feature. He advised those who may be injured to pay no doc tors any money, at least until the Industrial Commission had finished with the case. Bro. Call then launched into an explanation of the three initiative measures which organized labor, or ganized farmers and the Direct Leg islation League are fostering. His explanation of the provisions of these measures was tense, lucid and forceful, to the evident sat isfaction of the delegates. Bro. Call will be here until Friday night in the meantime addresing several lo cal unions. Vice-President Call is filling the official station of President Short during the letter's absence in Great Britain. See initiative measures on this page under the heading, "Labor's In itiative Campaign Opened in Olym pia by Harry Call." THE POLICE FORCE SALARIES RAISED The City Commission, at its meet ing Tuesday, unanimously passed the raise in the salaries of the police force $15 per month. This is just. It is hoped the raise in the pay of firemen will be made at the final reading of the ordinance next week. The firemen deserve it. i Subscribe for The Labor Journal. MEAT CUTTERS AND BUTCHER WORKMEN'S GRAND PRIZE DANCE The Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen will give a dance next Tuesday night which they promise will be a great social success. A number of valuable prizes will be given, which on Sunday and Monday may be seen on exhibition in Jarvis & Jackson's show window. Every lady attending the dance will receive a souvenir of the event. Solberg's orchestra will furnish the music, and dancing will con tinue from 9 p. m. to 1 a. m. If you fail to attend this dance you will miss a very enjoyable time. WELFARE COMMISSION MAKING WAGE SURVEY Want to Know to What Extent Employers Have Complied With Recent Request for Increase in Wages of Women. OLYMPIA, Wash., March 19. — Mrs. Frances K. Headlee, secretary of the Washington State Welfare Commission, is busy making a sur vey of the wages being paid in this state to women and minors in the various industries and occupations coming under the jurisdiction of the commission by virtue of the state "minimum wage law." Early last January the commis sion issued a proclamation, setting forth the fact that the cost of liv ing had increased "at least 35 per cent" since the wage rates were first established by conferences held in 1914 and 1915, and called upon the employers to make a voluntary increase in the pay of female work ers, and minors, to correspond with this increase in living expenses. Some employers have complied, and the commission proposes to find out what the others have done. Oregon Scale Raised Pe'-tland, Oregon—An hourly wage of 21% cents on an hourly basis has been adopted by the public conference as the minimum wage for women workers throughout Oregon in all employments except mercan tile occupations under office posi tions. The recommendation of the conference will be made to the In dustrial Welfare Commission, which is expected officially to establish the new minimum wage for these work ers at an early meeting. The rise recommended applies to all women workers employed in man ufacting plants, personal service oc cupation, laundries, telephone and telegraph offices, and public house keeping. The former hourly rate for these were 16 cents an hour, \nd the increase of s'-j cents an hour amounts to a fraction less than a 35 per cent increase. Will Help Get Raise Here The Washington State Welfare Commission, in session in Olympia, last week expressed great satisfac- i tion over the action of the Oregon commission in increasing their scale to correspond with the increase ask ed here, and felt that the action would have a great moral influence in forcing the employers of this state to comply with their proclama tion. At least with Oregon making a like raise in wages, the Washing ton employer of women will not be able to advance the argument of having to meet the competition of a neighboring state having a lower j rate. YAKIMA JONES TRIES TO MUZZLE THE NEWSPAPERS Presumably on the plea of con servation of white print paper Sen ator Jones tried to "slip something over." The Tacoma correspondent of the Typographical Journal has this to say of it: Senator Jones, of Washington, slipped a bill through the senate last month that made the printers sit up and take notice. Not only did it make the printers think for a spell, but the publishers saw ruin staring them in the face. The bill offered an amendment to the news print supply bill which was passed by the senate, limiting the size of any newspaper issued in the United State to sixteen pages, Sunday in cluded. This would have put every Sunday newspaper in the country out of business. When news of the action spread, the absentee mem bers put in an appearance and the senate, later in the afternoon, on a reconsideration vote, reversed itself, defeating the Jones amendment by a vote of 53 to 4. Register today and sign the Port District Petition. SHOWS VALUE FIRST AID LAW Under Old System Father of Injured Boy Practically Bankrupt By Doc tor and Hospital Bills. (Special to Labor Journal.) OLYMPIA. Wash., March 20.—A case which was settled this week by the State Industrial Insurance Com mission shows the great advantage of having a First Aid law on the statute books, although the law may yet be far from perfect, as most labor men in the state know. At least had the law been in effect I two years ago, it would have saved the father of one injured boy going practically bankrupt paying doctor 1 and hospital bills, that the slate I now pays. 1 Just .about two years ago George ; Rupert, working in the saw mill ; of his father, at Tonasket, Wash., 1 received such a severe injury to I his spine as to be completely par- I alized in his lower limbs and has i been bedfast all that time, and will never recover use of himself, At i the time there was a question as to George being legally carried on the payroll of the miil, and the com- 1 mission rejected the claim. The matter was taken into the district | court, where claimant was able to satisfy the court that he was legal ly on the payroll and actually work ing in the mill at the time of the accident. Last week the claim again came before the commission and he was allowed six month's time > loss, amounting to $180, and eight een months' pension, amounting to $3<;o, or a total of $540. His pen sion, amounting to $20 per month will be paid so long as he lives. As a result of this injury, and < it having occurred two years a<ro. and before the present first Aid law went into effect, the father told the commission that he had spent every dollar he owned and hail mortgaged his property for every ! dollar he could borrow on it, to give his injured boy proper medical service. Hail the First Aid law been in effect at this time, the boy ( would not only have received his time loss, but his medical bill as well would have been paid at the expense of the medical aid fund and , the father need not have been driv en to almost utter poverty in caring for his injured son. Ye Editor Married George E. Riggins, Editor of the Labor Journal, and well-known Ev erett printer, and Mrs. Lydia A. Jones cf this city, were united in marriage, Thursday afternoon, March 14, by Rev. R." B. Hassell. Mrs. Anna McCowen and Mr. Frank Lewis were the witnesses. After a short honeymoon trip in the coun try, Mr. Riggini is back at the desk, accompanied by a '"smile" tnat won't come off, and says he feels like a young man again. Had it not been for the thoughtfuhiess of one of the boys at the print shop. The Journal readers would perhaps have missed this item of Interest. When George was asked about writing his "own write-up." he, like other old bashful Editors, who escaped the rough old voyage of matrimony. Mid, "nothing doing." whereupon it befell one of us to do the stunt. So a few friends of George, got words enough together (mostly sen timental) and slipped this in on him when he wasn't looking. Perhaps it may not be to his liking to give this affair so much publicity, but he has always had the edge on us most of the time, so we thought it worth while to take a chance. However, George did not pass th" "smokes" around, and outside of that it was a quiet affair. The print shops, printers and all the other trade unionists of Everett, (especially the Ladies of the Label League) wish George and his bride all the pleasure and happiness that go with married life. Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Hochstad ter returned from the East last week, whether they went to pur chase goods for the Grand l eader. Mr. Hoehstadter says the East is alive with war activities. DEVOTED TO THE INTEREST OF ORGANIZED LABOR TEACHERS' PAY GIVEN A BOOST The; Journal notes with pleasure j tin 1 increase in teachers' salaries. This increase was granted by the Board of Education Monday evening I with every member present, in the I belief that war-time conditions war ranted :t. Incidentally the $10 in crease ft r the next three months cleans the teachers' fund of all its finances for the year. For the year 1018-10 the maxi mum salary Which may be paid any teacher was raised in all classifica tions. Those instructors beginning ii the grades may receive as high a- $330 a year where the maximum has been $840. The maximum in the grades below the seventh for teachers not classed as beginners ascends to $1,110; for the seventh and eighth grades the maximum will be $1,170. In the high school, which includes the vocational departments, the beginner's maximum was raised from $1,020 to $1,140; others from $1,260 to $1,380 heads of depart ments from $1,560 to $1,080. The cost of the 1918-19 raise in salaries is estimated at $19,000 for the year. SHIP BUILDERS LOYAL WORKERS California Yard Puts Three Big All- Steel Merc bant men Into Water 30 Days Ahead of Schedule. i imperial to The Labor Journal) OLYMPIA, Wash., March 21. — Since his return from San Francisco and vicinity, where he recently sp<»nt hri'o weeks for the National De naitment of Labor, talking on the war situation to the men in the shipbuilding and ether war indus tries, H, L. Hughes, Industrial In surance Commissioner, has been tell ing his friends of the many evidences of loyalty shown by the way in which the men in these big plants ire speeding up the industry. He was delighted today to receive con firmation of Irs claims for the men, through the information that reach ed him to the effect that three big all-steel merchantmen of 9,400 tons each had been launched in one hour i from the Moore & Scott yards. Oak , land, 30 days ahead of time. Here is the way the news is told: "The first tripple launching on the Pacific Coast took place Thursday, i March 12, when three 9,100-ton steel | merchantmen slid into the waters of j the Oakland inner harbor. The ves sels are the Shirtaka, Aniwa and ' Oakland, each 425 feet long, 53 feet beam, and 20 feet and six inches jin depth of hold. "They are the product of 4,000 j men working continuously, day and night in eight-hour shifts since the ! keels were laid In the yard of the shipbuilders. The keel.- of the Shir j taka and the Aniwa were laid on j November Id and that of the Oak j land on November 12. When the vessels were put in the water, the | work was SO days ahead of schedule. I Equally fast time is promised in finishing the vessels, delivery to the government probably will be made i from 40 to 4!' days ahead of sched ule." 'Tutting three big all-steel boats into the water 30 full days ahead of time, does not look much like ' slacking," declares Hughes. "These , boys are union men, too, and they ■re good loyal fellows who appre ciate this great government under which we live, and they are giving a good account of their loyalty. They know what this war for humanity means, and they are solidly behind the government to build that 'bridge of ships' that Pershing has asked to bring men and supplies to the fight ing line in France. I am proud of them; now you watch their smoke and see the other fine things that they are going to keep right on do ing." Adam .1. "Patsy" Blair is assist ing in the printing of the Monroe Monitor two days a week. First Vice-President Call of the Washington State Federation of La bor is in Everett on official business. Bro. Call is the guest of Vice-Presi dent Francois of the State Federa tion. Trunks. Ladies' Handbags, Leather Goods and Repairing at Everett Trunk Factory, 2815 Rockefeller. Number 17.