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PANIC CONDITIONS
IN SEATTLE
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Seattle Times of Jan. 19 Tells How Workers
Are in Grip of Panic—Men Must Work
For Inhumanly Low Wages.
Seattle, Jau. 19.—Care o,f Seattle’s
army of unemployed, eliminating all
taint of charity repugnant to those
unfortunates who are sincere in their
desire for work, has taken a practical
turn in the announcement of the King
County commissioners that they will
immediately establish camps on roads
leading out of Seattle, where these
men will find work at building roads.
They will bo given three square meals
a day, lodging and 25 cents a day for
clothing and other personal effects.
This action of the county commis
sioners came as a complement to the
step taken by the Seattle Chamber of
Commerce yesterday afternoon, when
a special committee was appointed to
devise ways and means for the employ
ment of this class of men. When the
matter was placed before the commis
sioners their answer was prompt and
to the point:
MUST BE SINCERE.
“If these men really need work and
want it, they can have it. We will
erect thise camps at once and make
them as comfortable as possible. The
first will be established early next
week and others will appear as their
necessity appeals to us. It is work
that could be delayed for some time,
but under the conditions we are will
I ing to take care of those who desire
something more than chanty.
The answer was given to City Coun
cilman Frank P. Mullen, a member of
the committee appointed yesterday.
He immediately communicated it to
Chief fo Police C. W. Wappeustein,
and the latter has issued orders that
hereafter all who apply to the city
police station for lodging and break
fast will be given one night’s turn as
the city’s guests, but the following
morning they will be directed to
report to the county7 road camps.
“If they are sincere in their desire
for work, we will find it out in the
manner they accept the suggestion to
go to work,” said the police chief.
“If they refuse to go to the camps
they will be refused further lodging
at the city jail. This should keep out
of the city many unemployed whd are
rushing here, knowing the lodging
and food is free. ”
L COMMITTEE APPOINTED.
The members of the special com
mittee appointed at the meeting iu
the chamber of commerce yesterday
| are: Joseph Blethen, chairman; R.
H. Thomson, city engineer; C. W.
Wappeustein, chief of police ; W. D.
Wood, former city mayor; F. P. Mul
len, city councilman; Dan R. Abra
hams, county commissioner, and E.
W. Andrews, of the Seattle Clearing
House Association. Others present
at the meetiug were: Leo Kohu, of
the Charity Organization society; II.
L. Sizer, John E. Price, John II.
Perry, George C. Condon, C.E Rems
berg, Edwin London and William M.
Calhoun.
City Engineer Thomson said that
the city has 112 local improvement
districts and work is progressing on
ninety of these, but the character of
the work to be done will hardly fur
nish employment to the class of men
under discussion.
The county commissioners were
looked to in this extremity, and their
response of this morning was promptly
given.
Seattle. Jan. 19. — Union Labor has
come to the front and declares that
1 none of its members shall go hungry
or without a bed, nor shall they live
on the bounty of any city or county
r government so long as there is a cent
in the union treasury. In addition
' to this, work, so far as possible, will
be found for the unemployed union
men in the city.
This was the text of a personal in
terview Mayor William H. Moore had
with Secretary Frank Cotterill, of the
Labor Temple; James W. Murphy and
M. T. Maloney. The Mayor com
municated it to Chief of Police C. W.
Wappeustein, and when the latter
called for union men among the sleep
ers’ brigade at the city jail this
morning only three responded. They
were directed to go to the Labor
Temple, as had been requested by the
committee.
By a plan of partition of labor, it
has been decided to so arrange work
among those at present employed that
a single man out of work can obtain
about two days’ labor each week and
a married man about three days, those
steadily employed laying off to allow
their less fortunate brothers engage
ments that will keep them from idle
ness, distress and poverty.
There were 210 men given sleepiug
quarters in the city jail last night,
the largest enrollment since the doors
were thrown open to them. When
the cull for uuiou men was made this
morning there were three men re
ported, a bricklayer, a lied carrier
and a railroad man.
All but nine of the lodgers took part
in the breakfast furnished through
the efforts of the city and county gov
ernments. The nine referred to left
before breakfast was served.
There was a quarter-loaf of bread
for each man, one boiled potato, a
great portion of hamburger steak and
a cup of coffee. It was a bountiful
and wholesome meal—the first some
of them had had for three days.
Seattle Jan. 13.—Chief of Police
Wappenstein was notified last night
that employment would be given from
ten to fifteen men at clearing laud
and grubbing out stumps if they ap
plied to the police station between 11
and 2 o’clook today.
The man who offered the employ
ment withheld this name, saying that
he was merely wishing to allow some
men to take advantage of the oppor
tunity to do some work for him now
that otherwise he would not have
doue for months yet. He will pay
the men 75 cents a day, pay their car
fare to and from the work and feed
them a good big meal at uoou.
Seattle Jan. 19.—The paik board
yesterday morning decided to begin
work at once on several different
pieces of park work in order that em
ployment may be given to the married
men now out of work.
According to this decision twenty
live men will be added to the force
tomorrow morning, and twenty-live
more each morning this week, until
at the end of the week one hundred
and fifty men have been given employ
ment, iu ease that number offer them
selves. If at that time there are still
men seeking employment the work
will probably be extended to employ
even as many as four or five hundred
men.
The nark board decided to leave the
selection of the men to the Charity
Organization Society, Supt. Kohn, of
the society, will choose the men and
send them to the park board author
ities. Only married men will be taken
care of iu this way. Each man is to
be paid SI. 50 per day.
The decision of the park board was
taken on the recommendation of
President E. F. Blaine, a member of
the committee appointed at the con
ference at tho Chamber of Commerce
on Friday to investigate the labor
situation.
The men will be sent to work on
improvements iu various parts of the
city. Oue of these will be th« con
tinuation of Interlaken boulevard
westward from the old bicycle path to
Roanoke street, where one gang of
twenty-five men will be employed.
Another gang of twenty-five will be
set at work laying out walks in Wash
ington park. Twenty-five men more
will go to work on Thirty-fourth ave
nue, between the pumping station
and Frink park. Still another gang
will grade and develop the Salmon
Bay park in Ballard.
This is the extent to which the
work has s» far been planned, but
improvements in other portions of the
city will probably be added as fast us
the work can be made ready and so
long as the demand for employment
continues. _
Seattle, Jan. 19. —The Builders’ Ex
change has sent to Los Angeles for
twenty bricklayers and several struc
tural iron workers, according to \V.
J. Waddingbam, chairman of the labor
committee, the body having active
charge of the open shop programme.
These men had to be brought iu be
cause it was found impossible to se
cure sufficient men of that trade to
carry on work now under way. Mr.
Waddingham said yesterday that the
committee had deferred calling on the
outside for help, trusting that union
men would see fit to go back to work.
It cannot be denied,” said he, thatrn
majority of the best workmen are iu
the union, and the bricklayers and
iron workers’ unions are unusually
strong iu Seattle.
‘‘Members of the exchange have in
formed the committee that they need
ed bricklayers and it is up to us to
furuish them.
‘‘Megrath- & Duhammel are now
ready to do considerable interior
brick work on the Federal building,
and E. J. Rounds is ready to proceed
actively with the First Methodist
church job. It is unfortunate that
men ha\je to be brought in here when
the town is full of idle men, but if
they won’t work we have no other al
ternative.
“The opeu shop is now in success
ful operation on every job controller!
by members of the exchange and Mas
ter Builders’ Association, except two
or three, where contracts expressly
state that union labor only shall be
employed. Until building operations
pick up here there will probably be
no further need of bringing in men
from outside, although many have un
fortunately come here already, expect
ing to get work. Carpenters are par
ticularly plentiful, but we have no
especial need for them at this time.
Grandma Davy’s
Thanksgiving
By May Walden.
‘'Well, it was tne. saddest Thanks
giving I ever spent,” said Grandma
Davy, as she stood broom in hand,
interrupted in the process of sweep
ing a very dirty carpet in a very dark
kitchen at the rear of an unkempt
tenement house, on a dirty side street
near “the yards. ”
The visitors seated themselves and
prepared to listen.
“We were alone, my grand daughter
and her two babies, and myself,” she
went on.
“Frank, that’s my grand-daughter’s
husband, has been out of work for six
weeks, though he was seven years in
this last place, and he’d gone to Mil
waukee to hunt for a job. He’s a
bartender, Missis, but be don’t
drink; he’s a nice, steady boy, an’
only a kid.
“I don’t think lie’s twenty-three
yet. Missis, and Dora isn’t quite
twenty. Ah, wiorkiu’ folks begin early
to take responsibilities, I tell you,
Misses.
“Well, Frank, ho was gone, an’
Dora had only’ five cents left.
“ ‘What shall we have for Thanks
giving, grandma?” says she.
“ ‘Well, I don’t know,’ says I;
‘we can’t have very much on five
cents; but, we’ll buy a soup-bone
anyhow.’ She went down to the Sal
vation Army headquarters, an’ they
gave her some beans, an’ some rice,
an’ some barley. I cooked it, an’ it
smelled real good. I called her to
dinner, but first she went into the
bedroom. I knew she was cry in’,
poor girl, but she soon oame au’ sat
down au’ didn’t let on she’d been
crying, an’ I didn’t say nothin’. 1
didn’t cry, no sir; 1 just; acted as if
we had the biggest turkey in front
of us that ever was, an’ the day
passed off just like any other Thanks
giving. But it was the saddest one I
ever knew, an’ I’m sixty-five years
old, Missis.
“Yes, there’s lots of folks out of
work, now, Missis, ” she went on after
the visitors had asked more questions.
“My granddaughter is glad to get
any thing at ail to do. She’s in the
Exchange restaurant now, but they
don’t pay more than three dollars a
week. She goes ou at half past teu
aud gets back at half past three; you
see they never serve supper over
there.
“Oh, it’s awful, Missis, aud the
two babies with the whooping cough.
Do you think times ’ll be pickin’ up
soon?”
“Well, you see, Grandma, we’re
Socialists, ” said one of the visitors,
“and we don’t think there’s any
need for a panic. This is only a ban
ker's panic. The country is all light;
the crops are good, the people are
willing to work, and if the people
owned everything instead of letting a
few rich folks own it, we'd never have
a panic. ”
“Yes, I believe you're right,” said
the poor, old lady, sadly. “The pool
folks are always the ones to suffer
most. ’ ’
As the visitors left, they resolved
again to call their comrades to action.
How can we take over the supplies to
feed these hungry babies? How can
we give work to these willing fathers
and mothers? Biead riots and all
sorts of things are in the near future
if these people are allowed to suffer
neglected. We need intelligent or
ganization. and co-operation, Com
rades. Send in your ideas.
SLAUGHTER
OF MINERS
Secretary Garfield, in.a recent re
port, declared that iu proportion to
the number of men employed, three
times as many miners were killed in
the United States as in Eurojie and
that the death rate is increasing. He
gave the causes in most instances as
improper ventilation and inadequate
safety appliances.
Here are some of the statistics on
coal mining hazards in the United
States:
Killed iu seventeen years . . . 22,840
Killed iu 1906 . 2,061
Lives Lost.
1894—Albion col’ry, S. Wales . . 280
1902—Fraterville, Tenuesse .... 200
1902—Rolling Mill Mine, Pa., . . 105
11903—Hanna, Wyoming.175
1901—Lackawanna mine, Pa.10
1901—Tercio, California,.21
1905—V rginia City, Alabama . . 152
1905—Zeigler, Illinois,.35
1905—Welsh coal mine,.120
1905—Diamoudville, Wyoming ... 18
1905—Kurtsisk, Russia,.300
1905—M. Iv. & T. Coal Co,.13
1905—Princeton, Indiana.13
1905—Coal mine in Prussia, .... 55
1905— Wilcox, W. Va.,.35
1906— W’Blue fields, WT. Ya..21
1906—Johnstown, Penn.,.25
1906—Century, JW. Va.,.15
1906—Durham, England,.25
1906—Dutchman mine, lllossburg,
N. M.,.15
1906— Com riere mine, near Calais,
Fiance,.l.,000
1966—Japan,.250
1906—Oakhill, W. Va.28
1966—West Fork, Va.75
1906— Cuarto, Colorado,.22
1907— Saarius, Prussia,.22
i 1907—Primero, Colorado,.20
' 1907—Fayetteville, W. Va., .... 80
: 1907—Saarbruck, Prussia, .... 200
11907—Las Esperanzas, Mex., . . . 123
j 1907—Forbach, Germany,.75
'1907—Monongahela, Penn., . . , . 30
1907—Toyoka, Japan,.470
11907—Tsing Tan, China.112
11907—Negaunee, Mich.,.17
1907—Mouongah, W. Va.,.398
1907-Yolaude, Ala.,.81
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Mr. A. T. Brooker at Gilbert Darkwood.
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on the tundra.
Under Sole Management of Arthur J. Brooks
PREAMBLE OF
THE W. F. OF M.
1.—We hold that there is a class
struggle in society and that this
itruggle is caused hy economic con
litions.
'2.—We affirm the economic con
1 it ion of the producer to be that he is
;.\ploited of the wealth which ho pro
luces, being allowed to retain barely
sufficient for his elementary necessi
;ies.
3. —We hold that the class struggle
iV'ill continue until the producer is
■ecognized as the sole master of his
product.
4. —We assert that the working class
uid it alone, can and must achieve
its own emancipation.
ii.—We hold, finally, that an imlus
;rial union and the concerted politi
cal action of all wage workers, is the
mly method of attaining this end.
(1.—Therefore, we, the wage slaves
employed in and around the mines,
mills and smelters of the World, have
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
In the Probate Court, Kougarok Pre
cinct, at Shelton, Second Division,
District of Alaska, before Lars
Gunderson, Jr. Probate Judge.
Estate of Mike Walsh, deceased.
Notice is hereby given by the un
lersigned that he has been duly ap
aointed administrator of the estate of
Mike Walsh, deceased, by the Probate
Jourt of Kougarok^recinct,District of
\laska, and ail persons having claims
igainst the said estate are hereby re
luired to present them, with the
iroper vouchers, to the undersigned,
it Shelton, in the said Shelton Pre
;inot, within six months from the
late of this notice.
Dated March 20, 1908.
JOHN LEONARD,
Administrator of the Estate of
Vlike Walsh, deceased. 3-20-’08-5t
Registration Notice,
Notice is hereby given that the poll
rook for the registration of voters of
:he City of Nome for the year 1908 is
iow open at the City Clerk’s office in
;he Staples’ Block from 9 to 12 a. m.,
ind 1 to 5 p. m. Said book will be
dosed March 28, 1908.
W. T. LUCAS,
;G 2-21 City Clerk.
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Office and residence:
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Hours:
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PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Consultation in all modern languages
Staples Block - - - Nome, Alaska
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Office and residence
over Samuels’ Store
OFFICE HOURS 1 to 3 and 7 to it
Telephone Main 132.
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