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TABLOID NEWS OF IDE WORLD
OF INTEREST TO THE WORKERS
VANCOUVER, B. C., July 7.—Ev
ery member of the local fire depart
ment went on a strike this afternoon
and all refuse to return to work until
an increase in pay and cnanged work
ing conditions are granted.
The federal and city authorities of
Seattle have under consideration a
project to merge the immigration
service and city employment agency.
Similar amalgamation of the depart
ments has been effected in Portland
and Tacoma.
Forty delegates representing every
local union of shingle weavers in
Washington and British Columbia
last week adopted by unanimous vote
a resolution to call a general strike
July 16, unless the following de
mands are granted by the manufac
turers: The eight-hour day without a
decrease in pay; recognition of the
union; the hiring of all workers
through the employment bureau of
the international union.
A carpenter who arrived in Anchor
age from Seattle on one of the last
boats stated that there are many
more men than jobs in the building
trades of the Fuget Sound cities, and
that those craftsmen are hunting jobs
at common labor. He also said the
organization movement is growing
in all trades. The rules of Seattle
carpenters are remarkably strict, no
unit n man being permitted to rent
a house built by non-union men.
The carpenters’ union of Pueblo,
Colo., has secured an advance of 7%
cents an hour and the minimum is j
now 60 cents, for an eight-hour day,
with half holiday on Saturday. A
similar advance for members of this
craft was secured at Marshalltown,,
where the minimum is now 50 cents
an hour, with eight-hour day.
The carpenters union of Butler,
Pa., has signed a year’s contract with
the master builders for an increase
in wages from 50 cents to 62% cents
an hour, with Saturday half holiday.
Two shipbuilding companies which
were preparing to locate at Everett
have been driven aawy by the banks
and “business interests” acting
through the chamber of commerce
and opposing payment of high wages.
Because of this policy of the people
who participated in the wholesale
shooting of I. W. W. and other pas
sengers on the steamer Verona Nov.
5, 1916, more than 1000 skilled work—
men and their families have left
Everett and obtained employment in :
yards and shops of Seattle and neigh- |
boring cites where the timber barons !
do not “rule or ruin.”
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PORTLAND, July 7.—The govern
ment has conclusive proof that the I.
W. W. is being backed by German
money in its fight against the govern
ment. United States District At
torney Clarence L. Reames declared
that Uncle Sam is going to force the
issue to learn who is boss, the govern
ment or the I. W. W., he told the news
papers. —
MINEY, Minn., July 7—
Tearing down the American flag
and crushing it under his heels
while uttering a vile epithet al
most caused Victor Salmi his life
Saturday. The police rescued him
from the throng after he had
been severely beaten. Later, he
was sentenced to sixty days.
NEW YORK, July 9. — Increased
wages for about 70,000 workers have
been announced here.
PHOENIX, Ariz., July 9. — Aus
trian. and Serbian miners fought a
pitched battle in Globe Sunday.
Many shots were fired and many
persons were wounded. Some of
them may die.
The police were powerless to inter
fere and finally the trouble was
quelled with the appearance of sol
diers.
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 9.—
Spring is so far advanced that what
ever legislation may b^, enacted by
congress this session relating to the
stimulation of agricultural produc
tion will be of no practical value this
year, according to members of con
gress who come from farming states.
Crops, it is said, are all planted.
The immediate effectiveness of the
proposed food control legislation^will
therefore be chiefly confined to reliev
ing the United States of the unpa
triotic operations of the food gam
bler. This is wThy the administration
demands speed of congress.
August 1 has been fixed as the date
$ the Seattle Metal Trades council
for putting into effect the boycott
against the use by union laborers of
any of the products of the Washing
ton Iron Works. Notice of the boy
cott has been sent to 750 Central La
bor Councils in the United States.
Not only is a good deal of the pro
duct of the iron works used in the
shipyards in Seattle, but much of it
is sold to shipbuilding and manu
facturing plants elsewhere. So se
rious is the labor difficulty regarded
by the federal government that H.
M. White, immigration commissioner,
who is under the jurisdiction of the
department of labor, has been dele
gated to investigate and report on
the affair.
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FOOD FOR THOUGHT IN FINANCIAL REPORT
OF UNI DUE NEXT MEETING
Except to the noisy few I. W. W. disturbers who haven’t
much capacity for thinking, there will be food for thought in
the semi-annual financial report of the Alaska Labor Union,
which should be ready to submit to the next regular meeting.
It will show that 700 new members were admitted since Janu
ary 1, and that $734.70 was paid to delegates employed to so
licit members and collect dues. A fact that will give the old
guard of real Union men mental dyspepsia in connection with
this report is this: The “missionary work” of a majority of
these delegates consisted of discrediting tile Alaska Xabor
; Union, the organization which was paying their salaries, and
trying to make converts for the I. W. W. The total amount
paid into the treasury for dues and assessments was approxi
mately $5,000. The indebtedness on the building has been
reduced to about $14,000.
Advance information is to the effect that this report will
vindicate real union men who have been accused of grafting
off the Alaska Labor Union; that it will show the falsely ac
cused meu have kept the union from being wrecked by the real
grafters, the tenets of whose “inside” organization, as express
ed by Vincent St. John, one of their apostles, on page 15 of his
pamphlet entitled: “The I. W. W., Its History, Structure and
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solely by the power of the organization to make good in their
use. The question of ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ does not concern us.”
Don’t you old-time members of the union, you who were
mainly instrumental in putting it on the map in 1915 and keep
ing it th> re for almost two years think it is about time to
again turn out at meetings and aid the faithful few in prevent
ing the 1. W. W. from totally scuttling the organization! Your
moral influence is needed now, more than money.
Why do so many stationmen on the government railroad
blame the Alaskan Engineering Commission for their failure
to make living wages on contracts, when their own senseless
competition—their desire to beat fellow workers out of a job—
is alone responsible? The commission is making you fellows
the “goats” in sustaining its reputation for getting the road
built at low labor cost. This system of throat-cutting compe
tition is a good thing for your Uncle Samuel, but it will not
buy you many meal tickets this winter. The extremes to
which contractors will go while job-hunting was illustrated re
cently in bids for sewer construction in Anchorage, which
ranged from $21,000 down to $5,202 for excavation.
A friend of the News, who is a union man from principle
rather than for profit, gives this bit of sound advice, prompt
ed by discussion of the A. E. C. purchasing agent’s call for bids
for cigars, which call is alleged to have specified non-union
brands: “Play the union label game harder in war time than
in peace. That is one sure way to win success. If union men
don’t demand it others can’t be expected to do so. Set the ex
ample ! ’ ’
VANCOUVER STREET CAR
MEN WIN THEIR STRIK1
The street car strike in Vancor
ver was settled June 21 by the con
pany granting everything the me
asked for. Not a wheel was tume
on the lines of the company for nin
days, during which time the jitne
buses and “tinolimes” worked ovei
time. The employes asked for a wa
bonus of approximately five cents a
hour. The company made a counte
offer of 15, 10 and 5 per cent increas<
The men, by referendum vote, refus
ed the offer by an overwhelming ma
jority. The men did not hang aroun
the company’s property or in an
manner threaten to become a nuis
ance either to the company or any
body else. They merely went abou
their own affairs. Not a single indi
vidual has been assaulted nor a cent1
worth of property either interfere
with or in any manner damage:
Nothing quite like this strike eve
occurred in Canada, and the partic:
pants are being generally congrati
lated by other labor organization
and the general public for show th
rest how to do it effectively and witl
out violence.
CHICAGO BANK HAD BIG
DEPOSITS, LITTLE CAS
CHICAGO, June 30.—Preliminai
investigation today showed that d
posits in the private bank of Gr
j ham & Sons, closed yesterda
amounted to $3,845,000, and that tl
bank had $142,000 in cash when it d
cided to suspend business.
Artistic framing and enlarging 1
j order. “That Man Logemann,” 4th av
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EMMA GOLDMAN
TO JAIL—TWO YEARS
NEW YORK, July 10.—Emma
Goldman and Berkman were sentenced
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^ yesterday to two years each to the
federal penitentiaries at Jefferson
City and Atlanta.
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member in good standing of any la
bor organization in the states. This
arrangement is reciprocal and has
been delayed by the local union unin
tentionally for some time.
The body also decided that the sew
er work* over which a controversy re
cently arose, *shall be construed as
government improvement work and
the minimum rate of 50 cents an hour,
set by the commission, will be recog
nized. This step closes the “strike”
on the sewer construction.
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CRUSHING SETTIN STRIKE
COPENHAGEN, June 30. —The
German authorities broke the recent
strike at the shipyards in Stettin by
the same means they used to crush
the April strike. They threatened
to muster the strikers as soldiers and
subject them to punishment meted
out to mutineers unless the men re
sumed work.
The Milwaukee socialists have ex
pelled two prominent members, the
o traitors having been found guilty of
2. being pro-American.—Boston Trans
cript.
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MILL MEN WALK OUT AND JOIN
STRIKING MINERS AT KENNECOTT
A special cablegram to the Daily s
Times on the 9th stated that all the i
mill men at the Kennicott mine,-op
erated by the Guggenheim syndicate, 1
had walked out and joined the strijjfr
ing miners, and that the entire plant ■
was idle. The marshal’s office here ]
received work the same day from j
Marshal Brenneman that good order 1
continued to prevail at the mines. '
The News correspondent, writing
under date of June 30, says: “The j
superintendent on returning to Ken- \
nicott announced a new wage scale i
with an advance of about 25 cents a :
day, which was evidently intended to <
conciliate the mill men. It contains 1
the objectionable sliding sAle fea- 1
ture, which is very much out of place
in Alaska where wages are nearly 1
always stationary and are based on 1
the gold standard rather than on the *
fluctuating value of commodities.
“Mine officials visited the strikers’ i
camp at Blackburn and pleaded with a
them to return to work, saying the (
wages offered were 10 per cent high- 1
er than those at Butte and Bisbee. t
This offer is $3.75 and $4.25 and r
board. The men can find no reason c
why the wages of interior Alaska :
should be lowered when the Kenni- £
cott company is taking out $2,000,000 1
1,000 FOR ROADS
IN VICINITY ANCHORAGE
Jas. E. Wilson, road supervisor for
the Third division, advised a represen
tative of The Times on Monday that
$20,000 had been apportioned for road
building in the vicinity of Anchorage
this summer and that work would
start at once.
This amount is taken from the ap
propriation made by the last legisla
ture and about the same amount will
be expended next summer in this vicin
ity. This is apart from the work
which is under way by the Alaska road
commission and will be a great help to
the community.
Mr. Wilson was accompanied to An
chorage by George A. Merrifield, who
is acting in the capacity as advisory
commissioner on the board with A. A.
Shonbeck of this city. The allotment
of the work will be determined by the
board but it is understood that the
Matanuska farming community will
Sol Silverman returned on the
Evans from a trip to Seattle and Port
land, where he has been for the past
month on business.
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ing $60,000. t
“As to the sliding scale, it may be
ill right in a low grade camp where
rages are the biggest item of ex
tense; but for a high grade camp like
iennicott, where the value per ton
s five times as high as that of the
iverage gold quartz acmp, that scale
s unnecessary. Under it wages
Iropped in May and June, when they
should have advanced; so the men
struck. They are not taking any k
ligh moral attitude in the matter, as
he stockholders wouldn’t understand
t. They are considering their own
selfish interests, just as the company
lid when it caused the Copper River
vage scale to sink to its present low
evel. Can you blame us?
“The appeal to patriotism was the
isual trick of wrapping profits in the
lag and saying ‘hands off, don’t soil
he flag.’
“The threat of intervention was
welcomed by the strikers, as that
ybuld be equivalent to granting their
lemands, and the government would
ie apt to learn the truth concerning
he Kennecott Copper Corporation* >
?he government will never have a
hance to investigate this affair, it is
. s:.fj pr-'ruction—-not if the corpor
ttion’s influence is what it is said to
ie.”
J. R. ROCK
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Decorating All Kinds.
5th and G. St.
Phone 33Y
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Phone 47Y 4tli and D
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