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CARPENTER’S TOOLS
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QF STURGIS
Friends of Carl Lind, who is under
$5,000 bail to appear before the grand
jury on the charge of having attempt
ed to rob Deputy United States Mar
shal J. J. Sturgis, expressed their con
lidenee in Lind’s innocence at a meet
ing in the Labor Temple and went on
record as demanding the removal of
* Deputy Marshal Sturgis. At the time
of the alleged offense, the ofFicer shot
Lind twice, once in the arm and once
in the chest. The demand by Lind’s
friends for the removal of the deputy
sheriff took the form of a message
that was authorized to be sent to
United States Marshal F. R. Brenne
man, at Valdez, and that reads as fol
lows:
“Mass meeting of citizens held at
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Labor Temple unanimously went on
record by resolution expressing lack
of confidence in Officer Sturgis and
demanding his removal on account of
shooting Carl Lind, and ordeied same
wired to you.”
At the meeting, a defense fund for
Lind was started with donations
amounting to $54 from those present.
For further subscriptions on behalf of
the accused man the meeting appoint
ed Fred Larson to canvass among the
railroad workers on Tumagain Arm,
and J. Linder to call on the laborers
on the main line of the government
system.
By telegraphic correspondence, L.
V. Ray, the attorney of Seward, has
been retained to defend Lind, and Mr.
Ray will be here not later than the
time of the arrival of the next steam
ship to make a thorough investigation
of the case.
Lind has almost entirely recovered
from his wounds. The affair occurred
on the night of September 2 on C
! street. The deputy marshal was in
citizen’s clothes and it is his conten
tion he was mistaken for a civilian
wayfarer by Lind.
Sundberg’s Grocery
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MATANUSKAPRODUCTS
Spuds .4e per lb..
Turnips .4c per lb.
Rhubarb .6c per lb.
Beets .5c per lb.
Cabbage .5c per lb.
Cauliflower .25c per head
Corner 4th and C St. Phone 85K
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A General Merchandise Store
for all the People
Carrying Complete Line of
Staple and Fancy Groceries
Lumber and Shingles
Boots and Shoes
Kerosene and Gasoline
Paints and Oils
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PRESIDENT ADVISES WORKERS
TO ACCEPT TEMPORARY SET
TLEMENT OF DISPUTE.
By Anchorage Radio.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 24.—Presi
dent Wilson today sent personal tel
egrams to union labor leaders in Se
attle, San Francisco and Portland
urging them to accept temporarily a
settlement of their wage disputes in
order that they should not stand in
the way of the government’s great
ship-building program. The program
he said, is a vital factor to a success
ful prosecution of the war.
The president promised the labor
ers that the adjustment board, recent
ly appointed by him would begin work
immediately to arrange a permanent
wage and improved working condi
tion schedule to replace any tempo
rary agreement that might De made
now. He appeals to their patriotism
and promised them just and prompt
action.
TWO KINDS OF PATRIOTISM.
Here’s a vivid word picture of re
cent scenes which is worthy of care
ful inspection by those who believe
in making democracy safe in the Unit
ed States as well as in the rest of the
world—it is from a Washington pa
per:
“Bands blared music that stirred
the fires of patriotism in the breasts
of old and young. The president led
the parade and behind him were Can
non and Clark and senators and con
gressmen. Mothers, fathers, wives,
sisters, sweethearts, lined the street,
some in tears, some in brave smiles,
ihousands of clean, brave, strong
lads were off for camp, to prepare to
do or die in war. Over all floated the
blood-sanctified colors of Old Glory!
I Oh! it was a glorious sight in Penn
I sylvania avenue that bright morning
as our boys, conscripted for war,
marched away towards heroes’
g?’aves. ’Twas glorious! Glorious!
And over at the head of Pennsylvania
avenue a body of senatorial repre
sentatives of democracy was voting 4
to 1 against conscription of money
for war.”
EVERYTHING IS MOVING
NICELY ON RAILROAD
W. J. Henry, secretary of the Alas
ka Labor Union, has returned from a
trip over the line of the government
railroad in connection with his duties
i as secretary of the labor union. He
! reports everything moving along
I smoothly and the men satisfied with
their work.
“There is only one matter which I
think should be brought to the atten
tion of the Alaskan Engineering Com
mission,” said Mr. Henry, “and that
is the difficulty the station men experi
ence in getting fresh vegetables. These
men have no money and cannot get
pay for the work they have done un
; til their contracts are finished.
Buy From Commission.
“The consequence is they have to
buy all their supplies from the com
mission, which does not carry fresh
vegtables or if, any vegetables are on
hand, they usually are from the states
and are not fresh. I believe if the com
mission would buy a supply of Mat
anuska carrots, turnips, parsnips and
j other vegetables, they would find a
rrady sale among the station men. In
this way both the farmers and station
men would be benefited.”
Officials of the engineering commis
sion this morning asserted that since
the crops of the Matanuska farmers
have matured the stores department
i has purchased quantities of carrots,
turnips, beets and other varieties of
native vegetables and that the sta
tion men now can get all they want
of this character of supplies.
Unly Recently on Market.
It is true they assert, that these
purchases by the commission have
been made only recently, due to the
fact that the home product has only
within the past few days been placed
upon the market.
Walter De Long, general storekeep
er for the engineering commission, has
issued a call to farmers to submit
not later than 2 o’clock on the after
noon of October 4 bids on 200 tons of
potatoes, five tons of rutabagas, five
tons of cabbage, two tons of beets and
two tons of carrots.
The state industrial commission of
Wisconsin has prohibited night work
for women in manufactories and laun
| dries in that state. Pea canning factor
i ies, for some reason, are exempted.
! The commission’s order is a result of
| hearings upon the petition of the state
federation of labor and other bodies
urging the prohibition of night work
for women and for an eight-hour day.
Job work at The Times office.
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s L A B O R s
Seattle apartment houses have rais
ed all rents five to twenty-five per
cent.
Judge Bourquin of the district court
at Butte has decided in favor of Min
erals Seperation in the suit against
the Butte & Superior Mining compa
ny for infringement of patent for the
floatation process.
John P. White, president of the
Unted Mine Workers, has accepted
the invitation of Fuel Administrator
Garfield to act as one of his advisers.
He will keep Dr. Garfield informed on
the labor situation, wages and other
questions pertaining to the miners.
Kate Sadler, I. W. W. spellbinder
arrested several weeks ago for sedi
tion (she spoke harshly about the
president) was fined $50 by the police
judge. The prosecut >r wanted her fin
ed not less than $100 and sent to jail
for 30 days.
Construction work on the mammoth
iron and steel plant to be built at
Seattle by a $25,000,000 company has
been commenced. The company was
promoted by D. C. Jacklin the big
mine operator, and has purchased iron
and copper properties in Snohomish
county and iron properties on Vancou
ver island.
The concentrates from the Alaska
Jualin Mines Co. and the Chichagoff
Mining Co. will soon be treated at the
cyanide plant of the Alaska Tread
well Co. The cyanide plant at present
is treating the concentrates from the
iteady Bullion and the “clean-up” from
the various mills. An appreciable sav
ing to these companies both in freight
and treatment costs will result.
The Seattle jury selected to try Ed
Peterson and Olaf Berild for opposing
conscription, were unable to agree.
Nine stood for acquital and three for
conviction. The real offense of the de
fendants was the circulation of a pe- i
tition asking the repeal of the con- j
scription act. The government alleged j
that the action of these defendants j
wast part of a conspiracy to oppose j
the government “by force of arms,”i
and relies upon the circulation of the
petition to congress as the “ovei't act.”
Speaking of treason, which inter
ests all, what about this so-called
“Navy League” that brings infamous
charges against the navy, Secretary
Daniels, and honorable officers. Is
that kind of treason all right because
it happens to be inspired by corpora
tion hatred of Mr. Daniels who has
prevented public robbery by the
trusts? Scratch a Navy League “pa
triot,” who denounces Daniels and j
you will find somebody who wanted I
Daniels to pay .$100 a ton for steel!
worth $30, or 36 cents a pound for cop- j
per worth 16 cents, or $10,000 apiece j
for torpedoes worth $6,000 and less.—!
Washington Times. J
A Seattle court refused the applica
tion for citizenship of Edward Strom,
a Swede, upon the man’s admitting
that he had voted in favor of the ship
yard strike.
In order to force down the wages
of harvesters and berry pickers, the
Washington Harvesters’ league has
been sending out boys and women to
work in the harvest fields. Nearly 600
boys have been sent out recently.
Master painters of Portland locked
out 200 union employes and a strike
of 3,000 members of the building
trades is probable. The Painters' Un
ion has meet the lockout with a de
mand for $8 a day, instead of the
present scale of $6.50.
The Detroit Labor News says that
in so far as most of the drafted men
are bound to be workers that congress
should not adjourn until a law is pass
ed protecting the families of drafted
workingmen from the debts incurred
in their long struggle to make ends
meet.
The blast furnace at Irondale,
Wash., has been reopened after being
idle for over five years. Old ore
brought from China will be used until
the supply is exhausted, when local
ora will be worked. It is being operat
ed by a force of 75 men employed by
the Pacific Coast Steel company.
Sixteen hundred persons stormed a
widely advertised socialist meeting in
Dale, Minn., took possession of the
hall, burned socialist banners and lit
erature and ejected three scheduled
speakers. After the hall had beer
cleared of socialist leaders the meet
ing was turned into a “patriotic dem
onstration.”
After a prolonged search of the ef
fects of general headquarters of the I.
W. W., seized by government officers
in Chicago, it was discovered that the
orgmiization spent $100,000 between
January 1 to August 1. Although it
was discovered that the membership
was 00,000, federal authorities could
not account for the source of the im
mense sum of money. It is generally
regarded that the membership of the
I. W. W. as given by the federal auth
orities is underestimated.
Between 3,000 and 4,000 coal min
ers have struck, tying up 14 mines
in the vicinity, as a result of mili
tary and city officials using force to
prevent a labor demonstration at
Springfield, Illinois. The min
ers, against the advice of their lead
ers, attempted to hold a parade, but
were stopped after two of them had
been shot by Lieut. Col. Lewman and
another had been struck with a revol
ver. The wounded men will recover.
The authorities said they feared the
demonstration would result in another
attack on the street car company.
Organized Labor Faces Great Task
Never before has the American la
bor movement been saddled with a
greater task than that which it is
undertaking at the present time and
which may be expressed as defending
its principles under stress of war and
safeguarding the wealth producers ol
the nation against the exobitant gree<
of special interests and profit mon
gers which under the guise of war
necessity seek to lower those labor
standards and guarantees of justice
which have been achievd by the work
ers after ages of straggle.
In its memorable manifesto, adopt
ed with ringing unanimity, prior to
the entry of this country into the war,
American union labor pledged itself
voluntarily to give unstinted support
to the government to enable it to
mobilize the industries of the coun
try in the present crisis. The demands
which it made in return for its whole
hearted service were modest in the ex
treme, the only outstanding one being
that for representation on all agencies
determining and administering poli
cies for national defense.
As the agency that, in all countries,
stands for human rights and is the de
fender of the welfare and interests of
the masses of the people, organized la
bor believed itself entitled to the right
to make such demands and they have,
in a measure, been complied with.
This recognition of organized labor,
however, while seemingly tactily
agreed to, does not seem to work out
well in practice. Labor is not at all as
extensively represented on the indus
trial boards and committees as it
! might be, or as much, for instance, as
the employing interests are. Besides,
friction has developed in a number of
industries which trade union coopera
tion would certainly have obviated.
What our government should do is
to take organized labor fully into its
confidence with regal'd to war work
and enter into open collective agree
ments with the unions as well as the
employers as is done in England. Fric
tion accordingly would be reduced to a
minimum and output stimulated by
the moral effect which such a policy
would have upon the workers.
We are in the present world war in
the interest of world democracy, its
advance and its perpetuation. The de
mocracy we speak of, however, should
be more than a mere national shib
boeth. To intensify it and bring home
its meaning, democracy should make
itself felt in every artery of the na
tion’s domestic life, democracy in in
dustry as well as all else.—The Car
penter.
The federal bureau of immigation
reports that 16,022 immigrants were
admitted to this country in May. This
is the lowest figure in years and is a
direct result of the war and the Bur
nett immigration law. In May, 1916,
the arrivals totaled 37,925; in May,
1915, 32,363, and in May, 1914, 126,
848. Last May but one immigrant ar
rived from Bulgaria, Servia and Mon
tenegro. In May, 1914, the number
from these countries was 1,122. Here
is one big source of cheap labor great
ly lessened.
Policemen at Ketchikan resigned
when the council made a cut in their
wages; the latter believing that “more
men than jobs” in winter would induce
the officers to stand for the cut.
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I While we are making the worldv
safe for democracy, let’s not forget*
to make democracy safe for thef
world.—Dallas News. ^
STEEL ILLS
RAISE IS:
FIFTEEN THOUSAND WORKERS
IN JOHNSTOWN, PA., TO GET
HIGHER PAY OCTOBER 1.
By Anchorage Radio.
JOHNSTOWN, Pa., Sept. 25.—
Fifteen thousand steel workers em
ployed in the mills of the Cambria
and Lorraine steel companies here
were given formal notice by the com
panies today of a ten per cent in
crease in wages to become effective
October 1.
The announcement of the advance
allays the apprehension of workers
that the fixing of steel prices by the
government would prevent any in
crease in wages. The possible effect
on the laborers’ pay of a definite and
permanent steel price has been the
subject of animated discussion among
workers for weeks.
News from Washington yesterday
that the government steel manufac
turers had agreed that insofar as con
cerns government contracts the price
of steel bars should be $2.90 a hun
dredweight as against $5.50, the re
cent market price, proved quite dis
couraging to laborers. M
The announcement today of the
proposed wage advance is expected to
prove satisfactory to workers and to
stop any agitation for a strike.
WH AT THE BOSS WAN VS.
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Up in Canada there is a successful
business concern that expects, as most
I successful concerns do, that every
| employe shall do his full duty. To as
; sist him in the task that concern
I places conspicuously before him these
“Ten Demandments:”
1— Don’t lie. It wastes my time and
yours. I am sure to catch you in the
end, and that is the wrong end.
2— Watch your work, not the clock.
A long day’s work makes a long day
short; and a short day’s work makes
my face long.
3— Give me more than I expect, and
I will give you more than you expect.
I can afford to increase your pay if
you increase my profits.
4— You owe so much to yourself
you cannot afford to owe anybody
else. Keep out of debt, or keep out of
my shop.
5— Dishonesty is never an accident.
Good men, like good women, never see
temptation when they meet it.
6— Mind your own business, and in
time you’ll have a business of your
own to mind.
7— Don’t do anything here which
hurts your self-respect. An employe
who is willing to steal for me is will
ing to steal from me.
8— It is none of my business what
you do at night. But if dissapation af
fects what you do the next day, and
you do half as much as I demand,
you’ll last half as long as you hoped.
9— Don’t tell me what I’d like to
hear, but what I ought to hear. I
don’t want a valet to my vanity, but
one for my dollars.
10— Don’t kick if I kick. If you’re
worth while correcting, you’re worth
while keeping. I don’t wyaste time cut
ting specks out of rotten apples.—
Houston Post.
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EFFECT OF THE SHORTER DAY.
All advancement is a process of ed
ucation. How much of the increasing
intelligence of the people is due to the
shorter working day? If a man is
overworked all his life he is quite like
ly to be chump. Give him time for
recreation and reading and he is al
most sure to become a useful and pro
gressive citizen. Note the difference
between the men in crafts with fair
working hours and laborers who ex
pend all their physical and mental en
ergy to hai'd work through long hours.
—Tacoma News.
MECHANICS OF NAVY
YARD GO BACK TO WORK
NORFOLK, Va., Sept. 28.—Three
thousand mechanics, who were em
ployed at the V '> ed Stages navy yard
here and who went on strike for high
er wages, have agreed to return to
work pending an adjustment of the
dispute by conciliation or arbitration.
The government appealed to the pa
triotism of the workers .urging them
not to hamper the nation’s war pro
gram by tying up the vast amount of
work under way in the navy yard.
Representatives of the mechanics
will meet with government officials
and an effort will be made to effect a
settlement by mutual negotiations. If
this effort fails, each side will select
arbiters and the issue will be submit
ted to them.
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