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[fip o Union Benefits Labor News, Worcester, Mass, international Typographical Union dur- i<t ten year», under its present man- ’ j,.,s made strides equaled by no other ,,, in. It has maintained and greatly 1 Its magnificent home for aged, infirm . nmptive members at Colorado Springs. ,.tb!i»hed a pension fund which makes i,lL for any member of twenty years’ to retire and receive an amount much n that paid by the United States gov , ,0 its old soldiers. It has established ' t-hour day for its members in nearly ", and town of any size in its entire .,¡on. It has aided in the establishment ,, influence and agents of wage sched- . ,ilt compare very favorably with any or- u . .,n in the country. It has done all these and has in its treasury, including the fund, more than a half-m illion dollars, re áre those who, for political reasons, • ,ding under the guise of “ insurgents” ressives,” are desirous of changing the policy of the organization just at a Len it is enjoying the height of prosper ed with brighter prospects for the future. RESULTS beneficial . American Federationist. the progressive intensity of application ■ idem methods and speeded-up machin- .iikmen by daily experience know and hardly an exception the trained and care- . ’ ¿. stigatots of working class life employed i r government or sociological agencies K diversified observation convinced that , . i urs in an industrial pursuit strain the .„id weaken the general physique of even ■ en the total result beir^g a detriment • !i race. An eight-hour day has given more, ,I,,; less, of material things to the world. A c continent, as is the case with Australia, I,me the eight-hour day and mankind be richer. labor making any use of the initiative to secure any changes in the charter. It is just good c iti The governor of Idaho demands compliance zenship ashing the square deal. with the law and the asses n.ent of all prop During 1910, in Minnesota, nearly 52,000 po erty at full cash value. As far as personal property is concerned he is demanding an utttr sitions have been secured through the three impossibility. Regarding improvements on land free state employnte: offices be cannot devise any system that will get within mi per cent of the values on the average In California employers of women have threat New Zealand and in a few American cities a system has been devised whereby over 95 per ened to import coilies in place of white women cent of land values can be levied upon easily because of the eight-hour law now in force. With a full cash value on land the levy wouid Let us reason together with our employers, be low. In Australia in those ki ' :-s where land values only are assessed there is no trouble in but le* us keep our organization, lest the em keeping both a full valuation and a low levy. ployer bring the biggest club to the meeting. The method is so simple a- to be ignored by Taxes went up on the farmers in nearly every scientists. Just let any holder of a parcel or piece of land place his own valuation upon it. county in Oregon, and just to help out the poor and require at the same time that he give any timber grabbers and the suffering land specu body an option at that figure for its purchase. lators. The governor of Idaho is going to meet trou Where fish are deprived of water they die. ble. The entire tax system of Idaho is wrong and where overcrowded they die. Man is a in principle. land animal to the same extent that fish are water animals. PORTLAND CAN DO BETTER. TO MEET TROl HLE. A Vancouver official is eagerly picked up by the Oregonian, who declares the City of Van couver, B. C., has no single tax. It was found that the assessments of improvements was not necessary, owing to the large land values. Any old time the city can assess improvements if it wants to do so. The city levies no tax on personal property, but it does levy a vile and unjust license system on industry and business and an abominable poll tax. However, there is no reson why Portland should have a tax on improvements, either. It has plenty of land values, and its people are creating more everv day. Let us not quarrel over terms. Vancou ver has a very successful system of land value taxation as far as it goes. Portland can have the same, and go Vancouver one better. Why not? MIGHT TAKE THE TRIP. Six hundred children tmploved in dress making sweatshops in Brooklyn, N Y., went on strike recently to secure better pay and condi tions, both of which are a disgrace to the coun try. Our insane asylum is overcrowded with crim i nals, inebriates and senility. Our system cre ates insane, and many outside the asylums are wealth-crazy. They love and chase wealth, yet often have nothing. To help out business and down the garn^nt workers and other unions, the triangle holocaust employers of New York had rotten fire hose and no water in the pipes. It cost too much to keep the pipes pumped full and to get new fire hose, It cost less to bribe an inspector to go down stairs. Roosevelt endorses the election of United States senators bv direct vote of the people, and bv Statement No. 1 until that is secured. The assembly and the old guard fought this, and when he tells them to be good and take their medicine, they gulp and frown and growl but they take it. Oregon has a tax commission. It costs about $5000 a year to keep up The other day a prominent citizen of Portland sug gested that the commission take a trip to Van couver and Victoria. British Columbia, and see how the land value tax system worked out. A commissioner quickly replied that thev were In Copenhagen. Denmark, the workers of the not paid to do that. He was told that the com POVERTY MOTHER OF VICE. missioners might do it, anyhow, on their own city are combining with those of the country to Ti c vice commission of Chicago reports that initiative, and Thereby learn something about demand the taxation of privilege more and in dustry less. Recently 135,000 copies of a single r r'\ is the principal cause of vice. It tells the subject they were created to investiga* tax pamphlet have been distributed, and a nf other causes, and proposes palliative rein- Henry George society of several hundred active v some of them excellent. It tells of no workers formed demanding justice, not char a -U for poverty. The cure for the latter Short and Long Shots ity. ,:i'j principal disease afflicting civilization is tu brush aside in some way the men who have School children are to make gardens in Cor The Seattle city council is considering the or vallis grabbed the keys to the storehouse of God and under expert direction- Tens of thou v ill let none enter without tribute of their toil, dering of the destruction of a lot of shacks. sands of men would make gardens under ex si.; no man made the land any more than the pert directions if the fu ll product of their la set none should have aught but use of it to the The consideration of the Oregon initiative by bors was given them. It is because in Oregon tx’ter.t of his needs. The taxation of land val we fine men for making gardens that we have ue- is a simple and practical remedv to break the United States supreme court has been post so vast an extent of idle tnd half used lands up land monopoly and that destroys in turn the poned until fall. in the Willamette valley. ¡¡»¡son of involuntary poverty and cures the u . r we call vice. After this can come other Bankers in San Francisco refuse municipal It is said that the toll roads into Tillamook social changes to do away with the evils of street car bonds. The way out is small denomi county still exist and do an immense amount of modern civilization. nation issues for the common people to take up. damage to the county in keening people away from it. These relics of barbarism should be COOS BAY PORT. The international moulders do not hold a speedily done away with. Like all other bur dens on industry, exchange or travel, they re The decision of the supreme court sustaining convention unless ordered by referendum vote. tard development and place a fine on what the he Port of Coos formation w ill hasten the de- If so voted one w ill be held this year. entire community wants. .elopment of public improvements and docks in this most promising section of Oregon. The opening of the home of the Pressmen at Speaking of the efficiency of laws to restrain! The property of all Coos county w ill be ben Hale Springs, Tenessee, w ill be followed by the Nature lets the “ Tiger” tige without law. save efited bv the public improvements of the Port establishment of a technical school for press in his owr members. Man invents a law out Commission. It w ill pay for the improvements side “ HIS” members, to restrain the tiger, and made. Only one weakness remains. Improve men in the near future. then grinds up half the “ Angels” in it, while ments do not increase in value because of bet •he tigers multiplv. Moral: In nature be an Taxes went up nearly 50 per cent in Portland ter docks and channels. They can be repro angel, or the law works: in society be a tiger or duced as cheaply as ever, consequently worth this year, just to help out the holders of big the law outside works.—Coulter io more. The land is the absorbent of the ben franchise values assessed at less than ten per efits. Its prices and rents reflect those bene cent of their actual worth. In Oregon if a citizen of a town buys its fits. Why should they not pay for them? The bonds he is taxed for the crime. What more When an American girl marries a duke that people have the power. foolish thing could you imagine? Even moss- is all right, but when she marries an Indian back Massachusetts has more sense than that chief there is something wrong. As between the Even New York has found that local holders of THE FACTS. bonds won’t pay even five mills on the dollar two the chief is preferable. taxes. They buy other bonds, boycott those of Progressive Barber. In our city today there are, approximately In the local elections around his castle, Rocke their own town—and keep mum. peaking, five w illing, capable men for every feller’s bosses herd the men to the polls and Judge Webster deplores the veto of the good ob to fill. Some big-mouthed boosters, who run things to suit. Many of his employes are bill and lavs the blame on Governor West. tight to be in state’s prison, would lead the unnaturalized Italians, but they vote just as they roads The blame is on the divided forces of the good ‘astern people to believe that industry is par- are told. roaders. the political fiddling of a mis-repre lyzed out here because of shortage of labor, sentative legislature and the farmers of Oregon Broken hoisting machinery in an Illinois who are a little leary of road building which »o more dastardly falsehood ever escaped the ips of man, and our labor journals ought to mine kept 150 miners at the bottom for two taxes industry, th rift, enterprise and labor in nake it clear to Eastern people not to flock to days. The owners violated the law in not hav stead of the only thing benefited by good roads he coast looking for employment, for I sap- ing duplicate hoisting apparatus. But what is —land. ointment most surely awaits them. the law to profits of a coal mine? People in the country, and, for that matter, in this city, are warned against taking as true LOW TAXATION OF PRIVILEGE. Railroad telegraphers can now be worked six- the statements concerning strikes, lockouts, hours, laid off three and worked three more. walkouts, etc., in connection with labor troubles The telegraph and telephone monopolies of The United States supreme court decided that appearing in the Oregonian. That paper slyly ortland make enormous dividends on their the nine-hour day provided by congress for train slips in lies, misstatements or truth colored incl i.-es. One telegraph company on a part and painted up so her own mother wouldn’t f its business made $400,000 last year. The dispatchers can be broken up into bits and know the child in broad daylight It sometimes strung out indefinitely. ix commission fixed the valuation of all the has hardlv a rag on which to patch out a labor legraph companies in Multnomah county at xarn. but at other times the entire article is If the revolutionists in Mexico depend on the true, except one sentence neatly tucked in where " i . ihiii fbe income from one wire is over 1'HIO a day. It is time that we had some dif- word of the Monster they might as well take to it w ill do the most damage to organized labor. ■rent form of taxation from this. The fran- the woods. Peace will come to them in the na i-es of the telegraph companies of Oregon ture of being leaned up against a wall and shot. Oregon has two senators and Oklahoma has probably worth over fortw millions. They Of course Taft and Wall Street may keep things two more who w ill fight to the last for the a-sessed for less than $600,000. Farmers down for the sake of dividends to the American initiative and referendum and the admission of "J workingmen make up the difference on Arizona. That is why some big business sheets corporations, as in Cuba. tcir homes. hammer them so. Perhaps thev have lost the of the president. If they had it, then Organized labor has no ticket in the field in patronage CORRECT. we might be suspicious. Perhaps thev may be the Portland city election. It is fighting a gag rrocked because thev refuse to be bribed by First Citizen—-“ What is congress going to ordinance that would put a stop to free speech White House pap; but if the people stand b in the city, and which is before the people on them and the Big Business Beast cannot help i ?” referendum. It nlqo fichtine n binner ordi- Arizona w ill come in and help out. Or Second Citizen—“ Nothing, but talk.” nance which would give the police power to ar itself, Third Citizen—“ It w ill do the people, all rest a man or woman wearing or displaying any ganized labor in Oregon cares little for party and less for name, and is getting that way more kind of emblem or device—a most mischievous and more. Arizona has a right to the same con- ght.” First and Second Citizen—“ Correct. We and foolish measure. Several men who are «••itution that Oregon has. and the hosts of hell union men are candidates for the. nomination and corrected. What’lyouhave ?” not prevail against her. at the primaries, and naturallv union workers shall Food f« r thought often has a bitter taste. lean strongly toward them. Nor is organized The pious fraud is the devil’s best friend. Two weeks and then the Ly- w ill be no more. Com- ■ncing with Easter Monday itinee, April 17th, Keating & ■od w ill present their popu- Lyric Musical Comedy unpany in the latest concoc- >n of Dillon and King’s, en- ied “ Easy Money.” At this ::e when everybody's ambition to get rich quick with as ist work as possible, the pular comedians of this aer aggregation w ill have a w pointers to give to those so dined. For Easter week - w ill be the bill of the sea- n and Mr. Dillon, under ‘lose personal direction the eduction w ill be staged, prom t's the Lyricites the laugh of eir lives. The principals w il' (1 be seen at their best ar.d ’ girlie chorus w ill again be the front in some new and pular numbers. There w ill two performances nigh’ !” i week days, three on Satur- " . fly You Can Get The best union tailor made suit in the city, for $25.00 All Suits are made by skilled Union Labor in our own Sanitary Workshop in this city anti are as high in quality as it is possible to produce them. Union Label in Every Garment REMEMBER that if you are in the market for a Suit during the next sixty or ninety days, you simply can’t afford to pass by this great sale, be cause we are giving you two dollars worth of Suit Value for one dollar in cash. Robert Douglass The Tailor 125 Fifth Street, Near Washington We Save You 20 Per Cent Twenty Cents on every Dollar; Twenty Dollars on every Hundred Dollars worth of FURNITURE YOU BUY FROM US. We sell FURNITURE on Easy Payment Plan. We Furnish Your Home More Complete for LESS MONEY and do it on the Easy Payment Plan. THE REASON we do it for less: We sell furniture on the same basis as we do goods in our many other departments, and in connection with other departments, reducing the head expenses, which are the big expenses in the exclusive furniture stores. Then our location makes many hundreds of dollars saving in the year. It’s an easy matter to save you 20 per cent on every bill of furniture you buy of us. 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