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day. December >1. l t l l . OPI I;N CO-OPERATIVE HAT SHOP. DEI ENDS ORGANIZED LABOR. . rs Celebrate Establishment of Their Los Angeles Prtather Utters Plain Truths on *°n' Own Productive Enterprise. \ f w Y ork .—The opening of the first c<>- hat store in this country, a pro- * c ciiterpises founded along co-o|x*ru- UCll'* I j , w a s celebrated recently by the ('o- i ve i #ratjvc’ league a t the factory, 41 Fast street. H undreds of trade iinion- ° ¡inilKjcialists visited the shop during the ;ill,| fongratulated themselves on the accomplished by the organization. plough the co-operative movement is still its infancy, the organization has alreaiiy ,.,H.|cd in opening a hat shop at 44 East Am street, and a hat store, which is sell- ‘([¿iirixluct m anufactured by the organ- is located a t 159 Delancey street. ? league has already declared a dividend the consumers, which am ounted to $626, dividends will be declared every three jiths. Picre are thirteen men employed in the hnt tore, excepting the office force, and the DIP' hiticry can tu rn out 150 dozen of hats a It. Plans are now being m ade to open inthei r hat store on the E ast Side and one ^Harlem, as the dem and for co-operative kt« is tiecoming greater every day. The .jjuc took the shop over from a private con- mi. known as the Union H a tte rs’ Co-opera- .11, a shop run by a group of workers who ¡ought they were running the shop along co gnitive lines, b u t in reality on the same JC>s as any other private enterprise. The Co-operative League has four branch- ¡i.onc in Harlem, another in The Bronx, one oi. the East Side, and the fourth on the West ide. Plans are now being made to open a ml defwt on the W est Side, as it is claimed Ithat the organization can buy a carload of Ifliiil. which will cost not more than $4 a ton, ihcrcas the consumers are now paying SI2 Lj $13 a ton, w hich is underweight and un- K»rnieasure. STRIKING SHOP FEDERATION. The Shop Federation men are putting up a Ixtbi front in Portland. Monday was pay mv at the company shops of the tr.’nsjxirta- jon trust and th irty strikebreakers quit, he I Hisses are weary. The imported thugs from Chicago skylark ml do as they please. Their wages are 5(X) er cent too high. The oil-flinger is told to p his scheme out of use. I t makes too auch trouble, and next tim e there might be lime bad results in court. Trains are coming into Portland 24 hours itc with “fa st” mail. They are coming ito the city without steam , simply running own-hill as best they can when the ex acted and disabled engine gets to the point there the grade changes. I t will lx* a blue Christmas for the strikers, but the stockhold- iare a little blue, too. The officials of the road sent a delegation f workmen last Friday, headed by an attor- »v, to make a protest before the city execu tive loard against a reduction in the num ber ii special policemen on duty a t the shops. It was much like staging a theatrical pro- hi’tion, for the attorney, after making a lumber of contradictory statem ents, called in each workman to say his little part. The ¡act th at the railroad company resorted to ¡this farce is one of the encouraging signs. Pa*« « * • PORTLAND LABOR PRESS SIMPLIFY THE LAW. Local People and Incidents Here, There and Everywhere th M Samara Case. The only way to get rid of technicalities and hair-splitting by courts is to sweep them out by amending the organic law so as to provide for the simplest a r J most direct form of court procedure. No judge should be al lowed to decide any law as to its constitu tionality. Juries should lx* drawn by abso lute fhance from the entire body of citizens. The state and the defense should be entitled to drop out two or three each, and a three- fourths jury should decide the m atter, with no ap’x'als unless corruption was shown on the part of some of the court participants. This would put lawyers to piling cordwood and reduce expenses of governm ent. The Plasterers’ Union will bo represented A local collector of customs has, within the Rev. C. M. Carter, pastor of the First Bap at the State Federation of Labor bv R. A. last few days, arrested 25 captains of oyster fist Church, L is Angeles, had the following Willison and Thomas Brink. dredging Ixiats in the Chesapeake B a / for to say in the course of a sermon delivered ,, ------------------------ violating the navigation laws and m istreat last week: The River St ea ml mat m en’s Union is ru n -' ing their crews. The charge against these “Sometimes men are condemned just be- thng along smoothly. Business Agent “Ja ck ” i captains was withholding sufficient ftxxj from cause of the folly ot their sympathizers. Or- Hoffman says the union is making a slow, their crews tuid not m aintaining proper ac ganized labor is just as righteous us is organ- s,eadv gain in membership. At this tim e 1 commodations for them on board the vessels. ¡zed capital, and capita’ is self-organized. .v‘‘ar s,,*ne of the Ixiats are tied up for Organized laltor has had much to l>ear from varioiw reasons. i The Garment Workers of Galesburg, III., have received ati increase in pay of 20 j>er the foolishness of it friends, hut organized Business Agent Crazier, o f the Cement ! cent. The organization was established only laltor is right. “ I he one who today loudly condemns or Finishers, has resigned and is succeeded bvl alxiut a month ago. ganized labor because some organized work- i H. W. Hillil tush. The latte r is an energetic ers have been wicked and foolish is u n ju st! worker, who will undoubtedly make good, A threatened strike on the M. & M. Rail John S. W alker, candidate for the presi way at Indianapolis, Ind., had the effect of dency of the United Mine Workers, support- and wicked. The great mass of men who i , r .------------------------- toil with their hands are as honest and as pa- The Washington State Federation of Ixi- securing agreements for all crafts in the me , ed Mr. Mitchell’s charge th a t the last conven- triotic as the men who do not. In fact, in **°r a t Spokane on the same date the chanical departm ents on the system. : tion was packed. He said $10,000 had been the day of judgm ent, when all men m ust an-1 (,reK<’» Federation convenes at The Dalles, put up by coal operators to bring into the It is reported th at the Foresters’ Courier, convention delegates with fraudulent cre swer to the law, six days shalt thou labor, In his talk before the Central Lalxir Coun- a m onthly magazine published in Pittsburg, dentials, for the purpose of driving Mr. they may stand far higher. •Men must not be carried into the ranks ‘‘‘1 last Friday, Mr. Neilan stated his investi- and devoted to the fraternal order m ention Mitchell out of the union. of persecutors of the |x«nplc who toil today gation of working conditions among women ed, ap|>eared this month with the Typo by the clamor ot organized selfishness. The in Portland showed th at organized garm ent graphical Union label. The publication was great m ajority of the toilers today are no workers were receiving an average wage of inaugurated last May, and up to this month If you need a man to do work of more responsible for the McNamaras than SI.85 for eight hours’ work, while unorgan has not borne the union label. any Kind, send word to the Shop ized laundry workers were working nine and were the early disciples for a Judas Iscariot." Federation, Room 500 Labor Tem ten hours for S I.15 per day. He expressed The Retail Clerks’ International Protec ple, fifth floor, 270>$ Alder street. his firm conviction th at, contrary io common tive Association has jtaid out in sick and fu A MAN’S BURDEN. belief, industrial peace reig.’eo m industries i neral benefits since organization a total of ■ th at are strongly organized. $156,657.85. (Bv the Rev. Charles Stelzle.) Nearly every man believes that his task is Toltey Smith, who has been spending two ; MEDFORD SOCIALISTS. the most difficult. He has lx«en thinking it J. L. Walton J. A. Dunn mont hs on his ranch near San Francisco, was | ever since he can remember. Even when he in Portland for alxmt a week, leaving again j The Socialists of Medford are out with a was a child, his problems—which now make him smile as he thinks of them —were just as on last Monday. He spent the time here, brave little paper, a stout little platform and real and just as im portant as those which looking after property interests, and made it a hot little ticket. They are demanding to municipal ownership of public utilities, pro trouble him today. But in all probability , his ’ mission uss 0,1 to {mint out what he declared w he pines for the job which he left long ago, j ,x‘ tb,e of woman £ uffra< £ To.’7 portional representation, abolition of con Ix -c x o s e h is n re s e n n x itin n s,>nn,s s till ix'cause his present jxtsition menis still more w >'8 »hat under woman suffrage the society tract lalxtr, free employment bureau, better irksome and monotonous; it presents so dam« s spirit the wives away to pink teas sanitary condition of jail and abolition of U tt many more difficulties than those which he while the husband is a t work and th a t the street working of prisoners without pay, free arguments of the husband go for naught. public m arket, eight-hour day, referendum left lx«hind him. of public franchises, etd. The election is 364 Morrisini Street Sometimes, all this is only too true. Most The attention of those interested in co-op January 9th. of us have an unreasoning faculty for getting eration is called to the Protzman-Campbell It is to lx* hoped th a t some of their de ourselves into all kinds of trouble because of Shoe CO. An effort is now lx*ing made by mands are placed before the jxx>ple in the our impatience, and principally lx>cause we union men active in the concern to increase form of initiative measures, as m any do not Under New M anagem ent haven’t the nerve to stand up to the task the numlter of shreholders. '1 he shares are see their way to support candidates who will which brings with it strain and stress. But $5 each and the owner is entitled to valuable support measures of a progressive nature. really, most of the discomfort and unhappi benefits in addition to w hatever dividends This lack of appreciation of the initiative is Flrst-Claas Sanitary Shop Conducted ness which comes to us in our present dis may be declared on shares. Those who lx»- one o f the peculiar traits of the Socialists in i Under Fair Condition« tress, because of the comparison that we lieve in the co-operative movement now have Oregon. They were the first to demand it, j due to the r make t tk with \ former V, experiences, is uu« UK an opportunity to secure an interest in an in - 1 fact th a t we have forgotten the p.t from stitl t on forniwl on these fines and incident- and apparently the last to make use of it. which , we N “ture ature is a I'h.'sinnii physician j. . . . . ¡j . . . furthering ..................... „ ......i„ . . were . i dug. j U^ ‘ ^ the „ sale of union-made The Supreme Court of Wisconsin has now | th a t heals the old woundc, and so crowds o u r . . - * knocked out legislation by the Social Demo- ; lives with new ex,x«riences th a t often even crats of Milwaukee and has practically veto the scar is covered over with healthy thought W. H. Addis has been contributing som e' and occupation, so th a t out of the former valuable articles on horticulture and g ard en -' ed many different progressive features sought Suspender Seta, $1.00 Values a t 68c things there emerges a man better equipped ing to the Journal. He is far better inform- i to be placed in operation for the benefit of for the duties of life. She does this in the ed on these subjects than the Agricultural the people. The constitution of Wisconsin Fancy Suspenders, Garters and Arm natural world. The convulsion th a t rent College professors, and if he had a d ip lo m a , prevents the people ruling themselyes, and it Bands to match. Each set in a fancy the face of Mother Fart h is soon covered with from the institution could be drawing down ] takes two successive Legislatures to subm it an am endm ent. It would Ixi 1918 before the folding holiday box, made of ey.celh nt a beautiful green which challenges adm ira a big salary. people could yank such judges as afflict and quality materials and shown in many tion. She does it in the physical world. ride and spur the people of Wisconsin from pretty patterns and in all colors, espe J. W. Parting, a member of Plum bers’ ! To heal the wound by "first intention” is the their seats. The thing for the progressives cially desirable for gift purposes; regu physican’s aim, whenever th a t is possible, Union No. 51, was killed by a falling tim ber and producers of all classes is to unite for the lar $1 sets now on sale a t ........................68c because nature herself supplies the best re while working on the new JJpm an, Wolfe & i referendum, initiative and recall, and to al>- storatives. Co. building, (at a little after 1 o ’clock W ed -! jure all parties and all other issues until se Fortunate is it th a t we are not compelled nesdav afternoon, Decemlx»r 20. cured, nailed down and the nails clinched. to forever carry all the burdens of the past. Dunn&Walton Barber Shop R. S . H A Y N E R Keal Estate New ones will come, but somehow they dis Archie Curran, of Multnomah T yjxigraph-' In Milwaukee the raise in taxation has not lodge the old, or, they will drive away the ical Union, a recent arrival ir the city from In su r a n ts« V «an> In v e stm e n t» N o ta r y P tib llc mist and make them appear in their true Minneajxilis. whose death occurred last I been as great under the Socialists as it was under the Democratic and Republican ad 0 0 5 L e b e r T » n » s l « . 9 7 0 1 A l O e r S t r e e t light—stepping stones instead of stumbling week, was buried on Friday last. m inistrations. The old p arty managers is A 0119 blocks. And such are the present difficul sued bonds to pay running expenses, and the ties by which wc are now lieset. The hope A bunch of political skates are thinking to new’ p arty stopjied th a t. Population and H . J . r a r t t l a o n J e b n A . J e fT e r y th a t burns is in ourns eternal eierna. in the u .e heart n e a n of o. man .. . a n xs j >f r(.(.al, (>nterprise by SENATOR GAYLORD COMING. simply a prophecy of the future b fe -w h e n S o lu tio n s to recall him. Maguire property values have increased, but the av- ! J e ffr e y a n d P arR iaon f from (h(l rp(.ftll , erage expenses have decreased. If given LAWYER! Winfield R. Gaylord, the {Socialist Senator the full fruition of our earthly sorrows w.ll be ; power to assess the big tax-dodgers the d e - . , 1 7, , H em e T e le e b o n e A 4 0 0 1 from Wisconsin, will make his initial appear revealed. When, as we look back upon the crease would be still greater. This is with 5 0 4 - 5 L a b o r T e m e le B n llO ln g iah ___(____ ______ ance before the Portland public under the i past, we shall smile a t the trials of life, as we . held and a great outcry of m isrepresentation y o u r t b a n d A lO e r S tr e e t» now smilingly pity the child whose burdens j Thp h g . R thp (Hfferent membere I auspices of the Socialist P arty, Branch Four, P o r tla n d , O r e g o n made. Pjtv c5uncil, if any. should be accepted ■ Thursday evening, December 28th, a t 8 seem as great as our own the burdens of a 1 w-th anj promptly turned over to the o'clock, when he will deliver an address at full-grown man. the Gypsy Sm ith Auditorium, Eighteenth Salvation Army. RAILROAD HOSPWAL GRAFT. and Taylor streets. There will be seats for j ten thousand jxople. A small admission The Christinas number of the Lents r a v e n r 1. It is said th a t the kindly and generous Beaver State Herald is a credit to any paper r a v n » m tsi fee of ten cents will be charged. Also a f°w B O O U V 9. Southern Pacific charges full fare for its in in Oregon. Many of the homes of organized reserved seats a t twenty-five cents. Do Boot. DO OUnkera. K ittle arb. Diamond Coal %akM tko bro*d tk » t Mother jured, crippled and killed sent to the hos D elivered a t you r address In P o rtla n d , Senator Gaylord was formerly pastor of a nalM*« laboring men are in Lents. w ith in the o ne-m ile circle, a t thia p rice, or BroUa *ho atoak th a t Father take»— prominent Milwaukee church, which he re pital. and it pays it o ut of the hospital fund w ith in the tw o -m lle c irc le a t 17 p e r ton, th ta MU the w hile with a aauie— w eek only. T W O TONS TO BA C H C U STO M graft that it will not perm it its employees to igned to lecture for Socialism. He holds The members of People’s Charter Commi- And eaya, “Bjr «oah . If r d known thia before ER. W e w ill not reserve any o f th ia coal the honor of being the first Socialist State have anything to say aixiut, nor does it ren tee have lalxired long and earnestly to pre I w ould not have sw ore fo r anyone, excep tin g orders accom panied by (he cash o r check. r d burn coal no more. nator ever elected in the United States, der any account of the funds to them , the sent a good charter. Some of the ablest Diam ond C <a‘. Coal Co., C ity , public or anybody but itself. nd a pioneer in the Socialist movement, , counsel in the state has served without pay, De ,r ’ .ri . H a v e ueed the D iam o nd Creet Coal fo r aome tim e and fin d It en .re ly aa tie - aving assisted Victor Berger and others in 1 I t is also asserted th a t its pensions paid and given time and knowledge worth thous- fac to ry f p e c t to use It c o n tin u a lly . Sincerely, J. A. L B A 8 . with so much flourish to its :qr( 1. employees ands of dollars, with no hope of credit or re- aking a Socialist city oi Milwaukee. Senator Gaylord has the reputation of lx»- are taken out of this hospiti b nd 6 ' ward. The arch is missing in their creation, ing one of the most eloquent speakers in the graft is levied on every man working for the however, and without jxiwerof the people to : 315 B a ilw a y Bnohaage B onding. Fhone MarehaU M74. Fortland, Ore. company in any capacity, and ruthlessly sul>- prevent a minority electing the governing 1 nited States. tracted from his wages in the sum of one dol body of the city, thlxwt cbarter will fail to EXPFRT ENDORSES SHORT CHARTER. lar per month. Even if the man works but support the pressure resting on it. three days the graft is levied, although he can C. G. Hoag, of Philadelphia, is now travel receive no benefits w hatever from it one min STAY OUT OF MINE. ing in Europe investigating forms of munici ute after being discharged or quitting. In addition to rapid growth of the ex pal and other improvements. He writes to F. M. Gill, in the Grange Bulletin, says: penses and physicians and a lot of side grafts U E. 8. Wood from Luasanne, Switzerland: “ We fanners m ust stand together solidly ‘‘A copy of your ‘short ch arter,’ as pul - the money still accumulates and the pensions against the so-called Good Roads Aasocia- lished in T he P ortland L abor P ress re- are taken out of it to help the toning down of rently. has been sent to me. I eongratutate 1« paid out ot it after the hrat of January. » ; ‘ have ua build. They fnu and your associates on this greut achieve Then why not buy them from the store th a t is helping 'ih e S t h e r n Pacific could d e a r up .th « e I would, have u . h w h l^ J c u ^ U u lg « » * . f t; ment. You have made a charter that is far , you in your fight for better conditions. The store where better in its essentials, in my opinion, than alleeationa, hut prefer» t o hang onto the ho.- t h e J w „ h ,'hc muek ,,nd *ny charter now in use in America. every union man can feel a t home and where you will pital graft, ant) to ignore its employees in our children , • , ¡)V Tt)PV p hfarrnprs un. ; 'i„ t of chumps who “In an article published in T he P ortland their demand for representation on the hos-1 ™ ^ t*hC confer a favor upon the management by asking for shoes U uor P ress of Ocfc)lx*r 5th I advocated a pital b o a r d .__________ _____ haven’t sense enough to solve their own road fharter on ju st the same lines, except th a t I bearing nmhlpms more we right 8poke for the Hare instead of the proxy sys- SION IIP RESTAURANT. ¡¡" „ ¡tlT o u r Thcv i l have affairs no than have to to med- tell kni of proportional representation.’’ „ j --------- , 4, . ! them how to build their street« in their cities Secretary Henderson, of the \V alters, has farmfir who gives them n cordial in- AMATEURS IMPOSED UPON. signed up the Puritan R estaurant, located at . ' , v ¡n (,,eir own backyard and i 8ta v out of mine.” c Moving Picture Operators, after sev- 4 9 0 ^ W ashington street. Under a new arrangem ent, Henderson has • _________________ I’onferences, have failed to induce the been assigned to the work of business agent, 1 rietor of the Savoy Theatre to run a Arizona votes so as to be adm itted to the : house. This concern is a training in addition to the duties of secretary and Union and repeals the recall section obnox Lfor am ateurs, hnd m any ire induced treasurer He certainly has his hands full. ious to Dictator Taft. Next spring th a t Plans are being fait! for the fourth annual iudicit ’ recall, made as tight and strong as a rv fo r the opportunity of learning the iess. The results are th at the student ball of the organization, which will be given whaler’s barrel, will lx« made a p art of the EU G EN E C. PROTZMAN, Manager i'cs only a sm attering of instruction and some tim e in February. constitution again, and thereby dem onstrate , ‘ Ixith tim e and money. The theatre is The head of the telephuuefn.ct th in k , one t h . t T u f t » » » d u e .™ t rank „ 146 Fifth Street Between Morrison and Alder cd on Sixth street near the Union Depot phone enough. It is, and two phones are an , high as his reputation tor a j i ^ t fs unionists are urged to see that tins r . mnbell has the best assort- ¡rns secure its patronage from am ateurs. imposition on us all. The State of Oregon , should own the phones and then one phone 1 ; o ^ X n - m i d e shoes in the city. Al- ent glad _____ , ,,(A „ r fnpt Portland operate its own street ear would lx* in every residence, and office, a n d ; ¡ m ways to make your feet glad. a t one-fourth the present cost, too. wi a three-cent fare. Why not? Coal a t $6.50 a Ton Diamond Crest Coal Company Do You Need Shoes ? T H IS R A LABEL PROTZMAN-CAMPBELL SHOE CO. 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