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Newspaper Page TextPORTLAND LABOR PRESS M on d ay, A p rü 21, 1013 Carl SokUckalMt Harry M. Haldas Marquant Restaurant Harry * Carl 247 Alitar Stria*, Between Second and Third j Phone Main «472 H. D . M ix L. J . M itc h e ll A GOOD P L A C E TO E A T — TRY IT . M.&M. Waffle and Coffee House M E A L S 15 C E N T S A N D U P . 63V , N O R T H S I X T H STR EET. M od erate P rice«. M ain 5574. BOSTON LUNCH H ig h -C la ss S e r v ic e. * 64 S I X T H S T R E E T . ELM ER C . D E A N C y r u s N o b i e or M o n tic e llo R y e ' BOTH PURE M O N E Y SA V E D fl Believe me, I am attending to busi ness, and have the finest line of im ported and domestic woolens for you to select your Spring Suit from. BEST CREAM ERY B U TTE R 70c A N D 75c Creamery Butter.................................... 85c Dairy Butter............................................ 65c , Ranch Eggs .......................................... 30c Guaranteed Eggs ................................ 20c L arge Can M ilk ............................................ 5c Pull Cream Cheese, lb .......................... 20c Picnic Ham», lb ................................ 12*/jC Eastern Sugar-Cured Hams, l b ... .17V,c Lard Compound, lb ............................. 1 5 c . ; Saturday is Chicken day. Prices per lb ........................... ’ . . 16c to 20c - restaurant 1 G ood C loth in g fo r M en and Y o u n g M en on E a sy W e ek ly or M o n th ly P a y m en ts Phone Mar,hSLnnchee Put Up Tor Travelers north bank restaurant F r u it, T obacco, C igars ben wry aba b oo . itoln M it"' an d G roceries *3 a hoyt _ btebet M r. Jack Oansnedar, Prop. bismark restaurant eats always the best 209 Morrison Street Between Front and Plret Meals 29 Canta Phone Mala 8493 EASTERN OUTFITTING COMPANY W a sh in g to n , a t T e n th U uton O y ster H o u se a n d R esta u ra n t John Bolchon * Frita Bothachor. Props. 128 S econ d S tr e e t P o rtla n d , O regon G e n tle m e n : fl It is my duty to see that you are well dressed. 264 Y a m h ill S tr e et. B e s t C offee on th e C oast 187 MOR R IS O N S T R E E T F i f t y P er C en t o f B la st F u rn ace M e n . W orker* G e t F ou r M illio n D o lla rs In W. J.V anSchuyver & Co. LA GRANDE CREAM ERY Pap's MANY STEELWORKERS COAL MEN PROFIT LABORING SEVEN DAYS BY WAGE ADVANCE W h e n y o u v is it m em b ers o f U n io n 3 3 9 , s e e th a t y o u g e t UNION RESTAURANTS “ THE STORE WHERE YOUR fl Remember, I make every stitch of every garment right here, upstairs in my sanitary workshop, by the best skilled union mechanics I can find. U Union Label in every garment—$20 to $40. Open every 10 o'clock. Saturday evening till Ray Barkhurst THE UNION TAILOR. Corner Sixth and Stark Streets. RAILROAD WORKERS CONFERENCE PROGRAM IS OF BROAD SCOPE MAY LOSE PASSES S p ea k e r s o f N a tio n a l R e p u ta tio n W ill CREDIT IS GOOD.” S U P E R IO R and lunch counter Regular 25c dinner served at lunch counter. Ladies’ and gentlemen’s din ing room in connection. Good things to eat and quick service. TRCNGOVC A HALL. FeOPBIfTORB 62 and 6 2 1/ , S ix th B tr ee t M arsh all 2296 USE DAMASCUS OTTO O L S E N , P rop . 522V , W a sh in g to n S tr e e t, B e tw e e n 1 6 th a n d I 7 th BER TS R e sta u r a n t 287 F IR S T STR E E T M ain » 1 7 , A 4634 The A n h e u s e r C a fe an d M orrison CREAM I D aw ns Creamery Go. East 1062, B 1430. 430-432 Hawthorne Ave. J. W. Taylor » President lies Phone Tsbor 1118 VT. E. Gray Secretary Olsen-Roe Transfer Company T ran sfer a n d S to r a g e S tr e e ts The B. & B. R estaurant O pen D a y an d N ig h t 51 N o r th S ix th S tr e e t, P o rtla n d , O regon SAFES. PIANOS. FUENITUEB * BAOOAOB MOVED, PACKED AND SHIPPED Office and Storeroom, 87-99 Front Street, PORTLAND, OBBOON Phone, Main S47, Home A 2947 RAINIER PORTLAND GLOVE WORKS C A F E T E R IA — R E S T A U R A N T J. E AVCKISOH, Proprietor. 130 Worth Sixth Street. (HAS. CATTA, Frop. Union Made Gloves Carry the Union Label Are Strictly First Class PHONE MAIN 4161 Mt Hood Restaurant W h o le sa le R e ta il a n d L u n ch C ounter Stark, b etw een 1 2 th and 1 3 th 'XBUT-CLASS SERVICE POPULAE PEICE8 Short Order* * Spoetalty 214 SECOND ST., Cor. SALMON. Portland, Oregon, American Restaurant O il« D isc u ss S o c io lo g ic a l P ro b lem s a t C on S to p F ree R id e s on F a r t o f E m p lo y e s ! fe r e n c e C alled to C on sider P la n e i o If “ F u ll-C re w ” M easu re I s A d o p te d ; C on serve H um an L ife . E con om y I s E x c u se G iv e n t h e M en. MILK BUTTER G a r a g e R e sta u r a n t S econ d T ra n sp o rta tio n C om p an ies T h r e a ten to RESTA U R A N T S A Y AMD W1OMT 35 M<rth T hird S treet, C o rn e r C ouch NEUSTADTER BROS. Plans are being matured for the con- ference on human life conservation at Issuance of free transportation to ap Reed College, May 9-11. The program proximately 8,500,000 persons through is being prepared and arrangements for out the United States may be elimin the exhibits are lynng made. Interest ated by the railroads as a result of the in the work of the conference is being present agitation iu favor of full-crew manifested throughout the Northwest. bills in various paits of the country. The speakers on the program for the General managers of railroads in Col conference have nearly nil been engaged orado announced recently that if a full- in sociological and educational work in crew bill pending in the Legislature of the Northwest, Several speakers from that state is enacted into law, there Eastern cities have been secured and will be no more passes furnished to em there may lie several front California. ployes or members of their families. The speakers and subjects for which The contention is made that full-crew arrangements have been made are as legislation is being promoted by the em follows: ployes, that it tends to increase the op Professor E. F. Cubberly, Stanford erating expenses of the companies, that University, Achievements of the Past in order to meet these increased ex- Decade in School Hygiene; Dr. Eugene fienses they must make savings iu other Kelly, Commissioner of Health. Seattle, directions and that the most feasible Achievements of the State of Wash way to make them would b» ♦>» curtail ington in the Conservation of Human free transportation. Life; Dr. Calvin White, State Health In commenting on the subject the Officer, Oregon, Recent Legislation president of one of the large roads said : in Oregon for the Conservation of “ The effect of full-crew.legislation is Human Life* Dr. Andrew C. Smith, to make it necessary to employ more Member of the State Board of Health, men and thereby to increase operating Oregon, Safeguarding the Water Sup expenses. Such laws, in the opiniou plies of Oregon; Samuel Hill, Good o f railroad «.Ulcers, are both unneces Ronds; Dr. Stevenson Smith, of the sary and burdensome. The net revenues University of Washington, the Work of most railways are not large enough of the Gatzert Foundation for Defee. to justify increases in expenses in some tive Children; Dr. Merrill of the Juve directions which are not accompanied nile Court, Seattle, Co-operation of the by reductions in expenses in other di Juvenile Court, and the Gatzert Founda rections. The elimination of the issu tion; Dr. Eleanor Rowland, Reed ance of free transportation to employes College, Psychological Tests for Juve and their families seems the most feas nile Offenders; Mrs. Millie Trumbull, ible and satisfactory method of meeting Child Labor in Oregon; George Thatcher, Member of Portland Vice the situation. “ There are 1,700,000 railway em Commission, The Care of Our Delinquent ployes-in the United 8tates. There are Girls; L. H. Weir, Field Secretary, about five persons in the avera"» family Playground and Recreation Associa and, assuming that each em p ire repre tion of Am >rica, Parks Clans and the sents a family, they represent a total Health of ti ■ City; William F. Wood of 8,500,000 persons to whom transpor ward of the Woodard & Clarke Com tation is now freely given. This fig pany, Opening the discussion under ure represents about 9 per cent of the this topic; Rev. Janies 8. McGaw, population of the country. As a class National Field Secretary, National railway employes are very well paid, Reform Association, Pittsburg, The and therefore do not need free trans World's Christian Citizenship Confer portation any more than any other class ence in Relation to Human Health; Professor T. D. Beckwith, / Oregon of persons. ’ ’ Agricultural College, Topic in same field; T. B. Wilcox, President of the L I V E S S A C R IF IC E D TO IN D U S T R Y Oregim Development League, New Problems in Human Conservation: In G erm an y 172,362 P er so n s W ere the Canal and Immigration; E. O. Sis K U led In 24 Y ears. son, Reed College, Conservation of The number of victims- which are Human Life through Education iu yearly sacrificed to industry is terri ; Sexual Hygiene and Morals; N. F. bly high. The reports of trades ami Suleman, Reed College, same field; professional organizations show that ‘ Mrs. Sarah Evans, Market Master and the figures increase year by year. The Food Inspector for Portland, Presi following figures deal with the in dent of Women’s Clubs, Safeguarding ju r e d hud killeil on the labor battle Food Supply of the City; Mr. Bruere, field of Germany: of the Bureau of Municipal Research, Killed. Year. Injured. New York, The City Government and 2,716 1886 ............................ 10,540 3.270 Public Health. 1887 ............................ 17,102 3,692 1 1888 ............................ 21,236 P h ila d e lp h ia G irls O rg a n izin g . 5,260 ! 1889 ................ 31,449 In order to increase wnges, reduce 6,047 1890 ............................ 42,038 6,428 the working hours and improve the gen 1891 ............... 51,209 5,911 eral condition of the many thousands 1892 ............................ 55,654 6,336 of girls engaged in Philadelphia shops 1893 ............................ 62,729 6,361 in making ladies' shirt waists, dresses, 1894 ............................ 69,619 6,448 silk suits and waists, and cutters and 1895 ............................ 75/27 7,101 tuckers, a determined campaign has 1896 ............................ 86,403 7,416 been started to organize them under 1897 ............................ 92,326 7,984 the banner of the International Iutdip»- 1898 ............... 98,023 8,124 Garment Workers Union. 1899 ....................... 106,036 The employes in factories makiug 8,567 1900 ............................ 107,654 8,501 Indies’ shirt waists and dresses were 117,336 1901 7,975 granted for this year a working week 121,284 1902 8,370 of 50 hours, 30 cents an hour, double 129,375 1903 137,673 8,752 , pay for overtime, and good sanitary 1904 8,928 conditions in all factories. 141,121 190; Next year in these same cities the 9,141 1906 ............................ 139,726 9,815! work week will be reduced to 49 hours, 1907 ............................ 144,703 9,856 and in 1915 to 48 hours. ,008 ............................ 142,965 9.363 1909 .................................. 139,070 in O reat A cco rd in g S h o rt In d u str y to G et G overn m en t W ork d ay No Report«; P a y s W h ere T ried. In c r e a se d W ages an d C o m p a n ies M ake T w ic e in A n th r a c ite T hat Sum P rofite a s R e s u lt o f S tr ik e . Eastern hard coal companies in Fifteen |>e. ’nt of the employes in the iron and steel industry as a whole I creased the wages of their employes and more than 50 per cent of the blast at *he rate of $4,000,000 a year after furnace workmen work seven days a ; tb ike of last May and increased of anthracite to consumers week, an investigation of the National ♦ he $13,45o, J, according to a report Bureau of Labor discloses. Commissioner Neill has made public bused on an investigation of the Bu the third volume of the bureau’s inves reau of Labor. Submitted by Secretary tigation dealing with working eondi Nagel, tho result of an investigation tions nnd the relations of employers conducted in response to a House reso and workmen. bitinn asking for the “ elements of cost The report states that since 1910, and profit included in the present high when the main investigation was made price of anthracite. ’ Au average inciYHse of 25 cents a and when the normal working day for the majority of steelworkers was 12 ton iu wholesale coal prices was dis hours long, with practically 30 ,»er cent covered to have been made since the of the entire force regularly working strike agreement of last May. In spite seven days a week, a number of steel of the fact that the workers benefited companies have put into' effect various- about »4,(MX),(MM) in increased wages plans by which none of their employe« during (lie year, the report adds that are required or |«ermitted to work more ■ “ the recent increases in prices have been more thun sullb ient to coin|>ensate than six days. fully those companies whose costs of M a n y O et D a y o f Root production have increased most rapidly Between 40 and 5t) per cent of the . during recent years, and increase«l the employes who formerly worked se v e n profits of those companies, of whom days a week have been affected by these there are nt least several whose costs arrangements, but 15 per cent still work of production either decreased or re every day. mained stationary during the same pe- Extensive interviews with the work rind. ’ ’ h men brought out the fact that in their W here P rofit* W ar* M ade. opinion the six day arrangement had t'oul for domestic use increased a nut brought them advantages coiumen surate with the loss of a day’s pay each fraction ove • SI cents a ton, th.it on pea week. The «lay of enforced rest does coal and the smaller steam sizes, 16 not give them a holiday either on Sun ' cents a ton. These figures w «u based day or on any other day on which th eir, uu comparison of net receipt* by the fellow workmen generally are also at operators after the agreement of May leisure. On any day except Sunday.! last, with their receipts during the same the workmen say, there is nothing to do ! months, June to September, 1911. except sleep all day or to go to saloons. , Of the morn than $13,000,000 gained The proportion of men working 12 by the operators after the strike agree hours a day has been practically un ment, $10,900,(88) was derived from gen changed, except fhr two plants which eral increase in prices, and about $8,- have introduced the eight-hour system. 550,000 from the suspensiou of April and May discounts, while in addition a W a g e In c r e a se O u tlin ed . limited number of o|>erator* are re Careful estimates of the maximum potte«! to have ‘ ‘ received very large cost of substituting the eight-hour day sums through the sale of coal premiums with an increase in hourly rates, so as made possible by the shortage of ship to give the same daily earnings, show ments,’’ incident to the strike. The that even if there were no increase in discounts of 40 and 50 cents a ton cus efficiency the cost of pig iron would be tomary allowed iu April and May on only 2.6 per cent greater, or 45 cents domestic size coal were suspended dur jar ton. In finished pro«lucts the cost ing those months in 1912. would be only 6 |Mir cent greater, or As a result the operators not only between $1.70 and $2 per ton. gaiued by saving this discount, says The report concludes that a system of the ri;>ort, but in addition purchasers three shifts of eight hours each is the who we.e unable to secure their usual only practical substitute for the exist supply in those months were forced to ing schedule of two shifts of 12 hours. I buy it during June, July or August, Numerous advantages of the eight-hour , when diaeount. rates were smaller, or system are pointed out, and it is fur- I iu September and later wheu full cir ther shown that of the steel plants cular prices are charged. which have recently adopted the eight P u b lic F a y * th e BUI hour day, one had no increase in its cost The $13,450,(8)0 tho report says, was of production while, as n result of iu creased efficiency, the cost of th e , not profit, because out of it came the other'« products was actually less with cost of the six weeks cessation of work the eight-hour system than with the by the strikers uud also the increase 12-hour system, in spite of a consider in their wages. The increase in wages, however, the able increase in wages. By working 12 hours a dav, seven report adds, represents a raise of only «lays a week, only one-third of he blast 8 to 10 cents a ton in the cost of coal furnace men of the entire steel indus production. The re[H»rt din's not estimate how try can possibly earn a maximum of inueh more the publi- paid for its coal $7(8) a yeur. last year than if 1911 rates had con BURKE FAVORS E M P L O Y M E N T . tinued, although it says the increase in wholesale prices affected retail prices directly, and that in nil communities C a n d id a te fo r M u n icip al J u d g e W ould these -dvances were felt. The retail P u t U n fo r tu n a te s t o W ork. increases averaged 25 cents a ton on Among the things advocated by At stove and 40 to 50 cents on chestnut torney W. A. Burke, candidate for mu coal. nicipal judge, are employment for down- In New York, Philadelphia and Wash and-out men instead of the rockpile; ington, retail advances “ corresponded heavier fines for wilful violators in very closely with the advances in the stead of lectures, ami private trials for circular prices of the operators. ’’ In some places, however, the advances were much more pronounced, and the report cites Springfield, Mass., and Manchester, N. H., where it was approx imately $1.50 a ton, and Boston and New llaven, where it was 50 cents. The retail dealers, it says, benefited very unequally from the price advanced. Whether these increases were reason able must be determined, the report adds, for individual communities. M u n icip a l R ailroad P ay*. San Francisco's municipal railway is showing increased profits. In Febru ary it showed a clear gain of $1,154.35 Manufacturers of over January. The record for the time W. A . B u rk e. the road has been in o|ieration up to O pen 5 A . M . t o 12 P . M. women and children. The idea of giv- ! March 1 shows total receipts of $39,- “ BOSS OT THE ROAD’’ 96V , N o r th T h ird S tr e e t ing first chance of city and county j 385.85, with nfternting expenses of $21,- OVERALLS work to mdb before the court is an- ; 435.11, leaving a balance of $17,950.74. Deducing from this latter figure the in other proposed reform. In his platform, Mr. Burke says: terest charges and redemption pay “ There are three general classes of; ments on the part of the roail now in Sal,»room, Fifth ano Ankeny Street, persons daily before the Municipal , operation, there remains a net profit «'onrt. They are men who willfully of about $9,000 over all charges and F a cto r y , G rand A v e . and E . T a y lo r St. violate the law, who should be severely expenses. This is surely a good show punished; the men forced by society to' ing for the new enterprise. i iolate the law, and they should be For A H oney B u tte r G o v ern m en t B o n d s for S a le. given a helping hand. The men who By applying before June 2, 1913, de violate without thinking should he le c C h eese E ggs tured nnd fined according to the seri positors of the Postal Havings system Delicious may exchange the whole or a pait of ousness of the violation.’’ Attorney Burke further declares in their deposits for United Htates rng his platform that all cases shall be tried istered or coupon bonds in denomina Breakfast iu «»[« mi court, ami not in the corridors - tions of $20, $100 and $500, bearing in terest from July 1, 1913, at the rate of or on the street. E. L. FTHEIB The Burke Club was organized early I 2 1-2 per cent |>er annum, payable in February to assist Mr. Burke in his j semiannually, and redeemable at the . YAMHILL SANITARY MARKET race for the judgeship. W. H. Hitch pleasure of the United States after or » SECOND AND YAMHILL STREETS is president, and I«ec Warford ia secre year from the date of issue, both prin A lb o r a B r o a . tarv of this organization, which nnm- I cipal and interest payable 20 years from Main 1195 Free Delivery M illin g C o m p a n y hers 226 members. The club took over thnt. date in United Htates gold coin. the exclusive management of the cam paign, in this respeet being entirely a L ab or E d ito r I s M ayor. new plan of campaigning. The member W. E. M ’Ewen, editor of the Ihiluth (aasist» 8 l»wrtlin fMurt. Stnrt. »dim a ship is com|M>sed of men from all walks (Minnesota) Labor World, has been U niO l CAMPBELL’S AMERICAN BAND of life, from all classes and all [«»litical elected Mayor of that city and took, rtSTT A. CASrsni. C.start.r M llO ìt* 9BMT A. C loth ier, H a tte r , O en te' F u rn ish er parties. ’ office last^reek. T h e U su a l M ixtu re. M U S IC 34 t 74th S t Phset Taker 557 Attorney Burke has lived in Oregon ' U n io n M a8* G o o d , a S p e c ia lty “ How did old Bankroll get so much 2,140,798 172/62 The mnn who is afraid of doing more eight years, spending uve years in the dough 1” W- Soil AE Brand, of Tobacco at Coot J. E. K elly’a Family Liquor Store “ President «if the flour trust, and practice of law in this city. He is a than his share is the last to gain pro The man who kicks himself gets back motion. Importar,— Wholesale and Botali graduate of the Oregon Law School. thpv watered the stock.’’ M ain 0094 103-195 F lr e t S tr e e t nt his best friend. S a n F r a n c is c o O y ste r H o u se Violet O ats T h e M o d e l B u tte r S to re RED FRONT M -la 29; A-2902 354 Morrison Strota ?