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PORTLAND LABOR PRES8
The Voice of the Common People
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U N IO N T A IL O R S
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A F. U ansneder
Monday, April 21. 1913
Phones : M 2987
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367 M O E P IS O P S T R E E T
Crawfish la Season
H a r v e y & W o r l e y R a« tim e P ía n o p ia y ¡n K
playing positively taught
1 Piano rilavino-
10 to 20 lessons. Success g.asanieed''
Underneath Musicians ’ Headquarters, Write or call for free booklet
Christensen’s School of Popular Mu. (
246 ALDER STREET.
201 Goodnougb bldg
Phones Marshall 2592, A 3038.
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A First-Class Union Bar.
PORTLAND, Or., April J5.-Editor, tein on the ground that general edu
Labur Pre««.—The tendencies of all cation of the people would destroy their
that ha« gone before in «octal evolution usefulness, and disqualify them from
Regular $3.00 Value
412 Washington Street, near Tenth
(Union Shop)
malte« for «ocialiam. Slowly, yet »urely, being “ just c< p i n i o n people.’’ The pre
does civilization emerge from each suc vailing notion was, that only the well
ceeding decade with nobler thoughts, to-do should be < ilurated and prepared
Good Work and Honest Dealings
grander visi .ns, greater achievements to manage the affairs of government.
and a finer „use of justice. The in Today education has become compul- 214 Alder Street, bet. Second and
dividual, a« an individual, roust con ; »ory, and we are well on the way to
Third, Portland Oregon
tinue to give way to the collective unit, i the supplying of free text books, and
called society, until the future individ even food and clothing to our school
ué' interest« are di«solved in the com .children. Society has begun to learn
Suita 825 and Up
mon welfare When that condition is that each child is an asset to be devel Tailors to Men
arrived at we will have emerged from oped to its greatest degree of utility, 287’/ , Wash. St.
Phone Main 8133
savagery into that society, now termed ' and that for every neglected and un
by political economists as socialism. educated child society must answer to
This will mean for the first time in ! itself.
Beginning Tuesday, April 1st
human history, a real civilization. - ■ The chief obstacle to the fuller de
I
In our «avage state the universal busi velopment of the coli five idea is, that
S u its, C o a ts a n d D re sse s, v a lu e s to $27.50, a t
ness of all tribes was warfare; conquest the old savage instinct of individual
This, in our modern business
and conquering. This was invariably i ity.
$ 1 5 .7 5
the function of tribal government. The I world, means the ability to extract SUITS $ 3 5 .0 0 A N D UP
individual did not conduct invasion or profits, to acquire that acumen to suc I
Tailors to Women
100 S p r in g C o a ts, v a lu e s to $18.00, a t
defense, as an individual. As we have cessfully come into possession of some
gradually advanced in the civilizing thing produced or possessed by another,
711-712
713
Rothchild
Bldg.
$ 7 .8 5 a n d $ 9 .8 5
procesa, we have acquired governmnetal 1 by means of trade or barter. That old
function of various social needs, prom cominercia instinct has become so fhur
inent among which are our postal, high (Highly iinpi inted in us that we regard
$35.00 S u its , sp e c ia l a t
way and school systems. Their pro «peculating or trading in commodities
posals were vigorously attacked, just as with more dignified importance than
the proposal of socialism has been, and I their production. This practice has be
Well that is just what we are pre
continues to be. They were looked ii|K»n come so general that we are seeing its
as innovations that were dangerous to effects in the increasing difficulty of a pared to do, get one of these slips from
Come in and look them over—it will be worth while
personal liberty, unjust and impractic great mass of humanity to acquire any yo ir waiter, present it at our store
able. The proposition to carry a letter thing like a decent and respectable ex when you order your suit and we will
across the country for two cents, to istence in a country with boundless re allow you $2.50 discount. Men's suits
|ieople who had uo conception of organ sources and teeming with wealth. The to order 125.00. Ladies’ shits to order,
ized society, seemed altogether im|»os- matter of tariff on commodities will not »35.00.
sible, and the advocate was looked ujMin meet this difficulty; for just so long as
as a wild-eyed agitator, much the same we adhere to the rule of producing and UNIQUE TAILORING CO.
415 Washington Street
as the average («erson of today looks distributing commodities on a gambling 309 STARK ST., BET 6TH AND 6TH
Union Tailors.
upon the proposition of carrying a pas basis instead of for social use. just so
senger across the country for a dollar long will these difficulties remain with
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or to of actual expense.
P. CKABTREE,
The well-to-date and many of the Chairman Press Committee, Branch 2,
clergy opposed the public-school sys-
T A IL O R S
Socialist Party of Portland, Or.
Second Floor Dekum Bldg., Third St.,
between Washington and
Alder
Phone Main 2966
TA ILO R S
$ 2 .0 0 K E N SH A W H A T S $ 2 .0 0
EJwood Wiles
EXTRA EXTRA
SPE C IA L
CONTRACTOR
Huffman & Grant
United Tailors
What would you say if we
handed you $2.50 in money
ELMGREN & LOUIS
$ 2 2 .5 0
B T B B B T P A T IV O . C O VC BETE W O E l
C EM EN T I I D 1 T À I .X I
P h o a s M ata 641
Lee 11. Clerk, Fr.«
Q*o. M. Orton, M r
Home Phone A l l 13
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LETTERHEADS. ENVELOPE«
In Pact, ANYTHING You Want
MaltDomah Printing Co.
BY LAWS. WORKING CARDS Wr
CARRY UNION WATER MARKED
PATER
82% FRONT STREET.
E M IL . T H I E L H O R N
Pupil of Seveik. Teacher of Violin Thin»
Y ,ar* JfW ntational Experience. 325 FlieJ
ner Building, W»«hington and Tenth Streep
Phon«»: A-4160; llarihaU 1629.
J.
F.
Funeral Directors and Embalmers
Lady Assistant
n t t h »ad Montgomery Street». Phone Main 9
BEST OF ALL
Union Made Shoes
, White
Mountain
Flour
B u y f o r y o u r f a m i l y a n d y o u r s e lf
C H O E S t h a t a r e a ll U N I O N
M A D E , h a n d le d b y U N IO N '
M E N in t h e o n ly s t o r e o w n e d •
a n d c o n t r o l l e d b y T r a d e s U n io n s
Richard W. Bryan
BOSS OF
ALL
Made
<Kk S O N
Standard Cloak & Suit Co.
The movemen t a U»
i tional educa directly for productive employment in
tion in this cot itry is now in full any of these useful occupations, instead
swing. Six states already have more of sending them out with little or no
or less complete systems of vocational training for the real work they are
Cleaning and Pressing
training, and a number of oth ers are going to do.
208 Mor'rtaon 8L, Bet, fron t and Pirn
considering legislation to introduce into
Experience has already been suffi
the public school« work that will fit cient V indicate in what kind of schools
Telephone Tabor 2384
boy« and girls more directly for earn this vocational training can be given.
ing a living. In order to aid in the The circular cites a number of types
movement the National Society for the of schools, among them the following:
Promotion of Industrial Education has The all-day vocational schools, where
UNION TAILOR
issued a brief, explicit statement of the pupils can spend at least one year
what it considers the main principles in all-day attendance; the part time
6538 Foster Road
that should underlie the proposed legis schools, where boys and girls regularly
lation, and the United States Bureau of employed may come fyr a few hours
Education, while not giving official each week; the evening schools in in
indorsement to the program as a whole, dustry or agriculture, for persons over
is sending copies of the pamphlets to 16 years of age who work during the
those who apply for it.
day, and similar evening schools for
What are the essentials if a state classes in household arts.
system of practical education 1 The
It is significant that the six states
society’s circular endeavors to answer that have already set up systems of
THE PLACE
this question. In a few short technical vocational
education—Massachusetts,
paragraphs it sums up certain of the New York, Connecticut, New Jersey,
fundamental policies of vocational edu Wisconsin and Indiana—have long had
cation as this society sees it. It urges excellent schools. The newer education
state aid to the I o ^ a I communities. It which they are introducing is not in
recognizes four fields of vocational tended to replace the old, but to sup
12 6 SECOND STREET
training as the kind the state uoght to plement it; to give training for a spe
furnish IK boys and girls; industrial cific employment in addition to the
e d u c a f.j for workers in the trades regular schooling.
and industries and in the household;
Under the present system vocational
agricultural education for the farmers; education frequently helps the era-
commercial education for clerks, sales ployera who are thus able to get their
Phone, Marshall 1544
men, etc., and “ household arts educa pick of young skilled workers at low
tion’’ for non-wage-earning occupations wages. Still a complete education also
There A r e None Better
connected with the home. In other helps the worker^.. It makes them bet
words, the state ought to make it pos ter equipped to participate in the man
sible for children to receive in the pub agement and ofieration of the co-o|>era
lic schools instruction that will fit them tive commonwealth.
If yon are particular about your
DRUO8 AND MEDICINES
Attorney
MINE OPERATORS BAVE LIVES cue and first-aid methods. Fifty-eight
Let me be your Druggist.
and
Counselor
at Law
per cent of all industrial accidents are
Organisation Begins Systematic Effort sho /n by statistics to be due to neg
A lb e r t B e r n i
to Prevent Accidents.
ligence, . arelessness or lack o f ' know
4 0 9 Oregonian Building
Portland, Oregon
229
Washington Street, near Second
As the result of h conference which ledge of employers or employes, as
whs held under the auspices of the : The Journal of the American Medical
United States Bureau of Mines last Association points out the vital neces
September, the American Mine Hafety | sity of learning everything possible
Association has been organized, with about the causes and means of prevent
headquarters at Pittsburgh, Pa. I t s ' ing these accidents must be evident
members include the leading coal and to every man concerned in mining. To
metal mine operators, mining engineers the o;>erator it spells business sueeess
and mine safety engineers of the coun- i or failure; to the miner, life or the
try. Its purpose is the conservation of physical ability to work and support
the life and health of the miner and a family,
a reduction in property loss due to
Big Companies Make Profit.
explosions or fires in mines. It will
—IS—
attempt to place before the miners
The report shows that the coal com
standard methbds to be used in rescue panies affected by the Supreme Court
work and in first aid to the injured.
decision of last December had until
The work of the Bureau of Mines in then a still further advantage, in that
reducing the uumber of deaths in the their contracts with independent com
The New Model No. 5 Royal comes to you with the uncon
mines has led to the adoption of many panics, by which they secured domestic
ditional guarantee that it will do highest grade work for a longer
different types of rescue apparatus, and coal at 65 f>er cent of tidewater prices,
time at less upkeep expense that machines usually listed at 33 1/3
also to the use of many different meth were not disturbed when the price of
ods of resnsritation and first aid to the coal was increased in June. While the
per cent, higher in price.
injured. Hundreds oi mines within the so-called independent (qierators paid
THIS GUARANTEE IS ACTUALLY ATTACHED TO EVERY
last three or four years have been their miners the same incre tse in wages
equipped with rescue Apparatus, rescue as the larger coal companies, they got
NEW MODEL ROYAL JUST AS YOU SEE IT IN
,
corps and first aid corps. Many of the only 65 per cen of the price raise,
THE
ILLUSTRATION
inen, in emergencies, have developed while 35 jier cent of it, or 8.75 cents a
their own ways of doing things. The ton, went to the big companies.
Back of this guarantee are the resources and experiences of one of the largest and most
organizers of this association feel that
As to the anthracite mine workers,
important
typewriter manufacturing concerns in the world. Do you think we would dare
the most efficient methods and appar the report says that they benefited by
make such a guarantee if we did not know that the Royal has the simplicity and durability
atus in actual use should be found and the strike agreement of May 20 last not
to outclass any other machine!
recommended to the mining industry for only by an average increase of 5.« per
general use. There were 2,719 persons cent in their wages, -‘ but through the
killed in the coa, mines of the United concession of certain working condi
THE MASTER MODEL
States during the year 1911, and 9,106 tions which were considered of import-1
One Typewriter with the Combined Advantages/>f Several!
seriously and 22,228 slightly injured. ance, although they cannot be meas
The New No 5 Royal (latest model of any typewriter on the market) has two-color rib
Nearly an equal number of men were I ured in terms of money; an additional
injured in metal mines and quarries. ! item of importance to the miners being
hon, tabular, back-spacer and all the worth-while features of the highest priced machine«
yet sell» for only $75, everything included.
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machines—
Mine operators now realize that, it the partial recognition of their organ
is more expensive to restore wrecked ization, both in the negotiations and in
mines, more costly to- fight damage the form in wfiich the agreement was
ILLUSTRATED BOOK FREE
suits through the courts, and less prof- I signed. ’ ’
32'p* “ ' , R o i ” ll0 ‘'k '' “ ■,d g e *
itable to pay regulated liability charges !
or even workmen's com|>eii»ation, than
Her Needs.
it is to bear the cost involved in re
H e— S h e has e v e r y th in g she needs
ducing these charges by means of dim
to m ake her happy.
inishing the number of accidents and
¡'hi - But it 's th e th in g s she does
the duration of the resulting disability
364 BROADWAY, NEW YORK, N. Y.
not need th a t a w om an n eed s to m ake
Branches and Agencies The World Over
by the adoption of improved safety, re»
her happy.— IP, Chester T im es.
Union
F IN L E Y
Progreulvc
The Vaine of Vocational Education
I. E. Norgard & Co,
TAILORS
108S-10S» » . o n Bldg
A sk Your G rocer For It
THE
BARBER ASPHALT
PAVING COMPANY
605-608 Electric Building
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OSKAR HUBER, District Manager
The C o-O perative Shoe Store
O v e r a lls
H. J. PARKISON
Ii£ ROYAL
STA N D A R D
TYPEWRITER
GUARANTEED!
ROYAL TYPEWRITER COMPANY
HOW SAVINGS GROW
In order to Ulnstrata th« rapid growth of
savings with 4 por eont compounded lntersit
added, wo have prepared the following table
Bate of
Intereet
t 25
-2
o 5 g t ¡3 2 g 3 3 C 4 5 *
= 3§
3 * g 3*5
fr S iW «
FO U R Per cent t 73.
$4O3.i$1.294
.50 per annum Com 146. Í162.
324. 8OÖ.I 2.68*
1.00 pounded t Alee a 293.
«60.
2 00 year. January I 585. 1301. 1614.1 5,177
3228.110,361
8 00 land Jnty I.
1462. 3252 8070.125.88*
»I OPENS AM ACCOUNT
(Eetabliehed 18 Tear»)
HIBERNIA SAVINGS BANK,
SECOND
AND
WASHINGTON
A Conservative
Custodian
STREETS
Open Saturday
Evening», 6 to 8
Today and Tomorrow
calls for
DURABILITY
and ECONOMY in
Street Paving.
Secure the BEST.
Boost for
BITULITHIC
Union Made Clothes
For Union Men
Suit or
Overcoat
$15
Made
to Order
DUNDEE WOOLEN MILLS
363 WASHINGTON STREET
SCHWAB PRINTING CO.
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Creva«, Pmidmi
Sehfit» Yaer frutti.«
2454 STAIK STREET