Portland labor press., April 13, 1914, Page 2, Image 2

Mond»/. April » .
PORTLAND LABOR PRESS
C H IL D R E N
E D U C A T IO N
r e c r e a t io n
W O M AN A N D H E R IN T E R E S T S
SCHOOL BOOKS
Hyland Bros.
168 Fifth 8t„ opposite Post Office
211 Second St., near Salmon.
For a
Delicious
Breakfast
HAAKON GLASOE,
H IDE - GRADE WATCH REPAIRING A
SPECIALTY
All work guaranteed
Doss whet ie
ri(ht, whether it pays financially or not.
125 Vi F lrn Street Near Wa«hln<ton
Phone Marshall 2141
ALBERS BROS.
W. W. CONNER
MILLING COMPANY
Shoe and Bepalr Factory
Oar Motto:
“ Quality and Qulcknsss*
\\ ait John a Specialty
56# WASHINGTON STREET
F ran k O u s n e d e r
Fred D u er lr
P hone Main 91 70
D A M A SC U S
Heidelberg Restaurant
and Oyster House
Look for the Tra4e-Mark Cap
Im ttei. Cream. Milk and B u t­
ter Ml.k o f a b so lu te p u rity —
i: your grocers or delivered
by us.
O pen S a y and M ight. P r iv a te M o o n s
fo r L a d le s and F a m ilies.
933 YAKMXLL B T B B E T
B etw een F ir st and Second
Milk That S ta y s Street la S o t W eather
Portland Candy Kitchen
Damascus Creamery
Call up Hast 3240 or B 5156
245 MORRISON ST.
Home Made Candies Made Freeh Every
Day.
We Cater to the Union Trade.
Give Us a Trial.
THE ROYAL COFFEE STORE
The Old R elia b le
Coffee Boasted at onr Store
in Coffee, Tea 4- Spices.
We
Guarantee the Purity and Quality
of Our Coffee.
We Cater to Union Trade
Phono Main 410#
152 Second Street
Near Morrison
D e a lin g
SUNSET CREAMERY
COMPANY
M anufacturers o f
Butter and Ice Cream
Phones Main 52( A 4211
281 First Street
P ortland . O regon
THE MISSION
TEA
THE KANDY LAND
High Grade Candies, Fresh Made Every
Day
We Cater to Union Trade
Pricee Right— 20c per lb.
GEO. J. WETLE. Prop.
230 Alder, and Yamhill Market, 2nd and
Yamhill
00.
"The Store That Does the Bnslneie”
Wr Sell for Ceah, Price! are Right
Coffees, Teat, Splcea • Specialty
Groceries and Fruit
We Give Stamps
Eaat 2106. A ISSI—537 Williams Avenus
BOSTON CANDY KITCHEN
J. E. K elly ’s Fam ily Liquor Store
Im p orters— W h o le sa le and R eta il
M ain 28. A 2802
Phone Merehall 3205
E. Vlrgilioo 4 G. Simon, Preps.
Freih Candles Mads Dally
20c Per Pound
We Cater to Union Trad«
260 Alder
Main 1102
364 M orrison St.
DR. A. W. KEENE
DENTIST
NEW MAJF8TIC THEATRE BLDG.
Park ar cl Washington Streets
Entrance „¿1 ti Washington Street.
5251 First St., car. Salwss
Sixths
Townsend’s W hite Clover Carton B utter
the sanitary way
FIB8T IN QUAUTY
FIBST IN SALES
because of our experience
because of buyers’ experience
Alsu makers of the famous White Clover Ice Cream
T. S. TOWNSEND CREAMERY CO.
Phone M 4077
A-4946
18-20 Front Street
Portland
BUTTER-NUT BREAD
"ill satisfy you if you are dissatisfied with the bread you are
getting. Try it.
All ingredients in Butternut Bread are accurately weighed by automatic
scales, and the flours carefully blended.
M ade b y tb e U. S. B a k ery
Get the Best in
MILK, CREAM AND BUTTER
Portland Pure Milk and Cream Company
When you buy TIP-TO P BREAD—look for the T IP ­
TOP Label. Be sure to get the Genuine.
T IP -T O P BREAD
Made exclusively by the
LOG CABIN BAKING COMPANY
We Carry Fire and Burglar Insurance for Protection of Our C'. stornerà
BROADWAY DYE WORKS
Hays * Hays, Fropratori
GRAND AVE. AND SCHUYLER STREETS
h
Prompt and Careful Attention Given to Express Orders
. P ortland , oregon
t,„ 8M c U42
Portland Trost and Savings Bank
“ THE BANK FOR SA V IN G S”
S’ fe Deposit and
Storage Vaults
Mortgage Loans
Four Per Cent
Interest on Savings
NORTHWESTERN BANK BUILDINO
gardlees of
economie argumente and
WOMEN IN AUSTRALIA
law».”
For year» the matter has been loft
Miss Jessie Ackermann is the one
haphazard to accident, to eonpetition. American woman who has studied the
to individual »elfishness, and for year» condition of her sex with great care
By ABTHUB BRISBANE.
conditions have been getting worse.
in many countries, lu her new book,
It is time for the public intelligence. entitled “ Australiu From a Woman’s
The important thing on thia earth rest can they be compelled to accept in ' ,I" •'u,’l'r ®"ni*®i«nce and the public Point of V iew ,” she tells of the situ-
is the human race, not individual return!
power to protect women by law.
1 ation of woman on the island conti­
profits.
When merchants in the big cities | Every Legislature in every state nent without reserve. Some of her
I should punish a» a felony the criminal revelations may well be pondered by
The women create the race, and the ne®’' extra horses in their delivery de
welfare of women and
and girls,
girls, their
their P*rtment,
i>Brtnle,,t’ they pay
W «»“•Hy
*
’
.75
a
day
j
*
nd
®'®r «°rking
of supporters of the feminist movement
usually 81.75 a
in this part of the world. We quote
health, their »treugth, their vitality, foT ,b ® use of a horse, an -hey must
r„i
. ,,
their virtue, transmitted to their ehil- Pr®'“>»® to take good care of it, drive ] h
t
f
,"'1’
‘ . . ’? en and these as bearing upon tbu equal rights
■Iren, s, rpass in importance all other ¡‘ slowly, and must be driven only so
h n
.‘" T ’ ‘"‘T ",,d of women and men when considered in
many miles and so many hours.
8hou,d under,,e *uch '®g the light of morality and honest man­
questions.
liness:
The man wb<)
who I,a.
pays
for <b®
the | ' * ' ï ?n
Today under our methods of em , Tbe
vl1 * 61.75
'-75 for
n 7h,»
t h e 7 it ’i e 7 ‘ where rent»
1 In the cities, where rents and living
Although women have been made
ployment and competition, the work-
8 * ork of “ borse Pav* 50 «•»<•. expenses are highest the
ini ni in li il , equal with men so far as voting is
tug woman is the lower millstone in a “u d . ”ft®n '®»>. for the day s work of that
|((
j
grinding system of meanness, cupidity * g,rI
a 'y°"‘an- 'Vnd the bor ® j should be higher than in ’ legal wage ! concerned, the most appalling inequal-
higher than in the sm aller¡ity in their legal status obtains in
needs
only
a bed of straw, oats and
and heartless exploitation
hay, no clothing. You kuow what the towns and villages, where li f e ’s cost every state of the commonwealth.
Many animals are used by man as
This is observed in regard to punish-
woman ought to have, although she ** '®8H-
beasts of burden—from the Asiatic
Can’t
Hurt
Business
"ient for giv®n offenses, «» well as in
does not got it.
elephant, the small llama of the Andes,
I t i :
....
.
provisions made bv some of the states
More and more the women
the w h ! i , i
’
discourage the dreadful for the housing of offenders against
animals of all kinds, the horse, the ox,
country are drawn into the whirlpool <_row,l,ng in great cities, the criminal the law in the case of state wards
the mule, the ana, thfi camel, even the
of industry and coinmerc .e , half paid build,ng of factories and sweatshops J and especially in relation to the con-
ostrich and the reindeer are made into and half fed
narrow sunless city streets. It duct of women in public places. There
working slaves for men. Cheapest of
would scatter population and counter are
’fenses for which a policeman
Mothers’ Vitality Drained.
all among the animals that man har­
act
a
great
evil
of
our
day.
.
pUl.
nesses and drives in his money-making
■ pui. nis hand
nano upon u
a W0InaB
woman and
and
More and more tb i vitality of the
Do not
imagine that any capable or brings her to account for her deport-
schemes is the human female.
mothers of the next generation is honeM
lnan
nest man, any useful industry or ment before the law; while a man.
I)o you waut a miserable slave to ¡’'rained and diminished for the sake
business, would be injured by laws guilty of similar conduct, merely acts
»♦and on her tired feet all day long, ! ,,f Profit.
giving just protection to women.
up to the *..........
privileges which are granted
with aching buck and tired heart, and I Now
n ow every little rhild
child put to work
ThHt which is „„„.I
»a.
u , ?*'
stretched n ones, for twelve or m ore| beyond
iV strength, e v .iy
g.r, bar- nadon is X . t o r e X v
nation is good for every citizen in it.
nessed to a machine run bv electricity
Establish bv
* ?***
Painte<' *ace and
hours a day—hire n girl of sixteen
S minlmuni w«g'“ i brazen mien parades the street, flaunt-
You can hire her for less than it at high sneed everv woman over t
Driving; Women to Perdition
Sold and Exchanged
H e have new and second band
V iolet O a ts
THE TABLE
T H E K IT C H E N
THE GARDEN
uctually costs to feed her if you are a
resents a a w
weak
good slave-driver.
eak mother, and every protect , he well meaning employer, the ¡ r ig h t e ^ r ^ r a th h“e
may “ put dow n”
Do you want your office building weak mother means weak children and man with a conscience and a heart.
her kind by handing her over to the
scrubbed night after nightf Do you a weaker generation to succeeed this
Forbid the exploitation o f women, police. Charges may be brought against
want a human being on hands and
starving and underpaying of girls her, he being the onlv witness on
knees to spend the hours of darknes
"* 8 °,ri ,h" been told ln England, ¡by miserable and heartless employers, whose evidence she is sentenced The
every night, year in mid year out,
acre child labor and overworked, uu- !«nu you protect the good employer, I law is often meted out according to
crawling across t ie sold stone flo o r i, derpaid female labor produced
, a gen- «nice you protect the fair man against the standing of the outraged male
in the wet, scrubbing, cleaning, bead eration so sickly .n d stunted that it heartless competition.
victim. “ Men and women sin, two
bent, and face white and worn—hire was difficult to find recruits of t h e ; Many a man conducting a great by two, but they pav for it one bv
some gray-haired woman, who has proper size even for as small an army business is filled with shame as he con- o n e ’’— woman is'th e one
templates his payroll. He has, perhaps. I A man may outrage every sens« of
been left a widow with children, or as .he English army.
who is cursed with a sick or a drunken
Are we going to have in the United i one thousand women and girls working I decency by improper ad\*nces and
husband. Such a woman you can hire ¡States and in the big cities a popula- Ifor bim ’an<i *>® knows that ut least proposals to a woman in the street
for $1 per night, if you know how to ¡tion like that of the East End of Lsyn-< throe <luarter* ° f tbe"' a»® shamefully , and, unless he is in a state of intoxi-
go about it, and how to find the mother i don, a Whitechapel district, where the underpaid, because they are pour and cation, she has no redress.
A
made desperate by her children’s women bear babies that are called ! disorganized.
•
who is really out of his normal mind
needs.
“ w asters” children, that no skill can
But, b® ,nust Pa.v «’hat the others under the influence of ilquor is le­
j l’a-v or K° out of business.
gaily responsible to the law for his
Do you want swiftly-m oving fingers, sse e from the grave in infancyf
Are we to have duplicates here of | . H®. C0,"P®te8 w ith other employers liberties with women on a public
keen eyesight, great agility, in your
, abl,“ y to buy goods, in his highway; but a b ru te, clothud as a
canning factory—or in your making of the miserable, half-starved and often 1!"
degraded English working girls, liv in g . * nowl®d# e of public taste, in the i gentleman, about whom there is no
paper boxes or artificial flow ersf
organization. He comeptes i sign by which to take warning as in
Hire little girls—you can get them on a few »hillings a week, k eep in g' I’*>we.r
by the thousands for a few cents a their bodies and nervous energy going i “i“0 ln . 8 Powcr to '>u.v the life blood ¡the case of a drunken man, may freely
with tea, or with gin f
b , ° f working women at the lowest pus-1
1 manifest
* ...............................
his brutalized nature in the
day.
sible price.
face
of self-respecting women citizens,
For
what
was
this
republie
estab­
By Bribing Inspectors.
and there is no appeal for them. The
Will Protect Honest Employers.
lished?
B y bribing inspectors, or avoiding
Was it to enrich a few merchants! Laws tbat wi" protect the working , }awF and" ^ w om an—well if ^ he i» fleet
inspectors, you can work these chil­
manufacturers, or was it to cr e a te !women against starvation wages w ill!
foot may escaue nrovided th ere
dren from daylight until dark, work­ a and
nation free, strong and healthy, w i t h i n b— ‘ employers. And, what
no ’l i Z ^ h l c T w o ^
ing the mothers, too, through the « m e the women powerful good mothers, the I
important, such mws will ; suit o„ t^,, part
hef
hours. This is done; it pays and the
annoyer un­
a ffid a v its and the photographs are o n ! chi,dreu bealth>’ and at PlaF> and t h e j P ^ e c t the coming generation and the : safe.
.............’ ¡ ’“ women would be horrified If one
men able to protect the’ worn?»' and !{ a i™
‘b»
record, showing the half-fed, half-
grown children falling asleep from ex ­
haustion a t their work, then awakened
Supply and Demand?
and driven to g iv e up the last ounce of
Th® «mb- ®b"d Who«
v ita lity by threats and blows
This is a fine world for the
wants to make n fortune out
fem ale labor.
The little store and the big store, the
The law says the child is
little
sal
n#
registration as
NW
Mg
competition
how much labor can
iu men
b are
i m ! ®»gy « her body for tlie duties of omitting the father s except bv sne-
nn.l girls,
„1,1. and '*b"®««. do not rule, when
the bodies of women and
m o t herhood, and you will have made a ! ci», act
parjismeni.
P
X
how little monev, how ittte food and
When we say here that the law K00'1 ° ‘,g»n®*ng.
: i„ Victoria an effort was made to
should and will compel the payment of
___
___________
wipe out the vile system which would
decent wages to women we are told
ACTIVITIES OF WOMEN,
have been a disgrace to the dark
that we ignore the law of “ supply and
BEST OF ALL
,
aR®". by the introduction into parlia-
the e wen
well to do ment of a bill
‘
demand,” and that these things must
v Chinese
‘■“ ‘•»e women
w om en among m
modelled upon the laws
regulate themselves.
¡class are now discarding cloth shoes enacted in Switzerland.
The object
Nothing regulates itself. Man has i ,r
e eaf er shoes.
¡n v jew was
ey jj before
his intelligence in order that he may ' ' b<> h ,,!’sian duma lias granted mar-i it assumed the shocking and alarming
regulate conditions and abolish brutal-! r'ed women the right to obtain sepa < proportions it has reached in many
ity. and compel justice.
irate passports without their husband's , parts/ of Europe. Tbe bill set, forth
We make thousands of laws to pro- con*en*’
, that all children of this class whose
WHITE
tect the merchant and the m anufac-1 Colored school teachers iu West V ir-11’^rentage could be made clear must
tiirer in their money making.
Iginia receive a higher average in p a y |b e registered in the father's name as
MOUNTAIN
Our government attacks and pun- tba" *b® white, a condition e x istin g !" 1® ®bild of an illegitim ate father. As
ishes combinations and conspiracies in 1,1 probably no other state in the,® v®r-v *'bild comes into the world along
FLOUR
restraint of trade, because they hurt "ni in.
I the lines of the one and only law
the individual business man.
Mrs. Harriet ( ’. Adams is probably ' {’r®’H!rib®d by the Almighty, it fol-
. 8t tb®re ’• no R,,ch thing as an
We forbid the railroads to practice more versed on laitin American affairs !
.extortion and oppress the money-mak-1 than any other woman in the United lll®»fltlm at® child. The illegitim ate
ing shipper of goods through rebates, states, she having covered 40,000 miles I Pror®®ding is on the part of the father
We sav that th passenger shall be : ii Central and Houtli America, reach- “Dd h<‘, "bou|d bear the disgrace,
th® JUStl«® ®i ‘ h® child bearing
ASK YOUR GROCER FOR IT carried at so much per mile, that the lu ___ , ,_____ _____ s u n s e e n h v „ .
thousand feet of gas shall be sold for 1 white woman.
tbe fa ,b ®’’’" nam®-
so many cents.
, T1)<1 wj|, of Migt( M
p
ofJ
bi»
',rovidcd’ in, ea* '
I., every direction, when money is ,.itf, bllrgh stipulates that the ineom ejthat th *
" V , “. n"‘rr,Pd man’
involved, we make laws forbidding op- f rom half of her estate valued -.t i * *h
h 1 sbo,1’d b«v ® »n equal
pression, compelling fair prices, pro- „ Oo,000, be used to provide v a cation s!^ T e g T w i f l ’ ' i V ^ f
h “T ”
PORTLAND
teet.ng industrial, com m ercal a„d per- for W0IIien who W()rk for their , ivi ,
b gunmL r L 1
annul rights. Khali we not also make or
who
-.re ill.
ill
1 hjg
unmarried,
at once
GLOVE WORKS
or «n
o are
,ega,
re|ation he
to must
tfce chiJd
bjr make
I law« protecting women and girl«
In London there is a dub whose ob rying the mother. In a countrv of
| against the sharks and shark-like self­
Union Made Gloves
ishness by which they are exploited ject is to help working women w h o , progressive and experimental legisla-
liave talent for writing
tion, it is by no means surprising to
mid ground down?
Carry the Union Label
The juvenile court at St. Louis is t o ' b'arn of the introduction of sw h a
For a Living Wage.
Are Strictly First Class
have all cases of girls or women heard : bill. The astounding part of it is that
No man denies that women and girls by women judges hereafter.
*bc majority against it was but one
\V b alesale
Retail
are hired, forced by tneir poverty and
Germany has evening schools where vote.
helplessness, to work for wages upon shop girls are taught the art of selling
Stark B etw een 12th and 13th
which they cannot live.
goods.
P O R TLA N D , OREGON
Women Form Labor Union
I pon such wages, paid to hundreds
More than 6 per cent of the total
More than 9,nnn women of Colorado,
ot thousands of women, normal health number o f students in the German uni- mostly wives of striking miners ami
and strength cannot be maintained.
versities are women.
other laborers, have organized into a
The
not jiermit a man to i Mr». J. F. Pierson and Mr». Austen union and will lie granted- a charter
, . law
, would
,
u np riced a horse ami gradually wear Gray, New York society women, have by the Colorado Ktate Federation of
hin: >ut. This would be prevented re- organized a eigaret manufacturing Imber. The avow.-l purpose of the
gardless of any argument as to coin- company.
¡organization is the betterm ent o f the
pet.tion. Cruelty being demonstrated,
Mrs John Ward, daughter of the living eomlitions, political, econ om ic
t i c half-fed animal would be protected late Whitelaw Reid, will erect an insti- and sociological, among
labor people
Book.« on every subject—
ami the owner punished.
tute in London ns a memorial to her of the state.
inspect at your leisure.
* ruelty exists, and heartless brutal father
i
—----- -----------------
ity exists, wherever a woman or girl
New Plan tor Boycott.
is put to work, paid less than it costs
Aim of Education.
The District of Columbia Associa-
lmr to live, or worked beyond her
The aim of education should be rath tion Op,>oeed to Woman Suffrage nn-
strength.
er to teach us how to think than what ‘o noiince» that in future its meuibera
!o overwork or starve a woman, to th in k - rather to enable us to think for will not attend theatrical production«
drive girls to immoral lives, is crime, ourselves than to load the memory with . which hom ey argument» hi favor of
Third and Alder Sts.
am! the law should prevent erime re the thoughts of other men.—Belittle.
votes for wom en.
■■
YOUR
BOOK S T O R E
GILL’S
The J. K. Gill Co.
'““
r