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PORTLAND LABOR PRESS Page »even you become all tired out, for then the play is dangerous. Everyone needs some play, but not too much. You can’t work all day and dance - and cat »use all night and keep vour By Congressman Clyde H. Tavenner. tributor. .Mr. Herbert I.. Satterlee, The queshon has been raised as to general counsel for the league, is a Thv I'nited States Bureau of 1-ahor on the nature of the employment of health. SoolH.,. or latcr lhe gtroneegt ■ has just issued its annual the injured person, i e„ whether in , constitution will break and the re •e- the patriotism of those who insist son-in-law and heir of Mr. Morgan. ef court decisions affecting interstate commerce or not. The sjstant.P to wjn become „ ____ _____ _____ so upon the Government manufacture of J. Pierpont Me. gan, Jr., is vise of the ! rtvit' its Bulletin No. 169. Ap- courts are not uniform in tjieir con- jow jj,U{ tf)(, onse^ of tuberculosis all munitions of war, including bat- active directors of the league. lsb»’r Gen. Horace Porter is president of Your Union Card is sufficient .,tclv 265 decisions are sum- struetion of this statute, but among ()r O(ht.r disease cannot be avoided, tleships. 1 can not see how it can proxi' the league. He was for many years the employments found to be within 5 x hundred more rules and sug- he contended that it is any more pa- reference for you to buy your own nwru' dealing with the application the act were those of a blacksmith gestions might be given, but enough triotic to advocate two battleships to an officer of the Pullman ( o., which or your w ife's suit on credit. nStr .tion of the laws, or with repairing cars used in interstate has been said to show that the safe- be built by private contractors, with *s a Morgan corporation. arr ' thl application of the principles of comnierce> a telegraph lineman e n -, ()f your health agajnM huge profits to the builders, than it Mr. Charles G. Glover is treasurer q u a / i t y c / o t A » j t it oiiimon “* ° * g Un‘ >n repair work, workmen in-1 tuberculosis depends to a large extent »» to advocate two battleships to be of the league. He is president of the th- n fy . C a iy ,11 nf the worker, stalling block signal systems, a car- upon you. If you live a clean, reg- constructed by the C< .ernment, which Riggs National Bank, which is closer m 9 ft i t i f f i i s ir ifi i.ms of outstanding import- penter building an addition to g ular life, your chances of escaping policy means tha foi every dollar to Wall Street than any other bank in this freight shed, a laborer carrying cord which are reviewed I tuberculosis are far better than those expended for battleships we w ill get in Washington. j , include the final opinions of to heat a shop in which interstate of the man who burns the candle of a dollar s worth of battleship, and Col. Robt. L. Thompson is chair pp.llate and Supreme Courts of cars were being repaired, etc. Em- his .'ife at both ends and who pays that the men who actually do the man of the executive committee of <05 W ashington Street, at Tenth I iiitcd States in the famous ployments. which according to the de- no attention to his greatest wealth, work of building the ships will re the league. He is an eminent finan p ‘, . H a t t e r s ’ Case, holding mem- ¡cisions were excluded, were workme bis '\v.i health. ceive higher wages and work under cier of New York, whose great in ,,f unions personally liable for constructing cut-offs for shortening far better conditions than if Jhe con terests generally coincide with the If jjinoge from boycotts; the dissolu- interstate trackage, a hostler killed A FEW OK HIM WOULD tracts are given to the Shipbuilding colossal undertakings of the Morgan .• the .1__t . . famous m « , , » ,'n injunction iim n i i„>. i>. in H the i , , n v by t r ip e x explosion m o s i o n 01 of Th the e H boiler o l i e r o f of u a f the group. He is also the head—being MAKE A MICKLE Trust. ti.in is wbat they all say o f John Mitchell against the locomotive whose last run was intei- _____ The “big-navy-to-be-built-by-private chairman of the board—of the lnter- ea.-f of our A eader dug the following letter cn.tractors" policy Hitchmai Coal & Coke Co. of West state, and a switch engine fireman . will meet . with the national Nickel Co., and holds the PainleM Virginia, an ’bolding labor union "’ho was at the moment handling only out of Brother Victor Rosewater's approval of the armor ling, ammuni- honorable post of president of the Methods of l,g.. ; and the Supreme Court’s opin- interstate ears, though his work regu- Omaha “ Bee,” and sent it in to us tion ring and the Shipbuilding Trust. New York Metal Exchange. E stracting It will also lie eminently satisfactory _________________________________ in a a recent recent inornin’s inornin’s mail: mail: ion in the Coppage case, overthrow- larly involved the handling of both jn Teeth.' jng the law of Kansas which under- , classes of commerce indiscriminately. To The Editor of The “ Bee": to the Navy League of the United Out - o f - town peoplo ran have tlH k- to protect workmen in their Other classes of Federal laws that States, which organization has from their plate anti “ It is a sad thing . to . see poor, silly the first been an adjunct of the house ..bt rship in labor organizations, receive considerable attention in the bridge work fin people of the twentieth century com- of Morgan, and , is . constantly .. . . . ished in one day last named case the dissenting court decisions are those limiting the ' .................. . agitat- In the if necessary. . p nlaining of the high cost of living , mg a larger and larger naw , , but, In orcur 1 o illustrate the rapid growth of A n absolute opimon, which defended the consti- hours of service of railroad employes, and saving they can t live on salaries .- . sating» with < per rent (unwound interest so} ms, vi v, nund yOU( not a larger navy to be g u a r a n te e , tutiunality of the act, is also given. an drequiring the supply and main of $600 all the way up to $6,000. bo/ backed hy 2H built at th«1 lowest possible co^t with added, we have prepared the follow ing table: The largest group of cases on u tenance of safety appliances. DR. W. A. WISE. years in Port fifteen .»»«• vears salary has ranged Other interesting cases are one ,k.,i -----—» my -• , a a ,, Government armor p .i t inai hat ; --------» . / . and in jing’c subject is that relating to the o o Prra. and Mgr. land. « .s a •* 1 have a good Government shipyards, bin C a-' V. *• larger n,rt form of legislation known as grew out of the textile workers’ from $30 to $60, and = = s a « a Hat»* of the bank, a wife 3 » c In t e r r a i ».iikiiien’s compensation laws. The strike in Massachusetts, in which the suni °f rnoney *n 1 manage things navy to be built by the arm« r ;mg, « ° C e S S s í the ammunition ring, and the Ship- ■ * t a f . durions on this subject range from accountability of the collector of « an<* s’x children. > CU < H .iira: 25 Il-Ol li P it vent i t 7 3 .1 »182 «403. It 1.204 questions of constitutionality, decided fund intended for the relief of strik- on a common-sense basis. No foolish- buildii ' Trust. S n a d a y s • to 1 50 per annum Cum. 1441.i 324. sort I 2.588 8 A . M . to 7 F . M . Nickels spent on moving Ever sjnce J have been a member „¡v. rsely in the case of the' Keil- era’ families was affirmed; one eon- ness- . ----- 1 no pounded twice a ! 283 W 0. 1014.1 5 177. H ain ZM» 2 (X- veer. Janaarv 11 5h.S 1 1301 3228.IIP.366, tueky statute and favorably in other neeted with the bridge workers’ cam- Pictures and candy am ice cream are of Cong-ess _____ _ __ I have been receiving 5 (Xi an,I lub I. 14412 13252 8070.1254»» l-'allinc Blits.. Third and WaBhinglon Sia. state courts, to the determination of paign against non-union employers, wasted. Money spen on finery mt . s literature from this “big navy” lobby, Parila nd. O n. t l OPENS AN ACCOUNT ddinitions or of single points of involving the transportation of ex- wasted. a id finally I determined to call the <K*lablHhed 18 Year«) depute. In considering occupational plosives in interstate trains; a murder “In my family we have nothing in attention of its officers to the fact d -iases, for instance, the Massa- trial growing out of the incitement of the way of luxuries. Just the plain t j,at their pleas for a larger navy thusvits courts hold lead poisoning a strike leader urging his followers everyday food. I do the buying my- are tainted, and will continue to be to be within the state act, providing ' to prevent arrests in the hop pickers’ i self. Cereals, oatmeal, and simfiai tajnt, ,| until they advocate the Gov- SECOND AND WASHINGTON STREETS for "personal strike in California; and a question foods form the bulk of our d 'd. We ernment manufacture of all muni- JO! r V V H IJ J C IID a V J V U jra . a v , w . . v . . . in- .. ------------ . io ciompensation " . validity ■ • • • . of a sentence __ _„....J rXaSxlz I 1 tions - « a 16 za of aa 1 last A CnnwervaUv* Oprn Salarday m:i s arising out of and in the course of the of at a 11.. j buy one pound of n4/\nls steak O a u week. of . war. On January Custodian Evenings. < to b . a •• _ il : 1 • 4 <> aai > z ta x iiw i J n e i n f i " fV tex a l i a f n r k o v V lQ V t » H T ì Ì P i * P o f i t O V C T V (lilV Ò C C ilU S C employment," while the Michigan military court during the disturbances 1 have a piece of it every day because year ( aj j ressPd a letter to Mr. A. (uuits, under the provisions of a state among the miners of Silver Bow I need meat to sustain my strength jj Iiadmun, the secretary of the l»w similarly expressed, hold that a county, Montana. : for my work. The rest of the family i ieagUPj ¡n which, among other things, The power of an employers’ asso- do not need meat—in fact, are better I said: tax' of lead poisoning is not entitled “Assuming that you are in good to .ompensation. An optic neuritis ciation to enforce its rules is main- off w:'. >ut it. The only luxury we , induced by inhaling poisonous gases tained in a taue in which such an buy is tobacco, and the cost of faith in this agitation and really de I ivn.v also compensated in Massachu- association was held by the court that conies to only forty cents a sire the largest possible navy for pa »■tts, while in New Jersey the court to be entitled to recover from one of week'. We save much on buying triotic reasons, I am going to take MWtN disallowed a claim on account of its members the sum of $5,000 as bread that is a «lay old, thus in the liberty of suggesting to you that eczema said to be caused by acids damages for his defection in a creasing the buying power of the if you will inaugurate a movement SAN FRANCISCO used in a bleachery. Other decisions struggle against closed shop con money 100 per cent. Cheese 1 find for the Government manufacture of the New W ay n-late to the mode of ' c computing bene- tracts. In connection with this may a good substitute for butter and all munitions of war, including all o m n u t i n i r bene- i 11 more nutritious, as well as costing battleships, your campaign will strike tits, the definition of the term "casual be mentioned a case deciding the il- S 8 .0 0 »niployment,” what constitutes de-! legality of a combination in restraint I only half as much. It is a very; a much more responsive chord with PORTLANIhoSAN FRANCISCO . . . . . . . . . I , . . . —;— _ family on a both members of Congress and the p< ndency, wilful act, incapacity, etc. of trade undertaken and carried on simple thing to raise a Perth Included Taken in connection with an earlier by an association of retail lumber small salary if a man just had coni- peOple 6-Deck. 24-Knot twin nhips “Great Northern” and Bulletin on the same general subject, dealers by blacklisting wholesale I mon sense and doesn’t leave the «¡n „ther words, if the Govern- “ Northern Pacific” M A R K IN r U K I L A I N D v c Bureau of Labor Statistics has dealers who sold directly to the con-1 buying to his wife, and sees to it m er- ¡g t0 do a)1 of manufactur- TUESDAY re presented one of the most com- sumer. that tradesmen give him a dollar s ¡ng ()i munitions of war, including THURSDAY plete collections of cases on American The minimum wage law of Oregon worth for every dollar he spends. I battleships, the point can not then be SATURDAY compensation laws in existence. is noted in this Bulletin as the first I have only been in Omaha a year, but 8U(.ce8afui|y raised that the agitation Steamer train leaves North Dank station 9:30 A M. S. S. arrives Another important group of decis- law of this class to receive judicial ; I guarantee I have made my money ¡s for the benefit of the armor ring, S. F. 3:30 P. M. next day. ons in a related field is of those de- consideration, being upheld by the go further than any other working- t()|, amnlunition ring, and the Ship- Stark tirmining the application of the Fed- Supreme Court of that state. From man in the city, and I can prove it building Trust. era’ liability statute to defferer.t' this decision an appeal has since been if necessary.” A. B. Mickle. “But if you do not advocate the «•lasses of railroad employments, taken to the United States Supreme Our stenographer passed this in to Government manufacture of all muni- tions of war, including Li,4«lz\nLinc' battleships, Several cases are found which turn Court. us with the following comment: you can not successfully deny that “People read this sort of thing and you are carrying »n a propaganda then wonder why some of us prefer which means millions and millions of to remain old maids!" dollars of extortionate profits to the Manufacturad Well, there’s a good deal to be said alxive-mentioned interests.” _ by on that. In the first place, if our BALTIMORE DAIRY LUNCH ilJtlTOR'S NOTE. Thl« article ha« been I jo u s loss in money, happiness, anil I hardly expect readers to fall out COLUMBIA BOLLINO CO. i n i n red for the Portland Labor Pre«« by j tbeir chairs in amazement when 1 How can this disease be stenographer were .Mrs- Mickel, we Baet Seeend and Waahlnvton Street* th. National Aaaociation for the Study and heulth. Lunch Rooms think something sudden and surpris Prevention of Tuherculoaia. Othera will fol- warded off? report that the Navy League has not Just a few suggestions 287 Wa«h St. 8» Third Street I' w. giving more detail aa to what you ahould tAb M. Clark, Pre«. lieo. M. Orton, Mnrr. may save you money. Read them ing would happen in the Mickel accepted my suggestion. 826 Waah. St. 80S Burnside knew »hout tuherculoaia.) family. In the second place, a home LETTERHEADS, ENVELOPES carefully. Workingmen are always aroused In Fact, ANYTHING Tan Want and six children, even with Mr. Many Prominent Patriot» Indenlitied Retail Bakery Stores 1. Live ¡n the fresh air as much when an employer or a group of With the Navy League. Miikel thrown in, are better than 207 <th St. 264 Morrison Street employers suggest a reduction in as you can. You may have to work being an old maid. Finally, we want / I desire now to present some infor inside, but by keeping a window open wages. How many of the men who G. H. W ATSON, Prop. mation as to who is behind the Navy to know more about Mickle. Maybe MULTNOMAH POINTING ( 0 read this article ever stop to think and by getting a few deep breaths of he wrote the letter in irony. Maybe League: of the enormous sums of money they outdoor air at frequent intervals, you he doesn’t exist. Maybe on£ of the Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan was until art losing in wages every year due can htdp to insure your health. If “Fee’s” bright young men invented his death one of the directors, and Telephone Malli 2*00 you are at home, keep the windows tu one preventable disease, TUBER Law ,. Working Carda. Carry We him to add to the gayety of nations. B y intensely interested in the league's open, and always sleep with plenty Unien W aUr Marked Paper FOR THIS WEEK—14 Post Cards CULOSIS. Won’t Brother Rosewater be kin<l w o r k , to which he was a liberal con- retouched and one large cabinet A careful study of 500 Boston men of fresh air circulating through the enough, at our request, to send one 6 8 FIRST STREET print in Folder, 7x11, all for $1.00. »ho had consumption, and most of room. Outdoor play and exercise are of his reporters out to see Mr. Mickle Proofs shown from negative before \TTACK ON SEAMEN'S BILL »horn died with it, has revealed the to be preferred. finishing. and tell the world about him? If he Edward Holmi President 2. Eat all the good, plain food you (act that these 500 men alone lost is a real human being, there are a W alter J. Hola I, Secretary It is stated in a magazine pub Bver $425,000 in wages as a result can digest comfortably. Eat a variety lot of things we should like to say lished in the interest of the shippers H o f s t e a t e r S t u d i o TELEPHONES: MAIN 587; A 1511 165’/ i Third Street of this disease. The investigators of foods, not all meat or all vege about him, and not all of them to of this country that the Chamber of Between Morrison and Yamhill Sts. 'o this study were not guessing; they tables, but some of various kinds, his discredit. His ideas are not all Commerce is again active with the »dually looked up the wages that such as fruit, meats, fish, vegetables, bad. When he eats all the meat in THE EDWARD HOLMAN “referendum” in an endeavor to se milk, eggs, etc. Your stomach, the various men had been getting the family he is doing the rest of cure the repeal of the La Follette UNDERTAKING CO. MEVES RESTAURANT »hen they were taker sick; the bowels, liver and other digestive the family a real service. The main Seating Capacity 260 Seamen’s Bill. The magazine says Funeral Director» and Embalmer» kngth of time they we -e sick, and organs require three things primarily, point in which he is all wrong is his N. E. Corner Sixth and W ashington Sto. thus the amount of money they lost nourishing foods, liquids, P a r t i c u l a r l y ; ^ ^ ' 'th"e‘™Ztte"r "of that the members of the Chamber of The Hub of Portland f u’.l easily be figured up. Each of water, and bulk. Many things you buying. His case may be an ex Commerce know nothing of the ship Orchestra Noon and Evening 2J4.H Í THIRD STREET, COR. SALMON tb-se men lost on an average in cat, such as some vegetables, do not ception, but in nine cases out of ten ping business ami that their methods Portland's Most Popular Jteataurant arc "amateurish.'’. Lady A ssistant hard cash nearly $1000 in wages nourish the body but they are needed the wife is a better buyer than the Further, the article says tnat An t , o say nothing of the enormous for bulk in your intestines to pre- husband. After all is said and done, lo- to his family and the community vent constipation. What you eat the outstanding fact about Mickle drew Furuseth deserves great credit THE BOLLS WALL PAPER CO. »id the uncomputed suffering that will determine to a large extent your is that he went and did it. He did for his masterful knowledge of the Today and Tomorrow Wholesale and Retail calls for this disease caused. It was found ability to resist attacks of tubercu- marry and he did raise a family. For subject. B u r la p s , L in c r u s ta , E tc . Notwithstanding the enormous th;.t out of 500 men, 495 had to 'osis and other diseases. that achievement, compared to him, amount of money expended to secure DURABILITY 208 Second (N ear Taylor) Iti'e up their work because of tuber- 3. Rest is as necessary to health ail the whining young men who com Phone Main 600 its defeat, the bill was never in dan and Economy in lulosis, and that the average number as is foo<1 or air. Some people re plain they can’t afford it are merely PORTLAND. OREGON g e r because the opposition was es Street Paving td weeks of complete disability when quire more rest than others, hut objects of varying degrees of con- poused by flim-flam write-up sheets SECURE THE BEST «hey could do nothing, ranged from every working man or woman should u?nlpt -Collier’s Weekly. and men who were insufficiently ' s to K9, depending on whether the try to get at least 8 hours of rest ---------------------- E M IL T H IE L H O R N Boost for versed in the subject to stand any w<n were living or dead at the time every night or day in bed. Besides okgamze CASUALTY COMPANY chance with Furuseth before a com Pupil of Sevcik. Teacher of Violin. B I T U L IT H IC tf investigation. Th.. avrruge rate of this, everyone should find opportunity ------- Thirty Years’ International Experi mittee. ence. 207 Fliedner Bldg., 10th and »:qres was about $11.50 and the to rest and relax while at work or The new Pennsylvania compensa- Washington. t< tai loss amounted to $426,039. between periods of work. One may tion law is effective the first of next STATE UNIONISTS TO MEET KINDORF BROS. Phones Marshall 1629 A most conservative estimate would relax without stopping work, simply year and manufacturers are prepar- P t h e number of deaths of work- by changing or shifting one’s position ¡ng for this event by organizing a Officers of the Nebraska state fed Fresh and Salt Meats, Sausages, i 'v nen from tuberculosis last year or task. If you work hard with your casualty insurance company, eration of labor have issued a call Phon««: Offlr« Main S324. R»« Main 6768 Fish and Poultry rt .(Mio. if, on an average, every hands during the day, a certnin Thomas S. Dando, who favors the for the eighth annual convention of 180 Grand Avenne Near Morrlaon or” «>f them lost $1000 in wages, the amount of mental work at night may p|an, says that employers in this th organization to be held in Oma I)R. R. S. I)E ARMOND Phone Eaat 412 PHYSICIAN AND Sl'RGKON '«'zi wage loss would amount to be a recreation. It is monotany of country last year paid to casualty ha. beginning Tuesday, September 14. Call» Promptly Attended. Day or Night U'O,II0II.000 in one year. The actual work, doing tie same thing over and companies more than $31,000,000 in ' ORTHWEST BUILDING Phones Main 5700 '•'>»- is probably considerably larger over, day in and day cut in the premium», while the losses paid by the LONGSHOREMEN RAISE WAGES S litk and Waahington can companies amounted to $9,500,000. ”'an that sum, a number of writers same way that kills. Anyone PEOPLE’S MARKET Unionists point to these figures as the Members ’of the Longshoremen's Pacing it as high as $150,000,000. I t , break the monotany if he tries. J. P. FINLEY & SON *i be plain, however, to every work- 4. This leads us to suggest recre- reason why opposition is shown union at San Pedro, have secured a Progressiv« and Grocery Funeral Director» and Embalmera ifign an from these figures that an ation or play or exercise as a part of against workmen's compensation leg- wage increase as the result of confer- Compatent Lady Aadatant FIRST AND TAYLOR fcttack of tuberculosis means a ser- your daily life. Don’t play so that ‘ islation. 'ences with employers. ■ 6th and Montgomary. Phon« Main *1 V. Decisions of Courts Affecting Labor The World Wide War Trust A tte n tio n ! Union Men! EASTERN OUTFITTING CO. “Didn't Hurt a Bit HOW SAVINGS GROW Wise Dental Co. HIBERNIA SAVINGS BANK White Mountain _ _ .. 7 « What Tuberculosis Costs in Wages S p e c ia l O ffer
