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Don’t forget the meeting of Delegates to be held in Room 200, Labor Temple, Sunday, October 17, at 2:00 p. m. The meeting is for the purpose of devising ways and means to build a real Labor Temple. Has your Union elected Delegates? If not, why not? Get busy! Formerly The Portland Labor Prete. Volume XV. Number 2 7 Owned and Controlled by Organized Labor. Portland, Oregon, Saturday, October 16, 1 9 1 5 Whole Number 819 Violation Of Civil Oregon Should Print What They Think Of Service Law Alleged Own School Books Rockefeller's Scheme (ii Thursday of this week the Cen-|Were false, and would welcome any According to the report of the i abor Coupcil through it’s Exec-'assistance. Georgia school book investigating Hoard presented io the Civil 11 * as a&reid between the com- committee made to the ’egislature of |HH missioners and the representatives of that state last year, there are twenty- 5,.n. <■ Commissioners, Messrs. Cald Central Council that Tuesday at one states that have what, is termed Logan and Thomas, a bill of g p. chambers uniform laws on book . . adoption. Be- i ii a ■ 1 »• u j j u . jn . l the *• c^y council i i . . . . . jri.vances covering alleged violations would be the time and place of the low will be given statistics showing ' the names of these states and the and irregularities practiced in the var- brst hearing. tive At this time the ru,es and amend- cost to the school children for a com- mu.- departments of the city, ments now in force will be gone over plete set of necessary text b<>oks city employes. the printing department of that state By President Gompers. most cursory way, their rights and have prevented an economical pro- So Mr. Rockefeller has formed a their and welfare, there is duction of books of a high standard unjon union of his employes of a^ orded the splendid field for devel- of workmanship. Recent changes hjg Co,"ora7 " 'ru “el " ~ d 'i r o n ' ’ c 0„ . opment and opportunity. have put the department on a bus After what Mr. Rockefeller has . pany . and perhaps imagines that he iness basis. i i . Following is a com , has sol***! fh« problem of just rela- done, that is, to organise a “union” panson. book for book, of the cost tjonj. between himself and his em- of n,iners in Colorado, he should of ' text ......... books to Californians and ’ * to ployes. But with all his wealth and hia benevolent ••»<! practical the parents and taxpayers of Oregon: a„ hjg brains, and the brains that PurP°se into full execution in all his Oregon a ‘ he could buy and suborn, he hasi***^*^ industries and not wait until Primer ...................... . « .25 w v .a .g r a w a v a a w • VBBW BW I p ea M O V II 1 * * missed his mark. Imagine an organ- anot^er maasadre. the like of which These grievances wen pi ~ated visions to see if any conflict such school. First reader ........ *. .. .25 ization of miners formed by the rich- occurred at Ludlow, should break out I in a communication to the Executive as ¡8 alleged, exists. Secord reader .............. .35 State- est man in the world, who employs a* <^ne b*8 ° 'ber industrial institu- Board of the Council under date of After this n Third reader.................. .45 19 its members. What influence can tion8’ ° ° not atop at Colorado, Or- Fourth reader ............ . .45 “4 such a pseudo union have to insist Kan*ler Rockefeller! Civil Service Employes Association, w ju hp taken up and either proved Florida Fifth reader .............. .. .55 ’ 4 upon the remedying of a grievous _ » iame being a chartered Labor Union groundless or rectified, the represen- Georgia ........................................ 7.90 Arithmetic .................. . .35 1 8 ------------- . ... ---------------- _ real By Secretary Morrison. wrong or the attainment of a from the American Federation of I tatives of the Council appearing for ¡Idaho Grammar .................... . .36 .23 right ? And what about the repre-1 Mr. Rockefeller's plan is signifi- Labor and in affiliation with cne those members of the Associ Grammar .................... . .45 “4 senianves 01 me men sirring around cant. In his alleged “collective bar- Central Labor Council. or other civil service employes Geography .................. . 1.00 dll 5he table’ ;. With Mr R °^efeller and <aining» plan he yleld, In laying the matter before the may bring .in any grievance. grievance, Kentucky History ........................ . .60 Oil Service Commissioners the The Central Labor Council it History ........................ . 1.00 Colorado, should the miners spokes- . • Qwncil’s Committee, Eugene E. termined that this shall mark the Misaissip Civics .......................... . .65 *JJ man have the temerity of insistence trade umon movement’ Speller ........................ . .23 Smith, E. J. Stack, A. W. Jones, and beginning of the end of such practices Montana He says he acknowledges the prin- 4 in the rightful demands of the min- I James Irving, pointed out to the as Mr. Logan described as being Nevada Writing (8 lessons).. . 1.20 ers? ciple ° t collective bargaining—and l o beard that the Central Council was pernicious” in stating Mr. Caldwell New Me Writing (5 lessons).. . . .. .20 The miners employed by the Colo- enforce kis conception of this theory actuated by a desire to be helpful, had been fighting them valiantly for North Carolina .......................... 8.97 — g „g rado Fuel and Iron company, of cre*tes a union and evolves a com- I and not antagonistic and requested two years. West Virginia ............................ 11.97 8.14 which Mr. Rockefeller is the head, prehensive plan that, the press stales, an informal hearing as soon as con Much credit is due to Mr. James Oklahoma .................................... 8.20 Manx excuses for retaini have been whipped by means o fiis financed by the Colorado Fuel and venient to which the Commissioners Irving whose untiring efforts since Oregon ......................................... 9.52 present wasteful, extravagant readily assented, Mr. Logan stating becoming the representative of the South Carolina .......................... 0.00, u. . . . , , --------- - ---- — ------- ,------ ------- «-— -- - — told ---- these 8.68 n s pe° p e w 8 ’ submission, back to the mines. And workers will be “permitted” to pre- that the Commissioners realised there Civil Service Employes Association, Tennessee .................................... 9 .0 9 ? 1*- — largely — ---- -m i- z„_ .... interested. On this concise state- these roinerg haw been formed int0 «ere many things that should be are responsible for the ------------- in Texas ............................................. . 11.83 ment the proponents of Oregon a union by Mr. Rockefeller’s benevo- O«mn L d L orke« rectified though some of the charges vestigation soon to be under way Utah ............................................. 17.41 printed texts rest their cause: The Ient a|truism. But he has organized „r° X c e s t h r o u g h ^ £ e r o i Virginia ......................................... 9.79 selection and purchase of copyrights them, and for that, at any |a. ,f. , tbe P°w" ° f Of the two states, Indiana and of texts now used or those that may bor 1. trulv »rateful for when men tb e lr economic organisation. They selected me the printing printing come ♦ together n. to ai ’ ». ;i„ enforce a voice Kansas, which have reasonably priced hereafter n e re a n e r be De seieciea, discuss, even in the *».« their right „z to have i _ i ___ n “ *e dlBPO8a* their labor power. books, Indiana books are purchased and binding of ample books, and no Mr. Rockefeller’s plan provides that at wholesale by the local boards of more than necessary, for the use workers will be "permitted” to pre •ducaSKSh though adopted by a text of the children, and the distribution book committee. Kansas enjoys a of these books directly to the pupils. ♦ BE SURE TO ATTEND ♦ sent' grievances. If one dissects this T.„ r;—i Pm.iAVA..' s . T k. « . . . . . j a ____ u zi :low price on texts because of similar Without sacrificing a single item ♦ --------- -------- <a theory he sees that the power that N ation and Press Assistants’ Local’ by President Smith of thT^ Central J c®"di« ona and b~ au<* of considerable necessary to the education of the ♦ W; S’ U’^ wil1 diacuM * t i ^ ’T e ie c t.“ 1 With<,r>W wmw Two Unions Hold Big Open Meetings well received and a8’ltat,on a^on^ the Hiie of the state coming generation, thousands of dol- receive an p ^ t j ,^ its own text books. T his’lars can be saved the school patrons, ♦ state has finally adopted legislation and thousands more kept in circula- ♦ __________ favorable to state publication. here in in Oregon Oregon in in preference preference > ' ¡tion tion here Stage. emPloye® and machine op- California has for many years pub- to sending to Eastern book concerns, ♦ eratof8 Rockford, III., have secured lished its own texts and recently en- who depend on text books to maintain a reduction in working hours from,acted free text book legislation. Until a substantial basis for .their other > nine to eight per day and a six-day recently graft and corrupt political hazardous adventures in the publish- > week. w“ v in conducting of ing «Z business. , | imethods —----- — — — — ~ V the affairs * — «••••WW. the People’s Land and Loan < ume 11 elecX8, Measure of the Central Labor ♦ [ Herein is the fundamental differ- Council before the Single Tax <Pi«nce between the Rockefeller plan League Central _ Li- «' ¡*nd that of trade unions One devel- _ in Room 14, , ______ brary, 10th and Yamhill streets, <S>[opB independence, the other reHes on Saturday, Oct. 16th, 8 P. M. <4 the graciousness and good will of the Members of organized labor are employer. There can be no compro- urged to attend. <Sc mise between the two theories, for if workingmen are to be really free r their right to regulate their own lives ipust be acknowledged. Mr. Rockefeller's welfare plan con tains nothing new—it is only a repe tition of efforts made by employers to keep their workmen satisfied. B y LENNA PITTMAN STAHL | I am sure that time will demon- T u * u , j , ,. , _ , . . , , , strale that the plan prepared by 1 would not, by word or deed, discourage a work of the pain of her wounds as he who suffers from saber Rockefeller for his employes in Colo c ^ a r ’t y n o r any work of good women to lessen the thrust or piercing cannon shot, but her suffering is more rado will prove a full cousin to the schemes of like character in Pa *n anc* suffering of humanity, but I believe ^charity be- lasting; she is not only maimed for life, but her wounds other augurated for the sole purpose of I Union 62, each held profitable and Council, who was we [enjoyable open meetings during the given close attention. past week, profitable because of the induced solidarity and enjoyable be- cause of the free discussion of trade conditions and mutual good will en gendered. The Civil Service Employees held forth in the Labor Temple Saturday cvening and many non-members were in attendance who learned much of the good things the Association is ac complishing and of the much more it can accomplish with the support and cooperation it merits. The meeting was presided over by James Irving, the representative of the Association, and CHARITY BEGINS AT HOME T p e te n s o n " f o n i X secretary by Mark of the cen tral Council; g . a . Von Svhriltz, district officer of the E le c -1 g i n s a t h o m e . are handed down to coming generations, to children yet preventing organization of em ployes in my mind in his un^orn u’ho will suffer bodily ills and deform ities from that Wl11 enable them to 8ecure im- prov d conditions. carry the thought no dressings or bandage can afford the slightest ■ ?h?'p™SUAie.u„"rhdd . ,«1.1 fu rth er than he indicated. I mean not AiiKrica to the I relief. hod carriers a n d building » 'i smoker in th e ir haii at 126* exclusion of every other country, but America first in all T^e world may never know of the relief afforded our ‘ " Second street Monday evening and t h i n g s . , OWn Suffering Ones, it lliay never be told in press nor in There will be a special meeting of The good women engaged in making surgical dressings Public- " ° " ote ° f thanks wi!1 be cabled from some titled £ £ C"- numbe.* of the boys who were in a t for wounded soldiers of Europe are doubtless working monarch of a w arring nation, but the feeling in one’s own Tu„,Uj. „ight, Ort mh. tendance. ’ with a fullness of heart and tenderness-of feeling always ,mnd of havinK furnished food for a starving child, Every member is urged to be pres- •Sandwiches, smokes and drinks ’ k warmth to a cold cheerless room, flannels for an ill-clad ent—Businc“ °f importance. <both kinds) were served in abund- C o m m e n d a b le , ecu and every one present ate, But in our own country, our own state and our own ™othe.r or b ate; knowing as one lies down to sleep that n A n r,niII n riiim n "I. drank and talked their fill. city; yes, men, within a stone’s throw of the work-rooms of 18 east one b°nie ° f a poor Portland family made BE CAREFUL WHERE these women, these women, in in Hotel Hotel Multnomah, Multnomah, there there is is need need for for the the. bngnter, better, more comfortable by one » s o own " " individual ■"mvmuu, p ity y /j ,,,. MORE SUBSCRIBERS unbleached domestic and G-cent outing flannel for which e^ ' n t be more blessed and self-satisfying than the empty honor of having contributed, even in a small way, * T. , . , , , the committee is asking. The idea of unions subscrib- • Co., which has been on the un- *■ "ig for the Labor Press is be- The great nations of Europe who are spending millions o the w aning, discoidant, monarchs of Europe. ■ lining contagious and this ? The poor of our city are not seeking poverty and suf- * fair l,Ht ®f th,> c««Rrai Labor * *eek the Web Pressmen’s Union 1 [ They are innocent victims of Unfortunate condi- : iT J * has commenced sending the * dollars for necessary bandages for the wounded, fo r which ■per to its members. We • they are directly responsible. And the millions of women tions. N either would they inflict poverty or suffering up- '• as they were put on the unfair ♦ On Others. * on account or not employ- < understand that the Printing * . '' smen’s Union is also con- ♦ of those countries undoubtedly deem it not only a duty The European soldier received his wound striving to > X t “ which” mTn’S f X r ^ ¡Je • "rin g the matter. This latter • but a privilege, to make bandages and dressings for their WOUnd Or kill others. ♦ ice they have been taken off the * m is the only one left m • unfortunate ones. >• printing trades that is nut • Which is the 11101*6 worthy of charity, he to whom pain ’ unfair ,iBt However the com- * 'uking the paper. • At home we leave our own wounded and suffering; wounds not make hv riflp hall nnr PY nlnrlino- «hedl h n f K a - ( S deSP ^e “ efforts Ol he whose pain IS a result o i <♦ union men are cautionetl not to I here are very few union men e -,T, 8 . ’ . . b> - studied attem pt to inflict pain upon others? 1* purchase coal from them 'P l’urtland now that do not re- * i. _ , , , . .. . _ vu the Ubor Press at their hunger, worry, cold and privation. M e have m our midst Miss Constance Drexel returned from her work as vol- 1 u The f!*ht wh“ h ®rgan,le,i ** ” * < » bor made against this comp.ui> ” ie address . Ü T L , ' * : *lih0Se t0,RWh°um„th; u ' e u°f the r r i ° S? italS W^ ULd be a untaryhospitai nurse a t Deanville, saying She Was but fur- compelled them to abandon the *'¡1! be on the ■L J," - luxa7 ’ he.skl1 ed a t“ ce of a physician a God-send, thering the w ar by hei. w01.k> fol. 'pry short time the wounded were * ice bu«inM8 And w h ile w e ’re on the sub- realize the im porunc . f the » a nd the loving touch and ministiatxons of a nurse some- nursed b.jCk t0 strength they were hurried away to the * to w arn all the <1 thing akin to a visit of an Heavenly angel. " T , , .“ “ ‘V . ™ " " “j s ' ” ‘" V ♦I *. u • w , „ to .id . . D„ _ . , . t ..a K .... trenches, either e th er to be again wounded or o r to wound others. union men against buying coa There is no > he.», better way aid * * J T. ? . . . . . . . . ' ' cause of unionism. <» be 'Mic at home in Portland, without food, without It would be well to clean up our own back yard before I* ^re,n thr liberty c«ai a ice Co.. * “ as this firm ------- is unfair * * * - * * * * - » sufficient clothing, without fuel, may not cry out from seeking work in a foreign field. - to labor » ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ * •♦ * « ♦ ♦ ♦ * trical Workers; Eugene E. Smith and President Wilson struck a keynote E. J. Stack, President and Secretary^ of the central Council, after which Ainerica-fil’st remarks, only I would
