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AVING COSTS AT ALBANY AND SPOKANE The second of a series of ten articles upon the paving situation in Oregon Ihe cost of laying 1%-inch as- ments, such as is quite frequently Pacific Northwest than in California. , concrete wearing-surface laid by the,termine the actual cost of laying an jtic-concrete wearing-surface for done in order to shut out outside In order to do this let us see what city’s municipal paving plant during , asphaltic - concrete wearing - surface , one and one-half inches thick, placed , f i r j t 211 mil«8 complete, on the, competition in paving bids when the has been found to be the actual cost 1915. The average cost shown by this on a gravel-bituminous base three 'l.fornia State Highway, was, as contractors are asked to bid upon of bituminous pavement at places in ued in the first article of this work in performing which they are the Northwest where conditions report for four such pieces of pave-1 and one-half inches thick. The work ries> 54 cents per square yard. This to furnish materials as well as the exist somewhat similar to those ment, which totaled 51,519 square 1 studied was done between August 12 prevailing in California’s road work. yards or two and one-half miles of and October 24, 1914, and a total of ,v cost, as was stated in that ar- labor required. But, in order to know whether it Let us first examine the cost of paved street, was 43.4 cents per 17,035 square yards of pavement was I, is due entirely to the fact that ’,ate of California furnished the is just to compare road costs ob laying pavement at Spokane, Wash square yard of two-inch wearing- laid. The cost of laying the one ¡and one-half inch wearing-surface „tractors with all raw material tained in California with those ob ington, where the city, as it does its surface. cd m paving the road so as thus tained upon similar work in Oregon own paving, furnishes the labor as At Albany, Oregon, John R. Pen- average 2735 cents per square yard. prevent inflated costs due either and the Pacific Northwest, it is well is the paving materials. Mor- ' land, the city engineer, made ar This cost, however, includes no al bolstering up of the prices of necessary to determine whether the ton Macartney, city engineer of rangements with a city contractor lowance for the depreciation or materials or resort to the cost of road materials or' of road Spokane, has prepared a summary to have access to all his books, in maintenance of plant. But the con e of fraudulent mixture agree- labor is materially greater in the ¡of the cost of two-inch asphaltic- ; cluding his bank book, so as to de- tractor informed Mr. Penland that Formerly The Portland Labor Presa. Volume XV. Number 52 reat Cutters Are Still After Ten-Hour Day (Contlnuad on Paa* 4.) Owned and Controlled by Organized Labor. W hole Number 8 4 4 Portland, Oregon, Saturday, April 8, 1916 ¡CONGRESS SHOULD FIND OUT investigation of American financial plotting and corruption in connec-1 WHO PAID BILLS FOR VILLA tion with Mexico. This partnership ! —AND GET THEM. TOO. By Chester M. Wright. he would rent the city his plant on the basis of five cents per square yard of wearing-surface laid with it. This would make the total cost of laying the one and one-half inch asphaltic - concrete wearing - surface 3235 cents per square yard. During 1915 Mr. Penland kept track of the cost of paving work done in Albany, and while his study was not so de tailed as in the above instance, it was sufficient to show him that the 1915 work actually cost the con- of money loot and gun brigandage ; can only be ended satisfactorily by ending ALL OF IT! The American Government seems very determined to get Francisco Villa, the bandit raider. Getting CIGARMAKERS LOCKED OUT Villa is looked upon as a case of I short time ago the Meatcutters’ I The local unions of the city re repelling invasion, and his activities Non-union cigarmakers, employed ion of this city asked the retail sponded to a call for financial as- must be ended at once and for by Eisenlohr Bros., manufacturers time. ilers who were employing them I sistance and in addition organiza all The end of this business probably of the “Cinco” cigar, have been so arrange their business that it tions in Ft. Wayne, Ind., East St. will be in the capture and execu locked out because they demanded uld not be necessary for the Louis, 111., Stockton, Cal., San Fran tion of Villa. That is, that will be a change in working conditions. the end as far as Villa is concerned. •atcutters to work more than ten cisco, Cal., Cambridge, Mass., La It is not so certain that the mat Acommittee representing the strik urs per day. ter will end there for the United ers appeared before the Central 'or an answer the dealers formed fayette, Ind., Hoboken, N. J., Fresno, States and for Mexico, because there Labor Union of Lancaster and organization and turned the man- Cal., and New Haven, Conn., have are many angles at which grave asked the organized workers to rment of their affair« in so far as sent cash donations in response to complications may enter to provoke assist them. They stated that they much more serious situation. ior matters were concerned over an appeal authorized by the Central a But, if it is important to get Villa, have been working under what is Labor Council. Thomas McCusker, walking dele is it not equally as important to get known as the wrapper selecting The members of the Meatcutters’ all of those who have had to do system, e'ach half sized leaf of wrap te of the Employers’ Association, rhe members of the Meatcutters* local wish to take this opportunity with prolonging Villa’s activities— per tobacco being counted into pads those who have plotted with him iioi. stood loyally by their organ- to publicly thank all who have con all and for him and kept him in the ' supposed to contain 100 each. These tion and the fight began with tributed funds to conduct this fight field? so-called pads were given to the » union men centering their ef and to assure the brothers that their On the morning after the raid at cigarmakers with a threat that they sacrifice will not be forgotten. Columbus it was freely declared in must make 100 cigars from each ts on Jones’ Market. news dispatches from the border Pickets have been maintained in The fight is still on and will be town and from Washington even, pad or be discharged. It was de on until the ten-hour day is estab int of Jones’ place at Fourth and that Villa had been financed from clared that on an average the best der almost continually since the lished in Portland for the Meat the American side of the line by workman could cut but 90 wrap American money. That this charge pers from the amount allowed. ginning of the trouble, and this cutters. All union men and women and is true is not doubted by any person s cost the union considerable who has followed and studied Mexi >ney. In addition they have been sympathizers are urged to patronize can events for the past half dozen INCREASE FOR PRINTERS. mpelled to pay strike benefits to only the shops that display the years—or who is familiar with the Mexican history of the last century The Typographical Union and union shop card. number of members. and a half. If that is true, then it must fol printing employers at Sacramento, HOW LABOR PAYS WAR TAX. low that eliminating Villa merely Calif., have agreed to the following BAKERS ADVANCE. means eliminating the agent of the wage rates for floormen: $24.75 per plotters. To eliminate the agent week until March 31, 1916; $25 from Continued gains sums up the re- It used to be common to hear a | real is to do a careless job. To eliminate orts of organizers and officers of worker say: “The tariff and taxes, j the agent is to leave the condition April 1, 1916, to September 30, 1916; ie Bakery and Confectionery what are they to me. I do not use 1 that produced him, and that condi $26 thereafter until December 31, Zorers International Union at their imported goods and have no prop- ! tion may go on and probably will 1918. The minimum rates for ap go on, to produce another Villa after prentices are: Third year, one-third tecutive board meeting in Chicago, erty on which to pay taxes.” Pancho, the bandit, has been given of a journeyman’s scale; fourth year, hese workers have been confronted The war has raised commodity his last supper of lead. powerful combinations of capital, prices—the prices of things that peo Congress ought to send a little one-half of a journeyman’s scale; common sense into the field along fifth year, two-thirds of a journey hich have trustified this industry ple must have—the world over. with its artillery and cavalry. It man’s scale. A joint committee of many sections. In the United States, according J ought to treat this mntter seriously, employers and employes shall be ap The union is now making a greater to Bradstreets, the increase in 1915 j as it deserves to be rcated. ■fort than ever to thoroughly or- exceeded 15 per cent. Congress ought to order a sweep pointed to devise educational meth ing investigation of the American ods for these apprentices. tnize this industry and earnestly So it will be seen that the war I side of the whole bloody business. Under the agreement all differ ■quests the continued co-opera- Congress ought to find out who the on of the entire trade-union move- tax has fallen upon the poor, even Americans are who have plotted ences are to be adjusted by consilia- of neutral United States. lent. with this bloody fiend of the desert. tion or arbitration. A 35 per cent rise in commodities Congress ought to get all the in The Pasadena, Calif., Typograph has the same effect as a 35 per cent ! formation there is. Congress ought ical Union has negotiated a two- PICTURE OPERATORS WIN. conduct an intellectual raid on income tax, as nearly all his income j to Wall Street, as well as military raid years' agreement which provides for goes for commodities. On the rich a $1 increase immediately and an The Eagle theater at St. Louis, on Mexico, or a part of it. Io., has signed an agreement with and well-to-do the effect is pro- ■ If this country is sincere in wish additional $1 during the second year. loving Picture Operators’ Uniot^ portionately less. Their surplus for j ing to preserve friendship with the Mexican people it could do nothing o. 143, thereby ending a long con- investment commands a higher rate that would hflp more than to go to NON-UNION BAKERY IN FOLD. ■oversy. The unionists picketed of interest and so tends to trim the 1 the bottom of this thing and un- 'is theater continuously for 17 balance. Partly on this ground tax- cjver the Americans who have The McKinney Bakery Company ation much more drastic than yet ■ plotted against the peace and wel of St. Louis, Mo., has signeu a con on,hs. fare of both nations — and then enacted is urged by belligerent radi-1 punish tract with Bakers’ Union No. 4 and them as they deserve. Here is a real job for Congress. the Bakery Wagon Drivers’ Union, ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ W O O cals. The London Times calculates that ’ Here is something worth while. Here after a short strike of the latter DON’T DRINK “BLITZ." ♦ a man who got 3 1-2 per cent from j is something that needs to be done. organization. This concern has op ------- 4 his investments in July, 1914, should Is the Wilson administration "too A number of soft drink "4 be getting 5 per cent now to offset proud” to fight the bandit financial posed organized labor for fifteen interests of ihis country? Or is it years. houses are handling the product 4 the rise in the cost of living. merely afraid to? °f the Portland Brewing Co., 4 Measured by the return on govern Is the Wilson administration «hich is known as “Blitz.” ♦ simply a bunk shooting crowd, or SIOUX CITY BAKERS UNITE. ment bonds, he is about getting it. will it wade in and plow down to ■ he Portland Brewing Company 4 For people without investments has been declared unfair by the 4 the problem is not so easily solved. the dirty bottom of this money mud Bakers in Sioux City, Iowa, have puddle? organized with a large charter roll, beer Drivers and Bottlers’ 4 You can help.get the root of this as the result of trade union senti- T nion because the management 4 mess by writing to your Congress GET $934 A WEEK; STRIKE. man, demanding that he fight for an ;ment that is sweeping this section. refused to employ members of 4 'hat union and the Cent"al 4 Unorganized employes of the Bris- : Labor Council has approved of 4 tol mills at Philadelphia are strik 'he boycott after attempting to 4 WHAT NEXT? ing to enforce a wage demand of $11 effect a settlement. 4 a week. They have been receiving The names and location of 4 $9.34 a week and declare it is im Portland, Ore., March 2, Editor Oregon Labor 'he soft drink houses that are 4 possible for them to support a fam Press: Food and clothing are so hard to get that I encouraging the brewery in its 4 ily ou these rates. The mills are work so hard and long that I get so hungry that T opposition to union labor are 4 owned by Joseph R. Grundy, presi known to the union men and 4 eat so much that it makes me so stupid that I read dent of the Pennsylvania Manufac unless they discontinue handling 4 turers’ Association. Mr. Grundy led so little that I remain so ignorant that I vote so Blitz the list will be given 4 the fight against the child lauor law. foolishly that I help to retain such laws as help to publicity in order that all the 4 passed by the last Legislature, and take from me so much of the fruit of my labor that union men may know who their 4 the strike he now faces would indi enemies are. 4 I am kept so poor that I can help my children so cate that he has other reasons to The union men are not ask- 4 oppose child labor legislation than little that they must start to work so young that I ■ng anything of the Portland 4 the fear that children will acquire1 have to compete with them so much that they are brewery that has not already ♦ bad habits if they are taken from willing to work so cheap that I have to work so been granted by similar con- 4 mil's, miens and factories. cheap that my wife has so little to live on that she cerns in the city. 4 goes to work so cheap that my wages are cut so A large number of places that 4 PRINTERS RAISE WAGES. «ere formerly handling the 4 low that my clothes get so ragged that my boss product of the brewery have 4 Typographical Unio nNo. 298, Mas- gives me such a menial position that—I ’m wonder discontinued. 4 sillion, Ohio, has secured a three- ing what next. WILL VALE. Don’t drink “Blitz.” 4 year agreement and raised wages ♦ ♦ ♦ 4 4 4 4 * > > 4 . > > > > from 80 cents to 11.50 a week. Says Daly Disregards Civil Service Rules City Commissioner Daly and L. S. Kaiser and E. J. Gray, superin tendent and general foreman of the city water department, will have to appear before Judge Morrow before April 15 to answer charges of J. W. Dryden that they disregarded the civil service rules and refused to give him work. Failing to appear, the commissioner and his co-defend ants will have to reinstate Dryden as a calker, meterman or tapper in the water service, and will have to pay him $13437 for the time he has been refused work, since February 1. Dryden filed his suit in the Cir cuit Court Wednesday. He alleges that he is the senior calker in exam ination, classification and appoint ment, and that while he was re fused work 10 days in February, 24>£ days in March and three days this month, 15 junior calkers, meter- men and tappers were employed. He charged the commissioner with grossly disregarding the civil service rules. This is only one of a large number of infractions of the civil service rules that have been brought to light by the activities of the Civil Serice Workers’ Union. Asked for ? statement in regard to KNEW the matter, an official of the union said: “Mr. Daly and his subordinates have been given every opportunity to correct the evils complained of but so far nothing has been done. There seems to be a determination on the part of the superintendent of the water works and the general fore men to break up pur organization. I do not know whether this is being done with the knowledge and con sent of Mr. Daly, but it is being attempted and he is the responsible party, because he is the real head of the water department. “We are not trying to enforce any new rules nor are we asking for any increase in pa We simply ask for an honest «..iforcement of the civil service laws which we are not getting, especially in the water department. “I do not wish to infer that all the violations of the civil service rules have occurred in the depart ments under Mr. Daly, because they haven’t, and this is not a personal fight against any particular officer but is simply an endeavor to en- fore the rights guaranteed to civil service workers by the civil service rules and the city charter.” The outcome of the Dryden case will be watched with great interest. POWER OF ORGANIZA P. O. LABORERS WIN INCREASE. TION. The House of Representatives has Here is a story clipped from an accepted the recommendation of iti exchange which vividly illustrates Post Office Committee that post that which is very helpful to work office laborers be paid an annual ing men and women—organization • minimum wage of $840. Nine hun A planter down in Kentucky had dred laborers will be increased from just employed a strange negro as $720 under this amendment. a mule driver. He handed him a Congressman Sisson, of Missis brand new blacksnakc whip and sippi, made an unsuccessful attempt they climbed up on a seat behind to eliminate the compensation-for- a pair of mules . injury legislation for certain em The planter asked the darkey if he ployes in the postal service who are could use a whip. Without a word killed or injured while on duty. The the mule driver drew the black lash southern representative defeated an between his fingers, swung it over attempt to include other postal em his head and flicked a butterfly ployes in this legislation by raising from a clover blossom alongside the the point that it was not germane road over which they were travel to an appropriation bill. ing. “That isn’t so bad,” remarked the FAVOR REMEDIAL LEGISLATION planter. ‘Can you hit that honey bee over there?” Again the negro The legislative demands of the swung the whip and the bee fell Arkansas State Federation of La dead. bor include 38 proposals. Protec Noting a pair of bumble bees on tion to workers in industry is still another blossom the negro urged, as is workmen’s compensa swished them out of existence with I tion law, boiler inspection, old-age the cracker of his whip, and drew pensions, perfection of the initia further admiration from his new tive and referendum law by re employer. stricting the "emergency clause,” a A little further along the planter state printing plant, recall of all spied a hornet’s nest in the bush elective officers, women’s suffrage beside the road. Two or three hor and a more secret ballot in political nets were assembled at the entrance elections. to the nist. “Can you hit them, Sam?” he in SOCIALIST LECTURE SUNDAY. quired. “Yes, sah, I kin hit ’em all right,” “Pap” Davis, Socialist State Or replied the negro, "But I ain't a ganizer of Oklahoma, will speak at goin’ to.” Arion Hall, Oak and Second Streets, “Why not?’ 'asked the planter. Sunday, April 14, at 8 P. M. A pre “Well you see, boss, DEYS OR lude of music by a beautiful Edison GANIZED.’ Diamond Disc phonograph will be part of the program. PACKERS HAVE EAR TO Free.—All welcome. GROUND. STAGE EMPLOYES LOCKED OUT Increasing trade union sentiment i in Chicago’s packing house district! The Howard & Wells Amusement has resulted in small wage increases Company has secured control o f all to 35,000 employes at the plants of the theaters and moving picture the Armour, Swift, Morris and Sulz houses in Wilmington, N. C., and berger companies. These workers has locked out its employees who are practically unorganized, the are members of the Stage Em packers destroying their trade unions ployees* Union. This local was o r several years ago after a long strike. ganized last year. Î , I I I H t ' 2 .
