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Hence this right should be guarded :: and protected by the free men of this country with a zealous care, unless they are prepared for chains or anarchy.—Daniel Webster on Free Speech. :: »■■H-I-l I 1 H T 1 T 1 I' 1 IT T 1 T T-1 I 1 I 1 1 I 1 1 I-H -4 -H -H •!-++-H TT--H TTTTT TTTTT-H T- ¡1 ; 1 1 1 1 1 1 l I l 'M -I-l 'l- l 'i-I-M l I 1 IT 1 1 I H ! l i T ' / H - H T IT -i-IT 1-i H 1 1 1 1 H H 1 1 1 11 1-U !■ I T l l -H H T + i from its wom en’s hour law m an THE LAW TAKES A FUNNY TWIST. ufacturer^» of m unitions for the United States during war times, and Oregon and California ex “The law is no respecter of persons.” . ' cluded from the 8-hour laws (Continued from Page One) So says the book. However, there are said to women engaged in the prepara by raising age limits, extending tion of fruit, vegetables and fish. be exceptions even to that. existing restrictions to new em Eor men, Kansas and W ashing For instance: A. S. Westernland, a striker, was They are not necessary tq the buildina of ships, ployments. or shortening hours, i ton set up an8-hour day in mines.* and that is something we all know. They are The New York Evening Mail Texas passed a new general Labor Standards in War Time. arrested several days ago at the instigation of statute setting a 15-year mini Mistaken zeal at the entrance an official of the Hammond Lumber Co., on the only in the way. The government could take commends the proposed federal mum age for factories, and \ er- o f t ’ne U nited States into the investigation charge of the yards, construct better and cheaper,... .. of the Moonev mont provided for issuance of war led to the introduction of supposition that he intended to go to the Ham regulations in conformity with >ills in some legislatures design- mond mill yard and induce the men there to join ships, and apply the fat profits now going to the the situa*tion rea<is: those of the federal child labor j ed to break down labor stand- the strikers and thereby strengthen the forces employers to the workers’ pay roll. J n ordering the D epartm ent ii n t it'ixi<n i ni-'-i act’ w d’tdl went into effect Sept. ards j in n addition addition to to laws laws of of tbi tms j3epin(j the eight hour day movement. He didn’t And this will be done, is bound to be done, if Justice and •*, the federal nrike a tlio Labor ro iv d i1 with an appropriation of $150.- type described under “ Hours, i ». • i a commission »h. Mooney yl ™ v 000 for its enforcement. Kansas Connectic nt and New Ham pshire do it but they claimed to think he intended to do the workers stand iirm and refuse to go back! investigation into- the and New Hampshire legislated fave their governors power to something of the sort. except on the conditions they have named—a ^ e at San Francisco, President on factory safeguards. exas on suspend labor regulations on re- Westerland was locked up in the city jail better scale of wages to meet the increased cost tuition ‘to^ 7 ’s itu a tin i" f l i g h t fire escapes, New Jersey o n 'q u e s t of the Council of National scaffolding, M ontana on elec- . Defense. Vermont, also author- where he was kept incommunicado for about six of living and recognition of their union. ( with dangerous possibilities. trical apparatus. Delaware nil ■ jze,| similar action hv the com- These are reasonable demands. No one who 'i h o m as-j. »Mooney. with m ur sanitarv equipment, ami \\ est . missi<»tier of industries with the days, then turned loose without ever having a Virginia on m ine-: all following I consent of the governor, and trial or having been charged with any crime. has come here to investigate the strike denies was trjed on the charge of the modern tendency to lay down . M assachusetts established a W hether the suspension of habeas corpus pro- this. Any increase in wages is paid by the gov- having caused the bomb expio in the , ll,c laK S e e d i n g s in his case was a military necessity or ernment. The only point the employers have to n U U ' ¿ 2 , / T P a,h'- quirem ents, fire m arshal, board j after a hearing. just a plain denial of constitutional rights, is yield is recognition of the union. And to be recog- i Preparedness parade in San commissioner, of health, or other adm inistrative j M inimum W age ; known only to the officials. Any way, it was nized as a union man is, as Mr. Dalzier, deputy Francisco on July -A poo . Ait- official, the duty of issuing spe-j , , , . . . i . _ __e r a tria l w hich w as follow ed Arizona established a mini mini- done. Workingmen don’t always know why regulations. New Jersey state labor commissioner, said in 'the meeting by various charges of perjury cific the m anufacture of a rti mum wage of $10 a week f o r ! things are c| one to them, they only know they yesterday^at Logan Hall, ‘‘the God-given right of against witnesses for the prose forbade i cles of food or children s wear women in stores and lactones, i , cution and conspiracy on the Illinois and N orth Dakota es- ¿HO QOne. every man.” part of public utilities corpora- in tenements. tahiished commissions t«> investi-i But watch. Now come James Allen and man- Workmen’s Compensation. Two samples of the argum ents against a closed of San Francisco, Mooney W orkm en's compensation laws Wright, officials of the Astoria ship con- shop were used in the meeting yesterday. Mr. was convicted and sentenced to were enacted in Delaware. Idaho. gate wages and other conditions _______ _____ _ tracting companies. They were arrested a few New Mexico. South Dakota and Brix said he was opposed to the closed shop be- ^ arK‘niie< m aking forty states and E nightm ^R re of U closed E ' days ag0 011 w arrants charging them with vio- cause it was un-American, and W right objected ■ In the meanwhile the charges Utah, territories which now have such lating the state laws by importing strikebreak SHOP to it on the ground th at it would tend to destroy }<£ " ^ ^ ”2 oi laws, in addition to the federal e rs under a misrepresentation of labor conditions ent’s compensation law initiative. And the latter, w hile not so hypoent perjury and conspiracy, devised governm for its own half million civilian (Continued troni P age One) here. And did they go to jail and lie there in ical sounding as the first, is no more convincing. ] and prom oted iw District Attor- employes. Compensation in the new acts is 50 or 55 per cent of been trying verv hard to get communicado for a week? Not that anybody has Both are fair samples of the intelligence of those, - J wages but is increased by hall in strikebreakers; that neither side heard of. They were permitted to give bonds, injwhose hands production rests. ! The Specific charge was made New Mexico if the injury result- was m aking any lieadwav so far as the constitution and civil laws of the land pro The closed, or union shop, is to the workers Frank o T !e< front the employer’s failure as he could see: and wanted to »f Durkee. Ore., to provide safety devices rc- know if there was anv way pos- vide, and went their own free way. what freedom from Prussian dictation is to the es ca had enian been nut on the stand than sible to get the m atter settled Why, 'just to ask a foolish question, were the NEW LABOR LAWS MOONEY CASE THE ARE PASSED IN EVERY STATE The critical hour in the strike situation has a r RALLYING CRY rived. The employers have about exhausted the patience of the government and they know it. OF DISCONTENT HOLD THE FORT last two men given their legal rights, and Wes terland, who did nothing, not even what they thought he might do, treated like a prisoner of war? It is never permissible for a person to ask and set on morning. Il is heart answer his own questions. Besides, it is not Monday morning. However, the union, in se cret likely there is any one in these parts so green session, did not accept the that he cannot divine the answer for himself. offer made by the employers in should “stand his hand.” They have so far shown cution. t «> sustain this charge vessels was authorized under the magnificent solidarity. A few more days and ¡he labor’ , tCde ral Bureau . of W ar Risk. ini the government will break the dead-lock. This Rigall of Grayville, 111., a for-i A dm v ,nistratl0n of Labor aws. o m in g for the first tim e is no time to show the white feather or the yel- m er associate, inviting him to i secret session, and there the m at ance to the confederacy, and all au th o rities if ste p s a re not taken to low streak. ter rests. except one had given up their relieve th e situation. Stand up for seats in the Senate. Even Jesse i There isn't any sentim ent in British business, except when men—union men SENATOR CAN BE EX PEL ,D. Bright, senator from Indiana. J “the troopers' on the tide. as wliD was proved to have sent a LED FOR ANY OR NO dren’s sake, stay ..... I — ; our friend Kipling savs. 1 hen man with a valuable patent on I . REASON. Let no one figure what he is losing in dollars and cisco, was lavishly entertained In Utah and Pennsylvania. a n e t firearms to Jefferson Davis with ! »t « rigltt and projier and a ,pa- • a letter of recommendation, was) triotic duty besides, to decorate cents. You are losing nothing. You ar? fight- W W j U 'W U U 'W ’/ industrial commissions arc given By Basil M. Manly to issue regulations hav expelled < ilv by a vote of 32 to the stores with flags, and cheer ing to make working conditions fit tor your ■ w hat he should say on the stand, power ( ’an the j the departing heroes, and the W ashington, Oct. 5. ing the force of law. Civil ser 14.-—New York Call. , storekeeper in not one whit be- children ' and t,lcn d’saPPeared before the vice rules looking to greater ef United States Senate expel a ; date set for his testim ony before ficiency and stability of the fac member? W hat are it p x rec e-' i hind his fellows in patriotism The m anagers cannot get competent men to the jury. IT COULDN'T HAPPEN ON i then. But it’s altogether differ- tory inspection force were in dents for so doing? . TH IS SIDE, ! ent when “TommyS returns, fill your places. Out of two hundred men and The circum stances su rro u n d augurated in Pennsylvania and The Heflin charges and d e - j ing the trial and conviction of mauds hv Roosevelt and others i “trim m ed to the queen’s taste." over, which the McEachern company claim to Moonev produced so strong an New Jersey. i, , - , . c ,• . , „ A fter helping make the world __ ____ at the rich and like _ Lazarus ' Unemployment. 'l<*r th e e x p u lsio n of S e n a to r La have, there is hardly a one who can tell a ship impression on the state authori Public safe for democracy, it is rather j nian's g ate. will insist on exhib- employment bureaus Collette have brought these ques- tough to be ordered to move on iting his sores. 1 hey are hon auger from a cork screw. Strikebreaking me ties at Sacrem ento that A ttorney were authorized in South Dakota tions to the fo re , General I . S. \ \ ebb of ( alifor- and New Hampshire, while O re i fhe Senate can, by tw o-thirds as a public nuisance by the busi- orable scars, to he sure, but chanics are not to be had anywhere. nia on July 30 of this year filed gon appointed a commission to vote, expel any member for any ness men whose salvation you jilcn Inisitiess is business, and it have striven for. W e take the can t afford to let loafers hang You are in the right and your cause is ju s t...... tin the state suprem e court a doc investigate anti recommend leg is-1 reason or tor no reason, following press item from a about “Shrapnel ■Corners" and And anv member of the union who bows his head i um ent supporting 'Moonev s ap- latioti under which "all hum an' So far as hfv goes it can ex M assachusetts exchange: interfere with the process of pro within this state shall be ¡ pel any member tor the color of peal fronl ^ ea the R)r sentence TORONTO, Out.. Sept. 28.—Alleg and goes back now without the consent of the an(j a new trjap <k‘ath beings provided opportunity to secure ' his necktie or because his speech- th at th e ir business has suffered duction. union, deserves to be loaded with the chains ot It is in this phase of the case ’he necessaries of ” 'ife in return * ers are boresome. Here is what ing by th e congregating of retu rn ed T hat is, business in T oronto c o n s t i t u t i o n say 's, in s e c tio n j m aimed soldiers, sto rek eep ers a t that President W ilson nt>w in- the can’t ; but in New York and bondage. For not only is he surrendering - his ' tervenes with instruction for a for labor requisite to their pro V, article I : I College and Yonge stre e ts, popularly ----------- „ M innesota and Ari determine 1 nicknam ed “ Shrapnel C orners,” have Boston and Philadelphia it is manhood to the boss and betraying a solemn tuu ¡nqUjrv- iJV the Departm ent duction." “ Fach , Iloitse course. zona arranged for co-operation . . may , l tlireated legal action ag ain st the city altogether different, of oath to his fellow workers, but he is perpetuating of justice, and also by the in- with the federal governm ent in the rules ot its proceedings,!_______________________________ ‘ ’ dustrial Commission, of which m anaging public employment of 5, a slavery for which his children ought to execrate!(lustrial Commission, m !!^r t iV e ^ e rL,ir »i’ . h “United We Stand, Divided We Fall Secretary \ \ ilson is the head. regulated fices, and Nebraska the concurrence of tw o -th ird s,! his very memory. _____________________ The Mooney case has been private agencies. expel a m em ber.’’ The time has arrived when the workingmen of the country taken up by labor bodies all over Trade Disputes If W ill R p w N p u * i proclamation, we may well be p-anzim’ i.moi vi -au- D uring its history the Senate • m ust unite! Organized capital is strongly united in its efforts to lt will be riew {hat k win be ,.with a the country. Echoes of the un Laws legalizing labor organ rest caused by it have been izations an il limiting- the issuance has expelled 15 members and crush the rightful demands of the workers. I he so-called capitalist Freedom VV ith firm hand;-__The \ Cw Age. heard in distant Russia, where of injunctions in labor disputes dropped six others from the papers are alwavs frying to form public opinion against the work a “Firm Hand” ----------------; ingmen. They publish news and articles in the interest of the the American m inister was made were adopted in 1 tab ami Min rolls. Procedure for expulsion of a m aster class only. _ , the victim of a hostile dem on nesota. Idaho and M innesota The workingmen of Astoria and vicinity know this to be an member is verv simple. A mere stration several m onths ago. on made it a felony to advocate sa- can see there Thomas Jefferson, reputed au -( ¡n a pam phlet on P ro stitu tio n in tth e ground that the United thor of the American Declara-. R elation to the Army on the M exican States was railroading to execu tion of Independence, said: ¡B o rd er.” Dr M J E x n er m akes the tin n g n " ] t a n a n socialist named P R O S T IT U T IO N tK“O ur object s to u ld be to leave open ' sta te m e n t AND W AR. ¡ a t “d uring ^ r^ i M n „ i." th e avenuea to tru th . As th e m ost s had m ore m en incap acitated In America and abroad the V / e T t h e ’" p ^ r ithi^ e U,°erefo?ed S A-V v e n e re a l d is e a s e s c o n tra c te d in M()Oncv case has been made the § fact directlv and immediately, as i t jlat col,id be read bv the English-speaking people also, so we 'in the case of John C. Btecken-j decjdcd to do ap w e’ could to let all the people know the real first sh u t up by those who fear the the m obilization cam ps th an inwall ra U v ;n „ c r v o t discontent and, Hours. inveatigatlon of th e ir a c tio n .” w rite r r i ^ r i l n g on m oral conditions ; hostility to America and to the For women, Nevada and Mon ridge of Kentucky, charged with , facts about the strikes and ail other m atters im portant to the Whether those who first sug- . exlstlng in the cam ps on the M exican existing order. tana established an eight-hour lisloyalty during the .civil war. workingmen, which are kept dark by other papers. “trading with the enemy bill. border last sum m er brings out t h e ' -------- ---- ---- — dav in manv occupations, and Usually, however, a special com-1 W ILL YOU UNITE W ITH US FOR YOUR OWN SAKE? “trading w i t h teh enemy b ill." ! following sta rtlin g facts: M IK E A N D H IS P O TA TO PA TC H . Ohio reduced daily hours from m ittee is appointed to consider : took their cue from Jefferson’s i h ^ m” “nd£ ? dear’ 'iaSumrf that An Irish soldier w ho w as a Sein ten to nine. New York extended , the charges. There is no formal! Do vou want the Daily Comrade to be YOUR COMRADE? ein er was serving w ith th e B ritish its 9-hour day and 54-hour week trial in any case. You vtlll can ................... answer this .. ... hv ---- simply cutting „ out and filling - the I he commit- , . remark or not, does not appear. | pro8tltuion l8 necessary. In several . ■ F arm y “som ew here in F rance." He But the fact remains that n<U cam ps. th e officers established pros- “ a s ' m uch w orried about his garden to restaurants. New H am p sh ire: tee adopts its report b> vote o , subscription blank below. Bring it or mail it with the subscrip more effective gag law could titution q u a rte rs for th e ir men. , j &nd WQndered llow h e would get it cut one hour oft" the previous the m ajority. In some case> 1 Uon price to: have been hatched in old St. 2. In one case, a w om an in th e Jn timg f(jr the crop Finally axitnum. while Nevada . ¡accused senator is represented; m........ Petersburg in the palrnv days o f active stag e of syphillis had »'cn in & bright idea stru ck him. He w rote 55-hour but this ts the ex- Da Comrade, x, u I • i’o sili° n to com m unicate it to 12» wifp and t{dd h er to get one set a 56-hour limit, and C o n n ect by counsel ticut a 58-hour miximum in cer- ception rather than the rule. I he tne Romanotts, ami the . e men w ithin th e preceding tw o days. ' tfae n e igbbor hoys to do th e work, Cor. 10th & Duane St., Both Dela- hearings are secret or public, ac- initiated and pushed the bill 3. The civil com m unities w here c a u tj on him not to dig too tair. employments. Astoria, Oregon. . t knew their business. Postmaster 1 cam ps w ere stationed p rotested depp because th e re was a lot of Sein ware and Ohio restrict women's cording to the will of the com-, Please enter my subscription to the Daily Comrade lor General ... Burleson. n»o will „ th e ground th a t it would h u rt busi-i ,,™ F r in e r , a n m .in lllo n work to six days a week, and ■ mittee. months for which please find enclosed $ .................... . , , .. , stru ck it Precedents are against ex- ........................ ,l,e o[«.r,al re n Sor announces | ,,ess “ ,ght the Se..!. m ight be th e d eath of the° Whole the New York statute to this ef fect now applies also to restaur-i pulsion ^xcept where proof of Name . . . Cf'ind'new fipapers w h ic h , a re 4. In m any places boys and m en ; fam ily, direct assistance to the enemy Of course the censor got hold of a n ts 'piae on]v state to permit try in g to m ake the m asses believe stood in line for hours aw aiting th eir le tte r and read it. A whole « ‘i X d Y S S S S ¿ » ’. » A T tio n s w ith a firm hand." Judging from the effectual manner in which the constitution of several western states has been nullified by gubernatorial Conditions nlmoa, .11 o f ! « 2 They th ese cam ps w ere such as to' m ake i to d ig ’ for th a t am m unition. it all but im possible for any boy, no dug and dug. and dug good and m a tte r how well and cleanly brought deep, w ith th e resu lt th a t by the up, to resist th e overw helm ing tem p tim e they had tum bled to th e joke tation to indulgence.—July issue of Mike had his garden all spaded ready for planting, for nothing. C u rren t Opinion. a genera’ lengthening of legal working time for women was W yom ing, which increased its weekly maximum from 56 to itO hours. W ar conditions, however, led New Ham pshire to except is overwhelming. Of 20 members expelled from; Address the Senate or dropped from its I rolls during the civil war on .............................1 / 2 2 .................................................... Lu e , i - t charges of dislovaltv all except Subscription rates: MOO per year. $2—i for 6 m onths. $1.3a tor three had ex p ressed 'th eir allegi-1 3 months and 50c per m onth either by mail or carrier.
