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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.
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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
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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”
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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 '
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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;
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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 $ ....................
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stru ck it
Precedents
are
against
ex-
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,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
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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.