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Ì-H -» 111 i m i 1111 i - i t- i-4-i-.r i- i i 111111 h 11 n 11 i -n -i-1 i-i 1111111 1 1 n 111: 111111 1 1111t- h - i - h - i - h 11-i l i-1-1-i 1 1 1 1 i h w - i - i i 1 1 ; 1 1 11111 w - i -i- i i i rm - » !-! i m 11 i h i i - h h - h - h i - h h hh - h - h 11 i i - h h l i m n i i w h - h - h - h - h i i i FELLOW-SUFFERER. G T R IE D ON cott instituted by the Danbury hatters. You, T C E H X A A R N G S E S B O E IN A humane society had secured a P C O N SPIRA CY show window and filled it with at brother union man, paid your share. tractive pictures of wild animals in their native haunts. A placard In mu x- i • i zx# The class struggle has been brought right to Abilene. Tex., Oct. 14.— M em the of the exhibit read: The entire working class of . e ica is asked; your j oor g0 you may ^ave opportunity to bers of the F arm ers’ and La “We middle were skinned to provide wom borers’ Protective association en with fashionable Carpenters Wanted. furs.” to pause for a moment—long enoug to shed a^g^U(^y R cjose range> jts object is the same who attended that organization’s A telegram was received in paused before the window, tear for the unfortunate Nicholas Romanoff, wherever you find it and it is well for the work convention at Cisco last Feb and A man his harassed expression for a town this m orning from Eureka, moment gave place to one of sym California, asking for fifteen good who with his family, has been banished to To- ingman to study that object well, and after you ruary. voted to buy guns and pathy. adopted a resolution urging “I know just how you feel, old ship carpenters. The wire stated bolsk, a miserable village o >ut -o,000 people | piave s^-uc|jeci you wjp probably come to the con- members “to force everybody to tops," he muttered. "So was 1." that their fares had already been away off m Eastern Sibei . e> will undoubt-! ciug-on chamber of Commerce of San go to war, from the president to paid on the ship ’B reakw ater.” constables,” according to They don’t seem to think that edJy have to live in the u most discomfoit, 01 iprancisco, in spite of its enormous power over county OUTVOTE TH E HOGS testim ony introduced by the gov union shop is un-Am erican in with there are but twelve seivants, a tutoi, a jusGce> js no worse than the Chamber of Com- ernm ent in rebuttal today. Forty- A law w’hich prohibits a citi a Eureka. O r may be they like one members of the organization zen and taxpayer (all workers us if we arc bad. governess, and a few nen s. merce of Astoria. are being tried for conspiracy are taxpayers directly or indi They say the mosquitoes are terrible at To- The quegtion ig tWg. ARE Y0U GOING T0 against rectly) front voting on proposi the governm ent. tions which concern his welfare, How Can W e? bolsk Yes, and the malaria. And who knows( gCAB 0N yOUR CLASS ON ELECTION DAY? T here is to be a big Liberty H O O L S T U D E N T S , is w rong — undemocratic — and but the spmt of the monk, Rasputin, has flown Ype emancipation of the working class can be H IG O H B SC JE C T T O T R A IN IN G ! should be amended. It is by Bond rally in Astoria tonight. reason of such a law, disenfran W e shall rally; of course, but ha£h .there to its native home. accomplished only after every man, woman and chising the average laborer as it W e shall rally, of course. But Think of.it. A miserable village of but 2o,000 un(jerst ands this message of International- New York.—An increase this does, that the passage of such bonds on the installm ent plan year of from 40 to 80 m inutes people in a land where the winter season is eight ism: sinister laws as the anti-picket o r any other plan when they can in the school day here for mili hardly buy bread. months long. WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE!” tary training was given as the ing ordinance now in efect in D on’t forget that the shipyard To be sure, this is the same Nicholas who was i cause of a strike today of a Portland is accomplished. This companies w on't let the men num ber of high school students. measure, when it was before the come back until they come with responsible for the banishment of thousands of CJ||f f FIRE-EATER GOOD FOOD IS Miss Anna Lederer. as head of people for adoption or rejection, cringing knees. However, if men and women—harmless, innocent men u a students’ committee, told an carried because the enemies of rallying will do any good, we com m ittee on public labor voted solidly as against will rally. and women—to places beside which Tobolsk ; TRIPS HIMSELF! BEING BURNED aldermanie HIMSELF welfare, that 600 students had the few of the working class is a paradise. He banished them in the middle « struck and th at 4,000 would fol having the right of franchise of the summer and they tramped thru the swelt low unless military training was umler the law. In some rtf Rogers W ants Good Men. the European countries it has N egotations arc now under A K ES ODD M AYOR O F D U L U T H FIN D S disci »n tinned. ering swamps to their exile huts; banished them V S O T N A T T E IR M P E IT N Z T M been the practice to allow as wav for an agreem ent with the D E A L E R S K E E P P R IC E S T H A T “E N G in the dead of winter and they walked over the L A N D D E S IR E S N E G O T IA SO A R IN G BY D E S T R O Y M EN W IT H D E P E N D E N T S many votes to a citizen as Rogers Ship Company. Before rough roads until their shoes were worn thru and| T IO N S N O W ” — P R E D IC T S ING SU R PL U S ST O C K ........ E X E M P T FROM S E R V IC E ; be owned cows and hogs. T he the day is done Mr. Rogers may case is parallel. It was the prac have all of the good mechanics their blood made “red roses” in the snow. Thou SUCCESS FO R U-BOATS. Shreveport, La.— Receipts of tice, when one of these “promi- in Astoria in his employ. The sands more he had executed or knouted or im Duluth, O ct. — Large quanti a ruling by Provost Marshal nents" returned from the polls, other companies, it is reported, prisoned in filthy dungeons. Am sterdam , Oct. 14.—Admiral ties of good vegetables, eggs and General Crowder which says re to bear the remark that be and will try to im port some sheep- for m ilitary service bis bogs bad again outvoted the herders from the desert to build T irpitz, form er M inister of other produce are being sent by gistrants But forget the scaffolds, the knout, the dun ¡th von e German should be exempted if their fam people. W hy not organize on ships for them. Imperial 'Xavv, in local commission houses to be ilies are dependent mainly upon the political as well as the indus geons and the red roses in the snow. terviewed by the Brunswick consumed at the city incinerator them for support, regardless of trial field and outvote the hogs? Ask For Evidence. Two soldiers have clutched Nicholas roughly Landes Zeitung, is quoted as weekly. 'file governm ent investigation w hether the parents or relatives This was the am azing new s by the arms and more cruel still, some vile sans- s;o W ing: board now in session in P o rt of the registrant or bis wife are Educate the “dead-heads”— e can continue to confidentlv revealed bv the News-Tribune, land has down here to the those who benefit bv your ef culotte, gloating over Russia’s new-found free- i expect a final trium ph over Eng- and the facts were adm itted by financially able to support them, forts in the interests of all the union for wired sworn affidavits of announced late today by the dom has blown into his ex-ruler’s face, smoke 'la n d as we continue to sink ves-j the commission men themselves, was the notices which were posted Louisiana exemption workers. There are but few so sels taster than she constructs; Mayor Magnev has Deen con- western on the shipyard gates about from his stale old pipe. And Nicholas wept thetn. A subm arine war success i ducting an investigation of this board. low in the intellectual scale that Sept. 13, when the men were It is expected several hundred they will not recognize the truth cann.it be expected immediately, < m atter for some time, w ith the bitterly. men sent from this district to that what there is of justice to locked out. POOR NICHOLAS ROMANOFF. however, but if we pursue our! object of obtaining concrete aim firmly we shall find after evidence before exposing the CAN LABOR FORGET? some m onths that our position practice. On a recent visit to the incin for negotiations with England erator the m ayor observed that be quite different. To a person constantly reading of events as will “ England desires negotiations qpantities of wholesome onions they concern the working class, it seems almost now while her position is com were being destoyed, and upon beyond belief that any class of beings supposed parativeiy favorable, T he <ie- inquire was informed th at such ire the sh ip n in g ! was a frequent occurrence: that to have been created in the image of God can be hy thc Entcntc especially on Mondav mornings as blind to their own interests and remain so un- and bv netjtrals who expose were immense supplies of p ro d uce disposed of. concerned as do the working class of today. them selves to our i -boat war. “ No definite time can be fixed; Im m ediately after the m ayor's our success. Economically, j visit he received a communica- We have read of the horrors in Colorado, West for and as regards war m aterials, tion from the Fitzsimmons Pal- Virginia and Calumet; of the railroading of in our position today is stronger m er company stating that the nocent men to penitentiaries and to the hang than that of Prance o r Italy, latter would be willing to sen 1 will be a b le ; its partly decayed produce to man; of every form of wrong that an organized to How make far her England supplies last cannot p o m e depot designated by the gang of bandits can conceive tor the purpose oi t)e predicted. 1 m ayor for the purpose of having “ But the decisive factor is that | the edible stuff separated for use of keeping the workers in subjection. : while we supply four-fifths of as may he directed. The commission firm had evi >mic , needs from our The Mooney case in San Francisco is fresh in ! our economic dently learned of the activity oi products. England has to our minds, but will we forget it as we have for own fetch four-fifths of hers from Maguey and had undertaken gotten other cases of its kind? It must be re overseas. * this method of diverting a tte n tion from its destruction of food at the fateful membered that in 1913 there was a case which b. “\ yc are now hour of our existence. 'Germany stuffs. parallels these Preparedness parade persecu-; X S n'her is . The fact of thc m atter is that tions. This was the arrest and conviction oi Hei *“ a world power against England prevailing prices of produce on Michigan street commission man D. Suhr, a working man, on the charge of • ¡^!^ts-her p°s,t,on ,s 1,,un,lc<1 the row have been much higher than murder in conection with a strike riot which oc those obtaining in the Twin T IT L E S OF N O B IL IT Y Cities, in manv cases from 50 to curred at Wheatland, Calif. The men had gone 100 per cent greater. Due wav on strike owing to the unbearable conditions The Irish-Am erican Fashion of m aintaining these abnorm al existing at the hopyards where they were em- The Oregon Daily Journal writes: prices lias been to keep stocks to a minimum bv destrov- ployed. Deputies rushed in and began shooting urbane habits to scatter titles of no- , down . Local Notes Camp Pike near L ittle Rock, the worker, has been secured Ark., will be discharged under through the efforts of organized labor. The non-union workmen the ruling. (frequently a person who has B R IT IS H P U T BAN ON not the courage to call himself CA BLES TO H O L L A N D a competent workman and seek the aid of unions) pays no dues Amsterdam. Oct. 14.—Great for the support of the organiza Britain lias stopped all comm er tion of his c ra ft; he is a dead cial cable communication with head, ami, while professing a be Holland until such times as the lief in certain rather nebulous Netherlands government places ideas of liberty, helps to fasten an absolute restriction on the the chains of slavery on himself transit of sand, gravel and scrap and his class. metals through Holland from The commission representing Germany to Belgium. the governm ent in the ship 20-YEAR TER M FO R building controversy met with E SP IO N A G E CH A RG E the ship carpenters the other day at the Labor Temple. Davenport (fa.), Oct. 11.— Speeches were made by various Judge M. D W ade, in Federal members of the commission, each Court, denied a motion for a appealing, it is said, to the car new trial for Daniel H W allace penters’ patriotism and sense of this m orning and sentenced him duty and asking them to dis to tw enty years in prison for regard their demands for the violation of the 'Espionage Act. time being. “ W hen the war is over,” it was said, “will be the D R A F T L IF E B U T P R O T E C T time to settle all grievances.” It P R O F IT S In 1916 the Steel Corporation’s net is not likely that the yard ow n income above taxes and all expenses ers objected to the plan proposed. of conducting its business was better T his looks like real business. May be somebody else will d o a little w orrying now. Shipbuilder Surrenders. W ord has just come to the Toveri that the Someson Ship yard Co., of Columbia City, O re gon, has surrendered to the ship w orkers’ demands there and will resume work at once under the union shop. W ho'll be next? Should Cook-house Pay. Thc l ’rix Logging Co., of A s toria, together with the W iscon sin Co., of Portland, and the Booth-Kellv Co., of Eugene, are discussing this im portant ques tion in thc Pacific Logging Con gress now in session in Portland. "Should the cook-house pay? Oh, dear. W hy not? Neighbors on Guard. Com ¡»any II, T hird Oregon Infantry, consisting of 125 men, who have been doing guard duty at the Ham mond will and the shipyards, were yesterday w ith drawn. A company of coast ar tillery men from Et. Stevens re than 271 million dollars. The prodigal son had just sneaked Its average profits for each of the in the back way between two days. placed them, no one having in telligence enough to think of this three years before the war were 63 “Owing to the greediness of the before, if seems. million dollars. beef trust,” explained the old man, Subtract 63 million from 271 mil are entirely out of fatted calf, lion and you have 208 million left, “we M anager Ed. W right, of the but here's which represents the Steel Trust’s apolis Star. a can opener."—Indian M cEacbern yards, so press re- excess war profits for 1916—they have almost doubled since. But take 80 per cent, as a war tax j from the 208 millions of excess prof its and the Steel Trust will still be making 107 millions a year net profit. The time has arrived when the workingmen of the country One hundred and four other Amer must unite! Organized capital is strongly united in its efforts to ican corporations are prospering si milarly because of the war. but the ’ crush the rightful demands of the workers. The so-called capitalist Senate propose« to tax the excess papers are always frying to form public opinion against the work profits of all these profiteers only ingmen. They publish news and articles in the interest of the 31 per cent, for the war, although m aster class only. freely drafting the lives and property The workingmen of Astoria and vicinity know this to be an of the American people. This is such a ciHd-blooded outrage it is difficult absolute fact. The workingmen of this com m unity can see there to speak of it calmly. It is the plain is only one paper in A storia that is publishing the facts about the duty of the National Government to strike and that paper is “ the Daily T overi’’ (The Daily Com rade). take 80 per cent, of the big incomes This paper has been published in the Finnish language only, and all of the war profit above a reasonble return on the capital ac for about ten years, but we saw the urgent need of a paper tually invested. The people should that could be read by the English-speakipg people also, so we demand this and be satisfied with decided to do all we could to let all the people know the real nothing less.—Arthur Capper. indiscriminately, it is said. Suhr was wounded, | ¡-“% 5X r SSSJ ! X i » X i o 7 i n - ! » r ^ u M « ; United We Stand, Divided We Fall” and two of the deputies were shot. He was ar-j Since he became a regular writer on the high prices. v i T i l l 1 the staff <)f au American newspaper Michigan street monopoly rested, and for two weeks was kept sleepless, he has -thus indugled himself more of The commission houses has in the and when at the limit of human endurance he, Most heads of any prominence past made it impossible for prod ucers to dispose of their wares signed a paper, which after an hour of sleep he ¡¡-by t ^ ^ direct to the consumers. The denied. Then , he was , taken , to 1 the Sutter wiison down can be found, who have . p , coun- J not been honored with the Colonel s monopoly has not onlv robbe 1 ty jail, SO we have read, and. a detail OI two men, various equivalents of the iron cross the people of D uluth, blit has was constantly with him, to wring a confession!^. ^ra?een.’t,"sSk’’d“crook» «££p?,so cxtenilc(1 its contro1 to the iron range. from him to the effect that he had deliberately; ™ ¡J “We shall all be equal when death shot the deputies. At the trial a deputy swore endearment and honor, as Balfour claims our mortal clay,” is a beauti ful sentiment, hut lacking in truth, that Suhr had confessed to having “grabbed a Some may believe that the Colon- shower of ______ honors was el’s latest __ .. __ __ The worker’s life from beginning to gun from an old man and blazed away. somewhat too liberally bestowed, i en^ is a second-class life, and his since he awarded it wholesale to I death is a second-class death. I be facts about the strikes and all other m atters im portant to the Israel Weinberg refused to give perjured testi-j 200,000 men who have always here- lieve It was Rvan Walker who said A V E N G E B E L G IU M ! H O W A B O U T workingmen, which are kept dark by other papers. A T R O C IT E S C O M M IT T E D mony against Tom Mooney. Weinberg must elfgiWe^V the°titled of t r a i t o r . ” V hat ! blrth, lives a second-class childhood, IN A R IZO N A ? W IL L YOU UNITE W ITH US FOR YOUR OWN SAKE? which ! meets and marries a second-class "We find it highly significant that pay the penalty for that., Besides, he was o p e r - ! ^ ^ mate and reproduces more second- Do you want the Daily Comrade to be YOUR COMRADE? beings to compete with him and just as the American nation is setting ating a jitney and cutting into the profits OI the i Non Partisan League in a recent con- class You can answ er this bv simply cutting out ami idling the his kind in the world’s labor mar forth in its righteousness to avenge kets. He finally falls sick from a the Belgian deportations upon the subscription blank below. Bring it or mail it with the subscrip United Steal of San Francisco. Mooney was sen- 1 "Traitor" is what the cowboys second-class disease and dies a sec German kaiser, our own kaisers, sit tion price to : used to call a “fighting word.” We ond-class death. He is buried in a ting in the persons of the Phelps- fenced to be hanged. Warden K. Billings, mem hope the leaguers will not lay It second-class lot. a second-class mark Dodge Corporation of Arizona, should up against the impulsive Colonel, round up 1,500 free citizens in to cor ber of the Boot and Shoe Workers’ Union, an . . . . .. . who loves his country not alwavs er is placed at his grave, while a sec ral, herd them into a train of stinking The Daily Comrade. ond-class preacher extols his many Cor. 10th & Duane St., other undesirable , in the estimation of the ____.seldom ruling wisely but never too well, and who second-clas3 virtues—” which more cattle cars and ship them into the , j i ve fails to mingle with his de- Astoria, Oregon. likely will give him a second- middle of the desert. class, was sentenced to lire imprisonment > votion to his dear native land a than “Our United States army has to go Please enter mv subscription to the Daily Comrade for class place in heaven. and rescue its own citizens from its .......................... m onths for which please find enclosed $ ..................... while Rena Mooney was acquitted on the first: ,p’ S a,sp(luX r°ef ^ ' “ a r ^ h Y 'd '" kaisers and feed them and shelt votion to the latter worshipful idol “And we have come to he one of own er them and try to find something count, but remains in jail. The evidence of har- lapsed slightly when he dubbe_d those p b e worst ruled, one of ™os else to do with them besides sen d . Name farmers completely controlled and dominated lots, tools of the Chamber of Commerce and the hard-working, intelligent them home clothed in their rights, i governm ents in the civilized world: ___________ _ ; no longer a government b>* free which is the one thing it dares not | Address “efficiency” of the professional jurors counts. “traitors.’ ! opinion, no longer a government by do.”—Chicago Heral^ There are 141 Binnlsh Co-operative; conviction and the vote of the ma- Organized labor of America paid into the cof establishments There are now over sixty Co-oper- in America with a s-; joritv, but a government by the sets at approximately $2.500.000 and ! opinion and the duress of small Roihdaie’^ i a n 11 1 These ^ v t ^ U e n S u b sc rip tio n rates:_ $4.00 per year. $2.25 for 6 months. $1.35 for fers of a certain hat manufacturer a sum aggre doing an annual business of four-i groups of dominant men.”—Woodrow built up in the past three years. j 3 months a..d hOc per month either by mail or carrier. I Wilson in The New Freedom. gating $216,000 as damages because of a boy- and a half million dollars. 6
