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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
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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
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L
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S
OF
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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.
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