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“It is a right to be maintained in peace or war. It is a right that cannot be invaded without destroying constitutional liberty. Hence this right should be guarded B
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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political m eetings they desire in ing the num ber of available it hasn’t happened at all. Read
the Toveri.
Cincinnati, but no m eetings will miners.
Ill
In
view
of
these
circum
stan
be
countenanced
at
which
a
t
'One swallow does not make a summer,” Thc next time someone asks U. S. CASE SO WEAK 10 DE tacks are made on the govern ces. the officials here feel san W A N T E D —An army of boys
DISMISSED —
to sell the Toveri on the streets
that there will be no acute
neither do a few scissorbills make a shipyard you “what you have Unions FENDANTS
NO U N L A W F U L ACT ment or the conduct of the guine
in
the afternoons. Apply at the
shortage
of
coal
this
winter.
crew. It is not a question of how many men th e ; ¡or>" don! ritv. Jlis fcnorance, COMMITTED, SAYS DE w ar,” was the ultim atum given M iscarriage of plans is almost Toveri
office.
to O tto Rucktaeschel, Socialist
FENSE.
McEachern Co. has imported, it is a question of
leader, w h e n he protested certain to result in the abandon-!
how many mechanics they have beguiled.
mind to the greatest force for
against
the m ayor's order re ment of the present price regu-j M other and Babe Die.
Abilene, Tex., Oct. 17.— Forty-
lation arrangem ent and t h e 1 Mrs. Pajunen. wife of E. E.
garding the N earing speech.
Ten thousand scissorbills could not build a
¿ cWnW ld 5 workers one men are on trial here on
A nother pacifist, H erbert S ., adoption of the pooling plan Pajunen, a well know n dentist
charges of “ seditious conspira
which from the first has been of A storia, died in the city last
decent ship by the year 1920, and, it-is worth Compare the long workday of cy’’
to defeat tite draft law. The Bigelow, of the People’s church, ]
favored
by a m inority of the night at the hour of m aternity.
repeating, that a good carpenter need not scab; tbirt.v.years ago to that of today, men are said to he members of was notified by the m anagem ent]
The new born babe died a few
the Grand opera house that trade commission.
in these days. Poverty sometimes drives him to
.L U 'iJ U iX .rT .T the Farm ers’ and L aborers’ Pro of
T his pooling would provide minutes later.
tective association, an organiza no ‘unpatriotic’ utterances m ust for the selling by the various
it in hard times, but no such condition exists mcnt all of the different mechan- tion which the governm ent de he made during the gatherings
J10W
; ies of labor were w orking from clares contem plated an eventual which are held there on Sunday m iners to a central governm ent Awful Poor.
A divorce was granted yester
reservoir, whence coal would be
t , * , -i
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’ twelve to sixteen hours per dav,
of the governm ent at afternoons.
F urthei, the spm t ot the men in the Astoria F and that now the eight hour dav overthrow
dispensed at an average price day by Judge Eakin to Patrick
ashington.
H. Keegan from K atherine Kee
slightly above cost.
Shipyard Workers’ Union is absolutely unbreak- is a fact in all of the organized W This
has been strongly denied 82 Jewish War
gan
on the grounds of desertion.
Coal is now $8.75 a ton for
bv members of this association.
Refugees Here stove
able. They have taken the oath to each other.,
The
couple had been m arried
and nut, $8.50 a ton for
They declare that the org an iza
four
years,
had no property*, no
egg and broken, and $7.75 for
they have said the word to the employers, and '■ <iay that they may enjoy to a tion was formed for cooperative !
FROM JERUSALEM pea coal, and local dealers say children and no love for each
they will now, to a man, leave the homes th ey ! ^ eat^r de-rce the £°od thin-s buying and selling am ong the] PARTY
SAYS ONLY 2,000 JEWS th at it is not likely to go high other even.
have builded with loving care and turn their If l!c the union’s successful ef farm ers and laborers to enable OUT OF 65,000 ARE ALIVE er, despite further reduction of
classes to successfully re
IN HOLY CITY.
the local supply through diver A nother L ittle One Gone.
backs on Astoria forever, rather than crook the forts in reducing the workday is both
sist
exploitation
by
capitalist*.
sion of large quantities of coal
not sufficient excuse for our ex
Eino Oja, the 13-year-old son
servile knee to a master.
Fifty four men were originally
An Atlantic Port. Oct. 17.— to the west. This is the sea-j of Mr. and Mrs. Leander Oja,
istence, show your friend how
arrested and indicted by the A party of 82 Jewish war refu son of the year when the coal-
These are men—real men. They are men in the w orkers' agitation secured grand
of Mavger, died in A storia yes
jury here, and all were a r
from Palestine and Je ru sa carrying roads make haste to terday m orning of spinal m en
whom confidence can be reposed; men in whom ?ur *rec sch°o1 system and its raigned at the opening of the gees
lem arrived here today after a supply the west with fuel before
The funeral is to be
the fighting spirit never dies. And should th is’JX Raised wages a n d ’^ s t a u trial. A rgum ents on dem urrers j journey lasting four m onths and the close of navigation on the ingitis.
held
this
afternoon at 2 p. m.
the opening of the trial re one week. Most of the refugees Great Fakes.
nation ever find itself driven to the last trench j 1 ished a vast chain of benefits, at
from
the
undertaking
parlors of
sulted in the discharge of sev were women and children, Am
E.
B.
Hughes.
of war, these are the men it will turn to in itsi]lowf've ha.v,e:f,orced einP,o>ers eral of the defendants, and so] erican citizens by m arriage or ROBBERS ARE BUSY
weak did the case against oth-i birth.
extremity, and not to the characterless scabs and si,op conditions are bettered bv ers
prove to he that the number] The refugees told a story of
Chambers Of Commerce Who WOUld bend down workers standing together and on trial
W ashington, Oct.
17.—The O R D E R O F \ \ ASA will give a
has dwindled to 41.
good time dance at A. O. U. W .
great suffering and privation, treasury departm ent has made
and lick the slimy boots of the Kaiser himself if j f d i ^ v t , w jiJrih a s b goneStlt'ii the United States District A ttor-j in Jerusalem . W hen the party public attem pts of munition hall. Ninth St., A storia, Ore.,
ttev \ \ ilmot Odell in opening the j left there more than four m onths
! Friday evening Good refresh-
anything were to be gained thereby.
i front.
case, which is being tried before i ago, food prices had risen 400 m anufacturers to evade seven (m ents served. A dm ission: Gents
Tell him that all of these gains
teen million dollars of taxes.
have been made in the last fifty Judge W hitfield Jack in the fed per cent. The value of monev The governm ent is taking im 50c, Ladies free.
eral court, declared that the g o v had depreciated one half. T he
WHY NOT START AT IT NOW?
years. 'Before that time m e n .
m ediate steps to make the m an W A N T E D .—An arm y of boys
were even denied the right toI ernm ent would prove the asso Tewish population of Jerusalem ufacturers pay up.
to sell the Toveri on the streets
organize. Existing laws at that ciation was a secret and ‘‘sedi not supplied with money was de
tious”
one.
and
that
an
eventual
I
in
the afternoons. Apply at the
Below is an editorial from The Oregon Journal, time declared th at three work- alliance with the I. \ \ . \V. was pendent upon the limited facili GERMAN BATTLESHIP
;
Toveri
office.
STRIKES A MINE
ties ut agents supplied with
with which we agree in substance. But we would
T he government funds by the joint distribution
Quit Your Slacking.
some time in committee of the American
But despite obstacles men unit-i t - T charges «■ > that
,»
suggest th at the nut-crackers be used even be ~
Petrograd, Oct. 17.— It is re
The country is in urgent need
-pi. ... r ____ , i t.-.- . .
re b r u a r v , !*>!✓ . a m e e tin g ol funds for Jewish war sufferers.
fore the time specified by our contemporary, for ed.- Thev form e<i debating soci- the association was held in Cis Only about 2,000 Jews re ported that a German dread- of carrying ships and, it i> re
naught struck a mine around ported, the members of the As
it seems to us that some exceedingly hard nuts X?. asLwua1’i.utR'uieiy^tinw co, Tex., called by the leaders for mained alive in the holy city, out Oesel
island, apparently dam ag
the jmrpo.se of prom oting the of a population of 65,000 at the ing her badly, though the ves toria Cham ber of Commerce will
are being forced into labor’s throat just at the one at a time toppled over old cnnsjuracy.
beginning of the war. None will sel's fate had not been learned, be appealed to soon to gird on
m aintained bv lawmakers,
overalls and go into the yards.
present time. Under the caption: “Surplus ideas
T
he
defense
declares
that
the
he left alive, it is feared, unless on the war office’s last com Phis move is said to be prom pt
professors, economists and stu
resolutions
introduced
at
the
W ealth” The Journal writes:
more relief be sent.
m unication with Oesel Island ed by the well known fact that
dents.
U pw ard
they
have
( 'isco conference were such as anv
f.caving Jerusalem, the party garrison.
climbed
out
of
slavery
and
bond-
,
,
-
r
.
.
,
,
the union ship mechanics are
“ Frederick Howe, the eminent
In its effort to find profitable age. over 2.000.000 ¿ lr o „ f f .- l ) e .l I>OI,V
« " » » ’ M a rig h t
went to Damascus and then to
fast departing for closed shop
liberal publicist, lias an article investm ent in various parts of troit Labor News.
i
".ro|,ose
neht
’’Cl:- Alepjio. They were detained
yards
along the coast and there
in the O ctober Atlantic on “ Fi- the world, Mr. Howe rem arks
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. tion g ra n te d by th e c o n stitu tio n , there several weeks and again
are
not
enough of them left to
nancial
Im perialism ,”
which that the surplus wealth of those
I and that no unlawful act was at Constantinople, pending their
do the work if the strike should
makes good reading tor the times countries has deprived 100,000,- Food
Control To Be ] contemplated at the meeting.
release by the Turkish a u th o r
he settled tomorrow.
we live in. lie reminds us that 000 people of their liberty by a i
lie prosecution has dosed its ities. The refugees then crossed
Absolute
Starting with this issue, the
the United States has now be- process of conquest and absorp-!
Further, the ship w orkers’ un
case on direct tesfimonv and the the Balkan peninsula and A us
Poveri will receive United Press ion of the United States will
come the w orld's great deposit- tion which is called “ p eaceful,
----
defense has introduced a num- tria-H ungary
to
Switzerland.
ory of "surplus wealth.” That penetration.” Capital enters a B E ..................
G IN N IN G NOV. 1, GOV- ber witnesses. There are still There thev were taken in charge service and is therefore in posi blacklist the Astoria yards if
tion to furnish the latest news the strike fails, it is reported,'
means wealth which finds no em- weak country, secures a conces-
ERNMENT WILL ASSUME ™a.nv w itn e sse s to be h eard and bv American A m bassador Sto of
the day, both foreign and in which case the members of
plovm ent for itself at home and sion, opens a bank, build- a rail-
FULL CHARGE OF ALL it is probable that the case will vall and sent to a French port. domestic.
the cham ber of commerce will
therefore goes abroad in search road. The flag m ust follow to
not he concluded before the mid No submarines were sighted
NECESSARIES OF LIFE.
In
doing
so.
we
shall
endeavor
be
called upon to go ahead and
of adventure and profit. The protect it. T he fleet must go
dle of October.
'
crossing the Atlantic. On this to justify the support we request complete some ships in the open
vicissitudes of the w ar are piling along with the flag. Annexation!
side the partv was met bv rep from tiie public. Iro m now on, shop. Come on now. Quit your
up surplus wealth in enormous is the speedy outcome of the v e il- ' W ashington, Oct. 17.—Gov - Both Sides Do Some
resentatives of the relief comm it if you don'; see it in the 'Poveri. slacking.
masses in the United States.
tu re.
em inent food control will be a b
tee.
Raiding
" I t would be a national bless
solute after Novem ber 1.
"Capital has not changed its
ing if it were evenly distributed.
H erbert C. Hoover is putting
Paris. Oct. 17.—Tt is officially Coal Barons Defy U. S.
The actual fact is that it accu nature. It will seek investm ents the finishing touches today on a
after
the
war
is
over,
ju
st
as
it
m ulates in a few hands. We
Order
proclamation shortly to he is- stated that num erous civilians
need not remind the reader that dld U ’i U ’ 1C, ' \ ar ,)e" an’ a’J d ■ sued by President W ilson, li were killed when the German
we shall, no doubt, hear
Nancy last! D E M A N D
he ......
himself
had ...........
nothing
- if ---
—.........-
.. at « all
•■*
if
i n
f , r- • le- , I censing dealers in 20 prime ne- airplanes raided
EXORBITANT
and his next door neighbor had ”land J " ' ' :1T ,,’ lg ol tilc b n,ted cessaries of life.
night.
P R I C E S . GOVERNMENT
a million dollars their average, - ta t$s t"
and protect
The profiteers wi ill be rounded
The
French
retaliated bv
FINDS — NO SHORTAGE
monied
adventurers
in
the
re
o* per capita, wealth would be
up by the coming executive or- bombing a half-dozen im portant
COMMISSION
SAYS.
exactly half a million each. But mote parts of the earth.
der. according to Hoover. Reg German military establishm ent
W IL L L E C T U R E A T
the reader s half a million would
e must prepare to have ulations will be issued check it is given out.
W ashington, Oct. 1/.—Gov
be of a certain tenuous intangibil- enough genuine democracy in i ’n£ speculation in foodstuffs and > Am sterdam . Oct. 17.— German ernm ent investigators are find
ity extremely annoying if he our national framework to resist ' preventing hoarding, waste and
ing material evasion of the coal,
UPPER HA LL
should try to buy a loaf of bread this demand. We must allow restriction of output. “ Unfair papers declared here today that prices fixed, both mine and re
the 'Socialists will vote solidlv
SUNDAY, OCT. 21st.
with it.
semi-civilized peoples theis free- ami unreasonable” profits w ill he against the ten billion marks tail. The profiteers have by no
In past decades 'England, dom, even though that freedom eliminated.
means
been
checkmated
by
the
A t 8:00 P. M.
war credit at the next reichstag
ALL W ORKERS W ELLC O M E!
Prance and Germany have been interferes with the profits of our
Among the commodities to be
president's orders, it is stated. ]
Admission Free!
,i.i
i
. ,
n
i session unless Michaeb’s resigns,
the great depositories of “stir- investors.
Democracy in the , placed
under
control
are
flour,!-™,
c
•
,
•,
,7
.
hut
continue
to
demand
exorbi-j
___, meats,
.
, .
’ I I ne Socialists have decided to
plus wealth, but they have lost U nited States has some hard bread,
potatoes,
tant prices.
this distinction. It now adorns nuts to crack in the next fe w , milk, butter and dairy products, ! fight for the removal of M ichael
Proprietors of coal yards all ]
Columbia’s brow .”
years.”
rice, canned foods and staple ve- is at the congress of m ajority over the country are secretly
Socialists at W urtzburg. B avar
exacting high prices for coal bv
1 he time has arrived when the workingmen of the country
No indeed, capital has not changed its natur 0, ] Although regulation of a retail- ia.
refusing to sell at the fixed price
must
unite! Organized capital is strongly united in its efforts to
and yielding to the im portuni
nor ever will, and therefore a little preparedness ,ng business
$100,000 or SCOTT NEARING
crush
the rightful demands of the workers. The so-called capitalist
ties of distressed consumers,
is not at all out of order now, lest we find our-
BARRED IN OHIO who, in order to get supplies, papers are always trying io form public opinion against the work
selves weaponless when we ought to be ready to • t h e sm allest corner grocery
will swear to secrecy regarding' ingmen. They publish news and articles in the interest of the
m aster class only.
CINCINNATI MAYOR, SPIK the prices paid.
meet the onrushing demon. Capital is preparing ers,
throush
hls
hold
0
1
1
meat
Pac’
<
The workingmen of Astoria and vicinity know this to be an
cold storage houses, millers,
ING HIS MEETING, SAYS Members of the federal trade
for “peaceful penetration’’ and is making quite canners, elevators, grain dealers PEOPLE’S C O U N C IL commission and the fuel admin absolute fact. The workingmen of this comm unity can see there
HEAD CANNOT SPEAK istration refuse to believe th? is only one paper in Astoria that is publishing th e'fa cts about the
a headway here at home just now. The constitu and wholesalers.
After November 1 no unli
THERE.
alarm ing reports of a coal sh o rt strike and that paper is “ the Daily T overi” (The Daily Com rade).
tional rights of American workers are being ! censed
1 his paper has been published in the Finnish language only,
dealer can handle the
age of a lasting character. The
for
about
years, but we saw the urgent need of a paper
trampled upon by capital. A fair example of it i commodities to be named by Cincinnati. Oct. 17. — Scott threatened shortage will not that could ten
be read by the English-speaking people also, so we
is seen here in Astoria, where soldiers are being i ioover; .,Res:ular ¿eports from Nearing, radical, teacher and fullv materialize, it is stated, b e decided to do
all we could to let all the people know the real
n c o r l irk ni-AVAkit- n iA .ib ^ n ,
•
•
it.
• i i
licensed tirm s will enable the chairman of the executive com- cause the slowing down in pro
facts
about
the
strikes and all other m atters im portant to the
usea to pi event workers from enjoying the rights food adm inistration to keep 4 m ittce of th e reo p le ’s Council, duction is due to the readjust
workingmen,
which
are kept dark by other papers.
guaranteed them by the last legislature of the strons hold on thcm- A legal is persona non grata to the au- ment in the mining industry
departm ent ‘ has *
been created to thorities of this city.
caused bv the price-fixing meas
State.
W ILL YOU UNITE W ITH US FOR YOUR OWN SAKE?
T K a
i i •
i-
-i
.. -i Pun’sb violations and interpret
This assum ption of the purple ures of the president.
Do you w ant the Daily Comrade to be YOUR COMRADE?
ih e Journal is right m asserting that capital the law. The licensing plan re- robe by elected officials was The price-fixing has halted the
A
cut can answer this by simply cutting out and filling the
will seek investments after the war is over. It suited from over 200 conferences published when permission was operation of wagon mines. The
subscription
blank below. Bring it or mail it with the subscrip
to hold a m eeting which labor from these mines is being
does, and it is bound by its very nature to do so.
°' denied
tion
price
to:
moved to mines of larger capaci
Nearing was to address.
p u t wnat is it doing now? Lying dormant wait- ]. "N o business factor perform W hen permission was first re ty. This readjustm ent is caus
ing patiently until the war has ended? Not exact- ‘ngf a U5etld l j’ictR,n
be “y fused it was suggested th -.t ing a slight falling off. which The Daily Comrade,
Cor. 10th & Duane St.,
earing might change his sub will not be perm anent, it is
ly so. It is seeking investments at all times and ruination of some unnecessary N ject.
Astoria, Oregon.
stated.
whereupon the city officials
trom
Please enter my subsc-iption to the Daily Comrade for
answered th at “no topic upon
under all circumstances; peace or war, capital nd Rdcnien may result
The liberation of thousands of
determ
ination
to
keep
..........................
months for which please find enclosed $ .....................
;
men
now
engaged
in
harvesting
which
N
earing
m
ight
speak
will
never ceases to function as an exploiting factor foodstuffs
Hoover's flowing from producer
t
be acceptable to the authorities.” the crops shortly will fill up the
in our economic affair’s.
as economical a m anner as possi
T he original announcement 1 ranks of the coal miners still Name
ble.”
was
made bv Mayor Puchta, further. relieving the situation.
And such being the case, let us preserve,
Also, it is stated, the wage in
Address
enough democracy at home to have the right to waxted - . v ,, arm y of boyS through Safetv D irector M e Fried-
« ';
creases being generally granted
use the nut-crackers when we have learned to to sell the Toveri on the streets not considered safe for the in- will prevent men from leaving
m the atternoons. Apply at the habitants of Cincinnati.
the industry and will attract new Subscription r a t e s $4.00 per year. $2.25 for 6 months, $1.35 for
use them.
To\cri otfice.
j "Socialists may hold all the men, thus considerably increas-
3 months and 50c per month either by mail or carrier.
W HAT
U N IO N S
DO NE
Farm ers On Trial
HAVE
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Noted Labor Speaker
C. B. ELLIS
ROSENBERG’S HALL
United We Stand, Divided We Fall”
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