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so the story goes. Tn the toe of our eyes as to w hat Kaiserism
neither of these m aterials is own lands had to be replaced by I
one
of the socks she coyly depos­ meant to the world. W'e told the
strong enough to stand up less efficient 1a1x>rers. Artificial
ited a note requesting the soldier tru th about it in Germ any, in
against the aggressions of class- fertilization was restricted to a
who received them to w rite to A ustria, in Italy, in France, in
interest when it is equipped with minimum, agricultural m achin­
power.
England, and, above all, in the
ery could not be used because W A N T E D .— An arm y of boys her.
Tim
e
went
on,
as
time
has
a
United
States where we saw it
of
a
shortage
of
coal
and
of
in-
You
certainly
will
not
place
German Socialists here, who swept aside in the face of inexor­
to sell the Toveri on the streets
way
of
doing.
And
the
other
daily
engaged
in its hellish work.
much
reliance
on
the
meanings
'
sufficient
transportation
facili-
in the afternoon. Apply at the
are eagerly w atching every move able necessity.
j day she received a letter from The killing of women and chil­
of words in these days when e v -ities. Production was curtailed Toveri office.
Most decidedly, we w ant to erybody who makes an effort in all its branches.
th at will make the world—in­
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the recipient of the beautifully dren in the holocaust at Ludlow
cluding Germ any—safe for Dem­ see the people of Germany follow to stop the w ar gets arrested
"Even after the restoration of T im ber W orkers Union.
! knit socks'
g ^ P e c t - by the private arm y of the Rock­
peace we shall have to tighten
ocracy, will note with satisfac­ the example of the people of for disturbing the peace
There is to he a meeting of «r awav up ,,, Alaska. 1 he w n t- efellers, the killing and m aim ing
our
belts.
Germans
will
have
to
T
here
is
danger
th
at
the
whole
the Columbia R iver T im ber cr ’ »a cd am ons oilier more es- of the w orkers in the scores of
tion th at the spirit of revolt is Russia. It is beyond doubt that
live
on
war
rations.
W'e
shall
Workers- Union Sunday af,er - i ' e" ,lal .t,h' ,’e s " ' “ “ « e that he struggles for a little less pover­
by no means dead am ong the now they are the pivotal point body of the American people
may be led off on a grand tilt have to produce crops exclusive­ noon in Idun Ilall in Upper had paid two dollars and a ball ty was so close to us th at our
m asses of the German people, upon which the political and ec­ against German militarism in the ly that can be utilized for the
hatred of autocracy grew g reat­
Town. C. Covert oi Portland for ,he I » " - _____
and th at the example of the Rus­ onomic destiny of the entire name of democracy, and when production of hum an foodstuffs,
er as the years increased. Above
,
w dll
” be present and deliver an ad- _
sian revolution has not been al­ world is balanced. And in they get back they will find Ger­ and we shall have to regulate its „ress to .he -atherint;.
all. the daily slaughter of the
Strikebreakers S tn k e
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I I w entv men quit the AIcEach- innocents that w ent on in fac­
together fruitless. The discon­ th is is also included the peace of man m ilitarism on their own consum ption at the storekeeper’s
counter.
backs and nothing but the name
Can’t Light the Town.
J crn Sh’P com pany’s yard this tory, in mine and on railroad, as
ten t th at it seems broke out in the world.
“
Relief
will
come
to
us
gradu­
of
democracy
left.
W
e
are
not
The
Ham
m
ond
mill
has
a
b
o
u
t:
m orning, it is reported. It ap- the workers toiled for a bare ex­
But what we w ant and how
m utiny in the German navy is
going to let this happen if we ally. W hen it comes we shaH 170 strikebreakers at work n o w .; Pears that these men. who were istence, spurred us to ever re­
a sinister portent to the ruling soon we shall see it are two dif­ can help it, and, as I understand i welcome it with glad hearts, but not even enough to run one side am ong those recently imported newed activity against the forces
class there as to what may hap­ ferent m atters, and we have to it. that is why we are here. F o rje v e n after peace is established of the mill or cut enough wood iro’U W ashington, were unionists of misrule.
W hile we were daily u tterin g
pen to them if the w ar is much remain content with the certain if we cannot rescue from the j we m ust not expect an iinmedi- to furnish lights for the town, at heart and were induced to
m
ilitarv
bureaucracy
this
one
b
a-|
ate
return
to
anti-w
ar
conditions,
our
protests against the devilish
T
his
is
the
‘‘norm
al’’
condition
come
here
under
false
represen-
knowledge
th
at
everything
in­
longer continued. The fact that
sic
right
to
express
our
opinion
The
cry
of
the
masses,
‘Give
us
activity;
the hideous cruelty of
we
have
been
hearing
about
so
tations.
it is received with rejoicing by exorably drives in one direction
both of the foreign policy of the peace: give us more bread,’ is, much.
Il
is
expected
that
their
m
an-;
autocracy,
not only in our own
will sooner or later reach t - c
,t" i
the m ilitary opponents of G er­ an<l
,
,
.
I . S. and ot the laws th at have therefore, som ewhat unreason-
- - —
j ly example will be followed soon land, but throughout the world,
many, is, of course, an irritating, the goal.—New York Call.)
le. - The Call.
been passed bv Congress, then
M eeting Notice.
: by m any others. W hen strike-j what was the press, controlled
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+
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we
can
do
nothing
at
all.
W
e
Shipyard
Riggers
and
Labor-
breakers begin to strike, it ?s | bv the rulers of this county, do­
though natural and expected re­
I
m
ight
as
well
move
into
the
cv-
ers’ Union will hold a m e e tin g ; good night, m ister ship company. ing? W ith a few noble excep­
sult, but to those who put the THE POST OFFICE
Man With the Hoe
Sunday, O c t 21, at 1:30 p, m , ■
— ——
tions. it was either silent as to
overthrow of the German ruling
CENSORSHIP the
T " e cc,I?r a " ‘!t start ,",r!til,s:
at Logan Hall. All m em bers Building Slave Pens,
memoirs of the republic.
R
u
l
e
s
Russia
thc nefarious deeds of the autoc­
class before every other consid­
are requested to be present, as)
' h a t slaves have always racy or was openly excusing its
eration, and see in it the first (B
business
of
importance
will
be
*
o
r“
cd their own chains, is beau- crimes against the people. Nay.
Max Eastm an. Editor of G erm an Food Slippl.V
'I he following article is an ex­ brought before the meeting.
tifully illustrated at the AIcEach- these very papers, as well as the
necessary step to democracy in
n
Mie Masses.)
A fte r th
e W
nr tract from the pen ot Charles
\VM. II. BEEM A N , Secy. ! ern x yards these days where spokesmen of the industrial and
1 he w orst thn\g 1 can say for
a iiv i
m t
vv <tr
Germany, the irritation engen­
Edward Russell which appears
strikebreakers arc reported to be financial lords of misrule, were
dered will become a secondary this situation is that it actually
in the October num ber of More Good Men Go.
erecting
pens for themselves. eulogizing the K aiser of G er­
T his article was w ritten by H earst’s Magazine and flashes a
m atter. It is through such con- surprises me. I spent the whole
A
num
ber
of
union
shipyard
while
their
brothers on the o u t­ many, whose true character we
w inter trying to think up the the present Chancellor quite rc
clear
light
on
the
Russian
revo-
vlictions that the world m ust worst possible consequences of
workers are leaving today on the side are battling nobly to make were exposing in these columns.
centlv. At the time Dr. Mich- lutionarv spirit.
Georgiana for Colum bia C ity to slave pens unnecessary,
apparently proceed to Socialism. our going to war. and advertise i aelis
was V nder-Secretary of i Mr. Russell was appointed a enter the employ of the ship) W hen the pens are completed, An autocrat has alwavs been an
autocrat to us, no m atter w hat
them in the public press, but I State and because of his official member of the Root Comission
W hile the news may not be
companies there, the union shop this m otto should be nailed his nationality or title. T he G er­
nev cr succeeded in thinking up position in the food bureau he was j J>v President W ilson and, with
particularly reliable, we can feel anything half so bad as this. 1 regarded as the first authority | the commission spent some time conditions prevailing at C o lu m -,above the doors: “ W ell done, man K aiser is no different today
thou good and faithful slaves.” from w hat he was before the
tolerably sure that som ething o f> ?st‘d to say that the,re w a* n o th ' in G erm any on the food situa­ in Russia, lie knows whereof bin City.
It is estim ated that nearly a
war. He was an enem y of hu­
* ing verv peculiar about P russia
hundred
shipyard
mechanics Union Officer Returns.
importance has happened in Ger­ except that she was organized tion. But now he has become he sneaks.
man liberty alwavs. T he finan­
chancellor this utterance of his
"H ere is a country where only have lett town recently lor more
President Cholberg of the Ship cial and industrial autocracv of
man naval circles. T h at the au­ for war, and that if we organized takes on a new significance; it a few years ago 80 per cent of
C arpenters' Union returned this this country is no different todav
c i v i 1 i zed stt r rou n d i n gs.
thorities managed to suppress all for war we would turn into an­ shows us the man, a carefu l,; the population could not read at
m orning from Portland where he from what it was before the war
Prussia. But I thought it painstaking realist with a sin- all; where the few newspapers Big Mass M eeting
news of it for nearly six weeks other
has been a witness before the Its disgusting and hypocritical
might i takes
a little
time to drt
<t ccre desire to see things as th ey , were frankly corrupted
r
i
ltt
C
tinie,
and
A
mass
m
eeting
of
shipyard
federal adjustm ent board. T he
and that it finally came out in it. I d id n t know we had
so a rp ; but wjtj, n0 spark o f jm. fiercely censored bv the mon- : workers and union men will be board concluded its sitting yes- m outhings deceive only those
the reichstag does not lessen the much imperial talent already in agination : a good lie u te n a n t; b u t , archy. Yet out of all this, a
too stupid to be anything but
1 held in Logan Hall Sunday aft- terdav and will now proceed to slaves. This autocracy has al­
importance that will be a ttrib u t­ office. The suppression of the not a B ethm ann-IIollw eg e v e n p e o p le , by our narrow creed ! ernoon at 2 o'clock, at which the San Francisco.
ways been the enem y of human
Socialistic press has actually too inferior a man to be more called unenlightened, that alone i strike situation will be reviewed
ed to it.
President Cholberg states that liberty and it alw ays will be.
been
at length. A speaker from Port- a committee, consisting of two
To show how
deeply
thc
Of course, it may be attrib u ­
land will also address the m e e t-! union men and two employers, spokesmen of American autocra­
ted to various causes. Though
ing.
will choose a fifth member, and cv sym pathized with the same
“ — ■
”
the five will seek to bring about spirit in the German Kaiser, we
the German sailors on the great
.
-
_
___
__
_
_
__,
pro-
ships have not been living con­ speech—it is the m em ory of a
I'he steam ship Kilburn is due a tem porary adjustm ent of diff­ nuote what some of them said
Lveryone
believes
that
as
j
ducers
and
toilers,
the
base
‘me-
to arrive in port todav from San erences, pending a final report
stan tly in an inferno of bursting mvth. You can't even collect
him a few vears ago.
soon as peace is concluded all chanicals’ of Elizabeth's famous Erancisco with a general cargo from W ashington. If this com ­ about
Nicholas M urray Butler, presi­
shells, the strain on them per­ your thoughts without getting unnatural conditions will be; sneer, the ‘common w orkingm an’
m ittee arrangem ent is effected,
haps was equally intolerable, arrested for unlawful assem b­ done away w ith ; that the short- of our own beautiful snobberv. of merchandise for local con it is quite probable th at work dent of Columbia college, who
though different. Confined to lage. T hcv give you ninety days age of food will cease and every-* The nobles, the wealthy, the mid- sumption. T he Lilburn will load mav be resumed in the shipyards parades, and is paraded, as a
salmon here on her return from Mondav.
“ patriot,” said:
their harbors, subjected to a rig­ for quoting the Declaration of onc will again be able to buy die class, the Tntelligensia. the Portland for the south.
“ If the German K aiser had not
Independence, six m onths for
orous discipline and an unceasing quoting the Bible, and pretty as much as lie w ants and to ' propertied, the financial genius,
Steamships calling here have
been born to m onarchy he would
drill for an episode altogether soon somebodv is going to get consume as much as he pleases.1 the m erchant princes, the cm - lately become so scarce that K A ISE R ISM AND
have been chosen m onarch—or
IT S C H A M PIO N S chief executive—by popular vote
uncertain to happen, draw n away a life sentence for quoting U nfortunately this hope is a ; poyers and all of the elements their arrivals and departures arc i
delusion. Tt will be necessary} so influential elsewhere, here
( Editorial in the N. Y. Call.)
of any modern people among
constantly in detachm ents to W oodrow W ilson in the w ro n g ! for .us. perhaps for several years ; cowed, silent or displaced. The getting to be live news.
I lie Call, in its nearly ten whom his lot might have been
connection.
man subm arines, and hearing
I to come, to subm it to restrictions! Man with the Hoe has come W A N T E D .- An arm v of )ovs vcars
existence, has never fal- cast.”
A good manv honest Demo­
nothing of the fate of their com­ crats feel comfortable and even on the consum ption of food and ’ into his own at last, lie rules
in
its opposition to the
to sell the T i»veri on the streets lt 1 c<
Only a few years before, this
to
a
fixed
ration
of
our
most
im-i
Russia.
!torees
of
autocracy. Stum bling
rades so drafted while waiting hanpv about this, because they
in the afternoon?
Apply at the
decorated
barbarian, whose boots
portant food staples.
j “ Yet. w hatever vou may read Toveri office.
i along in its early career with a
their turn, and all this with food j tell themselves that it is neces
Butler
was
giving a verbal lick­
In the first vears of peace, or whatever vou mav hear about
i poor equipm ent and, at times,
ever grow ing insufficient, it is 1 sarv ^or democracies to prove Germany will have to depend, ; Russia, vou mav with entire con-
ing.
was
reported
in this paper
alm ost gasping for breath, it still
not difficult to see whv such j ihat t,hey a r$. able ,to fi- h t and at first alm ost exclusively, upon fidence tie up to this, that what Silent as The Grave.
as
having
addressed
some Ger­
I he Astoria Box Factory is did what it Could in the fight man conscripts as follows:
. J ,n order to
thev have got the food supplies produced w ith­ is done will be done bv the R u s­
suspense should finally lead to to suppress themselves, or com-
against the political and indus­
“It may happen that I shall
in her own boundaries. This sit­ sian toilers and bv them alone. not turning a wheel, according to trial tyrants who ravaged the
attem pted revolt. In such cir­ press themselves, and nut on the
uation will arise out of the eon- H ere democracy has been taken latest reports. A half dozen or people, not only of this, bur of order you to shoot your own rel­
cum stances Socialist agitation arm or of tyranny and dictator­ ditions of trade and prices. The} literally and without eompro- so of scissorbills are wandering
atives, your brothers, o r even
•,
is i otner
. lands, .
.
was certain to take root and ship tem porarily in a hurrv. Col­ slupping tonnage available for, mise. H ere the conditions tin t about thc vards. but that
An exam ination of its files will vour parents—which God for­
about
the
extent
of
the
cornino-
;
,
onel
House
explained
all
this
to
bid—and then you are bound im ­
flourish, and that it has been di­
importation will be exceedingly! exist in other countries with po-
J 1'1’ ? 'h’nounced continu­ plicitly to obey my orders.”
me one night, and told me I sm an aiKi w;n be taken up bv litical freedom and the ballot- tion there. So much for them
rectly charged that this was the needn't worry, because we have
ami their open shop. Tt is so <l ' T ia' God-claiming agent of
It is alm ost needless to state
raw
products
which
will
be
need-
box
have
been
turned
the
other
open
that no self-respecting man t ' ia,” L ‘ the Kaiser of Gerrqany, that no other paper in New York
case is exactly what m ight have a man in the W hite House who
ed by our m anufacturers. The j wav about. H ere labor doesn’t
and !us infamous Junker agents.
been expected. No situation of ; hates w ar and hates militarism fall in our exchange, too, will take orders but gives them. And can he kept in.
Denounced them, just because dared^ to reprint these words of
this kind can possibly happen to- and thc autocratic rule that goes tend to limit im portations an d | here Labor, being in an abso-
f they were guilty of the same the K aiser, whom they then ad­
No Scissorbills Here.
day w ithout Socialism playing a ! V ‘h ' J , ” '.1 h?
restore a"
mired so much, particularly as
make us concentrate our whole J u te m aioritv. has taken charge
Mr. Rogers, of the Rogers cr*mes against their people as the speech was the result of So­
,
.. .
/ /
• dcar °Id institutions as soon as attention and energy on increas-! and so far nobody else has had'
part, though all the factors in ! thP w ar is over
Ship company, will employ only our financial and industrial au- cialist
activity
in
Germanv
ing our exports. W e have to a look-in.
union men when he starts oper- b ’crats. the Rockefellers, the against this self-God-christened
this case are not known, and. ; Now that is perfectly sincere take into consideration all sorts
“ All there is of governm ent in ations at his yard. This state- Morgans, the Schwabs, the
if they were known, could not be and all right for those soft head of possible coalitions among our
Russia todav is strictly work m ent is authoritative and revi- \ 'aers» tbe Dodges and their po- monarch.
And then came the self-an-
’ 'finitely weighed and m eas­ ed idealists who think that thc enemies who mav try to prevent ingclass government, animated vifving. in that it shows that a ' litical lackeys, were guiltv if
dest
inies
of
human
history
are
nointed
and self appointed savior
our
free
intercourse
with
for­
ured. T h at the Russian revolu­
bv such impulses and convictions good, up-to date business man against the working class of the
reallv nrpJded over bv a man eign nations, even long after the
of
the
people
of the U nited
as caused the Siberian peasants has too much sense to employ i United States.
tion figured in it is certain.
! in the W hite House, or by any war has been concluded.
States
and
laid
his
tribute at the
to dem onstrate against the kill- men who are traitors at heart, i It did not need a w ar to open
feet
of
the
w
ar
lord
whom our
However, we can be satisfied num ber of men in anv num ber
“The crons in all neighboring in <r ,,f Frederick Adler fof Aus-
on one point—that, h ow ever10/ architectural houses where countries have diminished, and tria) and to fall on their knees Eor a man who will not be true
to his class is an unsafe man to
..
t -
. ! | fhev
these m atters
may i be magnified,
tnrv m anufacture laws and ora- in the Teutonic nations there before the ashes of a revolution­ have around.
will arise a great shortage of ist.
minimized or distorted, the ele­
The difference between us and food products after peace has
The time has arrived when the workingmen of the country
“ U nder the red flag. . . .
1 Can Not Go Now.
m ents of revolt actually do ex­ these notom ists who laugh at been proclaim ed. . . . if not an ac­
“W ith us it fthe red flag) has
The local exemption board m ust u n ite . O rgan.zed capital is strongly united in its efforts to
ist am ong the German masses, our indignation and gloom about tual famine. Then the curious always signified detestable a n a r­
vesterdav denied the reouests to crush the rightful demands of the workers. The so-called capitalist
and they are not quite thc docile, this situation, is that we have fact will be disclosed th at Ger­ ch v. violence, blood, riot and be allowed to return to their n a ­ papers are always trying to form public opinion against the work­
I hey publish news and articles in the interest of the
submissive and unthinking auto­ "ot the habit of thinking about many. who was to have been ruin. H ere in Russia it is flving tive land, of M e rer Johansen. ingmen.
historv as verv largely d ete r­ starved out bv her enemies, will everywhere over the most ncace-
m aster class only.
Tohn Cholberg. Bang Jo h n so n .!
m ata that they generally have mined bv the development of
The workingmen of A storia and vicinity know this to be an
be
found
to
be
the
best
off
a
s
}
loving
and
orderly
people
on
W
ilhelm Skang, Thom as A.
been assumed to be.
economic forces And we knew re"ar,l« food.
i earth. . . . ”
Tverson, Andrew Svendsen. born absolute fact. 1 he workingmen of this com m unity can see there
t
,
year«? ago that the principalities
Even
if
the
occupied
conn-
And
he
savs
on
another
page:
in N orw ay: Tacob Lennart Tlon- is only one paper in Astoria th at is publishing the facts about the
The tim e has gone by when and nn,vpr, nf the ecnnom;c
,r ies can be utilized for food pro-I
“ But perhaps it is no wonder ka. native of Finland, and \n d Strik^ .a.nd that PaPer ’S “the Daily T overi” fThe Daily Comrade)
these m atters could be w h o lly ; ,vorld who want to strangle the duction. a shortage of crons will that the world, looking at such
i s paper aas been published in the Finnish language onlv,
rew Eritiof Olson, whose home
based „non the standpoint of na- bb^-ties of this people and es- be felt for vears. Bread, fod- an unprecedented plav. blinks
yr
about
ten years, but we saw the urgent need of a paper
land
Sweden.
tionalism, patriotism or pro this * 'hb’-'h here a feudal svstem d e ’- and therefore animal f a ts ; and is doubtful. There was one
m
at
could
be read by the English-speaking people also, so we
These cases will be appealed
and anti that. T he war has put ; ,'3' ed r’n d e control of industry will be in great demand. G e r-'d a v the imposing great structure
decided
to
do
all we could to let all the people know the real
. v, .
, . ,
,
ire already in existence. Tt is manv in normal conditions, is i of the mo=t powerful autocracy to higher authorities, it is s ta te d .' tacts about the strikes and all other m atters im portant to the
a burden on mank.nd w h e r e a rp,„ rn jntn medi„ vaI fp„.
workingmen, which are kept dark by other papers.
not able to produce all the bread, j on earth, centuries old. rock- Shines Go Up Too.
these considerations cannot stand dalism that we are afraid of. Tt
.
.
nnd fodder needed inside her ’ rooted, imperial and irresistible,
George Rencher. the veteran
W IL L YOU U N IT E W ITH US FOR YOUR OW N SAKE?
in the way of their being relieved ’ s progress Into the m nstna boundaries. The harvest, in verv cloud-compelling and remorse- colored bootblack of Astoria, has
of it: the breaking point is be- ’ ’ " edalism. Tt is the Tron Heel good vears is sufficient onlv if Je ss. At a touch it crumbled to- raised the price of shoe shining
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,
' ' b“’r big chance,
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•bictivitv of German agriculture i w ithout a trace, as if it had nev- rent and material.
demands peace, will and m
u
" ust ; instinctive human
nature is has bocn decreaced. Of cours«' <»r ßpprj Tritrícate "rent svstem
George has a cozy inside stand The Daily Comrade.
sweep all these considerations Ahe same that it was in the mid - everything was done ivhich I of government of police, of , at 493 Commercial street, with
Cor. 10th & Duane St.,
aside, despite all the fervid o r a - . f,’e a ^ s . and if an industrial could nossiblv be done.
A storia, Oregon.
TTiose ; spies, of punishments, erected free telephone service and other
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;.!b e expected.
and the news from W ilhelmsha-1 M nrds are nothin?
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ven suggests that the driving has 1 bp mouth«; of politicians are teeted during these vears of w ar: chine, untried, just from the Funny About This.
About a month or two ago a
com m enced: that considerations made out of ra s and the words th e num ber of laborers was un­ shons. and throw ing the con-
on the statute books are onlv naturally sm a ll: and especially . trolling levers, with aplomb, and voting ladv in Astoria knitted a
of victory or defeat have to be
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