No. 245
S
TOVERI
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
Do you w ant the Daily Comrade to be YOUR COMRADE?
ing rapidlv reached, and s e l f - 'tbnt
are
rpadv
rationed. Op acount of our pres gether like the unsubstantial fig- from ten to fifteen cents, in o r
’V ou can answ er this bv simply cutting out and filling the
preservation, that im peratively!
. .And we know this w ar
cut ivar adm inistration, the pro- m ent of a dream : vanishing der to meet the higher cost of! subscription blank below. Bring it or mail it with the subscrip
,
,
' ' b“’r big chance,
tion price to:
•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
of the most modern accommn
Please enter my subscription to the Daily Comrade for
datum s. As he is an expert in .......................... m onths for which please find enclosed $ .....................
the shining art. a raise in price
in spch inflated times is onlv to Name .................................................................
;.!b e expected.
and the news from W ilhelmsha-1 M nrds are nothin?
The words soil which had to be partlv neg- ilv taking «eats in a new ma
Address .............................
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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made out of ink and paper, and many farm ers who worked their with success!”
i fine pair of socks for the soldiers,
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Local Notes
United We Stand, Divided We Fall”