VERNONIA EAGLE
Entered as second class matter August 4, 1922, at
the post office at Vernonia, Oregon, under the
act of March 3, 1879.
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RAY D. FISHER, Editor and Publisher
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FRIDAY, JULY 13, 1934.
VEKNUN1A EAGLE. VERNONIA. OREGON
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At Last an
Investigation . . .
After the striking longshoremen and
their employers had glowered at each oth
er for two months while strike breakers
nursed broken heads and unestimated
numbers of persons who have nothing to
do with the quarrel were thrown out of
employment, a federal labor dispute board
began investigations into the causes of
the tie-up. Mediators, it is true, tried their
hand early in the game, but nobody was
in a mood to listen to mediation. In the
meantime the public had plenty of pro
paganda from one side or the other, but
no authoritative unbiassed information.
According to union sympathyzers there
was rank injustice in hiring laborers, and
flagrant disregard of the NRA. According
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to the other, there was, at worst, the
scheming or radicals and communists
ultimately to capture industry by destroy
ing it under present ownership; at best,
an effort of union leaders to maneuver
themselves into a position to dictate wages
and terms of employment, without refer
ence to the rights of the employers to
control the labor which they hire. The
war waged on, with several bloody skirm
ishes, and men’s attitude towards one side
or the other swayed by their prejudices.
Grievances the longshoremen probably
have had, for capital unrestrained is like
ly to take advantage of need; yet the em
ployers, too, cannot be blamed for the ef
forts of outsiders to wrest from them the
control of their own business. When any
such issue arises government should step
in, determine the facts impartially, and
enforce its decisions.
The new board goes into action—when
threats of a general strike loom, and the
outlook is anything but encouraging. It
is to be hoped that its findings do not
come too late.
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President Roosevelt’s new deal has re
ceived hearty endorsement in a recent
nation-wide straw vote. Would General
“Crackdown” Johnson’s part in it meet
with equal favor? We doubt it.
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Nikola Tesla announces that he has
invented an electric bath that will drive
all foreign particles from the body. With
electric baths to bathe in and plenty of
liquor to drink it looks as though water
was going out of fashion.
IV hat Other Editors Say
If a General
Strike Comes
Supposing all of the large employing in
dustries of the coast were to join together
in a decision to suspend operations as a
means of helping one industrial employer
win a labor dispute which had resulted
in a strike!
Regardless of the fact that the other
industries were not directly involved!
Regardless of the fact that many thous
ands of men, not party to the contro
versy, would be thrown out of employ
ment !
Regardless of the fact that such ac
tion would precipitate a general economic
stagnation which would affect personally
every person on the coast and cause un
told losses and suffering!
Such a . situation is a purely supposi
tious one. It could hardly be actual. Yet
it would differ no more in principle and
but little in effects from a general labor
strike such as is threatened as a means
of helping the longshoremen and maritime
workers win their strike. If all of the
120 or more unions of organized labor in
the port cities walk off the job out of
sympathy for the strikers in the shipping
industry, it could mean only that these
unions have placed the issue involved in
this strike as paramount over the rights
of the millions who are not at all parties
to the controversy and that they are will
ing to prosecute the fight with disregard
to the public.
If the employers by concerted action
took s-iih an attitude, we may well im
agine the protest that would go up from
the ranks of labor and from the public.
There will be a similar protest go up if
a general strike is called. The public has
patiently endured this two-months-old
strike which has resulted in the shutdown
of many mills and has seriously affected
the economic fortunes of many people far 1
removed from the waterfront but it will
never sit idly by and endure a complete
paralysis such as a general strike would
cause. It will take a hand just as it did
in Engand in 1926 when a general strike
was called. The objectives of a minority,
no matter how well organized that minori
ty may be, can never transcend the wel
fare of the large majority.
We still think that the labor leaders are
too smart ever to employ the general strike
as anything more than a threat.—Astor-
ian-Budget.
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A Good Record
man present will be presented
with a picture; Wednesday night,
I “Mother,” and the oldest mother
i present will receive a bouquet;
Thursday night, “The Home,”
and the largest family present
will receive a sack of flour!
Mr. Ladd has been holding
Vernonia Eagle, July 11, 1924
very successful meetings in other
states since leaving Vernonia, but
We hear this week that,a post is glad to be back to his native
of the American Legion is to be state during the vacation season.
organized in Vernonia.
Ten Years
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UNDENOMINATIONAL
This week the big Inman-Poul
Sunday afternoon, 2:30, Is Di
son camp started with something vine Healing Done Away With?
like 200 men. The East Side has
Sunday evening. Difference Is
opened with nearly as many men Shepherds.
| and next week Koster will start.
F. Petty, Minister.
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Today the first log has been
sawed in the big mill. Today the
largest all-electric sawmill in the
world starts operating in Ver
nonia.
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Among Our ¡I
Neighbors • .11
The Bank of Vernonia is be
Mrs. E. C. Dalton has been
ing moved to one side this week unanimously reelected president
making room for the large new of the St. Helens Garden club.
fireproof building to be built im
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mediately.
The
Rainier
city council has
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okehed a project whereby the Le
Work is progressing rapidly on gion hall in that city will be re
the new corner lot at Second and decorated, the Legion to reim
Bridge where the new Kingsley burse the city for the expense of
building is going up.
the material and the labor to be
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paid for by the SERA.
R. C. Stanton is now noble
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grand and Emil Messing secre
The Clatskanie city council has
tary of the Vernonia Odd Fellows passed an ordinance providing
lodge.
that no liquor shall be sold to
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anyone under 21 years of age
Miss Ellen Enstrom, who is at and that it shall not be sold to
tending school at Monmouth, anyone under the influence of
spent the week end with home liquor or a habitual drinker.
folks.
Penalty for violation is set at a
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fine of not to exceed $100 or
Pete Saari, a member of the a jail sentence of not to exceed
firm owning the Vernonia Braz 50 days, or both.
ing and Machine works, died in
Vernonia Wednesday.
CHRISTIAN CHURCH
NEW THOR WASHERS—
The revival meeting at the
Christian church started with the
downstairs filled and the gallery
in use at every service. Miss
Glenna Stephens, song leader, is
giving away a picture each even
ing to the one inviting the most
folk to the services. Her crayon
pictures are
drawn to illus
trate some song,
and assisting the
chalk artist is
Mrs. L. Thomp
son, pianist, so
loist, and piano
accordion artist.
Mrs. Ladd will
assist in the pan
tomime work as
she did last year. James Earl Ladd
James Earl Ladd, evangelist, will
speak Friday night on “Why We
Believe the Bible,” and anyone
who doubts the record will be
challenged by the facts present
ed;
Saturday
night’s
topic,
“Jeshurun;” Sunday night, “The
King of Kings,” and 72 early his
torians, more than have to prove
the existence of Socrates or Al
exander the Great, will be quoted
to prove the Bible story of the
life of Jesus.
Monday night, no service. Tues
day, “Father and the Family,”
This is men’s night and the oldest
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IRONERS
up
$25.50 ■ up
RADIOS
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4-Piece BEDROOM SUITE
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PAYMENT PLAN
Twelve years on one political job, and a
We have everything for the
perfect attendance at all meetings, must
home—at reasonable prices.
be some kind of a record for officeholders
—at least it is a good record, whether it
establishes a new mark or not. J. N. Mil
PATERSON
ler, for the past twelve years county com
missioner, has never failed to answer roll
Furniture Store
call when the county court has met. On
two occasions, it is said, he was late, miss
Phone 801
ing a morning session, but being in at
929 Bridge St.
Vernonia
tendance in the afternoon, and once he
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missed a special meeting, which was post
poned one day and he was there. | County
FOREST GROVE-VERNONIA STAGE CO.
affairs are well considered by Mr. Miller,
EFFECTIVE JULY 15, 1934.
and always well taken care of.—Rainier TIME SCHEDULE NO. 7
Cancelling Time Schedule No. 6----Subject to change without notice.
Review.
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Portland-Forest Grove Via Pacific Greyhound
The broad general rule is that a man
is about as big as the things that make Depots: Vernonia—Armitage Drug Store, Shinny’s Card Room.
Forest Grove—Hotel Oregon.
him mad.—Ex.