The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 25, 1914, Page 4

4, HERE'S THE OLD TOWN AGAIN, @uT NOT A WELCOMING PACE! T MIGHT 45 KGL. BE NAPOLGAN ON HIS RGTRearT PROM 5 reecher ["Nowoww Seems TO CARG WHETHER I Cone. MY GIRL CHUMS Seem TO GOTTEN ME@s AND WHERG AR® AW MUSTARD ON THE Bos £ 5 THE POOR FISH essen THe 42208 g> ECHO ANSWERS DEAR ME, L BEevieve HAV® ror é |b \_ ‘WHERE B” tine at REMIWDS ME, Tf Dwr Send a PICT. TURS POST-CARO TO T See HIM OVER | ITs CUTE IN THE DOG, BUT N THE FELLER DAT KLES DOWN TO WORK OF SOLVING OWN PROBLEMS | NEVER BECOMES AL GOOTNESS, ALIFE, ADOLPH! HAP YOU No MPOLITENE SS? TAKE YOUR Hoors OFF DER TABLES! Beme Souvenirs you find anything tn that asked the footpad. thing worth while,” answer | burglar. “But tt’s bad luck away empty-handed, so I along the watchdog and a 2 Durgiaralarm apparatus.”"— Star. THE SEATTLE STAR OF SCRIPPS NORTHWEST LEAGUE OF NEWSrAren: | Belegraph News Service of the United Mress Association. at Seattle, Wash. Postoffice as Second out of city, 35 per mon. up to six mon.; six mos $1.50; year $3.25. P carrier, efty, #80 a month. Daily by The Star Publishing Co, Phone. Main 8400. Mrivate Mlachange connecting all departments. Not Some Human Judges the State Supreme Bench? IN the Spokane city ordinance, fixing a minimum ‘wage of $3 for city laborers, came up, Judges Crow, | | BY SCHAEFER—MUSIC BY MACDONALD WORDS so o-—- DER Doo AIN'T HARMING ANYBODY, Teu iv To Doc, CooK. ‘THAT's Too BAD, | WANTED To wick and Gose of the supreme court of Washington, de- “ - ied. that labor—human labor—is no more to be considered } “bricks and mortar.” as these judges changed their minds to suit the oc- when they stretched the election laws to keep M. E. | in office as governor and then reversed and stretched) ite direction to kill the Hamilton recall, they} have evidently taken a different view about “bricks and ” Judges Crow, Chadwick and Gose are running for elec-| (on September 8, and not one of them is distributing a| 1 election card or sending a single paid advertisement) single “brick or piece of mortar.” | and mortar” have no votes. Judges Crow, Chad-| and Gose have discovered at least THAT difference be- human laborers and “brick and mortar.” | Tt was Judge Chadwick, for whom the reactionary forces| ed when they realized they could not put Clint Howard as federal judge, who wrote the “bricks and mortar”) on, and Judges Gose, Crow and Parker agreed with him. | The late Judge Dunbar, one of the few judges on the court with human tendencies, dissented. | It is the case of Malett vs. Spokane, in 68 Washington| epo page 578. | The Spokane city council passed an ordinance providing | all work done by common laborers for the city shall ¢ $3 a day. A contractor tested the ordinance in court. " The lower court decided for the city. | An appeal was taken to the supreme court. Two points) raised. First, the ordinance was attacked as unconsti-| , and second, that the minimum wage of $3 was un-| onable. | Judges Chadwick, Gose and Crow held it was not neces-| to determine whether the ordinance was unconstitutional, | ; they would hold that it was UNREASONABLE TO) { PAY LABOR $3 A DAY. Judges Chadwick, Gose and Crow) jeld that “the going wage for that class of labor ranged from | to $2.25 for a 10-hour day in Spokane.” | “So far as we have been able to find,” these learned| said, “laws fixing a minimum wage for unskilled| or have been uniformly condemned.” if “Tn the instant case the wages paid are from 50 to 90 per| higher for eight hours than are wages paid in private ployment for like labor for 10 hours.” | And in another place in the decision, they quote: | | ® | | | "The labor here involved is common labor, requiring no| ing or skill, the only requirement being, to use the wage of a witness, that the man shall have ng back.’” And again: “Tf the council can pay $3.00 when the current wage is 5, they can fix the price of commodities entering into the ruction of a public work.” They could fix the price of and mortar.” } In a later case, the supreme court reversed itself and held the Spokane ordinance was legal. The entire court of head the later case, and Judge Crow changed Judges Chadwick and Gose still insisted that $3) A public m will be held too much to pay a laborer, and Chadwick, in his opinion,| Thursday morning, 10 o'clock, tn members of the supreme court of being in.|*h® council chambers, on the plan other to build additional stories on the new courthouse for city use. The | R SHALL WE CONTINUE THESE AR” WORSHIPPERS ON THE SUPREME ‘liman Cooley U ? OR SHALL WE HAVE HUMAN JUDGES? RES 4 (OU MUST ANSWER ON SEPTEMBER 8. We were just joking the other day when we sald the forest fires |were under control, They aren't. | There are eight bad ones raging in the state on logged-off districts, If| it doesn’t rain, heavy damage may still be done, “WHAT HAS become of the ciroult court's decision as to whether| 4 care shall be allowed to run on Fourth av,? | k 0 U GE N THE SHOE REPAIR MAN 216 Union 8t-—2 Shope—110 Madison ONY TWS RECKLESS | Foo. DRINGRS wo 667 | HURT, (T WOULDN'T BE | . 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SHORE AVE SAw THE ys] O16 SWELLS ROLLING VOR THE BEAT To organize every trade in the city into a union is the object of a campaign begun by the Labor Forward Movement league. At the meeting Monday night in the La- bor temple, every member received the list of voters in his precinct, - and an effort will be made to in- terest the nonunion men and wom- en in the organization. Another meeting will be held next Monday at Carpenters’ hall. The Guarantee Trust Co. sued the North German Lloyd Co. for $1,040,- 467 damages because the Kron- prinzessin Cecilie failed, owing to the war, to deliver $5,000,000 gold shipped to London bankers, O16 uQues NOMI I I MEAN THOSE O46 SWELL PEOPLE 7A | [Samaé sirrs: Apple crop of this state estimated at 7,600,000 bushels. 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