The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 25, 1919, Page 14

SREIGHT RA Fix Cheaper Land Haul _ on Traffic to the Orient WASHINGTON ern manufacturers oast apparently fight for lower freight» @estined for the Far East and Aus tralia. ‘The railroad administration today announced it would soon put into effect reduced rates on ship Ments consigned from ts east of the Missiasipp! river to Japan, China Australia and the Philippine islands Officials here regarded the rate re ductions as tremendously in building up foreign trade wh Must be routed thru ports. The departm merce and the rail tion have had hur from industrial le rates, basing their fact that unless the Mareh and the Pacific have won their on traffic lower on the they could not compete with Europe- an manufacturers. Their arguments Rave been particularly insistent since the armistice was signed In the fight for rate reduction. Secretary Redfield has taken a de- ) @ided stand favoring the move. It Was pointed out fh communications | | to the department of commerce that 14 _ sotton a large majority of the articles sold in the Far Bast are ‘Thru ocean rates from Atlantic are regarded as prohibitive, so ; as competing with Europe is con cerned. The only road open, then fo reestablish the trade lost thru ‘war regulations was to haul the traf. fie across the United States, it was explained. ‘The new rates represent a substan tial reduction in the land haul ‘Transpacific rates were cut by the ahipping board two months ago. Commodities covered by the new “Fates, together with the schedule per pounds, follow BP agrestont implements, $1.75 iron articles, car wheels, axles at ‘tached, boiler iron, cast iron pipe, Wrought iron pipe and roofing iron. 60 cents. Machinery, including grading and $1; sewing machines, oil, $0.60; off well sup 00; all railroad equipment, Including locomotives and cars, $0.75; Manufactured tobacco, $1.95; unman. Ufactured tobacco, $1.40 ‘ Automobiles and parts, $5.75; fanned goods, $1.00; chocolate, $1.50; piece goods, $1.20; window Blass, $1.10; plate glass, $1.40. ‘ ~ Pig iron, $0.55; tron castings, $1.70; Ba i, rows, $1.10. Wood pulp eine plates ar $1.40; wax Articles transcontinental tariff BEGIN PROBE OF |: men CAR COLLISION Investigation in uB, $t Traction urbans on the Hine near the Monday mc is under way from the Everett manager's office day. The responsibility has not ly fixed o lst of injured is as Ballinger station follows Louts Demaria, & emashed, head an E head, leg face brui injured; G, A. Loomis, B on face with glass; Harry L. Dilla way, bruises on face and body; Mins Florence Easley, bruises; Joseph W Briggs, face and limbs injured; An- drew Olsen, bruised on face and body Walter Jelly, head injured; Carl Da vis, conductor on south bound car head cut and shoulder and bedy bruised; W. T. Johnson, motorman on south bound train, arms @ bruised; W. G. Rayner, mo ndrth bound cs hurt by jump H. Harding bound car, hu floor GAMBLING ROOM NOW TURNED INTO CHAPEL) our PARIS, March 25.—Where tarke | S#ving sums have been won and lost in|*00n after the great GermanAus gambling—the famous baccarat room attack ir sit ‘aa at Aixles-Bains—American sol aie thie’ teen have been going to church room has been turned into a for the men of the expedit force there quartered. monds, cut onductor when own |Acquit Gen. Rosso March 2 abandoned bis pomits October rs! Ital The | wan hapel om nary |! or THE BON MARCHE RGAIN BASEMENT The Bargains Make the Store All merchandise in the Bargain Basement must be underpriced to gaim admittance—g can't be there unless it is. This is a principie—not a conception sold ple lines, reason. merchandise is dependable quality. Buyers comb the markets for sam for manufacturers’ surplus lots, for bankrupt stocks and goodw sold underprice for any The lowered price does not impair the value. 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Sizes 20 to 26 $2.59 $1.79 TES TO ‘STEP ON HER, BOYS! in Military Case Charged with INDUSTRIAL NO SPEED Limit FELLERS, LET'ER GO! PACIFI SEATTLE — DUNNLEADERIN FARMER SHOOTS CHIGAGO TROC BUTTEELECTION DOG; IS SLAIN START COU “Wisconsin Idea” Offers Real Constructiveness; BY MILTON BRONNER The w has always and if » report re Benator Roy P ‘ is fol lowed, this state wi to point out the way to avert trial unrest and 1, W. W And let me make clear right at the beginning that Wileox ta no wild, leyed radical wearing a red tie, Ho'w a hard-headed, hard-fighting lawyer of Bau Claire, who started out as a poor bo 4 carved out for himself }a typioa At 46 he as a lawyer BEATEN FOR GOVERNOR Three years ago he i have ¢ much made hix bow in politics, running as a non-factional candidate for the republican nomina ng both op- i rnor Philipp went pus syfooting all over the state on the war isnues, Wilcox, a comparatively unknown man, jumped into the fray candidate for governor and was only 418 votes in a poll of ),000, He made a straight prowar proAmerican campaign Now he proposes a program whone Thigh spots are there Basic eight-hour day. Legalized and « ganize and to gaining. Minimum wage law covering men just as at present it covers the work of minors and women | JUSTICE FOR LABOR | Listen to these straight words |from the Wilcox report to the legi« lature | “The war secured for labor a meas ure of justice greater than had ever |beon given it before, The necessity of this was soon perceived, |problem of reconstruction will be whether we shall continue the pres. ent comparatively liberal attitude to: |ward labor, The republican platform Jof this state has gone on record un- qualifiedly in favor of the policies lof the national war labor board, ‘The party, to be true to its official dec laration, should embody in legislation principles laid down by the national |war Inbor board for its own guid ance and for the guidance of manu. facturers with war contracts. “Industrial cooperation must re | place industrial warfare. The work | man's job is hia greatest interest. He must receive for it a living family wage. He must not work for such | long hours that his physics health |will be impaired and he burden to his family and to society He must work under conditions that | will guard his health, prevent acei. | dents and in other ways protect him." RIGHT TO ORGANIZE The report says the right to organ should be guaranteed every r, It should be unlawful to ace the retention in the service on condition of ne embership in a e or union, or to dismiss a man for activity in #ugh union. This should be enforced, thru the state industrial commission, by a commit tee representing employers, employes and the general public. The right of employers and em ployes to organize and bargain col }lectively should be guaranteed by |law. ‘The report recommends that | the basic eight-hour day be enacted jinto law to gove employment of | labor not only on state work, but |apply to all workers as a police and health measure It recommends that the principal cities of the state be given authority to raise funds by taxation or bonds |for city planning and suitable hous |ing facilities, Wilcox means by thir that, if necessary, the city should | build suitable homes and lease or sell |them to the workers without profit ' Bspecially during the present per. 4 right to or collective bar The! Advocated by Se rir ina which cities so that the upon nece » to give unemp 4 men aon nother new and revo. hat may come out The report mends legiviation providing for u dis misval wage for workmen. It says that business men are realizing that the frequent tu r of labor is bad for industry, demoralizes the work man and rewults in economic waste. For the workman himself there is that he may be die And here is lutionary thing of W h a f The man is fired for part . pelled ain stip lated week for a “1 of time, thus carryink him along until he get# another job, It is the bellef that thia law will serve to prevent many indiscriminate dis charges of workmen LABOR REPRESENTED And also in Wisconsin, the hope is to have Industrial democracy mean something more than a mere glib phrase. The report recommends that there be a legal requirement that on the board of directors of every industrial corporation emp ng labor there should be at ni representative recommended by the workers and that they be allowed to purchase sufficient stock to qualify such @ director | Or there might be provision for election of a non-stock-owning direc. tor chosen by the employes, The report also recommends that organ ized labor havg representatives on all the educational boards of the state, including the board of univer sity regents. One of the conditions complained of by skilled American workmen is the importation of unskilled aliens who are willing to work for low wages. The report recommends that such aliens, as a condition of contin-| ued employme: required to at » and schocl instruction su pervised by state educational author ities, so that they may acquire a fair} knowledge of English | The report recommends equal pay! for women where they do the sam work as men and ospecial safeguard ing of the health and strength. It] is proposed to strengthen the exist | ing workmen's compensation act of| Wisconsin by making it include oc cupational diseases as well as acct |dents arising in industry | Battleship Idaho Is Commissioned CAMDEN, N, J, March | World's greatest battleship, the Ida ho, was officially the New York Shipbuilding yards | here yesterday. 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