POINDEXTER FAVORS ORIENTAL LABOR

ALL THE EMPLOYEES in the shingle mills of Washington ought to keep their eyes on the Senatorial election. Their jobs are at stake.

If Miles Poindexter is elected Senator, and the policies supported by him go into effect, one of the first things to happen would be the displacing of white labor with Oriental labor in the shingle mills.

It would come about in this way: The tariff of 30 cents a thousand on shingles would be removed; the majority of the mills in this State would shut down because of cheap shingles coming from British Columbia -- and these shingles are cheap because they are made by Oriental labor.

Therefore, workingmen in Washington would lose their jobs to Hindus and other Orientals in British Columbia.

At the last session of Congress the hardest fight made by Senator Piles was to secure an increase in the tariff on shingles from 30 cents to 50 cents per thousand.

Poindexter opposed the tariff, and almost succeeded in placing shingles on the free list. He would do so again, if given the chance.

Shingle weavers and all other employees of shingle mills and everybody directly and indirectly supported by the lumber industry ought to vote against Poindexter. He would rob them of work and take their bread out of their mouths.

Judge Thomas Burke is the man for Senator. He is committed to the tariff on lumber and shingles. Instead of ruining the foremost industry of the State, he would work to sustain it.

There are over one hundred thousand employees in the lumber and shingle mills of Washington. Poindexter is their enemy; Burke their friend.