An agreement has been reached by which the laborers are to work on uncompleted buildings until these are finished, at the present wages but will not work on any buildings to be started after New Year's day, without the increased wages. The contractors are building operations in Spokane. The building operations in Spokane are to be stopped and 4000 buildings, unionists, will be thrown out of employment. Organized labor seems to be making a united effort to force the "open shop" in all cities. If the Spokane contractors "stand pat" as they probably will, for they have called upon the public, which pays the bill if wages are increased to support them in refusing to allow the increased wages, 4000 carpenters and other laborers in Spokane will be out of work and probably have to move to some other point and take smaller wages than they are now receiving. There is a limit beyond which the public will not go and that limit has been reached.

The name of N.W. Durham, one of Spokane's best-known pioneers, has been suggested for the presidency of the Eastern Washington Historical Society. No better man can be found in eastern Washington. For more than 30 years Mr. Durham has been closely identified with the growth and development of the Inland Empire, and for 22 years he was managing editor of the Spokane Falls Review, which has become The Spokesman-Review. 