The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-01-16
scULlin GETS AROLs1
LABOR ARsITRAToRs ADVENT
INTO SEATTLE WAS NOT
VERY CHEERING.
Newspaper Takes Shot at Man Who
Secured Endorsement Of WaIIa
WaIa People.

Patrick Henry Scullin, who was in
Walla Walla a few weeks ago endeav-
oring to work up interest in his pet
scheme of labor arbitration which will
be incorporated in bill to be intro
duced in the legislature, is the target
for hot roast in the Post-Intelligen-
Ger of Saturday. Sculling was able to
arouse considerable interest, while in
Walla Walla and secured the indorse-
ment Of the Walla Walla Commercial
club and a number of labor organiza-
tons at public meeting held at labor
hall in which prominent citizens took
part.
Scullin's advent into Seattle re-
ceived the following comment from the
P.-I.:
Patrick Henry Scullin, of Tracy fame
and the man who once arranged big
banquet to 40 of the prominent citi-
zens of the city at the Diller hotel,
which but three attended, has again
bobbed up in Seattle with his old
peace scheme. He is going to hold a
monster mass meeting in the chamber
of commerce rooms, he says, to explain
his ancient plan to an admiring and
yearning public. At the meeting will
be fired the first gun of another en-
ployer- employee peace campaign, and
if Patrick is to be believed, like the
shot fired at Fort Sumter, it will echo
around the world. Unlike that shot,
however, this boom will cause a re-
vibration of perpetual jubiliation
among all peoples.
Patrick Henry is agitating his old
idea under the same old name. His
plan is incorporated now, however In
full it is the National Industrial Peace
Association, Incorporated, Patrick
Henry Scullin, general secretary" It
The plan has been going, however, ever
since Patrick Henry has been old
enough to vOte-and talk
Since arriving in Seattle from South
ern California Mr.. Scullin has been
very very busy on his pet scheme He
has circulated among business and
professional men like the busy little
bee, and has succeeded in securing
signatures to his call for a meeting
tomorrow among many of the repre-
sentative men Of the city. Mayor Bal
linger signed, John Schram, j. B. Mac
Dougall, Rev. J. P. D. Llwyd and many
other people.
Mr.. Scullin wandered into the Post
Intelligencer office last night, explained
his ideas to reporter, and, from a
hand bag, extracted about 100 docu-
ments showing what nice idea it was.
He asked the reporter to sign for the
meeting call, too. The reporter did. If
he had not, he would have been obliged
to go through the entire bag full of
documents.
In addition to his documents Mr..
Scullin has printed bill which he is
trying to get through the California
legislature, and which he intends also
to inflict upon the Washington legis-
lature, called the Scullin arbitration
bill. The bill covers four pages in
printing and has picture of Mr.. Soul
lin on the front page. 1t provides for
a state board of arbitration and con-
Citation" A copy has already been
sent to Gov. Mead, Mr.. Scullin says:
Here is the outline of Mr.. Scullin's
plan in Mr.. Scullin's own language:
You see it is this way: Strikes
cause awful waste. The United States
loses millions of dollars every year
through them. Now, why can't the
men and the bosses come together?
They can. They all want to get in one
body and meet once in a while to talk
things over. They will get acquainted
in that way
Patrick Henry was here during the
Tracy hunt with another grand idea in
addition to the present one. This was
to go out to Mr.. Tracy with a flag of
truce and talk the matter all over
with the famous outlaw Some people
then thought Mr.. Scullin was a trifie
too erratie and he was sent to the asy-
lum for the insane. Two years ago
Mr.. Scullin wended his way to the
sunny south, where he has been ever
since excepting during a recent trip
east.