The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-01-18
HOT SHOT FOR
LABOR LEADERS
p. n. ScULLiN COMES BACK AT
TRADES COUNCIL FOR LAST
NIGHTS RESOLUTIONS.

| AS a result of a meeting of the
Walla Walla Trades & Labor council
last night, at which resolutions, con-
demning the work and pans of P. H.
/ Scuilin, general secretary Of the Ma
tional Industrial Peace association,
| who is in Walla Walla stirring up in
terest in MS work, were passed. Mr..
Sculln, today, pours some hot shot into
the labor leaders. Glenn Harris, c. 3.
Dillingham; and NJ. f. Cutting, who it
Is said, drafted the resolutions and
pushed them through at last nights
meeting.
The resolutions passed last hight.
tended to show that the American
Federation of Labor, at its annual
being done by Mr.. Scullin. and to in
fer that Mr.. Scullin. who was in Walla
Walla four years ago succeeded in COL
lecting coAside rable oney from mer-
Mr.. ,Scullin takes violent exception
TO the action of the Trades and Labor
council last night and this afternoon
replied to the resolutions in a redhot
article which is AS follows:
ScuIIin Replies.
Editor of the Statesman:
GAS visitor to and stranger in
your city. beg to request space in the
columns of your paper, to the end that
II may be enabled to enlighten your cit
liens upon the seeming opposition of
organized labor in Walla Walla to the
doctrine of Industrial Peace as repre-
scented by me in person. From state
ment in this mornings Union it ap-
pears that three gentlemen, assuming
the right to represent organized labor
in this city, sat in judgment upon my
self and upon my course of procedure;
their sitting was secret, their evidence
rumOr, or hearsay at best.
81 was neither requested to be pres
ent nor yet was / know, not one of the
three gentlemen of the committee who
accused me of some indefinite some
thing, without name-eXcept it be
that of seeking voluntary support in
order that l may be enabled to carry
on my work-not one of them, I say,
so far as I know, has ever set eyes
upon my poor self, yet have they ac-
cused me. as quoted in this mornings
paper. of some indefinite wrongdoing
They have tried and condemned me.
And these are the men who are crying
out against injustice, these are the
Representatives of organized labor,
these are the labor leaders-the men
who accuse merchants and employers
of being unfair to organized labor, try
them in the same manner and condemn
them too. frame up blacklsts and in
flict bOycotts.
We'll, Mr. Editor, l don't blame
them very much for trying to defeat
my efforts for they are the very men
am after, them ard their kind This
is the very element in the ranks of la
Dor which / propose, with the help. of
God and honest men in every walk of
life, to drive into obscurity, whose in
forever; men who work in the dark.
making claims for themselves behini
closed doors which they can neither
substantiate nor defend in the open
"They say 1 CLAIM to represent the
National Industrial Peace Association.
Do they dare to deny it? No man can
stop the tongue of SANDER, or make
the slanderer be still. AS for myself,
care not. | know them and their kind
misrer resentatives of honest toll that
! they are, but 1 do care for the gentle
men whom l represent. l not only rep
resent the National Industrial Peace
association. but in the work in which
[ am engaged, I represent Governor
Mead, Chief Justice Hiram Haddley,
Attorney General Atkinson and many
lGf the most distinguished gentlemen.
lot only in the state Of Washington.
but in both Oregon and California. and
the proofs of my assertions are open,
not only for the inspector of Messrs.
Cutting. Harris and Dillingham; but to
Ian mankind
Why should these men try to injure
me or through me. the cause / aivo-
lcate? | have never injured either them
or any living man. lead a simple life
of poverty and effort sacrificing my
levery personal consideration of eth II
ambition Or emolumeht. Surely in the
gospel that l preach, there is nothing
but charity, justice and the brother
hood of man. l neither injure nor seek
TO injure ary man. feel myself called
upon to do this work
Why then this wanton attack by
men who know ME not ? But as it is not
to them, or such as they, that / appeal.
it is to the just and fair minded.
never have the slightest trouble il.
!DfuShlng aside the OpDOSitiOn of thr,