The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1910-09-30

or an emergency exists, but THE AP
POINTMENT LASTS NO LONGEE
THAN THE FIRST REGULAR MEET
ING OF THE CITY COUNCIL UNLESS
THE COUNCIL BY RESOLUTION OR
OTHERWISE SHALL OFFICIALLY
PROVIDE. The minutes of the city
council were introduced in evidence and
substantiated by Comptroller Gilman
that the city council had held two
meetings subsequent to the appoint
ment of Goodman and no action what
ever taken in the matter of the APP
pointment or retention of Goodman as
a special police officer. Goodman was
consequently held guilty of impersonat-
ing an officer and had no right what
ever to make an arrest in this county
without a warrant from the sheriff of
Snohomsh county.
Judge Shelter held that it had been
plainly shown that Goodman was not
an officer of the city of Everett at the
time the arrest was made. He held
further that the offense was so trivial
that under ordinary circumstances it
would never be allowed to come to
court but would be thrown out. He
admitted that in times of industrial
trouble the situation was tense and
both sides apt to say incautious things
but that the language used would at no
time warrant arrest under any circum-
stances unless accompanied by an act
or attempted act of physical violence.
The defendant was therefore discharged
from custody freed from the charge of
disorderly conduct.
The trial may appear insignificant
and trivial-just an incident in the
momentous struggle being waged be
tween organized capital and organized
labor on this coast-but it is worthy
of close attention just the same. Why
did Sheriff Hodge give Goodman
King county commission one day and
why should Goodman be sent to Ev-
erett the next? Why should he be
stationed on the Snohomifl river
bridge when two police officers were
stationed there already and the city
was able to give ample police protec-
ton from its regular force?
Who is paying Goodman's salary,
4 of a A.,
or the taxpayers and citizens
of Everett? If special police work
must be done must we send to Seattle
for non resident, non vOune, non-tax.
paying miniOns and ignore the men of
this city who live here and make this
city? The striking machinists have no
other weapons with which to prose
cute this strike but their labor power
and the moral assistance Of the public.
The metal trades association has re-
sources nlimited-financial political,
business. Is it going to be allowed to
come into this city as it has into Los
Angeles, Portland, Spokane, Tacoma,
Seattle and attempt to use the city ad
minstration itself to beat down the
workers? Shall the use of the lowest
order OF men this country has yet pro-
duced-the notorious Pinkerton de
tectives for despite his vehement de
NAL nothing can convince the machin
lists that Goodman is anything else but
a Pinkerton) be allowed in this city
where workingmen have built their
homes, made possible the public school,
the church and the lodge? Isn't it
palpable that things were too quiet on
the Snohomish river bridge and the
pickets too effective in their work of
inducing strike breakers to quit their
mean business to suit the metal trades
people? What else can be made out of
it? Are the people of Everett going to
stand for this sort of things? The ar
rest and trial are mere incident but
it serves to show where the line up is
in this conflict today. Are you going
to side with the employers in their at
tempt to scab this coast and beat la
Dor down to level with the coolie
When the strike was first called one
of the propretors of the Sumner Iron
works told his men that in a few years