The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1911-05-05
KIDNAPPERS
CONDEMNED
EVERETT CENTRAL BODIES PASS
STRINGENT RESOLUTIONS OF
CENSURE.
EVERETT UNIONISTS ADOPT RESO
LUTIONS.

LUTIONS.
The following resolution was intro
duced by Delegate Marsh of the Shin
gle Weavers and was passed unanimous
ly by the Everett Trades Council and
Everett Building Trades Council last
Friday evening:
"The organized labor movement OF
this country stands for industrial de-
cency accomplished by sane, practical
effort. In the philosophy of trade
Eunionism there is no place for methods
of brute force nor physical violence. In
the working out of the many problems
with which We have to deal We are un.
alterably opposed to the destruction of
property or the taking of human life.
Realizing fully the nature of the indus
trial conflict in which labor and capital
is engaged, We yet rely on the justice
of our cause to triumph over those who
would cruelty labor. We condemn no
less the employer of labor who resorts
to despicable methods than We would
condemn mistaken laboring men who
would adopt like tactics.
1T was with poignant feelings OF re-
gret We received the tidings of the loss
of life in connection with the blowing
up of the Los Angeles Times building.
SIT was with feelings of resentment
We read the immediate accusation that
organized labor was responsible for the
outrage. We are conscious of the fact
that in the program of determination of
organized labor on the Pacific Coast it
has been the foul intent to fasten this
alleged crime upon organized labor and
send some of its leaders to the gallows.
"The arrest and abduction of men
prominent in the organized labor move
ment of this country is logical hap
pening in the program of men who
will apparently stop at nothing to at
tain their ends.
Every move made in the seizure of
these men, their subsequent treatment,
the wholesale discoveries of alleged ex-
plosives, ETC., had an exact counterpart
in the history of the intermountain
struggle of the Western Federation OF
Miners which eliminated in the dra-
matte trial of Meyer, Haywood and
Pettibone. Just as that trial estab-
lished the innocence of the Western
Federation officials and convinced the
public of the existence of conspiracy
among mine owners and their Pinker-
ton tools to overthrow unionism at any
cost. so are We confident that fair
and Just trial of the union leaders ac-
cused of completely in the Los Angeles
disaster will establish their innocence
and show to the world the real animus
of the men who would send the accused
unionists to the death cells.
"Be it resolved by the Everett Trades
Council and Everett Building Trades
Council, representative of the union men
and women of Everett, Wash, that we
do denounce in unmeasured terms the
railroading of these men from Indiana
to California without giving them op'
portunity to assert their civil rights in
their own state; be it further
Resolved, That We show our eonfi'
dence in their reetitude and honor by
pledging the moral and financial sup
port of the union people of this city in
securing to them fair and impartia
trial both before the bar of Justice ano
the bar of public opinion; be it still
further
4 Resolved, That copy of these reso
buttons be sent to the Central Labo
Council of Los Angeles and copy b.
given to the press of this city for pub
lieation."