Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1912-04-08
ABERDEEN LUMBER & SHINCLE Mill, The FEDERAL
AND The WILSON MILLS RESUMED OPERATIONS
THIS MORNING WITHOUT ANY DIFFICULTY
DESPITE THE EFFORTS OF REV0LUTI0NISTS
H0QUIAM PERMITS BIG DEMONSTRATION YESTERDAY
AND FINDS MOB AT LY1LE MILL THIS MORNING
----POLICE DISPERSES IT WITH FIRE HOSE

The mill of the Aberdeen Lum
Der 4 Shingle company, the Fedora
mill and that of Wilson Bros & Com
pany resumed operations this morn
ing after being closed down
since the start of the strike, and both
are running with sufficient men for
the present requirements, and will
employ more when they can secure
English speaking men, those having
families being preferred.
Notwithstanding the fact the |. w
". revolutionists had agents all over
the city yesterday distributing cards
calling upon the men not to go to
work this morning, there was no dem
onstration at the Aberdeen Lumber e.
Shingle mill at all. At the Wilson
mill, about 200 |. w. Ws among them
several women gathered in an effort
to persuade the men not to go to
work. The effort was fruitless, the
men paying no attention, and the
agitators We're kept moving on, and
the mill is running with all the help
required.
The card distributed yesterday
read as follows: "STRIKE ON!
Don't go to work Monday The bosses
are trying to fool you. Go to every
workingman's home and tell him to
stick. Get the women to picket Mon.
day. We won't go back until we win.
Stand together like men," 1t was the
final squeal and was entirely un-
availing. The men had struck for 1925
day and got it, and declined to be
led into further trouble by the import
ed revolutonists; they want work
and fair wages, not revolution.
At Hoquiam a big parade marched
through the streets yesterday, and to
Electric park, where DR.. Titus, W. A.
Thorn and others tried to rekindle
the expiring spark of revolution with
but slight success. A crowd of reyo-
lutionists gathered at the Lytle mill
this morning, and few brick bats
We're thrown at the men going to
work. The police turned water on the
crowd from a fire hose, and they soon
dispersed.
With the agreement, reached last
week by the lumber mill operators
in Aberdeen and Hoquiam, to pay a
minimum wage of 1925 a day, the
strike that has tied them up for three
weeks, may be said to be at an end
In arriving at this conclusion. the
millmen positively refuse to recOg-
t. t..o inucs.liaI r....~.5 <o4 49,"
ingmenD or to employe any belong
ing to that organization, but will en-
ploy only competent, efficient labor.
In other words they are willing to
pay good wages to the man who de-
sires to earn the money, and will give
preference at all times to men with
families. They will no longer EN-
ploy men who are so ignorant of the
English language as to render them
inefficient. nor |. w. w. members,
whose doctrine teaches the destruc-
ton of the property on which they
are employed.
This decision was arrived at in HO-
quiam Friday afternoon at a confer
ence between the millmen and a citi-
zens committee, and in Aberdeen
that night after similar conference.
If this was an ordinary strike for an
advance in pay. it would now be over
and Grays Harbor would resume it's
normal condition. But it is not, nor
has it ever been strike, in the real
meaning of that word, but, accord
ing to the published doctrine of the
revolutionists sailing under an indus
trial flag, the intention is and has
been to close the industries perman.
entity by forcing strike after strike
until it becomes financially impossi.
BILE TO operate the mills.
Just how far this plan will succeed
here depends upon the men who went
out. and who will be the most griev.
ious sufferers if the l. W. W. pro
gram is carried out. When these
men begin to realize that the object
of the Industrial revolutionists is tc