Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1912-04-08

put stop to all wage paying indus
tries. and start to figure on Just how
they are to earn a living in that event
1t is safe to say that those half-dollar-
grabbing malcontent manufacturers
will be seeking new fields, leaving
their dull-witted dupes to figure out
their loss.
Businessmen and others who We're
inclined to believe this was a strike
of common laborers in the mills for
an advance in wages; were unable
to realize the real intentions of the
revolutiOnsts, and We're disposed to
criticise the acts of the city govern.
ment have revised their opinions large.
ly, and now that the advance has been
granted are waiting to see whether
or not their sympathy was wasted
The advantage to Aberdeen, in ex.
changing horde of unassim lating
foreign men without families for En-
glish speaking men of family ties,
who come here to make homes, will
cause the strike to assume the form
OF blessing before the end of two
years. A well known mill operator
has figured it out that if those single
men are replaced BY men Of families,
averaging three children, it will mean
an increase of $500 souls to the popu-
lation of the city, with all that that
means in the building of the great
city we all expect on Grays Harbor.
While some of the critics of the
city Notwithstanding the revOlu-
tiOnary organ-are bewailing the ex-
pense of a few hundred dollars a day
spent for extra police, in order to
save life and property, they appear
to be unable to see that labor is los
ing not less than $4,000 a day in the
enforced idleness of the Aberdeen
mills This loss is directly to labor,
and indirectly affects every channel
Of trade and every person whose resi-
dence is in this city. Every merchant
small tradesman, in fact every walk
of life, and the employees of such are
vitally affected
The Herald has heard few so
short sighted as to imagine the loss
would be upon the mill owners. Such
is far from the case, in fact, the mill
men stand to gain materially by the
clOse-down. The strike on Grays Har-
Dor has reduced the output of lum-
ber in the state about one and one
half million feet day, reduction
of output the various lumber associa-
tions have long desired to bring about
in order to stiffen prices, so that in
stead Of losing money, the mills will
undoubtedly profit by this large re-
duction and consequent increased de-
mand and price.
Now that the advance in wages has
been announced and the mills are
starting up, it is up to the city gov
ernment to see that the men willing
to work are permitted to do so un.
molested. No doubt the industrial
revolutionists will go as far as they
are permitted in order to harrass
those men. as this is one of their
tactics but it should not be per-
mitted for an instant. If the police
are not sufficiently numerous, the
citizens may be relied upon to rally
to the call at any time when required
to see that a man may work when
he pleases or quit when he chooses
without reference to the miniOns of
Chief CRATER Vincent St. John, Of
Chicago.
The workmen here may be subject
ed TO the plan now being used in
Tacoma of harrassing the men going
to and coming from work, but it
should not be tolerated. In that city
Saturday, the workmen at the ST.
Paul-Tacoma mill petitioned the city
commission for protection from the
jeers and gibes OF the revolutionists
and H. j. Dutton, one of their repres-
entatives, said to the Ledger:
Under the present condition of the
lumber market, while We are not all
thoroughly satisfied with out present