The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-06-26
The Strike In The
Lumber Industries
to Have Meeting Reject
Resolution Denouncing Force
able Deportation of I. w, w.
Fails.

At the mass meeting called Monday
evening the citizens and workingmen
of Port Angeles expressed their con-
tempt for the Broad Cloth Mob" and
declared themselves in favor of the
Industrial Workers of the World, with
its peaceable methods of conducting
a strike. The resolution adopted by
the meeting is as follows;
Whereas, This being a peaceable
and law abiding community, believing
that the laws of our country were
made for all classes of people, whether
rich or poor, and whereas on Wednes-
day last a certain select few, with the
sanction of the Commercial Club, did
organize and appoint committee
which went out upon the streets of the
city and forcibly and without due pro-
cess of law, and against the laws of
this city and state, took two peaceable
men, one of them permanent resident
of this city, and forced them aboard
the steamship and compelled them to
leave the city,
Therefore, Be it resolved that we,
the citizens of Port Angeles, in mass
meeting assembled, do most earnestly
and emphatically protest against such
mob violence, from whatever source
it may come, and place ourselves
squarely before the world as in favor
of statute law and against mob law"
The slippery, Shiny, unfair, and dis
gusting methods of the mob, who call
themselves the representatives of
Law and Order" but who in reality
are the representatives of the COM
mercial interests of the city, cannot
but meet the disapproval of all re-
spectacle and thinking citizens.
They first rented the hall to the
committee and then held the keys
until after they had packed the house
with scabs from the surrounding strike
lumber industries. The mob next at
tempted to elect their own chairman.
Failing in this they endeavored to
throw discredit upon the meeting by
speaking against the above resolution.
Such men as Judge Lindsay, of Seat
tie, Tom Aldwell, and ex-Prosecuting
Attorney Richie harranged the merits
of patriotism and the danger of
dynamiting, and tried to show that the
resolution stood against patriotism
and in favor of dynamiting.
The entire meeting was stormy and
nearly precipitated into a riot. The
mob with their scabs realized after
two hours of mental dynamite that it
could not swing the crowd to its sup
port and so bolted the meeting before
adjournment. This left only the re-
spectacle citizens in the hall, who
passed the resolution, adjourned and
went home.
The representatives of the present
system can meet the arguments of
labor only by acts of violence. They
drive the workers back to work by
some force or another, and to do this
they resort to any means which will
gain their ends. They are the first
to break the laws they have made to
protect their own interests.
The meeting scored a victory for the
revolutionary forces of this community
and hence a victory for all communi
ties. They were able TO wrest this
victory only by joining their forces
And how were they able to agree in
this time of despotism and anarchy
For years the Socialists have carried
on propaganda and economic educa
tional work. Up to the time of thu
strike the years of work had neve
bore fruit, but since the strike hat
been on, the individuals have beel
called upon to declare on which sid'
they stood. II found out whether thes
fellows had just been talking or reall