The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1913-07-17
LITTLE THINGS THAT FORErELl
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last springs strike. an put ON long
faces during the week of the Fourth
Cause. The timber workers who came
to that city because of a shutdown of
the camps attended three mass meet
ings of workers and Joined the union,
instead of throwing their niekels away
to the enemy one hundred and seven
Joined at one meeting
Col Martin NJ Mulhall, for years q
field agent of the National Manuiae-
turers Association, Is squeezing. This
association, instead of protecting the
interests of the country's manufactur-
ers as was intended when organized,
in recent years has given its attention
almost wholly to disrupting labor I'M
ions. hribng labor union officials, and
campaigning against congressman who
sympathizcd with labor unions, says
/ Mulhall. An of which is of course the
same thing Union men were bought
/ from 5000 up, to campaign against po-
Utical nominees who were union men
/ or sympathized with the unions.
Gompers was offered a bride of S4O,-
/ GOO to quit the A. +. of l..
! Mrs. ]. Redding Cole, in a Chautau-
qua address at Racine, Wis. ridiculed
/ Roosevelts race suicide theory. 1T
may be immoral to curb the birth
/ rate but where is the morality in fur
nishing more children for the sweat
shops to toll and hunger for things
/ they can not obtain? We are sick of
! Roosevelts argument. Motherhood
must be limited if the children are to
be reared and fed as the child should
be. If that be treason, make the best
of it."
A step in the right direction was
taken at the convention of the lnterna-
| tional Alliance of Theatrical Stage
Employees when an agreement was
reached between this organization and
the American Federation of Musicians
to fight the masters of bread Jointly
after this.
War is on in the South African
mines which English capitalists stole
from the Beers Events eliminated
in a strike of immense proportions,
/ including almost all white laborers in
the Rand district of the Transvaal.
Troops have already done their dirty
work and u minuers are dead.
Twelve thousand miners attended the
| funeral. England's parliament is
highly agitated over it all, don't you
know. Later reports claim the strike
is settled.
i Debs. after publicly announcing that
he would open up his home to an I'M
moral woman the police of Terre
Haute were prosecuting, challenged
Christians and hypocrits to come into
i the open in their true colors. Inc
people" of Terre Haute are very
much stirred up over it all.
Members of both the United Broth
erhood of Carpenters and the Amalga-
mated Society of Carpenters and JON
ers are to vote upon plans OF consoh-
dation. That's progress.
On July another shooting occurred
in the Infamous Cabin Creek district,
West Virginia. Mine operators claim
that strikers angered at the settle
ment" did the shooting and that 5Oo
shots were fired. This news dispatch
is peculiar in that out of 500 shots, IL
reports no one killed or wounded.
i A gigantic arson plot is supposed TO
have been discovered by Scotland
Yard detectives in London. Militant
suffragettes planned to start fires SIM
ultaneously throughout all business
sections of London and inflammaDle
materials and chemicals prepared by
expert chemists have been found IN
great quantities in various places, IL
is claimed We are no relation OF That
/ noted Sherlock Holmes, but we would
suggest that as it has been discovered
that the great English dallles kno"
/ how to paint bombs to insure sale for
their dirty rags, they may also know
how to plant explosive chemicals to
set fire to London. We surely are
learning how to manufacture news.
that the Snln2lG
mills in Ballard, which have been
closed for the holidays, attempted to
operate again on July 7 with much
depleted crew of strike-breakers. Dur
ing the holidays the families of strlk'
; ers were visited by the mil owners
and an attempt was made to influence
, the wives of the strikers to persuade
their husbands to return to work. The
masters did not score.
, "Truth," the Socialist weekly pub
lished in Tacoma, has new name
It is now "The Socialist WORKER
} edited by Leslie Aller and managed
by Frank Krutsky.
The Lewis County Clarion" pub
} lished at Centralia and edited by our
"eyer-at-it" Comrade Stackhouse, is
calling loud and long for grand jury
to investigate crooked count OF votes
Keep at it. If you do not get a grand
Jury, you undoubtedly already have
some of the crok-screw politicians
scared white.
Another monster protest meeting
was held at Haledon, N. ]. This city
has a Socialist mayor, and the Pater
son silk strikers (attentiOn, you /. w
w. anti-politicals) not being allowed
to meet in Paterson, go to Haledon
upon invitation of the administration
Five thousand attended the meeting
which was called to protest against
i granting licenses by Paterson's mayor
to thugs and strike-breakers to carry
guns.
The police broke up Socialist
kstreet meeting at Fourth and Nicolle'
streets, Minneapolis, and arrested slN
comrades, including Socialist council
\ man Chas l. Johnson.
It having been widely advertised
that John Patterson of the model
National Cash Register Co, had given
$500 600 to the flood prevention FUND
4 for Dayton, Ohio, we now advertise
the fact that the following cuts have
been made in the wages Of that
i company: Cut from $40 to Sl23
from 81 % IN 50 so. from S2.SO &C