The Commonwealth. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1911-1914, 1914-02-19
LOCAL ARLINGTON ADOPTS
RESOLUTIONS DEN0UNC-
ING FOUL PLOT.

At last the cloven foot is barred and
may be seen I'm all its utter nakedness.
At last the diabolical purposes of the
bourgeoise is unmistakabe. Even the
veriest tyro must understand this
latest move of the capitalist school au-
thorities of Arlington and Snohomish
county
During the late recall campaign, 1t
was loudly avered that the fight on
| j. Il. Sinclair was not a political one.
at is," they declared all over the dis
trict, merely a defense of the flag.
We are not fighting him because he
is Socialist, but because he is not
patriotic"
So insedulously did they insist upon
this position, so vehemently did they
urge it, that If it were possible even
some of the very elect were deceived.
Without that definition of their posi-
| tion they could never have come any
! where near carrying the recall cleo
ton.
But today they have suspended Mrs
Sinclair, another teacher in our city
schools, although she never wrote or
spoke in opposition to the flag in her
life.
Unable to find anything to attack
her upon touching her patriotism, they
oF Wi n
dread and infectious disease-pulmon-
airy consumption. 1t boots nothing
that the very appearance of the vic
tim of this outrageous charge bellies
! it, it boots nothing that their own
physician confesses that her appear
ance is against them. She is to be
educator destroyed because she is a
Socialist, but they dare not say So
Hence this trumped up shenanigan to
accomplish by indirection what they
dare not attempt directly. A capitalist
teacher in our schools, suffering from
throat trouble which forces her out of
school every winter is not suspended
or disciplined.
Already the air is redolent with un-
certainty. Already schemes are un-
mistakably brewing to force the early
retirement of Mrs. Hallberg. Already
there is certain evidence that the Nc
Kees are to be victimized at Trafton.
Thus all our Socialist teachers are
kept constantly under fire, while cap
italist teachers are petted and pro-
tected.
We call upon all good citizens to
consider our situation. Are we to
tamely submit to these indignities?
Are not Mrs. Coe and Carl Thomson
and DR.. Oliver, aided and abetted by
Mrs. Lizzie Jones, in a conspiracy to
bring politics into the administration
of the schools by driving their politi-
cal opponents out of all connection
with those schools and thus leave the
schools in the hands of their political
adherents? Must we tamely submit to
this?
We will not
We will fight this battle to the bit
ter end. We will endeavor to carry
the ensuing election, and whether we
will be as patient as human nature can
reasonably be. But we warn our ad-
Versaries that they are already using
the flush of their recent apparent vic
tory in an exceeding high-handed man.
ner Let them not carry it to the
breaking point.
In view of the appalling situation
which confronts us, we must cultivate
the most intense solidarity. 1t was
Mr.. Sinclair but yesterday, it is Mrs.
Sinclair today, and you or I may be
the victim tomorrow Therefore be it
RESOLVED, THAT WE WILL
STAND BY MRS. SINCLAIR IN
THIS, HER HOUR OF PERIL; AND
/ WE WILL MAKE IT A RALLYING
I POINT TO BRING OURSELVES
/ CLOSER TOGETHER IN A UNITED
EFFORT FOR MUTUAL PROTEC-
TION AND THE FASTENING OF
THE OVERTHROW OF THE BOUR-
GEOISE AND THE CAPITALIST
SYSTEM. FOR NO OTHER SYSTEM
WOULD TOLERATE SUCH DAMN
ABLE HYPOCRISY AND SUCH DIA-
BOLICAL PERSECUTION
RESOLVED FURTHER THAT WE
+ EXTEND TO MRS. SINCLAIR OUR
MOST HEARTFELT SYMPATHY
AND HEREBY PROFFER HER OUR
SUPPORT.
LOCAL ARLINGTON.
arlington, Wash.