The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-12-07
EVERETT BOSSES
THROW OUT BONES
TO WORKERS
Wage Slaves Hope Relations viii
Continue as That of Master
and Slave

Gov. d. NJ. Clough, after disposing
Of the matter of The Northwest
Worker, decided that he would quell
the rising Righteousness of his strike
breakers by throwing them few
more bones from his table. SO he post
ed up a notice outside his mill to the
effect that on December | upright
sawyers would get raise of 1 cent
per thousand and packers Il a cent
per thousand. In doing this the honor
able gentleman CD makes the state
ment that he is doing it because of
the "kindly feeling that exists be
tween our present employees and our
companies and because they ought to
have little more of that prosperity
that is talked of so much.
After this munificent gift the
Single mill slaves were expected to
do some praising and 10! and behold,
they did. The boys" got together and
drew up CD the following letter
which was duly received by Gov. d.
NJ. Clough:
ITO d. NJ. Clough, Manager of
Clough-Hartley Single Co.:
Dear Sir-We, the undersigned
employees of the Clough- Hartley
Single Co.. wish to express our ap-
probation for the voluntary advance
in wages on your part, unsolicited on
our part, and may our future rea-
tons be as just and prosperous as our
past since we have been in your en-
ploy.
Wishing you and your associates a
merry Christmas and happy, pros
porous new year, we remain,
Sincerely yours"
The letter is supposed to have been
signed by &c of the strike breakers.
You will note how they almost fell
about one another's necks in express
ing appreciation of such a kindly and
benevolent act. We think that the
next move to make is for the Everett
Commercial Club to write to Car
ncgie in an endeavor to get Clough an
hero" medal Such noble acts should
not be overlooked by such a prominent
body of citizens.
But listen! The governor can hand
out molasses as well as the other fell
low, and so in reply to his first letter
to himself he writes a second, appar-
emily to his slaves in the bull pen, but
mostly for the benefit of the deer
peepul" at large. The valuable" doc
ument follows:
"Gentlemen-Your letter of appre-
cation for our voluntary increase of
wages, unsolicited by yourselves, was
just handed me by our superintend-
ent, Mayor Jones.
"You cannot imagine how pleased
| was to receive this. 1t is always a
great pleasure to give, but especially
to those who thoroughly appreciate
what has been given. OF course, this
was not donation on our part; con-
sidered you justly earned it.
There is no flattery in what | say,
but you &C gentlemen who have signed
this letter are certainly as good work
men as ever were in our employ, and
you have certainly been good, honest,
true-blue gentlemen from first to
last.
again | want to thank you for
your appreciation, and wishing you
all and your families a merry Christ
mas and happy new year, | am
"Sincerely your friend,
"D. M. CLOUGH."
Now the "gentlefen" to whom this
letted was addressed must have felt
highly flattered. But again we know
that they were not. Some of the "gen-
tlemen" whose names appeared as
signatures did not know of such let
ter until it was printed in the capital
list rags of Everett Ont of these days
Clough will hit them with a brick,
unsolicited" and then the slaves will
Voluntarily" step forward for some
more.
The striking single weavers went
out on the first of May for an in
crease in wages of Approximately 4
cents per thousand. This wage had
been promised them a year before as
soon as prices Of shingles increased.
Put the price went up and the bosses
refused to keep their word, so the
men called a strike. Prices of shingles
have continued to rise and today are
SOC a thousand higher than on May 1,
yet Clough comes through to his
scab7 with a measly ~ cents.
All kinds of committees have in
toryiewed the mill owners but they
have refused to accede to the demands
Of the men which, even if they were
not reasonable on the first of May,
lhey certainly must be now since