The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-08-25
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of the state and that the function of
breaking organized strikes should be
astate function, the private strike
breaking agent passing to the realm
of defunct functionaries.
The Cargo mill is ostensibly en-
gagged in trying to cut shingles. 1t is |
in reality a strategic position pro-
vided for the reception of thugs, who
do not pretend to be weavers, or
workers of any sort, but confess their
mission is to discourage and intimi-
date the strikers, the intensely prac-
tical employers taking pains to attach
such deep loyalty to the new freedom
and the better understanding of Cap
ital and Labor movement by the ten
der of an honorarium of $40 weekly,
with board and room in their delight
| full summer sea cottage, also charged
on the Don't shoot overhead" ex-
pense. Employers generally have no
illusions about the Golden Rule nor
effusive Establishments to cajOle
critics of their policy. Business is an
unsentimental thing; it's purpose
profit. Business does not hate the
unionist nor love the submissive slave.
Business is too cold and calculating
to love or hate. Its purpose is profit.
It's policy is control of the law and
the forces that purvey or execute the
law, which secured, it leaves to its
adversary the winding channels of
protest.
The picket line being beaten up,
prophetic derivation was not required
to reach the conclusion that shingle
weavers would present themselves in
greater force on the ground from
which they had been driven. On prac-
tically the same spot the suspended
action was resumed at o'clock of
the same day. AS before the Cargo
mill thugs, hired not as workers but
as fighters, advanced to receive the
brunt of the onset. Their efforts
lacked their former success; they
were being hand-mucked properly,
; when the police who had let these
very men beat up the small picket line
began to arrest, Jail and shoot, and
did shoot striker in the hip.
Such actions had no element of sur
prise for men who had before ex-
| perienced the experiences of the police
in serving the policy laid down for
them by the higher ups. They had
, seen bastions erected on the mills,
, apertures through which rifle muzzles
, might be pointed to dominate the
J public roadway. They remembered
: the glory which the Tribune had last
year played upon Laird, his claim to
eternal generation being, according to
J that paper, that Laird could beat a
, dozen ordinary men with his fists.
: They remembered various attempts of
Laird, as witnessed by the police, to
run down strikers with an auto, in
the course of his drunken Joy rides
the solcitude of the police to relieve
along the dock. They remembered
them of all means of defense, while
men important for no other purpose
than violence reveled in a collection
remembered! and so they made no
doubt, when a shot was heard, of
upon what side man was hit.
1t is certain that employers deplore
violence, Jews deplore usury and
rulers deplore war. Why ten men in
blood soaked Europe make cant of
deploring the war they have the
power to stop and yet each says to the
names of all the countless dead:
shake not thy CORY locks at me!
Thou canst not say l did it." Gov.
Clough and Mr.. Jamison can by word
restore the industrial peace in Everett
under which for many years they
prospered while labor smiled. They
can have agreements providing for
scale adjustments to meet such de-
plorable market conditions as those of
last summer, should they ever again
arise. All that fairness could dictate
Labor would anxiously offer were the
concession made by the other side
that Labor, too, has her place in the
sun.
The owners of the struck plants, in
common with manufacturers all over
the cedar country, have undertaken
an expensive campaign of advertising
in the largest of eastern mediums
The advertising features expertly
made shingles and that advertising,
to be profitable, must be truthful.
Right grade shingles cannot be made
by an inferior crew, nor even by a