The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-08-24
KELLY AND MCRAE DEFEND STRIKE
BREAKERS AND GUNNER IN EVERETT
City and County Police Force Used to Help Beat
Up Striking Shingeweavers and Give
Gunner Plenty of Freedom

Once again King Kelly has demon
strated the fact to the citizens of Ev-
erett that he is the High Mogul in
this neck of the woods. The "King"
is spending more than thousand dol
lars month of Everett taxpayers
money in order to keep specials" to
protect the interests of the mill own
ers. This fact was demonstrated
when some rs strike breakers attack
edNthe picket line of 10 union single
weavers at the Cargo mill last Satur-
day morning and the police stood by
and laughed and seemed tickled to
death to see the pickets get licking.
We were always under the impress
sion that the police force were to be
used for the keeping of law and order
but we are fully convinced now, that
the police force, in Everett anyhow,
is for the protection of capitalist
property, human or concrete. The
human property (scabs) on that
memorable morning needed no protec-
ton as they were to l, but in the
evening when some $50 unionists and
sympathizers were on hand to give
the scabs drubbing the police butted
in with their guns and protected the
scabs and gunner.
If there ever was a tool of the cap
italists, Kelly is that one His utter
contempt for man in overalls, the
men that elected him, has been shown
on dozens of occasions and the older
he gets the worse he seems to get.
In the council chamber the other day
he stated that he was not going to
let ''roughnecks run the city" and yet
at the same time he is giving the free
dom of the city to imported gunner,
who are being paid $40 week to be
ready to start trouble. These men,
and there were four of them here last
Saturday, are being paid by Jameson
and it was one of these that told the
scabs, while at breakfast that morn
ing, that they were going to clean up
the picket line. One man, the night
Waterman, at once said that he wasn't
hired to do any fighting and quit on
the spot. But this did not deter the
gunner and the scabs from sallying
forth to "clean up the picket line"
1t apparently had been all arranged
for no sooner had Jamieson's scabs
appeared on the scene than the scabs
from the C. B. mill appeared behind
the pickets and thus the pickets were
hemmed in between two lines of scabs.
And then the battle began. With a
cry of Get Mills! Get Began! Get
BARRETT" they rushed onto that little
band of pickets and kicked and punch
ed and dubbed until the pickets were
forced to run. And the police stood
by and laughed and sneered. And the
gunner got union officials, Mills, b.
gan and Barrett.
IHe CdpiCdIIoI pieoo VI Ihc SiIy 10
putting different aspect on this case
by making the citizens believe that
the pickets started the fray. In do
ing this they make good case for
the Endorsement of the "anti-picket-
ing" bill that is to be referred to the
voters this fall. 1t makes a good case
for the plutocratic capitalists, and as
it is the policy of the capitalist press
to take the side of big business, it
isn't at all out of place for the press
to make the case against labor as
black as possible.
The single weavers were winning.
Every man on the picket line has been