The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-08-05

work their snaps and their sinecures would go aglimmering.
 But to get back to Wappy. In Seattle is an industrial war. That's juJt as real as any war in Europe. The employers know that, and they have their gunmen and thugs orga- nized for that purpose. The record of the men makes them desirable and the more infamous have been the records the better they are ap- proved.
 Take this man Wappenstein. In all Gods creation has there ever crawled a more loathsome leper? Living off the product of depravity in its most degrading and degraded forms, battening upon the offal of corruption that gangrened the civic flesh of Seattle during the term of his office, and to whom vice the more heinous it was, the more lusci- ous it tasted to this rapacious harpy what could be more natural than should now be chosen to assail the efforts of the ongshoremen to bet ter their conditsion? He is not like ly to be deterred by any inner mis- givings from any infamous acts. The man with a record like his, is not likely to be the one to stop at any criminal act after crime has been his partner and his profit all his life.
 And how about the men who use him? How about those high sound ing speakers who denounce and vili- fy and islander the workers because they have the audacity to demand their rights like men?
 Wappy is their tool and the tools appropriately enough in this in stance are to the men who use them. Judge. them therefore by their acts, and what are we to think of their social morality, they. who talk of so gibly of law and order, when they can ring in injunctions and thugs and criminals and ex-con- victs to suppress the lawful de- mands of the men who labor, to bet ter their condition?
 The Industrial Worker is with the longshoremen in this struggle. There is no question as to the right of their struggle. We see no reason why anyway, the transportation companies can impose what rates they will upon the people of this country who pay the freight and the workers can not impose what demands for wages they want from the transportation company just as arbitrarily. They do the work. It is not the coupon clipping bond hold CT that keeps Alaska supplied with freight. It is the dock workers, the sailors, the firemen and we only regret in this struggle that the long shoremen and sailors have not made common cause and the fight of one the fight of the other. That's the only way to win. That is the only thing that will remove the scabs and the gunmen and the Wappys from their position and make the jobs tolerable.
 There is no good valid reason why if capital can dictate terms under which the workers labor, labor should not organize and do the die tating instead. It would be better world if there were no dictating; if there were an industrial democracy administered by the active workers of brain and hand for the active workers of brain and hand. But just as long as there is an exploit ing and just as long as there is an exploited class, so long will there be persons who will dictate.
 That is why all workers have a common interest as workers, and that is why the fight of one and the victory or the injury of one is the concern of all. It means just as much to the sailors as the long, shoremen that the latter win their fight, and they should see that the latter are aided in no mistaken way and not with mere sympathy either.
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