The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-08-05
THE RETURN OF WAPPY.


 the road to do penance in the state purgatory of Walla Walla, one thought he had finally reached his careers ending in the public eye.
 Beginning as Pinkerton detec- tive, the man gradually, and natur- ally, evolved to the stage when as the ally of vice and viciousness he as chief of police assisted in plast- ering the city of Seattle with the most evil mess that ever stank in the mental nostrils of any person.
 The ally of the pimp, the sexual pervert, the white slayer, the macque the saloon thug, the beast and the bully, every one felt reliev- ed when this specimen of capital ist law and order despite the efforts of Old Man Blethen, landed where he belonged under the lock and kay of the state Warden.
 Sympathetic stories of his release from his prison pen on condition that he would not return to Seattle satisfied the people, who believed that this foul buzzard had had his wings clipped enough.
 But again he has returned, and this time is in charge of a gang probably as foul as himself, of gun men guarding the scabs on the Se- attle waterfront.
 No person will ever know the enormities of which this master gangster has been guilty when he was in charge of the Seattle police, but it eminently fitting that he should be chosen for his present calling to brow beat, bull doze and abuse the Seattle Longshoremen fighting for their rights.
 The companies which are now fighting the Seattle unionmen and denying them the increase demand ed are the very ones which have a strangle hold upon Alaska. When When they raise their rates they do not ask you as much as by your leave, but state that the rates will be so much and pay it you must. They can do that because they have strangle hold on the trade of the country, and because they know they have it. Notwithstanding the measure in which the rates have been increased, no such increase has been allowed the longshoremen of Seattle-men who follow a pe- culiarly strenuous labor which only the very strongest can stand for any length of time.
 When the editor of the P.-I. de- clared that the demands of the longshoremen were excessive, the editor of the Pacific Longshoremen submitted a test and offered to pay the wise writer in the Seattle pa per $50 if he would last out shift of nine hours packing wheat in the hold of a ship at the Centennial Mills dock.
 For that work the longshoremen demand a $1.00 an hour over time. The men go in the hold. Sacks weighing either 150 or 230 pounds are sent down to table by means of a chute fed from an electric con veyor The run of sacks upon the table never ceases; the longshore men grab it on their shoulder and stow the sacks oftener than not on the dead run until winging out circumscribes the space. Only the youngest, strongest and most vigor- ous can stand it. The men strip to their underwear and even at that are sweating through the coating of chafing dust that tries their nerves, just as much as the con- stant weight.
 It is needless to say that the edi- tor of the Post Intelligencer could not tackle the work, and mighty few of the fighting men on his staff would stand the graft for any length of time.
 It is entertaining to hear those soft paunched flabby handed sons of ease who adorn the Seattle Cham Der of Commerce denounce the idea that the longshoremen be paid req sonable wages or maintain their or ganization by unionization of the job. Not one of those members