The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-11-03

its affairs. and a referendum vote is
taken on all important questions. But
there is a handful of men in Everett
who are trying to rule the unions for
the fattening of their fortunes. These
men have headquarters in the Everett
Commercial Club, which they do rule,
and the morning Tribune seems to be
the mouthpiece of the union-haters.
The strike of the Single Weavers
threw hundreds out of work. Everett
business suffered because the Single
Weavers were trying to club the mill
operators into running the mills the
way the Single Weavers wanted
them run"
The Shingle Weavers have not tried
to club the mill men into compliance
with their demands. They ask only
what is reasonable-fair wages and
good working conditions. But here,
Mr.. Tribune, you are reminded that
the bunch you support, and which is
supporting you as long as the strike
lasts, are the fellows who are doing
the clubbing
THAT strike cost Everett thousands
of dollars. And it failed. The mills
are all running now open shop and
have plenty of men. But many of the
men are cooped up and on Sundays go
to Seattle to spend the cash that ought
to be spent in Everett"
That strike did cost Everett thou
sands of dollars, and instead Of trying
to settle the strike amicably and by
the rule of reason, the Single
Weavers were not given an oppor-
tunity to state their side of the case
therefore the mill owners are re-
sponsibe for the thousands of dollars
Everett has lost. They have sum-
marily brutality turned down a large
number of men who spent all their
money i'm Everett, many of them own
ing or building homes in Everett, for
gang of irresponsible strike-breakers,
who care nothing for Everett and
spend their money elsewhere. The
men who are "cooped up" may as well
be "c0oped up" on Sundays as on any
other days. Their individual liberties
viii not be interfered with, but as
matter of fact those scabs have no
Individual liberties. They have sur
rendered their rights-sold their birth
rights to the mill owners-for a mess
of pottage.
Then came the longshoremen's
strike. It lasted a long time It took
more thousands that should have
found their way into the tills of
Everett merchants. And it is settled,
in every port but Everett"
Every port but Everett has seen the
light, but there can be no light shed
by fairness and justice which the
lumber dealers of Everett do not try
to darken with their black tarpaulin
of greed. They do not care a damn
for the merchants.
In every port but Everett lumber
carriers can load and unload cargoes
'unhampered Here the little band of
longshoremen are doing their utmost
to embarrass lumber shipments. They
refuse to bow to the fact that their
efforts to dictate TO the umbermen
failed. They are whipped, and don't
know it,
/ Let us tell the Tribune that the
longshoremen are not whipped, and
you viii know it, and that you will
not tell the public when you are
whipped, but everybody shall know it.
. There will be somebody to tell it.
Up Kure, president pro TEN of the
Longshoremen Union, is quoted in
the evening paper as stating that the
Everett longshoremen will continue
their strike, will refuse TO work on
lumber steamers until the lumbermen
had agreed TO closed shop
"Kure admitted that the lumbermen
had agreed to pay the higher wage
for which the longsboremen struck.