The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-09-08
HARTLEY IS A
DANGEROUS man
Bellingham Stand-Pat Paper Has
No Use for Our
Kurnel"


Bellingham Sentinel a REPUBLICAN
newspaper. Col. Hartley is running
on the REPUBLICAN ticket. Some
harmony:
Col. Hartley is making an unique
campaign since he has confined his
gubernatorial aspirations to the task
of enjoining union men from demand
ing justice at the hands of their en-
ployers. He asks these pertinent
questions:
do you believe that any man
should be denied opportunity to work
and earn a living unless he joins a
labo runion?"
Col. Hartley, do you believe it is
right for you to enrich yourself at the
expense of the laborer and his family
by asking him to work for starvation
wages? If you are so desirous for the
welfare of ALL men, why do you not
make it possible in your mills for a
man to make an honest living without
being half slave? Would you work for
the same wages and undertake the
rearing of a family? Again the colonel
asks:
| do you believe in labor trust that
dogmatically says who shall work and
who shall not work."
And you are practicing the very
thing you are condemning. You do
not grant organized labor an oppor-
tunity to better it's condition, but pull
your purse strings tighter and force
men into slavery equal to that of the
black man before the civil war. You
are not consistent by your own argu-
ment, and if you would disfranchise
! one army of workers and favor an
other bunch, why would you not, if you
had it in your power, disfranchise the
entire state of labor's product and la
boris right to exist? Again he asks;
"Do you subscribe to the un-Ameri-
can doctrine of the boycott?"
Didn't this government rebel against
the boycott of the South when it re-
fused to acknowledge an American
and declare that all men were free?
And didn't Abraham Lincoln declare
that labor was the first product of
earth? Without it what would you be
doing today? Where would your CAPT
tai be, and what of your boasted lib
erty of men who are not allowed to
protect their rights? You have boy
cotted union labor. Haven't you sub
scribed to the "un-American doctrine?
Are you a sympathizer of nationwide
boycott? If not, what are you going
to do with the German boycott of
American manufacturers? Again
do you indorse the intimidating
methods of picketing which would
crush legitimate industry and force
idleness upon men eager to work?"
Do you indorse the method of intim-
idating men by telling them if so and
your plants? Do you indorse hiring
spies to watch what your men buy and
eat, and have them report to you in
order that you can place valuation on
their modes of living instead of their
efficiency? Do you indorse the ideas
of living in luxury to the detriment of
the men who make your bread and
| butter, mad stack up your gold that
you may be better equipped to fight
them into state of subsection? If
that is your idea it is better you study
up on Americanism and leave the ad-
ministration of this state in the hands
of a man who is wholly American and
believes in the full extent of the con-
stitution and Declaration of Inde-
pendence. Listen to what he further
says:
"If you do not believe in these
things-if you believe in the fair and
square deal and see the menace of this
labor trust and would put an end to
it-go to the polls on primary day and
vote for Roland H. Hartley for gov
ernor,"
Mr. Hartley if you believe in a
fair and square deal' then you will
! have to admit that all men are created
= equal and entitled to life, liberty and
/ the pursuit of happiness. And no man
5 can enjoy either when he is bound and
= fettered with the chains of slavery
4 labor's slavery. At the crack of the
whip these slaves of misfortune are
a