The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1917-07-23

ne flare OF match, and fearful would be
the result!
Thousands of men are on strike. Thou
sands more are on the verge of going out.
And all this with our nation at grips with
foreign foe in a war TO death!
Unless the lumber mills and the logging camps and
tho sawmills OF the Northwest kept busy Americas
great shpbuldng program, upon which the nation and
its allies arc pnnng their faith, is endangered Gen
Goethas has given public warning OF this fact.
And unless the workers obtain adequate transpor
taton the wheels OF necessary industry slowed up
at time when they should be the speediest.
TT is monstrous and hdeous s,uatona crime against
i country.
AND WHY?
Because. even in this day and age when the whole
world is offering its blood in order make democracy
secure there arc small-souled controlled by the
greed Of gold the avarce OF the slave master who
automatically deny the fundamental night OF eight
hour day and the right Of workers organize
The eight-hour day undoubtedly has the
ton OF society in its favor and should be adopted
basis for wages"
SO declared the commander-in-chief OF our army and
navy our leader in this the hour OF our great national
Let the lumber" barons charge Presiden, Wilson
with being |. w. W.
Refusing recognize tho eighhour day. they ignore
labor union who arc themselves opposed to the l.
w. W. and refuse with them. Thcy~rasc a
Jackpot, Of $4,000 in order tha, they may continue
suduggery their selishncss. their greed their dollar
souls with the cry OF IL. w w"
TT is time these SNUG gentlemen, and the kept"
papers who attempting confuse the issue of the
eighho day and the right of to organize, took
tumble themselves.
They are keeping up with the march of affairs.
which, during this war. has moved with the tumbling
rapid,y OF a turbulent river.
Everywhere in the world of late. broader spirit of
humanity has been developing.
But lc i'm he n Of free
and the home OF the brave expoiter OF labor combine
resist the inevitable eighthour day Still seeing things
thru the smoked glasses OF yorc they point
the prospect of millondolar contracts be lost and
prattle about patriotism.
Unemployment with the country war; is dis
loyalty" saws editorial in the issue OF Col
ler's Weekly. AND BAD EMPLOYMENT COMES
CLOSE TO TREASON"
NIEARLY 1900 mill workers bona iidc residents OF
IN Seattle OF them living in Ballard. members OF
unions which have connection sympathy with the
/. W. w. paraded in Seattle Saturday cvening-and
their demand is the eighthour day. There is
other of difference between them and the mill
matter how corrupty the publicity bought with the
half million Jackpot may twist the facts
And matter how Alton w Leonard president OF
tho traction company and his bosses from Boston. may
squrm and dodge and hedge the between them
and the carmen is the American right OF the men to
organize That the issue when President Leonard
fired the first committee of who presented their
demands TO him. and that is the issue today.
The traction companys advertisement that IT is will
ing let the organize but that they join
the Amalgamatcd Association of Street and Electric
Railway Employees of America. is not going to fool any
1t is the subterfuge which the company seizng
upon for the 1t is willing to let them organize,
it proclaims. except in the only national union which
have.
NERO. the auocrat. the slave master the eXpoiter
~ of men. fiddlcd while Rome burned.
And today we have modern Ncros in Seattle, tho
world conagration RACES and the national peril grows
daily.
The "batriotic" lumber men say they 70iH
never grant an eight-hoW dAy-they. Uho
are today flooded q0Hh more business and
more brotn than they haze had in any num-
Der Of years.
The patriotic Mr. Leonard has issued an
ulfiuatum that he qCiH neVer consider rec0g-
mtion Of the garments rights TO affiliate aOiM
the only union that means anything to them.
50 BE TT. AND LET THERE BE NO MIS-
UNDERSTANDING. AT THEIR DOOR PUT THE
BLAME FOR WHAT SEATTLE HAS SUFFERED
UP TO NOW AND UPON THEIR HEADS BE
THE RESPONSIBILITY OF WHATEVER THE FU
TURE HOLDS.