The Alaska citizen., 1917-07-16

who. although a Canadian subject, and who d. -uch should be doing all he possibly car to assist in the prosecution of the present
 War, k, from an l. W. ". point oi view, do- ing all he can against it. He would have been wise had he remained in Yukon Terri 1 tory; maybe the authorities there would have sent him back to Quebec among the remainder 1 oi the SaCkcrs
 This man and his three interncd asso- Ciatc, were responsible for the starting of a
 strike among the railroad employees at Ne mana. They did not start the strike through iany attempt to help labor; merely to iomcnt trouble among laboring men. And they have
 been handled precisely d. other |. W. WIS on the Outside are being handled, according to press dispatches received here In fact they were treated far more dcccntly than
 were their Outside brethren, who, in some instances, were handled roughly, while in the case of the Ncnana agitators each was given no more than his just deserts at the hands
 Of the federal officials.
 And the federal officials are to be highly commented for handling the situation. For after they placed their fingers on the puIs, | oI the movement, as guided by the four aliens who are now in official custody, it was but a short time until the situation was complete 1 iy under control For there is no laboring man, Iaboring for the benefit of himself and his fellow AIaskans, but who realizes that the halting of work on the interior end of
 the Alaska railroad would be nothing short oI a calamity. Consequently none of them are going ahead to organize d strike i'll the lace oI all authority; only foreigners who do not care how much trouble tlcy make men Who care nothing about the country and its future prospects, are doing that. And these nen--l! least two of the9l-beiong to an or oanilatio2 which has taken advantage c. war times to s'ert all kinds 3l trouble everywhere in the Unilcd States that all orcl ing 0, any kind has presented itself. And these open ings have been made in places where large numbers of laboring men are employed, most Iof them foreigners scarcely understanding the English language That is the kind of
 following the l. W. WIS are getting.
 Down in Jerome, Arizona strike insti- gated by l. w. WIS has been going on. The first dispatches told of the walking out of approximately one-third of the miners em- ployed there The next told of numbers ol those who walked out returning to work, and the last, printed in yesterday mornings issue of this paper, told how the citizens and miners of the district had combined them selves into a committee for the purpose of busting the siXty-seven l. W. W. agitators.
 There is no further word from that locality, but 1t Is supposed that the situation has quiet ed down with the driving out of the "I Won't Works"
 This dispatch is straight evidence of how the aboring men themselves are handling agi tators at Jerome In fact, 1t is to be pre- stunned that the ignorant foreign third of the miners was all that walked out in the first place And it is just as easy to presume that the committee which drove the agitators out o1 the Jerome camp was composed of the tWo-thirds of intelligent laboring men; men who, while belonging to a labor organization for the protection of their own rights, knew when they were we'll off and would let no agitator do their thinking for them.