The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-08-15
Montana Senator Wants At
tacks on Government
Made Impossible.
APPEALS TO LABOR
Union Support Should Be
Given Legislation, He
Declares.

Washington. Aug. 14.-tSpecialA-
1ion empowering the government to
suppress such ntteranccs as those
which Frank Little made before he
was lNnchcd in Butte was addressed
~ senator T. J. Walsh today to Sen
ator Henry r. Hollis. n Conspicuous
and consistent friend Of organized Ia
har.'
Senator Walsh declares that the T.
Nv. w. agitators are preaching n dan
a"fons gospel and fomenting n danger
ons uprising in Montana and other
northwestern states. Attacks upon tho
government are being made, he says
Vet the federal authorities arc unable
to take any action against the at
tackcrs.
Organized labor, the senator thinks.
Will GLADLY support legislation making
action possible, and he asks labor men
in congress 10 devise n remedy for the
situation. In his letter Senator Walsh
says:
Action Necessary.
4 am impressed with the necessity
t'i llllHt'tItalt actipH 10 ltII WIN inc
I. w. w. menace. and write to enlist
Your attention to the matter in the
hope that your very practical mind will
evolve a remedy and your energy Sc
cure the necessary legislation.
Doubtless in many instances just
grievances existed, and IT may even
he that in some reasonable complaint
WAS met by obstinate disregard or
fri@id Indifference. But the prccipita-
non Of T general state of war ut this
time between employers and employees
can proceed only from disloval hearts
and minds. IF the federal government
will not talk" hold of the evil and ruth
lesslv stamp ii out further deeds of
violence such as the lynchne of Little
nj Bntte and the doportations from
Arizona must DO expected.
Present Laws insufficient
ri appears that tho United States
attorney. IN able and n fearless pros
eeutor. and the local counsel for the
leading copper producing company of
Iutte agree that there is no statute
which will enable the federal author
iti"s to deal with the problem through
tho courts or even suppress such
trcasonalle agitation as II is asserted
and conceded Little was carving on
This is enite eonformahle TO the state
ment made To me when 7 took the mat
Ter M with the department of Justice
some sig wooks ago. The head of the
bureau az Investigation then told me
that there WIS all manner of proof of
activities such as those which brought
Little to his ignnminous end. bat that
legislation was necessary and that it
coUld rot ho secured by reason of the
opposition Of the labor unions. ! am
confident this can not he true. There
can be no sympathy among the rank
and file or the leaders of organized
labor with the trea sonahle course the
l. w. ". is pursuing, and it ought not
10 be past tn" craftsmanship of con-
gross To draft z law which would put
il ont Of business and ut the same time
he altogether unobi ectionable TO or
eanizea labor Indeed, I should imag-
inc that the great mass of laborers of
The country lovaI to the core would be
glad to indorsc any movement tho cf-
feet of which would be to diffcrentiate
them from professional rovolutionsts
and chronic disloyalists.
Preach Eternal War.
''They che I. w. W.) teach that
thr VaGr-rarncr and his employer
have nothing whatever in common
that th"rc is no community of inter
est between them, and that a state
r Of war Is their natural and eternal
relation: that tn" wage Garner must
never h" satisfied with anything he
gets. but should strike al all Oprortunc
times in order to secure whatever he
can cNtOrt from the employer; that
. fright" and wrong" are meaningless
terms in this strife. and that n fair
return on the capital invested" TO the
employer is joke: that the employc