The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-06-28
A FEW HINTS TO
THE PRESS GANG
Canadian Labor Paper Puts Bug in
the Ear of Canadian
COnscriptionists

A word to the wise should be suf-
ficient. In many cases, however,
it is not. In such cases the school
of experience must supply the de-
ficiency. That noisy galaxy of poll
ticians, mayors, officeholders, law
yers, doctors, preachers, boards of
trades, chambers of commerce, old
men, the lame the halt the blind,
| hysterical women and editorial wo-
men of the wrong sex, the most of
whom are either exempt from mill
tary service because of their physi-
cal or mental frailties or expect to
be able to dodge it because of their
pull" that are so vociferously de-
handing that the last browning in
fanny of slavery shall again be fas-
tened upon people already too
heavily yoked, might as we'll be
riven tip. They should not,
in their hysterical frenzy, allow
themselves to be deluded with the
idea that the organized workers of
this province and Dominion consider
them as anything other than a
transparent joke. In spite of all
the bombast and noisy piffle of these
valiant conscriptionists the workers
are alive to the fact that factories
are not run; mines are not operated;
ships are not built; railways and
ships are not operated; even street
cars are not run, by bombast and
piffle. Knowing these facts the
organized workers are not being car
ried off their feet over this ques-
ton of the resurrection of the "press
gang" If the INSCRIPTIONS poll
tlclans at Ottawa, under the en-
coai fragment afforded by the afcre-
said noisily boosting element, see fit
to arbitrarily repudiate democracy
and usurp the authority to force
Canadian people to accept the yoke
of enforced military servitude that
has already thrown the world into
the greatest blood debauchery Of his
tory, it will be the plain duty not
Only Of organized labor, but of all
who believe in democracy and liberty,
to express, their disapproval of such
attempt to reinstate the tyranny and
despotism of the past, by all means
within theft power.
Some Impossibilities
Industries cannot be run by pa
triotic noise. Something besides
lawyers, politicians, penny-a-liners
and other speechifying would-be Gel
ebrites, is required to load ship or
saw log Mines cannot yet be
operated by woman labor, though
that may be brought about in time,
if all the schemes of capitalist pa
triots are brought to their full
fruition. Shipbuilding would be a
slow process if left to the activity
of board of trade members, sky pi-
lots, sugar lords and city mayors.
Even the addition of real estate
peddlers, commission men, bankers
and other pawnbrokers, to the work
ing force would not appreciably ex-
pedite the process.
If the energy of all these mouth
laborers of capitalism could be turn
ed into productive channels making
high explosives for real Christian
war use, the "Huns" would soon be
blown off the map. But the mines
give up no coal, no matter how
great the noise
A CONSUMPTION to Be Approved
No workingman can reasonably be
opposed to CONSUMPTION, if it be
intelligently turned in the right di-
rection. For instance, what work
ipgman could have any valid ground
for Directing to the CONSUMPTION of
every lawyer, doctor, preacher, bank
er broker, real estate peddlar, in
surance agent, debt collector, all city
officials except the street sweepers,
and all that gang of loafers that do
nothing but eat, drink and wear, out
of the profits that are wrung from
the unpaid sweat OF the slaves of
modern industry This gang in
cludes the big owners and exploiters,
the lesser ones and a fine aggrega-
tion of spawn and hanger-on all the
way down to the common pimp.