Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1918-03-29
Let All Pull Together.

Will continue 10 wash all shores uuVll
the shorter day becomes universal.
Let All Pull Together.
How much better had it been had
the employers of this state needed the
proclamation of Governor Lister last
August and then and there placed
their industry on a peace basis and
enjoyed in the meantime the boun-
teous production of the working force
of a contented and vigorous body of
loggers and lumbermen. But why
quarrel about what might have been
rather is it better to join in the
spirit to which the West Coast Lum-
herman gives expression in these
words, which we hope is the spirit in
which all operators accept the new
order Of things:
"No matter what mistakes were
made in handling the labor situation
in the past, no matter what policies
were pursued that should not have
been pursued, no matter what our
ideas may be as to the truth or fall
lacy of a sectional eight-hour day
for the Pacific Northwest lumber in
dustry, no matter what kind of an
eight-hour day is to be established,
whether 1t calls for 10 hours pay for
eight hours work or hourly compen-
sation, the one great overpowering
and dominating fact is, that employees.
employers and the government are
now on common ground, and steady,
uninterrupted lumber production
during the months to come is now
assured, in fact guaranteed"
Labor should now see to 1t that
there is no failure on its part to get
on the job and render its full share
of loyalty and service to the state
and the nation; prove itself worthy
of the blessings of this improved in
dustrial condition.; prove that the
shorter workday is conservator of
bodily strength, mental alertness,
and Of life and limb in the numbering
industry, as 1t has so proved in all
other industries where 1t has been
given fair trial. All will then soon
forget the bitterness of the struggle
in the enjoyment Of the mutual good
that comes from the new order OF
things.
A Patriotic Duty.
Finally, let the workingmen who
are blessed with this shorter day use
it for social, mental and physical i'm
provement, and build themselves into
strong, reliable, constructive or
ganization under the banner of the
newly reorganized International
Union of Timberworkers. Let the
employers, too, recognize that there
must come responsible organization
of underwriters, with whom they
may collectively bargain as to labor
conditions. and thus secure Industrial
harmony and peace. To both sides
say this Is the highest patriotic duty
of the hour; to do otherwise will be
to leave the timber workers of the
state subject to the intrigues of the
I. w. w. organizers and the disor.
ganization and chaos that Is certai,
to come from that organization which
proclaims its purpose to be constant
industrial discord until the whole
fabric of our modern institution II
broken down. Not only does the I
w. w. organization harass industr!
by methods that no sane mind can ap
prove, but always and forever it Il
leading the victims of its wiles int
the shambles of defeat and disaster
no less here than in miserable Rus
STA, where its PHILOSOPHY" has lie,
to ruin the great Russian people
whose revolution Of January. 1917
placed them in reach of the freedom
Of which they had dreamed through
centuries of autocratic darkness, hat