Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1918-03-22

matters that have been submitted to
its Cancellation department., nearly
ALI have been successfully settled
with great advancements to labor.
"Also the department has taken
the position that it is correct prin-
ciple to recognize the right OF collect
i've bargaining, and that as a result
of this labor has been tremendously
strengthened. The men are accept
ing this position of the Labor De-
partment, and so are the employers
for the most part, and ! am sure that
we are now to enjoy a new era OF
good feeling in all our war indus
tries.
Collective Bargaining Recognized.
Gin this speaking tour we were not
to touch upon the question of the
closed shop versus the open shop, yet
union recognition to the point of &C
tual collective bargaining is some
thing that the government insists
upon as a necessary corollary to in
dustrial peace and efficient produc-
ton. When in the history of the
world did any government go farther
than this to advance the interests
and rights of the workingman? You
may be sure that the workers appre-
ciate this and that they are going to
give every ounce Of devotion and en-
ergy there is in their hearts and
bodies to provide loyal support to
government that means so much for
the best interests of labor.
Chow different under the autoc-
racy of Germany, where the linden
berg bayonet prods starved and bur-
dened labor back to its tasks in sup
port of kaiserism and all the repres-
sion and despotism that typifies that
tyranny!
'It is plainly noticeable, too, that
in those plants where there is the
closest relationship between the man.
agement and the organizations of the
men, there you find the plants secur-
ing the cream of the skilled men of
the country and the work going for
ward free from industrial disputes.
1t is all the same-working or fight
ing-for such democracy, and
where such conditions prevail
there is never any need to question
the loyalty of the men, the quality of
their service, or the spirit in which
they work.
"Such country, with such condi-
tions and such standards, is worth a
life time of devotion from any man,
and this devotion is being given with
out stint or reserve by every true
American workingman-native born
or naturalized-who has any real
conception of his duties, rights and
opportunities; and found few in
deed who have not this realization.
Cleaning Out the Slackers.
Occasionally slackers and enc
mics have been found, and always
these have been doing incalculable
harm. But the strong arm of the
government, aided by the loyal work.
men. will soon ferret out all of this
element and place them where they
will do no further harm.
81 was glad to note that the unions
in San Francisco were preferring
Charges against every member who
was heard to utter disloyal senti-
ments, and where found guilty these
men were being expelled. During
my stay there, three members of the
Musicians union were shot one af-
ternoon by an alien enemy that the
union had expelled for disloyalty.
That deed, however, only acted as a
stimulus to other unions to speed up
the cleaning out process. Now, If
some one among the non-union ele-
ments of the country will only do as
much in the way of cleaning out the
traitors among the non-unionists, We
will soon have the country rid of this
gentry.
The National Capital in War Times.
"The situation at the capital in
these days of national stress is won
derfully interesting. The city is so
full Of people that it is exceedingly
difficult to get the most meager hotel
accommodations. Reservation had
been made for me in advance at the
old National hotel, a hotel that is ad-
vertised as having been made famous
as the death place of Henry Clay. I
remembered, however. that history
records that Henry Clay lived to a
ripe old age, so decided to take