The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-02-19
In the
Editors Mail

lsity in order that our vast re-
sources could be brought together,
Of the many organisation called on
Ito lend its moral-financial, age its
every member was the Organized
Labor Movement as represented in
and a part of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor.
The American Federation OF
Labor, thru its affiliated organi-
cation has Loyalty supported our
government in all of Its moves Of
the war. One of fair mind and
Q lover of justice has but to see
| the numbers Of our workers fight
| ing, preparing to, or willing when
the time comes, to give their very
lives, or the way that we In pro-
portion to our resources, sub
scribed to the two issues of the
Liberty bonds, the war savings
stamps, far greater In proportion
to the mouthly patriots. who In
their lust for money, have gone
thru rivers of blood in order that
their greed might be satisfied; and
on the other hand have left no
stone 1nturned, no avenue open,
and with the subsidized press in
their control, have sought to dis
credit and to keep under foot, the
workers who would be SO migrate
full as to ask for a just wage for
their labors, and when they do, to
loudly proclaim that they are pro-
German and against the govern
ment, while they 60 on washing
their hands in the best blood of
the land and frantically wave the
flag lest they be discovered in
their hypocrisy.
In Tacoma we have $1,000 Or
ganized workers now and coming
into our organizations at the rate
of 500 a month and out of this
number of men and women, it
would be strange indeed, IL there
we're not traitors. The organized
workers in this city are loyal and
have been with and for our gov
eminent since the war began; and
its officers and members as q
whole, have gone all the way in
aiding and assisting in every way
possible our president. No place
in the land, with the membership
of ours has done any more, or will
yet do more than the workers Of
our fair city; but 1t is of the
traitors, the pacifists, the pro-ev-
|erything that we wish to tell all,
that we disown them and will spew
them out as a thing unclean and
unfit to sit in the councils of 10y
al workers. In our city there ex-
lists the deadly vipers, the hidden
traitors with their unseen hands,
with desires for that which we
seek to rid the world Of, leading
the poor weaklings by false and
specious reasoning into believing
that their purpose is honest. We
wish, as body, to warn them that
we will not have them IN our box
no matter what reason they may
have, because there can be no
reason which can excuse their
action. Everything done to him
der in any way, but prolongs the
war, and makes Of them murder
ers, because our brothers, our
fathers, our sisters, and our own
lives are at stake, and loyal Or
ganized workers of this city are
with our president and our coun-
TRY to the end, no matter by whom
Tor what caused the war.
Trusting all will appreciate the
loyalty of our workers, and again
warning our workers to keep
away from anybody or anything
which would prolong for one in
slant the terrible slaughter, I am.
respectfully yours in Unionism and
true Democracy,
JOSEPH H. LYONS,
Secretary Central Labor Council.
We. the Board Of Business Rep
|resentatives, In regular session.
endorse and approve the above.
land recommend that any member
of organized labor who will know
ingly attend a meeting or become
la member of any party by what
ever name, that In any way seeks
to obstruct or hinder the carrying
out of thep urposes of our presi-
dent, and this applies to any So
called peace party, and that they,
lie a delegate to our Councils, be
Iunseated and that all Local
Unions be asked to take their
Union card from them. and fur
Their. forever disown them as I'M
worthy Of the company OF loyal
men for they are traitors and
lmurderers in name and in fact.