The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-12-27
Concluded From Last Week.

Inc Gentlemen OF Jne w dSIlIIS-
ton Hospital Association remind me
of the man who appropriated unto
himself a pair of boots and as he
was slipping out of the store he was
detected by the proprietor and had
to take to his heels. AS he was
being pursued by the owner who
kept shouting Thief; catch the
thief" in order to throw off sus-
picion and the possibility of being
captured the man with the boots
also began to cry at the top of his
voice, "Thief, stop the thief" so as
to confuse the minds of the pedes-
trians and thus accomplish his get
away.
You too are attempting to escape
from these indictments by simply
shouting that they are False" and
by innuendo infer that the Members
of the Medical Board are malinger-
ing on the State fund-but you can
not make it stick. In your desper
alton to preserve your business
standing you found it not only con-
venient but absolutely necessary to
creep up to the King County Medi-
cal Association for refuge. BY re-
sorting to this extremity you hope
to cajole the workmen into believing
that YOU and the Industrial Service
Bureau of the King County Medical
Association control 500 out of the
600 medical contracts in Seattle and
vicinity. But in order to offset
your strategical aim l deem it nee
essary 10 make known to the work
men Of this State what an insignifi-
car part you play in this sacrificial
annexation scheme. During the last
fourteen months the Washington
Hospital Association submitted to
the State Medical Board for approval
just 112 contracts covering the whole
State of Washington, and there were
quite a number Of these cancelled
for reasons that will be explained
later (if necessarily
now take for analysis your next
boastful statement wherein you say:
"Whenever the Hospital Associa-
tion does not receive enough cash
from it's contract collections to pay
its bills, Mr.. V. F. Pavey of the
Hospital Association personally sup
plies money to cover the shortage
so that the doctors who render serv-
ice to the Washington Hospital AS
sociation, invariably receive 100 per
cent of their earnings for profess
sioral services rendered"
The above might be a good argu-
ment from a philantropist's stand
point, but it is certainly not applic-
able in your case, Mr.. Pavey. You
will find it very difficult to convince
the public generally that you arc
running philanthropical institu-
tion instead of purely commercial
association.
You also boast
Moreover no doctor will be found
who can justly say that the Wash
ington Hospital Association has not
paid 100 per cent of it's full obliga-
tions since February l, 1918"
In answering this defiant assertion
permit me to inform you that | have
in my files number of complaints
from physicians, who have rendered
your Association medical service,
wherein they positively aver that
you have eXacted from them the
maximum of service for the mini
mum of pay; and in as much as you
defy me to produce even one single
complaint wherein you have failed
to meet your FULL OBLIGA-
TIONS," l propose to accept this
challenge and unqualifidly disprove
this statement.
AS recently as November 18th,
1918, a complaint was registered
with the Secretary of the State Med
ical Board by a physician who was
not paid in full for professional SER
vices rendered your Association. The
complaint is as follows:
Dear Sir:
"ln August, 1917, l amputated
three fingers for patient Mr..
......-......-................... who was work
ing at the......................
Plant of...........................? Wash
ington. For the amputation of the
three fingers and sewing wound on