The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-07-05
SMASH KAISERlSbI HERE AS WELL
AS in KAISER BILLS DOMAIN
Veteran Organizer for American Labor Tells
Aberdeen Convention Delegates What to Do With Huns
Home
"To Whom 1t May Concern;

81, as mayor of Priest River, be-
lieve it not to the best interest
of the country to allow the form
| ing of organizations to interfere
with the Loyal Legion of Loggers
and Lumbermen, therefore | refuse
w. D. Clarke, the privilege of organ
izing in the village of Priest River.
(Signed) C W. Herr, Mayor"
He quoted a conversation between
a member of the timberworkers' un-
ion in Raymond and a Capt. J. D.
Cope of the signal corps, wherein
the caption had attempted to per-
suade the unionist to give up his
union affiliations, declaring their
records were being kept and member
ship in union would count against
workers when the day comes that
the government recognizes the serv-
ices of Loyal Legion members"
AS a result of personal representa-
tions made to Col. Disque by Mr..
Young and President Clare Covert
of the international Union of Tim
berworkers, an order was issued
which read:
Told of Right
"AdviSe officers of the Loyal
Legion in the field they have no
authority to break up meetings
which are not directly Loyal Legion
meetings as such.
"Also advise them to notify mem
bers of the Loyal Legion that this
office does not approve of creating
any other organization for the pur-
pose of looking after the interests
of the laboringmen during the war,
and wherever members of the Loyal
Legion decide to organize themselves
into any other club or association
with a view to protect their inter-
eSts as laboringmen that this office
will withdraw all association in con-
nection with that local, it being i'm
possible that two organizations can
exist and accomplish the same re-
suits. (Signed) C. P. Stearns, Maj
or, Signal Corps, Adjutnat; by H.
T. Hanover, First Lieutenant, Sig.
R. c., A. S."
The speaker also said Colonel Dis
que had attempted to establish
maximum wage, a thing that had
never succeeded and could never sue
ceed and hat had driven hundreds
of skilled men out of the woods into
the shipyards.
Go On Organizing
When he had communicated these
facts to Frank Morrison, secretary
treasurer of the American Federation
of Labor, he had received the order,
"Regardless of what Colonel Dis
que says, or what anyone says, go
on organizing"
The refusal of the telegraph com
panies to recognize the award of
the war labor board and the vital
principle at stake in the right to
organize was then thoroughly dis
cussed by the speaker, as was also
the case of the striking papermak-
ers at Camas, WASH, and Oregon
City, Ore.
All through his talk Mr.. Young
Who was one of the first to make
lnequivocal declaration for support
pf cur country in its war aims and
Who aided on organizing several
ranches of the American Alliance
or Labor and Democracy, showed
The greatest emotion and impressed
he delegates with the terrible earn
stness of the message he was de-
'iaring to them of the possible sue
,ess of unscrupulous employers in
!sing the power of the United States
government to prevent the organiza-
ION of the workers, in defiance of
he declaration Of the President of
he United States that the right to
organize and bargain collectively
vas sacred.
At the close there was continued
applause, and the convention will
undoubtedly take action to severely
condemn Colonel Disque and his un-
lerlings.