Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1918-02-22
TELL SPOKANE TO CLEAN
THE UP I. w. w. MENACE

Moscow Star Mirror publishes the
following set of resolutions recently
formulated and adopted by the La
tab County Protective League:
eve, the members of the Latah
County Protective association, in con
tention assembled. declare our be-
neI in the right of honest and legit-
innate labor to organize for the pur-
pose of bettering its condition in the
matter of wages, hours of work, and
sanitation. But we condemn the or
ganization known as the Industrial
Workers Of the World for it's vicious
and unlawful intimid 4tion by threats
of violence, terrorism, and sabotage,
having practically blocked the
wheels of industry in Latah county,
and
Whereas, That their threats to
prevent the. harvest of crops from
our gardens. orchards and fields last
year were the real reasons for or
ganizing the Latah County Protec-
tive association, and
Whereas, During the years of
1915 and 1916, more than 40 thresh :
ing outfits were destroyed by fire in
the Inland Empire, together with
HuiuGTouS 1dISt duu NdiuiDlC otSsChS
of wheat and many fields of grain;
while during the 1917 season not a
single field of grain was lost. and
Whereas, We believe that the prompt
action of the Latah County Protec-
tive association. and like prompt ac-
tion on the part of similar organi-
zations in the adjoining counties, Is
the true reason for the marked diff
ference between the unprecedented
losses of 1856, and no loss at ali
in the year 1917. ana
Whereas. The city of Spokane has,
in the past, allowed members of the
l. w. w. to preach the doctrine OF
sabotage upon its city streets, and
does now suffer the l. w. w. to
meet to practice sabotage, to do all
things that will retard, push back,
and act as a roush-lock upon all in
dustry, and
Whereas, The United States is in
a state of war, and is calling upon
all citizens to rend n full measure OF
loyalty to the end of increasing the
production of the soil; to speed up
the production of lumber and other
materials for ship building; to pro
| duce the coal in quantities necessary
| to run the wheels of industry. and
for fuel for the ships of our navy
and merchant marine; to see to il
that the mines of the useful metals
are being worked to their full ca
| pacity in order to produce the nee
essary material to manufacture mu
nitions of war. Therefore be it
| Resolved. That we memorialize thu
city of Spokane, also its. chamber o
commerce, it's business men, and al
the honest, loyal and legitimat,
trade unions of Spokane: That ii
our unbiased opinion the fair cit.
| of Spokane, by it's sufferance of tn,
| |. w. w. to continue to preach it
disloyal doctrines. is nursing wipe
which will ultimately strike, poison
and Saralyze even the Industrial lif,
| of Spokane itself, as it has injured
the farming. mining and numbering
industries of the Inland Empire
which are the life arteries through
which Spokane receives such liberia
sustenance.
Therefore, We earnestly plea,
with the city of Spokane, to cleal
up.by grubbing out, root and branch
the unlawful organization known a
And be it further
olution be published in the press o
kane.
1 The above is a step in the righ
direction. 1t will be good if it
backed up by the people of the In
land Empire. If the farmers, VIII
are the heaviest sufferers from the
w. w. menace, will enforce boy
colt. refusing to buy Spokane good
of any description: by refusing t
patronize Spokane in any way,
will have some force. But in tn
name of common sense what Is tn
Government of the United States dc
ing that 1t permits criminal OF
ganization to go right on doing bus
mess? The Government has absC
lutte evidence that the |. W. w. Is
criminal body; the Government ha
positive proof that this organization
malicioNsly destroyed 40 threshin
machines in the Palouse country /
1856. The Government knows tn
|. W. w. Is an enemy of the natioI
deliberately planning its destructio
and the overthrow of a free peopl,
The Government knows the |. w. "
has hindered numbering, mining an
farming. and directly aided the Gel
man government in the war to d,
stroy civilization. Why. then. do,
1t tolerate the l. w. w? how Is
the l. w. w. is permitted to go O
doing it's work of organizing again,
the government. with headquartel
In Spokane, Seattle. and hundre
other places?
Write to the Idaho senator's an
ngressmen--to French, Smit1
Borah and Nugsnt. also to the D
partment of Justice, and ask VIII:
they are doing. what the Cover
ment is doing to handle this thin
We do not want lot of theory ar
bunk. but action. We want til
gang of criminals cleaned out ro
and branch. hide and tail. Wri
LOW,
Make Spokane clean out the I. Y
w. or clean out Spokane. II Sp
kane will not then boycott Spokan
i The n1itnrs nf North Idaho aca