The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-06-07
Pullman, May goth, 1918,


Call hands out some good hot stuif
to the special interests and the po-
litical gang that has so long dom
mated the politics of this state. He
compares them and their methods to
the same old gang that organized
under the Stop, Look, Listen League.
Permit me to say that l have good
reasons to believe that the Stop,
Look, Listen League were mild and
gentlemanly as compared to these
shysters, free hooters and sluggers
that are organized under the name
Of the Farmers Protective League"
(God save the Mark).
was located at Seattle, managing
the organizing work Of the Farm
ers' Non-Partisan League and was
brought in direct contact with these
fellows and their methods. In or
der to raise slush fund to defeat
poeressive legislation and stop the
organizing of the Non-Partisan
League they appealed to the Bank
ers to contribute fifteen dollards per
month. Some of them renigged
claiming it was too much, while
COUNTLESS others came forward with
this immense slush fund. Of course
they dare not come out in the open
and raise this fund but like all other
evil and sinister things they work
in the dark and use their camou-
flage, by organizing Farmers
Protective League, issuing cards of
Membership under the guise Of seek
ing legislation for farmers. To sat
isfy any fair minded farn or or 9TH
er citizen Of the real iAt.nt OF this
Camouflage movement we have only
to investigate and ascertain the real
leaders of this nefarious movement.
One need not go out of Clallam and
Jefferson counties to find the real
culprits in this movement, and IN
these counties originated the Stop,
Look, Listen League also.
So Mr.. Call certainly made prop
er alignment in his article and was
essentially right in his charges OF
unpatriotic alignment of this gan
of political pirates.
One of the men who was instlga-
tor in the organization of this unpa-
triotic gang was politician OF JET
ferson County who wants to be elect
ed as joint senator, and the other
very officious gentleman of Clallam
county is farmer who farms the
farmers. In conversation he told
me that organized labor was unpa-
triotic and the the solution OF the
farm labor problem was to import
foreign labor on the farms. Also
that he was opposed to the Non-Par-
tisan League on account of its So
cialistic tendencies. In fact these
politicians are opposed to any and
everything that has tendency to
stop the exploitation of the produc-
er and consumer.
They then started a dirty sheet
in Seattle under the management of
Berier Brown called the Farm
News" Sending it out promiscous-
ly through the mails to farmers and
asking them to contribute fifty cents
to the support of their lying sheet.
This the farmers refused to do and
still the sheet is in circulation all
supported and financed by Big Busi-
ness. The first issues were full
Of lying attacks on the Non-P Partisan
League and now and then AN illusion
to Organized Labor. But as soon as
they found out that the League and
other farm organizations were in
harmony and working with the Fed
Grafton of Labor on the Initiative
Measures then their wrath knew no
bounds and Organized Labor came
In for its share of their lying abuse.
They first circulated small care
asking the farmers to sign it. An
innocent looking piece of paste
board saying on one side that the
farmers should be represented in the
Legislature, and on the other that
the farmers should be protected in
their homes and property.
OF course hundreds of farmers
signed these simple statements, which
construed by these politicians made
them members of The Farmers Pro-
tectlve League. But as soon as they
established their paper and began
10 send it out fighting all progress
sive legislation the we'll meaning
farmers found they were in a hor-
nets nest and refused to take the
paper or have anything more to do
with this shyster political organiza-
tion.
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