Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1918-06-28
PATRIOTISM RUNS HIGH
At STATE MEETING
Aberdeen, June %, / p. m.

Aberdeen, June 20, i p. Ill.
Up to this hour but one note has
been struck that was not in glorifica-
ton of the war aims of the United
States. and this one note is corre-
lated subject and had to do with the
relation of courts to democracy.
The fraternal delegate of the Loco
motive Engineers was the medium
through which the attitude of the
courts toward the workingmen was
presented, and this gentlemen most
certainly made distinct hit. Coupled
with strain OF dry humor, this dele
gate presented word picture OF the
indignities that have been heaped
upon labor by the courts. and to say
that his remarks were greeted with
enthusiasm" is to draw it mild.
This mans able address pressed
home to the assembled delegates the
conclusion that the working people
are helpless in face of the authority
assumed by reactiOnary courts and
he abjured them to awake and attack
the cause of their misfortunes at its
source.
At the opening session Monday. at
8 o'clock, the preached who delivered
the invocation dwelt upon the part OF
labor in the great war, and he be-
seeched the Divine Ruler to give them
the spiritual courage to carry them
up to the heights.
The mayor, in welcoming the dele
gates, expressed his belief in the par
amount importance to the successful
prosecution of the war Of the great
organizations of labor.
President Short, replying to the ad-
dress of welcome. declared that union
labor would measure up to the de-
sires of all real patriots, that the
ideals of this war we're the ideals that
labor had always fought for, and for
which thousands of working men had
died.
The secretary of the Federation
covered the same ground In the prose
portion of his report.
The first vice-president. Harry
Call, who has just enlisted IN the
army, and is now at Vancouver bar
racks. wound up his report with a
striking appeal and commentator OF
the part that union labor had played
and is destined to play in the world
conflict.
At the Grand theater. In the even
ing, the building was jammed with
people, and the most earnest atten-
ton was given the program. which
consumed four hours, from to IL.
At the meeting, presided over by the
Secretary of the State Federation
Tom Barker, President Short and a
lieutenant of the Belgium army
spoke.
Tom Barker, who addressed a
meeting in Olympia some time since,
seemed to extend himself to make his
talk before the Federation convention
a worthy elimination of his speaking
tour throughout the Northwest ana
he succeeded. All the rough edges
seemed to have been smoothed and
he was really eloquent and reached
down deep into the hearts OF MS
hearers. He covered practically the
ground which he covered In his
Olympia speech, only in more I'M
pressiye and convincing way.
The Belgium lieutenant, himself an
Officer of the labor movement In MS
country, while handicapped through
speaking in foreign language.
thrilled his hearers by his recital OF
the horrors attending the Hun inva-
sion of Belgium. The speaker made
one thing clear-the laboring people
80 po,1ivm ware extreme pacifists,
ardent lovers of peace; yet upon the
striking of the hour for German IN
vasion of Belgium the union people
few to arms to man ana withou'
one single reservation, and today IN
Belgium as in all nations, labor Is In
reality bearing the major burdens OF
the conflict, carrying these burdens
with great fortitude and are enthusi'