The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-04-23
Tacoma Keeps Out OF P0indeXter- Duncan Row
No Action Here
As to Moonevs

"There is only one way to
allay unrest and suspicion,
and that is not to rave and
rant as to the effects, but to
remove the cause" was the
reply today of James A. Dun
can, secretary of the Seattle
Labor council, to Senator
Poindextcr's bitter .denuncia-
ton OF him and the proposal
OF Seattle union workmen to
strike May 4 as a protest to
the conviction and threatened
execution of Thomas Mooney.
Speaking in the U. s. senate
Monday, Poindexter denounced
the proposal as moral treason"
and deserving of the extreme
penalty of DEATH" basing his at
tack on a letter received from
Duncan, notifying him that a
referendum on the proposed
strike'was being circulated among
union members.
Duncan said today that the
strike outlined in resolutions
passed by the Seattle Central La
Dor council was not planned to
continue until Mooney was grant
ed a reprieve, as Poindexter ap-
peared to interpret 1t, but that
only one days strike on May day
is contemplated.
No action has been taken,
nor is any action likely to be
taken by the Tacoma Central
Labor council or any of the affili-
ated trades councils toward the
proposed May / protest strike,
according to union Officials Tues
day.
Mrs. Mooney will not visit Ia
coma, and the sooner we forget
about the whole business the bet
ter" declared high official of
the Metal Trades council.
Treason, He Says.
Senator Poindexter in his
speech asserted that the Central
Labor councils resolutions were
fathered by men not friends of
labor
| Branding the movement as a
threat to hold up the govern
ment," he said the men be-
hind the movement should be
arrested and dealt with as dis
loyal traitors" The strike prop
uganda he characterized AN in
solent threat to tie up the wal
industries of the United States. v
Senator Poindexter dashed the
men who proposed to interrupt
the shipbuilding program and
: other work in order to bring
about reversal OF the judgment
: of the courts of California in the
Mooney case.
lie said the movement "is IN
harmony with the Bolsheviki and
other international unrest" He
, denounced the proposal to strike
as "blackmail upon the govern
ment, sedition and treason
duncan Makes Statement.
Has Poindexter gone crazy
too?" was Duncan's common
when shown the senator's state
ments. n
1.-THE government commission
made up of absolutely unbiased
|, and patriotic citizens, found tina
there was cause for suspicion. saw
y the necessity and recommended
to the president that he use his
enormous power to prevail upor
authorities in California to d.
those reasonable things whicl
would tend to restore the conf
dence OF the workers in the oper
alton Of the courts and other gov
ernmental bodies" said Duncan
Senator Poindexter, If he /
, giving that attention to his bust
ness that is expected of him
, should be sufficient of a studen
, to recognize the fact that mucl
of our capitalistic system Il
breaking down, and appreciate
that tremendous transformation
is about to take place.
1.-THE only question men ask to
day is how the change is to b
brought about-by shock or evo
luton.
mot a Holdup."
"If the workers vote to strik
for one day on May 1 in protes
against the treatment of thei
fellows in California, it will no
be because they desire to retar'
the shipbuilding program, or thu