The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-07-12

Hayes was appointed Sergeant-at-
arms and Delegate Koockogey read
ing clerk.
The Walla Walla Outrage
Accommodation was presented
from the Spokane Sectional Central
Labor Council, condeming the un-
democratic, unpatriotic and un-Am-
erian abuse of official power by
the Walla Walla School board in it's
treatment of the Washington State
Grange. The resolutions which fol-
low were adopted:
Spokane, Wash,
June II, 1918.
To Central Labor Councils and Other
Organizations Interested,
Greetings:
The following resolution was in
dorsed by the Sectional Central
Council of Spokane and vicinity at
regular session assembled June 17th
1918:
hcSOlutlUHS
We trust such action will be taken
to prevent the repetition of this oc-
currence.
Whereas, At the invitation of the
City Of Walla Walla, the convention
of the Washington State Grange as
sembled lawfully on June At, and in
the Walla Walla High School.
public building appointed for the
meeting, and
Whereas, At said meeting several
of the duly elected officers of the
Grange endorsed the Non Partisan
| League; and
Whereas, The school board elected
the convention of the Grange from
said building because of said en-
dorsement; and
Whereas, The members of the
Walla Walla School Board are elected
by the voters as trustees for and
custodians of public property. and
Whereas, The proceedings of the
State Grange were conducted in a
quiet, orderly and booming manner,
and
Whereas, The Non-Partisan League
has been investigated by the Govern
ment of the United States and has
been found to be a patriotic organ
ization; therefore, be it
Resolved, That it is the sense of
the Spokane Sectional Central Labor
Council that the Walla Walla School
Board exceeded its authority, and be
| it
Resolved, That this Council con-
demns the Walla Walla School Board
for undemocratic, unpatriotic, un-
American abuse of official power for
political purposes, and be it
Resolved, That this Council gives
unstinted praise to the Washington
State Grange for the self-restraint
shown by its members in quietly ac-
cepting the discourtesy and tyranny
of the Walla Walla School Board;
and be it further
Resolved, That a copy of these
| resolutions be forwarded to the City
Government of Walla Walla so that
its citizens may join in these reso-
lutions and show that they support
the same democracy at home as
that for which our nation is battling
in Europe.
Sectional Central Labor Council of
Spokane and Vicinity,
A. H. Nowka, Secretary.
Gle Elum Fire Suffers
A communication was received
from Charles Perry Taylor, Secre-
tary of the Washington State Fed
Grafton of Labor, appealing for aid
for the Gle Elum fire sufferers.
Referred to the local unions and
ordered printed in the Journal. The
text of the communication follows:
Tacoma, Wash,
July 5, 1918.
To. All Local Affiliated Unions -,
Greeting:
While the delegates to the Seven
teenth Annual Convention of the
Washington State Federation of La
Dor were in session at Aberdeen,
June Goth, they were shocked to
learn from news dispatches of the
complete destruction of the mining
town of Gle Elum by a fire which
swept that community on the day
previous.
Gle Elem is situated in Kittitas
county and had a population of about
1000 people. All the homes and
business houses, stores, schools,
banks, theaters, warehouses, etc,
were reported completely destroyed
and the entire population homeless
and without food.
The town is supported by the