The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-12-30
THE WALKING DELEGATE.

THE WALKING DELEGATE.
The editorial in this paper recent,
on the Mooney case attracted the at
tention of George Creighton, wei
known pioneer merchant, who brought
from the Croton-Harmon News, Of
Crotop, New York. The article SUBJ
stantiates the editorial in this paper
and Mr.. Creighton thinks it should
be given publicity. 1t is the walking
delegate" who causes most of the
strikes and keeps the union workmen
dissatisfied. When the laborers are
contented there is nothing for him to
do. He is trouble maker and a men
ace to labor and to the welfare of the
nation. The article from the Croton-
Harmon News follows:
eve give herewith a report unani-
mously adopted at the last meeting of
the New York Board of Trade and
Transportation entitled, The Walking
Delegate and the War
'There is in this country an organi-
cation that has manned and murdered
thousands of the finest and noblest
workmen, that has murdered the fore
men and superintendent and owners
of factories, has murdered policemen,
sheriffs and other. officers of the law,
that has defied the courts, that has,
checked the growth of cities, paralyz-.
ed industries, dynamited bridges,
burned roundhouses, railroad cars and
factories, has misplaced switches, and
destroyed costly machinery.
"In Los Angeles men were working
in conformity to all the laws of the
land but were not giving money to
the heads of this organization so they
sent some of their number to Los
Angeles, dynamited a building and
killed nineteen men.
In East ST. Louis men were work
ing in full conformity to the laws but
they were giving no money to the
heads of this organization so their
houses were burned, their children, !
their wives and they themselves were !
murdered
cover these awful crimes commit
ted by his kind the most prominent
gloated. This walking delegate pirates
of his loyalty, but man who gloats
over such crimes as these has no
honor, no loyalty, no love of country,
no patriotism.
Another prominent walking dele
gate said at dinner in New York
City that they had filled the hospitals
with the wounded and strewn the
ground with corpses.
"The men who are at the head of D.;
The organizations that do these evil
deeds give themselves high-sounding
titles such as president of the brother
hood this or brotherhood that, presi- |
lent of the international this or in V
,ernational that, president of the fed {
grafton this or federation that, but r
he words that describe them generic r
lily are the words walking delegate. 6
'The way the walking delegates in f
luence legislators is by having lob =
lies. The walking delegates main
ain at Washington the largest, most i.
,razen and most vicious lobby that r
yer cursed a country. t
"Under the influence of this lobby {
congress went lower and lower until il
came to the four years preceding G
ur entrance into the war when our a
ountry sunk to the lowest depth of "
s legislative degradation. During is
1ese years Congress passed laws to G
lease this lobby that drove our ships o.
rom the seas, during these years m
Congress- passed laws to please this
bby that crippled the railroads. But
II laws SO passed our railroads would Of
ave been fully equipped and in the P
ghest state of efficiency at the out 81
reak of the war. is
GLOW is it such an organization p1
ould be allowed to browbeat Con- III
'ess, have respectable men serve on he
mmittees with it's leaders and have 70
J leaders appointed on commissions fl
" The chains that really bind hui
anity are chains the links of which
e abstract words The word labor ar
rverted has bound the members of w;
ngress and others in slavery. One in
the perverted uses Of the word ka
,or is found in the expression Con thi