New-York tribune., 1919-02-08

u! ~ o Htu'tc ENcttC tO-uuD tuc
tert Of taUo p,'oclamdtions to the citi-
eens of Seattle issued By the Central
Labor Council, IN charge of the
strike aoa0 IN progress IN that city.
The association considers the procla-
nations "sigmifcant IN the plans
achich they reueal," and even more
significant "because of their LAM
gaeage and tone and the purpose
a'4sich they betray' The first proc
tamntlon said:
"On Thursday at 10 a. m. there will
be many cheering and there will be
some who fear. Both these emotions
are useful, but not too much of either.
We are undertaking the most tre-
inendous move ever made bv labor in
TINS country-a move which will lead
no one Enows where. We do not need
hysteria. We need the iron march OF
labor. Labor will feed the people.
Twelve great kitchens have been
offered and from them food will
be distributed by the provision trades
at low cost to all. Labor will care for
the BABIES and the sick. The milk
wagon drivers and the laundry drivers
are arranging plans for supplying milk
10 babies, invalids and hospitals and
taking care Of the cleaning of linen
ior hospitals.
Labor to Preserve Order
labor will preserve order. The
strike committee is arranging for
guards, ard iteis expected that the
stopping OF the cars will keep people
homo a T,,,, hat
nave complained that the strikers onlv
should be fed and the general public
left to endure severe discomfort.
ASIDE from the humanitarian charac-
ter of such suggestions, let them get
TINS straight: Not the withdrawal of
labor power, but the power of the
workers to manage, will win this strike.
What does Mr.. Pez, of the Ship
ping Board, care about the closing
down of Seattle's shipyards, or even Of
an the industries of the Northwest {?
Wlll 1t not merely strengthen the yards
at Hog Island, in which he is more in
terested? When the shipyard owners
of Seattle were on the point of agree
ing with the workers it was Mr.. Piez
who wired that if they so agred he
would not let them have steel.
Whether this is camouflage we have no
means Of knowing, but we do know that
the great Eastern combinations of
capitalists could afford to offer pri-
vately to Mr.. Skinner, Mr.. Ames and
Mr.. Duthie a fcw millions apiece in
Eastern shipyard stock rather than let
the workers win the closing down of
Seattle's industries.
Labor Control Threatened
AS mere shutdown will not affect
1heSe Eastern gentlemen much, they
could let the whole Northwest go to
pieces, as Tar as money alone is con-
cerned, but the closing down of the
enthusiastically controlled industries of
Seattle, while the workers organize to
iced the people to care for the babies
and the sick and 70 preserve order, this
Will move them, for this looks too
much like the taking over of power by
the workers. Labor will not only Shut
down the industries, but labor will re-
open under the management of the ap-
proprlate trades such activities as are
needed to preserve public health and
pubic peace. IL the strike continues
labor may feel led to avoid public suf-
1erlng by reorening more and more &C
tiVltles under Its own management, and
that is why we say that we are starting
on a road that leads no one knows
where"
The second proclamation said, in
part:
"Organzed labor tenders its services
to help police the city. The personnel
of the strike executive committee at
this time is at the disposal of organized
labor and the general public who may
be interested.
Unions Would Police City
"Relativc to reports that Chief of
Police Warren planned an increase of
the Seattle police force during the
strike, the committee announces that
there will be absolutely no need of
building up q larger police organiza-
ton. The strike executive committee
has already perfected plans to do it's
own policing on behalf of organized
labor Details of this plan will be
announced Tuesday.
"This policing plan of the strike
executive committee will work in en-
tire harmony with the regular police
department and its chief, Joel P.
Warren. Persons having no urgent
business to attend to on the streets
after s o'clock in the evening should
remain at home whenever possible. The
gathering of crowds tends to create
disorders, and this organized labor
intends to avoid. The committee has
considered thoroughly the welfare of
lection.
"The fire fighters of Seattle
have accordingly been asked to re-
main at their posts during the
strike. The committee has properly
taken care of all laundry work for
hospitals by securing one of the
largest privately owned laundres in
the city, where this work will be done
under supervision of the committee.
The health and sanitation end has also
been adequately attended to. The ex-
ecutive committee wishes the public
in general to realize that all matters
relative to the general strike are being
attended to by the committee in its
usual thorough manner. All details,
either large or small, receive like at
tention.
"Thc executive committee desires
all union men and all union sympa-
thizers at the strike call at 10 o'clock
Thursday, February 6, to dispense to
their homes in an orderly manner and
under no consideration to countenance
any disorders of any kind