The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-05-01
TELLS OF STRIKE
Hanson BIames Lumber BarOns
for Discomfort Seeds.
They Were Indirectly RESPONSE
BILE for Seattle Trouble.
SOLDIERS MUST HAVE WORK
Fighting Mayor Says Congress
Should Provide 1t.
He Advocates Building Trans.
continental Highways.

In addition to his victory loan talk
at the Chamber of Commerce this
noon, Ole Hanson, mayor of Seattle
and of late the addressee of a bomb
gift gave a short history of the Seat
tie strike and expressed himself as
to his own personal idea on what the
next congress should do toward pro-
viding work for the returning SOL
diers.
In explaining the Seattle strike,
Mayor Hanson said that the ground
for the sowing of the seeds of the up
of oppression and disinterest on the
Tart of the lumber barons of the
northwest. Hanson said that when
the war reeds of the nations caused
the establishment and enlargement of
the Seattle shipyards that the Shipyard
worker population of the coast city
Jumped from 5000 to 5000 in a Pc
riod of a few months. He said that
the bulk of this body of workers came
from out tho lumber camps, from the
ranks of the men seeking to svade
military service, and especially from
the cities of Butte, Mont; Paterson,
n. j., and like centers of discomfort
and discord.
Speaking of Butte, Hanson said:
You all know the kind of men that
CdIIl6 " Out Ol DullSB NULL CA
pect to make a speech in the l. w. w.
hall in that city on my way home
if they'll let me-" And in making the
statement Hanson's chin came up a
notch or two and the fighting light
came into the eyes bequeathed him by
his Viking forebears.
Nothing But Anarchists.
In one part this section of his talk
Hanson asserted that the l. w. WIS in
A Al h11f anarnhiGtS
and he expressed his entire accord
with the government idea of deport-
ing these leaders of discomfort who
have emigrated to the shores of
America, participated in the benefits
| of American life and institutions, and
are now trying to make over the gov
eminent to suit their own evil ends.
Mayor Hanson asserted: Il am in
entire accord with the government
| idea of deporting these malcontents.
| if that is the governments idea of
proper punishment My own idea is
to hang them to the nearest lamp
post"
Hanson told of the strike IN Seattle
and how it was fostered by the Reds
| THE l. w. WIS if you please"-and
| of the steps that were taken to sup
press the |incipient revolution. Han
son denied that he did it all. He de-
! clared that sit was the spirit of Ameri-
canism which lived in the breasts of
| the majority of the men themselves
which spelled the doom of Bolshevism
| in my town"
/ Mayor Hanson told of the trucks
| armored with sandbags and armed
with machine guns manned by crews
of discharged soldiers which were on
| the streets of Seattle in readiness to
| nip the budding revolt if it should
even show signs of Undertaking. into
! typical Bolshevist riots. He told OF
/ q IF -
| the peace-union men in great num-
bers among them-who patrolled the
city waiting for the outbreak to come
| and determined to obey to the letter
! the order of Mayor Ole Hanson ito
shoot on sight the first rioter."
Speaking of his idea of legislation
which he said should have beer
passed by the last congress-for the
returning soldier, Hanson declared
| himself in favor of building great
transcontinental highways during this
period when men are out of work and
the nation is more or less disorganized
with the millions of discharged sol
diers. He urges the passage of bills
making possible the reclamation of the
arid lands of the west and the swamp
lands of the south and southeast He
says that the next congress should moi
wait for an era of prosperity before
undertaking great public works. but
should in times when the prosperity
of the nation is at the low ebb launch
these great enterprises to turn the
tide.