The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-02-28
The Reply

You right when you say The Star has stood
a sturdy champion of the workngmans You are
wrong when declare that The Star has branded the ship
yard strikers unAmercan But your letter straight
from the heart am glad you have writtenglad to give
YOU The Stars true position.
On the day the shpyard strike declared The Star
printed page editorial from which quote:
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Despite the roseate pictures that have been drawn of
shpyard workers growing wealthy the vast majority of the
the unsked aborers had sharp tussle with the
cost OF living Admittedly it is heroic struggle to support
a family on S25 To $50 week
1T stands the credit of the skilled mechanics and the
machnsts who have been drawing higher that they
made common with the unskied aborers refusing
slight increase for themselves while the others being
denied justfble raise
The Star printed another editorial a week later The
following paragraph is an extract:
This is an American city. II isn't Bolshevk center
some OF the big employers contend neither is II city
where capitalists crush the last penny out of labor The
Star emphaticay says again that the unsded shipyard
workers entitled To more pay"
The Star DID brand as un-American. Bolshevk. and
T. w w. certain leaders of the GENERAL strike who threat
ened to close down the city light and to tie the water
system to leave hospitals to fate and to parayze things
without rhyme or reason THEN THE STAR DID DRAW
THE LINE BETWEEN AMERICAN AND UN-AMEl,ICAN
METHODS. And in that breath The Star still con-
tended that the lowpay men in the shpyards were entitled
to money The Star only warned them not TO seize
anarchsc means of seeking to gain their point-not to
adopt plan which would throw public sentiment heretofore
AND THOUSANDS OF UNION MEN DID OPPOSE
THE GENERAL STRIKE-THATS WHY IT FAILED.
During my many years The Star know not of one
legitimate effort of working better their conditions
The Star gave it's support to the street car
their strike of and the street today
recognize this of the aces in their winning hand
II supported the Transfers before What it said
this in behalf of decent living for shpyard men,
it said for the a year ago. for the transfers two
and for labor during the whole 20 years OF its
existence.
If you had read The Star for few years instead of
few months could not possibly reach such false conc
sions to The Stars policy and its attitude Seattle people
who know The Stars record extending period of 20
been deceived and be deceived by the
silly spread by the Boshevk element claiming that
The Star has changed its policy.
cannot help but feel that had the shipyard workers
following the guidance Of The Star they would have been
back in the yards before this-and at better pay.
As The Star stated repeat that strike can be won
without the support of the public at large And when the
shpyard strike developed into general strike promoted by
the radicals and Boshevks in town. who tackled their
American doctrines onto it, public sentiment driven
from their
We of The Star who. with the rest of REAL Seattle.
were forced make way thru this unwecome affair
have done said exactly what felt The Star should do
and say-AND JUST AS WE WOULD HAVE TO DO
AGAIN UNDER SIMILAR CIRCUMSTANCES.