The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1919-02-18

| not alone QltS al employers ana OuS1'
ness and institutions, but II effective
must suspend all the essentials of
life, health and safety in the COM
, munity where applied.
Radicals in Seattle openly admitted
this and all it implied and it was only
matter of tactics in winning owe:
! the more conservative element that
| water, light and power, fire protec-
ton, sewage and garbage, telephones,
and the whole life stream of city Of
! 100000 was not ordered entirely cut
off by the strikers for an indefinite
period.
BoIshevik Element -.-.
Openly for Revolution. d,
A city simply cannot live with all
activity stopped, the strikers no bet
fter than the rest of the commun-
lily. ..sn.-.
Every we'll" challenged the lead
ers, ''let the strikers resume the essen
tials under their management
There is the handwriting on the
wall for the government, and here is
the handwriting for the democratic
labor organizations Of America.
4uc SOCdllcu pdtuCLlC SIIAhC'
launched on the plea that it was to
force action from the emergency fleet
corporation in behalf of the already
striking shipyard workers of Puget
Sound was not in any sense spontan.
eous.
It was engineered by a radical, In
terested minority, who understood the
psychology of mass infection and
plausible slogans. &c.,.
A "class issne," they called it.
BY adroitly playing their own game,
the metal trades, numbering some 30,-
O00.. succeeded in getting perhaps 49,
900 other unionists to help, them win
| ~ ~. o,,,r contest ''<a. u tEyi
| The lowest paid were called out TO
HELM the highest aid-chambermaids
to help artisans. ,-~5
The Bolsheylk element openly
sought to direct the mass toward rev
olution.i t. .I,,..s ,,... ~.
vietimized by Radicals, ~ 49,
Majority Today Admit.
.Sympathy, had been gained by
bludgeon methods. ...~'. ~. : -
Today the great majority Of the
strikers, sobered to recognition that
they gained nothing through the gen
eral strike they did not already have.
admit they we're misled and victimized
by a sophisticated coterie Of radicals.
Seattle never had disputed the ''soli-
darity OF labor" that the leaders made
a catchwOrd.
Seattle employers were making no
effort or plans to disrupt unionism.
Even the shfpyard workers wage
, demand was in dispute between the
workers and Charles Piez of the gov
eminent fleet corporation, not the To-
cal ship plant owners.
This was a grim, anti-American and
nti-Federation-of-Lab Dor adventure,
! cloaked in another semblance by q
| juggling with words; a wedge which,
had it not been broken off by the CO.
operation OF city and federal govern
ment, would lave driven straight at
the heart of American institutions and
the present system.
+. 1t was not strike of violence.
There were no surface disorders.
No strikebreakers were here.
1t was new kind of terrorism, the
terrorism of tension alive with
nameless fears, unlike that Of earth
quake, mob clash or Disaster brand
new experience for an American city.
Leaders Whine When -,'
Victims Strike Back.
There was about the AFFAIR good
deal of the childish as we'll as the
grim. ~ =, o. .
Strike leaders VINO expected the
city to wait supipely until they had
sheathed their greatest weapon, short
of bloody insurrection. whined lugu-
briously when those whom the strike
was designed to hurt and intimidate
took counter measures Of protection.
They decried the use of extra police
patrols and the proffer Of the govern
ment for military assistance If needed.
They cursed the Seattle Star for
daring to publish its newspaper with
its own union employees, and giving
the city, as public utility, the news
and coordination Of agencies that pre-
vented panic.
The leaders bungled their own game
at the last In an attempt to save
face" with labor.
They ordered unions already return
ed to work to 60 out again for one
more day, but they were openly dis
credited by the refusal of these union
men to heed the edict.
The city that had at first been i'm
pressed, was now simply bored. II
! had gained perspective, seeing the
place Of the bolshevist leaders in the
scheme.
These things, coupled with the SUIT
| ferings and losses to strikers and
| merchants and the general public
alike, with no compensatory gains
form Seattle's answer to other cities
| who are asking: What would It have
have been like In our town, this gen.
eral striker"
| And it is a question, which Ameri
cans who had their Americanism put
to the test. here, hope every city and
village in the United States Is ask
ing and pondering.
Only enc .Dhoaao oUlMiME.-
TO get the geauine, call for full nam,
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