The Washington herald., 1919-02-09
BY OLE HANSON.
favor of Seattle WaShin qt0p

d oLE f1ANSoNs
Mayor of Seattle, Washington.
Two years ago 1900 working men
were employed in the industries OF
Seattle. There are now 5000. The
unions have admitted to their ranks
under the. stress of war conditions
every Bolshevik and /. W. w. who
desired to join. Those men have Sc
cured control OF many labor organi-
cations. The conservative members
have shown their yellow streak by
allowing the foes of organized gov
ernment to run their union and their
affairs.
When the shipyard strike was called
the men went out unwillingly in most
instances, although there is a feeling
that the lower paid men were not get
ting sufficient wage when figured on
the present cost of living.
Told Strikers Go to Hell.
Then the radicals, having read Of
the revolution in Petrograd, tried to
duplicate the initial steps of the same
here. They wanted to run our light
plant and all industries. believing that
we would surrender because of econ
omic pressure and suffering OF our
people. They had forgotten the les
son Germany acquired when they
tried the policy of ruthlessness. The
city government told them to go to
hell, that all things would run as
long as there was a government and
made no concessions to the revolu-
tionists.
They closed down the newspaper
plants through fear of injury to the
employees of newspapers. Business,
always cowardly, hunted its hole for
a little time until l announced that
all people would be protected to the
last man and that we had $50 men
armed with rifles TO kill on sight any
one that caused disorder.
Duplicate Russian Anarchy.
Yesterday l notified the strike
committee that at o'clock this
morning everything would operate
Everything is active in Seattle this
morning. Every municipal car is
running. Our light plant has never
shut down one minute. Neither has
our water plant. Gathered together
in Seattle are Joe Etter of Lawrence,
Mass. fame; Mucky Mcdonald. and
men of his stripe. from all over the
United States. Gathered here are
hundreds and thousands of Russian
Bolsheviki, who have arrived here
during the past two years. These
scoundrels want to take possession
of our American government and
try to duplicate the anarchy of
Russia
The seat of government is the city
hall. We swore in 1000 extra police
and hold in reserve citizens armed
with rifles and shot guns. ! gave
orders to shoot on sight any dis
turber of the peace.
Unienism Against L. W. W.
wanted a show down. II there
is a majority of these fellows in the
United States, l don't want to live
here. They told me the troops were
disloyal and would not help US.
told them that was a lie. but even
II 1t was so, we would fight until
we were dead before we even al
lowed them to turn out one eight
candle power light.
This is a test of unionism or 1.
w. W'ism. If anyone owes higher
allegiance to any organization than
they do to this country, they are
traitors and should be treated as
such. That is all there is to it.
Declares Strike Broken.
This is a time for all union men
to stand up and be counted. This is
a time when every American must
forget all other allegiances and
stand by the government.
The unions of the nation are on
trial. They are either America n
Federation of Labor loyalists or
Bolshevik traitors.
This morning the strike is broken.
Business is resuming. Strikers are
returning to work. Our city no
longer lies PROSTATE. Ninety per
cent of Seattle stands firm for
Americanism. The other ten per
cent will be driven from this COM
munity.