The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1919-02-07

christ Balmer, secretary, fnOne
Main J94R,
out in excess of the budget allow
ance in any one year"
Section 4, Article 6, reads THE
salary of the general officers and
field officers shall be in such sums
as may be determined by the Board
of Directors
Section 2, Article 6, among other
things provides that employee mem
bers may withdraw from member
ship in the organization at any
time on thirty days notice, in writ
ing, to the Board of Directors,
there is no such provision for en-
ployec members, they have to play
the game whether they like it or
not.
The general officers are a Presi-
dent, Secretary Manager, General
Treasurer, Industrial Chaplain, Ly-
ceum Officer and a Sanitary In
spector, they shall be elected by
the Board of Directors by ballot,
from men of suitable ability.
After a careful scrutiny of the
wonderful work of the master
minds that drew up this scab-herd-
ing, blacklisting, monstrosity, !
cannot find where there is any
thing that the Board of Directors
cannot do. and nothing that mem
bers may do.
They have no voice in the cleo
ton of officers, they have no voice
in fixing the price of their dues or
initiation fee. The Board of Di-
rectors can fasten any charge that
they see fit upon the membership
and they have to call it good
All the ILL will do will be to
Prussianize the lumber industry. j
have been in the state of Idaho for
the past few weeks and conditions
are almost unbearable there. The
new wage scale of the ILL for
the Inland Empire has just been
submitted. In some instances the
wages have been cut $500 per day
per man. They have insulted the
I, 4 1c Ill
by offering women a wage of $3.50
! per day, at the same time some of
the snug hypocrites are over in
Olympia debating on the question
of vice. What howl they would
/ make if some one offered any of
their women a starvation wage.
To show what extremes some of
them will go to, | had a meeting
scheduled for a small town in Ida
no, town where the company
owns everything including the
souls of most of the people that
work there The boys had engag-
ed a hall for the evening and at
the last moment they were told
that they could not have the hall;
the owner had been instructed not
to let us have it. The truth of the
matter is that ILL meeting was
planned there and they did not
want any one to spoil their chances
for further enslaving the men
working there.
A state constabulary is also pro-
posed for Idaho by Governor Davis,
who has recently appointed men on
the Industrial Accident Board who
are not in any way in sympathy
with the workers. Other vicious
| legislation is also proposed and the
same old rotten lobby is there to
urge the Legislature to do its
worst.
In the state of Idaho it does not
matter whether a man is an I.W.W.
or an honorably discharged soldier
when the boss frowns the door is
slammed in his face. volunteered
as a soldier to help crush tyranny
abroad. | did not have to be dragg-
ed in by the ears and it did not take
special act of Congress to make
patriot out of me. / am fast COM
ing to the conclusion that there is
much need of smashing some of the
kaisers in this country. who are
trying to set up an industrial auto
cracy that out does even the most
violent page of the Hohenzollern
dream book.
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