Bisbee daily review., 1919-02-15
AID LABOR TO PURGE
 ITSELF OF BOLSHEVIK
 HEADS, SAYS HANSON
Seattle Mayor Demands Pun ishment of 1. w. w; Jus
 tice for Other Workers
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 SEATTLE, Wn., Feb. I4-In an ad- dress today before a large. gathering of business men at the Chamber of Commerce, Mayor Ole Hanson de- manded punishment for "criminal' leaders of labor organizations. but also asked for justice and forgive ness for the misled workers" His statement was an aftermath of the general stri troubles here
 NOW again the people of this na- tion are confronted by the control of the minority, a minority composed of aliens, bolsheyiki, I. W. W.'s and rad ical, minimizing labor leaders who owe no loyalty to our government or any Government on the face of tn earth the mayor said.
 This element is quite numerous, but is even more dangerous to our institutions and our ideals than was the rule of organized wealth" he con tinued ''As an American citizen who loves this country I fought for years to encompass the overthrow of the control of plutocracy. am now fight ing for the overthrow in the United States of labor of this false foreign leadership, whose politics mean revO- lution, pure and simple.
 Leaders Attacked
 These leaders cry, We are for la- bOr,' and then proceed to destroy the half century of achievement of honest organized labor and in fact cruelty the men who toil These leaders stand for confiscation and destruction and have foiled thousands with their roseate-hued land of promise. Con- tracts with their employers are held as mere scraps of paper. The interna- tional officers are held in contempt. The true and tried leaders are brush ed aside. Chaos and turmoil result.
 These leaders by Ukase tried to throttle a whole city. The fact that the 95 per cent of labor was loyal, the fact that there was a great prepOnder- ance of real Americans in this com munity stifled the attempt at birth.
 T am pleased to plead for labor, for its workers |. for its aims and ideals. l am here before you with no brief for thecriminaI leaders. They should. and must be punished, but fear that you employers of 6O,0OO workmen may take advantage of the situation and punish the rank and file for the leaders crime
 rfF Asks Aid for Men
 Remember, employers, that it is when men have power that their greatness is measured. The man in diversity has no choice but to submit; the man with great power shows his manhood and Americanism by being kind and gentle and lair. The labor movement is a movement founded in necessity to bring better conditions to the workers. Organized labor has helped your children and my children Orgaized labor has stood firm and true for our government and for our flag. In it's ranks are some or the best men in our nation Organized labor in Se- attle sits today repentant and fearful of the consequences of their leaders rash acts.
 T ask you all to forgive the workers for their mistakes in following false gods. To err is human; to forgive divine. Take labor by the hand. and walking side by side and hip to hip, help decent labor to purge itself or this alien curse of bolshevism. This is time, too great a time for little things, too great a time to harbOr re- sentiment All true Americans must unite We must face the world not in sects or classes, but as one great united citizenship. pledged to pre- serve our freedom and bring about freedom for all the world"