Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1920-01-02
To All Affiliated Local Unions.
10 Whom it May Concern:
Seattle, Wash, Dec. 6, 1919

uatien now faces our nation, not only
from an industrial but from political
standpoint, and that many unfoundeo
and wholly exagg erated statements are
now being made, not only by those who
have opposed union labor at all times.
bat from many who are not directly
effected either from the side of labor
or of capital, the International Union
of Timber Workers wishes it's position
to be clearly understood, and issues
this bulleton for the information of ev-
eryone.
First: The international Union of
Timber Workers is a bona-fede labor
organization affiliated with the Ameri
can Federation of Labor 1t is com
mitted to the policy of the trade agree
ment, arbitration, negotiation and con-
the right to strike if there be need for
strike, it takes the position and has
made it part of it's policy to employ
| the strike weapon as an agency to Sc
cure equitable conditions of employ
ment--only after all other reasonable
and honorable methods have failed.
Second: 1t is emphatically opposed
to the use of direct action, !" "sabo-
toge, destruction of property, syndic-
aism, mob action, or any and all other
forms o. force or illegal acts as means
to secure changes in the Industrial or
political field
| 1t is not in any way connected with,
or in support of, the |. w. w. or kin
dred organizations. 1t is absolutely
opposed to a dictatorship of any elias;
or group that may seek to over ride
properly constituted authority. Knowl
edge that any of its members have be
one members Of, or II any way sub
scribe to the program Of, the W W
or other lawless elements, is sufficient
Justification to cause their expulsion
from our organization
| Third: Without any reservation it is
committed to the support of the Con
titution of the United States and all il
| implies Hundred of its members ar
ex-service men whose loyalty and devo-
ton to their country no man may deny;
these men are as loyal in peace as they
W ere in war; they have the same pat
riotic ferver today that they had when
they wore the uniform of their country
No ess loyal are those mem berS VIII
were not in the naval and military for
- of the nation, bat who proved their
., .riotsm by temainiDg steadily a
work in an essential war Industry.
There is not one stain on their record
Fourth: The International Union of
Tim err Workers now has local unions
il every lumber producing section OF
this country and in some of the Prov
inces Of Candada. Its purpose is to or
ganize all workers i'm the timber in
dustry; to make the eight hour day ma
tional in that industry, and thereby re
move the unfair competition now ex
is ing in the industry againrt those
employers whose mills and camps op
crate Gig 1t hours per day in competi-
tion with those that still operate ten
or eleven hours per day. 1t asks no
unfair advantage or unreasonable con
d tions of employment; it's purpose is
to build and stabilize industry.
1t is hard to understand the position
taken by some employers who still re-
fuse to cooperate. We hold that by
so doing, they are in a large measure
responsible for the wide spread red
agitation that has grown apace in some
localities.
We realize our responsibility to our
country; our declaration is more than
the flowing of plrases-its backed by
earnestness and honest conviction of
justice of our cause.
We contradict the statements by
some forces, either direct or implied,
that our country is on the brink of dark
and evil days. We have full confidence
in the ability of our collective citizen
ship to work out our many vexed prob
lens in the correct way. We are not
given to hysteria or wild and fanciful
action; the calm reasoning and high
sense Of justice and fair dealing that
rests In the consciousness of the Amer
lean people will triumph
The TINA has not Gonna Uben If can
be thruthfully said that American man
hood has>been weakened to the extent
that it is no longer capable of living up
to high purpose, or cease to enjoy
the respect and confidence of the
whole world.
INTERNATIONAL UNION
OF TIMBER WORKERS.
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