The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1920-01-02
WASHINGTON STATE
WEEKLY INDUSTRIAL Rt,,-11,

WASHINGTON STATE
WEEKLY INDUSTRIAL REVIEW
When our national payroll eclipses
our national production, then we are
bankrupt nation. This is the end To
which labor agitatory are le.5,,,
workers when they incite labor to de-
mand more in wages than is Justly
earned by them through production.
When big money buys little or
nothing, then money loses its value
Any government could adopt Lenino's
system Of printing bales of money and
handing it around,but what good is it
if it can't be exchanged for the com
modities of life?
Money is the medium Of exchange
When wages outstrip production the
purchasing power of the dollar takes
decided slump. The only way ia
get back that purchasing power is to
put goods on the market: produce.
give a fair return in production for
the wages paid.
The old scheme of boycotting is be
ing tried by housewives throughout
the country in order to reduce tho
cost of living. The boycott NAV brine.
about temporary relief, but also may
bring about decreased production. the
ver!' thing which menaces tho coun+rv
today.
The cost of living can be alleviated
by sensible buying, by saving and self
denial of luxuries. The boycott serves
only to discourage production.
Everywhere you go salespoople are
singing the same song:
"Prices are going up this spring.
You know. This is old stock or we
couldn't sell it at this price"
In the meantime, Attorney General
Palmer assures the country that prices
will begin to decline along about Jan
uary first.
Every decent and law abiding citi-
zen of America felt a thrill Of salts
faction when the 'red ship set sail
with its cargo of bolshevists. includ-
ing Emma Goldman and Alexander
Berkman, whose final plea was to the
government to save them from their
we'll deserved fate.
Emma shook her fist at Americas
receding shore declaring that somedav
"free Russia will join hands with free
America" and on that day she viii
come back here. a welcome guest.
Not while the majority of us are on
the job. demanding that such foreign
agitators be thrown out of the coun-
try.
We have discovered that our melt
in pot about which we loved to crate
in bvogne years, has had big lump
of foreign matter in it that refused to
be transmitted into Americanism. This
scum, drees. siar-or whatever YOU
care to call it-of humanity should be
shipped back to its source.
It's high time for America to cease
being poor melting pot; cease being
exploited and look out for its own.
Because most of US regard the I. W.
W. as very low in the scale Of human
ity, we forget, perhaps, that there arc
very clever people using them as tools
and that when they are taken into the
tolls of the law that there will be clev-
er lawyers hired to defend them. and
that funds will be provided to fight
for their freedom.
An I. W. ". fund is now being so
licited for the defense of the men held
for the Centralia massacre. The pro
paganda that the soldiers first attack
ed the I. w. W. who fought in self
defense, is being widely spread in ar
effort to secure these funds
Once the 7. W. W. organization Is
branded by law as seditious then the
solicitation of such funds would be a
criminal act; neither would T. W. W.
propaganda have the freedom of the
mails as it has today.
Public wrath should not allow itself
to cool until decisive steps are taken
to bar this organization from Ameri-
ca, and its propaganda from the
mails.
A number of coal operators have al
ready notified consumers that the adj
ditional Il per cent increase granted
the miners. is to be passed onto the
consumer, notwithstanding DR.. Gar
fields statement that there would be no
increase in the price of coal