The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1921-01-21

one occasion.
History will repeat.
Agitate! Educate! ORGANIZED
Ask labor headquarters there.
At Clinton, Iowa, labor was seek
ing to elect a city administration
hat would be fair and square to
all. Labor was getting beat up
badly. The World War Vets got the
S. o. S. A couple of our organizers
happened along. We put in a post
of some 200 members, all labor
doughboys itching for a scrap. The
DULLES started the "Bolshevik" name
calling stunt, and also the usual
rough stuff. The first time they
mixed (our men were out peddling
hand-bills advertising a meeting and
he DULLES tried to stop them), five
Vets cleaned up IL DULLES and
cleaned 'em right. Yes, the bills
were spread and the meeting held.
And just to show who was boss,
The day before election some 500
Vets laid off duty for the day, can
vassed that old town from house to
house, store to store, bank to bank,
upside down and backwards. Yes,
labor elected the city government
Write your secretary there.
What l am trying to tell you is,
that if you have not yet known the
power and efficacy of the organized,
laboring ex-doughboy, you are miss
ing your best bet; and you are
doing your men an injustice by leav-
ing them at the mercy of greed
without our protection.
If the organized labor of Amer
lea will "get behind" the World War
Veterans sincerely and in earnest,
as it should, the Vets will pledge
themselves substantially to wreck
this open shop comedy and wreck
it so badly that that comedy will
return to Wall street and play to
the galleries there.
Give us your cooperation and we
will make it so hot for the M. & M.
and kindred organizations that they
will want to go to Hot Springs,
Hades, for three weeks to cool off.
So far the Vets have been play
ing a lone hand. We have had not
dollar of aid outside our own
pockets, and for labor's cause some
of us have gone down as deep as
$1,000, some $500, some $3.50, and
many of the rank and file have
thrown in their tens and twenties.
Now we are talking to labor, and
we are talking turkey. Give US, you
100000 labor men of America,
put 100000 into our hands or at
our disposal and we will organize
the ex-doughboys of America into
combat organization that will save
America from economic, industrial,
financial and political anarchy into
which you know, as we'll as we do
that she is drifting. You men of
New York back us for $4,000 and we
will save your lives. You men of
at our disposal and the gents of the
American Wooden will spend a few
winters in the Isle of Pines. You
lads down there in West Virginia
with the soldiers at your threats,
why do you not call in the men of
the Vets who are experts at this
soldier business, and we will take
those soldiers away from your
throats. You men at Akron who
we have heard, have left that burg
by the ten-thousands, why did you
not let us turn Akron into a Fort
Dodge? And you men all over this
fair land of ours, who ask nothing
/ more from industry than a square
deal for yourselves and families,
wake up, give your executive secre-
tary orders to call in the Vets: put
some of your money where it will
produce good results quickly. Pay
our organizers enough to cover room
decent clothes and we will get them
on the JOB for you.
Only, if organized labor wants the
job done, that same organized labor
will have to kick through with the
dough. We have the men and the
talent, the goods and the CUTS, and
we know the game. We have not
yet exhausted our fighting resources,
and we propose to continue the bat
tie whether you line up with US
or not; but we are calling for re-
endorsements from a scource from
which we have a right to expect
them.
We are not fighting the U. S.
government. We are fighting those
anarchists in and out of office who
abuse and misuse official preroga-
tives.
Nor are we radicals, except in one
respect: That this damnable intim-
idation, this wholesale destruction
of, and disregard for our funda-
mental rights of citizenship must
stop.
Whip your central body into line
and shoot US $3.50 bucks. Arrange
for our organizers, and enjoy life
again.
Fraternally yours,
WORLD WAR VETERANS,
National Executive Committee.
Winfred G. Heidelberg,
Executive Secretary and Treasurer.
(The World War Veterans are en-
dorsed by Minnesota, Missouri, Kan
sas, Wisconsin, and Montana Fed
Grated Shop Crafts of the A. f. of
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