The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1921-11-18
MASS MEETING Is A
SUCCESS
OPEN SESSIONS
DEMANDED

Thursday night, November 10th,
the night before Armistice Day, the
Library Auditorium was filled with
people in favor of Universal Dis
armament.
Brother Jack Mundy, president of
he Seattle Central Labor Council,
who was announced as the speaker
for labor, failed to come and by so
doing disappointed the greater part
Of the audience.
Mayor W. H. Clay, the first
speaker, pointed out to the crowd
how happy this world would be if
we did away with war
The next speaker, the Reverend
Robert J. Reid, was several times
applauded during his eloquent adj
dress. If Mr.. Reid would make this
speech before the conference in
Washington he surely would get the
delegates in the frame of mind
they should be in.
A very educational address on
he disarmament question was given
by Rev. Burdick, of the First Con-
gregational church.
Startling figures as to the loss of
life during the war, loss of money
and the consequences of war were
revealed by the speakers.
| Chairman FOrtson was original as
always and announced the parade
for disarmament to be held on Arm
lstice Day at one o'clock in the af-
| ternoon.
A telegram was sent to Secretary
If State Hughes, requesting that the
conference not be held behind closed
| doors.
The following resolution was read
and adopted by the mass meeting:
| Whereas, The International Con
ference on Limitation of Armament
| has on this third anniversary of
| Armistice Day convened in Wash
ington, D. c, upon invitation of
our government, be it
| Resolved, AS the profound convic-
ton Of this public mass meeting of
the citizens of Everett, Wash, that
| the conference thus assembled in
| Washington remain in session until
it accomplishes to the fullest degree
the purpose for which it was invited
! to convene.
We proclaim it as our conviction
| and as the conviction of the great
masses of the people of this and
! other countries, that civilization
must shake off the terrific burden
Of armament, that it must turn its
energies and its abilities from war
to peace, from destruction to build
ing.
With regret and establishment we
learn that our government spends
| approximately 90 cents out of ev-
| cry dollar of revenue for past wars,
| present armament and preparation
tiles which make for development
and progress are starved This is
a mad economic and social waste.
| We not only petition our American
| representatives to use their best en-
| deavors to win the world away from
war and it's terrible toll of life and
wealth, we demand that they sue
| coed.
We do not propose that America
alone disarm. That would be folly
and would endanger all democratic
civilization. We demand interna-
tional agreement, knowing that the
peoples of all countries voice the
convictions here expressed
We have obliterated the last of
the great unlimited autocracies.
Is world organized democratic
ally to confess its inability to use
the machinery of democracy? We
declare to the world our faith that
The machinery of democracy is suf-
ficient-that it must be sufficient
and that our statesmen must not be
permitted to invest democracy with
the ancient traditions, fears, super
stitions, mechanics and economic
Embellishments of autocracy.
We are gazing upon world
whose spirit calls for peace.
Peace with the world of today is
more than an economic necessity
it is spiritual necessity, a moral
necessity. a necessity that conforms
to a world that has reached that
stage where democratic government
is POSSIBLE and where fearless rec
ognition of truth is possible.
The international conference has a