The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1922-07-27
NOTES FROM LOCAL
FEDERATED CRAFTS

sight of the most remarkable victory
ever achieved by organized Ameri-
anc wage workers. The t~otality of
efect-so apparent in Wolf Point
is characteristic of the situation
from the Atlantic to the Pacific
and from the Mexican border to the
C~andadian line, and only to sum up
the local happenings gives one an
idea of what is happening all over
the continent.
The normal shop force at Wolf
Point is about a hundred and forty
men. All of these men with the ex-
ception of one are on strike; and to
take their places the Company has
found ten scabs, whose manhood is
such that they are willing to go into
the shops. That these ten scabs can
adequately handle the situation of
course is ridiculous, and that the
Company is beginning to feel the
pinch is evinced by the falling down
of train service, the winnings thru
the press, and the dire threats to
the strikers, calling them back to the
job lest they lose their seniority.
Maintenance of Way Men Go Out
On Monday at 10 o'clock IS Main
tenance of way employees at Wolf
Point joined the ranks of the strik-
ing shopmen. From Cut Bank to
Minot similar moves were taken,
and every day new lists of walkouts
of this organization are being added
to those who are on strike. The
Maintenance of Way have not yet
received their strike order, but what
is nearer the point they voted to
strike by an overwhelming majority,
and what is still nearer the point
they have even greater grievances
than the shopmen. So they are tax
ing the matter into their wv hands,
and if in the face of this action
Cradle, President of the Organiza-
ton, refuses to act, there is only
one logical conclusion and that is
that he has sold out to the Big In
tereSts.
False Propaganda
Bernard Shaw once said that
sany mar is free who cannot feel
his chains" Perhaps the noted
dramatist was right. Anyway it has
always been our solid conviction
ever since we were able to hold a
school book in our hands that "all
men are created equal and they are
endowed by their Creator with GER
tain inalienable rights ETC." Also
a certain definite clause in the Cor
stitution provides for absolute free
dom of press, speech and assemb-
lage, also for the right to peaceably
picket. But to revise the Constltu-
ton to harmonic with conditions
during the present Industrial crisis,
it seems not beside the point to sug-
gest an amendment such as this:
Cali men are equal, but in case OF a
strike God has a leaning to the side
of the Big Interests"
Lets consider the Freedom of the
Press for instance. 1t seems that
in some cases that this freedom has
progressed beyond the bounds OF
fact, while III other instances 1t has
been so horribly squelched as a dried
up apple in a cider mill.
Take Wolf Point as an example.
The Associated Press service comes
out with the astounding news that
the irate strikers at Wolf Point have
Threatened to riddle the Great
Northern passenger coaches with
bullets. More than that, the daily
papers of Sunday, July %, informs
us that "Scabs" in Montana have
been thrown in the rivers and
stream and perhaps drowned. Who
knows? Anyway through the agency
of the Associated Press the impress
sion is given to the outside world
that Montana is in the chaos of re-
volt, bloodshed, and revolution.
All this is news. Like the man
that bit the dog, it's news. It's news
to everybody, and especially to the
people who live in Wolf Point.
wonder if it's news to the "Scabs"
who according to the papers are
supposed to have suffered from the
lev GOODNESS of the Missouri river,
or maybe Wolf Creek. Let's look
into the matter.
The men who are 'scabs'' have
never since the first day of the strike
been closer than the round house to
the river. There has been no law
assn in Wolf Point. There has
not been one act of violence commit
ted bv thes trikers. There is no a
Union man in Wolf Point who would
degrade his manhood by laying his
hands on the vile, dirty carcass OF a
"scab." Yet it has been insiduous-
w inferred that "Scabs" nave been
harmed by the strikers. Why 10
harmed by the strikers. Why !? 10
weaken your morale. To give false
grounds for an injunction from the
courts to restrain our right to picket.
We have not committed violence.
The only violence will be what is per
petrated against US. We stand only