Evening star., 1933-11-15
BY RALPH w. PAGE.

BY RALPH W.. PAGE.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
SEATTLE, Wash. November is CE.
A-N.Al-This State, fortunately, Is In
excellent shape to carry on its sharc
Of the expense of recovery. The total
debt outstanding was only a little over
sS,0oo,0 900. Consequently even the ter
rified underwriters in New York are
buying Washington relief bonds on a
Al basis.
The labor unions have come to life.
A golden era for the workman is antici-
pated. Reports would lead one to be-
lieve that the Northwest is a hot bed
Of radicals. If so. they stay carefully
hidden. The true story is probably
told by Jimmy Duncan, the idealistic
champion of labor one time candidate
for mayor of Seattle.
Wild? This town? A tanner town
ought not to be allowed to exist. These
peoples idea of Communist Is any
little gink that wants to join labor
union. A man out here who wants
more pay is classed as a red-headed
bomb-throwing anarchist"
Employer Education Need.
But he went on, cit is unreason-
able TO expect men who have been bred
to regard their employees as furniture.
and themselves as czars of business, TO
adopt a new attitude at once. Patience
with them--explanation and guidance
are essential. They have to be edu-
Gated slowly to civilized ideals.
In 1920 after the grand strike was
called ran for mayor. While I was
preaching that all we needed was q
little more Christian spirit, Ole Hanson
was touring about, lecturing how he
saved Seattle and civilization from the
Red revolt, showing pictures of Armi-
stice day. which he called the revo-
luton.
we are not going to lay down under
section IA. 1t gives labor the right
to organize If 1t wants to. Well 1t
wants to. 1t forbids the employers
forcibly preventing them. Well, they
are forcibly preventing them"
Apparently the matter Is coming to
a head.
Motor Leader Speaks.
Says the Seattle Automobile Dealers
Association, led by no less a champion
than William o. Mckay, general Of the
N. r. A.:
There is, Of course, no objection to
our men attending the mass meeting
Of auto mechanics called by Jimmy
Duncan, but ! should Ike to have them
acquainted with the actual facts before
going there and listening to what Will
probably be half-truths, misrepresenta-
tions, or more or less lies.
made some very wild statements to
code made it necessary for labor to
organize.
please acquaint our men with tt.
following facts:
AT meeting in Detroit Gen. John
SON, N. r. A. administrator, said:
1t has been repeatedly said by the
administration that 1t Is not the runc-
tion of the act to organize either indus
try or labor. To obtain the benefiIs
Of this act it is net necessary for any
worker to join either company unions
or labor unions. The law will be exc
cuted exactly as written and current
lisrepresentations that a man must
join a union to get the benefits Of the
law are entirely without foundation or
truth.
ObdtIlS tlldt III dOulLlOn 10 appears
the owners are firing and otherwise in
timidating any of their men who even
dare center the labor temple, Auto
Mechanics Local Union. No. 28o, sent
this message to employees of the Seattle
Automobile Dealers Association:
"A circular letter was addressed 10
you by the Seattle Automobile Dealers
Association, evidently purposely de-
signed to mislead you as to the impor-
tance Of that organization In matters
pertaining to the national recovery act.
The dealers letter referred to
quoted the following unfinished para
graph OF the recovery act (which we
finish): The right of employees to or
ganize and bargain collectively through
representatives Of their own choosing
shall be free from interference, restraint
or coercion of employers of labor, or
their agents, In the designation Of such
representatives or in self-organization,
or in other concerted activities for the
purpose Of collective bargaining, or
other mutual aid or protection"
of collective bargaining. Nine hundred
miners recently returned TO work in the
Kittitas County coal fields as result OF
the recent code
The farmers see their first spenda bic
cash in sight
The lumbermen and orchardists each
have new organization of their own
devising to work out their salvation
The Government is on the point of
flooding the valley with untold riches
flowing from a dam.
The mining world begins to see vi
sions Of gold, and proceeds with conf
dence, fathered by the wash that the
day will shortly appear when coinage
of silver viii make everybody rich.
(Copyright, 1888 by North American News
paper Alliance, Inc)