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Show A DEPARTMENT OF AGITA TION "THE national Committee on Industrial Relations, of which Mr. Walsh, the well-known labor politician, is the chairman, did not, as many have supposed, sup-posed, pass into innocuous desuetude after the publication of its famous report of last year. It is still under mandate of governmental authority and doing business in the spirit of last year's pronouncement, with headquarters at 320 Broadway, New York City. One of its functions now is the issuance under governmental authority and at government expense of "bulletins" dealing with industrial disputes the country over. An issue of this kind. dated "December" illustrates the the spirit in which the work of this commission is being carried on. We excerpt as follows: "The cynical and brutal truth about the killing last month of fourteen or more of the workers who were attempting to land at the dock in Everett, Washington, Wash-ington, to hold a free speech meeting in that lumber town, is coming into possession pos-session of the National Labor and Defense Council. The men were killed outside out-side of all forms of law by a sheriff and a mob of deputies and gunmen, commercial com-mercial club members, and a riff raff of Everet and nearby cities. "In the final analysis it will be found these cowards in Everett who, without with-out right or justification, shot into the crowd on the boat were the murderers, and not the I. W. W.'s. "The men who met the I. W. W.'s at the boat were a bunch of cowards. They outnumbered the I. W. W.'s five to one, and in spite of this they stood there on the dock and fired Into the boat, I. W. W.'s, innocent passengers and all. "The most of the men who were killed, and the two-score or more of those who were wounded, happened to be members of the Industrial Woikers of the World. They wertf shot in cowardly, cold-blooded fashion." The United States government by maintaining this so-called industrial commission and by permitting and paying for its fulminations is giving something some-thing more than a quasi-endorsement to a destructive and revolutionary propaganda. pro-paganda. Literally it is maintaining a department of agitation. It is part of the price we are paying for the support of Mr. Wilson by Mr. Gompers and his followers in the elections of 1912 and 191G. The Argonaut. |