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Show LA WRENCE ANALYZES DISQUIET ON PACIFIC COAST mills "SEATTLE rit of Unrest and Mob tychology Mark Stay; : Presidential Party Drthwest Metropolis.! ;itile Attitude Clearly j anifested by Crowd; glared Real Symp-! m of Bolshevism. i , DV!D LAWRENCE. ' ' tJ - l" The S..lt Lake Tri'rur.e.' """ ITLAN?. Ore.. Sep:. 14 rln Route ' tris.-ii': Wilson to Fcnlar.d. Ore. " ;urr..:i. and no:?y ceT.cr.- , it which Seu::le greeted the' r: cf the United State?, few . riii c n derive sa'.It:"j.c;ion. Mr. T ; stre:h c.ho; tho ie.ig"-e of r.a- 'rs L-c!Tr.;... Ir.de.d. relatively cr Whs: was vital ar.d dls-: dls-: g : iT e.:ern cbser-.-er was the ;?r. of i::resi, of mob psyholj-yi h::lr.a:lcr.. which made the ; 'f:i:.Ur.:.i; party nervous through- . .. le lilrty-s.x hours of their stay in! - I I K -t -:e :.or.e too c ;-;-d ar.d a r. 1 u;-.-m-:.i rr.uj o: several :hus.tr.; ; i :.-:--:r.er.- of r.o is e ur.d j v r.r.i-zz a-.:r.t the coors of the r.. w..re the president wus try- i . r.--.. Sfveral hundred rr.arlnes f ?!.::.: fret, which the pr.s.dn: r rirxed earlier in the day, stooi l: cr. the docks with Sxei weap- tz tuty stayed there all Saturduy It r:.r..ss f.-,r trouble. " -moo wan: to erre . t-ttactlon with the league of r.i-.- r ;a:e treaty? No: a bit of it. ; i'.-L t care about anythir.g so re-. re-. 12 ''-'T-S C'Ii:y. They were part .. of the labor movement here, . -(-or. s leaders whose purposes .'- 3E"-3 constitute the most tangible X o: E'j.s-.vism which the United 7i'- witr.-tssed. ;: tILE ATTITUDE " (EARLY REVEALED. r 13. r',m-nt the president en--- a remarkably enthu- tf"r'--."raT on aT Tacorna. an hour h.-'J--V' almost antaeoms-, antaeoms-, j;:; 01 -tor toward Mr. Wilson -V -Cli 'Ji! , apparent. fc.mpie tp't' ori w:"-!f n was printed, in :?;:,rs- "H:ase po!it:cal Pris-, Pris-, . '" . tr-e eves oi all ..f us. as .- Pfoctssion passed through --''."s more crowded and con- - Tk. T"j:sY ar;d turbulent than r..:?''6 e,ver ":''n- with the pos-i':3 pos-i':3 ' the far:at:.:al d-mon- .... k';k?..ia People of Milan, Italy, - i'.V U"'!1 ''inlJarV. - s' and a preat manv laror ""-."'''f'ti'lated with the I. v.: - yv", tot:e and kopt silent S'--t " w'r,t ''' a giier.t pro- :'.' r--:"r,1''1" "nonw.nme'it of men ' (h;. h'"5 ar,d Hulett Wells, who ,'.;"'"?" the e.p.onaeo act h'.' sr obstruct our success in fjvM true ATnrifti wanted . t,':;t Seattle is loval, .'. c.;-'r';"Jia,K'n not different fr..m :-; - l'..'.'. Ther American cities. '-' K-Tt'Z'" A ""thusiosm for Mr. v,,:, J''" authority, was bv !:-' i.' ;!:l;,rksh!e tribute he lias .- tins country. h IRKABLE TRIIJUTE :h 10 PRESIDENT. '' ' iv ,'! ' lhlp 'M to be found ; Itr.-,i ; a,J'hence at the Audi-'' Audi-'' ' "fr, , ",e ,ef't shouted '''.';' 'husiai.m as the ' l -w' ''r'bing the pitiful . ; ri ,,- iai people and the :ia-, ' "f minority of Iiolshe- .. II. .- c, r','"ke wi'h dramatic em-;wn;;e:, em-;wn;;e:, "My f'-Mow-citi- 1 Irrt Mu'';Vr'te ev"rv infiu-'- : :'ir,i'V 'h'- a'J'hrity f have :" to see to it tha't no ' .. tl. rjr'r V1 ,we '""'"''I hear the -'-- ' "'?;:' chorus: "We want ';f- J fo,.:,. ;'--"i I" but on inves-'' inves-'' Si'n L"?', Ul Cf'wd was not . t t - ln to hear the presi-i'- W.V"5 ,0 trot an opportu-.' opportu-.' ' t" Tl,, abo,Jt 'he "political a,i Cln h,Jr!''red of 'hese labor M the." .'""orniseel seals in the '.. c?m wearinff these f., n;-ned. and while a few ; '' ti'l !,,',"';'" ,''w or another, the n ,!!'J room for the (treat X1'? an,J the meeting TO ' ' Peac-ful. .'f.,.,';-''-V:t-. to Hie prcsi--n C'te'.'! rrviouH journey JJ y- . ', 'r y other American " rererr,ptorv caaraci e:-. e:-. h r;"71!'"- '' 'he Sesotlc labor .- li. erence with the presi-..'' presi-..'' !it " alternoon wh.-n he : . .'r :ini '"'as ali o not '. - ,; "A on page 2, Column 5.) llCf 11 IS II . ; EVIDENCE ST SEATTLE! j (Continued from Paga One.) j j Atlantic states, where controversies rage I as to whether labor unions affiliated with the American Federation of Labor should be recognized, conditions seem to the I westerner Quite tame. For instance, the Seattle Times, the wealthiest newspaper here, which could no more be suspected of an interest in disorder than the New York Times, had a leading editorial today to-day practically justifying the complaint of eastern laborers who want tho unions to be recognized in the steel industry. So far bevond the stage of merely recognizing recog-nizing labor unions has the I'acinc coast situation gotten that it is hero largely a question of standing by the American Federation of Labor to prevent the 1. . W 's from getting complete control, and that, it is feared, would mean direct ac-tion'and ac-tion'and Bolshevism. Not All Conservatives. But it cannot be said that all the men In tho American Federation of Labor-out Labor-out here are conservatives. Perhaps it is the contagion of radicalism or the desire to prevent their own authority and position from being uprooted by agitating agi-tating radicals, but the men who went to see President Wilson at his hotel on Sundav talked as some of the radicals might have talked. They presented arguments argu-ments concerning the release of what thev termed "political prisoners. ano their persistence along lines which the radicals hive agitated gave an impression impres-sion not whodv different from their more aggressive brethren. But the hope and confidence of Seattle seems to be dependent depen-dent upon the wisdom of such men for the present, any way because they are for law and order and differentiated from the direct actionists. Put Seattle Is not like eastern cities. Labor conditions are entirely different. The labor group is much more audible and Influential. For instance, they publish pub-lish a daily newspaper which circulates among hundreds of thousands of workers in this section. On front page or the Seattle Union Record, labor's organ, there was printed In flaming letters, on Mr. Wilson's arrival, a series of questions lull of innuendo and demanding the immediate repeal of the espionage law. the release of Tom Moonev and other "political prisoners," pris-oners," the withdrawal of American forces from Russia, and explanation of the refusal re-fusal of passports to Americans wishing to visit Russia, support of the Plumb plan and. finally, this query, "Why do you not fire Burleson?" There follows a lone editorial condemn-In condemn-In the postmaster general for dismissing employees from the postal service for activity ac-tivity In organzing unions and a long discussion, dis-cussion, supposedly of grievances of American Amer-ican labor and causes of social unrest in the Pacific northwest, but curiously enough not a little space is given to the Russian situation, with a plain undercurrent undercur-rent of sympathy with the Russian Bolshevists. Bol-shevists. Overrun With Propaganda. The people of Seattle have been overrun over-run with propaganda about the Russian question and responsible people here tell me that they have been at a loss to know how to fight it because of the uncertainty uncer-tainty of the American government's position. po-sition. President Wilson's plain speaking on his western trip, his denunciation of the rule of the thirty-four Bolsheviki commissioners in Petrograd and Moscow, therefore, has had an affirmative effect here. It has stimulated those who are trying to squelch Bolshevism in the United Uni-ted States and given them the impression that they will have the full force of the federal government behind them If necessary. neces-sary. The president, in his speech at Helena, talked about radicalism and said plainly that agitation which had for its object the curing of existing wrong by political means should not be molested, but should be encouraged. Some of the newspapermen newspaper-men traveling with the president thought this was a plain stimulus to the lawless elements, who would use the president's words as an excuse for their campaign of agitation. Inquiry in Seattle reveals that what one might have supposed would be food for the radicals, or at least good headlines for the labor papers here, was carefully buried and ignored. The president's overtures, over-tures, so to speak, werec oncealed from the readers for fear they might renew their confidence in the president. For it is their policy to keep the rank and file distrustful of the president and cynical of his promises, nor are they for this same reason putting much emphasis on the capital and labor conference soon to be held in Washington. The I. w. W.'s and large bodies of other laboring men are apathetic about that conference. A typical question addressed to President Presi-dent Wilson which reveals the attitude of the labor paper in Seattle, for instance, is this: "Why do you not occasionally suggest to employers that they pay the wages or grant the conditions demanded by labor pending the calling of an industrial indus-trial conference, instead of continually asking labor to make the sacrifices?" Friendly to Labor. The average easterner would probably argue that President Wilson had been very friendly to labor throughout his administration, ad-ministration, and it is because of that fact that he is so often criticised by conservatives con-servatives in' both the Democratic and Republican parties. But out here the editorials edi-torials and speeches of the labor group makt- Mr. Wilson out to be a Tory of the most tyrannical stripe, suppressing free speech, "torturing" political prisoners, offending of-fending the workers of Russia and participating par-ticipating in an alleged miscarriage of justice with respect to numerous labor "martyrs." This, then, is the atmosphere in which President Wilson found himself at Seattle, an a tmosphere of class friction with an apprehension of disorder and anarchy that is not imaginary, but real. Perhaps i t was -the turbulence of the mob, friendly though it proved to he, which threw Mr. Wilson off his steady poise, for his speech in Seattle was disconnected dis-connected and devoid of any new argument. argu-ment. r was at Tacoma that the president presi-dent made his best speech. He made his audience gasp as he recited the fearful cost in men and money of the late war, and a spontaneous outburst of approval greeted his reading of the final paragraph of his famous war message of AprillDlT. Given Real Welcome. It was a passage printed on Liberty loan posters everywhere throughout the war. and Mr. Wilson's point is that when he made his address to congress Republicans Repub-licans and Democrats alike applauded and issued statements afterward declaring that the president had truly spoken the wish of the American people. So the president repeated the phrases in which he had pledged America to fight for tV liberty of small nations and the establishment estab-lishment of a concert of power to preserve the peace of the world, name'iv, a partnership part-nership of nations. The Tacnma'auiliorce and the crowds gave Mr. Wilson evidence upon evidence of their sviriDathy and approval, ap-proval, but it would be difficult for anvone to analyze whether the riotous clamor in Seattle was a demonstration for the league of nations or a demonstration ctf the social unrest which Mr. Wilson has been arguing would spread throughout the wnole United States if the peace treaty y not soon disposed of and governments gov-ernments add peoples given a settled basis on which to calculate their social and economic future. |
