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Show I I Sound American- I ; izalion Remedy I " For Unrest HHHH dB ir"! HJSf 'vn'y- HI r In n recent Interview lu the Salt HJ! Lnko Tribune, on Industrial contll- HHm ''' tlons In tho west, Colonol E. Hotor, HJ . )' publisher of the Manufacturer, said: HJl 'I "Vour editorial lu tho Sunday Trl- HhIr -- bunii 'Do On Gunrd' against those HH I,- who would undermlno tho constltut- HJt tlon and overthrow our government HBJn , cxprcsRtd the felling of nil Americans Hh (' who nro Amorlcans. For tho same- Hb ' precious plea that would rolcaso HJ fif Debs nnd Haywood from prison sen- HJ I ' I fences would Justify leniency toward H I j Townloy nnd Gilbert of tho Nonpar- HJff It tlsan lcnguo becauBo tho war Is ov- 1 " . I HJ a j ' "On tho Pacific coast wo woro ar oused from our feelings of security, when n little handful of Bolshevist agitators led by n Hussion revolutionist revolu-tionist wore able In a short tlmo to porsuado noun' two hundred Seat-tlo Seat-tlo labor organizers to ctrlko for n revolutionary program, Involving tho question nelgthcr of wages nor hours. We nwoko to find the streets flooded with circulars advocating tho red soviet program of anarchy. gkneiial btuiki: knds j "When labor realized what had bcon dono and that tho program was to stop every wheel of Industry on tho Pacific coast, tho rank and filo of American Federation unions voted vot-ed to go back to work, and it was their action which broko tho back of tho general strike A genoral strike Is no more posslblo today, not oven iho much heralded no beer no work strike, than n revival of Prussian Prus-sian militarism, "But our Industrial structure Is standing on tho rumbling crest of n I social volcano. Traitorous propagandists propagan-dists outsldo the labor organizations as In tho case of tho shipyards strlko recently at Los Angeles, are1 Inciting Industrial disturbances that are capable of being funned Into revolutionary rev-olutionary dimensions. "Dellbcrato plans nro being made to carry an educational propaganda J A Portland dally, paper and a Socialist Social-ist weekly nro sowing tho seeds of discontent among th0 farming and laboring class, tho lattor circulating Lcnlno's address to American working work-ing men. The former Is paving tho way for organizing tho Nonpartisan league on the North Dakota plan In Oregon. And farmers never so prosperous pros-perous nor labor so well paid as at present " y "A well known Socialist writer and free thought lecturor of Portland has bcon planted at Nampa, Idaho, to exploit with thought, tonguo and pen tho Nonpartisan propaganda in that stato. Ho Is a writer and a thinker of wonderful ability nnd pub llcly advocates tho Russian program as sound doctrlno for acceptance In th0 United State SOS 1'AIITISANS ACTIVE "Nonpartisan organlzors are now swarming over Washington whoro tho league has acquired two newspapers newspa-pers Including tho Bellinghnm Dally journal, and boasts communities ".3t r-1 1D0 por cent leaguers, Tho llenguo li. ; nix newspapers In Idaho, and more than ono banker has beca infected, with tho Idea of becoming tho official state bank when tho lcaguo controls tho state. "Southern California Is being covered cov-ered with sample copies of a now monthly published at "Los Aangclcs, tho official organ of Bolshevism on tho coast, edited by a woman who was denied tho prlvllcgo of making public addresses at Portland and el so whoro unless she ceased open advocacy advo-cacy of tho Russian red. "From month to month tho nation .Is threatened with violence Tho demonstrations May 1 and tho terrorism ter-rorism planned by sending bombo to j leading exponents of Americanism outraged our concepts of freo instl-J tuolons. Now wo aro threatened with a new uprising of tho reds July 1. All this Is cunning propaganda! to familiarize, the public with tho ft idea.. " , "Western stales are suffering from want of industrial development through Instruments of local and foreign for-eign .capital. The constant crusade against big business enterprises, that Is tho vrholo platform of Nonpartls-anlsm, Nonpartls-anlsm, will provent a dollar of capital cap-ital from going Into any Industry, will produco armies of the unemployed unemploy-ed and roduco production and confidence confi-dence to a minimum. "By stirring up Btrlfo, envy, discontent dis-content and class hatred, Nonpartl-sanlsm Nonpartl-sanlsm nnd Bolshevism lay "Iho ground work for Industrial paralysis paraly-sis and anarchy. Its professional agitators may not bo guilty of overt acta or openly employ seditious utterances ut-terances but they nono tho less In-clto In-clto revolutionary sentiment that leads to conspiracy and direct action. ac-tion. "What Is tho romodyT A revival of sound Amorlcanism, a manly stand for tho superiority of froo Institutions In-stitutions on tho American plan, and then deport or hang those who plot or lnclto suspension of Industries or lnterefcro with the production of the M necessaries of life. Pr0ductIon,'pro- HJ duction and more production is- tho HJ best remedy for I. W. W.lsm and HJ Dolshcvlsm. HJ "Wc havo started an educational HJ movement in Oregon and hopo to HJ extend ft to all western states, J to mako possible .the strlkeless lcom- HJ monwcalth, whero Industries will HJ not bo Interrupted and ,where capl- vjHl tal can be invested With absolute sc- HJ curlty nnd where labor will boab- HJ solutcly sure, of a squaro rioal.-'.Wo HJ aro establishing voluntary councils HJ of mediation to deal with all Indus- HJ trial problems. H VOliUNTAHY COUNCILS THIKI) M "Wo have taken tho Whltnoy HJ councils plan, established under a HJ commission appointed by Lloyd HI George several years ago, under H which twenty one great Amorican ,H ot Oreat Drltaln aro successfully con HJ ducted. Modified to meet American HJ conditions and in no way minimis- HJ Intr or intrenching upon organized HJ labor, the plan works perfectly. HJ "Under this plan ot disposing ot HJ labor troubles employees chooso a HJ shop representative and employers H chooso a representative, each Bid oiHJ paying its man, and theso two aro on Hj tho Job continuously, dealing with HJ overy phaso of. difference or conflict- HJ lng interest between employers and HJ employees. What they agreo upon Is tv HJ final, unless appealed to a district S. HJ council of three for each side, form- HJ ed In tho samo way. HJ "The shipyards of the Pacific coast Hj havo recently tried to creato a mod- HJ iatlon council ot flvo named by the HJ International Theads of organized. la- HJ bor and flvo namod by the ship- Hj builders. But the moro radical la- HJ bor unions of San Francisco distrust HJ the movement and aro voting It down H on a referendum. Tho voluntary Hj ' mediation movement 'Is bound to pro H vail because it Is a hlghor type of HJ organization ovolved from Industrial Hj needs. "The entire west Including organ- HJ lzed labor la Interested In resisting HJ the revolutionary tendency. Employ- HJ ors and' labor organlatlono must un- HJ Ite along lines of the cohorts of de- HJ structlon, This fruit of the tree ot HJ anarchy is ready to fall unless wo H exterminate the trunk, root, branch- HJ ca and all, and subBtitute loyalty, HJ order and Intelligence for treason, HJ conspiracy and force." jH |
