The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 20, 1919, Page 13

The Seattle Star (=8«) THE SEATTLE STAR—FRIDAY, JUNE 20, 1919, “ONE BIG UNION” AIM OF CANADIAN RADICALS % PEASANTS ARE BACKING KOLCHAK CITIZENS’ COMMITTEE CHARGE STRIKERS URGE |. W. W. SCHEME BY E, C. RODGERS WINNIPEG, Man., June 20.—The ONE BIG U NION| rely ter the ght-hour day for metal workers, or tor fi inereased balie the one big issue in the labor sympathetic strikes of ‘"* (ades was Phe: wadertying iden: te the One. © nies. Cortes 8) P \ of business seo in the One Big Union the death knell of priva western Canada, which have their apex in the general strike beott ce wad fe ae of or Sere scott Ser ee ee ee ee re in Winnipeg, capital of Manitoba. Others, including many labor unionists, believe the One Big Union ts The Rev. William Ivens, leader of Winnipeg strikers, t®* New World version of Russian Bolshevism » nome, the strongent argument against the One Big Union is the fact that it ts favored by the asists the One Big Union is NOT the issue in the Winnipeg ["4{ ! a I. W. W. fa the O. BU bor trouble. He says it is a matter of collective bar- nervy abor , to the O. B. U. idea fining with them as a whole rather than piece-meal. Hed radicals favor The extremists regard the O The citizens committee of 1,000 charges the strike ** ¥0rs salvation, They is . Se aray WEN parental ders with a conspiracy to put over the One Big Union ppt conservat rs « what the O. Bt 1 ovement, and says the Winnipeg labor controversy has he unions in on ‘ome together in their Indu 1 coun: | en seized upon by extremists of labor as a means whereby , tater Bago seh rachel 7 Rapper telbont ec pitt the I. W. W. doctrine of the One Big Union may be put sperm pone tage Ayo ' pale Phen gare | strikes, end them, dictate wages, hours and everything else . Ing with the employers of that « ynly the national or inter ‘These are the facts ax I found them in Winnipeg, where the strike il of the 3 ould influence or , in Edmonton, Va ver, Calgary and smaller town thruout the Western Canada provinces tive-Born Canadians F wae Oraeenh: A gs pe siaveey snanstes in the Minority : uta cee as — ogi ays Canada has had her share of labor controversies w nm Canada is t onser t D * monumenta ‘ontrol of labor ty well organized. The leaders are more radical than in Eastern Can ily would be IN THE HANDS OF A FEW-the Internationa A large proportion of the membership is alien to the soil. They are coun No country’s government could stand against the decree of such inns, Germans, Austrians, and in a lesser degree South Europeans, Rus-|& control. It would be MORE POWERFUL eh any president, king ins. Poles, Danes and Swedes, Of course, there are Irish, Scotch and | kaiser or czar who ever ruled lish. Native born Canadians are in the minority, I found But, don’t forg says the Rev. Willis vens, * a council ¢ A year ago the Winnipeg Trades and Labor Council called a general | Workers, and rybody is or ou: © be a worker trike in behalf of the right of government workers to organize and bar I Decl f collectively. Policemen and firemen were organized. Their unions 4VEN8S Veciares for recognized by Winnipeg. Postal employes were organized. So werw 66 jloses st the government's telephone watem. “the fenere’ strike won Elimination of Profit System” % much then It did not spread beyond Ma oda. n hie strike paper In March there was called a conference of Wewtern Canada labor at \ i the etrik pare t e One Big t PGalgary. The extremists were in control. The provinces of Manitoba, Sas- i movement i © securing of the cont katchewan, Alberta i British Columbia were represente ho work t orgar n. Noth This conference deciared for, and pledged the support of Western Can. the ultimate eliminats 7 t system will satiefy labor.” ada to the One Big Union movement. This is the resolution This move is utterly lant to th ernationals (labor unions). One “That this convention go on record that in the event of the forma >Y one these jals 4 ceiling the charters of the unions that sup tion of the One Big Union idea prevailing, tha¢ its ultimate goal will (Port the O be the abolition of the wage system and that the six-hour day is only “The citizens’ committee says mills and all the tools and instruments of production by the toiling | insistent demand from the ranks of Canadian labor (to #ever all connection masses themselves.” i with the conservative American Federation of Labor, in favor of an en |Urely independent movement, sympathetic with the I, W. W, in the Declare Reorganization of | United States.” |" That—the One Big Union idea—ts the prime factor in the Winnipeg ernment May Be Necessary | general strike. It. was the iden beck of the lenders in the Seattle strike Shee the Gnvestion went or: j It is back of the leaders in the sympathetic strikes in Edmonton, Calgary “It soon be necessary to substitute for our present form of | Brandon. Vancouver and other Canadian cities | government an assembly and executive to reorganize the nation on a Conservatives tnelet the One Big Union to the now world ve hicle for Bolshevism; that it is American-Canadian soviet govern i BE caeperstive basis: and perpetuate that form of internal adjustment pomeur’y Just how this may be done, Canadian business men point to this reso PR oso. gre oon hom may engl = ware at yen vem ana bufiding pee a+ woe Ceteary Sonvention: « the Winnipeg ©. B. U, will be an established fact, and possibly the Western “This convention declares its full acceptance of the principle of ‘Pro-| (, dn. BU, Will nbve beceme-catabiehad mm Dictatorship’ as being absolute and efficient for the transforma. “*°*%* : sige Bes of capitalist private property to communal wealth.” And to this Duncan Comes and Talks, “The convention sends fraternal greetings to the Russian Gpviet gov Leaves for Atlantic City nt, the Spartacans in Germany, and ali definite working class move in Europe and the world, recognizing that they have won first place the history of the class struggle. the strikers and told them he and other Americans were working upon an The citizens’ committee insists that it is not the purpose of the ex-|O. B. U. program, which to start with would have 12 nation-wide councils here to make a change in government by the ballot, and they | placing all workers into 12 classifications according to the 12 separate in to the speech made in the convention of Delegate R. Sinclair of Van. | dustries; these to be united in some way to give a national strength to all uver, who said | Duncan slipped across the boundary line despite Canadian watchful “1 have been in this country ears and NEVER VOTED YET. So a rigs fripornarte ll a ha peng ar Bera pene gepe ral gay as taking the franchise off (he was referring to the disfranchisement of | dropped out o before t or le caught up Jitary aitpeners) let it go so long as we line up conditions alongside the He said he was headed for peer bers a City <eavenee < ri ers and fight. I DON’T SEE WHY WE SHOULD WORRY ABOUT American Federation of Labor, in ing to campaign there for hi in =. - “ cRE NOR ERE.” | One Big Union program. \ hwy peerage mpm ce: alanam cmmma Neither Canadian nor American immigration officials at the border em and Release of All saw him going back. They were laying for him then, toc 1) olitical and Military Prisoners ‘The convention then went ahead and demanded the release “of all ! tical and military prisoners,” including “those whom they consider as : v i: in this jes, that is, actively working for the German government untry.” | The convention, after adopting the One Big Union idea, laid out a ogram for bringing it into being by means of the sympathetic and gen I strikes Winnipeg, city of 200.000; prosperous, without a single tenement eiam rict, without extreme poverty, and without unemployment problems. Woodland park will be the Mecca selected for the opening of the struggle. Winnipeg is known to labor | for every miss, maid and matron i #0) in any game that suite their fancy the “injunction city,” where many anti-labor organization injunctions | years old and over, any time be-) pei o:ag 4, aS aa tae ve been granted in the past. Here are 30,000 organized workers. tween sunup and sundown Saturd. Lake will t attraction. Swim: At this time there was friction in the metal trades and the building} In other words, the greatest RITIS’| ine conte every aeaelaaee les. The employes of the Dominion Bridge Co., the Vulcan Co., and the|picnic tn Seattle's history will be) wit be held. From 4:00 to 7:00 MManitoba Bridge and Iron Co., were asking for an eight-hour day without|staged at Woodland park by the! wink the field contesta will be & reduction in wages. They had been working 10 hours. These were open Girl Division of the War Camp) i. 204 and from 7:00 to 9:00 o'clock Eghops, insisting upon dealing with shop committees of their own employes, |Community Service. Mothers with 1 cidatin dinn nd street dan Whey offered a nine-hour day. The strike was called daughters are welcome, but mothers) wi yeen everybody on the move. ‘The building trades called a strike because their demand for a 20-cents| without daughters must be backward) it io.s ance will jazz to music fur @ day increase had been refused about coming forward. The most! iinnd ny the Eb t “These workers could not live on the wages they had been getting,” |desirable guests will be daughter maid Rev. William Ivens, strike leader. without mothers. 3 ‘ James Duncan, Seattle labor extremist, came to Winnipeg to talk to for the entertainment of the girl 7 44 Action Will Not Be Slow esta, e nature of which is a 4¢6P, Pacifist Leader Called Bagchee tl gee SPOON cpg di ge ere di will ecret. But remember, every of transient importance, that our goal is the ownership of the land, “With the development of the “one big union” slogan has come an [ie Sione won wat Rosie TRUSS FARMERS FOES OF REDS BY ERNEST J. HOPKINS (N. E. A, Staff Correspondent) AN FRANCISCO, June 20.—Here is the cheering word brought from Russia—all parts of Russia—by United States Vice Consul Howard D. Hadley, regarded by ae high places as the one best-informed American on Ri Kolehats affairs: The Russian peasant is saving the world from Bol hevism. Illiterate, but - from ignorant, he is proving himself ~ today to be the millstone about the Bolshevik neck. He is dragging Lenine down beneath the waves of failure. To morrow this same millstone will be grinding corn for the world, Just as the British navy 6 | elvillz n in early days of the war, so the Russian peasant has | 8 >>————— saved it in these latter months. He He Reveals New he Seinnk : Moves in Russia ¢ and ‘Troteky are | %———— THRU, They saw the working- man—they didn’t see the peas- ant By the coming winter they may both be dead, and Russia will be at peace. Today an orderly Russia is emerg-| ing—a Russia based on the peasant The peasant is enduring. He is the tap-root of his country—a tap-root reaching down hundreds of years. Long ‘© he stood firm against the Tartars; for three centuries the czars did all thay knew to degrade, to ob literate him. What was the pe ant’s answer? He sat still and! farmed YANKS MOVE UP. PRESIDENT ENDS he ees eee TO WAR FRONT = BELGIUM VISIT) insists cre day Kolchak is playing the peas- —— en ant's game. French Reinforcements Back Little Kingdom Expresses! sit’ ne sec the wesnant, Hits i i } i i | is the first government Russia | of American Line | Gratitude to America =| &s the first governmen P| : oe “Lenine could not have chosen a| RICHARD D. HADLEY COBLENZ. June 20.—4United BY LOWELL MELLETT poorer place for his experiment,”| American Vice Consul in (United Press Staff Correspondent) | sys Hadley PARIS, June 20.—President Wil In a nation having only 200,000! son returned to Paris today after a| Wage-earners, and 200,000,000 peas- on war, will be |, it was learn: | visit to Be . which cemented ants, he tried to put across a dic ed from reliable > even more closely the friendship of | tatorship of wage-earners. It could the litue kingdom and the big re-| not be done. | public “Lenine had bis eye on Germany, In the two days he spent in Bel- | Austria, England, America—not Rus-| Un) The army would move forward | gium, the president was cccorded|#ia. He said: ‘Wait and you'll see} on a 27-mile front, and its officers y honor within the power of4Soviét government in Berlin.’ 1| are confident the Americans could! King Albert and his people, The | think it likely that the wage-earn president of the chamber of deputies, | ers’ dictatorship may stick, in Berlin in welcoming President Wilson in|—Germany is an industrial nation.) sre Peasants jthe house of parliament yestefday t first, the sants were 1... sounded the Keynote of Belgium's | for Lenine and the Bolbevild. nl ee ee Bs he army of eecupation was Asti whole attitude toward America and| ‘They thought at last they would ||). Tica! and were not disry today with preparations. Troops Americans. He said. get what they wanted. the. wars The Cooperatives east of the Rhine were moving to Belgium will never forget the “Today they have learned that uti aa buying and strategic positions for a quick dash |help given her by her great sister,| the Bolsheviki are not for the hes - the Zemstvos, also forward | America peasant. And just as they got ndle everything else. ‘These loca! The First and § J divisions, it} Addressing parliament, President! rid of the czar because the czar on fiver are so strong that alt was said, would lead the Invasion. | wilson took occasion to emphasize | was not for the peasant, so they | 4 pee government needs to ao The first was mobilized at Monta |the importance of the league of nw are turning against Lenine be- 9 combine them in a higher baur (ten miles northeast of Cob-| tions, “The league of nations is the| cause Lenine sees only the wage pve saps. and care for such |lenz), while the second and left. | child of this great war,” he eaid,| . earner. matters as railroad tram Neuwid (eight miles northwest of | “for jt is the expression of those “And when the Ruselan peas- apie! and national defense. coblenz), Was moving up the Labr| permanent resolutions which grew| amt turns against anything, it's |, f¢cnak '8 doing this, and val out of the temporary necessities of | ‘Do Svedanya’—GOODNIGHT!” |), “{rectively. He was a ‘The 17th artillery moved from the | this great struggle. and any nation | Wielding Hatchet |naval hero before he was made dic: fortress of Ehrenbreitstein. Signal which declines to adhere to the cov-| ¢ tator; since then, he has proved him- corps men were stringing new wires |enant ‘deliberately turns away from | » So "tae Sepee Date stool tn the) see Russia's best friend.” n balloons were moved |the most telling appeal that haa acre |D&nds of caarists, Kolchak is wield-| “The Russian peasant isn't stanye Age of the occupied area. | been 1 to its conscience and to | {0S the hatchet himself, to good pur-|ing—far from it. You can't A hundred add 1 motor trucks | its mi: pose. Old-style officials who tried | that fellow. . arrived today to help carry infantr The preside eclared that “the | °® Hine their purses by old-time graft “Americans don’t understand Heavy French reinforcements come | nation that wishes to use the league | M@¥e fund themselves out in the/ the peasant. He is up dally and concentrate in the rear | of Jona for its convenience and | 2berian_ cold | Supposed to be a vodka-soaked of the Americans net. ter the pervics of thé rest of the he Paris conference has agreed illiterate with a bad smell in A high American officer predicted | world, deliberately chooses to turn t® Tecesnize Kolchak. Such action| stead of a brain. Why, the Rus today that, should the army advance, | back to those bad days selfiah WSS in the cards three months ago,| sian peasant is one of the finest it would be a “whirlwind affair contest, when every nation thought | DUC Was postponed while the allies fellows in the world. He can't He said little opposition would be | first 1 always of itself, and not of | Watched @ bad graft situation, Kol read, but what he doesn’t knew looked for until the allies were well | its neighbors chak handled this crisis strongly. about government isn’t worth oh the road’ to. Caneel wis ‘ceeelannt vd it was| Hadley was at Samara when the| knowing. As to farming, he is The Fourth division, which already | his intention to pr e to congress vera) anti-Bolshevist factions met an expert, He can make money had turned in its equipment, pre-|that the Americ gation in fel. |*hd planned to put Kolchak into the| where an American would Preas)}—The American army's main per cent of the Russian popul “Kolchak has taken the objective, in ca rmany decides (Cassel ig 125 miles nort into the government. It ts who has sent Mr. lenz, and on the direct route to Ber the United States on his financial mission, cover the entire present neutral zone in the first day if hostilities were resumed | paratory to starting home, has been | gium be raised the rank of an| ‘ctatorship at Omsk tarve. Many surprises are in preparation | “Ivan the Terrible” during the day. Every known va-/ girl in Seattle tx supposed to be at| of sport is billed, From 1:39/ Woodland park tomorrow. That is, During the war Ivens was a pacifist, and now he is called “Ivan the 20 o'clock the girls will engage | every girl Werrible” by anti-strikers. He went on | ri " 7 y would shut down their plants; that they | j a had few orders ahead and could afford to starve us out. Building con Rotarians Elect tractors said builic a at a low ebb and they would not start anything . New National Head new until the employes accepted the old wage contract. So the Winnipeg above the age of 10. Trades and Labor Council called other unions out in sympathetic strikes, | SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, June} and that was the general strike, beginning May 1 | ie gins he Adaeee | sic nie Ironmasters and build tractors then refused to bargain until the| Prva | “One is this; Among the groups] | “Three million peasants have been — that put Kolchak into power was a | killed in five years. Yet today the | |Shipyard Worker faction that sought the return of a| peasants dominate Russia, They are Saat cdbtke wan dalla’ off was elected president of the Inter Ivens insists that if the general strike Is called off ironmasters and | — Must|2cters0y, 0. th international con contractors can crush their employes by merely doing notbing | et zen Be ations iH “Do nothing!” Is the strikers’ slogan. For weeks now they | SAYS the Government USE ven ion) in weetion ‘here, Adéas have done nothing except congregate at the labor temple and Guard Against Radicals was chosen by acclamation parks for strike meetings 5 ‘This is the firet strike [ have reported (and I have reported many in eae ; WANT SEA FRONTAGE the States) where the POLICE WERE ON THE STRIKERS’ SIDE. Here} “Men want to honest, bu the police are organized. affiliated with the Trades and Labor Council, and|js hard »# eae time te FREE OF BULKHEADS frould go out in a minute if the council called them. As it is t are|termine what | and what i Rccused by the citizens’ committee of closing their eyes when strikers best,” declared State Senator Har Hear and keeping them open when the antis are parading. A POLICE-|yey H. Phipps, of Spokane, In MAN ARRESTED THE MAYOR'S BODYGUARD FOR CARRYIN address to the Young Men's GUN! Strikers helped take him to jail, publican club Thursday noon. Senator Phipps sald that the Volunteers Man Fire Houses; public mind isn @ very unsettled | °f)2610 Beach drive, wit! come up'be fore the city council in regular ses Bankers Distribute Letters jcondition, hy psi gi mete sion Monday. Other residents of the |truth and vicinity along the drive and 63rd ave. Firemen are out and volunteers man the fire houses. Postal employes| tions. It is the duty of the re 8. W., are signers of the petition. walked out and mails piled high before volunteers tackled the job, One/lican party which always work, banker grabbed an armful of letters and began distributing them along |along constructive lines, to enlight- | the street. Housewives refused to accept their mail, telling him (and other |en the people, and it 1» the duty of| DR. HOLLAND TALKS Hi eer lette: fers) thi hi aid. rant y all delivered at their|the leadership of that party to nee ee ee en | teat tne government’ kage ith TO BUSINESS MEN Governmental telephone employes went out. So did the employes of |ance and is not upset by radicals Dr, &. O, Holland, president of the Water department, Retail clerks, waiters and street car workers quit Senator Phips criticized govern-|the Washington State college at Sot a street car ran for over three weeks. Mayor Gray enrolled 2,000 vol-| mental leadership In many depart- Pullman, delivered the — principal teer policeman to put the ears back on the streets, when the regular|ments, declaring that its incompe-|address at the Chamber of Com policemen turned a deaf ear to him. tency was responsible for a large|merce members’ council luncheon But there has been little or no disorder measure of the prevailing discon-|in the Masonle club Friday noon, Two conflicting parades of returned soldiers came together and a| tent In referring to the radical! Col, Fred Lewellyn, formerly adju- little ecuffling was indulged in. ‘The mfayor's bodyguard was attacked for|element, he sald that it is unusual-|tant general of the state, who has @xrying 4 gun, and the mayor was alternately cheered and ed \ly strong in the state of Wash-| just returned from 18 months’ sery- Bverybody seems to have the impression tues the fight is not onel ington, jice overseas, was a guest of honor, national Association of Rotary clubs A petition asking that the beach and sea frontage between the Alki point lighthouse and Spokane ave, be | kept clear of bulkheads and unsight re-equipped embassy, “as a recognition, as a wel Later, after the coup that deposed} ‘The women can raise a breed of Surrendered German war material | come to Relgium in her new status | Nicholas Avxentieff, Hadley went to/ sheep which Americans can’t raise, has been moved 190 miles back from | of complete independence Omsk and studied Kolchak and his|shear those sheep themselves, and the Rhine. | Wilson explained that he came to|#0vernment. He made similar ob-| from the wool make beautifully pat: French and British troops, artil- | Belgium bec he wished to as.|#¢rvations at Harbin and Viadivo-| terned shawls of texture so fine that lery and supplies were being trans | himself in ‘counsel with the | Stk. Probably no American is bet-| you can draw them thru a napkin ported to the outer lines in the ad-|men he knew had felt ply the | ter informed at first hand’ regard: | ring: jacent bridgeheads. French cavalry | pulse of this struggle,” and because |!" Russia's latest-man of the} “The men are brave, honest, took up dd observation posts. | he realize Belgium and her | hour.” dial, steadfast, obstinate as mules, Movement rmans of military | part in t ar is, in one sense, the ‘There are perhaps (wo main rea-| kindly, simple-hearted.. How they age within. the occupied zone has | key of the whole struggle, because |80n8 Why Americans are stil in-|have fought. singe 19140 Euro been forbidden. Ithe violation of lgium was the) clined to consider Kolchak a reac-| pean army has Undergonumnals as call to duty which aroused the na-|tnary,” Says Hadley much monarehy the saviors of the world—and the | Accidentally Shot ttle by little Kolchak has given| world ought to realize it and help | Shot in the hand with a ,22-cal,|tese fellows the boot, and ground. | them economically.” pistol by a fellow shipyard worker | bis power on the support of the| Kolchak, still a young man, has liast Monday, Gérald Peterson, 16, | Peasants |had an interesting career. Under _ late tara ave. Mei reported the ax ‘The other reason is, that for po-| the czar he was commander of the [Stars and Stripes Starts for|civent to the police Thursday art. |Nitical reasons Kolchak appointed a) Russian navy in the Black sea, ly structu filed by C. B. Andrews, | or HiME waa taco tn: old school} He hated the pro-German clique Home; Made Money erated and burned. The shooting | 0, commar Vladivostok his led by Rasputin, and was friendly |was done by Denny Fay, who bor- | ficial gave the members of the/ with the pro-Russian nobles who fin: rowed the gun from another ship.| American Expeditionary Forco the | ally assassinated the infamous monks PARIS, June The personnel of | yard worker and after the shooting | Pression that the entire Si perian | After the Petrograd revolution, Kok the Stars and Stripes, oficial newspa-|threw. it, away, Peterson stated |Z0VerHMent was nothing but a re-|chak at Odessa rallied the Ukbaihe per of the American expeditionary |that he would not prosecute as the | EM to eld days. |ians, who successfully resisted Bole forces, comprising 145 men and two| hooting was accidental Jan tie has now been removed and] shevism, officers, left Paris Friday morning on \v bape ‘es i: hagas! agen When Kerensky failed, members of” She Sayan las | olchak is a true proRus- | his cabinet, headed by Avxentieff, Ace Taner, wtiehaiiimented pub |Cigaret Starts | sian. He is a man of strength |organized the Omsk government. cation last Friday, has-been in exiat- | Fire on Bridge and tom Has come, Although his | Avxentieff was considered a theorist ence since February 8, 1918, and has! jing caused $500 damage to the! jue h vee and tired of fight- jand unpractical by the various made a net profit of approximately |yigge crossing Stacy st. at Fourth| vitor Tmey wngebed crear with groups that met at Samara and 9,500,000 francs. Eon” er WeIalaS kbarnen, ‘All| Nady pohly sl wile ~4 = framed the Kolchak coup d'etat. ‘Treasury Gets Profits Ifire stations in the south end of| ae, Weesteree ty “eet In November, 1918, President Ave | Bolsheviki are almost due to col- | xentieff was arrested with his eabh This fund was originally intended|the city were called out to fight lapse. When I return to Siberia net and given his choice of death for the war orphan fund, which until|the blaze, believed to have been| jn four months, I fully expect to | or deportation. He chose the lat recently was administered under the |coused by @ cigaret butt thrown) travel thru a pacified country and was escorted to the Chinese direction of the Stars and Stripes. Alinto rubbish near the bridge, | clear to Moscoy |der by Czecho-Blovate treeui al ruling of the Judge advocate last Feb: | Flames originating from a base-| “Best of all, Kolphak is doing ail]ish platoon accompanying the party, ruary declared that the money, hay-|ment furnace at the Washington |he can for the Russian farmer, This| to insure order. ing been made by men receiving gov | Pir Finishin, ’ Sth ave. lis the greatest of reasons why his! Avxentieff and his associates then ernment pay, must be turned over to|W., destroyed $200 worth of tools | government, in my judgment, will|came to the United States, em route the United States treasury, ‘Thursday. be permanent—for the peasant is 85|to aris,