The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 18, 1919, Page 20

HE SEATTLE STAR This is the paid advertisement that the Post-Intelligencer suppressed in its regular city editions t (This advertisement paid for by Edwin Selvin.) oday, after it ran thru that paper’s two early editions —EDWIN SELVIN. THE THING——-THE CAUSE——THE CURE r What we Americans need just now is plain talk, clear think- ing, and decisive action. The Armistice Day massacre at Centralia is neither a sporadic nor a localized outbreak. The same thing, or worse, may happen any day in any community—or in all communities. Right no wthe United States is in greater actual danger from the enemy within grown powerful and defiant on cod- dling than it ever was from the Hun without. Warnings there have been a plenty——for the most part unheeded. The crack of doom is even now reverberating across the valleys of our fatuousness and re-echoing from the hills of our fancied security. There is just one chance left—and by the Eternal iod, we must take it or we are lost. Real Americans must rise as one man in the righteous wrath of outraged patriotism. First, invoke such legal machinery as we have; and if that is not sufficient, then hastily construct soeme- thing fool proof. We must smash every un-American and anti- American organization in the land. We must put to death the leaders in this gigantic conspiracy of murder, pillage an drevolu- tion. We must imprison for life all its aiders and abetters of native birth. We must deport the aliens. " Th eI. W. W., the Nonpartisan League, the so-called Triple Alliance in the state of Washington, the pro-German Socialists, the Closed Shop Labor Unions, the agitators, malcontents, anar- chists, syndicalists, seditionists, traitors—the whole motley crew of Bolshevists and near-Bolshevists—must be outlawed by Pub- lic Opinion and hunted down and hounded until driven beyond the horizon of civic dececy. We are facing elementals now—it is the life of Bolshevism or the life of Americanism. One or the other is to be destroyed. Plain talk? It is time for plain talk. Here is more—be- | ginning at the top and going right down the line to the bottom: The Administration at. Washington has made a mess alike [Of the affairs of the world and of the affairs of the American |people. With no motive of partisan bias and specifically dis- claiming any political animus, it is simple truth to state that the Federal Government, in the hands of the present Administration, is responsible, in greater degree than any other single agency, for the present chaotic and menacing conditions. : Whether President Wilson in overweening egotism, led by insatiable desire to play the role of a dictator, or a Messiah, as one chooses to view it, has (as has been charged by others) sacrificed the American people on the altar of personal ambi- tion; or whether ,lost in a haze of rhetoric and wandering aim- lessly in the mists of idealism, he has sincerely believed in his own enunciated theories found to be but empty dreams in the test bays jem experiment—these are things upon which pos- Pronounce accurate and unerring judgment. : The fact that now most concerns the American people is that their Chief Executive, given unrestrained power, created in his academic seclusion a which has turned to rend them. Had a Roosevelt instead of a Wilson been President during the critical years now culminating in the greatest crisis the Nation has known, there browns yr geri Ww. Nitra Shop conspiracy strong en to chalien; » supremacy 0: Government itself. name of a President of the United States would not appear as the author of such a book as the “New Freedom,” which the I. W. W. testified at the Chicago trial they found to be their most effective piece of literature, and which the convicted seditionist, Townley, has his organ- izers use in gaining converts to the notoriously pro-German and traitorous Nonpartisan League with the implied approval of the President of the United States. . America’s present ills, in a labor way, had théir beginning when the Railroad Brotherhoods, holding a pistol to the Govern- ment’s head, walked off unmolested with the loot of the Adam- son Law. From that time on Organized Labor's demands have become increasingly insolent, and always the Administration has been acquiescent—unti! American citizenship hangs its head in shame at the spectacle of a rebellious minority led by aliens coercing the Government and intimidating the public, with at best but a show of passive resistance from the Administration and with open connivance of many government officials. And it must not be forgotten that the Bolshevist conspiracy, which is now sweeping the earth and leaving ruin in its wake, was hatched in America; that President Wilson, against the united protests of the Allied Governments, permitted Lenine and Trotzky and their fellow conspirators to leave the United States for Russia, via Germany, there to set in motion their diabolical plot against civilization. . Through the war period Samuel Gompers sat at the Presi- dent’s right hand; it has long been common gossip at the Na- tional Capital that Gompers, head of the un-American Federa- tion of Labor, who for 20 years has preached to his following contempt for the courts and instigated resistance to court orders, had access to the President when the leaders of the Na- tion’s thought and activities were denied admittance, The Gov- ernment’s Department of Labor early-became a tool in the hands of the radicals who, before our participation in the war got be- yond the planning stage, broke a solemn compact with the Gov- ernment to make no atiempt to chang ut the v ended, existing status of industry as to Closed Shop, Open Shop, or non-Union Shop. Time after time the strength of the Federal Government was used to force compliance o femployers with the increasingly impossible demands of the labor leaders. First As- sistant Secretary of Labor Louis F’. Post came through the Pa- cific Northwest on a speaking tour inflaming the masses and inciting to resistance to law by his preachments of Sovietism and Bolshevism. And because BUSINESS CHRONICLE at that time had the courage to brand this assistant cabinet officer for what he was, the same Government's Department of Labor made an effort to have this publication suppressed by formal application to the Postoffice Department to bar BUSINESS CHRONICLE from the mails. Postmaster General Burleson dismissed the application without hearing (other than the plac- ing in the hands of the Department of a file of this publication) with the terse statement that the Postoffice Department could The above editorial is well illustrative of the fearless and consistent efforts continuing over ® period of four years to expose the growing menace to our American institutions and to awaken the people to their danger before it is too late, being made by BUSINESS CHRONICLE OF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST. It appeared in the issue of November 15. I invite all red- blooded Americans who approve of my stand and feel the need of bringing to an end the days of BY EDWIN SELVIN not be made use of to suppress a loyal newspaper that told the truth, The logical outcome of the Administration's attitude to- ward economic heresies, organized discontent, and propaganda for changing the established order—an attitude at times tol- erant, then passive, and again openly encouraging—has been the dunghill crop of Plumb plans, schemes for nationalization ux industry, steel and coal strikes led by I. W. W. and revolution- aries with the full endorsement of Samuel Gompers’ un-Amer- ican Federation of Labor, and all the damnable agitation for the sovietizing of America, and the destruction of the Republic The prostituting of a Government Department, under the direct con- trol of a cabinet officer, to the Mooney myth, with its unwar- ranted efforts in behalf of this convicted dynamiting labor leader and murderer, could not but help be an inciting cause to still more desperate methods by the alien controlled Labor Movement that is now openly and brazenly on record as having for its main objective the downfall of Constituted Government in the United States, Mr. Wilson is still the President. As good citizens we all respect him as holder of that office. He yet has many months to serve—-months during which in all probability the question of whether the Government of the United States is to survive this concerted attack from within will be definitely decided. And as good citizens let us implore the Almighty that Woodrow Wil- son will emulate the example of that distinguished Democrat that preceded him in the White House, Grover Cleveland, and stand by the Constitution as did Mr. Cleveland in an earlier labor crisis, and wholly regardless of what Mr. Wilson's views and opinions may be as a common citizen like any of the rest of us. 7 Let the force of an aroused and united Public Sentiment make itself felt at the National Capital, at every State ( apital, in évery Mayor’s office, and in every Prosecuting Attorney 8 office throughout the length and breadth of the Nation. let that Public Sentiment carry the message of the American people to our elected servants that they must, regardiess of all things else, enforce the law, preserve constitutional guarantees, and protect our lives and property from the onslaught of radicalism whose hot breath now blows in our very faces, Let this Public Sentiment further reach into the chambers of the Judges of our Courts so that they may be relieved from the spirit of intimida- tion that has permeated even those high places. ‘The Department of Justice long has been familiar with the ramifications of the Bolshevist plot to overthrow the Govern- ment; it has been fully advised of the peril daily growing larger and drawing nearer. What has been the malign influence that stayed its arm? Why has not the Department of Labor deported the alien revolutionists against whom it had all sufficient evidence? Why are convicted plotters released on bail and permitted to immediately resume their plotting? The American people demand to know. ‘ There is something else they should demand. That is that Congress forthwith repeal all the discriminative class legislation that gives Organized Labor immunity for its economic crimes against society. This should be immediately followed by a com- prehensive plan to make Labor Unions amenable to government control including incorporation to insure contractual responsi- bility and liability. As to general calises of the intolerable situation now con- fronting us the Closed Shop Labor Unions—after considering the impotence and apathy the Federal Government has displayed until now——must bear ful! opprobrium and responsibility. For two decades the Labor Unions, taking advantage of the dem- agogic tendencies of the countless politicians in public office, have defied law and order with impunity. Dynamiting, arson, assault and murder, coupled with coercion and intimidation, have been the favorite weapons in the class warfare they have conducted. This thing must come to an immediate end. The whole Labor Movement is putrid, its rottenness taigts the at- mosphere of every industrial center. Every employer of labor is justified in refusing to renew agreements with existink Closed Shop Labor Unions. America wants no more of Labor Unions as they now exist and function. The Closed Shop must be forever crushed in America! Coming down now to matters pertaining to our home situa- tion. The Washington State Federation of Labor went on record at its recent Bellingham convention with a cabled mes- sage of sympathy and support to Lenine and Trotzky in Russia. It endorsed the efforts made by Canadian Reds to overthrow the Dominion Government, after the president of the British Colum- bia Federation of Labor (affiliated with the unAmerican Feder- ation of Labor) had in person explained that the then general strike in Canada was not a strike against the employers but against the Government. At the same convention was born the Triple Alliance, which is a political organization formed of Or- ganized Labor, the Grange and a new anarchistic aggregation of steam and electric railwy employes. Its avowed purpose is to accomplish by the ballot what the Seattle Central Labor Council Taved LO ACCOIOpuow VY Ss PeVOUUION iaslt rebruary. it has set out to capture every State office at the next election and it i3 now bending every effort through daily and nightly precinct meetings to elect the representatives o fanarchy to the Seatle School Board and the Seattle Port Commission. The chief exponent of anarchy in this community is the Union Record, a daily newspaper which is owned jointly by the Central Labor Council and by the various Closed Shop unions of which the Central Labor Council is over-lord. It is a journal- istic sewer into which flows all the slime of mora perverts . It has not only scoffed at the marriage relation, but has extolled the men and wdémen who lead in “advanced” labor thought for living together without the formality of wedding ceremonies and changing partners as often as fancy dictates. During the war it was as seditious and as pro-German as it dared to be. Since the Armistice it has continuously encouraged al Iforms of defiance of law, sought to undermine Americanism by every possible means, advocated Bolshevism and egged on all the diverse ele- ments that are working for the overthrow of the Government. The Union Record is the official organ of the Central Labor Council and its 137 affiliated unions and of the State Federation of Labor. It is Organized Labor's official voice in the Pacific Northwest. The seizure by the Government Thursday of the Union Record is a step that should have been taken long ago and for which there was then as much reason as now. ¥ Public policy requires that this mouthpiece of applied an- archy se to exist. } ‘ Self-respect should dictate that every good American citi- ren having the misfortune to be identified with Labor Unions now tear up his card, cease paying dues and declare himself to be a free man and a loyal citizen. : Is there any doubt in the public mind that the Centralia massacre was planned by the higher-ups of Organized Labor? There is reproduced immediately below a long statement from the Union Record of Oct. 25 last, just 21 days ago, under the heading, “Labor Must Protect Its Own.” : Read this official statement of Organized Labor's inten- tions carefully. The mask is stripped off and Closed Shop stands revealed in all its hideous nakedness. A reading of this in the light of what I have written every week for three years past to expose Organized Labor's real purpose should convince every right-thinking man and woman that a war of extermina- tion should be waged on all the forms of radicalism enumerated above. ~* meeting It is Americanism versus Bolshevism. One of them must go, Which shall it be? Organized Labor's official connection with, apology for, and espousal of the I. W. W. and its fesponsibility for the Centralia affair—which is but the forerunner of others over the caantry generally unless we kill this beast—is as follows: “LABOR MUST PROTECT ITS OWN.” The savage secution of the Industrial Workers of the World is merely an in tin the Class Strug significant one Following Napoleon's strategem, class ® to dt vide the forces of isolate each p n and, by cc rating overwhelming power upon it, send it reeling in defeat—a piecemeal policy that must mean the final disintegration of the Labor Movement ided the desired rtunity and the militant, was the firet be victimized. Un theome newspape * and misrepre purpore wns) t ff Irvm tne 1. W. W. the sympathy and fupport of the Labor Movement as & whole, to the end that this organization might be destroyed. After all other unions that dared to oppose the insatiable greed of the latory cinas could be handled one at a time and fn the same manner This statement is verified by the fact that labor spokesmen like Duncan Fitepatrick, Foster, and Anna Louise Strong are now having the same slimy ies hurled at their heads as were heaped upon the I, W. W. in 1917. Members of the I. W. W. now confined in jails and penitentlaries throughout this country outnumber ali other Class War Prisoners 20 to 1. It is OUR turn today and it will be YOUR turn tomorrow, unless something is done to call a halt. Thus the defense of the imprisoned members of the Industrial Workers of the World becomes a matter of supreme importance to every working man and woman in the land. If the shackles can be kept on OUR wrists for our loyalty to Labor, they ¢ treacherous attack was made. The obvious » can be put on YOUR wrists for the same offense. That the we s of America are aware of the danger facing them and thelr org « in proved by the following statement of Bonds raised by the workers of the Pacific coast. This statement shows more eloquently th any words that Labor is protecting ite own Statement of Co-operative Bail and Bond Committee. ~7 Total collected by the Committee from July 6 to October 11, 1919: ~ Cash collected .. sees $44,902. . Liberty Bonds ae War Savings Stamps .. Total collected . ee bevecccccece Expenditares, Bloney deposited in court and money paid back: Cash tee $66,164.11 se eeeccees $34,605.00 13,550.00 3,100.00 Liberty Bonds . War Savings Stamps .... Total expenditures .. Recapitalation. «$51,255.00 Total receipts $66,164.11 Total expenditures . 51,255.00 On hand October 11, 1919............ $14,909.11 wn hand October 1, 1919 Cash : + $10,297.27 Liberty Bonds 1, 00 War Savings Stamps 3,461.84 Total | 4 oh Hele ees 04 ei be $14,909.11 Books audited from July 7, 1919, to October 11, 1919, and found eorrect M. E. HA? » L. W. 1. U., 500, Cd. No. 21718 A, BE. ALL BS. Dee 8 a 491805, CHARLES MASON, 8S. B. I. U., 325, Cd, No, 404 Auditing Committee. ‘The anove #tatement covers the work of the Co-operatiy Committee of the Northwest. Similar work is being done in all parts of the country, and it is hoped that be ‘e long enough funds will be raised to se- gure the release of every uncompromising union man now held behind the are Batt and Bond It will be remembered that these men have been incarcerated and en- during the tortures of the damnd for ovr two yars. Approximately one- third of them are married and have families. Several are slowly dying of tuberculosis contracted as a result of prison confinement. Five of them are doing all their time in “solitary” because of the virulent labor hatred of a certain contemptible petty prison official. Let's get them all out as #0on as possible and show the money barons that Labor will no longer tolerate such atrocities against members of the working class! These men are not whining for your pity; they ask you squarely and manfully for your whole-hearted support. The aame sinister forces that keep thom behind the bars would put YOU there at the first opportunity Remember, too, that the | W. W. has always been the first to roll wy its sleeves and fight for justice when the rights of labor were aasailec They were always ar the first ise their voices in protest when workingmen and won were “framed” or “railroaded” to prison. Giv them your friendship and support now—in this dark hour—when your friendship and support are so badly needed. They would do as much for you were the circumstances reversed. Why not get them all out into the sunlight once more, put the flush of health back into their pallid cheeks, and return them again to the arms of their lpved ones? A wave of indignation is sweeping the country at the fiendish injustice these men have endured and are now enduring. Labor is showing that it appreciates the loyalty of these humble common workers who went to prison for what they considered to be a righteous cause. 70,000 has been rained in the Northwest make It $100,000 before next month ts over, For 15 men this sum means LIBERTY, at least until the case is decided by the higher court The workers of the Pacific coast are known throughout the world for their splendid spirit of solidarity. Stand back of these Class War Prisoners NOW with dollars and determination. Then the greed-blinded masters of bread will think twice be they keep such men in their dungeons from five to 20 years. Show where YOU stand Liberty Bonds, War Savings Stamps and Cash are gratefully accepted &n loans until the case is decided one way or the other, Interost will accrue to the owners of bonds, ete., until they are returned. All funds are handled with the greatest car the committee have tegrity. The S powitary for t millionaire Sc mittee, attends to the details of providing the return of loans in case of urgent necessity living in Seattle may take their bonds, ete, to the Seattle at Third avenue and Columbia strict alone. Let's OAN Association is the de- 1 to William Bross Lioyd, r the Bail and Bond Com: il. Arrangements can be © YOU cannot Ko personally, send your bonds, e ary-Treasurer Co-operative Bail and Bond Cc to J. lL. Engda s “2 mittee, Box W, Ballard Station, Seattle, Wash.—From Union Record of Oot. 25. pussy-footing and standing squarely up to the enemy of our country and anihilating him, to sup-, port us in our campaign to create a public sentiment that will wage a war of extermination. We are carrying on an educational propaganda work tht is tremendously expensive. BUSINESS \SHRONICLE is a weekly publication, subscrip ion $6 per annum. EDWIN SELVIN, Editor of Business Chronicle, (1504 Alaska Bldg., Seattle, Wash. —