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to brim; about THE COOPERATIVE COMMONWEALTH 6c per i opy; BOc pet year. CO-OPERATIVE PACKING PL AM TO BE STARTED BY BUTCHERS' UNION The Striking I'nion ItuU'hrrs Will lmnmlialth I login to Soil Stork—Will Also Knter Retail Kusimss Tho batcher workmen »iul meat cutters now on strike in Seattle, have,1" they believe, a big idea and one that they confidently believe will prove a "bit; stick" in their hands ■gainst the packing house "Kaisers." For years "Hig Business" has leen running co-operative buying and setting agencies to promote their interests. The butcher workmen are taking a leaf from the book of Hit* Business ami are now planning to launch a meat packing house and retail selling markets in Seattle, to be owned and operated exclusively by members of the unions and the workers. The new organisation will be called "The Co-operative Meat Products Association." -The butch ers' unions will sel lstock to their members at low cost and at easy terms. As the co-operative enter prise will not be run for large prof its, the unions expect to materially ECHOES FROM TULSA' OKLAHOMA; WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THIS On the night of November the 9th, at Tulsa, Oklahoma, a band of men garbed in long black robes and wearing masks seized 17 working men took them to the edge of the city, then one by one the victims were tied to a tree and beaten with a blacksnake whip until the blood I streamed down their backs. Then boiling tar was smeared into the fresh wounds and feathers thrown on. The following reports give some new lights on the matter: "According to the story of L. M. Mitchell told in the office of Sheriff William McCollough Monday night, he left the others about forty-five minutes after they had been sent on their way by the 'Knights of Liberty.' —"f dWn't stick with them long:,' said Mitchel. 'As soon as my head cleared all I got my bearings I came to my home in the Crutchfield ad dition.' Mitchel called Sheriff Me- Cullough over the telephone Sunday and asked if he would be allowed to stay in Tulsa. He was told to go to work and call on the Sheriff Mon day night. "At the appointed time a tall, gray-haired man, slightly stooped through age and hard work, asked for the Sheriff. A few minutes later in the Sheriff's private office all the pent up feelings in the 59 --ye- old man's breast surged forth in an appeal for protection. "Sheriff I am 59 years old, I have lived in Oklahoma 28 years and in Tulsa 18 years. I can't leave now. My home is here and my family lives in this community. I have five children living—all of them grown. And I have five others dead. They are buried here. Sheriff, I can't leave them. "I have borne a good reputation all my life and have worked hard ever since I was a boy I have been honest and have paid my way. I love my home and my fellowmen. I have never had a thought of se dition in all my life. There are scores of reputable citizens here who will tell you what sort of a man L. M. Mitchell is. The man's voice choked with tears several times His great frame shook with emotion and the labor-roughened hands fumbled nervously at his coat edges. He was sincere in what he said, there was no doubt. What was the motive for this atrocious deed committed against workingmen? What terrible crime had they perpetrated, that merited such torture? In the following news paper editorials we find the incen tive for the deed. We perceive the actuating force hidden behind the cloak of the "Knights of Liberty." "The Industrial Workers of the World, has no place in the oil sec tion of this country. It would be best for them to retire from the Mid-Continent field, or to labor peacefully there if any of the mem bers intend to remain."--From the Democrat, Tulsa. Okla. "When oil was bringing less than 10 cents ■ barrel in the open mar ket, wages were approximately as l'i)>-li as they are today and there was no 1. \V. \V. Organiation abroad in the land to tell the people that the laborer* in the oil country wore being discriminated against and op prested. "The oil country can take care of its own troubles. It does not the I. W, W. There is not a man in the field who does not know that whatever grievance he may have do— not need the arbitrament of a _____ *■'*'. ®lje Cooperative Jgetos In Things Essential, UNITY In Things Doubtful. IJHIMTY In All Things, FRATERNITY reduce the cost of meat to Hie consumer. Steps have been taken for incor (•oration and subscriptions to the stock will be started in a few days. The project will bo the means of providing the people with meat pro duced under union conditions at a fair price. All members of unions and other decent citizens who are favorable to j the strikers getting living condi tions are earnestly requested to give their moral and financial support to the movement, said one of the mm mittee today. "If they do, it will not be very long before we will be able to supply you with good, clean products of satisfied workers who are their own employers, and at lower prices than are now charg ed." Any further information can he had at RoOffi Id in the Labor Tem ple. labor union to solve. The oil coun try has always solved its labor troubles."—From The World, Tulsa, Okla. Could anything be plainer? What more conclusive proof would you want to show, that it is the "Oil Interest" behind the "Knights of ' Liberty?" '■4©il Interest" and "Rock efeller Interest" are synonumoua. And we all know "how they solve their labor troubles." We haven't forgotten the "Ludlow Massacre" di rected from Wall Street by the Rockefellers. The "Oil Interest" have never per mitted labor unions to get even the slightest foothold in the oil fields. The most repressive measures have been used to crush them. Strike breakers, gunmen, the militia, even the Federal GdVernment, has been used by this labor hating combine. The conseuences ? Low wages, long hours, and working conditions in the oil fields that is the shame of America. The outrage at Tulsa was directed against the workers of America. What are you going to do about it? RUSTLE A SUB OR TWO FOR THE NEWS. GOVERNMENT FINDS THAT DEPORTATIONS WERE ILLEGAL The special labor commission sent to Arizona by President Wilson has made public its findings on the Bis bee deportations. Shortly after the strike was call ed, the report explains, the sheriff of the country through the governor of Arizona, requested the aid of fed eral troops, but after investigation of the situation in Bisbee an army officer reported that everything was peaceable and that troops were neith er needed nor warranted. "That the conditions in Bisbee were, in fact, peaceful and free from any manifestations of disorder or violence." "The deportation was carried out under the sheriff of Cochise county. It was formally decided upon at a meeting of citizens on the night of .July 11, participated in by the man agers and other officials of the Copper Queen Consolidated Mining company, (i'helps-Dodge corporation, Copper Queen division), and the Cal umet and Arizona mining company. "The plan for the deportation and its execution are attributable to the belief in the minds of those who engineered it that violence was con templated by the strikers who had come into the district from without; that life and property would be in secure unless such deportation was undertaken; and that the state was without the necessary armed force to prevent such anticipated violence BIV YOUR Christmas Gifts AT THE FANCY WORK SOCIAL SUNDAY EVENING, DECEMBER Kith AT 8 I. M REFRESHMENTS, MUSIC AND SPEAKING EVERETT, WASHINGTON, 'I'll! UtSDA N , DXi . |.;. |<.H7. RUSSIAN LEADERS PUBLISH DEMANDS Many false statements are pui> Hi hed daily by the i eacl lonai y pi c in regard t<> the situation in Rus la and the progress of the Bolshevik! revolution. Mo i of these state ments are fathered by the wishes of the authors In (In* absence of In formation while many are deliberate pei vert inns of facts. It is there fore interesting ami timely to got a Statement from I,eon Trotsky, one of tlif leaders, llr says: We, the Holsheviki, want .'in im mediate peaca, bui noi a nparate peace. We speak for mass of the nrmy, which refuses to remain an other winter in the trenches unless they are convinced thai im Immediate democratic peace i.s Impossible with Germany. Hut in demanding an Im mediate peace we find it Inevitable that Russia act alone, because we believe that is the only way to net quick action. If the present Government refuses to act alone and directly we must have a Government which will. We Intend, by every possible means, in eluding millions of proclamations dropped by aeroplanes, to urge the German people to revolt and join us in demand for peace. The in dications, such as (lie recent revolt in the German Navy, give us hope of success. An effort must be made to reach the German people direct ly. Suppose the Germans fail to revolt and pay no attention to our of fers ? Then every soldier in the Russian Army will know he is fighting to save the revolution, and that he does not know now. 1 know the state of mind of the army. I receive delegations daily and they demand that every effort be made for an immediate peace or they will leave the trenches. If Germany refuses, they will fight like lions. We must keep our promise bp {riving big estates to the peasants to end the present agarian revolu tion. Second, we must force loans from the banks and the wealthy men to the limit of their resources. Then we shall have an army knowing what it is fighting for and provided with every need. On this program we Bolsheviki demand an immediate action. We believe it is the only practical way of saving Russia, for though Internationalists we are also patriots. I don't want the Ameri can people, with whom I lived and whom I admire, to think we are un patriotic and sacrificing Russia to an idea. We want to give the German people a chance to end the war immediately, thus ending the war for everybody. and to safeguard life and property within the district. This belief has no justification in the evidence in support of it presented by the par ties who harbored it. "The deportation was wholly il legal and without authority in law either state or federal. "Among these who were deported from the district, and who thereafter were arrested in seeking entrance into it were several who had regis tered under sclctive draft law and sought to return or remain in the district in order to discharge their legal duty of reporting for physical examination under the draft." These conclusions were reported by the commission: "All illegal practices and the de nial of rights safeguarded by the constitution and statutes must cease at once. IVBI "The right of unimpeded admit tance into the Warren district of all who seek entrance into it in a law ful and peaceable manner must be respected. "The right of all persons freely to move about in the Warren dis trict, or to continue to reside with in it, must be scrupulously observed, except insofar as such right is re orderly process of the law. Your friends can buy anything you can give them, except your photo graph. Let Myers help you. THE COMING SOCIAL l>o Noi Forgei the Fatujy Work Social Nt'xl Sunday Evening Judging from the interest being shown in ihe preparations for the social next Sunday evening) it wil! be a record breaking (fathering. Many useful articles, among them aprons, liamlei chiefs, knitted and crocheted pieces are being contribut ed for the sale. This is Jnost op portune, coming as it does just lie fore the < 'In Istmas season. Th« refreshments will tjjclue pie, apple-pie the kind mother used in make and cheeie— (for who could cat applie-pie without cheese) ami an abundance of Comrade Roeder's famous coffee, Lucile A. Mint, well known as a teacher of ait. through the country, will lie on the program. She will draw some original illustruons and cartoons. Miss Mini plans on open ing a free school for drawing in the near future in Everett, sum! those who are interested in this work are at liberty to join. Much effort is being made by those in charge of the program for the success of this nl'l'nir and it goes without saying that with the CO-operation of all those wflo are in terested in the advancement of the?* .Socialist movement in Kverctt, it will he an event, well worth tak ing part in. The program is free and everyone is welcome. ENGLAND LOOKS TO KORNILOFF AND KALENDINE TO WIN TROTSGY AND LENINE SOUND CALL TO BATTLE WITH PENANT OF OLD REGIME The British government is hope ful that Kaledines and Korniloff, the two generals will succeed in their revolt against the Russian workers' government, is indicated in today's United Press stories from London. Korniloff is the general who re volted against the Kerensky govern ment and failed Somehow he is supposed to be at large again and with Kaledines In case these two "iron men" fail to overthrow the Bolsheviki, London hopes, according to the United Press, that the new Consti tuent Assembly will reduce the Bol sheviki's influence and allow a corn- U. S. JUDGE FREES 11 STRIKING MINERS LKXINGTON, Ky.—Eleven miners charged with opposing government authority by force in firing on fed eral soldiers on guard in the Ken tuck coal fields during the recent strike, were given their freedom to day by Judge Evans in the United States District Court. Judge Evans ruled there was no evidence against them. Trial of other miners accused will continue and is expected to last at least a week. COPPER STRIKE IN BUTTE Greenhorns and Gunmen Make a Poor Showing at (Jetting Out Copper BUTTE, Mont.—After more than 24 weeks on the firing line the striking copper miners are still "holding the fort." The sufferings of the workers have been severe, but victory is in sight, and the Anaconda Copper company has been made to realize what the solidarity of the workers can do. The A. C. M. Co, has reaped no profits since the strike started. The rustling card is still demand ed by the companies, but the work ers are determined that they shall alH.li.--li the damnable and infamous blacklist system and gain safe mines and $6.00 a day fur eight houi ' work. U.niit 20,000 miners is the normal the hill. 4,"tin are working, but a~ they are not miners they do not get out much ore, Repair work has been neglect improperly done, and ; entifi Rui can be obtained by anyone except I. v W.s Anaconda is standing pat and the i tit smelters are closed down so far as | jwodudtion is concerned. Green horns and gunmen cannot produce lid not dream >>( anything like TOM SULLIVAN CHARGED WITH PERJURY IN THE VKRONA RIOT CASE Thomas Sullivan who testified foT Oscai Carlson In His suit for darn ages against the city of Evereti and others as the result, of the Verona shouting affray, is being prosecuted for perjury in the Su perior Court of Snohomish County. The case after two days' trial went to I lie jury last Saturdap evening; but no agreement was reached, so I lie jury was discharged. A re trial will presumably be had. During an argument of counsel the juiw being out, Judge Guy C. Alston Isniil: "If we had every man in W;ila Walla who testified to Something which he knew to be false in I liar Verona case, there would be a lot of new faces there." WATTS IS OUT After Some Difficulty An Acceptable Bond Was Secured and the Kmanciated Editor is Now Among Us 11. W. Watts, editor of the Co operative News, who has been in terned for seven weeks in Seattle, has been released on bail. He will be the chairman of the meeting Sun day night, and if time permits he will give a short talk on his experi ence.^ during his detention. Turn in your sub card*. promise government to be founded. "Hope of an ironing out of the Russian situation" in London's view," says the United Press, "today rested upon success of the revolt raised by Generals Kaladines and Korniloff officially reported in a proclamation of the Bolsheviki received "here. "The Trotsky-Lenine government declared the two military leaders were being assisted by the Constitu tional Democrats (cadets) and the capitalists and that the rebels had declared war in the Don region against the people and the revolu tion." Help get a new merchant to ad vertise. CO-OPERATIVE STORE MANAGERS FORM P. S. WHOLESALE SOCIETY Representatives of the different co-operative stores and associations of Snohomish and King counties met at Snohomish, Wash., last Sunday, and formed the Puget Sound Whole sale Rochedale Co-operative society. W. J. Fortson, of the Snohomish County Fruit Growers' association, was elected president. John Wors wick was chosen secretary. Tenta tive constitution and by-laws were accepted and will be submitted to each of the societies and associations at their annual meetings and will be finally acted upon at the March meeting. The purpose of the society is for the mutual welfare, increased effi ciency and diminished waste in mar keting and distribution. The so ciety will be operated on the Roch dale plan. Some of the wastes charged are the practice of dealers in keeping the producer and consumer as far apart' as possible, overlapping and reconsigning shipments, buying from a distance, "see-sawing," congesting the terminals and needless use of railway equipment for long distance hauling when the same product could be obtained at home. Another charge is that dealers refuse to buy pota toes except at field run prices, de ducting $5 a ton for grading, besides a commission, when responsible or ganizations can grade and guaran tee potatoes at .shipping point, in this way saving this expense and re lieving the railroads from hauling cull products. Over 1,300 families in Seattle are organizing to buy direct from producers' organizations, «\ E. Lunii, thr Seattle representa tive, states. The ■ i "i Everett the second Sunday in Jan- The following - met-till*; :W. J Fort- Lunn, ; r ■ rilt "f 111 < StlvMllM Co CO-OPERATION EACH FOR ALL, AND ALL FOR EACH BUTCHERS DEMAND RIGHT TO COLLECTIVE BARGAINING SEATTLE UNIONS AROUSED HY BOSSES' EFFORTS TO USE PATRIOTISM TO DEFEAT UNIONISM SEATTLE One of the irritating things to which the butcher work men of Pugei Sound have bsan sub jected lately, and which is contribut ing to the feeling of dissatisfaction which may result in a strike in all packing plants on the Coast, is the ' unwarranted use by some of the employers have made of a pledge the men were asked to llgn in some of the large packing plants on the j Sound. I This document pledged the butch ers to "stand by the government and their employer" for the contin ued production of foodstuffs need ed In the war. Unscrupulous em ployers are trying to use this pledge to prevent the men from asking any increase in wages. After a conference lasting from '.) Saturdaf night until 4:30 Sunday morning, the associated packers re- PHONE COMPANY STOOPS TO PETTY PERSECUTIONS OF VICTORIOUS GIRLS SKATTLE:—Out of 850 telephone girlg who went out on strike, only 75 had not gone back to work this morning, which shows that the per centage of "scabs" was really very small. There are also about eight men among the electrical workers who went out, who have not yet been put to work. The company has four weeks from last Tuesday, or until December 22, to put every striker back in his or her old position, according to the Mediation Board's agreement. Company Is Poor Loser Of course, the company officials, like all "poor losers," have done a number of petty things to irri tate the girls since they went back to work, but this has only made the girls stick closer to their union. Chief operators who loyally "went out" with the girls for the right organize, have been put back beginners' positions for the four' weeks of grace allowed the company by the agreement. Get Graveyard Shifts Older girls who were formerly working daps, by virtue of seniority, have been given '"graveyard shifts," operative store; N. L. Algaard, man ager of the Silvana store; Frank Storm, manager of the Marysville Co-operative store; Carl Malmgren, manager of the Everett Co-operative store; Cecil Ferguson, of the Fer guson cannery of Snohomish; A. Heck and R. D. Deselle, president and secretary of the Snohomish County Fruit Growers' association, Snohomish. FARMERS' UNION SIGNS UP UNDER PRICE SCALE BISMARK, N. D.—The Farm, is' union of North Dakota has entered into an agreement with the Agricul tural Workers' union on a scale of prices. The day's work is limited to 10 hours, time and a half for overtime and double time for Sun days. The day's wages are fixed at $4, The Non-Partisan league assisted in the formation of this agi cement. SEATTLE WORKERS APPEAL TO RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT TO All) IN RELEASE OF RUSSIAN EMIGRANTS HEM) IN COMMUNICADO IN IMMIGRATION DETENTION STATION SEATTLE The Ru ment and the Council- of Sol I (Voi mci . P tok, Harbin, M Ed to in r< drawn up by the R adopted \>\> the meeting Hall, Seattle, called Sunday night to eminent of th atlOll of the Russian W \ Hoffnu Hilda Samltx-rt; v ' Number 359, I fused to sign any union agreement with the Butchers' union and have been preparing for a strike ever since. It is reported they have 200 strike breakers boarding at the Richmond I hotel. The Carsten company is even fig uring on petting meat cheaper from farmers, with the strike as an ex cuse. Strikers claim to have proof that Sound packers form a "combination in restraint of trade," and raise prices arbitrarity, from week to week. Butchers Go to Federal Attorney With Complaint Minimum wage law for women violated in Frye & Co.'s plant. Also eight-hour law. "Circle W" Barton threatens to bring: in negro strikebreakers. from 10 p. m. to 6 a. m. A num ber of the girls who stayed with the company and are now branded as "scabs" are leaving. Those who remain are favored as much as pos sible by the company, but the brand of the "scab" is upon them and the union girls are not worrying. One union operator who called a scab by her right name yesterday, was discharged today. The union concede! this right to the company, however. The I. B. E. W. is providing funds for all the striking girls and men who need it and as the next pay day is not until December 22, any further assistance from other unions and labor groups will be appreciated, union officers say. The union fed about 400 girls each day of the 1 days of the strike, in the cafeteria of the Labor Temple. This work, though done co-operatively, cost real money. Company's Well-Known "Patiotism" The local officials have posted a notice in the girls' rest rooms at the different exchanges that the reason the union girls have been taken back to work is that the company pa triotically yielded to the govern ment's "request" to settle the strike. The girls fully understand this well known brand of patriotism and as one of them said today, they laugh whenever they look at that sign. About 100 girls were called back on Tuesday, 300 on Wednesday and 200 each on Thursday and Friday. RUSSIA SPLIT UP INTO FIVE SMALL REPUBLICS STOCKHOLM — Four republics have been set up in Russia since the Romanoff dynasty was overthrown. Travelers arriving at Haparanda today expressed the opinion that the Russia of the future would be composed of a series of separate states, loosely attached to each oth er, but with absolute automony. The fifth republican government to be established will probably bo set up in Helsingfors for Finland. The four republics are Russia proper with the central government at Petrograd; Siberia, with the cap ital at Omsk; Crimea, with the scat of power at Sebastopol, and Uk rainia, with the capital at Kiev. It is reported that Kubun, in the Caucasus, is on I hi- point of sec-•-• i ing. 'ha-. Greenhalgh, a Britisher, and illt-i, a Scotch women, It was called by the International Workers' Defense League of Seattle, and the following resolutions which speak for themselves, were adopted and a collection of $37.20 taken for the benefit of the imprisoned men's families. * *vim» PIES Atiy one who wishes to contribute toward the .success of the Social Sunday night, may do so by volun teering to make one ■ wv*r»l ap ple pies. Call Main 478, or Black Sl.'i and let us know what you will ■1..