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LOCAL,STAENAI THE BBULLETIN'S DOUBLE PAGE OF NE AND INTERNATIONAL__LEISDO BEPG OFN CRUS ING OVER ENTIRE WORLD Mass Action Not Under stood by Statesmen of the Old Order. Workers Are Bound to Rule. * .y SCOTT NI:.l';NG ( Rand :,hool :t s :o il t'cienteC. ) People artl aciint i; imu e . 1' III learnelld I. ait s action during the \v..r and thty ]ul.t t on piatt tlei ng it .;ti"e the ;igning tif the alrnmistic(. 'Politicianls o10 not n elt:irstantl Itas, action; statesmen of the old olrder fail to grasp its significance. Theyv are so atcustonmeld to "boss'" lh imtstc:,. tih:at wherl teliy nncounterlt lthe isa:s in motionl, iey lie o" l' ithl by it. They think and speak of it a: though the masses intend a pt.!ronal aflront to Ihem anti to the for1'111 of governimenlit lthat tihiy r.,prsent. The French ruling class fell Ihi way w1 i 17. 9; the' rulers of ltu::;ia h:utt lth tainte idea in 11905 and 1117: ti : tlners of A ome'rica t.iakte such i. ilt i ttlde toldaty. Mass action is the effort o' lt'he people to Lind salvation. Mass aclitn is a crusade. 'T'he crustaders art n thused. inspired, transliguretd, ' . y are no longer lmen. 'rhFey ;!r1i tie. proplhetic emnbodimenl t oif a i-\new worldl order. Strlange reports come to its of the spirit behind the mass ;atlin!l th,;t is convulsing Soutli Antm 'ittt'ei antld nits t'orminig E.urope. In Rusht the Iti.ss is have )ade worts ' I n; tionafl duty and pur'.sitismI 1n offense. An .Anlri can officer is reported a,- |h,\vinilg DEMAND THE 7 UNION LABEL and be assured it was not made in a sweat shop UNION MADE GOODS AND WHERE SOLD Dollar Shirt Shop Palace Clothing MENS' HATS Rialto `heater Building and Shoe Store -- - "Greenhood" 53-55 E. PARK STREET NICKERSON TheI' Famous "Black Bear" Ccloi,.l, . S hoeai ;1 - THE HATTER DIRlk earY uishings l' nil kinds with [hal Union-made Shirts the LUion . Lab)el 112 W. PARK STREET CHICAGO SHOE STORE BIG 4 7 S. MAIN ST. UPHOLD 17 W. PARK STREET Union MadeShoes YOUR UNION .MADE FOR BROTHER AND Hals, ( s. Tics, \VWork or WORK AND DRESS SISTER IN 1.es, Taiit Sil ulerli BRANCH 43 E. PARK ST. THE FACTORY Clot hing. BY REFUSING TO BUY GOODS 0.K. STORE THAT ARE NOT 24 E. PARK ST. MADE UNDER UNION Union Made urnihins or All Union Made KCONDITIONS K,1 Clothing Shmoes, la ls, Overalls, dcumpers, Gloves 27 W. Park St. Suspendrs, etc.ute, o aa BRENNAN'S Wecan outfit you from BoNI wT T E 125 N. Main Sturct. head to foot at the UNION LABEL -et il's lMake Youlr Sipring Suits at UNION MAI)E Pr _ l rices That Sllell E'olnoIly Haberdashery ._-_. . -at- 12 CLOSING OUT PRICES 34 E. Park St. ' ( ,L'IST , 31tR gSe"r I62 WEST PARK ST. ASK FOR SHIRLEY WALK-OVER HOLSOM BREAD CLOTHES SHOP SH O ES For sale by all dealers 14 N. MAIN ST. Made bySuits HOME BAKING CO. Suits UNION MADE ! ,oqq~lA~m and Hats 46t W. Par Street. praisdit Clenienceau and l ti" Froncll governllent and then erd 'ii bl \when I speak thus to the Frtlnch:- i diers they spit."' 13ritis:h Iroop l, ll nmasse notified their ofliccrs that thIry would not go to Itiussia and reiu::ed to unlmnl a themiltli'1\; utl il tilt' \i W 'r given assourance that they woulld lio. he sent there. FrIencmntil, ('anadiolid . A ustriaii s. iii iine., Ilii lrngi ,i1. Finns and Gen moan:. all e\iniee li:t ;1anie :igrit. The Briti :,|1 work r1 at. c! iLu: ing. The liolflsi st ri.'rs land the vrorl:ei.rs of Glatgow allOunce publt, itcly that Ithey 1a.l. no ilnion o1f s;optir. untlll ithey have : ecurl'1 pmos;-..sion ,f' the indl:1i - annout t e this in tlihe etl of0 openl protests froml tl. old ;li,' I ili officerl ani d lI'i u Ithel York 'lTiilu,, in an leditorialt dtiulincuil; tiion, d(oClre; lhat Sole of the ijiore ire ltIbli f lthe lBriilt:-ith rade io niic hialders have repudiated the lankl and file and resigned their p1 iltionl . 't'he siiie lpirit of l ts; action hli~i doitninatlted the clothing strikes, in :ieac York, and it Ie.l ressin i ;et1 Ialong worker; of S,'attle. oi i no ,s .Aires and ol1 i , l tidio loill'e similatr s t ories of the untutlol ed iworker casting aside lhis allegianice to irade union o rganlizait iS and to oli:v clrnld mtachilnt 'y and an:notusindg Ilut the world nc 'tl hi his-. One F,'roneii s.ldicr sitnrummed up the Ivole Iuestion vhe hiS , "' liate fought and bled ani died 'fo irance. Now that 111te war iu ov'wr iFranice belongs to us." Politicians, statesmen anld thie dip oimats who speak for the old world annlliot fathoml mlass action. Thern to'e, tlhey condemnlil it, oppose it and attempit to crush it. They might as well try to check the ice packs in the Juno Yukon Vr lthe sweep of the Itrade wind'. The i.ssi are ar'ouiised. They lave htn silarvted. Tiheir chilldren lave d;(d o di:E-ase. Theie :on.1 hlVE Ier'n lo.t. in battle. Their liv;:; ha\, !illl II fIItilf I1l 11li 1I r I11 III 1l II IIP: STRNNG BACKS WEAK HE1DS Yakima Farmer Tells How Every Man Went for Him self, and the Devil Got the Whole Bunch. bIay groer s it tit ' titla val loy sufflerd a les of ;it ;ia:Ot$5,111100 last week thrul'oligh lack of proper or ganiza tion. :Approxi illll {,y 1,000 ot!. of" hay w 'ere Iou' ht at plrices which nett'.d the irhuler:; b ltween $f5 anl $7 ta tun. Aclte sholrtage ill (cIll sunting sectliOls inlldll u ed c( sIuSIIIIers to offer the highr pri !s. (Growers, disorganliz-d and S1 tl(tered, were ig norni t of tlhe sharpllll' rise in the Iar l-:t, and few of lthem1 w\ reo able to 1t]1 adlVaninttag' of' it. Thils is not a i'nt.ulrkatlte or un.s11 aI l condition. Our reco ti'1liIn i; that it happens just ilbolt very ylr'. The only reme11dy \we kn is complete anl d iir tight organlization, a d ll nui'rkl etilng t( h000g - :Ill o l'.,gqlIn Zip (,O -1lple'atiVP agen,1icy. Jeen cripplhd and broken. All these Ihings h1ave come to thO 1 ind11]erI the reign of caplit;ilis( Society. The miass ("s ha ve re:tc llld thell conclusion that capitalist .ociv y is a nIlllce to hou 1nan happiness and well-being. The Imasses t b. e madei ul i their hliint d'I that capitalist socit y llustt go. Ex iperiellnce hils ltadel thetali wis(. lisery and suffering have made threml hbotl. T'he mllnSsle, llia s.,o.Ii n. 'hiTh' c.iirusde I :(s begu ! Th11 indomit.a le, inlinc iblh IanF;. crutade, crying its -, i. .age- "IlH Nud. |pe "ce ,nl lib 1) ly capitalkin mu!rt gu!" NOTICE TO GREAT FALLS READERS. Where the Bulletin is sold: Oscar Prescott. 18 Second street South. Ed Landgren, 408 First avenue South. The World's News company. 'orner First National bank iluilding. Corner Fourth and Central, two regular newsmen. HERE'S YOUR UNION and where it meets Notice to Union Officials! The Bulletin is publishing a direc tory of unions with the names of of ficers, place and time of meetings. This directory will keep your union constantly before the public and your members. It is a short-cut road to well attended meeting nights and greater interest in your organ ization. Your union should be rep resented in this colamn. The rate is very low. Write to our Labor Ed itor or Advertising Department for rates. The Bulletin is the official organ of the State Metal Trades Council. BUTTE STREET CAR MEN'S UN ION, Division No. 381-Meets ev ery first and third Wednesday at Carpenters' Union hall. President, D. A. McMillian. Financial secretary, Ben Ivey. Recording secretary, WiL. bur A. Hoar. BLACKSMITHS AND HELPERS No. 456, postolfice box 838--Meets first and third Tuesdays at Carpen ters' hall, 156 W. Granite st. Presi dent, George MacKenzie, 2037 Whit man ave., phone 2962-J; recording secretary, Ed A. Davis, 1901 Roberts ave.; business agent, J. F. Buckley, room 106 Penn. 13Blk. IBROTIIERIOOD OF BOILER1M2AK ERS', IRON SIHIPBUILDERS' and HELPERS' Local No. 130--Secre tary, Walter Goodland, Jr., 1819 Whitman ave. Meets second and fourth Tuesdays at 215 N. Main st. IlltJ"1'Tl ME'l'AL, T'IADES COUNCII. M- -ets every Wednesday' evening at 101 S. Idaho. President, James IF. O'Brien; secretary, Leo Daly; trensurer, Fred Allen: postoffice box 770. Telephone 2085. i UTTEi: TY'POIiGRAPIiICAL UNION, No. 1 26-- Meets second Sunday in the month at I. O. G. T. hall, 215 North Main st. Secretary, F. J. (Glenn, Box 585. GENTRAL, PIPE FITTERS' UNION No. 710 ---Meets first and third Fridays in eq.ch month, at K. of P. hall. John Kerrigan, secretary, 1339, )\wa ave., BI.utte. Executive commit the eets every Friday night. (Ill.,. SMIELTERI AND S'lIIACE-' WOIl KilS, UNION, -- Affiliated with Metal Mine \Vorl:ers' union of America, holds regular mueetings each Friday eve .ing at 1.11 South Idaho ;itret. All M nll, Smelcer and Surface W\orl.ers :1ie requested to attend. M. D. Smith, T.'oasurer. Il!I1' \L VORIIKEIRS, LOCAL I NIt .N No. G5.--Meets: every Mon l:,y o\ nin ! i at K. P. hall. President, IJohn I,. I) ly; vice presidlent. I. E. lrov an; recording secretary, Nicik Ma richk; linancial secretary and business :t _-nt, W. C. Medhurst. Secretary's office room 106 Penn. Ill:. IN'TEIN.\TIONAL ASSOCIATION 01" MAI-'HIINISTS' HELPERIS, No. S55--- Meets every Friday evening at 1. O. C. T. hall, 215 N. Main st., at 7:30 p. in. INTEIrI.\NTIONAI, ASSOCIATION 01' MI\CIIINISTS, No. 88---Meets every Trhursday evening at K. of P. hall, Sonith Main st. F. J. Lynch, irnancial secretary; J. F. O'Brien, business agent, Carpenters' hall. UIISIC.\NS' UNION--Meets third Tuesday in each month; board of directors meets first Tuesday. A. Budd, lresidCdent; WV. E. Vincent, sec retary, 116 Hamilton st. Tel.2858-W. UNITE':I) ASSOCIATION OF PLUMB I:IRS AND STEAM FITTERS, Lo cal No. 41-Meets every Monday, 8 p. m.. CI: penters' hall. Secretary, M. J. 1)ig;nan, Box 740. Office: Room S, Carlpenters' hall. SIIET METAL WORKERS' UNION -Ml-e:s second and fourth Tues days in each month, at Carpenters' hall. M. O'Neill, secretary, Box 196. BIutte. MElAL, MINE WORKERS' UNION (Iilependent)--r-Meets every Tues lday c\vniing at 8 o'clock, at hall, 101 Souith l;laho st. Open meetings on "chanre" Sundays at 2 o'clock. Fred G,. ('lrigh, secretary. Tel. 2159. CASCADE COUNTY TRADES AND IllAIOR ASSOCIATION - Meets every Friday night at 8 o'clock al Ca'rlentrs' hall. Secretary, Franklr Kiernan. P . O. Box 560. Phone 6834. JOI'I'I:YMEN BARBERS' LOCAL No. I;:5 meets every first and third Monihi\i .,merican hall. Steve Ire land. I'res. J. R. Costello, Sec. I IT'"'I 'l'TCHIERS' UNION-Me-ets o'very Thutirsday at 8 p. in. at Enig,:l' hill, Lewisohn building. F. A. (h.is,,.isecretary. P. O. box 82. INTI :I.N.TIONAL BROTHERHOOD O!-' I'I'ECTRICAL WORKERS, in .ide wirvinren, local No. 623, meets every londay night nt Carpenters' hall at S o'clock. S•ay you saw ie,advertised in the 1iull -tin. WORKERS DEEE. HAS_ REA Will Work for Release of Industrial and Political Prisoners Framed by the Capitalist Class. The Workers' 1) e e n ns e union, launched in New York city last De cember, is making steady progress in its task of organizing the workers of the United Statets in a nmoveminent to bring albout the liberation of the 2,000 industrial and political prison ers now confined in the jails of this country. The union is a delegate body, witih duly accredited representatives from over 170 labor, socialist and radical organizations of Greater New York and vicinity, including such power ful labor groups as the United He brew trades, the Amalgamated Cloth ing workers, the International La dies' Garment workers, the socialist party, the Workmen's circle and the Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators and Paper Hangers. The program of the defense union contains the following call for action: "Under cover of the war situation, the business interests of this coun try have carried on a systematic cam paign in all parts of the country against workers active in the labor struggle. Hundreds of working men and women have been jailed on flimsy pretexts and convicted on prejudiced testimony. Exhorbitant bail has usually been demanded, re sulting in months of imprisonment .before conviction. Sentences of a severity unmatched even in Prussia have been imposed in countless cases. "With the cessation of hostilities, the time has come for the workers throughout the country to demand the liberation of all persons impris oned during the war for reasons di rectly or indirectly due to their par ticipation in the labor movement, or for acts or utterances dictated by their conscience." In addition to working for an am nesty for industrial and political pris oners jailed during the war, the Workers' Defense union will seek the release of industrial prisoners framed up by the capitalist class prior to the war, such as Mooney and Billings in San Francisco, and Ford and Shur, sentenced to life imprisonment in connection with the Wheatland, Cal.. hop pickers' strike in 1913. It will also agitate against the present prac tice of the United States government of deporting foreign-born workers on account of their political opinions or their activity in the labor movement. A petition is being sent to the president and congress by all the af filiated organizations, and a cam paign has been started to raise a de fense fund of $25,000 in order to carry on publicity and organize the workers throughout the country in beha!lf of their comrades in jail. Al ready a start has been made in form ing organizations in several indus trial centers of New Jersey. While the defense union, on ac count of its diversified memblership, is not a propaganda organization as such, it has decided in its publicity to emphasize the class struggle as the cause of legal injustice to the work ers and to recognize that, "if other means fail, it will be necessary for the workers to use their organized power in industry to bring about the release of their comrades and fellow workers through general strikes at such times as may be agreed upon by the various labor organizations con cerned. THEY ALL LEARN AFTER AWHILE London.-White collar slaves arc bestirring themselves in England. An interesting development of the trade union movement has taken substan tial form in the professional Work ers' federation. It comprises the National Union of Teachers. the In. corporated Association of Assistant Masters, the Association of Assistant Mistresses, the Custom and Excise Federation, the Second Division Clerks' association, the Tax Clerks association, the Federation of Wom en Civil Servants, the London County Council Staff association, and kin. dred arganizations, which represent in all some 174,000 workers never before jointly organized to proteci their special interests. The secre tary of the felderation is F. H. Nor man, 49 Bedford slcret, Strand. Some of the thiings the federation has undertaken are: Reform in income taxn regu:latinns which it is claimed press too heavil. on professional workers. More adequate supply of middle class houses andl lower rents. Reductions of railroad fares. Subscribe to The.; Daily VERY DOLE- 1 H 1UCK ON IT HOORAY SFly-My, I Baseball Dat: ý Rolling-Pin - guess I'll stick Hcoray, only 1 'o. that's a sad- ~ - o aaround here for fewa more days Ira. eh? Wellsad ir.eh? Wel a while! nowl he looks It. -" ýe*%.rzZr CAPITALISM'S RIGHT AND LEFT IOWERS SEETHEa RERT TRRGEY Y THWE SLRUGHT £v OFH-rE \N N N 0 C £T 5 . - - WITH = MR. R. MARS. d ." M'D S'LE FLU. AND A \YIONDERFUL CrST PRESENTED BY - ATOCiNRCO & PROFT E°tk CONTINUOUS PERFORMFANCE o UNREST BREEDING CAMPS DEVELOPED BY EMPLOYERS Chicago, April 3.-.-The real bol :he viki are chealp-jolin employers an(. autocratic financiers who have a e ven t e enth century viewpoint writes President Perkins of the Ci ghrmakeirs' Interuat ienal union i+ the official magazine of that organ izat ion. The trade unionllist intlerprets pres ent day conlditions a:e follows: "There are iwo kind(; of bolshe viki. (We use that term advisedly and simply for convenience sake.) One is the wild-eyed and impatieni red radical; the other is the despotic autocratic, grab-it-all employer and financier. 'T'h.e latter is allmost whol ly responllsible for thlie breedinlg em;cii: that create the bolshevilii, and is more dangerous to our ropublican in stitutions, our democracy and our destiny than is lthe former. "After all is said, all must agret that the quesetion of unrest and the creation of the destructive, radical element is 1bsolutely an economic issue rather than a political issue. The so-called unrest, worll-wv ide in its scope, is caused absolutely by lo\\ wages, long hours and horribly inis erable working conditions of espe cially the migratory workers and tht so-called common l:aborers and the unorganized. There is unrest in the republic of France, in the limited monarchy of Spain, in tile republic of Russia, in the limited monarchy of England, in the republic of Switzer land, in the limited monarchy of Italy, in the republic of Germany, and last but not least, in our own glorious republic of the United States. OWNERS' PROFITS VS. MINERS' LIVES London.-Higher coal prices will increase the cost of steel. English enmployers are opposing the higher price of coal because the consequent increased price of steel would hinder competition in the world's markets. A nominee of the British coal com mission, J. T. Forgie, acting for the employers, states that the increase in the coal price would be due to the miners' demands for higher wage: and better living conditions. Frank Hodges, the nominee of the miners on the commission, points out on the other hand that the steel industry has survived the increased cost of coal since the war. Robert Smillie. head of the miners' organization asks (1) why an idle class should get 50 cents a ton profit from coal and thus hinder the steel industry. and (2) why the miner should not cet decent living conditions by abol ishing royalties to the owners and holders of mining property. 1t7e Eni. lltin want ads We repeat that the cause is not lhe io!itical forumation, but rather that t is due aliost wholly to advierse iconomic working condiions. "The war which we have just passed through arousetl new hopes mtd aspirations and accentuated. igl.lous o lambiltions in the minds and hli heart;; of the great lmass of thl nolle her, and elsewhere. 'I'ii; o<d pllurpose' of America, wlte.'a V, went into the world war was to ina i' tho world satfe for ldemocracy, self Jetermination, and justice, and (,ut illies accepted this as their purpose and nothing short of the fulfillmnent of thtese pledges and :a realiz ation of he (.XIpoctalions of the miass:; will bring about a reasonable amount. of contentment. A certain amountt of unre:.t is good. but tile unrest hrln Iof oppression and the withholding of :latural rights, and justice long de 'crred blrea' ds contempt for our law and our institutions, and if not heed '< will lead to a dangerous situation ill so fr a; even our own gloliouri couintry is conceirned. "The cheap - john imanufacturer: and thle aotocratic illnanciers, whol ar doing the business in the t wentieth centully and wlio are trying to apply seventeenth century notions in so far as the treatmenet of the workers is concern ltd, and whol are the worst bolshe-viki we have, will cither deal with the legitimate, constructlvc trade union mlloveent or with the ;o-calllhed bolshevik element. This is not a threat, it is a plain statcementl of facts as they exist, which can not be ignored, if we hope to escape the inevitable consequences." WILL PROFIT BY THEIR MISTAKES Seattle.- In order that future gen erations of workers may profit ,by their mistakes, the men and women of Seattle, who organized the gigan tic strike of February last, are en gaged in compiling a careful and de tailed history of the events of that working-class uprising. The nmethod used for verifying the facts is this: From week to week the Seattle Un ion Record, the organ of the Central Labor Council of Seattle and vicin ity, publishes a chapter of the history as prepare(, by the history comniit tee. The readers are asked to p:'rusn, the story carefully, and then to send in such corrections as may be neces sary to make the account authentic. for, says the committee, "in matters covering thousands of people and more than 100 unions, it is difficult to be accurate and fair. We want to make this history as near perfect as possible before publishing it in paim phlet form." -AY YOU SAW IT IN BULLETIN. 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