Ole Hanson Stumps the Country for Americanism I cigar was cocked to the angle of a seemed to think that he was some¬ Seattle's Un¬ flagstaff. how in the field of Presidential Fighting Ex-Mayor Really The mention of Presidential as¬ timber." pirations does not rcduco Ole Han¬ For the, present his speaking tour and his which is to derstands the and He son to an anticipated clamlike book, be brought Northwest, Says silence. out by a publishing house of Long him "I have had an ambition to be Island, keep busy. What He Thinks About the Reds President of the United States since "I never was so busy or had less/* / I was eight years old," he said, In he said at parting. "Never again answer to the writer's question. "Is can any one tell me of the prosperity it not an ambition that is legitimate to be encountered by public speaking. to after said. ever could be womanless. I have to every American schoolboy?" It appears me, my short By Louis Leo Arma they Nothing seen hundreds that the of Russian men in but never Further than this Ola Hanson did experience, promoter's idea 1W. W. eruptions on Annistice done through them that the L W. W. Seattle, is a woman I have not choose to go, beyond the state¬ of an adequate speaker one who and the «vents of the could not accomplish more effec¬ recognized as Rus¬ Day sian. From 1900 to 1918 of ment that "about two of every three will speak for nothing. . have once more and in less time. The L W. W. seventy paist fortnight tively every one hundred immigrants past persons who met him on the lecture "Still," he added, "I like it, and the singled out the Northwest as felt sorry for the unions, but, which nineteen years to reach this coun¬ j platform at the end of a speech country needs it." the hot spot of radicalism. is more important, could not show try have been males. That tells Í The shooting down of four ex- them the error of their ways. much of the story in the Northwest, soldiers and members of tthe Ameri- for the woman, after all, rules the A Matter of Evolution home, controls the expenditures and can on November 11 at Cen- Legion "From 1914 to the big strike of keeps man in his place and satisfied. John Drinkwater \ tralia. Wash., followed by the The most 1917 we may assume that condi¬ practical employer is he lynching of one "Red" and the Jail¬ who builds homes for his employees, tions in the lumber woods were not the for that rears on Kick a score a employer the ing of more, have created of the best. All Industrial improve¬ Prefers | «situation the end of which is not ment is a matter of evolution, but, . . yet. By Glendon Allvine thing stronger handy. His name íb as yet, the living conditions in the man the JOHN DRINKWATER sell¬ not by any means descriptive But No understands North¬ great woods had not evoluted. The isn't west, the character of its people Oleisms ing insurance any more, which ho is getting used, after these six men did hard work and lived in is the reason all weeks, to our quaint American cus¬ end its political and economic struc- why London shacks and bunkhouses. They fur¬ HE yesterdays are gone forever, but the lessons knows who he is and why toms. New York he has seen both fcre better than Ole Hanson, Seat¬ America is "wet" and "dry," and out in the Mid¬ nished their own bedding with which taught by the past must be remembered tee j learning. tle's fighting ex-Mayor, the spec¬ if "For was dle West he baa visited towns "dr they trudged from camp to camp. T are to twelve years I employed tacular white-haired American of progress. the Northern Insurance Com- as Sahara. For many years there were no by Bwedish extraction whose percep¬ pany," said the author of "Abraham "There was a Drinkwater fn amusements for the men, and this, In order to understand the present tee must remem¬ Lincoln" at the Hotel Cromwell's tion and decision last winter broke ber Schuyler the Parliament," he has with the lack of home life and the the lessons of the past, but must forget its prejudices* other day. "I »sold insurance poli- learned, "which amuses me, because . sympathetic strike which since has * . general feeling of irresponsibility, . «ejes, both fire and life, and traveled I am writing a play about Crom¬ been characterized as, in effect, a mado of these workers saturnine, This is a new new world.but one must never about the British Isles surveying well." social revolution. day.a rough fellows who, in the rough-and- forget that old human nature never changes* business and inspecting agents. He is also gathering material for Mr. Hanson is now on a m * . "Then, one day, I got 'sick of in- a speaking tumble fights of the camps, sunk the play about Robert E. Lee, in tour of the the | surance, and decided to try my hand whose life he country. During spikes of their shoes deep into the Our present condition has been bred by indifference* finds dramatic ma¬ past seven weeks he has spent forty- and at living by my wits. I had written terial comparable to that of Lin¬ faces of their opponents. There is neglect* ignorance selfishneês. I some verse and plays in my spare two nights in sleeping car berths. * * * coln's. no gainsaying that the employers moments, and finally decided to He is preaching Americanism and must be out For the motive that sends this were slow to recognize conditions, Cowardly complacence wiped by intense write for a living. to his audiences his interest in our young Britisher to America for the relating experi¬ or it may be that they thought the country's problems. "Last night I dreamed I was back * * # .characters for his we have ences with the radicals of the North¬ of creature comforts was In the insurance office again." plays quality his own explanation: west.those same that were impli¬ comparable to the loyalty of their Despair never caught a fish nor built a home. "Please," said his wife, 'net's talk » n * about else." cated in the Armistice Day out¬ men. something "The Civil War period In Ameri» "After the strike of 1917 j The conversation veered to an- is the most in modern breaks. great Great wealth, to be respectable, must come from great 1 perhaps epic was called living conditions for the "Make it a felony to belong to service* lumbermen were improved. Better * * * the I. W. W. or a kindred organiza¬ beds, better food and better hours comes to men who have Ole Hanson, Seattle's who tion," said Seattle's former mayor were established. Now I would Poverty oft naught that the fighting Ex*Mayor, says: world wants to to The Tribune representative. "No rather have a meal in a Washing¬ buy. "Make it a felony to belong to the 1. W. W." * * * amount of theorizing suffices in the ton lumber camp than the best din¬ ner that could be served in a New There is* as yet* no synthetic substitute for brain.-. present honr. Act! Jail the native York hotel. Camp cooks are paid .OLE November 1919. those who wish to remain in this her vote is for the home and trouble-makers and deport the ras¬ $175 a HANSON, 18* that to $200 month and they are country. Deport the others. The which the cally aliens who are at symbolizes home. Com¬ equally tht acquainted with the appetites to statistics on the recent coal strike bine with that the fact bottom of the which minister. that soon unrest of the North they tend to prove that it is the foreigner labor will not permit itself to be west." "The advent of better living con- solid rock of psychological and ao~ place among all the unions that and the radical who go hand in hand- ditions did not diminish the fact. manipulated, as it plainly has been popu¬ ciological voted on the so-called sympathetic just a3 they progressed thus in the in the and there is Behind the larity of the I. W. W. Rather it "The strike for the past, much for Discontent improved condition that shipyards workers, Northwest, where 300,000 men were -which we may be hopeful and thank¬ helped, for the results of the strike came in 1917 no real con- which was, in effect, revolution men Seattle's erstwhile Mayor, who re brought thin¬ guided by whoso greatest hope ful. But we always must encourage were pointed to as the magic that tent. It stayed the hand of the I. W. ly disguised and bristling with po- was to overthrow the government these signed his position to take the plat could be weaved natural forces by standing by organization W. for the moment, but the goal of tentialities. of the United States. firm that form against radicalism, summed and converts were So against anything smacks uj many gained. revolution loomed ahead. The I. W. Unnatural "If we use force now we can talk of alienism." the reasons for the chronic discon far, so good; for these, broadly, are W. still held aloof from the Living reform later. It is no unions, time to mend Ole Hanson is his tent in the Northwest as accepted principles of employer- but after the overthrow of the Rus¬ "The conditions which I have out- the barn door approaching follows when the horse is forty-eighth He is the at employee relations and are a thing sian government a new policy was lined are as surely responsible for being stolen and that is the condi¬ birthday. beginning the inception of th< from father of nine children. An erect apart revolution. conceived. the Ï. W. W. the outbreaks on Armistice Day as tion with which we are confronted organization eut of which grew thi Previously figure of slightly more than medium "That takes in again the character had desired to destroy all unions to they were for trio attempted revo- to-day. After we kick the aliens out Industrial Workers of the World: of the men. as lution height, he walks with his chin up Seattle, the first create one big union. Now, as a last winter in Seattle. It of our country and jail the home¬ of and his eyes level. His face is tri¬ "It could always be found in thi port entry from Russia, and the matter of practical politics, it was finds its basis In the unnatural state bred professional trouble-makers it Northwest of angular in shape, with cheek¬ Northwest that in general as the jump¬ decided that the I. W. W. would go living which prevails in the will be time to plan anc high radicalism begai off reform, bones and dark eyes that are ing place for those who drift into the labor unions, and, operat- Northwest plus the false hopes held there is something that can be said sharply among those men who had no fixei contrasted with his snow- across the continent from the At¬ ing wheels within use the out by the radical leaders in that direction." wavy, Lumber and wheels, taking white hair. He dresses with responsibilities. minim, lantic continued to attract the home¬ 110 crafts in Seattle as a tool to their cue from Russia, Ignorance what be said to be a workers were the ones invariabl; less wanderer. Under the prevailing gain its ends. is at the bottom of tho situation, The Right Thing might western idea conditions was of permissible flourish: silk affected. it here that th« "The,: story of the soviet was j but while such ignorance obtains it "How about labor's stand?" we shirts, 'floater' changed from a nobody tc in labor hall is important that public conscious- patch pockets, pointed, slender la¬ "These men were home preached every in asked. and florid virtually a somebody, for in the eyes of th?. Seattle. Its benefits and the ad- ness be awakened to the danger and pels cravats being, the less and and that is "Organized labor in the end may high in a womanless, "Red" radicals who ruled the I. W vantage of making one bold stroke that it be properly combated, points gay ensemble. W. be counted upon to do the He is condition that makes for disconten j the floater was potentially e for so-called liberty were urged by "In the outbreak» at Centralia right quick to act. As he and Revolution feeds upon disconten soldier of the revolution and as sucl the 'Red' leaders. In the strike at and elsewhere the tag has been defi¬ thing*," replied Mr. Hanson. "In the WTiter walked into the Long Is¬ was a land station a and there has been of bot valuable asset Seattle last February we never have nitely placed on the I. W. W., just spite of the fact that Gompers is rumpus began at the plenty ticket seller's window and in the Northwest. The lumb< the Floaters been able to get the exact ballot on where it belongs, and any excuses a rank compromiser and labor- the next Mobilizing more than one of the union meet- that their acts were the moment Ole Hanson was in the thick worker averages about eleven da*« governed by through his agency, has shown a "Better living conditions meant tu * That one showed that a union motive of self-defence will be of it. Vachel ings. taker tendency to exalt itself in a Lindsay and Major Edward S* Johnson to a job. He is paid well for th more than temporary gain to thes< with a of six for what are worth. period (custodian membership hundred they so critical that man's first "Here!" he cried. "Stranger, ii the Lincoln work and with the first or secor men. That was not their vital objec decided to out in thought of Monument at who h-ave been go secret meeting "As a remedy for a situation su- should be for his labor will the ticket seller has made a mistake Springfield) and never has been. The en the vote of men. countiry, pay day he frequently disappear propos! sixty How these perinduced by an unnatural state of stay on the track/ his cash balance will show it. Mr showingJohn Drinkwater the burial place Lincoln was to mobilize thise floater men of going to the to his ear jtion sixty managed to manipulate living and which has reached eucl "Do know Ticket Seller, take thÎ3 man's name city spend ¡or itinerant workmen in auffielen the six is you who will keep it hundred none of our affair an acute stage as is evidenced ir there'/" he added. and address and make a refund il ings and then back to work at a* numbers to the success o* other guarantee They did do it. And these sixty men the Northwest, there is but one cure We believed not. you are in error." unpleasant subject.prohibi¬ history. Certainly there has been other camp when ho Is broke. one bold stroke that would overthrow as be tion. more might expected, were the I and that is force. If the publii "The women," replied the white- Scowls nothing epic since 1650. In "To understand our situation it organized government and start j W. W. radicals who had inte melted into expressions of "I hope I have the typically Brit¬ my of gone wants to fight I. W, W.-ism let u: haired Westerner, thumping hia friendliness. reading Lord Charnwood'e to revolution which would sweep th« the unions that worl mako it a to approximate The for ish attitude toward prohibition," he on necessary understand the cha they might felony belong to it, o knee. "The greatest con¬ mer English monograph the Great continent. from as are stabilising, Mayor of Seattle strode off ir said. "To my mind it will be a itcter of the men who want to ove j within, just they at to a kindred organization. Mak« servative forfce in sad Emancipator I suddenly discovered "These as I wish the country to¬ that superior ether which for men, again t« I tempting to do to-day. We may as- reading, writing and of th is the envelopi day England if we ever prohibit in Lincoln a that interested throw tiie government and the co speaking day woman. Her vote always the arbitrator. There was a figure emphasize, were homeless an« j sume that a similar operation tool English language fo grea liquor." me above all others." ditions nnder which are compulsory will quell the leaven of unrest, foi deal of they wor buoyancy in his step; hi Drink water? Not if there is any- ing and have worked. His interest led him to write the play which has passed its 300th "As early as 1914 men who we performance at the Hammersmith opposed to our system of gover Repertoire Theater. ment wero convinced ithat the u The It was an unheard of procedure rest this Platform when of Arnold Bennett among largo field of wot Free Men and Nigei men could be capitalized. An air Playfair joined with John Drink- water in the theater at is held together by a common pi workers« whether union or It leasing nonunion« Hammersmith, a suburb of London. pose, so is the and oth Absolute fairness tô and em¬ the priesthood employe unalterably opposes "closedshop'9 which It was as if the forthcoming Ameri¬ groups of men, but these unmi alike is one of the shuts the ployer foundation princi¬ doors of industry against the Amer¬ We do notcountenance limitation of the can production of "Abraham Lin¬ ried, homeless workers on which a had ples Americanism rests. ican workingman who is not a member or a amount of work whichmay be.accomplished coln" were scheduled for third-rate stabilizing Influences and clutch labor organization. in a given time, or the manner theater in Yonkers. ut in which pay¬ one anything that promised an eas 5. ment shall be made for such No in London had ever life and excitement. The last is i We will work for the improvement of in* work, whether dreamed of going to Hammersmith pointant. dustrial relations, «the elimination of class It is un-American to interfere wíÜh the byhourly rate, piecework, contract or other¬ to a theater given up to the cruder wise. We believe that kind of melodrama and a rather in¬ "Debs, o prejudice, which results from mis¬ personal rights and constitutional every workman Symons, Haggerty generally liberties should have an ferior class of musical comedy. And Coates whipped the miners Into l1 understandings, and the establishment of of the individual. we shall opportunity to earn a wage the has Therefore, op« proportionate to his yet play been drawing first In 1914 under the head of f equitable and «uniform working conditions pose the use of^force or intimidation by any ability and productive capacity audiences five miles from Western Federation of Miners. fair alike to one to capacity. the beaten path and has set a record employe and employer. endeavoring persuade workmen eith¬ of was out of this organization tl er to or to performances that would be a 3, join, resign from a labor organi¬ good run for the West End. ÏWth the I. W. W. and the Nonp zation. 8. We will use our united Would New Yorkers go to Yonk¬ tlsan league gTew. They gr always Influence in Sa ers to see a play about Abraham for radi opposition to injustice, practiced By encouraging fair rapidly, they guaranteed wjhether We hold that both the dealings and broad- Lincoln? It seems doubtful. But reforms and to the lc by employers or employes. employe and the minded policies, we the unfavorable pandered employer are privileged to terminate their hope, with co-opera¬ comparison with Lon¬ of excitement and intrigue whi 4. tion of Seattle's thinking public, to doners is not likely to result, because relations whenever either chooses to do. bring William who the the homeless and womanless m We' stand for so* about working conditions and wages Harris, jr., has the American plan,, which unless, of course, there be which American rights, will se¬ will inevitably substitute when thi contracts between will make Seattle as a probably means absolute fairness to all classes of them. known good city in cure for the production a theater la no domestic life. which to work, to live, and to raise children. close to Times Square. And by tho "At this time the radical lead« time the rehearsals now in progress decried unionism. The unions we are finished John Drinkwater will be the quiescent tools of the capitali The above back from Springfield, 111., and platform ivas drawn up by the organized business men of Seattle, who points Wat, ready to answer the pledged themselves to uphold it in their fight against Bolshevism call of "AuthorI Author!"