The Labor Journal Backs H.W. North for Mayor
Everett’s labor organ weighs in on the upcoming mayoral race, emphasizing the need for a candidate free from 'entangling alliances.'
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There are three questions which the voters naturally ask of any candidate for public office: 1. Is he upright in character? 2. Has he the business qualifications to administer the affairs of the office? 3. Is he free from entangling alliances which would prevent him from choosing as subordinates men worthy of their positions? The Journal is glad to say unreservedly that Mr. H. W. North, one of the leading candidates for mayor of the City of Everett, can answer every one of these questions in the affirmative. Mr. North made the statement at the beginning of the campaign that he would rather be defeated at the polls than to make pledges in regard to political patronage that would hinder him in the event of his election from appointing men to positions who were not, in his opinion, fitted to fill them with credit to themselves and to the city. That is the attitude of Mr. North today, and the Journal is assured by him in no uncertain terms that no promises of appointments to office have been made by him to anyone.
“The employer, always with an eye to profits, figures his labor cost of production to a nicety. Business competition forces him to skin labor if he can.”
Local labor unions remain central to Everett's political landscape, and the century-old desire for a 'non-entangled' mayor echoes the ongoing struggle between grassroots organizing and the influence of political patronage in municipal governance.
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