The 'Unfair List' War

A certain gentleman, member of a firm in this city that is on the 'Unfair List' of the Everett Trades Council, called one of the publishers of The Journal to the telephone the other day and proceeded to get a few choice remarks out of his system. We were told in language more forcible than polite that we were running a 'dirty sheet,' but that we would be made to find out that we could not run this town. We were further informed that if we didn't take that firm out of the 'Unfair List' we would wish we had. We presume the gentleman means that he will go a 'lawin.' We expect criticism and sometimes abuse so the call down of the gentleman did not worry us greatly, but we want to make a few remarks right here so that the gentleman in question and everybody else may know exactly where we stand in this 'unfair list' proposition. In the first place, The Journal has nothing to say about whose names shall or shall not appear in the 'unfair list.' This space is owned and controlled and paid for each month by the Everett Trades Council. We may differ occasionally perhaps as to the advisability of placing this or that firm unfair but with the publication of such firms after action has been taken by the central body, it is up to us to publish same until officially notified to discontinue it by the central body.