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nearly as possible, la a worthy object of any good government."—
Abraham Lincoln
Address all Communications to Dally Nome Industrial Worker,
Box 210 Nome. Alaska. Phone, Black 12e
Nome, Alaska, September 7, lit! 7.
id i: I'Hockss or i,.uv.
There is a famous decision of the
Supreme Court a portion of which
reads as follows: —
“The constitution of the United
States is a law for rulers and for
people, equally in war and peace,
and covers with the shield of its
protection all classes of men, at all
times, and under all circumstances,
Mo doctrine, involving more perni
cious consequences, was ever in
vented by the wit of man than that
any of its provisions can he sus
pended during any of the great ex
igencies of government. Such a
doctrine leads directly to anarchism
and despotism i4 Wall 2, 142. De
< is:on of the yuprem Ci.art of the
United State in the great case Ex
Parte Milligan, i
The constitution of the United
Stan s expri ssly provides that Con
gress shall make no law abridging
the freedom of speech or of the
press, or the right ot peaceful as
sembly.
That is very distinct. Those are
rights inalienable and with the
people vested for ever and under
ail circumstances. So it is that we
do not und rstand the procedure
that has taken place when the au
thorities in the pest office suspend
ed the mailing privileges and there
by in many eases destroyed the eli
< ’Cation also of so many radical
papers.
Furthermore the constitution of
ti. • United Stat s declares that the
right of tlie people to he “secure
in their persons, houses, papers and
effects, against unreasonable
searches and seizures, shall not lie
violated-’ and we are all the more
astonished at the action of the au
thorities in raiding all tlie I. \V. W.
headquarters and seizing all the
papers, check books, documents and
correspondence therein.
Due process of law is provided
for man or associations of men who
violate the statutes and until tlie
Industrial Workers of the World
is proven to be a criminal organiza
tion and as such outlawed front The
protection of the constitutional
rights of citizenship, it i.- hard to
h; hold any equity . . i.. proceed
ings as reported.
For these industrialists who are
arrested without wairant. held
without trial and incommunicado
are guilty oi crime, the law ex
pressly provides means of meeting
the infractions of the lai^. More
over there is nothing to show
that the means of constitutional ac
tion in the matter have been de
fective.
There has we know, been a
strong and persistent attack upon
the organization that amounted to
a propaganda, and for that reason
it was all the more necessary that
the regular means of procedure
and certainly the means of nroce
dure within the constitution, be
pursued.
Dispatches state that the orga
nization is supposed to be in re
ceipt of money from Germany.
Frankly we could imagine nothing
more heinous even front the point
of view of the labor movement. To
conceive that any persons would
bargain the agitative propaganda
for the sake of promoting the ends
of an enemy country would be be
yond words contemptible. P.ut
merely to say so. or merely to sus
pect so is not to prove that this is
so, and when asserted as it has
be. n asserted that it is so, without
any proof to the effect asserted, is
as contemptible in those making
the assertion as it would he in
those taking that Judas money.
Mo organization within the Am
erican Federation of Labor, as our
organization is, can look at these
procedu,res without ^astonishment
and without concern. It can so
happen that tho raids made upon
the I W. W. may bo but the be
ginning. It may be that the sup
pression of the mailing privileges
of the soc iaiist papers may resuii
in similar a<tion as a war pre
caution against the labor papers
generally. Then where would we
get oft at? Where would the
workers experience generally fair
treatment, if the war Is to be an
excuse to stifle the organs which
would champion their cause?
The Supreme Court has in the
decision we quoted at the head of
this article declared that the con
stitution iqually in war and peace
covers with the shield of its pro
tection ALL CLASSES OF MEN.
The constitution throws the shield
of it;- protection ever the right of
free sp ■. eh. over the free press ot
the nation, over the person of the
citizen, over the homes and halls
of tin individual citizens and as
sociations of individual citizens. It
says to officialdom thus far shall
thou go and no farther! The law
of the land provides all the needed
machinery for punishment of in
fractions of that law; hut the ideas,
opinions, free associations of free
men .it ' protected by the constitu
tion. if these are not in themselves
proved to he unlawful.
There has been eve know consid
erable pacificist agitation; there is
now being carried on an agitation
to repeal conscription. Xot one of
these things are unlawful. They
may he wrong; they may be re
prehensible and foolish. Hut they
are within the rights of every in
dividual citizen and if those rights
arc to he arbitarily removed; if
they are to he interfered with In
any way, then the constitution is
being brought into contempt and
tlie freedom of the American citi
zen is only a sham.
Here is a dispatch stating that
the authorities seized the mailing
list of Solidarity and tlie American
Socialists. The latter is the official
paper of the Socialist party of Am
erica. That party polled the third
highest number of votes at the last
election. Almost a million citizens
supported the party candidate. In
Dayton the other day they polled
in the primaries three times as
many votes as the democratic can
didate. They represent *. a large
and an influential and a highly in
telligent portion of the citizenry of
this country. They are as much
entitled to the rights of a free
press as any party in the land. It
is therefore unquestionable to our
view that without any judicial pro
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cedure wherein the guilt of the
publishers of the American Social
ist or Solidarity had been proven
without any question, as violating
the laws of the and, the seizure ot
the mailing list was not only un
constitutional but an arbitrary
usurpation upon the part of the ex
ecutive function of government.
The courts of the land are provided
for the administration of law,and
justice. The man who breaks the
'.av thereunder subjects himself to
the punitive treatment provided
for such infractions. The judicial
function is among other things for
the purpose of deciding upon the
guiit or innocence, and consequent
ly the acquittal or the punishment
of the person charged with viola
tion of law.
To adopt measures which are for
eign to the spirit of these demo
cratic rights which American citi
zens possess, is to introduce a spirit
of despotism in a land consecrated
to freedom.
it is alleged that these papers
and these associaitions or persons
nr'1 in spirit disloyal to American
institutions But that is merely
an allegation, and until proper
proof of that disloyalty, that trea
son and that sedition is submitted
the accused persons are innocent in
the eyes of the law. •
We cannot look lightly upon acts
which are arbitary. Furthermore
today it is essential that above all
times the spirit of democratic free
dom should inspire the administra
tion of affairs by the judicial, the
executive and the legislation func
tions of government. If this is -
war for democracy and to make it
safe for the world, the democratic
institutions whicli are a legacy from
the Revolution must be cherished
and preserved and upheld as ne\cr
before.
It appears to the Industrial
Worker that oflicials today facing
a condition amounts in reality to I
an economic crisis, regard an e< o
nomic agitation as disloyalty. In
point of fact the efforts of the
workers to better tin ir conditions
are misunderstood by men whose
salaries prevent them from realiz
ing the condition which all so
many of the workers face. Not un
derstanding this condition, they fail
to sec- the moving force of these
labor and industrial agitations that
are stirring the country and assign
as the cause, just as the employers
say, a spirit of treason, disloyalty
and sedition abroad the land.
Nothing could be farther from
the truth. An examination of the
men who were deported from ISis
lie showed that most of them had
contributed their scanty savings to
the government bonds; that most
of them had donated to the Red
Cross, that all had who were of re
gistration age duly complied with
the law. that some had volunteered
their services for active work under
thp Red Cross.
Rut they
were put down as
treasonable, seditious and disloyal 1
persons because they endeavored to
compel one oi the most corrupt
(politically and otherwise) associa
tions in the industrial world to pa7
higher wages and provide better
working conditions.
Failure to take stock of the eco
nomic foundation of this labor
strife that is declared to !><■ treason
able is we tihnk the cause of all j
this trouble. We dont know why
we should believe that those sub
jected ta funfair conditions of labor
should need any German money to |
demand better conditions. We do [
not think they do. We believe they
have as much spunk in the Amer
ican labor movement and in the
American labor world as any part
of this earth, and it is not necessary
to bribe men to resist what they
conceive to be wrong. ‘
We say advisedly and emphati- ;
cally and without any kind of re
servation that if any labor leader
or labor organization took the
enemy money to carry on active
strife in the industrial world, to
promote labor troubles and dis
affection they should be held up to
the loathing of the nation. They
should be properly punished by the
workers themselves whom they be
tray in this manner. But we say
that it is an unthinkable proposi
tion that this state of things could
continue without the government
agents being fully aware of it, be
cause according to their own state
ment they have already investigated
the matter fully and found no such j
a condition.
it is playing into the hands of
the employers who would crush
unionism when their halls are in
vaded, their papers seized and they
are denied the mailing privileges.
Such action is calculated not to ■
restore the loyalty, where loyaltc is
waning,, but to excite a spirit of
revolt which will he fatal to the
proper carrying on of this war for
the purpose cf making the world
safe tor democracy. Nothing that
we know of is so calculated to
drive the working classes, now agi
tated with high costs of living and
eflorts to remove their hard earned
privileges from them beyond hear
ing. than these arbitary official acts
which will only excite a thrill of
joy among those privileged casses
whose ideal of things is not a de
mocracy. broad as the nation’s area,
but an industrial servitude when
all the machinery of government
can he used to compel submission
and docility to the most abandoned
and the most rigorous exploiter
posing as a patriot.
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