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As TO STRIKES.
I'life announcement that a senator
has branded the I. \\ . V\. as a cri
minal organization in the Upper
House will not be surprising. It
would be astonishing If it were other
wise. For months past the press of
the country lias been almost uni
formly crying out against the ac
tivities ci the Industrialists and de
manding net only laws against them
hut advocating lynch law.
There was the charge made that
the Industrial Workers of the
World was being subsidized by Ger
man gold to promote strike agita
tion throughout the country, but
federal .gents admit that this
charge lias beer fully investigated
and that it is without foundation
in fact. Still inasmuch as the pa
pers that printed the charge so
freely failed to publish the an
nouncemnt of the result o', the 1 cd
eral Agents probe, the statement is
again ai d again repeated.
Furthermore the papers declare
lhat the Industrial Workers of the
World are committing illegal ads
throughout the country, guilty ol
violence and crimes innumerable.
In nii’ a single case has this been
shown. The statement is made to
bolster up a charge of criminality
and to justify lynch law, yet with
out those papers making it able to
show one case of lawlessness ol
which the industrialists have been
guilty. .
't is true* that they have as-t ‘
for higher wages for shorter hours
and that they have struck to en
force these demands. But as yet
that is not unlawful.
There Is the Kverett case. That
depended upon who organized the
resistance and the first attack. It
owi it the trial by the St, 1
0Wn witnesses that the ha .lie o!
Everett was arranged by the Sher.n
and the volunteer and professional
. m, who r< d Into th< V rot ■
,. Trncv ami Witli
Tra(.y the other defendants not
guilty. ' '
The fa< t ot tin- matter m taut
industrialists ar
groat mass ot a a’
the lowest paid of all workers in »uc
country, they are organizing rrei
whose wages have been whollv in
adequate at the pres, nt prices ot ae
ce isarie.s to maintain any one in do
nCy, Furtl their eftoit
nded with surces t
likely enough it is there where tin
.lice pinches.
Hence this campaign of vilific;.
tion and this wholesale advocacy o
lawlessness. which has not bee;
without result.
Turn to Everett again. The met
who went to Everett were taken t
Beverly Park. Gunmen and depufi.
made of citizens of Everett am
acting for the sawmills lined u
there and compelled the members n
the I. W.W. to run the gauntlet o
such torture and abuse as to leav
many of them in a condition ueare
death than life. Some of the scene
of deliberate and villainous cruelt
therein practiced were literally nr
believable. And that was before tii
Verona battle.
Turn to the Iron Range. Charge
wi re preferred for murder agaim
some of the miners whose home
were raided and whose women fol
were grossly assaulted.
Turn to Bisbee. /nen who had r<
gistered. had subscribed to tin* I,
berty loan, who had subscribed an
volunteered their services and bee
accepted by the Red Cross wet
driven out ot the Warren distri.
because they asked for certain r<
forms in paining conditions an
dared to strike to enforce their ci<
mands.
Turn to Butte. Frank I.ittle. a
organizer of the 1. W. W. arrives i
that city and is taken from his lion;
an-l is hanged from a railroa
trestle by masked thugs.
Everything herein recited is a
fact reported duly by capitalist
press agencies and admitted to he
correct by persons wholly out of
sympathy with the organization.
Now this paper is making no par
ticular plea for the I. W. W., hut it
is always ready to advocate fair
play and correct appraisement of
the facts.
And one thing that we are con
vinced ol is this, that it is not the
methods employed by the Industrial
Work' rs ot the World, or the al
leged i rimes which are laid to its
door that occasions the out< r\
against it. but because of the fact
that the organization in attacking
the abominable industrial condi
tions that have prevailed in the
lumber industry, in the construc
tion work and in many ot the
mines, is also striking at the pocket
book of employers and hence these
tears.
Nor are we to be deluded at all
that it is the patriotism of the em
ploying i lasses with li is aroused.
Any person that conceives that
then is a glint of patriotism in bus
iness nrght be well advised to turn
to tie Congressional record during
the food hill debate and there read
hew they rushed to fatten upon
go rnment contracts and raised
tin price of everything the govern
ment wanted from coal to shoe
(leather. They will read of some in*
(t-resting facts concerning the con
j. motion of cantonments under the
supervision of officers of the reserve
who were formerly in the employ
! of the very contractors erecting
• hem and they will read so much
-more that one Senator exclaimed ii
j it. is this way a few months after
the war started, what is it going to
• be in two years.
i it is not. either, the dread of any
for
JB
does not please your
taste. no matter how
much you have used
out of the' can.
tA xMm+LX'i&auto
alleged violent methods lhat the
employers fear in the 1. W. W. In
•yie first place deliberate violence is
opposed by them at every tern.
While in strikes by other organisa
tions, rightly or wrongly excited,
v;e lave to admit that hardly one
passes without such occurences, in
the I. \V. W. strikes hardly a case
of violence h s ever been report d.
There was an Oregon cattleman
who lost many of his, steers and he
complained that he had incurred
the antagonism of the I. Vv'. \V. and
they poisoned them. The Oregon
State Veterinary investigated the
matter thoroughly and reported
that the cattle were not poisoned.
What is dreaded is the solidaritj
that the workers so organized dis
play and the policy of non-resist
ance that is so hard to resist. When
men line up and mob violence en
sues they are easily handled. They
can be shot down by the militia or
the police authorities. Rut when
they will do nothing of the kind,
they present a difficulty which is
not to he solved so easily.
Now take the wages which have
been paid in various industries and
consider the fact that the commo
dities produced therein have been
going up by leaps and bounds.
Some of those commodities have
been placed so high that they are
not available, however necessary, to
workers on the wages which they
arc paid
Whether the workers are orga
nized or not, they will strike and
they do strike. Innumerable cases
can be brought to mind wherein
that very condition did obtain. The
strike in Butte for example began
among men who had no organiza
tion. The strike in the lumber in
dustry affected very many camps
where an I- W. W. never set foot
The fact is that conditions com
pelled the workers to strike and
not any such tiling as the I W. VV.
Why lure in Alaska the strike
at the Kennicott mines was said to i
be the work of the I. VV. W. and j
alter that charge proved false the |
work of Germans when it provedl
that there were neither Germans
nor I. W. VV. involved in it at all.
But the Kennicott mines arc the
richest copper mines in the world
and are paying tlie lowest wages
in any copper mines over which t lie
American flag flies, bar none.
What we see before us is the
very natural result that there is a
prosperity prevailing for the em
ploying and owning classes while
ihere is hard work and inadequate
wages for the masses if workers,
especially those who are no* trades
men. W1 at is needed is a higher
scale of pay and it is ridi< ulous to
tiii.ik that by suppressing the I. W.
VV. as an alleged criminal org.miza
iion. when the crimes have been
entirely vvitn the employing classes,
the" manifestations assigned to the
| industrialists will cease
The I. W. W. Is due to one thing
and one thing only: the capitalist
system. It is due to the fact that
today for owning producers profits
have been never so vast and so
swollen and . so enormous while
for the masses of working produ-;
cers the wages never bore so small
a relation to the value of the pro
duct.
We infer that it is to bring ne
cessaries within the reach of the
workers as much as anything else,
that President Wilson devised a
food bil! wherein the power to fix
prices is given the foQd controi
hoard. Obviously this is itself an
admission that wages are inade
quate to purchase what a human
being needs to live in decency. Ac
cordingly then we can turn to the
financial journals and discover that
profits were at no time so huge as
it the present time, nor is there
my reason to believe that they are
to he decreased by the extension of 1
big business tc the field of govern- .
ment war contracts.
There is the one remaining argu
ment. This is that the I. W. W. in
fomenting strikes during the war is
guilty of treasonable acts, of dis
loyalty, of lack of patriotism. This
argument can be built up on one
premise only and that is that the
scale paid in any industry wherein
it has in a measure aided
in agitating a strike, is commen
surate with the needs of the work
ers and bears a reasonalbe propor
tion to the profits made from the
labor of those workers.
Now no such premise can be con
ceded. And unless we are to in
sist that the workers are to take
any and every condition an em
ployer making any and all the pro
fit he can, may please to give him.
during wartime, the industrialists
are really promoting the welfare of
the people by drawing public atten
tion to the inequity that industrial
ly prevails. If the employer is will
ing to fr.rego his profits, then sure
ly and then alone, is it reasonable
to expect the workers to take what
they get and he thankful it is no
wet se.
Hit of the Season
Dustin l'arnum—liniil Maikov
in
Alaskan Summer Story
“THE IRON STRAIN”'
l> Smashing Acts.
RRKAM TONIGHT
SOMETHING NEW.
Just arrived on tlie last boat over
50 0 of this season’s latests styles and
patterns, the most beautiful line of
woolens ever arrived in Nome. We
invite you to see these samples
whether you buy or not. If you
wish to take advantage of this offer
order before the 14th of August, in
order to have order arrive on last
boat.
We also make alterations, and
wo do cleaning, pressing and repair
ing. We appreciate your patronage
Yours to please.
NOME TAILORING CO.
Next door to Segerstrom & Hagen.
ALASKA STEAMSHIP CO.
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August 18th.
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CHANGE IN COAL PRICES.
On Vug. 10th, Wellington Coil will be $23.00 per ton in yard.
On and alter September 25th, Wellington Coal will he $25.00 pr
ton in yard. Ilriquets will continue at $18.00 per ton in yard.
We are experiencing great difficulty in securing anthracite
coal for winter use and cannot guarantee having any quantity
oti hand. ,
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