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A mo.-l important phu.v it the
.Moon y trial in San Kruno: has
liven iln address of the pro- rutnni
• .utlinine > he .•. !: is i;,:> r> sting
iji.it in ioing . o. in tlu- trials ol
jii11ines ..: 1 i: Thunuts Mooney, the
prosecution was at pains to dweil
;1, ,1 ah,.rate upon what would he
shown. Ami especially in the trial
of Mrs. Mootuy was it heralded to
ihe world and directed with em
phasis to the jury that witnesses
would show that she conspired with
other desperate persons to terro
rist San Francisco and to do other
things quite in keeping with and
equally as damnable as the crime
of which she is charged. Statement
by statement, unsupported by any
thing tint the ability of the speaker
to drive home his assertions with
.such eloquence, force and directness
as his training to that end permit
ted, was unravelled before the
jury to impr w their minds and to
create an atmosplien favorable for
the reception of the most grotesque
ideas concerning the defendant.
This lias always app eared to us
the inos' i xtrai.rdinary proc edure
in criminal trials. The state takes
itie jury into its confidence and
docs not attempt to intimate that
an effort will be made to do this or
that, or that they will endeavor to
j.liott that this or that is so, hut
that they will do tiiis. that they do
this, that they will do that, that
they will prove this and they will
prove that.
Certainly enough attention is net
paid to the unjust psychological ef
fects of such statements upon the
jury and how it creates an unfair,
a partial and a biassed atmosphere
around a defendant which may not
he shaken off by the average juror,
and who unwittingly surrender?
his mind to the voice that declaree
that such things are so.
Really it is only of late years that
the fact is admitted that a defend
ant is in a criminal trial up against
a dead hard game, quite regardless
of his guilt or innocence, for he,
when arrested and placed in the po
sition of a defendant, is facing a
jury with his guilt unconsciously
entertained by them.
It is quite immaterial that often
enough the defense argues that
the theory of the law is that a man
is innocent until he is proven guilty.
The fact remains that the average
juror will regard his being placed
in the position of a defendant as
pritna facie evidence in itself of guilt
The average juror knows nothing
about the finer legal technicalities or
theories of jurisprudence. All he
knows is that he tries a man for a
certain crime and he faces the de
fv mhint. much as a doctor tacos a
man whom he is sent lor to attend
and as a sick man, as one who is
there because he has done some
thing wrong and it is up to the jury
to measure the extent of that guilt,
rather than to fiml him guiltless.
That is the psychological disad
vantage to which sufficient weight
is not given in the courts, and when
added to this a lawyer with ability j
shat lias been cultivated and trained i
specially tor that purpose, rises to
the jury and tgils them that he I
will prove that the defendant is a
confirmed criminal, that his guilt
is as scarlet, that he will
will show that his malice was ap
parent, that he committed the act
deliberately and knowingly and wil
fully and for the evil purpose which
it was intended to accomplish, lie
simply add3 to the psychological
disadvantage in which a defendant
found himesif at the very start.
This was a marked feature of the
trial of Mrs. Kona Mooney. Evid
ence of a very dubious and conflict
ing sort of her guilt was offered In
dubious and very conflicting char
acters, hut it was presented after
the attorneys had added to the ori
ginal atmosphere of guilt surrounds
liny defendant by the most emphatic
I declarations of wliat she had hn
! gui'.c. and which he promised to
j prove up to tit ■ lii 11.
Although a judge throws out the
: stim oh red. it scarcely wipes
way !..■ c'd ire . beet of the . id
em- or tentative evidence, or of tli'*
alley lot positively trade earlier
in tl.. trial. Vet it brings to the
' front a very much in evidence dis
advantage in which all defendants
; s defendants have to carry in these
cases. Especially in labor trials do
these prosecutors take it upon them
selves to paint in indelible colors
at the opening, the guilt of the ac
cused.
MoiiK \v.\<;i:s.
The I W. W. is getting in bad
with it number of Councils of -Na
tional Defense within the states, for
these have been2taking care to watch
the productivity of the states in
crease.
Naturally being composed of em
ployers the councils combine the very
lofty combination, manifested sev
eral times in industrial circles in
ttiis democratic war, of business
and patriotism. And it has become
a n r,- patriotic duty to see to it
that the productivity of mine. mill,
lumber camp, agricultural fields be
in. t ased to the maximum. There
by tlit- weaith production oi the
,-tate is increased, thereby the max
imum production of the nation is
reached and thereby the profits ol
the owners have been also material
ly advanced.
It would be really hard to imag
ine from a patriotic businessman's
standpoint a more ideal state of
things. The nation is served—at
an enhanced price—the owners in
crease their profits wonderfully.
To this noble and patriotic work
then the state councils of national
defense have directed their atten
tion. Scientific principles of effici
ency and speeding up, organization,
standardization and a lot of other
modernisms have been brought
about with the ends above stated
in view.
Then comes the labor question. It
is not so simple as it looks. Living
expense rises with the profits which
come from war contracts and war
demands. Are wages to increase
with even step or are they to do
as they have been doing, to lag
just some distance behind so that
they will not interfere with pro
fits?
The council for defense in the
states believes in a live-and-let-live
policy and has no objection to in
creasing production and profits and
prices tenfold while increasing
wages to about half the extent.
They make arrangements for the
supply of labor for the industries.
They take the college men and
others to help out on the farms;
they organize women to labor, and
all is done in the name of patriot
ism.
Meantime the agricultural work
. rs who have been the pariahs of
the labor market have organized
and organized in the I. \V. W.
Heretofore they followed their call
ing uimh ssly. They were the butt
of railroad brakemen, farmers and
all kind of sharks. The village
marshals chased them from pillar
to post; the hold up men on trains
gunned them of their earnings.
They had to take what they could
get and when they could get it.
They worked in the morning be
fore sunrise and in the evening un
til long after sunset. Twenty-four
hours constituted a day’s work
mid if they worked more than that
in a day, they got overtime.
It lacked system and it lacked
efficiency and the councils for de
fense saw that clearly enough. But
i he I. W. W. had seen it long before
ihem, and they organized to remedy
it.
And that’s where the councils o(
ilcfense have their present trouble.
Ahile owners have been organizing
to get a little more profits out of
the war and shove up the price of
their goods some shots above the
reach of the average man, the in
dustrialists come along with the in
tention of getting a few for labor.
So far that is consider
ed obnoxious. But the in
dustrialists point out to the public
that apparently none of the farm
ers are raising food for their health
, or for the national welfare. None
are getting out lumber and operat
ing the sawmills or building the
ships just to serve Uncle Sam. They
are all doing it for a price and the
way they have figured it out, it is
about time that the workers thought
something of their own interests as
well, in this national crisis.
It will be observed that when the
hives of industries to use the poetic
expression of the newspapers get
busy humming with prosperous ac
tivity, papers do not complain be
cause the prices paid are higher
than ever before. And it is in order
to observe when the I. W. \V. makes
an effort to get for the real produ
cer what the producers need to meet
this era of prosperity and high
prices, there is an inflammable howl
: against their lack of patriotism and
I their lack of lovnltv and their lack
I o! principle.
Tiiis is certainly a rather amus
I ing side o. the industrial situation,
i It is a great thing to shot. up
prices for goods, wares and mer
| (handise. for money loaned, for
>;tii(mill munitions contra, l. tl
; for—but it is wrong and ungraci
ous and disloyal for the I. W. \V.
to insist upon the same tiling for
labor. Obviously it is declared
these industrialists fail to appre
ciate that this is a war for demo
cracy against autocracy, and they
think of nothing but their baser
selves.
In the meantime it is not noticed
that any single one of the immen
sely wealthy men who adorn this
land with industrial rights not with
out a strong semblance of autocracy
is giving away his swollen fortunes
or his unearned increment to the
national service.
It is all very well, but apparently
the councils for the national de
fense in the various states opine
| that business and profit and patriot
I ism are inextricable interwoven.
Now there will never be danger
at any time of a labor shortage for
the farmers any more than any
others, provided they pay the price.
That's all. And when we hear
that labor is endangering the fruit
I and food or the copper production
j we can understand that an effort
is being made to compel labor to
work on the employers terms and
that labor refuses point blank to
work for them except on their own
terms. Obviously the industrialists
are inaugurating a little struggle
for industrial democracy against in
dustrial autocracy on their own ac
count, and are exerting their right
coming through organization to
have some say in what they shall
be paid.
STKAM ROLLED.
The United States Supreme Court
"by another five to four decision”
has declared unconstitutional the
law of the state of Washington,
which was carried by an over
whelming referendum several years
ago, abolishing employment offices,
owned and operated by private in
dividuals.
The abuses of the employment
offices are known to every man who
works for wages; they had become
an especial by-word for social injus
tice in Washington, and they were
just as obviously and clearly little i
better than operated by men who
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obtained money under false preten
ses. But they were useful. They
kept men away from organization:
they supplied the cheapest kind of
labor; they sent in scabs duriug
strikes to help to break them; they
in collusion with employers and
foremen, quite profitably milked the
workers of the fees with a gang
coming, a gang going and a gang
working on many jobs.
But they are legitimate and con
stitutional and ail that, and the
police power of the state may not
be exercised against them as Justice
M'Kenna in his dissenting decision
said it could.
So once again the laws passed on
behalf of labor are steam rolled,
all of which will greatly add to the
veneration of labor for the legisla
tive process of obtaining redress of
their grievances.
Now this brings back the workers
to the fact that they are themselves
quite responsible for the existence
of these employment agencies. The
employment agent is in the business
to make money. They adopt it as a
calling because of the profits. Th 're
is no earthly compulsion, except an
economic one. whereby they have
to patronize those agencies and if j
they do not patronize them tie
agencies will die a natural death. j
To do this it js natural that tin !
workers must he organized and j
without organization they are pow 1
less. It is not through the passage
of a law which may not be en
forced, or which may lie thrown
out by some judge, that the work- j
ers have to depend. It is upon their
own organization which says that j
they will have nothing to do with
employment agencies.
Suppose, for example, that the
workers are all organized. Sup
pose they in their halls determine
that there shall be no patronage
of employment agencies that if em
ployers get their labor supply or try
to get their labor supply from them,
that they will quit work and refuse
to have anything to do with those
employers, does any reasoning being
suppose that employment agencies
and their miserable vermin-ridden
graft would last a minute? Not £,t
all. And the same can be said about
every single reform that labor
wants. Organize and you can get
it and keep it: remain unorganized
and even if the reform is passed as
a law measure, nine chances to one
it will not be enforced.
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