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By Nome Mine Workers' Union, No. 210, International Union of Mine,
Mill and Sm eltor Workers.
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Addr, -’s ail Commit n.-attorns to Dally Ne-r.e Industrial Vt orkcc,
Hoi lilO Nome, Alaska. Pnone, Black 13a
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guiur thi:c. 1.: :■ ■ ■ n rec-piit. >'t
have been told that it i- tit ; a*r>
otii to i ri’ b :,:e pul lb action l!
if it is. then there is a deep dis
Krat-e resting upon the origin t
tins nation. We originated, to p it
it in tiu* verttacu'ar, in a kick; art1
if it is unpatriotic to kick wh> then
the grown man is unlike the child.
Wo huvi forgotten the very priu
< iples of our origin if we have for
got’1-;; how to oltje- t, how t<> resist,
how to ajitate how to puli down
and j.uil ! up. even to the '-stent o'
r. .•ohstlo.-.ary practices if it la ne
. . - to r-udjust matters. I
h. . • gt t; : ny h. - r;. if tint la.
not trti hi:; rr“,
And who do you supose said
I lia . >.);,)■■ ! rt.c; rinaaV An I
W. W. V St;:.; disloyal, unpatriotic
tr asi.iiali! ■. seditious person.’ <>.
not to speak ot. Tie- author of th**
above words, and himself some ex
ponent of tru« Americanism is none
other than a man named Woodrow
Wilson. I’ossitily you have heard
that tip is [’resident of tho United
States of America.
mi: i. \v. w. hairs.
i:\ihangos toll of the wholesale
raids upon the Industrial Workers
of the World Halls by the Depart
ment of Justice.
It was a peculiar action. They
just hutted in and seized eveiything
Article IV of the Amendments to
the Constitution notwithstanding.
Let us get this thing right. The
iirst charge is that they got Ger
man money. Who said so? No one
directly. Charles Moyer intimated
it in the roundabout way of a man
afraid to do more than hint, sug
gest, and indirectly give rise to
that apprehension.
What foundation is there within
reason? Absolutely none whatever
What lawlessness have the ment
ebrs of the organization neon ac
cused of?
Kverything under the sun. 'rora
highway robbery to tr.c.nslangh'er.
Who accused it: • •:
The capitalist writi r . ■ ■ > :'ers.
politicians inside and outside of
Congress.
Were facts adduced to support
any of these statements?
Not any.
How was that? •
Because the government agents
wet unable to secure even a par
ticle of evideence either in the
conduct of the unions or tho indi
vidual members that any such law
lessness had been practiced.
But did the papers continue to
make these charges in tho face of
an entire absence of any facts?
They most certainly did. But in
not one single instance, directly 01
Indirectly have they been able to
bring home to the members of the
I. W. W. one iota of lawessnesu.
Why then was there su it an cut
cry against them?
Because of their activities in the
labor world. They organized skilled
and unskilled miners, railroad and
construction workers, loggers, iron
ore workers, unskilled laborers of
all kinds a.groeultural workers and
others.
They made demands upon orga
nizing these?
Most certainly; and they struck
pretty frequently.
Were they arrested for that?
They certainly were. Numerous
members were taken into custody
in Washington state when the lum
ber workers strike was on. held In
a variety of county jails bv sold
iers and subjected to infamous
treatment without trial and held In
communicado.
Was that lawful?
It was not; it was done to break
the strike.
Were they subjected to any other
w -rv
Ji roil, ■
b -ju>■ i : tl: being oil
.il*:■ i i..-1 the i om" r true:.
Deport ■•!—by whom?
? i u' r ■ ■.!
rtke
By u number of the official hench
men, anile 1 retainers and thugs of
the (oilier eompani s determined to
break the strike and sent out of the
state.
Was I ha* lawful?
It again was most decidedly not
They were lelt to starve in the de
sert ami were without food for 116
j hours. Some of these w. rc- men
who h: d hyeii registered for thr
draft: m.iii.- sui-i ribed *o iihet*f\
I bond -. !;■ ■ i ('re s W; : . •
! ers.
Bio tie i partnc-iit of Justice in
terlere. tins Department of Justi. •
jth.u i i • . - t: 1. W. W. Hall.
i t( ?
Not ■ i:.f you would notice it.
Were any other things done un
lawfully against, the organization
that is now in had with the au
thorities.
Assuredly. Take the case oi
Little. Here was an American citi
zen, it is said that he was of In
dian descent and you cant call him
a damn foreigner, a miner who was
crippled, taken from his bed by a
small hand of thugs and hung io a
railroad trestle because of his being
an organizer of the I. W. W. Al
most all the papers indirectly con
doned this atrorit> which has some
of the so-celled German atrocities
fairly and squarely backed off the
map.
Did the Department of Justi.-o
take any action? Did it raid the
headquarters of the gunmen or do
anything in the way of bringing
these murderers to justice?
Not that one ever heard of.
Can you cite any other examples
of this sort of tiling?
Yes. A. S. Embree. one of th"
leaders in Bisbee and who was de
ported. returned with thirty others
to the town where was th'dr family
The authorities arrested Fmbree i'or
inciting a riot and are still holding
him for all we know, while they
deported for a second ‘'me the rest.
How do you account ‘or all this
la wh . snt ss?
Because th.- profiteers ate mak
ing so much money they do net
want to be interfered with. They
just believe that the country is so
ext'ifeil by the war that all they
have to cry out is “Pro-German”,
and they can get by with anything.
They come pretty near it too.
Here has organized labor willing
ly got behind President Wilson in
this war and made ready to do its
share to help the national cause
along and the plutocrats thereupon
think that the war is to be the oc
casion when they cs.n murzle, chain,
goad and enslave labor to the
limit.
Is a person to infer from this,
that this is the intent in these at
tacks upon the I. W. TV.?
Surely, what else? Where has
the organization done anything cri
minul? Does hot every person
know, that is everyone who uses
common sense, that had this orga
nization or it3 members done any
thing criminal they would have Iren
rounded up and tried and convicted
with mighty short shrift?
But is not the nation at war, and
ire not these strikes, these Indus
trial disturbances calculated to
ha mi * r til" prosecution of the gev
■rument war plans, and is not thn
f thi orgts: izati m likely l<
: -r i u’.c.r i■ -ling to si h
event as to ... to s- r us 1 rer li
i : ii, 11 K not till; in rt ul ty
r . a f- r i- ; 1 inv ** guide.I • :■
a most r dittoes, tr-uisoinibk' ami
t:ppatriotic organizet ion ?
The answer would be yes wtre
the work rs tit only responsible
Parties to t-Iiese strikes but the;,
are not.
Prices are so high these days that
the workers find tiiat their wages
will not buy them the necessities —
the employers are using the in* as
a club to keep down labor—-the
workers are discovering that « n
plovers will concede nothing to h Ip
the nation in the war while the
employees arc- expected to alve
everything. Hmire the real parties
to hampering ilie nation at var
are not the strikers but those who
seek to us the war as a means of
loading up profits. They shove up
the pool- a notch every now and
then—why -.iictild it i- troason
tihle. disloyal. seditious lor the
workers to show op v ages’’ In
point of fm t we must r.ot fet get
tiiat loyalty, patriotism and prac
tical American democracy begins
right at home. it begins in mak
ing tetter conditions for everyone,
for the worker and itis family, for
those who live in the land.
The sedition, the treason, the lack
of patriotism tiiat we see is that
great and powerful interests during
these days of stress and turmoil
should use this stress and turmoil
not to promote the national unity
and harmony, bat by goading the
1 work* rs to desperation as in liut’c.
in the lumber woods, in Bisbee ind
elsewhere. attempt to abolish till
love of the nation and n-Ai -.id,1 in
stitutions and to compel the belief
that justice is not lor the masses
but for tlie- employing classes.
There is the real treason:
Listen to John C-ipargo. John is
one of the socialists who bitterly
fought his erstwhile comrades on
the anti-war resolution ami has been
ardently supporting the government
ever since:
“It is my candid and de’H crate
judgment that you and your asso
ciates, in pursuing this singularly
stupid polity of repression, are do
ing more to strengthen the hold oi
pacificist propaganda upon the
working pleople of this country
than al! the accredittc-d spokesmen
and agents of the pecple’s council
are doing .... I am frank to say
if this sort of thing continues I
shall feel compelled to abandon
such work as I am doing and lend j
what assistance I can to these peo
ple to assert the rights which are
being unlawfully denied them by
people who are imitating the
methods of the Hohenzolern auto
cracy.”
Now as a matter of fact the In
dustrial Workers of the World has
been in existence almost twelve
years. it lias differed from many
other labor organizations in that it
w s avowedly socialist in its end!
and aims. That is to say it phuodj
i! i r -i 1 ri and collect iv as. ihe i
:;r .1 u'::ti -.trjv to l e oh'cia d. But j
its main tactii has been wide upon j
] ropaganda. Its nice!inns v-rc
wide open, it lias no signs neither!
lias i! grips nor passwords. Its ritu
al is non existent. While its ideas
may be visionary, they are ideas'
that obtain widely throughout the
world. Whether we consider its
policies visionary and its tactics im
practical)!-', we have to recognize
that in its wide upon propaganda
it. has secured a safety valve for po
pular discontent and for popular j
agitation. To suppress 't is not |
possible, for what it stands for will J
still exist regardless of what is j
done to rh? leaders or those holding !
official positions (herein. They and I
1li" members are caused by eco
nomic conditions lienee to refuse
to allow them open operation is to
drive this propaganda into secret
channels and to invite a reign of
terrorism. Is there no hope that i
men will learn from the recent past'
in otic r countries and discover that
it is in freedom of speech, thought
and action that peace and social
j quietude have their very fountain
and origin?
The moment that suppression be
| gins, the moment we prepare tor
j sudden explosions—explos've maul
testations that are hurc’red per
I cent worse than that which was
sought to be suppressed.
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