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I.AV. l.KSSN i-:ss.
A reader who is stronly opposed
to the views of this paper, especially
of the industrialist movement, asks
if the Industrial Worker endorses,
the violence and lawlessness ot the
members of the I. W. W., and advo- |
rates following, what he is pleased
to term, the anarchist policies which
are being pursued. If so. he says
this paper ought to openly advocate
anarchy.
We believe that many share the
viqjws of that reader and it is there
fore only fitting that the views as
upheld by the Industrial Worker
should receive more full and more
careful exposition.
In the first place the idea of anar
chy is all wrong. The anarchist op
poses the idea of man made law. de
nies the use of discipline and collec
tive- ac tion and hence social organi
zation. Anarchy is the legitimate
conclusion of individualism and the
trouble is that the situation as it
cxi.-ts today is hopelessly perverted
so that tin re al anarchists, violent
opponents of the* law and the1 legal
rights of those whose economic in
terests differ from them, are upheld
as law and order people, when they
are nothing of the kind.
The ground law of the- I nited
States is the United States constitu
tion. That hy law prescribes cer
tain limitati, i to the authority ot
officials and certain limitations to
the powers of legislative, judicial
and executive functions. It limits
them by defining the duties and the
privileges which appertain to such
tin re lations bet ween
11|. n a.- tin- state-, and the people.
Powers not definitely granted
t' a effie-iais V government are
, \p- *|\ re se rved to the people
,,r to the states. And the state con
stitutions invariably follow the fed
eral constitution in this.
Among the rights which the peo
ple el enied it we 11 should be inviol
ate and inviolable by any ol the
branches of government were the
individual anil collective rights ei
l-Tee* Speech, Free- Asse-mbly anil
Fre-e Press. That is definitely and
explicitly tbi- law of the land it inn
become the law* ot t h - - laud only
after a series of struggles lure me
in older countries, where much stiff
cring and much bloodshed murine
the path of progress.
That law applies to everyone, eiti
yam of the Pnited States or subject
of a foreign power having treat:
rights extending them equality o
treatment with the United States
as is the *-..., with practically ever:
country whose pe-ople emigrate te
America.*
What we find is that noiwith
o*-I; jj ».«• tiu* constitutional rights1
hot ' specified,. being definitely |
and it tat approved,
during la'.or troubles in various j
m i tions o!' tli-- ii uniry, in order to
quell strike- and to bull-doze the
workers, those constitutional rights
are everyone of them suspended or
as if the.- never did exist. ’trial hy
jury is set aside, free speech be
e.iiii. s an offense. Police break into
meeting halls and arrest all present.
Min art sumarily taken into custo
dy, without trial are deported to
others sections and papers are
seized. the forms destroyed and
machinery broken up.
These things are (16ne not only
v th the consent of those sworn to
uphold the laws, hut even with their
active aid. And when the workers
endeavor to assert their rights, the
eo-callcd forces of law and order
which have trampled order under
foot and sullied the law with filthy
ordure, have the* audacity to pro
claim themselves the guardians of
law against lawlessness!
It is an astounding condition when
men who ought to know better fail
to perceive tiro actual truth of
tilings. We may affirm that practi
<-ity ill the lawlessness at Bayonne
for example during tlie last strike
was with the police and the city
officials. One of them admitted to
the reporter of a New York paper
and a capitalist paper at that that
“Ya gotta beat 'em up, and if
heatin' 'em does them bohunks no
good, va got shoot 'em up". Such
shocking lawlessness upon the part
of the police, such utter disregard
of the constitutional rights of the
people, is nevertheless upheld as be
ing necessary to preserve order and
uphold the law!
Now take this case of Everett.
Whatever one may think of the de
termination of the I. W. W.’s or the
wisdom or the folly of their methods
the fact does stand out that they
primarily were endeavoring to en- j
force the law of the land and to
insist upon their constitutional
rights as guaranteed by that law.
They were driven from their meet
ing halls; they were arrested on the
street and deported; they were de
nied free entry to and free egress
from a town where martial law was
i not proclaimed, and where in theory J
i lnj rights of all were to be equally
administered and upheld. The
workers because their economic
1 condition in the sawmills was such
that they believed it should he bel
; tored, started striking. There is no
law against such collective action
'and, we believe, it is moreover a
sound doctrine and is an axiom of
! common law that there is no illegal
ity in the collectivity doing what
! tiie individual can legally do. The
I men asked for organizers and got
them, and a persistent agitation
was brought to hear on the situa
tion for the purpose of improving la
I fior conditions. Thereupon regardless
i of the rights of workers, the t'oni
! mercial Club which contained in its
membership the sawmill and other
i interests began with the aid. the
assistance, the connivance and the
arti\e abetting of the sheriff and the
police, it systematic eftort to de
stroy the strike, the work of orga
nization and all industrial agitation.
They smashed up meetings, drove
away union men, heat them up in
a disgraceful fashion, held them in
communicado, and carried on things
with a total disregard of the law
| and the constitution.
So it is that in place of being
! advocates of lawlessness, in ibis in
■ stance, the industrialists and the
rest have been and are standing
four square to the cardinal priti
| ciph s of law and justice and the
constitution, and if there is any
anarchy it i the anarchy of an tin
! licensed capitalism which tramp!.!:
■ upon tii" constitution and males
i tii. written and unwritten laws s
la , ; ; a ed a by-word.
This is not the first lime that sticl
, , I i;.ii lms pr.-vatk it. It is not ]
to !»: the hist. Hut exciting !
i,u ,i;.• attention to th<* damna'ili j
coni; it ions that a few lawless official? j
ami imlu trial raffia ns have brought .
aliout through their contempt tor ,
law and the constitution, it may !
serve to make such recurrences
less and less frequent.
11 initiate and indefensible viol
ent i no man can uphold. \ iolence
assuredly begets violence. Hut there
is certainly a limit to human pati
ence and when in the resort to law
less violence even upon the part of
the officials, the workers feel the
necessity of defending themselves,
shall the working class be the first
to say nay to their more courage
ous brethren?
We have read carefully and in
detail every single criticism that
we could in tlie papers of this Eve
ret battle and, outside labor papers,
have not seen any fair comment
upon it at all. We have seen the
most bitter, the most unreasonable
attack upon the I. W. W. as a law
less organization, lint not a word as
to the lavvlcsness of the offieals and
the business interests of Everett
who upheld such unimaginable con
ditions as existed prior to the bat
tle that caused the capitalist organ
to open the flood gates of de- 1
nunciation and to drown in an im
passioned fury of attack the “law
less workers’’.
The Industrial Worker believes
that anarchism presupposes an. un
attainable condition of society, but
we do not make the mistake so
often and so wilfully made of iden
tifying anarchism and violence.
Anarchism may be as much an ad
vocate of passive as of active resist
ance, and they are certainly follow
ing the example of the world if they
would actively resist and find in
an appeal to arms the final arbitra
ment of things.
But the theory of anarchism we
believe admits of no solution of the
social troubles. We believe that
collective action necessitates col
lective discipline and organization,
and without this society cannot
long exist. The population of the
world presupposes the existence of a
highly efficient collective production
and distribution, and upon that the
happiness and lives of the people de
pend. The social organization that
insist that the individual freedom
must be subordinate to the welfare
♦l.rx inom* flip mil v svstein
that hast any chance of prolonging
its existence in the world. All labor
to be efficient must be socialized
labor. Man connot live unto him
self alone nowadays, and the price
of his social life is the subordina
tion of his personal actions to
within such limits as should ad
vance the happiness and the well
being of all. Socialism alone we
hold can bring that about. But we
are free to admit the right of the
other man to his view and the right
of all to their views. And if we
are wrong and they are right or it
they are wrong and we are right, the
Truth can only be worked out by
free discussion and free assembly and
free press being assured the people.
We stand by these constitutional
rights and because these constitu
tional rights have been denied our
fellow workers in Everett as they
have been denied them in Bayonne,
in Michigan, in Colorado, in West
Virginia, in Pennsylvania, in Ill
inois and a host of other sections,
we stand unquestionably with the
workers in their struggle to enforce
their constitutional rights.
It would be a monstrous folly if
•the workers failed to recognize that
their rights are most intimately
linked up with the rights of their
fellows in Everett. Even if they
i might re gret the fact, they cannot
I deny it. The well known declara
tion that eternal vigilance is the price
. of liberty certainly is aplicable here.
, The eternal vigilance of the
i workers is the only means whereby
] they can enforce the constitional
rights which are theirs. It is not al
ways easy. The powers that be are
always ready to destroy them. They
attacked Wendell Phillips and they
smashed tlje press of Eovejoy in the
abolitionist agitation. They want
, free speech to be confined only to
j such matters as received their ap
j proval, when it is to matters that
are likely not to be approved that
* need constitutional rights of free
' expression. It is to the interests
of all workers that the struggle
against this most insidious form of
all forms of lawlessness receive
I their aid and sympathy.
i Now is the time to Subscribe.
No. 0305.
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR
PATENT.
In the United States Land Office at
Nome, Alaska, December 16, 1916.
Notice is hereby given, that Isaat
L. Osgood, Estate (Heirs, Cora and
Elmer Osgood and Mrs. Mamie Os
| good) By W. P. Bell and Seattlt
rational Bank, Trustees and Floyd
W. Osgood, By Fred. R. Cowden
their Attorney in Fact, whose Post
Office address is Nome, Alaska, and
on behalf of Co-Owner Ellis E.
Powell, has made application before
the United States Land Office at
Nome, Alaska, for a United States
Patent for Discovery Claim and No.
1 Above Discovery on Lake Creek
in the Cape Nome Recording Dis
trict, Alaska, being Mineral Survey
No. 1175, said claims being more
particularly described in the field
notes and plat of the official survey
thereof now on file in said Land
Office at Nome, Alaska, as follows,
to-wit:
DISCOVERY CLAIM.
!
Beginning at Cor. 1 identical with
S. W. Loc. Cor. with Cor. 4 of No.
2 below on Saturday Creek, Sur.
695, a fir post 4 ins. sq. 2 ft. above
ground in earth mond scribed 1-747,
4-695, 1-1175, D. U. S. L. M. No.
11 bears S. 14 deg. 05 min. E.
4110.0 ft. thence N. 20 deg. 16 min.
W. Var. 19 deg. 00 min. E. 665.00
ft. to Cor. No. 2; thence N. 9 deg.
57 min. E. Var. 19 deg. 15 min. E. J
209.40 ft. to Cor. No. 3; thence N. j
an min E. Var. 19 dee. 10 l I
min. E. G70.00 ft. to Cor. No. 4; I
thence S. 3 deg. 28 min. E. Var.
19 cleg. 15 min. E. 317.40 ft. to ,
Cor. No. 5; thence S. 64 deg. 4 3 '
min. W. Var. 19 deg. 15 min. E. j
386.80 ft. to Cor. No. 6; thence S.
45 deg. 53 min. W. Var. 19 deg. 25
min. E. 273.80 ft.; thence S. 13
deg. 25 min. E. Var. 19 deg. 05 min.
E. 400.80 ft. to place of begining,
containing 5.908 acres.
NO. ONE ABOVE DISCOVERY.
Beginning at Cor. No. 1 identical
with loc. cor. on line 1-6 of Sur. No.
747 No. 1 Above Discovery on
Wonder Creek and with Cor. No. 2
Discovery claim this survey, previ
ously described, U. S. L. M. No. 11
bears S. 14 deg. 57 min. E. 4771.60
ft.; thence N. 20 deg. 16 min. W.
Var. 19 deg. 15 min. E. 960.50 ft
to Cor. No. 2; thence S. 48 deg. 26
min. W. Var. 19 deg. 15 min. E.
225.20 ft. to Cor. No. 3; thence N.
31 deg. 20 min. E. Var. 19 deg. 00
min. E. 269.40 ft. to Cor. No. 4;
thence S. 36 deg. 42 min. E Var. 19
deg. 10 min. E. 6 4 7.00 ft. to Cor No.
5; tlienee S. 31 deg. 00 min. E.
Var. 19 deg. 30 min. E. 1240.00 ft.
to Cor. No. 6; thence S. 69 deg. 45
min. W. Var. 19 deg. 15 min. E.
670.00 ft. to Cor. No. 7; thence S.
9 deg. 57 min. W. Var. 19 deg. 10
min. E. 209.40 ft. to place of be
ginning, containing 16.656 acres.
Said claims are situated on un
surveved ground on Lake Creek
about 4.5 miles north of the Town
of Nome, in the Cape Nome Record
ing District, Alaska.
U. S. Location Monument No. 11
to which said claims are tied, is a
fir post 6 ins. sq. 5 ft. above ground
in stone mound 3 ft. high G ft. base
scribed U. S. L. M. No. 11, is situat
ed about 2.75 miles Northeasterly
from mouth of Snake River and
about 70 ft. east of the Bessie road.
Is in Latitude 64 deg. 32 min. North
Longitude 1G5 deg. 22 min. West.
Original locations recorded in Vol.
99 Page 445 and 16 Page 116 and
Amended locations recorded in Vol.
165 Page 225 and Vol. 199 Page
85, Records of Cape Nome Record
ing District, Alaska.
The adjoining claims are: On the
North No. 2 Above on Lake Creek,
Survey No. 698 and Gold Bug Claim
Survey No. 434; on the East un
surveyed; on the South No. 1
Below on Saturday Creek Sur. No.
1117 and No. 2 Below on Saturday
Creek, Sur. No. G95; on the West,
No. 1 Above on Wonder Creek Sur.
No. 747. There are no conflicting
claims.
G. A. ADAMS.
Register.
| Date of first publ., Dec. 2rt, 1916.
] Date of last publ., Feb. 21, 1917.
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