Saboteurs! Call Ball's and Hunter's Bets ! This is Number 65 Organization 0 Is Power 6 6•ow •

THE VOICE t0he PEOPLE Owned by the Rebel Lumberjacks of Dixie * An Injuryr to One is an Injury to All.

VoL. III-No. 14. NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA, THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 1914 MarsT Is RIGOH

CARL PERSON. A LETTER FROM CLINE. In a prison cell in Clinton, IlL, lies to-night Carl Dear Hall-Your letter of March 3rd to hand E. Person, Strike Secretary of the Harriman Sys- this A. M., and must say was more than glad to tem's Shopmen's Federation. He is charged with hear from you once again, and also to hear from the murder in the first degree in that he killed a gun- news bulletins what was really transpiring. When I man of the Illinois Central Railroad in defense of go to trial I don't know, but am in hopes it will LUMBER TRUST LAW. his life. The Illinois Central absolutey dominates be soon, for it seems as if it is a thousand years the town of Clinton, for there are few men there-- since I saw you and the rest of the live wires. the vast majority being scabs. Thus Carl Person I am entirely out of writing material and my has, in Clinton, about as much show of a "fair and little chewing tobacco I miss, so if you know any impartial trial" as would a Southern Lumberjack kind hearted rebel who wants to donate to the poor, in Kirbyville, Texas. kindly give the address of my present abode. Carl Person is held as a Social prisoner. It is The moving picture proposition proved a failure, not his life they seek but the life of militant and I think, for I had the lawyers get out an injunction effective Unionism. It is not in its full meaning, against them and now I am suing for all they got, SABOTAGE IT TO THE SCRAPHEAP I this "trial," a fight for the life and liberty of this which case comes up in the near future. Some one one man. It is the class war open, with the Capi- is sending me "Solidarity" for which I am thank. talists throwing off their masks and challenging all ful; the first copy this A. M., but for some reason the Clans of Labor. or other I did not get The Voice unless it was an WHAT ARE YOU ONE MILLION, SEVEN oversight and they forgot them. I am in hopes You! HUNDRED THOUSAND RAILROAD WORKERS you will Calls get the Justice news Lumberjacks, of my being isolated from GOING TO DO ABOUT IT-FIGHT OR LAY tht rest of the prisoners in the jail, (I got it. C. H.) Lumber Trust Has "Indicted" Chandler, Torry and Coleman Brothers and Sets Their DOWN for supposed reason that someone sent me a letter "Trial" For April 13th, 1914. ON WITH THE SOCIAL GENERAL STRIKE! from New Ordeans that they were coming to get me out. My correspondence of course, is limited, owing J. F. Ball, Lumber King, Reported To Have Put Up $5000 To "Convict These MAY DAY SPECIAL. to the fact that I can see nor talk to any good amari- Four Lumerjacks and Working Farmers, and District Attorney J. H. Hunter Is tians so as they can give me some writing material. Said To Be Offering To Bet That He Will Hang Them. Pimps, Gunmen Let us hear from you on the May Day Special Would like to hear from Ed. Lehman, "Doe" and Detectives Over-running Country and Ready To Swear To Anything. AT ONCE, saying just how many you will take. We Havens, or old Phin. Eastman, if they are not too will have to know just about how many orders we busy. I am glad they are again getting back into Get Busy! Defense Funds Badly Needed, Quick! Send Same To: O. T. Thompson, can depend on before we can go ahead, for the the Timber Belt so as the slaves can rouse from Treasurer Defense Committee, Bentley, La. Register All Funds. Special will cost considerably more than ordinary their slumbers once more and get better wages and ACT! Railroad Workers On Lumber Roads, Help Us In The Fight For Free- issues. All money, too, must be sent in with your better conditions. dom! ALL Workers Get Busy And Soak The Lumber Trust Any- orders for the Special, that is, when we definitely Best wishes from myself and all to all who are on where, Under Any Name, In Any Way You Can! Strike announce that we will be able to get it out. No arti- the outside.. Keep up the good work. And STRIKE HARD FOR LABOR! cles on the question of Decentralization and Centrali- I am, Yours for Freedom, zation will be published in the Special, this on opposi- CHARLES CLINE, from Decentralists. The Special will be purely Care County Jail, San Aatonio, Texas. LETTERGRAM FROM EMERSON. FROM HALL TO HALL. propaganda material for the ONE BIG UNION. Night Lettergram: New Orleans, Lbll on, T"nlnu., \lm'rth 27, 1914. La., March 23, 1914. BREAKING INTO GLENMORA. Honorable Luther WE, THE UNEMPLOYED LJunibeirjackst,;attentio! ILally! Another outrage E. Hall, Governor of Louisiana, We recently gave an entertainment at Glenmora, hLis i.een tnllllttedla u)pon your class. Remember Baton Rouge, By COVINGTON HALL. (side issue of MeNary, Cady town,) and caused a good ;lralm\ ,i/y yur sli•dlarity aipen the doors of Col- La. A letter received by me to-day seems to indicate deal of confusion with the I. W. W. moving picture fax jail and free 1our brothhers or deny you are men. that the four members of Forest and Lumber Work- We shall come, the Unemployed, the disinherited stereopticon show. Sand your alsh. ' Keep your tear's. Do your duty. ers' Union held in Colfax, La., jail by the of earth, As this entertainment is strictly educational and is If justiliablh 1 \ ill ,join you. l)v p,'lmpn('lntsdeter- Lumber Trust are not only in danger of having We shall crowd into your temples and your marble only given with three months' sub to The Voice or liine u ni ationl. A. L!. EMERSON. their consti- tutional rights violated, but to be in danger of per- halls of mirth; 25 cents worth of literature, they sent up a bunch of sonal violence We shall come as you have made us, ragged, lousy, boys to try and pay admission without taking any AN APPEAL FOR ACTION. as well, this last on account of publi- cation of names of indicters and witnesses against pale and gaunt- literature, but that does not go with us; then they '1o all 1. W. WV.,l ,lhls etverywhcere.-Last, but not them in TIlE VOICE OF THIE PEOPLE. I There- L'ou, the House of Have, shall listen unto us, the tried to damage the machine and sldes, but failed; least, 1i thelight i ici'lI iIsteing waged against four fore DEMAND that you use every means in your the Ilouse of Want. then they damaged a few seats. o 1f m',r best i.al'mle.rs, who a;re Low languishing in power to protect these men. I intend to publish The employers of labor did not like our program. We are sickened tit'h',,ll'ux, L•t.,

By FORREST EDWARDS. There is and. has been much talk pro and eon as Just a few lies to hasup the reedsm of The Ycee to the "governmental powers of the G. E. B." but up Have you as a wage worker made up your mind that in tuch with omditions in the northws Power is the great deciding factor in all things. to date very little has been samid regarding the "gow- ther is no hope for yot Do you knohw the average The lmg depatmne store at C(gry, and i, In order to decide who shall work on the job, we ernmental powers" of bare quorums of the Unions worker can never be a master When yu ask that fact in the whole of Canada, the Hbudem'~ r 0m- must first have power on the job. gathered in business meetings to legislate for the an adequate reward for your labor be given you, do pany, has jN had a stribef its esgmI aed 's- Force, is the only thing that counts. Force is entire mebership of their Union. I have seen a bare you get it , .-.. men aillowi a out in the wams of * ssema the great decidug factor in all things. Force decides quorum more than once in more than one Union, both Singly you are too weak to - enre your ds- from 5 oents to 15 aInts per hour. Thea mm-rs, who shall rule. Force decides who shall be ruled. I. W. W. and A. F. L., take action vitally affecting, wands. fashed to stasd for the reduetion and struek. To Force must decide who shall work on the job. Force not only their own Local Union, but their Industrial Do you feel the neseMy of the united stmg* of the eraat .1 the e gimees, he it aaid, they waed :mutstdecide untder wha t conditions we shall work. or International, and even the General Organization the working cla t Do yea wish to asside ouar out with thie hemen. What followed shows that the 'This old argument that we should not force others itself, and send their action out as the will of the self with a Labor Union that .will pat you on .aplity great esrporations of to-day do not have to respect to do, things against their will, is truly the argument Local. Some method of avoiding this should be with your master? Do you know what the trouble any law. of a mian who does not possess the moral courage to evolved. In the first place a Local Union should not ist The cause of your slavery is that yor mstem be. Following the walkout of the engineerg stafft, tight for the things lie desires, or, who is satisfied allow a bare quorum to act on anything save routine long to the union of marters and mahinery. Masters the Hudson Bay Company obtained scabs in the with tlaings and conditions as they are. It does business. No business involving the welfare of the and machinery cannot operate without labor when shape of unqualified and uloessed engineers, direct- inot belong in the arglmnents of a revolutionary Union. entire Locxal or General Organization should be taken labor is united like masters and machinery, for then ly at variance with the laws of Alberta. Suppose the wage workers held to that idea, what do up in such meetings, especially by men calling them- labor will have equal strength, and will be able to The fact that the Hudson Bay Company were you think they would accomplish in the way of Forc- selves Social Revolutionists. No oflber should be force the masters to reasonable terms. able to obtain scab Bremen for 15 cents per hoar, ing tlh. l oss to come across with better conditions? allowed to be elected by a bare quorum, except tem- If you are not united andinat ma the tooioed 12 houm per day, throws a lurid light upon the un- "\'oluntary organization," why, that is what the porarily, and then only when the necessity is urgent; by another, then you are not only a slave, but a slave employed situation in this country. As far as the 1. W. W. is to-day, and what it will be until we get all any business meeting of the Local should have without power. strikers themselves are eonerned, very little sym- power ionre force, but don't be mistaken, the program of to do in such cases should be to nominate and Now what condition do we find a great majority of pathy needed be wasted on them; they refused to revolutionary t'nionism is not one of Voluntary or- then the candidates for the different offices to be workingmen and women in ? They are abjaet slaves. organise and remained faithful to their master until sent ganization, with Voluntary action, but may be to referendum vote. This could be easily and (Worse: peons. C. H.) We find them in a constant mech time as it suited him to hand them a jolt in sumnced up in a single phrase, "Meet force with inexpensively done, even in such organizations as state of starvation, or at least want. This leaves them the shape of starvation wages. We have been threat- force." Thle I. W. W. man does not justify his acts the 3M. T. W. and F. L. W. Toward this end I in a low servile state, physically and mentally. ened with a "free speech" fight here during the or the acts of thc I'nion in terms of "right" and make the following suggestions: We find them aiding and abetting the masters, not past week, but nothing as yet has broken loose. "'justice,'" but in terms of Power. This social war Let every crew on every Ship or in every Camp ony in exploiting themselves, but also their hildr On Wednesday afternoon we went out into the will nlt be fought out on the basis of "right" and form a Job Branch or Group; then let this Group in the factories, mines and mills. This leads to "stiff" distriet of this town, and started a meet- "wrong." but iuni a basis of Power. It will not be elect a Ship or Camp Secretary or Delegate; then let expoitations and various kinds of prostitutions, in- ing, we held the corner down for about two hours, a voluntary transformnation of the oinership of in- it be the duty of this Delegate to see that all com- eluding houses of ill-fame. but when Fellow-worker Graves was closing the meet- dusry but a forcible overthrow of the Capitalist Sys- munications from the Local gets to every worker on We find them helping to exploit in the most un- ing, a cop stepped up and took his name and ad- tem. the job; in elections for officers of the Local the Lo- natural ways, that is to say, being used as militia, dress and threatened him with a "summons" for To do this, we nmust organize the workers in terms cal's Secretary to deliver to the Job Delegate ballots police, detectives and stool pigeons, for no other pur- diverting (1) the traffeic. The enforcers of "law and with the idea that they sufficient of the job on which they work for his entire GCo'up; when the Group has pose except to destroy their own friends and kin, in order" in this jerk-water burg seem to think that as they have power voted, will control the job in proportion then it seals in an envelope its votes and the order to hold themselves and kin in slavery to a com- their streets are Broadways or Strands. So far, the to do so. Job Delegate then delivers them to the Local's See- mon master. summons has not materialized so we do no know ex- Starting out with the job in an industry, in other retary, same not to be opened until time of election These are the slaves of the various branches of the actly which way the eat will jump. Although the words, a campn. we will proceed to organize the en- in the presence of a committee chosen by the business government constituted to uphold the rule by which Chief Justice of this province told us in the McCon- tire job into one I'nion on the job, then bring to- meeting assembled for that day or night. In voting the workers are disinherited and held in slavery. nell case that we had almost unlimited "free speeeeh" for officers, each gether all of the jobs of a given district into a dis- member to mark a cross in the circle Starvation faces multitudes in this land of splendid it seems evident that the Calgary coekroaches are trict organization, this district organization will be lopposite the man he wishes to vote for, then sign opportunities, in a land which but for the disunity of going to make an effort to stop street speaking. composed of representatives of all the different jobs, his ballot with his name and the number of his mem- the workers, would be flowing with milk and honey "Masters" are still at a premium in this section or camps, or mills, whichever you wish to call them. bership card. for all the children of men. and the majority of the working clam are either These representatives to meet, say, once each month, I think smone such method as this would bring Then what is the best for a working man or hiking the ties or the sidewalks in an effort to lo- to is, dealing with matters concerning about somethitg their business like Democracy in the Unions and woman to do here and now I We think the best thing cate that elusive and much to be desired thing, a all of the workers of that industry, (I have the Lum- I also think it's about time we were getting a little is for a worker to join the only real proletarian job. In Calgary somene of the more fortunate slaves ber Industry in mind) taking back to their respec- here. See the article on "Job Organization" by (propertyless) working class organization in exist- are geting 25 cents per hour, but the majority necessary. Fellow-worker tive jobs whatever information that is Forrest Edwards, Secretary-Treasurer ence, to-wit: the I. W. W. are slaving for 20 cents per hour for a ten hour day. Then the District Organizations are brought together of the Western District, N. I. U .of F. L. W. This organization has for its goal the safety and One dirt moving job is only paying $1.00 for eight into the National Imlustrial Union. (I would sug- The Eighth Convention of the I. W. W. passed at freedom of its members. You as workels are weak hours (i. e. 12%, cents per hour.) least gest that the District Organization, take the place of one good law and that is: All Locals must and unsafe while you stand alone. The cause of this One begins to wonder how low wages will have what is now known as a local Industrial Union, the state the number of members, the number present in is that a single slave has no power. The cause of to be cut before the stiffs will revolt. In Edmonton job to be the local units around which we organize.) every business meeting, the number voting and the slavery in the want of power. The want of power is the workers are organized and are able to empel The purpose of this National Union is to solidify vote FOR and AGAINST all propsitions passed on by the want of ownership in some commodity that you the etiy to furnish work to all who apply for same all forces of a given industry so thatsoncerted action the Local And this good rule should be STRICTLY can control, which society must have. You own that at a minimum wage of 30 cents per hour. enforced may be had in the fight against the Capitalist Class. by all Locals, especially in matters relating commodity. Why do you not free yourselves That Comparing the wages paid in the two cities, the active organization campaign in the to the affairs To carry on an of their Industrials or the General Organ- commodity is labor-power. By uniting yourselves benefits of organization should be apparent to the industry. to do whatever may be necessary to be done ization or where officers or elected. No bare quorums and controlling that power, you will not only free most thick headed "simorbill." Reports from Medi- the should to advance the intcrest if organization as a whole. he allowed to legislate either for the Local yourselves, but you will abolish slavery from the cine Hat inform us that the slaves there were slav- ieach or their General Suppose camilp he known as an Industrial Organizations. At least that is the earth. ing for from 20 cents to 12% cents per hour, with Branch having .jurisdiction over the camp in so far opinion of--- Let every working man and every working woman no smoking on the job. as the interest of the workers in that camp were Yours f(r Inldustria Democracy, look about him or her. What will be their first great A fellow-worker writes from North Bay, Ontario. immnediately c,.onerned. but always taking into con- COVINGTON HALL. thought T It is of safety, material safety against that there is every possibility of a strike there of the sihlerationi the interest of (,ther workers in other what t Against want, ignorauce and slavery. Maintenance of Way employees on the C. P. R. clamps, the workers on the job could decide who should "LEGALIZED" PIRACY. What organization best expresses your most press- As usual they are giving their "kind masters" plenty work in that camnp. and also. under what conditions ing and every day needs The answer to that ques- of notice so as to enable them to obtain a plentiful they could work. insofar as they were able to force By W. M. WITT. tion can be but just one, the I. W. W. Why Be- supply of scabs. We understand that the "Carmen their recognition frros, the l•oss. cause it consists of wage workers, and only wage of America" are making some effort to organize the Somit p,,,ople, say that this would Ite wrong. We That s the proper definition for the lumber indus- workers. No boss, no masters, just wage workers; no shops at that place, at present unorganized. reply that it is lnot questionla of right or wrong. try engineered by the Sawmill Slaughter Association. politics, no religion, and therefore no conflicting in- The Canadian Pacific Railroad has large shops at but a cld blohohed question of Iu'ty r. If we have the I say 'legalized because, the so-called government terests within the union. North Bay, built last summer, employing from 4000 of the power to make louremneies hit the trail, well, we will so-called State of Louisiana smiles upon the These matters are your own individual private to 5000 men; much of the work formerly done in AIlt it. llut starting out with the Job Group, or nefario.•s "stunts" l)ulletd off by the infamous comn- affairs; pwith this the union has nothing to do, and Montreal is done there. Industrial iBracl.h, it would soem that we would be hine known as the "''Sawmill Operators' Association." with this it does not interfere. This fellow-worker further states that there are fine ae t do omr,n etffect ive work than could otherwise The reading public is fairly well posted upon If interested, communicate with N. A. Schroff, See- opportunities for organization among the slaves in b,.e done,. ,ecause•. when. the local union is located in their "minodus, opl)randi" of robbing the workers retary Local 272, I. W. W., 60 South Third Street, Western Ontario in all industries. -•cin Ihlrge city, the workers snhlnom got a chance to sO to go into detail concerning their many schemes Phoenix, Arizona. JOIIN TERRILL. attlend blusineis ilcueinllgs and ciinsequtelntly hwose in- o(f rolbbery is not necessary. Suffice to say that no tirist in the o'rganization. and why shouldn't they gang of bandits who ever rode the Western plains WHAT'S IN IT, CRAWFISH? WHITETRASH AND NIGGERS. ltosc interest, they have nothing to say aboult the will compare to these Kings of robbers when it comes ! ,licv of thei or,,anization, they are not in touch with down to I'urce D stealing. Recently Crawfish, Kink of de Carnival, Chooloo Whenever you see in TIlE VOICE the terms what is going oin. The unly people who are in touch They have violated er'ry law of God and man. of de Chinks, returned from Bo-sting, the Capital "Whitetrash" and "Nigger," you can know that we with the Iiisizliware those who are in the habit of yet theyt' oul(t pose as benefactors of the human race. City of the Fruits, and announced that the Fruit are not referring to MEN but to that off-scouring The hr'st Imakinag short stakcs or no stake at all. as is very "''stunt"'' they ever tried to play was Trust had just discovered that it was an American of the Caucasian and Negro race from which Fat ften the rul. Those whi, argue against job organi- to, bhlack-list all mien not doing to please them. corporation. (Wonderful discovery!) Wherefore draws the Scabs and Suckers and Gunmen he uses zatioi are sl,,ilo fouinl on a job for any length of They would starve: the workers' wives and babies and in consideration of this miracle discovery the against working MEN. For instance, Fellow-worker tiime. buIt arc generailly well known, and well informed to death. Svch pirates would wrench a bottle of Fruits would henceforth sail the othree new ships Gaines is a Nego, but he is not a nigger-he is a ienin ieverythinig except thit job. The Lumber In- iiilk from an; infant. remove the nozzle and imbibe they are having built by SCAB LABOR in Bel- MAN. Reversing the races,. Defective Harnel is lthstry as wcll as thlie ('onstruction Industry must, if the contents. fast, Ireland, under the American Flag, as an es- not a MAN-he is whitettrash. the'. wish to .si'ccd. take the job as the unit of their When I am wrapped in my "Wooden overcoat" pecial honor to THEIR country. He didn't say any- The Whitetrash and Niggers belong withf the South- what we now a Local U'nion. and organization,Lthen c'all my toes point to the roots of the daisies I will thing about them getting so damn patriotic though ern Lumber Operators' Aswociation. in the same class to be known as a l)istrict Organization made up of then cease;lto, denounce the bandits who constitute that they would take their lousy Nigger, Chink and .so to say. The Niggers are as strong for "social jobs, in this the Sawmill rtlrese.ntativec s fr'm all of the different Slaughter Assoc'iation and all so-called "Home Crew" scabs off the tubs now sailing out of elquality" as the Whitetrash is for" white supremacy," way, we oiin hope, to .su.ee imas an organization. The "law and order leagues.' New Orleans, so we guess the Fruits will still keep and they've lbth got what they want, only it's the other way. twe will never be more than a Mutual ad- eow.Mr. Worker, you have allowed the Lumber thse tubs under the British and Norwegian ban- social equality of a scab and the white supremacy of mirat ion society. Kings' gunmen to corner you. The most cowardly ners and that their Dago stevedores will continue a sucker. The Niggers and Whitetrash are what the beast of the jungles will fig/t when cornered. to patriotically drive and rob the poor banana unload- old-time colored plople used to describe as a "loud- WANTED: A CHINESE REBEL. Are we going to tight or go down into oblivion ers, even under the "Starry Banner of the free." mouthed nigger" and a "low-down white man." which like a cur dog with is tail between his legst Has Patriotism is great, but, Crawfish, every time we meant a species of human that had reached the lowest ('an any of tht Western Ijocals or Rebels put us the blood of our forefathers turned to water in our hear of a Fat getting patriotic we are like depths of degradation, a man who had fallen into, in c,ionlmuicatiin with a (lhinese I. . W. W. Several hearts? the old Negro parson, we want to "know de wbarfo the so.ial strata from which the Capitalists recruit ('hiniese crews have "mutinied"' on this coast during E. ryv worker should inscribe upon his banner, "law en de whence?" Therfore, what's in it, your sud- their seabs. suckers. gunmen, milit;i. and detectiv- the last few month.s and tihe Editor of TIlE VOICE is might."'' "')Miight is Rilht."'' "the world for the den pat-riot-iam? Free tolls through the Panama agencies. So when 'you seet the terms "Whitetrash" fully believes a ('Chinese Rebel could line niany Chimnese strong and to hell with all false dope." Canal? Tell the bune to the Stingaree for we know and "Nigger" used in TIlE VOICE 'youcan be sure St:eamcen up in the 3[. T. W.. and that they would P'. S.- Don't neglect to "' boost" The Voice, as it the Fruits are not "sailing the Spanish main" under we are not referring to MEN. prove Tartars in the camp of the Shipping Trust. is the oedy paper in this section in which you can any flag for any reason except for loot. Let us hear frm v ou. expose the wrongs heaped upon you. The others are When the time comesltto fight, the workers are asked sacred "sheets" and th'ir (olumns are closed to the Capitalism says you should love your country-and to fight for their country. When the war is over SUBSCRIBE TO THE VOICE. working class. pay rent for the privilege of living in it. they go back to renting shacks. 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Entered as Second-class Matter, July 5, 1913, at WHEATLAND: Send all funds for the Fellow-workers and all slaves, stay away from Red Cross Drug Store the Pest Office at New Orleans, La., under defense of the Wheatland Victims to Don Sweet-Home, La., Front. Local 275 on strike. The the Act of August 24, 1912, D. Scott, Box 1087, Sacramento, Cal. strike was called to keep one of the Company's old Teeth end Jack.N. Str.eet.s-Oppetse Ulesm Ope tricks off, trying to break the Solidarity and driv PHONE, NUMBER mIn ALEXANDRIA, LA. Published Weekly by National Iadustrial Unloi of TEXAS VICTIMS: Send all funds to Victor ing the workers. But, as always, the I. W. W. got wise and Forest and Lumber Workers, Southern District. ('ravello, Box 1891, Los Angeles, Cal., Secretsar best Complete Stock of District Headquarters _..l...... Alexandria, La. of the Rangel-Cline Defense Committee. them to it. The job is tied up right, not a man Jay Smith _..... _- ..Secretary working. So all workers help keep it so by staying Drugs, Medicines, Drug Sundries and away untill we drive the boss into submission, and Carl Person Defense: Send all funds to make one step farther away Toilet Articles OFFICE OF PUBLICATION: from peonage. Carl Person, Box D. Clinton, Illinois. Yours 520 POYDRAS STREET, NEW ORLEANS, LA. for victory, Our Prmerlptln Department I la Charge of Skilled Railroad Workers, Get Busy! ACT PRESS COMMITTEE, COVINGTON HALL .. Editor L. U. 275 Regleterod Pharmaeit~e and sely Higheet TO-DAY. Grade Materials are Usedn SUBSCRIPTION RATES: FOUND AT LAST! Southern Distrit Demands Mar Orders Filed Immediately as Reeilpt. UNITED STATES: 52 weeks, $1.00; 26 weeks, 50 See It! Read It! safe Delivery by Parcels Poet Guaranted. cents; 13 weeks, 25 cents. Wage Scale for Loggers sand Saw Mill Workers. CANADA: 40 weeks, $1.00; 10 weeks, 25 cents A (Ia1s to puit withuin the reac'h of every one; a Join the One Big Uniem. No Order Too Small for Our Best Attetwi . FOREIGN: One Year $1.5 sI rlie. I. t.i lurr., ;Ie tompniIed by the latest high sad enrvloe SINGLE COPIES: 5 cents ,Iss ,i,,tiin pit-iure and sterepticon entertainments. Initaiation Fee, $1.00; Dues 50e Per Momth. A .lea:In au.miSinenit anld edueational program, su- BUNDLE RATES: I, lrior Ito anylhinig lhertfl'ore furnished by traveling National Industrial Union of Forest and Lumber IN ITED) STATES: 5 copies, 13 weeks ...... $1.00 Workers, Southern District. ('ANAI)A, 4 copies, 13 weeks...... $1.00 Tlihis ir;, eE.is of motion pictures and many "Larroque's House" To all Locals and Rebels ordering 10 or more copies InalilftiE l Siti lreolli.lcl V'i'w'8, aUEEoip)aniied by lucid Demands: and paying 10 weeks, or 25 or inumore copies paying a;dl wit t expl;lt.lni.ns from an exp rieneed lecturer. We demand an eight-hour day. Cafe and Restaurant bi-weekly or monthly, or 250 or more copies paying No ilnt. rlnisii io tto this enItertainllenlll, "something We demand that eight hours be the working day w,.ekly, IN AI)VANCE, we will make a rate of, in ,Ioing" all thlt tilme. from calling out in the morning until return at MEALS AT ALL HOURS I'nited States, 1Ie. per copy, in Canada, 2c. per night. Furnished Rooms mUnitedi and FREE. 't.py. Otherwise 2e. per copy in States We demand abolition of discount system. ...e. in 2 Canada. No, al•,•ii•isio, n is 'harged for the show; all we re We demand that all men shall be hired from Un- 307 N. PET.RS STREET NEW ORLEANS, LA. ii 're is Irreeiptia showing that the holder is a three ion Hall. UNDER MARINE TRANSPORT WORKERS' HALL CASH MUST ACCOMPANY ALL ORDERS. ItIonths subs.rilber to 'T'ILE VOICE OF TIE We demand that $2.50 per day, or $50.00 per I')1'E'l :' or ;EalurEchaser of oni, or more of our month and board, shall be the minimum wage for many Ibois to tihe amount of 25 cents and, believe all employes in the logging or railroad camps. ime, the ILapers or books are well worth tile price We demand 75 cents per thousand, or X$.00 per Billington's Lightning W\ chlarge for theim. day per man, 11,000 feet to constitute a day's Prepaid Subcards All h..al I 'nmEs of F'orest and Lumber Workers, work, for log cutting, stumps 86 inches high. Liniment. S,,1th1i.Er1i I)l.trict, shlould get in communiinieation at We demand a 50 per cent. increase in the pay of BEST as the MARKET for ALL ACRES and PAINS ,,iei itl, .lay .ntith, Sc.retary Southern District. Tie Makers, Stave Mill, Turpentine, Rosin and all We now have on hand a supply of Till1El and 'I.X POR MEN AND STOCK I ox 7s. A lexautlIria, La., and arrang.' aitdate as soon other workers in the Lumber Industry and its by- nwitohs 1l'EA'All,) l'ii('AII),'N.. N, nd in lor a /fi' 10c., 25c., 50c. and $1.00 a Bottle as lEEssiblc. product industries. and help in the work of IeccoluatltziniU I/h South, Your Merchant or Druggist ought to keep it lR.-sp''ct fully, We demand that overtime and Sunday work but, If he doesn't, send your order direct to which is a talGr of 1I'T.L, imAportluat to I/ 1. iW'. 1M\I1ll11 ANI) RICE, l'aoMorTEa.,. shall be paid for at the rate of time and a half. W'. I'hcse tardcs we will sdlt you as follows: TllREE We demand that injured workmen be given im- BILLINGTON'S LINIMENT CO., LTD. months cards, F IVE /or $1.00; l1t E.\N 1'1 /Jor $3.50. mediate attention. 919 ROBERT STREET, NEW ORLEANS, LA. NSI month/s ards, ,'I'E Ifor $2.01); 7'1E\ITY j or We demand that pure, wholesome food be served $7.0(0.At lhicset ctr,(s !i,,or. yyttur Lual can /ltIp Call to Southern Oil Workers at company boarding houses. THilE 'OICE and niaul a otl ,,mmissio,,,i Insitlt s. Cooks and other employes shall not be allowed Fuller's Restaurant The Oil linlustry is ripe for organization, not only to work on a percentage basis. BEST MEALS IN CITY FOR THE PRICE. i I)L lah ntia, where lhundreds are enrolling, but all There shall be one waiter or waitres for every LUNCH,15c. DINNER, 15c. n.r the routll rt'y. 30 men at the table. Short Orders Also Served. Might Is Right. No,\E, 110W A\I( I'T THIE REST OF'YOU OIL We demand that maximum price of $5.00 per QUIEr AND HOMuIKI GOOD SuMVIcB. \'EV()Ii E NN' You iII loEiisian: and Texas? If you want to read this tremendous Epic of the week for board shall prevail. I),rl't fI',rtg tIhat shorter hours and Bigger Pay 754 Camp Street, Near Julia Strong, send us a DOLLAR and we will send you a We demand that the double deck bunks be taken o•, iil in hianlli. Industrially Organized in the I. NEW ORLEANS, - - LOUISIANA. copy of "MIGHT IS RIGHT" and THE VOICE for out of all the bunk houses and that beds with \v. \E ge.t the Light-ilour Day by April '++-:--t: +--:)- 80 weeks; or we will send you the book alone for \V. .a springs and mattress be installed in their places. I'irst. Giet IBusy! We demand that dry rooms and bath rooms bs FIFTY CENTS. Address TIlE VOICE, 520 Poyd- THE PREAMBLE. ras Street, New Orleans, La. For tfurliEhr inf ortmation, write to J. A. Law, Secre- installed in each camp. tuary, I(,oal1It; Oil Workers Industrial Union, 1. W. We demand that the pig pens be kept 300 feet W\., ('ar•' (;r nrI; tl I clivery, Tulsa, Oklahoma. "THOUGHTS OF A FOOL." away from the cook houses or bunk houses, and The working class and the employing class have that up-todate sanitary systems be immediately nothing in common. There can be no peace as long as hunger and want are found among mlh % ith established in all lumber towns and camps. ('onrwye f1.,s, amtl laugh this wise Fool SEND US SOME NAMES lions of working people, and the few, who make at all the sacred things of Bourgeoisdom. Send us We demand that the hospital fee be paid to the up the employing class, have all the good thiags of life. ONE DOLLAR and we will send you a copy of the I e, 1ll VOICE\THE spread the battleline and at the Union and that the Union shall take care of all the Between there two clamses a struggle mSot g and Ti'I'1 The lin'e ilc're;lS its circulation by sending in the sick and injured through this fund, or that the hook VI(: fCor 20 weeks. Book SalEIe on until the workers of the world organize as a men be allowed to elect the doctor and alone $1.00. o in:,nas El \workiing ple'•lile you think might subscribe. have a voice class, take possessin of the earth and the ma- chinery of production, and abolish the \\'rite iniEss alll I'ostllice address PLAINLY, using in the management of the hospital and insurance wage system. of the management ,,ly ,,one stild of a sheet of paper. fund. We find that the centering We demand that all settlements for injuries of industries into fewer and fewer hands makes Notice to Subscribers. the trade unions unable to cope with the ever- shall be conducted in the presence of a committee growing power of the employing class. 1he trade "SABOTAGE." from the Union. unions foster a state of affalra which allows eone I 1 It I'ill i ,.i, pl it I lbtheAlll HiEli oppo- set of workers to be pitted against anether set of We demand that all delegates or organizers workers In the same industry, thereby helping dGe y,,ur ,tInl A,.)IHHiEES Il..UEL, ,s it indat s .'OI BY WALKER C. SMITH. shall be allowed to visit camps and mills. feat ene another in wage wars. Moreover, the Ite issue ithiiihu/ bI / lur s/ub irt.ii ,. trade unions aid in employing class to mislead the Single copy orders, mailed in plain sealed GET BUSY! workers into the bellet that the working clams have As an csampc - "•Johnu,,ylitb-66," usdicales that $ 10 For further and full particulars, address: •interests in common with their employers. lH b's sub xtpirrs with ,\umbt r 66 and he should ren•w wripper ...... Ten copies by mail...... 50 JAY SMITH, Secretary, These conditions can be changed and the inter- at hast 'TWO 'WEEKSh ahead of this if he does -not eat of the working class upheld only by an organl- Twenty-five copies ..... _ _ 1.0) wish ltomiss an issue of/ the 'OICE. zation formed in such a way that all its members One hundred copies...... 8 .50 in any one industry, or in all industries, it neces- Ilh aslt.iln s1 nioi slans. E ,, 1.E/ ,,r TIll ,EE$. aery, cease work whenever a strike or lockout is One thousand copies... -. ____ 30.00 THE VOICE on in any departmlunt thereof, thus S..Ilal.e re tiltlante s by I'osto/,icimoncy orders, paya making an SEND ALL ORDERS TO AND ONE YEAR. injury to one an injury to JalL ble to CoL'ingoln Ilall, Editolr. BOX 464, SPOKANE, WASH. SOLIDARITY ...... $1.50 Instead of the conservative motto: "A falr day's wage for a fair's day's work," we must Inscrblhe THE STRIKE BULLETIN ...... 1.25 on our banner the revolutionary watohword: SECRETARIES OF N. I. U. of F. and L. W. THE INT. SOCIALIST REVIEW ... 1.50 "Abolition of the wage system. Red Song Books. THE MASSES ...... 1.50 It is the historic mission of the working clase Western D)istr.iet : Forrest Edwlarids, Sec.-Treas.; to do away with capitalism. The army of pre At ('.st l'rice. Sixthl editiovn of the original and THE NEW REVIEW -...... 1.5 Adtdress, lox. 8s6, Seattle Washington. Also Secre- duction must be organized, not only for the every- Ilst l,,,ik If 1. W. W. songs. Order now so printer day struggle with capitalists, but also to carry on tary of Local I'nioln 432. production when capitalism shall have been over- ';l ,, palidaml the valuable property of Worker FOR ONE CENT. Soulhern D)istrict: Jay Smith, Sec.-Treas; Ad- thrown. By organizing industrially we are forming s.d CEI. the etructure of the new society within the shell d(Iress, Box ;, Alexandria, Lo,,uisiana. Send umsliv, or ten cents in stamps and we will of the old. 5c Single Copies youyi.nl ,ut ,,f lh,' ()'VEIS a 'opy of TIIE~ VOICE $3.00 per 100 for ea;ichi cnt TO CORRESPONDENTS. Mlake Mn(ey Order payable to Industrial Whter. ('a.sh must accompany all orders. SUBSCRIPTION BLANL morning. All T1IE VOICE goe's to press Motray .Address all orders to MINUTES OF EIGHTH CONVENTION. articles should be in not later than Saturday mnorn- THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE. ng preceding. Only vcry slhirtand imiprtant news (Cet a ,epy anil s., for yourself what was and was items can ge't in later. Industrial Worker not said ant done. Address the I. W. W. Publishing I0 X 212!9 SPOKANE WASII. Enclosed find $ ....for which se:id I)o not scid us same art .les as s.,t to "slidarity Blureau. 112 l iamiilton Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio. me THE VOICE for_ ....weeks, at the .niless same are marked sluipliate. Pri,.c ef thes rlprt is only $1.00 a cqpy. Send for following address: Write only oIn oli0 side of paper. it tfJ-dav. Weihing Printing Co. Name. NEW ORLEANS M. T. W. MEETINGS. t(INCORPORATBD) FINE PRINTING OF ALL KINDS Portland Meetings Street or P. O. Box. Io•,al 7, hMarine Transport Workers, I. WV. W. UNION WORK A SPECIALTY Meets ,,very Tuesday at 7.30 o'clock at its hll, The Portland, Oregon, locals will hold regular :;07 NORTII P'ETERS STREET. propaganda meetings twice per week in the hall at All Seafaring Men and Rebels Welcome. 309 Davis St., during this winter. New stereopti- City Hall and Reading Rom Open All D)ay and con installed. Good speakers needed for meetings ('ity. andl Country Trade Solicited. Ef erv D)ay. in hall and on the street. Everybody welcome. I'rmupt I)c)li, ery andl Satisfaction Guaranteed. State ...... ----. --- IDAN ;RIFFIN. Scrertaryv. FRANK CADY, Secretary, If renewal, please mark am IXhere ( ). FRANK ALBERS, Organizer. 52)0 P'OYL)RAS STREET. NEW ORLEANS, LA. 309 Davis St., Portland, Oregon. church and Welmangte; enormos proessi and for strikInag Ne the Later Patrty NEW ZEALAND GENERAL STRIKE. months, after which the Massey Government mnt did at IAtgmw, clown a large army of 60 police. Some 65 an'onist splendid enthusism were the main featuers. New ewe Wa les, same time ags were arrested on the most specious charges and in- Then in stepped Iron Heel Maesy', the Coward The future eoraniaitiom n these alade3t glg For maii*. .iari \.iw Zes indallld has i1'ein Iooked upon (arcerated in Mt. Eden Gaol at Auckland. The •ght Premier, who had graduated from the ahippoes of to be the Industrial Workers of the World. D• n by thel Ixidel' vrEIls a,.N'ial s litlorytrv and frt'n was f,ught on the old craft union principle, lted Pukekohe, and with the executive of the Farmers' the reenat strike the esapitalist peseI side afYt"eali the III lera, iv'es od jorialt4 1,r 'ie ir's, a1141 artieles in ill- 27 weeks, after which the militant, were driven out Union, called on the eountry districts for special son- hullaballoo about 100 I.WW. W. men as t did ahet spiredluitilllb.eatio, (ll 111... l' l i ai't sl) believe that in of their homes by thugs and bullies armed with steel stables, mounted-and armed with yard long blmd- the 30,000 U. P. L. ul S.D. P. this 'iullltl'.i hl.rl' w l,,Ii Itbe' li( ,rt ile'm 'lof {,Capital , etc. ),ahtns and revolvers. Hundreds of ig- geons. They were mobilised quickly, and marched The I. W. W. is a growing facter in Anstall, and I, ol.•r,,noU14 1l111,1o{,ym1n1 t 4llu'stlonl, no 8iluIm roughs, and ii, their thousands into the towns. and rlreedy the Attorney General of New S~6at hFlr e.;w eI.lt,\lh,h.-isl;tlitIln has beell doled out norant half savage Maorir, were gathered together, given whiskey in a prohibited area, armed and turned As they marheed in to load and protect their (1) Waaes, (also president Sydn Watersidesr), W. it,Ih,' E orkEi' rs,' n. atll'l'ellt 1 its i'ir, isE by1' rapping rmen, property, the seamen disreguyding their scabby om- Hughes, and the Sydney "Morn Herald," are de- the' l;i,'IkhinEl'.andl imilitalll'.v ,l' f lf ' orlaligazatilns;,t hlis' on women and children. The scabs then attaIke.d the union cials sprang ashore, and left houmnds of tons of nouneing the I. W. W. ll ri il ,IIIi'l ; {;1tune,al . a ( idel'eslllll 1t.t'llltL'l l nliollmoVe- hall where one unionist, F. G. Evans was killed by a policeman and a scab, who shipping lying in the harbors. In New Zealand sceattered propagandists are sowing eiubl,.d him to death. Many other atrocities were The ships were loaded by seabs who drifted in, the seed of the One Big Union in the miningeamlu, IIIt1, hloE,.ever, eveni l li ' itIui.h ipr'ai.ei Arbitration I.erll'tlratedl under the righteous cloak of law and the usual rift raft, slum element, once the scab police the bush settlements, the wharves and the ships. ordel'r. had taken possession of the wharves. The tramway The I. W. W. paper the "Industrial Unionist," el'slIise'Il.a ilil i"' r' l,,ssijblte ljclte'id. service in Auckland was tied up for 17 days, and perished during the strike, owing to lack of funds; Th.l i'rIst E.E'lt of aily l fr . a llhi iImprtallllU e i The rnine was started with scab labor, the Wathi Ne• ,;ti-l;JliaIli th'th ;l .re't lariti e St rllike whlih ,En were scattered far and wide. The strike lasted then the men worked the ears on scab coal. but during her twelve months existence, obtained a 5,500 circulation, and carried the message,o Etvel.EI l'r i rlL.cEslerl'll period, the greater part of ,some1six months and between $15,000 and $16,000 The Auckland Exhibition, a kind of a parody ex- revolt hibition, should have started in December, but owing far and wide. As sooon as we clear up the debt, and Auistri'lisI. 'hi4i'i' revilt ulIok pulae in 1890, and al- was sulbscribed by Australiasism Unionists to their to the strike the main exhibits arrived too late. It get $50 in hand again, we will start her, if possible thoIlghll li lstr,ike \\axslnsulllel'.essfl'ul Iland the lash of co.,mrau•es in Waihi. in known as the White Elephant, as a weekly. vitllllirtioll 11l'4Iharshly by the' eiiiplEc't'•rs, yet lIut lIuring thin light such was the power of the and is a great finan- cial loss o those finacially interested. The Direct Action outfits are begining to grow, lying press in New Zealand that the great majority and In New Zealand, the farmer is a difficult as it moves along, gathering impetus, itwill shift the 1lnols l.,.blhslili.i ,s' Ei.l5, iuniiolisii, iandsocial actieni. Of the Arbitration I nionists turned down the Waihi problem paid reactionary barnacle from the pie counter, and The tiltuils •;arai;llie' in thie struggle scolnl began to Miners in their hour of trouble, and behaved as only to deal with, for owing to his isolated position, his ignorance is appalling, and therefore he can be easily drop him into the old men's home, the B. D. P., where reo'rganl'Ez, A4i1iiull-t 1 4ol% n ilitoat ir itn's, fcr ino sooner I••s-Iloving unions can by scabbing on their fellows with $1500 a year at his disposal he can make amend. did litheshrifltelir e'implo.•y'rssee their renewed danger left and right. played upon by the press, which is owned and con- trolled by the Big Business people. ments to the Arbitration Act, inaugurate State brick- thain lie luiilih vaulilitel A. and C. A't made its ap- This great baldle showed once more the utter futility Therfore, as soon as Fat wailed forth his la- fields and pulverise the conservative squattocracy neari'ei'''ti fli statute ioIok. 'T'his Art was brought Iof sect,ionai unionisan and action. The Labor Party mentations, Henry IIayseed left his mortgaged see- witp the kindly assistance of his Liberal and Progres- in Iste'iels'il."ytEE 1fst••er iiiiisii , in. real'ise' wages, and with their organizer Walter Thomas Mills carried ait cltar tion and came into the towns, to bludgeon the work- sive soul mates. itller %l%r'kinlCg i'iiditillins. The Old ideailof on a vigorous campaign against the Waihi men and ers back to the folds of the Arbitration Act, and The workers in New Zealand have had enough of ruti st•l'iggl' hel .twee uienliiilr ;illpdunlll yee be'reali'e helpedin il a thousand ways to overthrow them. law and order. reform and palliatives; they are acquiring back- re.ileg'ed to the ast, ii theIe lie\% idea of a goil )Duringthe last few years much I. W. W. and mili- These special constables performed many thrilling 'bone, beginning to fight. They are on the eve of easeitoI tiket the earsill' a $408M) ia year iJudlge be- tant unionist literature has been circulating in New charges down the main street, and 'it became a criminal great pomssibilities. Long live the General Strike and iamni Ihlie fshinli. Z/ealal and it has had a far reaching effect. the I. W. W. over Siinale'rai'ftl Slli4is s•airnig ui illta tile counlltry', offense to shout "scab," or even be in the same street. A national organiaztion, the N. Z. F. L. had grown Auckland, N. ahihi ralpiely develloelllJlithe alltieal ticketartist,' anli Hlowever they forced open the Auckland and Z., 1-28-14. TOM BARKER. upiin recent years, consisting largely of miners and Wellington wharves, and then scab labor was intro- waterside workers, which taught class organization, 'lhese orgal'i a ilosbeEaE popular veitli the em- duced and slowly ships were loaded and unloaded. "PROTECTINO OUR LABOR." but pra'tic.d sectional action. The Waihi strike was 'lstlereilset lionlisii, ainid tli•us the Then the comkroach business man and his ilk went ple ESi', a's tIhi)y follo',wed by a dc•auch at lhimaru, at which port, the A rI'I•I ritiol .let, liroghlit abiouit i iEkspit tle, sniftrliilg .stoking the ships, while the wbole practically of the On Monday, March 23rd, a body of armed planters w•:hltr.~lsdlrswere thrashed and victimized by the em- gathered ibosse's uliii•.j lsii,whliich is just aliibit i•s useles as total engineers and officers went scabbing also. in the town of Donaldsonville, La., and iloyers, while the national organization scabbed on terrorized disoi;rgaiilltii tiE li. In November, the police arrested .W. Y. Young, a number of Negro workers, who had been t hltnli. I1 the nllantilnc, an outside craft organiza lipose, and for president IU. F. Labor; Pat Fraser, secretary, gatherd by labor agents, from leaving the section. 'hitl A. ali . Act haslli served its ti,,,. the Slahightermneia, were also defeated. Then This outrage the 1.)i long \-Iar ,\1\\ZE.'allald earned tich title of "'the S. U. P'.; llarry Holland, Editor "Maoriland New Orleans "Times-Democrat" there was a•defeat in the coal mines of Blackball, seeks to justify laiind wit it .Sti'ikE•s." Worker;" Robert Semple, organizer U. F. Labor, in a column editorial on March 25th, antlla miseral,le compromise for the Stockton miners. It is rutilhir' iiiligi.i to note thati ill the early days amul George Bailey, member of Wellington Strike though it says the Negroes were allowed to leave A large unity congress was held in July, 1913, which next day. This sheet efl'the Act mai o;11f the lmore uil'lset.ist'rvative, alnd ig- Committee at Wellington on charges of sedition and further tries to make it appear re'sultedul ill a double wing outfit, a national Indus- that living wages are paid on he tirilil tmliiolly•es fughlit aiga iinst its lmandatesrstreiln inciting to resist. great Central Sugar trial (Organlization, the Ignited Federation of Labor, Factory Plantations of this State when it is a uislntl, a11 ii•aai aysi,after noting fur twellty years its Tom Barker, organizer I. W. W. was arrested on well alidi a Ipolitical organ ization, the Social Democratic known fact ef'lre.t ei iii illlitiiuliii iEmE1ilil, lraise it, and if neces- the day following, at Auckland on a charge of sedi- that a gorilla could not live decently on P'arty. he wages paid thereon. sary will Eomlilll' ,lloti ilnet its ordllers at the point tion, and remanded to Wellington on bail. Early inr 1912, an I. W. W. movement sprang into The "T-D." of t ihe IiyE iet,or thlie lilludgEo1 o,l a Cow l(untlry Bail was refused at the Wellington Court in the further forgets to state that many of Iing in Auckland, and began propagating the Gen- (' issat' k. following week. Young was subsequently sentenced these big plantations are practically bankrupt and erail SIt ike Salstage, and Industrial Unionism. Al- many going out of business Hlie eve'r, slie. of th'e i'rte militant utlion)iLt.'s shak- to three months for inciting, but the sentence was on account of "free (t) though snuall inl numlbers, it became very active, sugar," which leaves ing Itheltel,'iive•l.'s from the lethrgy of this demoraliziig withheld pending an appeal, he was remanded for the workers in an actual condi- iallnl soo,,lthe employers began to howl for the Gov- int' l lle'tbeg ita eanpaign agai lst the', Ai't, and its trial to the Supreme Court on the sedition charge. tion of starvation, yet the planters seek to prevent ernin,.iit to depoljrt this American abomination. A linle'iule's.The bIlk ofllthils prPtlallliga a was cll'rried Bailey and Fraser were bound over to keep the peace their leaving, which makes the outrage doubly damn- mnntlhly paper was started "the Industrial Union- onliby the Minert,' ('xniioiIs, , lielh cli'e•ially. in the West in sureties amounting to $1500 each. Holland's able. This sort of law is what the Sugar Barons ist."which bLgan to have a wide influence; literature ('(lastlof the SiilthiIslaind, hliaveAuistrala.sian reputa- inciting case was dismissed, but he is on bail for and Lumber Kings call "Protecting our Labor." was lpublishe'l andl imported; and many meetings tiou ft-rsolidarity a:ieliiiilitaney. the Supreme Court on two charges of sedition. Sem- It is slavery with none of chattel-slavery's advantages The first battlesiofl ant)ii"ilj(iortanlie•s were two striktes pile 'was bound over to keep the peace to the total to the slave. In other words it is the cruelest of ofli lh01T'Ilraiiuseays in AuiEklaiiil, where tihe lmien adopt- A mental reVolution had been working in the year of $3(•X) and fined $100 atAuckland for using sedi- slaveris--- peonage. t111e,linls ing iiilita lt IatliEls compiletely defl'eated the Tramiway 191:t, in of the toilers, the employers dur- tious language. Barker had a charge of sedition, ing t his pe.riod had hIroulle overbearing and tyrani- and one of inciting withdrawn, but was bound over "TELL THAT TALE." inl A e'iwii il' t rikes took pla'e ii the aeantinie. cal their attitudP towards labor. All at once the to keep the peace to the tune of $3•000, which was arhilrait iitl lie' Eamile the grei'at Waihi Strike in 1912; fromn litn l,j,'ed workers roused themselves from the obtained after he had been in gaol nine weeks. Villa's murder of lenton--for doubtless it was whi.i •lath begil a Sile hritllityb. alnd legalized slh+u,ulr ,,f21) years, and the!re began a gigantic In the middle of December, Ed. Hunter, Dennis- nmurder-has been the signal for this joint .interven- r,l.Jlli,on, lmriiil'er, lwhichlisoughlt Itodr'iE' iit jE4Enligel andll sllb- thelllike of which has never been seen be- ton Miners, (Billy Banjo) were arrested and charged tion cry, and once again we are deluged with the' serVi'e.l . thel ler'letar'iats eEl New Z•ealaiil. 'i,rill Ithe Isles of Australasia. with sedition and remanded on bail to the Supreme Pharisaic cant that human life must be protected, \\'aihiiis a geld iiiinii hi,;ality situated'l niearly 140( li t he middle oft'October. 1913, the coal miners Court, and also bound over to keep the peace for even if we have to turn Mexico into a shambles. The of Illunltlystruck ile.s rilli Aiillklili, ili l liel midsiltlof the ()Ohine•iuri against the systematic victimiza- six weeks. sanctity of .human life! Tell that tale to the out- cast hugging the shelter ilills. aidia li thisE,lliE e1212p leibattled iuers for tion of militant I'nion men. Their employers "the Tim Armstrong,; West Coast Workers' Union, was of a friendly arch in Chi- IpEi iii ei,,gi'l li'h ri,'hie'st''giegli.x Eif lth' eairth. 'I'ml' piri (',,il (c'omnpany," whose managing director also bound over to keep the peace. cago, with the temperature Ibelow zero. or sleeping Folir lllui Eld's the•'I i' n hall ben''li Uitider Ihie' is E. \W. Alison (the Otis of New Zealand) had, by After a glorious fight, the strike was declared off in Lhnondon's piarks, s•aked tc,the skin by driving Ihe .;Sii Illnthlods adolptel in Waihi, engineered and rain. Tell that tale to the mien .l 'bitriat iEii Ait. dnil co.litlilIEEiis haitI be'ttic ie ilitltlhr- just before Christmas, although the leaders part in shivering in the fina;ilncil a .c.h, unionllil,under the Arhitration bread lins,, or to the bliEle'EEllin t liE' i'E~lElpt itive,ci.ntll 'iie.' s'.ste'ii wlii.h Act, doing so has caused coniiderable comment. cSlw,.rate unemployed whose so,,, is i eiit Ih ilEoI .s Ist,.1ii at its lbest. tiim,: prcviously. The whole strike was not only remarkable as a protest meetings are ridden dlown by Imountedlpolice Thi' I 'ii, li r,'E'Ell" lihe toutl e.•,iditiEEi5 aiiiel m ait,'- Iiim, diately the Igenniston Miners' Union on the revolt against arbitration and foul conditions, but Tell that tale to the men .ho have to pack their \\'cstcoast of the Soulth Luland, held a meeting erx- also as a relwlion against castiron officeialism in hlankets all along this coast, and think themselves jt.lssimig i.iimiinim ilcky if iltEl t'r the' .\,Ia.tii Ejr wliiE.h le.v iE.oEliclliE' jieEl e'r tlie''" initerest with the miners of Hluntly both, the labor unions and the parent organization. they strike a .job under suc~h conditions as t iEE, l t.,htlE' EilillCtli.' tEE ilialriii rliaitE' the' t.ei-oiple'riltive' atl wirc.l\ t,,lhe other coal miners in New Zealand, The general idea is that it will cost the employers those exposed so retcenty at Wheatlanrds, Cal. Tell t oib,." ;skinlg 'fora ~eniral strike. tlis that tale to the thousands e'lE~i ;t .ts ",tE'llIi etEl rl' LIiEEl, " iall ini the While was happening and the State, some $7,500,000 in losses. you straight-jaHcket and in tIli SotlltlIslaml.d, thli hJipwrights in the port of The strike was marked by bad generalship, and paddle and tortiure, with all the refinements of the \\',llimlgtlmi w.ere ilprived of their traveling allowance muddle-headed incompetency by the officials, but a Iinqucisition up-to-date'. in your jails and peniten- Il, ,II lm ilint iE',,IE'.aii liki ttI, ' 'heilitalist E'lhaesi Ibythir e.miiilye.rs, the I'lion Steamship Company, a blright spot was the splendid response made by the tiarics. Tell that tale to the c'hildren whose lives grialtilitir-cillliai thE' u,,i'llI EE0E t',h, 'E ,'Ic hEtl Ietir 'ilailnr as te the' o.tleiIIus with enormous interests uinions. All the bright side of the fight was the yocu.erush, by the millions, in your fai.torics; and tc' ii',.ol Ihlt Enlt lEE. 'El il blc'it,.rui ,g aieihi t lhii eE.vtr- and powirs. 'Th'shlipwrights were in the Waterside attitude and solidarity of the rank and file who spon- the men who, take' their lives into th~tcr hands that \\',irkrs' I'niorl. ls.IH) strong, and to deal with their taneously rnse to battle, forgetting their prejudices they miay pile' yomtr skyse-rai.crs to the sky, for soci:al I mllt',.rt h,, .\ tlri ' l tie, .,t a li tit'te't'if" ll ri aill trivac.,i a st.hpwork meet ing was held. After and sections, fought to practically the last ditch. vanrpir,.s to inhabit, or that they may dig oliltthe hI.Ii'i.tiig 'rti ; Illi,.i ll. an i llill? Ilt' aiti aiwairi ltlet'f r tliet' was\over the men returnedl to their ships Thie United Federation of Labor will now, from ,ohl which gI,'s to swell fortun,.es that are the s.xcan- 1t,find ',tit 'Tlh, Iiiirt has th,.linthlE' |lwe\r tee extend this t hat many ii1f thuiir places were filled. Anothr preise'nt indications, cease to exist as such, but will dal of the ages. awi\.trnlis nIa li,,ilit*li A\E.'d..'E.dl miiaike, the aiwaird Iiiii in \\wasIihll alnd on Oc)tolber 22nd, the Waterside merge itself into the Social Democratic Party, which WM. (C.()WEN, it,"Ie'genecracioen." W,,rkirs on graililtEEI I ii ll ,,r l e'E'iftllM.lEi .. S EEvei thee wll\ le' \winit strike. The Auckland Waterside is engineered by Walter Thomas Mills, and composed W,'rki.r. stl.peid working coal. on the Tuesday follow- of labor officials ( many discredited), single taxers Fellow-worker Peter McEvoy, Notice. T'hus it al t',"Eii IE, . Iw. t•:en allile.e lriet iite ii .so,as to, hiIllthei lluntly Miners, and cargo on radicals and what not. lhi bllohing EE'e. titti all ;i air,; I lhi will ed'lneiE'E'thE' iagE's aild day. There will be the inevitable political reaction, but You are itedito a)pp,'ar for trial in Kansas City, t',jilthlE E'E llitillS El i.E.l iii IEnil. Iisihe,,f a week 1hhe ('oal Miners of IHuntley, as the elections come off next November we won't Mo., by the 15th ldayof April. 1914. to,answer

"'Ii' \\'Waihi I,,' ,,t iE,!Et.hersEiE'etlo tfiheir gi'ali- Illl lr;angzi S.mi',lha'vilhI,Stockton. Millerion, Dennis- have long to wait. charges preferrred against you by seve.ral fellow-

tllrt'E'. 5Eiii' ;t E'iEilE' Eri\,er's l EE a s•iei, iii lii to. Blaichkhall, I'aera. Irunanga, Kaitangata and The S. D. P. full of the economies of IHenry George. workers. G. .f. WOl't See't, v. N,. 61. EIii"ilEIE, El t" he' .1liilEriS I 'niiii ilio l ili lie'r thc' A. anli Night.l iis \we.ri clsel ,iowni.Thie BIrunner mine was and one,. in a while, Karl Marx, are going to tax the .st•,,i,.iebli I' .\c.i.'l'TihE ililiEl'". ilr,,ilalely re'tlise',ItEI he1,,we rel, f',rcihlv c.,mtingents of mines fromn enployers to death, when they get in. JOIN THE "SILENT CLAN." li sEat.EheIiiiTlE, E 'iE'r\ ' ati thlE'h,, 't''etxl .t'ike' stairted' l•hckhl;l adI lRunail, \wh, niarched on the place. One of them, already in the IHouse of Jaw, has . l ThI' WII M ai . 1!12. Th,, , itallistit'e.ss'. hElrtllaibll" lice ilth •est ;laterslhe Worki.rs at Wellington, New Ply- evidently got the revohltion well in hand, as he This is the way te 'be it. If yeueareo in a hstile h. iilis.riil, ,,ll oii its kilill ihi wt',rlEwo•l hE toilitEE h, cwl. miiiit Napier. Auckland and Onehunga stopped asked for a monument for his Leberal predecessor, new I'eenity. se'ndeS nllames aln aelelre-sse's ~,f SLA\VES \,,ik Iiiathis ixt i'ik.'\\;iawas tiiitti ht'wE'i t weE sits Ef ,werkerts in lie Nrth Island and those at Nelson, Pic- bHoots for policemen, and better treatment for those whho shw s•nmc'thiniking c'apacity aned]discontent; tin. ririimuth. We.st.port. Pt. Chalmers. Dunedin, 1ii t El IEt•,E E',n EiiII' iinplj yer' aiiil minili,'s. lieE - strike-breakers arl scabs. the small farmers. encmhe ONE ('ENT' in .stamls or cdiir.sf,,r each liiiarni aiilni Lyttlhton in the uoith Islamd made evE.,'l'.the' :1t1 eIliioi' ,hii e'E't'5 wE'rE buli a smiaiiill mliinilrily com- When the hbis cuts your wages or victimizes you. name sent. and we. will sl.a.h :(, of th,'.i a coyi' lilal in a sl•'ndid El" lihe E'li'i drieEli, El'.iipl,,E'tl. aindi lit• f l' thein caialism- llmanner. join the S. D. P. and chastise him with a ballot paper. of TIE VOI( E. In his way "you c'aniy low andi In Aiikiliaul wErE.'i'i' Eeii\',tte t'I iti E,,.ari'i SeE•l'iEtSCEi E'i" e~l i nhi a m-lnral strike was declared, and 26 We are going to have a repitition of the New South make the •osspay f',ragitatini. Do itnow, t,-dai. f the largesl hnilii tied Auckland up. Large meet- Wales Labor (hard labor) Government, and I fully il~gssf lit.t(•H to 20,C() titx 'ith i the tss. "rh1, strike' \\e'iit Elii for three were held in Auckland, Christ- expect our Ibeautiful S. D. P. to jail working men SUBSCRIBE TO THE VOICE.