One Union: One Label Official Western Organ Indus! Workei Industrial Workers of the World
VOL. Xn. NO. 29— (WHOLE NO. 709) JSLF&L"" SEATTLE, WASH, SATURDAY, JULY 19, 1930.
The Quacks Hold a Clinic
Reiterates His Confession THat He Was Induced To Swear Vic- Restraining Order of Court Barring "Provisional" Officers from tim's Life Away By the Authorities- The Last Refuge of the Interfering With Reorganized U. M, W. of A. Is Held To Persecution Therefore Crumbles Away. Have Been Violated. ' BALTIMORE, July 12.—"I, [John McDonald, a Red 38 years, residing SPRINGFIELD. III., July 12<—The Lewis faction will not be permit- in Baltimore City, testified as a witness for the State of California versus ted to interfere with the newly reorganized United Mine Workers on pain Thomas Mooney and Warren K. Billings. I never saw Mooney until taken of being jailed for contempt of court. The order issued in rstraint of to the Hall of Justice in San Francisco and was told by an officer that the "provisional" officers appointed by Lewis last October was held by this is Mooney (pointing him out to me.) My testimony in the various Master in Chancery Frank Trutter to have been violated by the Lewis cases was untrue and false. I desire to undo the wrong done by me in crowd. A recommendation that no fine be imposed was made. Further sending Mooney to prison regardless of personal consequences. The autho- violations of the order, however may result in a fine being imposed by rities got me to testify that I identified Mooney. but this is an absolute Judge. Briggle. falsehood." Held for investigation here today after* ~~~ ~~ ~~ ~ lsh wh, h being identified by a neighbor. John; Me- )\" ' ? " explains their relations a: AUTO-TRAMPS IN Donnkj, mueh-wanied former witnesR iif the folIows: Mooncj- and Billings cases made the above I am the same John MaeDonald wh< GLOVER WITH GAS SEHS&aS A• T A6 AT GTSA • , AlAl GALsition .of the operators in other districts Mooney's and Bi ere present at the time, Charles] Kansas field over 500 men have been fired feared to permit t. District Attorney, and Cap- j Gas War Rages Along the Coast and for refusing to submit to the Lewi* check- Supreme Court., in Matheson and LieOt. Charles i Tin Lizzie Tourists Can Now Cir- ThIllinois Lewis will have hard which he claim? to have been promised by "Are you sure you don't know' I Room rent in a bedbug hatchery | 4.00 sledding in getting his 812,000 a year sala- them xtr crMn of them, but which promise ney?" And 1 said, "Yes, I am Grubstake, per week 8.00 ry out of the impoverished miner*. It is he claims had been violated. This seems to to be hoped that a rank and file union constitute the main gravamen of McDon-- Total $12.00 way ultimately be built op that will learn old's affidavit and, so far as its face dis- Isolated Strike Is Opposed Bv United Employers and Absence of . On the Auto-hum the lessons of real industrial solidarity. If closes, his chief motive in having made it Organization Is Opposed By Imported Scabs and Gunmen. Week they .abandon one machine merely to build at the time he did." Gas at 6 cents—60 miles a day at tip ' another, no progress will have been Wage Cuts Are General in the Harbor District. 20 miles per gallon—7 days $ 1.26 made. What the miners need is the I. W. This was a patent exhibition of prejudice Grub—Pick it up o.OO W. Ultimate experience will probably bring when it is recalled that th«5 record shows the fact home to them. that ^McDonald told three conflicting stor- identify the men. Then Fickert sa By XI04103 was Tom Mooney, all right, that • Total , — I 1.26 When I get through with the son of i If you haven't a tin-lizzie, get one at there will be ndthing left of him." the dump. They are so cheap second-hand that the Five and Ten Stores would carry Fickert said to me, "New, the Lieu them if it were not for their bulk. will take you up an.i show you Mo Hit the trail. Carry the great American When we got to the City Prison, home to the highway. walked right up to the door of Mc The gas war raged its fiercest in Fresno, record that they 'tried. Much was made of cell. There was only one man in th the letter of Billings requesting the Court where the bottom price of 6 cents was 1 had no recollection of ever havini reached, the cheapest on the coast. This to confine itself to the record. McDonald's the man before, and of course cou insistence upon his original confession of price was only 3 cents a gallon above the procured perjury' under promise of large state tax, and it was reported some deal- ers threatened to "give it away for the Stock Market Shows Falling Off In rewards, by the police, ought to settle the Total Value of Shares Listed As matter. It also should shatter the last pre- 3-cent tax" unless the war ended. Stock Up Tanks Weil As Decline In Market" Value San Francisco prices ranged from 10 to Of Stocks.
were selling fuel as low as 7 cents. Ac- NEW YORK, July 10.—The market value lion was taken by TheoWore Trivett, cap- of all shares listed on the exchange July tain of the bureau of fire prevention and 1, totaled $63,892^27,059, a decrease of public safety, to halt the reported storage $11,126,528,224 from a total of $75,018,- of cheap fuel in illegal containers. Many 855,283 on June 2. i'hat the court says mere On July 1 there were 1319 stock issues e have been saying all a motorists, it was believed, took advantage of the low prices to "stock up" on bargain aggregating 1.231,273,258 shares listed on len stand convicted on g< the exchange, compared with 1324 issues s Labor agitators, not for i Seattle sold Gasoline at 9 cents, the low- aggregating 1,220,674,416 shares June 2. cat in the Pacific Northwest. Portland was The average market value of all listed next at 10 cents, while Salem, the Oregon shares was $51.89, compared with $61.40 the state capital, dropped from 18 to 15 cents. previous month. The Dalles probably was the highest, ask- Many Millions of Feet Imported and ing 16 cents, altho all these points sold gas Treasury Department Invokes Rul- TOWN CLOWNS "DO THEIR ing Against Products of ConVict for 21 cents up to last week. Los Angeles sold gasoline for 10 centSt Labor. and at some stations for even less, altho DOOTY" companies maintained prices averaging 124 cents. SUTTON. Neb., July 10.- Later:—It's all off. The companies lan?" interrogated the to >n, as he approached me o have raised the price to 20 "2c a gal- lon. Throw the heap back on the er. "Well, ye can get r dump and join the hungfy horde on Claims He Did Not "Coach" John Mc- the skidroad. For some ^time during the afternoon I Donald, But His Own Record Is had been distributing I. W. W. literature Against His Veracity. en the streets and talking organization to the harvest slaves that John 'Farmer had SAN FRANCISCO, July 14.—Charlea been trying to hire at 30c per hour. Aa Fickert, discredited prosecuting attorney I was leaving town anyway that evening at the time of the Mooney trial denies I informed hin: that I would leave when McDonald's story and attempts to clear the freight arrived and not a damn bit himself of the charge of procuring the al- I before,'which seemed to satisfy his rtiaejsty, leged perjury. In a statement made today, 'he town lawr. When I left that evening the former district attorney who left of- 1 I" left behind me not only a goodly supply fice under a cloud of the Department of — I of card men but a lot of good sentiment Justice, which alleged discovery* by dicta' Prisonts Disbursing Officer Is Accus-Jthat the local cossacks were quite unaware phone of other attempts .to frame cases ed of Stealing $5,668 From Monies of. on Fickert's part, said: Taken From Men Committed to The home guards of these little Hoosier- "I never saw McDonald until after he the Prison. fied Nebraska towns are badly in debt. had volunteered his testimony to the po- —— They are dying of slow starvation. Her, Fickert said. "He identified Mooney SEATTLE. July 12.—"Chub" ^ Dobell, There is a native fink by the name of even though the picture shown him was chief disbursing officer at the federal peni- Fleming, a scab painter by trade, who that of a man with a mustache.. And on tentiary of McNeil's Island is charged by points out the fellow workers to the farm- succeeding days he never varied from his U. S. District Attorney John T. McCutche- ers and town clowns. Look out for him story. on with having embezzled $5,668 from the when in Suttor. and vicinity. "Of course, I did not tell him I was 'out funds taken from prisoners committed to —Guy B. Askew. to get' anyone. His testimony was offer- •he prison -^nd deposited in his charge. R& ed to us, and just because he has been is said to have made a complete confession. Mooney must remain' in jail, 'coached'; now does not detract from its Warden Archer dismissed him from duty So the laws decide. Wednesday and he is now in the Pierce All innocent men County Jail. He has been bound over to the Are in the pen, federal grand jury. While rogues .are all outside. . . — : JULY 19,1980. The Industrial Worker "An Injury to OM M on Injury to AIT A Free Scholarship ONE UNION—OWE LABEL—ONE ENEMY v3" AT EVOLUTION WORK PEOPLES COLLEGE, DULUTH, MINN. •KKICIAL INDUSTRIAL Including Board, Lodging and Tuition For the Term Beginning Dec. 1st, •v KSTERN WORKERS W THE 1930 and Ending March 30. 1931. ORGAN WORLD Fools! Why worship men. when I am God; Will Be Given To The Member Sending In The Largest Number I, I alone, who raised you from the sod. of Subscriptions to When you were weak, I gave you strength to walk: When you were dnmb I taught you how to talk: THE INDUSTRIAL WORKER But fools you are and blind, who cannot see. Between Now and November 1st, 1930. .SUBSCRIPTION RATES For those that see give praise to none but me. $2.00 Canada and other Thru the gift of a member of the I. W. W. who is interested in increasing L_ 1.00 SI* month* the circulation of the paper, The Industrial Worker is enabled to make this Thrt* M rhree month* I chiseled out the little images- 'offer. The scholarship has been paid for and is within the reach of any mta Foreitn Bundle « Of wood and bronze and stone active worker who wants to do a little hustling for subs. And for your homage, placed them on a throne. Ptibbahrd-Ooet a Wawk at IVii Western Aw, Seattle, Wash I taught you how to worship them profound; THE CONDITIONS ARE SIMPLE Then, changing mood, I crashed them to the ground. C. b. ELLIS, Editor and Business Manager Get a sub book by writing the Industrial Worker, Box 1857, Seattle, Wash. Send in vour mime for registration as one of the contestants, giving your itress: Box 1857, Seattle, Wash. I made your preachers and spouting politicians; card number and address^ If you are unknown better get the endorse- Voi«y Qrd-ri payable to InauMtrtaJ I taught your teachers and trained all your technicians; ment of a job delegate or branch secretary for reference.. I made your warriors and your statesmen great And it is I who formulate their fate; Every sub sent in will be credited to your account. Credits will be counted I make your kaisers, emperors and kings on the basis of one yearly subscription at $2. Subscriptions for six * THE SIX HOUR DAY And cast them o^t with other useless things; months and three months will count as one-half'and one-fourth of one full sub. Renewals will count the same as new subs when ob- tained by contestants. There are no unemployment statistics and there probably never will The story of man's struggle for his bread. be any accurate ones gathered. It is not to the interest of the employing If you win the contest, the paid' scholarship will be sent you immediately classed to broadcast such information. T9 attempt to get the data in I rule alone in every age and hour— after November 1st and the winner's name published in the Industrial the face of the opposition of powerful interests is as foolish as to try to I am the essence of all earthly power— Worker. enfoice prohibition by law—it can't be done. The census reports show If you don't win the scholarship you will be paid a 40 per cent commission a total of.about 43,000,000 people "gainfully employed." That does not on all subs sent in. So you can't lose. mean wage workers. It includes millionaires, lawyers, politicians, huckst- ers. salesmen, advertising salesmen, fakers, Aimec Semple and the Salva- tion Army. A roUgh guess would be that around 30,000,000 people in REGISTER NOW AND WIN. the United States are actual wage workers engaged in useful production. USE THIS FORM: Of these it has been variously estimated that from 5,000,000 to 6,000,000 Industrial Worker, Box 1857, Seattle* Wash.:— . are unemployed. This would mean that one out of every five is out of work. Those working probably average nine hours a day. If we deduct Please register my name as a contestant in the subscription contest the unemployed six millions from the total number of wage workers, thir- for the free scholarship at Work Peoples College. ty millions, it leaves twenty-four millions at work. At nine hours a day this would make , a total of 216,000,000 hours of labor now being per- My name is 1 . formed. If the day was shortened to seven hours it would provide work for the entire thirty million. If it were shortened to six hours it would take 36,000,000 workers, tc supply the 216,000,000 hours of labor power, thus creating a demand for 6,000,000 extra workers more than th6 supply. P. O. Address Wages would automatically rise as the>v did during the war; purchasing power would increase and we would be embarked under capitalism upon Reference a new era of expansion and inflation. The rattle-brain of the bourgeoisie is well •evealcd on the editorial page of the San • No doubt, the six-hour day would temporarily solve the problem of Francisco Chronicle, which attempts to installed upon the place—in other words unemployment—if it could be put into effect. We say temporarily for When you know that all crime and in- disparage the intellectual ability of the ( farm will be made a unit and will in- the reason that it would be promptly followed by en increase in capitaliza- istice begins at the point of production, Anarchists, and then publishes the saying COMMON CONSIDERATION de everything from filling station to «te- tion. The object of capital issues is to absorb the earning power of labor here the workers arc exploited and robbed of Clarence Darrow, the philosophic anarch- partmcnt store. Somebody's gonna beg and and convert it .into profits and dividends. It is to divert the product of . the extent of eighty or ninety > a barber $hop there strayed tarve. labor from the workers to the investor. If the existing capital issues will ' what th
i JULY 19, 1980. DRIVE OF 110 PICKS UP IN Service For Nothing MORE ARRESTS, MORE BOOZE EXETER WASHINGTON, July 10.—Prohibition enforcement during the last fiscal year of EXETER, Neb., July 7^-Tbe 1930 drive Savings Bank Will Co-operate With Your Boss To Help You its operation under the Treasury resulted for membership of Agricultural Workers Save' Money By Checking It Off At the Pay Roll and in the arrest of 68,186 persons and seizure Industrial Union 110 of the I. W.^ W. is Determining How Big a Cut You Can Stand. of 24,373 stills. rapidly heading thru th« state of Nebraska. The arrests showed an increase of ap- Wonderful enthusiasm is manifesting itself, proximately 2000 over the 1929 fiscal year Bishops of the Church Scrap For both amont the membership and the un- By PEG PEARLDIVER and of approximately 7000 in the number Concerted Drive Proves That Wicks Property and Accuse Each Other organized, in favor of the I. W. W. of stills seized. The* figures included the Can Be Taught the Benefit of In- Of Soviet and White Guard Czarist Thru the activities of our membership number of arrests and seizures ior 11 dustrial Union Organization. Affiliation. some districts in Nebraska are paying from WASHINGTON MUTUAL SAVINGS BANK months of the year and estimated ilrrcsts 50c to 11.60 a day more than the others.) and soizures-for June. SUTTON, Neb., July 9.—^ho says , a So head this way, you-unemployed ,fellow Mr. Blank, May„ ; 1930 red card doesn't pay? The worker who SEATTLE, July 12.—Suit has been workers, and let us crown this drive with Seattle, Wash. says that is a slave-ape right. The mem- brought against the Bishop of the Russian the golden laurels of success. Dear Mr. Blank:— bers of agricultural workers Industrial Greek Orthodox Church, Vladimir V. Alex- androf for control of church property va- The " Company is co-operating with us in installing Union 110 of the I. W. W. 'have raised lued at 110,000. The complainants allege a new service for you, namely, the Pay Day Satfngs System. wage • from ?2.60 to- <4.00 per day I for shockcrs. that the present Russian Church in Ameri- The plan is simply this: Your paymaster will, upon your request, In spite of tig hosts of v.-.cks the mem- ca .is under Soviet control. The present set aside from your earnings each pay day whatever amount you wish bers < f organized labor in Nebraski are bishop responds with charges that his ap- to save: $1, $2, $5, or whatever sum you say. The paymaster will setting woncVjful result A lor the har.ist pointment is, legal and that the suit is give you a receipt each pay day, and deposit the amount in your name "Twenty-Five Years of Industrial brought by Czarist refugee bishops who, work'IK. A food drive is coming UJ, so in this bank, and your account will earnMnterest like any other account, Unionism" Is a Synthesis of L W. lirnd '.his w.-j, fellow workers, and heln afe, according to Alexandrof "4 group of payable semi-annually on January 1 and July 1 of each year. W. Theory, Practice and History rclf-appointed ecclesirstics desirvus of get- make the, r'me a huge suexss. Many new Prefers To Remain Dictator and Ru-n Written By Men Who Took Part ting control of church property to obtain The bank will fjgure interest FROM DAY OF DEPOSIT, so that ,In Its Making. . funds to perpetrate their purpose, the re^ the Russian Central Committee your savings will start to earn for you at once. You may make with- the drive moves northward it is rapidly Moratian of the Russian monarchy." Rather Than Accept the Merely drawals from your account whenever you wish. growing in strength and volume. The As proof of the validity of ifis appoint- Formal Title Which Is Mere Puppet . sentiment among the unorganized is the The bank makes no charge for its service, and the company makes "Twenty-Five Years of Industrial Union- ment by Metropolitan, John S. Kedrovsky, ism" is more than a mere memorial. Itt best in years, for surely economic oppres- nothing out of your savings. The paymaster does some free work for in 1924, Alexandrof produced a-copy of a MOSCOW, July 10.—Reports , >ion and persecution is again driving up you each pay day. The whole pay day savings project is simply a is at once an historical document and an New York supreme ^ourt decision handed that Joseph Stalin, general seeretar; educational work of'great significance. The5 the glorious tide of organization. plan in which employer, employee and bank cooperate, and the employee down several years ago, in which Kedrov- Central Committee of the Commun planning, of the work was excellent and the; All branches of the I. W. W. should buy wins, by getting ahead in the world through saving money. You are sky was hfeld to be the duly appointed re- ty, may succeed Alexis I. Rykoff various writers who contributed their workt the 110 drive stamps till it hurts, because also saved the uncertainty, trouble and expense of making personal mier are given little credence in were selected with sound judgment by tho&k^tli c harvest fields of 1930 arc the most sion Synod of Moscow. sible political quarters here. trips to the bank. who planned the pamphlet. Each has spe-. ^fertile in which to spread propaganda that Alexandrof declared there In the first place, it is held tha The Washington Mutual Savings Bank, as you probably know, is cialized on some phase of the movement in, we have had for years. For lo and be- tion between the Soviet go is far too shrewd to accept the ch the oldest and largest strictly savings institution in the Pacific North- which his personal training and experiences hold, economic conditions have forced thou- the present R\u^sian»Church, ship of the Soviet Cabinet,*which west. I am enclosing a little folder giving some facts about the bank in the movement has qualified him. The» sandr of centralized worker*, from all in- IIpin* E. Henry, attorney for and the plan. historical and theoretical sketches written, Castries to seek the harvest fields for life by charter members of the organization, and bread—Workers who never came here "There arc in this country about eight Mr. E. C. Walters, Manager of our Pay Day Savings Department, cuch as James P. Thompson, C. E. Payne,f before. The crops this sason are much bet-> jefugee bishops who fled from the new re- n of Premier of Soviet Rus- will call upon you at your work in a few days and explain any detail. i ter thtn they have been in many years 1 Joseph Wagner and others whose life has gime in Russia, came here and usurped the r»tirely from similar posts in He is authorized to represent the bank. , been spent in the furtherance of industrial] past. So sharpen your claws, and head ies, in that the Premier is rights of the bishoprics," Alexandrof de- Yours very truly, unionism arc especially good. this way. "Rally! Rally forward with the clared. "Never having been canonized by *1 by, ,a higher authority to The crucial struggles of the organizations the Russian sobor, of church council, they let. He is merely appointed W. S. Darrow, Vice President'. ere dealt with by men who participated in hold office illegally, and are actually not il Executive. Committee of the person in them while the history was being ire. Ten different writers, bishops at all. It is thjy who wish to get mrde. They speak from first hand knowl- i, C. B. Ellis, Ed. Delaney, control of the church's property in- Amer- edge. ohn Gahan, Ralph Chaplin, ica foWheir Sown purposes " The initial article by James P. Thomp- i,. Covington Hall, F. W. Sw»«sSsSir ON THE FARsonM on "Revolutionary Class Unionism," ih an epitome of that clear exposition of out th-? city. Our friend was so' over- the principles of industrial unionism which BAXTER'S BUCKSHOTS whelmed by th< magnanimous attitude as- Rural Baron Bursts Into Bucolic has made the writer famous. Delaney's is thought i sumed by the bank and by the paymaster. Ballad For the Passing of a .^tory of the Colorado Strike is accurate (Continued from Page-2) further wor that hp brought us the letter. We cannot Friend. with the accuracy born of ^contact. The other stories constitute a working thesis take the pi a By Baron Von Reuben. ber of the The "Suicide Wagon" has been unusually HOLDREGE, busy today (Jufy 12) having made seven n end in Minneapo- trips and the day is still young. go and the blow to r since I heard the "Suicide Wagon' been right—things pulmotor and it
poetry. sible any attempt of despondent slaves end their "earthly blirs by the gas route. Seven men committed suicide in the last ee days. (P. I. and Slimes.) said, the only thing that counts •truggle between capital and labor :il the workers acquire that pov nust expect to have such victims a; THINGS SEEN AND HEARD ON ind Billings. Mooney and Billir 'imply the sad expression of the THE SKIDROAD weakness on the industrial field.
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here before he came, having come througl «a long process of evolutionary development i-nd therefore "Our country, our people, arx NEW SEATTLE SECRETARY cur civil and religious institutions are nb what we have made them." Man i*i now, and always has been, -^h< Charles Harmon has Succeeded Harry J. to be kidded into it by "clay in.the potter's hands." Clark as .secretary of the'A Seattle Joint nf the company he work | One employment shark oin Prosperity Branches upon the expiration of Clark's But possibly Mr. Coolidge will clear thi I Itow (Occidental between WWashingtoa n and term of office. All communications for the up in a future article, when he will incon Main) has.gone out of busiiinessi . Forced ."istently tell us that God determines al Seattl£ Joint Branches should be addressed to clos» his doors as a resunil t of fee *ar The following placcs sell the L W. W. things. to (he new pecretary, Charles Harmon, I Box 365, Seattle,' Wash. that raged last week when Ic oapers and literature: were much in demand. The Bakersfield, Calif., 2026 Chester Ave. Louse is groggyt. We expect Baltimore, Md.-^-1113 East Baltimore Street Many Volumes in One Bellingham, Wash., A. Alexandre. C A Holly SU. A New Pamphlet That Covers in Eighty Pages the Synopsis of Calgary, Alta., 630 4th Ave. W. a Quarter Century of Industrial Unionism. Calgary, Alta.. 109 8th Ave. Duluth, Minn.—24 Lake Ave. North. | ability to exist, since he was able to save Everett, Wash., 2929 Colby Are. "TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF INDUSTRIAL UNIONISM" 'on his previous wage. We're not saying Fresno, Calif., 1807 Kern St Great Falls. Mont, 408 First Ave. So. Many phases of the I. W. W. in history, theory and practice are covered • hey plan all this in advance. We are say-, have named it Prosperity Row. Why in this* brief work written by history-makers, educators and Los Angeles, Room 438 Bryson Bldg., ing it has worked out this way before, and There is all evidence of prosperity founders of the movement. it will a stain. But whatever way this neat 145 So. Spring St . Five loan offices where all one Missoula, Mont, Chri* Lembke New* little savings plan works out, you can bet > do is to pledge "something of value" your next week's pay check on one thing Stand, North Higgins Ave. LIST OF CONTENTS : a loan of money, four employment New York City, (East Side) Newstand —that the bink and your company, who are t—'"job at normal fees." Five physic La Belle Sansculotte (Poem) Covington Hall so gallantly co-operating for your benefit, an Bowery and E. Houston St Revolutionary Class Unionism ... James P. Thompson y,—"nothing over a nickle for hungry Port Arthur, Ont, 814 Bay St stand to lose nothing and gain everything And it almost makes us swea Free Speech Fights of the I. VV. W Roger Baldwin some four soul-saving missions, New York—84th St and 3rd Ave., up- The worker has yet to see the day when he It's the fact of the tremende How the I. VV. W. Defends Labor Ralph Chaplin town, east corner. 84th St and 3rd Ave., Rets something JOT nothing, honeyed let- time; Build For Power C. E. Payne ters like this notwithstanding. downtown, east corner. 86th St and 2nd The Industrial Union in Agriculture Tom Connors For the combine that we use , \Frtm Christian Science Monitor Ave., uptown, last corner. Cannot tum-out bottled booze The Way of the Wobbly F. W. Thompson "A bread line for cats has been found Saco, Mont, Saeo Drug Co. It's enough to drive an hone The Colorado Conquest Ed. Delaney Gravs Harbor Delegates a necessity, as indicated by its establish- San Francisco, 65-- 6th St and 104 - 3rd Education —•_* ^ • Clifford B. Ellis ment on Centre Market Place, New York Street. Those who want to see an I. W. W. dele- International Relations of the I. W. W. 1 Joseph Wagner City, where alley cuts are fed milk and Tacoma, Wash., 1817 Pacific Ave. gate in Aberdeen, Hoquiam or Cosmopolis. beef. This should arouse some cat owners At the Crossroads , r„_. John A. Gahan Toronto, Ont, D. Goodman, Queen and Washington, should Inquire of the news to the realization that family cats can no VANCOUVER, B. C. SECRETARY Chestnut St M For a brief and authoritative survey of what the I. W. W. is and what agent Delegate* are here and at work, more be expected to pick up their susten- V-jKwuver. B. C., Intl Bookstore, Hast it teaches and practices in action, this pamphlet is the best that has hut cannot be everywhere at once, so if ance on the streets than can family child- ings and Columbia St vou want to line up or stamp up, make appeared. All mail intended for the Vancouver, B. Vancouver, B. C.—208 Oarrool Street, inquiries.—BERT BANKER. C. Branch of the I. W. W. should in future The pamphlet sells for twenty cents. In bundles of ten or more the John Green. be addressed to the incoming secretary, Alex N ice is twelve cents per copy. It may be bought from Branches or will Sully has a new pamphlet on sale, ft Wenatehee, Wash., Midget News Stand, JOIN THE I.W.W. AN# HELP ABOLISH Nelson, 60 Cordova St W., Vancouver, C mailed direct from L W. W. Headquarters. 555 W. Lake St., Chicago. is taking good. "Twenty-five Years Of Orondo and Washington St THE BI ACKLIST! B. C. ~ Industrial Unionism." It is a splendid Yakima, Wash., 228 N* First St JULY 19, 1930. An Analysis of Graft The History, Practice and Psychology of the Most Characteristic -v Institution of Capitalism IB Treated From a Proletarian Point of View. By HUBERT LANGEROCK YELLOW PINE DISTRICT employer! of labor arc non-union, regard- lux of what the A. F. of L. calls them. This monograph on "Graft" will run in a series j>f instalments, in the They buy us in the mjfrket the same as Industrial Worker. The author is one of the ablest Marxists living today. YELLOW PINE, Ida^-MUton & Rich- any other commodity, be it labor, mud, sil- But aside from his proletarian views Langerock is also an economic ardson's road camp is * of a mile from ver, or anything else. Organize in the one scholar and analyst of remarkable ability. It is long since a proletarian Yellow Pine, Ida. They employ 17 men. big union, the t. W. W., and change these work of current interest and power has appeared. The irruption of the You carry your own balloon. No men are damned rotten conditions. The only way Russian upheaval has so obsessed tWe minds of our ablest writers that the being put on. This Job will be over In the out for us is—industrial unionism. mere passing events in the vast panorama fit activity have diverted them next ten or twenty days as the appropria- X821258. , and biased their judgment for the moment. In this series, the stream tion of 118,000 will be used up/ of proletarian thought again runs clear and strong with the strength of WATERVILLE, Wash Just a line to\ realism and clear vision. We trust our readers will keep the files con- MINING let the fellow workers know how the wage taining this monograph, at least until it is published in book form. It slave is prospering in the Big Bend coun- is well worth the study of the proletarian student and the Industrial RED METAL MINE.—This mine 8 miles try. Have been in and around Wenatchee. Worker is fortunate, indeed, in being able to present it to its readers. from Yellow Pine, Idaho, Is working 10 A fair crop of fruit and wheat ia expected men. They laid off 65 men June 20. No but tho blight of capitalism is to be seen everywhere. GRAFT IN THE PUBLIC SERVICE rtuffi for the inmates of a penitentiary men are being hired* Here there will be but fa few slaves hired - about Every public servant to whom devolves alance has generally been lost en NEW MEADOWS.—Sixteen mil?s from in and around Wat«rville, and the apple . yielding a little graft to every of- Yellow Pine. They employ 40 men. As thinning is. over for this season, so there'' of the performance of'the^ duties of his of- ficial through whose hands it passes. soon as the diamond drills are thru, the will be nothing doing until the first of fice, uses the latitude granted him as the layout will move down to Sebinate, 24 September.—A. B. starting point of a system of graft for pri- That form of graft is responsible for the miles'below. The chuck is wholesome and vate gain and generally at the evident de- c-onditinn of semi-starvation of the prison- clean. Carry your own home. No men PORTLAND, Ore.—They are hiring triment of the Ijody social. nre being put on. Rubber tramps from slaves to hoe cucumbers at the Star Em- Dutbrcr.ks and mutinies which have occurred rloyment office for George Spada, about 6 Graft is always worked in connection •.he four points of the compass migrate in miles east of Portland. The fee is $1.00, with the particular function or trust with hpre. Stay away a* it .will mean a trip fare 15c, street car fare 10c; then take which the grafter happens to be invested. for nothing. bus, fare 5c, then walk one mile from bus The Wn^in \»ho is appointed to pass on SEBINATE or MONDAY MINE.—They to the job. You wortf 10 hours, for 25c the validity of surety bonds will give undue The ieKjgjj per hour—$2.50 for 10 hours slaving in preference to a bonding company which Iora hy dig rre working about 60 men. The chuck is rC fair but have your 75c handy or you don't the hot sun. There are 12 to 15 slaves on cat. They are putting on no men whatso- the job.' You take your lunch with you. ever. Stay away. Lots of slaves rustling. George Spada, the boss, has a big swell car to ride around in, while his slaves are work- FAR WEST.—This mine closed dow ing for 25c' an hour for 10 hours and throwing 125 men out on the slave mark* walking a mile from the bus to their work sng industr The Far West is 31 miles from Yello cach morning and back at night. Pine in the Thunder Mountain countr Workers, join the I. W. W. and live as They employed 82 men. you should live. Be real men; stand up Tor your rights. Don't lie down and say CINNIBAR.—This mine, 24 miles fr you can't do anything. Yellow Pine,, closed down completely Ji —H. H. E. 25. Twenty-nine men were employed. ELLENSBURG, Wash.—There are seve- GREY EAGLE.—Thirty-seven miles ral gyppo camps out o} here on the ditch, from Yellow Pine, this mine is working a and the haying has just started, but does small crew of men, 20 all tohi. Carry your rot amount to much, with 12.50 to $3.00 own home. Sleeping conditions are rot- wages. They are working on a bank build- ten, but the chuck is Rood and wholesome. ing here, and a new stage terminal is be- No men are being put on. Wages are bet- ing built l>y the General Construction Com- ter here than any place I have visited. pany, but one has to ship out of Seattle Muckers get $5.50, miners $6.25, mill men
the. violation of the dry laws and that im-j BEN FRANKLIN GROUP.—One n LIBBJT, Mont.—The J. Neils Lumber Co. munity is practically mado possible by the | from the Grey Eagle. Six men are < have a car camp 15 miles north of Libby. collusion between the appointing legislator' ployed. Carry your own bed. The ch Pay is~45c low for 8 hours on the stump. and the agent for whose appointment he. is pdor. Putting on no men, is the rur The slaves are walking as far as 4 mil^T that is prevalent. They may close do to and back from wortc on their'owit time. I Chuck is fair at $1.21. There are mostly The- side-grafts incidental to legislative! any time. The mine is 38 miles from ^ (home guards and would-be stiffs on this job.-£-DEL. 26-LO. . names rs: the hold-up legislature, the Grey! THUNDER MOUNTAIN MINES.— Wolves, the Black Horse Cavalry, etc. | hey are all closed down. Save yourself Other forms of legislative craft are the| weary trip and stay away from the hunder Mountain country. inore at providing their members with SALT LAKE, July 5.—There is no work available at Las Vegas, Nev., or at the Hierths for which they are very seldom DEADWOOD MINES. qualified than at the promotion pf an avow- Boulder dam site, and will not be for many J«ble scheme of public benefit. Also in con- This statement was sent out by the Las nection with legislative graft, we may men- Vegas board of trade following a meeting tion the extended junkets for Senators, of the directors. Congressmen and their families indulged in It was pointed out that passage of the imder the pretext of gaining first hand in- Boulder appropriation bill would cause a formation on certain matters before legis- of asphalt arabs nre rustling. Mr. Gywen great number; of people throughout the coun- lative committees. Usually the junketeers is the high goeyak of the bed chamber, try to believe there would be work avail- are supremely ignorant of the technical khich lead the i Polic. and a more miserable being could not be able immediately at both Las Vegas and •fiestions which they are supposed to in- found in a year's travel. vestigate and if they honestly desired such the dam site. Applications for employment, however, information, the reports of the departmen- DEADWOOD DAM.—This can be filed with the board of trade and tal technicians would probably provide ment project, 17 miles frorr the applicants will be notified as soon as tiym with more information than they Mines. Morrison and Knute the work begins. contractors. They keep one <
EXECUTIVE GRAFT The same may be said, about judges who You work four days before you cell their decisions like fish or butter art thing coming, what with road A well known politician was questioned sold in the open market. A New York and hospital fee. There are as to the probable outcome of the Republi- judge admittedly borrowed money from a «toing.—X712990. can Convention which nominated Harding professional gambler. In Chicago, judges for the presidency. His reply was symp- may be seen marching in the funeral pro- CASCADE, Ida.—Earl Young has a I WASHINGTON, July 10 —Indicated corn 'omatic. I cannot tell you who is going to cession of dead racketeers when the latter imp 84 miles from Cascade. A few m production this year was placed today at be the next President, he said, but I can are laid to rest with almost Oriental pomp re employed there, mostly all rubber tou 2302,442,000 bushels, against 2,622,000,000 tell you the name of the next Secretary of end splendor. Sometimes a personally clean ts. The chuck is nothing t$ write hor last year and the combined winter and Interior. N judge is'dominated by a political machine bout. Lots of slaves are rustling. 1 spring wheat crop at 807,265,000 bushels The remark illustrates the importance which trades in judicial decisions. Most icn are being employed. against 807,000,000 last year by the De- attached by certain interests to the elec- political machines collect' money on that X712990. partment of Agriculture. tion of the proper executive officials. Re- ciprocally the capitalistically inclined exe- SALT LAKE CITYJuly 1.—Yesterday OPEN FORUM cutives anp aware of the potentiality of was at the million dollar schoolhouse that some of their acts and decisions, of their under construction at 17th and Sou Every Sunday at 2:00 P. M. direct bearing upon industrial and com- !reet. There were so many men looking 84 Embarcadero mercial pursuits and of their price accord- ir work that they were in the way of ingly. In making their decisions, their rose working. The contractors had to call San Francisco point of view is not social. They are a re police. :>awn in the game of the man who pays Laborers' wages arc $3.50. The plumb- Open Air Meetings Wednesday and them and demand a corresponding price rs are not getting paid on the union scale 'Saturday Eves., Third & Minna for their favors. orking for a non-union contractor. This Auspit^es Industrial Workers of the Under the rules prescribed by most i a part union and open shop job—the sual A. F. of L. tactics. Workers, all World, » of the executive authority is the administra- tion of the various state institutions. There are instances where no salary is at- L W. W. PREAMBLE tached to these functions. It was origi- The working clatt and the employing clan have nothing in common. Thert e*i» nally intended that they should be filled >e no jxaee to long at hunger and »oant are found among million* of working by competent citizens, the best available ind the few who make up the employing clatt have all the good thingt of lift. as a matter of civic duty. We have almost Between thrte two flauntt a struggle mutt go on until thejworkert »f th< •rbnn organize as a elan*, take pottetsion of the earth and the machinery of irroduction. inn completely drifted away from that early atolih the nag* system. American ideal. Most of the institutions We find that the centering of the management of industries into t***r and of the state, charities and corrections are handt maket the trade uniont unable to cope with the ever growing powrr of th- now administered by professional politici- ploying class. The trade uniont fotter1 a ttate of affairt which allowt one tet of v»'fc ans not as a matter, of civic duty but for