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______The First Convention of the I.W.W. in Chicago, Arvo Vaara, Communist June, 1905; Haywood’s Speech Editor, Class War Prisoner to the Convention In previous chapters Haywood told of his early life in the Old By WILLIAM MOKI.VRITY. his pocket; which brought thi [from West as miner, cowboy and homesteader; of his activity in the West- The Yea! Yea! Yea! of the court , , threat from the bench of a commit ern Federation of Miners; his election to head of the union; its strug- crier on February 19, brought at- ment. The Crown rested its case upon Chicago January, tention in the crowded court room the evidence as submitted. Roe gles in Idaho and Colorado; of the conference at in n buck, to of Sudbury. And then, as though tl seeking have Crown At- 1905 that called the first convention of the I.W.W. Now go on reading. torney McKessock address the jurj seeking to bring home to the inter- * * * ested workers that though ancient first, was ordered to proceed. The t Crown By WILLIAM D. HAYWOOD. and worn-out forms prevailed, cap- would have the last say-so. The jury italism demands strict obedience, retired and Roebuck PART 56. Justice Wright warned all present claimed that the judge had been in that silence must prevail under pen- error in stating in his instructions twelfth convention of the W.F.M., in 1905, was in Salt Lake alty of imprisonment. One worker f that Vaara was responsible. Judge THECity. In spite of the many strikes and the tremendous expense in- was subsequently seen whispering , Wright insisted that this had been volved, it was the finest convention that we ever had held. There had to his companion and was promtly ’ proven in the evidence and it was been an increase of three thousand members during the previous year. ordered to be put outside by the , [ not at all necessary to recall the There were delegates from the new camps in Nevada jury. judge. The law is not to be trifled j —Tonopah, Goldfield, Rhyolite and Albert with! The twelve good men and true re- Ryan was a delegate from Arizona; the W. F. M. . quired three hours, less five W Arvo Vaara, senior editor of min- elected him to the first I. W. W. convention. Later utes, to bring in their verdict of scrape and killed two Vapaus, was charged with seditious he got mixed up in a shooting Li qjiml guilty. This finding was a blow to strikebreakers, and was sent- libel. He was found guilty after a gunmen who had been JjPV the hopes of the workers San Quentin, Cali- trial which lasted all day. Sentence 1 interested enced to life imprisonment in f jin the case. Itwas confidently ex- before he was myA JKJJ was imposed of six months’ impri- fornia, where he served fifteen years pected that after being out so long, sonment, with a fine of one thous- pardoned! The other delegates to the June convention VESj ' a disagreement at least would have adopted Manifesto and JmH and dollars additional, non-payment myself. The W. F. M. had the ' resulted. The judge discharged the Manifesto and of which would mean further im- myself. The W. F. M. had adopetd the jury and addressed himself to Com- Federation in the new prisonment for two years, commenc- instructed us to install the ’ jrade Vaara. “Your crime is of a ing with the expiration of the six organization. * * * most unusual character.” He was months’ prison term. The jury was [; exceedingly glad that it was so. AFTER we returned to Denver from Salt Lake, it was only a matter out for nearly three hours before “ ', Vaara had to this country to for the first convention they brought down a decision. come of a few days until we went to Chicago become a citizen, not to write like There were none of the high spots of what was to be the Industrial Workers of the World. Brand’s Hall this to stir things up. It was a Purpose of Restrictive Immigration in the trial which were a feature was packed with spectators an dover two hundred : ; peculiarly heartless piece of writing. on June 27, 1905. of the preliminary hearing. No de- By KARL REEVE ; “You do not deserve the slightest b market, when a new world war is delegates. Many of the delegates had come up on the platform, among fiance of the judge, or of threats The sentence will be e (Editor, Labor Defender.) the ptospect for the immediate fu- old Mother Jones, the only woman who had taken commitment for contempt [consideration. them two veterans. deliberate 1 six months imprisonment, with a The United States government, at Move Big Capitalist ture, t hat *the government is inten- exchanged ’greet- of court unless we record a j a Bosses to Protect the part in the initial conference, and Gene Debs. As I display fine of one thousand dollars addi- - the present time, is conducting a sifying its attack on the working of testiness when his lordship ings with them. I turned over in my mind how I should open the con- ruled In default of the payment wide-spread campaign for further System of Exploitation class of this country. The govern- out a question by defense lawyer tional. t! Commune the workers had 1 of the fine an additional two years : restriction of immigration. The 70th ment fears that the foreign born vention. I recalled that during the French Roebuck, directed at A. T. Hill. s “The [must be served, commencing from session of congress has now ad- Workers, who have behind them a addressed each other as “fellow citizens,” but here there were many witness must not persist in his ans- a always ‘history revolutionary 1 the time of the expiration of joumed, and one of its last acts us hope we shall have about you know that there are 66 foreign of struggle, country, so that would not do. wer, when I have question the e workers who were not citizens of the ruled the [sentence of six months.” was to refuse a senate vote on a us that natural safeguard. I do not language newspaper publications in who are class conscious and who improper, or to I didn’t want to use the old trade union form, “brothers and sisters,” he will have be Comrade Vaara listened to the resolution to postpone from July 1, mean that all evils can be traced to the city of New York alone? are opposed to the capitalist sys- placed in custody.” e • so, picking up a piece of board that lay on the platform and using it tirade from the bench quitely and, jf 1929 to July 1, 1930, the day when [ races different from those of the Attacks Y. W. C. L. tem of exploitation, will play an in- parent creasing opened Roebucli Asks for Particulars. [ left the prisoner’s box with the same a : the “National Origins” method of stock, I do mean they are “Do you know that we have in role in the American class' for a gavel. I the convention with “fellow workers:” bringing different customs and country organization struggle. A. W. Roebuck early called for a .calmness as he had entered it. The ; determining immigration quotas this an call- * * * ideals motion of dismissal of his client, ! j defense is strong for an appeal. would go into effect. In refusing to ! and endeavoring "to implant ing itself the American Young The government is attacking the with a of the He objected to the form and sub- declares tjiat McKessock’s jpostpone this method whereby the them within our body politic. Neither Workers (Communist) League and Negro workers and the workers of IN calling this convention to order I do so sense resnon- [Roebuck 3 prejudice -1 stance of the indictment. “The heir [crack to the jury about the defense >j quotas are based on the population do I believe in race or in that it is teaching small children other races than the white for the sibility that rests upon me and rests upon every delegate that is a citizen,” the superiority of one race over disiegard our same reason apparent is private said not placing Vaara in the witness 5 as it was in 1790, the senate was j and hatred of form that it attacks the for- here. This is the Continental Congress of the working class. We are the defense; “it is not sedition to [ edified by a speech of Senator Reed, another, but I hold that as a ma- of government?” eign born. The 12 million Negro box is a violation of a prisoner’s 5 1 here to confederate the workers of this country into a working class refer to the Prince of Wales.” Roe- “rights.” who said that the basis which has jority of. our people believe in our The stand of the government to- workers of this country are the most form of government, our social law, movement that shall have for its purpose the emancipation of the work- buck desired that the objectionable The reply of some of the Sudbury , j now been changed, that it, the 1890 j ward the race question is also very exploited of any section of the work- ideals, by parts of the charge be located. The comrades to this class war . | census basis, “ignored the sentiment j customs and established illuminating. We are made to feel, ing class, and are discriminated ing class from the "slave bondage of capitalism. There is no organ- convic- our forefathers, then we have not in his speech, that every judge, overruling the motion, a plea tion has already been made. Before . of revolutionary days and is wholly! immi- against socially, politically and ization, or there seems to be no labor organization, that has for its only a right, but a duty to fight grant belongs to another race, of “not guilty” -,vas entered. noon of the day following the sen- . unfair to us bom in America,” and, that economically. The Imperialist gov- purpose the same obje t that for which you are called together to- for the maintenance of same. We this country is as Comrade Hill Gets in Wrong. tence, a collection sheet with but 22 > out of this need had come the Na- j of ours the cham- ernment uses this discrimination must be cautious as to the quality pion race day. The aims and objects of this organization shall be to put the Os the whole string of witnesses names recorded, has a total of $51.- tional Origins clause of 1790. of the white and that against the Negro as one means of and quantity of immigrants whom those within this working class in possession of production and distribution, without re- subpoenaed by the Crown, only a 75. Comrades the coun- In its propaganda for further re- country belonging exploitation of the entire American throughout we permit to Restrictive im- to few were called. Saarimaki, vice- try must : immigration enter. other races are not Americans. working class. The government gard to capitalist masters. show that same spirit as striction of and for a 1 migration is now the established consul for Finland, testified that the local workers. tightening up The 12 million Negroes, the hun- spreads fake stories of the “lower , of the deportation j policy of our government and it dreds and thousands of Mexicans, The American Federation of Labor, which presumes to be the labor the translation was a good one. A It is not possible for all to get , laws; propaganda accompanying the standards” of other races than the I was fixed none too soon.” Japanese and Chinese, etc., are not white and movement of this country, is not a workingclass movement. It does not significant question was that of the the atmosphere of the court room. , bills now before congress which have | attempts in all ways to * “Undesirable Reds.” considered Americans. Those Crown asking was Vapaus “sent to The sleek, satisfied judge; the ner- . either been passed or are being fa-j who divide the Negro, the foreign born represent the working class. There are organizations that are affili- Creighton Speaking of the necessity to de- have a status, we are led Mine? International vous and anxious crown, attorney; vorably discussed by government of- 1 to and the white worker. This vicious ated, but loosely affiliated, with the A. F. of L. which in their constitu- Nickel a port all “undesirable aliens,” this believe, are solely native white lying propaganda against the Negro has mine there.” J. V. Ahl- the Finnish vice-consul; the host of ' ficials, the real purpose of the fur- [ prohibit initiation of, or the obligation agent of U. S. imperialism declares: Americans, and these 12 million Ne- worker must be tion and by-laws the conferring quist, president, and A. T. Hill, sec- crown witnesses, including the übi- . ther restriction of immigration is fought. The “Itis important to our welfare that groes, to all practical purposes, Work-1 on, a colored man; that prohibit conferring of the obligation on retary of the Finnish Organization quitous Jones, all marshalled revealed. Os course the intentions do ers (Communist) Party demands ths Rev. this problem be The offi- not exist the law. For ex- of Canada, had been brought from in the interests of reaction ; of the government are not openly solved. before political, social and economic equal- i foreigners. What we want to establish at this time is a labor organiza- and class cials of the Department of Labor ample, we are told by the Toronto by the Crown. The justice. While the revealed in the newspapers, the assistant ity for the Negroes, and exposes tion that will open wide its doors to every man that earns his livelihood charter victory may be a but have for the past several years, ad- secietary of labor that restriction of the Finnish Organization was one, , admission is made in speeches before [ such vicious falsehoods and such [ hollow we cannot afford to vocated the legistration or enroll- of immigration became either by his brain or his muscle. There is a great work to be accom- examined. There was no share capi- leave the capitalists as to the real for necessary imperialist attacks. matter stand. The strug- . j reason [ rcenz of all aliens as the only prac- because of the great influx of*im- plished at this convention, and every one of you must recognize the tal issued for Vapaus. None con- gle must go on until Vaara ; the attack on the foreign-born Would Split Workers. Comrade tical .eolation of the problem con- migrants. Our country ‘‘was fast responsibility upon you. cerned made a cent out of the oper- • workers. that rests is released. fronting us. But the alien groups becoming heterogenous in charac- The government is at the present | ations of the paper or * * * its plant. The , . Vaara is in time attacking the . Officially, prison for More Restriction. in this country are almost a unit ter, that is, made up of different entire working charter was filed as an by class by attempting exhibit sediitous libel. Actually, it is ! This is clearly seen in a speech by against the enactment of such a races. This brought racial ques- to split and di- WHEN the corporations and the capitalists understand that you are the defense, although Judge Wright cause he was be-1 vide senior editor of a the “Honorable” Rose Carl White, law. They say it is czarist in char- tions to the fore. And as one its ranks. The Negro is set 1 ruled it was not to be acceptable workingclass • | j off against organized for the express purpose of placing the supervision of in- paper which preached assistant secretary of labor, at Yale [ acter and will amount to police es- writer has said, “we are beginning the white worker. The as evidence. foreign dustry work, you are going be [the class struggle, which stood for ' University last month in stating the I pionage. Such a fear is groundless. to realize that racial lie be- born worker is degraded in the hands of those who do the to A resolution of the Finnish Or- the organization factors and placed in a of the workers in official position of the government, It would be a protection to the hon- hind most of the world problems of separate category subjected to every indignity and cruelty that their minds can invent. ganization convention was produced j apart from ; the metal mines and other industries. She makes a plea for a far greater est, law-abiding alien, and at the today.” This lackey of imperialism [ the native born worker. You are also going to be confronted with the so-called labor leader, by Hill on question by the defense. Our answer i The government must be a more deter- ; restriction of immigration, for the same time, it would enable our gov- then goes into an analysis of the is tightening its It was here that the inter- mined lines and preparing the man who will tell you and other workers that the interests of the judge effort to carry through to a registration and finger-printing of ernment to locate and deport the “racial problem” and tells us that in case of war vened and ruled the to attempt split capitalist and the workingman are identical. I want to say that a matter out. The ! i successful conclusion the program foreign-bom workers and for other undesirable aliens, the anarchist, the the mixture of races does the white to up the working witness, not class, and understanding clearly of the militant section of the work-' measures against the foreign-born. Red, the criminal, the immoral, and harm because “certain to get rid of one of its man who makes that assertion is a worse foe to the working class than the procedure, American most took the resolution) j ing class. Why does she make this plea? Let i the mentally deficient now in our mixtures tend to upset standards, in- militant and class conscious is D. M. Parry or August Belmont. There is not a man who has an and epxerienced the foreign $ us hear her own words. “We have midst. Among these, there are crease lower types and thus even- sections, ounce of honesty in his make-up but recognizes the fact that there is the ever present problem of ridding thousands who must be regarded as tually compromise national born workers, by the methods of [ futures.” a continuous struggle between the two classes, and tliis organization the country of the undesirable alien. moral lepers, for they, have come Deport Negroes. restriction and deportation. I formed, based and founded on the class struggle, having in view Working Women Active |. . .Many of our people forget that here for c. ;1 purposes, they are de- If we follow out this line of the This is a blow aimed at the en- will be thisi country was settled, the land structives, and thousands of them government, we may expect to have tire working class. This attack on no compromise and no surrender, and but one subject and one purpose, reclaimed, and that our form of gov- are playing their nefarious game a move soon for the deportation of the foreign born worker, which is and that is to bring the workers of this country into the possession in the New Bedford educational system so- within our gates planning Negroes directly connected up Strike ernment, and and la- the 12 million of this coun- with the in- of the full value of the product of their toil. cial laws were established while our boring for the destruction of other try, as we are told by this govern- j creased war preparations which can By * * * ELSIE PULTOIt. ’ together with the yellow “social- people remained a homogeneous peo- governments, and hoping, ultimate- ment spokesman that the native j be observed in many phases of gov- The bureaucratic officials of the ists,” could not break the organiza- ple. Granted they were immigrants, ly. to destroy this great republic of born white American is the highest ernment activity, must be answered COMMUNICATIONS were read from many foreign countries; Pouget tion, not only by American Federation of Labor do in spite of all their efforts to i but keep in mind they were immi- ours. The need for an enrollment type, and all other races are a the foreign born work- of the Confederation of Labor of France, Carl Legien of the Ger- ers, by not care to organize the working do so. The men and women stood [ grants with the same racial back- law is immediate.” lower tyi e. : but the entire working class. man labor movement, and the secretaries of other countries had written, We must not women. The United Textile Work- firm in their organization. ground. The attacks upon our es- Now comes the crashing finale. This is a revelation of the rea- allow one of the most wishing success to the convention. There were letters from many in pm ethics, are confronted a oppressed of ers. A. F. of L. union, has been The workers had- learned their les- tablished customs, ideals and We with number sons why the government is at- and one the most im- the United States. Ed Boyce sent his excuses for not attending, and in New for thirty years and came in the main after the influx of of oratorical questions which are in- tempting to further restrict immi- portant sections of the working Bedford son. After Batty and Binns sold I there was a letter from Vincent St. John, later to become one of the the A. F. T. O. over ten years, different races. By this I do not tended to strike fear and horror gration and deport foreign class to be attacked without a strong dur- out the strike, workers became con- to born leaders of the new organization, who signed his letter with an assumed ing all this time they never tried , mean that our forefathers did not into our hearts and to make us burn workers. It is just at this and militant answer on the part of to scious of the terrible exploitation time name. organize the women workers. The into which they had been betrayed. disagree—they did, and at times vio- with hate against the aliens, “who when American imperialism is en- the entire working class. The for- arc* of a eign reactionary misleaders of labor find The women are the worst sufferers ; lently—but not for the destruction mental standard wholly be- gaged in a fierce struggle with born workers are experienced The convention was composed of several groups, the Western all kinds of excuses: that women from this exploitation. They . of government because it is govern- low the one decreed by our law. Do English imperialism on the world in revolutionary struggles. The for- Federation of Miners being the dominant factor. Moyer, O’Neill and have eign are backward, they are unskilled, gone through much, discrimination, ment, but for the sake of safeguard- born workers are found in the myself, with the other delegates that represented the W.F.M. as well they are foreigners and they are not prejudice, bad conditions, cuts | ing liberties and for better govern- basic industries in large numbers. as the individual miners and smelter men, were acting under the instruc- wage The militant. and long hours. Now they are toil- ment. The parlor pink, the ultra- foreign born workers are dis- tions of previous conventions and came to Chicago with clear-cut ideas Women Workers Militant. ing for starvation wages, piece-work radical, the Bolshevik, the Commu- . “Class Conciousness” criminated against by the employ- as to the necessity of an industrial union of the working class. [ nist, were products foreign ers and by the government. The facts prove the contrary. As under the intolerable speed-up sys- of soil They The American Labor Union delegates were as definite in their for years were confined for- receive lower wages for same soon as a real militant, fighting tem. the most murderous health- and to By ROSE BARON. folded before me, of hope for the purpose, though they had not had the same active experience in the full work, and are given the union came into the field, hundreds brcakir.g methods of work. eign soil.” I met her at a meeting of the a better future for my hardest and strikes of the West as had the delegates of the W.F.M. children and dirtiest work perform. of women immediately joined Fight Attack on Rebels. Union. a gath- myself. to it. Imperialist War. Women’s Amorist Here is my daughter.” * * * We see from the 9 The women of New Bedford be- The women who are militant fight- . I The essence of this speech, which ering of five hundred women I had (Pointing to a young girl of about above quotations that the Negroes and the foreign THE socialists who were in the with Debs came buildei's and militant fighters ers in every struggle can and must ; , is the statement of the official pol- noticed her leaning against a wall, fifteen.) “She and my older boy ¦ convention realized that born workers are two sections 4 was for the National Textile Workers be organized. The working women j icy of the United States government, a baby in her arms and three more joined the Young Workers League. of industrial unionism the foundation of the socialist movement. Union. i children sitting near was the working class which are most None of the politicians of the socialist party, such as Berger, Ilillquit, are slaving their lives away for , is that the foreign-born is undesir- her. She Our home is full of The * the 1 interest. exploited in the United States. Women marched the picket lines [ bosses. Meanwhile the bourgeois -1 able because he is in favor of a new listening attentively to all the children sing revolutionary songs, We Spargo or Hayes, took part. must present every morning and night, many with women’s organizations in Washing- j system of society and that the gov- speeches, seeming to breathe in read, discuss and attend rrteetings. a united working class front against these attacks on The Socialist Trade and Labor Alliance, DeLeon’s organization, babies in their arms. Women were ton and elsewhere are helping to , ernment must restrict immigration every word uttered. Before, we were forsaken in our pov- the most oppressed sections of the might be described as a sect which came to the convention not on clubbed and thrown into jail. Some prepare the coming imperialist war, , further and attack the foreign-born At the question, “Who wants to erty. My husband’s earnings are American working We must account of its activity among the working class, but because of having of them were arrested more than a to draw in the working women for • workers because this is necessary to become a member of th(% Women’s barely enough for class. bread but”—and this attack not only by or- read and absorbed the Manifesto that called the convention, while the dozen times. But the brutality of the support of the war. Millions of protect and perpetuate the capital- Union?” she was the first to volun- her eyes glowed with militant pride, answer ¦ ganized protest but by uniting few anarchists present felt that the organization was a rejuvenation the police could not scare them. In workers will be drafted, give ist system. teer and when the meeting ended “now we the to their ¦ have an AIM in life!” entire working class under the of the early days of the labor movement. spite of police terror women be- lives for the interests of the imper- Thfet and the hall began to empty she still ban- there may be no nflsunder- Awakened! ner of the Workers (Communist) came militant picket line leaders ialist state, to secure world standing of the position lingered, afrajd that she would per- She is one of the There were, besides these, metal workers and new I of the awakened mass Party in the struggle for the railroad workers and regular participators at mass markets, which means more profits States government, haps miss some further discussion. of women who over- representing small bodies had been by of i United let us understand the needs throw of the entire system and for which disillusioned the A. F. meetings. Many of them joined the for the boss and more exploitation quote though An Aim in Life. of their class. To her L. and the Railroad The individual delegates were further: “Natural and to the the establishment of a socialist Brotherhoods. Communist Party. for the working class. Women will coun- A few months later I attended a working of people who were actively these theories may be in the women the world, on state. The exploitation of the interested in industrial unionism. About Join Militant Organizations. be forced into giving their husbands, given 300,000 were represented tries whence these immigrants come, celebration for the Daily this International Women’s Day I working class and the workers at this first convention. I was Hundreds of women joined the brothers and sons be discrimina- permanent to murdered they have no reason for being in Worker. Walking thru the hall I send my warmest revolutionary tion against foreign elected chairman. union. Women joined the I. L. D. for the capitalist system, the bom and and be America. On the contrary, because came face to face with the same greetings. day * * The will come when Negro workers in country * and became an important factor in drawn into the production guns they this will of arc hostile to our principles woman. She recognized me immedi- such devotion of time and energy as not cease until imperialism raising defense funds and bail and powder in ammunition philosophy, ately greeted is over- In the next instalment Haywood ivrites more I.W.W. factories. and national we owe it and me very cordially. they display in the building up of thrown by the workers under the of the first money. Hundreds of textile work- But women must fight imperialist as a duty our “Well,” asked, convention; Debs and to country to keep I “how do you feel the labor movement will result in leadership of the Workers (Commu- of and DeLeon himself and their ideas of what ers’ wives joined the Women’s Our slogan must be, out. wars. “Not a them We are too prosperous amongst us?” freedom for the masses of workers rist) 1 arty, and until a the unions should be. Readers should not neglect the chance to get Auxiliary of the union. man, not a Workers’ penny—down with im- and contented to listen to the wild “My entire life is changed,” she the world over from the yoke of capi- and Farmers’ Haywood s The reactionary labor bureaucrats, | perialist Government is created book free in bound volume with each yearly subscription, wutt social theories of other lands. Let answered. “A new world has un- country. *» talist oppression. in this renewal or exlensvm U-ulu Worker.