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11 IIIP11 is to All VOICE " An Injur7 to One an Injuzr THEby the Rebel Clan of Toil Owned VoI,. II No. :7 IORTLANI), OREGON, THIIUB8DAY, OCTOBER 1, .1914 MIGHTI lBGHT
of the I;in,1 had not been pre-arranged, ho IS JUSTICE DEAD answerl'd "No," but when Victor Johnson, one A "TRIAL" LABOR DAY of the oldest and best liked miners of Tonopah, AT BUTTE, MONT. CELEBRATION IN TONOPAH? was called to the stand and asked what he knew about it,he said that T. F. White had told him two dlays before the trouble that hie OPN "TM on al wato'--"*aterw" of the Pancner Case THE COURTROOM IS THIOWN syua The True Facts and a few lore were going down to the I. W. W. hall and see about the boycott and if some- FOR THE AGITATORS-ROOT RELPS Oraft WUneiaa Wiped Oat-r thing was not done, there was going to be a US ROOT FOR ONE BIG UNION aLtely MIft.ea uadred rh.e Why was I'aw'ner sentlto the penitent iiary ? fight.. '1The answ'er is: 1e)('ause he was ani1. W. W. When Paul Whlaley was called to the stand in Line an mseday .John I';niriier 'hisle tol Nevada sm4 , four tand asked what he knew about the trouble, the T. Lawrence and Bert Lorton were tried on imronths ago. " l'I'he first. tw.o Imoths h sItayed di strict alttorney never cross-examined him. a charge of "vag." The case was opened up ill 'I'onol1h wi'ere mon ths of hlrd work ftll(het Why? Paul Whaley is president of the Miners' by Detective Baldiscero giving evidence to the (Stockton News Advocate) ('InIs' (of laIor. I14' irganizi'4 thlE Ihte'l and I nion of Tonopah, Nevada, and the District (orglliz'Al effect that they were the two most dangerous For the first time in the i.es-taurant \'orkl'rs. Aftelr I4eing Attorney isrunning for office again. labor history of men that ever came to Butte, as he had heard Stockton the craft-unions failed s.'Vl'enteen' Ii.V thSyIl fought. aid won thie eiglht, WhenlI'anner was called to take the stand, to parade on Fellow Worker Lorton speak on several occa- Labor Day, and trades unions ho1 r dlly. All tihe h4Iar4i lngIalise, Illrid r4't,. ir- t1he big thing was pulled off. After questioning were completely sions, and had heard him tell the Workers not obliterated. I ltHNEillli"lh I 4"to ti'll. li' 1 nlllnd8il int. tV(wo, viz., the l'ancner and bullying him, the district attorney to starve this coming winter, as there was A great ('celtlicl or lilallingtonr Ill11ouseand the Midway suddenly cailed upon the sheriff to search him street labor parade was held in the plenty of food and clothing in the stores and forenoon, with all Illotel. 'Il I'i'e1nion (li4.veryti ing iinits lo.wer for a gun. Why was P'ancner searched for a classes of labor united un- o warehouses. He had also heard Fellow Worker der the one big banner of "Labor Solidarity." tA4 rltttl t0l' tIr bhl1' wit hI these ho11s11, I1ut gun while on the witness stand Ask yourself Lawrence sing I.W. W. songs. He also said The trades unionist, the Socialist, the Indus- it Wais of rio use. 'I'hIe refiusedt Itohave' any this question. The answer is easy. It was to 8om eoi - that he knew these men for several months. trial Worker of the World (who seemed to be thing to )lowith thi1I'nion. After s of the jury and make them prl'ejudice the indls Major Root asked Fellow Worker Lorton vastly in the majority), the silll'ertllitheIbloal t4iolh deteid'd to lhle' a31 think that I'ancner is a professional gun man. Knight of Labor did o with and Lawrence if they had anything to ask the Catholic, Protestant, Jew and Gentile, all laid llovertt onl thi'tw I llihes. 'I'Ihey The district attorney said it was not for that witness. Iawrence asked him whether he had aside their marks deadly 'lee4t.'hils haoveitt. was lnotlhl''ad Oil relason. Then we want to ask him what was of distinction and .division asked them whether they were working or and walked hand-in-hand thE houses iy .John I'an ner. It. was aut4l4horized ti(' rTlsoln. and shoulder-to- not before putting the charge of vag. He said shoulder, in close industrial Iby thi IIh'l a14'I11 Iesta•ranit Workers'I I1i41n These were sorne of the dirty tactics used to formation, with a he did not, because he knew they were not big No. 111. railroad I'anener. I. W. W. banner at their head. mnlln working. Lawrence said "I and Lorton have a There were approximately In()nti Ilth ,1"of Jl i" sooTm 10 aor12 caell'We again ask the district attorney a ques- 1235 men, women llose' t1o thl' job at the present time, are you aware of that." and children in line of march froui thle' Ilurrington ai'rding tion. ()n the 4th of .July a man was shot on and the parade Baldicero-" I have seen you carrying a ban- was most inspiring with its music of bands Miners' tnion Ilill. With what i'urlo,5se4' the public street. The man that did the shoot- -t ner several times." and drum crops. Three carloads of union 'I'here co4hl only hav beenI,'1 1on putrpose' ing was fined $1(00, and no more was said about lawrence--" Is not that work." sympathizers came down from Sacramento, itart trouble. At. this timeri they 11o l not finll it. Why did thlle district attorney let this man Baldiscero shook his head and said he didn't one from Lodi, two from Modesto and over ii Vot' t(,ostart troul11e14. with so tIhey wriiake get away with a $100 fine for deliberately know. 200 people came up on the boat from th'ir vrengeani'e on the ulle tin board which shooting another and themn railroad Panener San o.f get fifty cents an hour and it Francisco to lend their personal support to the wcas I he pro'l ertty oIf theIII I illio,r'egrdlo(.ess for protecting himself against 10 or 12 men? Lawrence--"I is harder work than you do, I guess. I am also Stockton laborites, of whom there munst have llir snerlri pirolperty laws. No on' W:t, arreste(! We wonder if he will answer this. working for an automobile repair man here. I been between 500 or 600 in marchiag line. lltho igh thileof4~4ie'rs wre 11ll t here, watchlinl People of Nevada, a great miscarriage of have a job at the present time and can prove it. The I. W. W.'s, who were scattered all 11thIulletin the wi14l' affair. Af't er wrec('king jnustice has taken plae in your midst. It must The officer says that he knows me and Lorton along through the parade lines, made a fine ho1rd theI(Irulilko'i Io4 W(nt Wtlly, but1 lift.'r be wiped out. If you believe in justice you several months. I would like to know where showing in numbers and the main section gettirig It little' 14r4' whivskey th'y1 'all'i ha('k an he'lp. Protest to the county and state for of you knew me before I came here, as I have only I. W. W 's was the largest division in the a'ulut, sev4•n (''.lo'k, n111rh'll ul t) tthe In1io11 officials and let them know that such high been here six weeks." line, and that organization had good reason otffie4 and thl' own the4signs 1n1ul4pst'rs the haniled me'tJhods will not be tolerated by the I1nion had IIl,'',d there'. Althollugh Mr. Evans, Baldiscero-"O well, I made a mistake about to feel proud of its success locally with the one Speolein this twentieth ce'ntury. sta11ding in 1th1lerowd_ that." big hamner at the head of the line of marchers. .the'hief of 111i(e', was J.ohn Panener I'ublicity Bureau. all 1th1'tiny1, 4no -i'rrsts• was miMadei. 'I'his wais Lawrence--The only charge you can have Sacramento, Lodi, San Francisco and Mo- s.o111' of lthe law aIm llorder Iuphedi by the great. against me is that I sing I. W. W. songs. desto laborites did their share nobly in aiding l41ic'for" ir 4'l 'I'o,14oiah on t4he lIth of .July. The officer handed a copy of "Casey Jones, to give Stockton one of the best street parades Int lo! andl Ibehloh!! s•8li"thing h1aipein1e11. THE RESULTS the Union Scab" to Major Root who read it it ever had and next year it is more than like- 'I'hll' l h, 4.4)111111. out of the Ulnion 11111, oaullh•h and said: "It is not a crime to sing songs, ly that the Stockton workers will help Sacra- AT WHEATLAND mento make sight 4i N*ick t ,o11, a niw111n111i11. 'r'hey .jum11el but it is a crime to sing these kind of songs." a record for itself in return for o41 Illmr1)141 hbelan to hbeat. hi11ll11p, then getting Lawrence-"The charge that the officer put past favors shown. sigh I oI' I'anener they rini afte'r hi llt 'rying " The hop crop of 'California is reported to against us is a charge of "Vag," which is a The usual picnic and sports were held at " IVl'ih hilli,hIiang ,hii, ge't it rol1'," e't'. he 24,0(K hales short." 'Sacramento Bee. lie to begin with, he then says he has known us Oak Park in the afternoon and evening. I'Ih.4' yol'urs'elf in sullIh ai ljtsitioi. What This yeair the vines gave the heaviest yield for months, which is another lie. That is fine Miles Beck, Socialist candidate for City , 111,11 ,,(,,ll It1r1' i' 4 i g 11'? of anilyVlyears on record, and yet the(y are 24,000 evidence." Commissioner, and Thomas Griffin of Modesto I'an,.nr triled to get away front liltcrowd, lIales short. Another detective then testified that he had were the speakers at the park, and all talked buit I 11' im'k4'l hliiri intolI 'orhe4r, and4 hi' was Sltil'ne people mayi try to tell you that the heard Lorton say that there were millions of along the lines of greater solidarity of labor, f1r4el'd to irol'te''t himselfS'l. 11 tfired iatthe door, agitation carried on by tile I. W. W. against dollars going out of Butte every year to feed both organized and unorganized. ae1ihwtlyIhitting on' 111a111in the leg. Althollugh tlihe,Ioli indlustry was iajoke as far as a boy- some fat parasites who never work; and that There were no signs, symbols, token, ban- th4e 4lib'trs w•r.. all there at. the t4ii'1, 1144thiing cott is concerned. 'onsidering this leing the the time was coming when that would be stop- ners, hangers, carriers, stringers or other Vwas one to 14)o4t''t- I'an1'neir, ibut aifter thel shot lbanllner yellr for hops, and last year being the ped. lie then called up another detective who marks of any sort or character of identifi- was Iltr11, thIin Whatl. 11111ir'hlS '1s1h'grait. poorest. yealr, it is at safe estimate that 50,000 testified that he had heard the same thing. cation of any trade or craft or union; the $1.00 ) ' jii lif1'- (on I '11(11'ir Major Root then asked the prisoners if they per day man marched with the $9.00 per day ltTi1. r' olf Il,1 11 I h :at11't hailehs of hiolis w'ent to waste unpicked. "'We to4 him with as1 had anything to say. manl; the six-hour workman with the fourteen- a11nd Iraigged hiii jail, 'iiarged Joke?"wo•rller if the llop hBarons consider that a 1s1llt1 with aSi14'a4ily weapon'3 with inten't to kill. Lorton--"I go out on the street corners and hour man and all seemed happy and con- Ile was d11114'1ber14'14'4 t1114 juiisti4'4' of th11' lh w'n'' In lpreviouiis 'yeaIrs, llorst has always picked tell the Workers to organize into One Big tented; but when President (ompers and thr, :1r711 al,'Eltittl'l. ''h1.1'j 'stie'4'Iii1i .--, h' sho)t, in byv ihaild after his mllaclhlines, but dlid not this Union so as to shorten the hours of labor and international higher-ups learn of the dissolu- sel'f h-'f'1ns'. !eair, consequent'ly Ii only harvested about get better wages and working conditions, tion of their power there may be "an execu- .\g•i.nisI1o 1tldlitlL llty llsl. l'a lln Tr wIa Iar- four fiftl•s of his crop. While l)urst and others thereby doing away with starvation and unem- tive session" held somewhere. r,,•.l,,I,n m 1l4,114 w ir'filll;tlll :1ig lift taken to wholi, ick oentirely by hand, only harvested ployment in a land where there is plenty for two,-thirlIs of tlleirs. The hiopli barons claim to all." FUNNY STUNTS OF THE AMATEUR As t1i' h14ai4,1" this artirl. ta4.a le• 41on't for- Ih. hdoie piciking now, buit one ('cango around Lawrence-"The only crime I am here for is WAR LORDS g tI ,Iwas iv I. \ . t. ih fIicdhisaiol st4,tihl' vities covered with hops* that I sing I. W. W. songs-which are being liii' t'h4f l wi ,~ asin ' ...,I,,,,l" tlii' I ,lits br•'hight1 Noiw, I',llow workers, if wO, can do this miuchl sung by the Workers all over the country. If Fellow Workers Lorton and Tawrence were 4,11t in tlii' tril in lii,' I)i tlni't( 441t1t 44" N \.4 witll ltii. lpoor ldiscilllil aindl organization that that is a crime, then I am a criminal." arrested in Butte, but the military court don't 4 4ll1iiV ill 'i)114)J]51 1, N'\ali it. w,, had tlh, yeailr (and thltill'ops are not deliv- Major Root-"I have never seen the prison- seem to know what to do with them. Lorton \VhI llthi,' t'isil stiri'udI. it wais hpslihi t,4 Ib'. ,er.lto, I l. lilarrko't yl't), what can we, not do if ers before, but I have stood on street corners was arrested for publicly saying something we, g(, to, it.tliorolughly dlisciplinedl Ind or- and have heard the likes of them talk, and they that was objectionable to the mining com- j;.iiizwel iI th11,vl'lr's to lonvle. preach the overthrow of this government and panies, and Lawrence for singing "Casey 'lb, lirst JIl'ny1lu4h. bi" l t ' 'wa 'tati 144 lor'iw,. lFor w, will IEvl'rcrgivo' iul the fight on thr they are responsible for the conditions or the Jones." It was first decided that these great I i, ui,ill Illst W';I•- 814l4t irtl, t11,' , i' 'it ,1•1 Vl14 Ilop Illdl.str\" tillbIrd aIlnduSilhr firs, free. trouble that exists today in Butte. I also know crimes should he punished by eleven months ;I t•lt4',4 1''r. 4':,I 'if l Iv 14li4', ,i,'ll. Tlh,' rrriri I' . IIA.%11l'IlHE T, Socrl'etary. the officers who are witnesses against them and in jail, but the comlpanies probably reflected a144t41 1. 41,'rt 1v:l' WIl1 4s 134ll 41 4,l ,111t4'11 do not think they would tell a deliberate life. that the military disorder could not be main- \1' l iii . liu.;l\',\ ,:1i 4l) I II Si, Vrllt aS 4,11',, lilt NO REASON FOR MUIRDER I sentence you hoth to a term of 11 months andl tainedl that long in Butte, and that Lorton and 13i, :iatI '.'4llaII t 11 r14.. i l,' il 113,t i l,sIItiot 5(0).( 4) fine and costs." Lawrence would he freed as soon as the rule (Ill \loniity tvWo IllTnei8' I fo'hlow Tlilfl The latest n.ws is that L•rton and Lawrence of the yellow legs was over. Anyway, the 'I• i lliii ir ~,r or itiii'isoll , iilev li i urningE are to I,,deI,,rted to England. company changedi its mind (?) and decided milhi . |l flth risk thliir own lives to save that LTortonr and Lawrence should be deported. hiii, i. Il 'rlusdlVthe take riles and kill hi , A larher was ,sentenced to 60 days. The I have since learned that the court has decided Ii,' ',a: rs ,'lhlo jinr.. Ni,'k S'4k4lll. Ihit wh,,Ir tlih , f'•l reasoIl of thliir ownl but Ibecause their charges against him must he excluded for sonmething else again. When they have reached kiia lihiih drl;'imlls.their kliislr dlelusions, or the lack of space, but what the barber really did their final decision in this case, if they ever , li i:ilistislthat exil,loit thl'Illhuvl e oluarreled.- was to refuse to shave one of the yellow- do, it will be up to us to see that it don't l134' ,'4iriiii' t ti.r l. 4.134' , .t.1 . it hr.' 4lr':.ikir..r li1I 'l'liIhSouhllltl 'rn lirhit. legged heroes. work. INCREUDIBL ful type.-Adahi KaLnosake, Ia iHarpsr' The Voice of the People Weekly. Ss . nainbwu1a, , l . :-ps1esae-- No emotion about the war is expressed mose A frst glanse at the above figues would Entered a Sec ond-c-s Mattles August 12. t114, at the PIstaffl1 at Portland. b.o.l.. uner the often than incredulity. Millions eannot believe show that imperiallan is an unproftable bas- e mmnuder, thl ee a Pseato Act of August n. 1A2t it. If civilized Europe were holding bhas nes. But daon,t be to hasty in making up year aasal ~Coma.y, scorted om awr fellow India, for example, it would mind about that. The expenses of imperilism wor•arn by the same of J. Hdso dowa to by the Portland Locals of be comprehensible; .E Published weekly but for Germans and French, with a wh•ar are paid by the taxpayers (whis is mastly the d pot and . the Industrial Workers of the World. complex and delicate civilisation in conmaa, middle class) while the profits I that * 17,- uat of ,his." to be using huge death engines to mow down 517 go to those few bapitalists who ae. udh OFFICE OF PUBLICATION men and cities, is so unthinkable that we go enough to oaetrol interatilonal commere sad -Arivlogat Silver o 309 DAVIS ST. about in a daze, hoping to awake from the pbll the strings of political governma t•. We ms rued a bau tras ,t .aph ash PORTLAND OREGON most horrid of nightmares. And the sedness may be quite sure that this trade has more sanasneed to the public at la theu with which the whole world, outside of Ger- than re-imbursed these big capitalists for that whereby the yellow-legged ••o~setors he B. E. Nilsson ...... Editor many, views the struggle, is the best hope that part of the cost of empire which they paid. peasee coaduct justice. Fellow Work~r Hd- what it teaches us about government by oli- They have not lost by the transaction. They son was forced out without a trial. There is garchy may be almost worth its cost.--Har- have no wish to withdraw about SUBSCRIPTION RATES from the Philippines 25 of the so-called undesirables ia jail per's Weekly. -and they hold the political strings. awaiting trial for the heinous crime of break- United States: 52 weeks, $1.00; 26 weeks Surest thing you know. The prophets of the Apply the same reasoning to any war and ing up a body of scabs who refused to join 50c; 13 weeks...... $0.25 things that are have often told us that you will find that those who are rich enough a Union to better their conditions, but before 1.50 Foreign: One year ...... present day ruling class is all that saves the to plunge nations into war do not pay the cost breaking them up they were given a chance to .... .05 Single copies ...... world from chaos and confusion and what they of war-neither in gold nor in blood. either be men or monkeys. They chose to BUNDLE ORDER RATES are pleased to call anarchy. They have handed- be monkeys, so, Butte not being a tropical United States: 5 copies, 13 weeks, $1.00; or us that bunk so often that they have come to I. W. W. PUTS ON0 OVER ON TONOPAH climate, we sent them to warmer regions. But 10 or more copies paid 10 weeks in advance, believe it themselves. The European war stag- BO the guardians. of the peace are going one bet- 1ic per copy. gers them BECAUSE THEY CAN NOT ter, driving a man who has worked for the IMAGINE ANY WORSE CALAMITY THAT Special to the Voice, September 24-On last two or three years in Butte to the out- OTHERWISE, inUnited States or Canada, 2c the ('()ULI) HAPPEN IF THE WORKERS 22nd of September, the Tonopah Daily Bonan- skirts of their so-called civilization. But Fel- per copy. SIIHOULD UPSET THE GOVERNMENTS za, one of the Jow Worker Hudson told those Silver Bowitss No accounts carried beyond current month. slimiest sheets in the hands of ANI) THROW THE PARASITES OFF the master class, was dynamited, causing very that he was going right back which seamed CASH MUST ACCOMPANY ALL Oltl),.. TIEIR BACKS. That is what worries them. little damage, this lying sheet at once pub- to shock those respecters of law'and order Their last and best excuse for existence is lished an article stating that the red flag or- citizens who last October tried to railroad being shattered with shot and shell. ganization, the I. W. W., had attempted to some 15 of our boys to jail for disturbing the blow up the paper. The scissorbills at once peaceful slumbering town of Silver Bow, be- *EMPIRORS AND SOCIALISTS called a mass meeting to organize a citizens cause they tried to protect one of their Fel- Fellow Workers: committee to run the I. W. W. out of town. low Workers from getting beat up by some If we are to maintain our influence over the For at least 10 years all Europe has been All the citizens were there at the meeting, but husky sissorbill of a fireman. While I am working class itis necessary for us ,to main- steadily preparing for war, and the only large, it must be remembered that all the members writing this one of those good citizens a cleaner tain and improve our means of getting our organized, formal protest against such prepa- of the I. W. W. in Tonopah are citizens. Mr. of scabby towels but a so-called re- ideas before the workers. We must keep our ration has come from the Socialists. All other Booth, the editor of the Bonanza, got upon the spectable Laundry Mutt received his walking important floor papers and was told to take his junk and beat press in the field, and keep it at its greatest political sections have with cheers and said that the I. W. W. had dyna- propaganda efficiency. voted for more battleships and battalions; but mited his place of business, and that the good it which he did spluttering like a Chink all out The editorship of the Voice of the People the Socialist party represents the .workmen citizens should at once take action. They did of breath. His Pie Card is getting punched pretty has fallen on me since Covington Hall started who, with the peasants, must finally pay the so. After Mr. Booth got through talking, Tom hard for being a lover of yellow-legged on his return trip to New Orleans. I wish it war bill in blood and coin; and unflinching Fagan, one of the Tonopah Socialists, got justice. There is weeping and wailing and to be clearly understood that I have no mort- antimilitarism has always been a cardinal tenet upon the floor and told Booth that he could gnashing of teeth among the respected and most gage on the editor job. .lust consider that my in its creed. not get away with stuff like that. It was too honorable of Butte's patriotic business men. resignation is always in your hands, to be With four and a quarter million votes, and old. The next to take the stand was H. E. The Call of the Wild: No business. The accepted by you any time you choose if you with one hundred and eleven members of the MeGuckin, organized of the I. W. W., in Tono- country is sure going to hell now. know of anyone who is better able to do the Reichstag out of a total of three hundred and .pah at this time; McGuckin started in by tell- The bugles blow work, and who will accept the job; just bring ninety-eight members, the Socialist party is ing Mr. Booth that he was a liar and knew it. While in the snow, up his name in your local business meeting for stronger in Germany than in any other coun- lie told the citizens that if they wanted to find The Hoosier says: All's Well. The nomination, anti I will do all I can to get the try; and there it has preached antimilitarism the party that did the dynamiting to keep saloons are now now opened nomination considered and acted upon by the in the face of proscription and persecution. their eyes upon the offices of the Bonanza, as From 8 in the morning until 7 at night, locals that support the paper. In the meanwhile Last year, however, the Kaiser demanded that was the most likely place to find him. He But the drinking water fountain is still doing I shall do the best I can until I know that Iris extraordinary military contribution of a then' told the people of the tricks of this kind good work. -Bren the Gael. you want another editor. quarter of a billion dollars, on top of tl.ordi- that had been pulled off in other places. Be- nary fore he was through the military taxes. This ominously hinted house was wildly A war; but the Socialist members shouting for the I. W. W. In concluding, Mr. CHRISTIAN GENTLEMAN The pal'er needs your assistance; needs it voted for it solidly. In order to inaugurate this European McGuckin said that the I. W. W. was in all the tine. It needs money to pay the bills From the intellectual war the Kaiser asked for an appropriation of Tonopah to stay, and that any move on the morass of Washing- that must Ih paid if the paper isto continue. ton, D. C., comes the word five billion marks, and the hundred and eleven part of Booth and his hunch would be met by that "New Jersey The circulation of the Ipalwr is so small that Slim" has taken ,Socialist members voted solidly a counter move on the part of the I. W, W. it upon himself to set aside even if all the bundle orders are promptly for it. October 4th In his explanatory speech In answer to Booth, who said that the I. W. W. in the year of our "Lord" 1914, paid for and all subscriptions the leader of the for the balance renewed it would wanted $15 of the $20 produced by the aver- of the one hundred millions of barely pay the expenses. The circulation must party referred feelingly to the Socialists' pro- people tests against war, age miner of Tonopah. McGuckin said, "If in this country to pray to GOD to stop be increased in order to make the paper rca- and to their brother toilers the working class slaughter in France, whomi you know anything about us revolutionists, now going on in sonably safe. they were going to fight; but Europe. the real issue, as he saw you would know that we not only want $15 'hlle papler also needs articles and news it, was to prevent a In Wilson's "triumph of Russian despotism, weltering in of the $20, we want the whole $20, no more "history of the U. S.," he con- items. Even ifthe editor could write enough temptuously refers to the workers the blood of Germany's noblest sons. . . . and no less. We want to put overalls on you of Europe to fill the Ipallr it would not make a paper as "cattle." Why this Therefore we must today justify what we have and the rest of your class, and let you find out sudden flood of super- worth read ing. The events that are worth stitious flub-dub; remorse always said: in its danger what it is like to handle a muck stick 8 hours perhaps for having reading alsut happen almost everywhere ex- hour of Germany ordered may always rely on us." a day, 1400 feet under the ground." After the U. S. fleet to bombard the unfor- cept in the editor's ofTice. Write us tified city of Vera about Of course the French Socialist, the Russian one more of the Socialists had spoken they Cruz, thereby causing the what hapJpens on the job or in the town where death of 15() human Socialist and the English Socialist can vote started to organize a committee. Tom Fagan, beings. Perhaps his heart you are. That is the news that workers in aches for the for war on (e.rmany with exactly as good con- one of the rebels, got up and Ludlow victims. More likely he othetlr lac.es want to know. It is the news we made a motion but put into action the thought that William sciences. We will talk place, but we will vote to adjourn, the chairman want thIII to, know. tried to get away the First of Germany put war taxes; and when the bugle sounds we will fromn it, but there was nothing deing, he had to into words, "Under fight. no consideration should religion die out put the motion. It was t•arried unanimously. among Issue No,. M!9was dela,'ed a week because the masses." In view of tlhis Ten minutes later the Tonopah of haplen again if ction by the party that rep- Prop. League. Peace of lack funds. It won't resents four million (German workmen, why Signed up 12 new members. But however there in Europe would be a calamity to the w, can get imoneycto pay the hills. We can't Bourgeoise of the i•T.S. ,laime it on the Kaiser or look for any particu- Every dlead soldier was just one thing we overlooked, we forgot there increases the opportunity h'r1veiint it from hapi)ning againi if w, don't lar scapegoat ?--Saturday Evening Post. to extend to Mr. Booth a vote of thanks for of the buzzard get enoulgh nm,iney to satisfy the printer. businessInerce. Everymen here starved to •steal voman the old or world child com- en- of Inthe other working words, class the in Ipolitical Germany representatives (and in Bel- renting a hall and inviting the i. W. W. to I.. E. NI LSO(N. speak at what turned out to he one of the best gilni and France and a few other countries) larges the child slave factories here. Everv 1. \V.W. meetings ever held in Tonopahb. Ienny spent on the war in Europe gives addeul COVINGTON RALL'S ADDRESS were loyal to the ruling class of their respec- Tonopah Press ('ommittee. assurance to the financial supremacy of Wall ti\ve countries, while they betrayed the workers Street. of all countries. FI'ell,,w Worker Iall is retturning ,"uth.Il EXCURSION AND PICNIC The carrion crows of American ,x • '•it reach New ()rhians, La., between That is exactly what we have all along con- not want their bloody beaks pulled financeout of thed, tl•. 1-tl, and ::4th of (octoier. his tenmporary tended that political replresentatives were G(iven by the Latin Branch of the I. W. W. rotting flesh of the European dlead. ;nlIrii' :-s ther'e vwillbe,, ca;llI :raste Virine, 10tlh lik(ely to do. in San Francisco, ('alif., on Sunday, October haveThe their Buzzard's fill, even Banquet to thle point lhor .Mlais,,n IBlanchc, New ()rleans, La. 1h: 4,1914, at Monticello Park. is on andof eggingthey willon the contestants to further deeds of "valor." requetsts all e.orrslnde.nts to address hitsi A group of young" men sat in a corner of a Boats heave Fishernan's \VWharf at 8:00, II1. alsoi tIhere arin'nouInabhove dates. Urgently well known club in Tokyo in the summer of 10:04) and 12:0) a. im. reouest.s .\.(. Allen and A. I,. Eltmerson to 1!)7. "'There are 'ol,l,.," said one of thent, )ancing, games and sjpeking in English, JA M ES tOl! N. wriite hiiiii at ,ncee. 'who, Nilpo)n think that wants to take the Italian and Spanish are on the program. SPEAKER WANTED IN LOS ANGELES 'hilipines." ('ould y•ou have heard the cono- In the afternoon a trip can Ie made to the REDDING p;ny laiugh ani si'In them "take on," you State Penitentiary at San (Juentin. woulii nxever ,mor'esay that the .alpaniese are a 'l'hIe workers are Ieginning The bnefit from the picnie will be dlivided, Angeles from tl, hlarvest fieldsto driftand thheyiniito l,,sar, li Ia ikhIy has t,'mlhorarily trakon .charge ,lot ,f sad facedl mumminines. It was considered Ihalif to the Italian asking why the wolbblies are not. holding miicet- ,f thc' affairs of lo,.als pile up which could Rubbing we have seen fortunes labor down to less than half of what it ought which allows one set of workers to be pitted his hands in his fiendish glee, sweat, even if the Loud never come from one man's to be,. You have to depend on the efficiency against another set of workers in. the same in- he cried in exuberance: brow like a perspiration poured from his get you your share of the "O let our ball go on merrily, of better men to dustry, thereby helping defeat one another in Bullet and shell Niagara. spoils. You are not even efficient liars, be- wage wars. Moreover, the trade unions aid the in shrill symphony, of wealth was next justified in And blood and tears shall Accumulation cause your lies are no longer convincing. employing class to mislead the workers into be furnished free, And happy and By the order the name of civilization. the belief that the working class have interests of King Finance. villages and cities peaceful and prosperous in common with the employers. nightmares of fac- A CALL TO SUPPORT THE "VOICE" have been transformed into These conditions can be changed and the in- "Millions of dancers will come to swell slums-in the name The grim tories and slave-pens and terests of the working class upheld only by an orgies of our dance. Let loud resound the of civilization. To All Locals and Members of the I. W. W.: in such a way that all its shrill shrieking knell and power came organization formed From the hoarse We were told that wealth Fellow Workers: At the last regular busi- members, in any one industry, or in all in- throat of the mangling shell, honest and good and just and car- Calling together the to those who were ness meeting it was moved, seconded dustries, if necessary, cease work wherever a Dance of Hell, seen the rich and and merciful. And we have ried, to instruct the secretary to communicate strike or lockout is on, in any department 'Tie the order of Eing Finance. virtues on the powerful place these boasted with all the Locals telling them the condition thereof, thus making an injury to one an in- at any price. "Soon will the auction-block-to be sold the "Voice of the People" is in, and urging jury to all. dancers of England come "Darwinism" was And the dancers Then a perversion of them to support same during the winter. Instead of the conservative motto, "A fair of gay-fteck'd France. world's wealth and Austria, Russia handed out to us. "The The paper was compelled through lack of day's wages for a fair day's work," we must will swell the sum, the hands of the Germany, the reins of power must be in support to move from New Orleans to Port- inscribe on our banner the revolutionary too, with fife and drum-- take wealth and power and a All hail to the kings of strong, who can land. The following figures will show what watchword, "Abolition of the wage system." Christendom, enough to keep deplorable condition the paper is in. The And our lord, the great King, keel) them. They are strong It is the historic mission of the working Finance! order." We have out the paper has been order. And we must have average cost of geting class to do away with capitalism. The army create disorder by $63.15 per week. At present the paper is $72.60 "Down with the fools who shall seen these "strong men" of production must be organized, not only for ask, What fort have known them in debt to the printer. Unless all Locals and And on, on with our death-dancel using their power; and we the every day struggle with the capitalists, but and beg and whine for fear they should Rebels come through with additional support Ever we'll dance in the canon's roar, to lie also to carry on production when capitalism and their unearned will suspend very shortly. If we Interests and envy are valued lose their privileges the "Voice" shall have been overthrown. By organizing more to be un- Than blood and tears luxury. are so helpless and incompetent as industrially we are forming the structure of that are shed in war, "But,'" say the "Capitains of Industry," able to run and support a weekly paper then To our ally, the King, Finance. the new society within the shell of the old. "We are entitled to all we get, because we we prove' to the satisfaction of the entire we are working class that we are unfit to organize carry a great burden of responsibility, L W. W. KONSTITUTION. "Mothers may weep for sons that are dead, system. FORORD TILL responsible for the whole system of produc- and take control of the vast industrial Arbetare och arbetsk3pare hava ingenting Guns will soon gatherh harvest red, . tion." Where is your responsibility? Are If the paper goes under it will mean another gemensamt. Dar kan ej bliva fred asiAnge mil- We'll pick the harvest left by the lead, your lives crushed out in preventable acci- set-back to our agitation and organization lioner arbetare lida hunger och nod, medan de fA In blood and entrails the dance we'll tread-- dents! Dlo you starve on adulterated food work on the Pacific Coast. som tillhora arbetskOpareklassen, hava allt vad So all hail, our great King, Finance!" and stifle in dark and crowded tenements? If you wish to see the organization become de Onska. a power asd a real menace to the masters, then Emellan dessa tvA klasser mAste kampen Are yours children amdng the stunted factory fortfara tills arbetarne forena sig som en klass, SCANDINAVIANS BUSY IN MINNEAPOLIS slaves ? Are you in the breadline or on the get busy and lend your support in the shape of tags jorden og produktionsmedlen i besittning, rock-pile when the industries are shut down? contributions. Increase the bundle orders and och gora slut pi 1lneslaveriet. We 1)o you or your sons die on the battlefield. rustle subscriptions. Industriauktoritetens sammanslutning i alit are glad to note that the Scandinavian ej lingre when the scramble for foreign markets leads Yours for the Social Revolution, fArre hinder gor att fackforeningarna propaganda League of this city, which was kunna motstA arbetsk6parnas alltjint vixande to a war' Not much. Your mismanagement FRANK CADY, Secretary. organized a short while ago, is progressing makt. Fackforeningarna fostra ett forhAllande steadily, and functioning effectively. does not affect your lives very much. You P. S.-Issue No. 89 was delayed because we sittas i strid mot var- It's short som tillAter att arbetarna history is a good pay the cost of mismanagement. We do. did not have money enough to pay the printer. andra inom industrierna, darigenom nedgorande proof of what can be accom- don't plished Tr 0, last plea; the last justification-and the varandra i lonestriderna. An mera, fackforenin- by rebels of sincerity and resolution. 1 1 garna hjelpa arbetskoparna att inbilla arbetare Last Saturday night the club was addressed only one that should be considered by men of PLUTE, SKINNEM AND ROBB att arbetareklassen och arbetsklpareklassen hava by J. Gabriel Soltis on the interesting subject modern intelligetncf--is the plea of "effi- gemensamma intressen. ciency." This is their plea: " We rule be- Dessa forhAllanden kunna Andras, och arbe- of "Politics and Organization." Soltis spoke We Maim, Slug and Kill with his usual eloquence and brilliancy, im- cause we are efTicient. We have developed tarnas intressen- uppritthAllas, endast genom en pressing his audience in a most effective man- the industries and we know how to run them organisation i vilken alla dess medlemmar i en industri, eller i flera industrier om sA behoves, ner, with the danger which lurks in the faith as to he of the greatest b)enefit to society. By J. S. Biscay so sluta arbete nir en strejk eller lockout pAgAr i of politics. He was cheered enthusiastically. Witlhout us the world would return to barbar- iMr. Workingman: .giAgon av organisationens avdelningar. DArige- After his lecture the big and palatial hall of ismr and to savagery. We must continue to We wish to call your particular attention to nom bliver en oforratt mot en arbetare en oforritt Local No. 64 was transformed into a ballroom, control the industries, because we only are one of the firm, young John D., sometimes mot alla arbetare. efl'iienit." called "Saint John the Younger." You can- I stillet for den konservativa satsen "En and to the melodious strains of a violin and a arlig daglon for ett Arligt dagsvirke" mAste vi in- piano, the rest of the evening was dedicated You "Captains of Industry," on what not help loving this man, especially for his skriva ph vArt baner det revolutionara o1senordet to Terpsichore. We are informed that the pro- groundis do you claim efficiency? l)o you claim Christian attitude towards the slaves of Colo- "Bort med loneslaveriet". gram of last Saturday night is going to be it on the grond that you promote human hap- rado. Probably you think that he has been Det ar arbetareklassens historiska uppgift continued every Saturday during the men strike, as the miners aid in somewhat harsh, but so has the church. Some att avskaffa kapitalistsystemet. Produktions- winter. piness D1)o New members were gained, large quantities of Colorado, hecause they are hapy7 And do you of the bloodiest wars were over religion. armeen mAste organiseras, ej endast for den dag- liga kampen mot arbetskoparna, men ocksA for literature was distribted. May the good work gunmenC to shoot and stab happiness into Blood ran many times when dollars were not hire att fortsiitta produktionen sedan kapitalistklassen go on! HARRY LEVINSN. themu and their wives and children? Do you at stake. But our patriotic friend has been blivit overvunnen. Genom industriell forening promote halppiness by keeping the workers un- very busy hiring all the pluguglies he could bygga vi det nya samhillet inom skalet av det employd and hungry and homeless? D)oes a get, to instill into thIe minds of the Colorado gamla. Having "found" a box of caps and two wage ,1' from four to six dollars per week slaves the sublime doctrine of "love one an- coils of fuse, the lawandorder brigade raided t SSTOCKTON prov\ide hapluiness for women workers, when o her,'' et(e \Vitlh plride that is fairly burst- the I. W. W. hall in their effort to find pow- tihe h:are necessities of life will cost them $10) ing olm white fronts, we cannot help admiring der to go with it. Of course, they did not find The Marine Transport Workers of Stockton I)o you make the workers happy the way the hirelings have used machine guns what they were looking for. Then one of them per week? have when you nmake it imnlpossi)le for them to liv', in tihe womeqn and children at Ludlow. It learned the meaning of Solidarity, they approached one of McDon-ald's friends and a normal family life? imlakes tlhe wholesale work of the doctors look have already sent for a charter in the One tried to get him to say that McDonald had a l'ver\ phase o1 working class life proclaims cleal) and towdry. What an inspiring spec- Big Union; they have lined up 75 members box of powder planted. The man could not be in the first two days of their existance, and volrI i tTiillt'i e y' as I'rtli hters of hla) li l'ess. ta.le it muIist have been to see the women and bluffed with threats of jail, so the plot fell have great confidence in lining l nt,,,l ,'illin lffiic.ll 'l.v oiln the .roitit of chilrhen ldropl)ing into the pits before the up the whole through. m,,, ,athtl irIi ltiinti That .w ulhl !he ai mIaclhaine guns and afterwards burned with our waterfront, which consists of about a thous- and workers. We also have ve"' tier e'lin,,. ev,'mn if it we.re true'. But it own oil. We mourn the waste of the fv v gal- good prospects WAR IN EUROPE-WHY? , ' of lining up the Mexicans into is nt,lt I e . Y u ntaCt utlv1 ,reve'.nt millions uf blus of oil. It (anused a loss of about a half a Latin local. PIIIL McLAU;GHLIN, It's cause, and what it realy means. willimtn. an',I eflicient wr'kers tfrom dcing,. any dollar. Secretary, 73. By James O'Neil. wvork, at ,'1I •ex•'lc t lte useless ant sensetless \\We point with lride to the fact that the SPEAKERS WANTED Price 10 cents, postage paid; 100 copies, post- wer,1' tIfhtunn l, rliia chance te take another mIn who, shiot u, tile women and children, , hi m -;-y ou also e, ploy an~, '- .,,, ma ny I',' .arridl tIhe star slpangled lanner of liberty. age paid, $5.00 This pamphlet, by a widely known writer olther ,illi,,is to do utterly useless lahor. Our liberty, slave. Our liberty-not yours. Good speakers are wanted in Sacramento on social science, treats of the War in Europe eu ,,',e mtn it ten frlom earning a liivin•g until \\e lial thelitI,,wr and the right to murder to keep up the agitation on behalf of Ford \'VenItlhe Ihwllelss tlhat hlalpeHed to lie near and Suhr. We have good attentive crowds in a manner vastly different from writers in ,n,,uigh fr ,ur men th)practice upon. every nighlt, a fine warm climate, and good the capitalist press. Its economic interpret.- lheiil,,.,inhr! The i. W. W. wants to or- literature sales. tion is startlingly intense. The veil is torn from Come to sunny ('al and grow up with the the Invisible Government behind the thrones. ,f ,,•, ,, *t w,,rk Iilelijii g hattleshipl-, amid man- ,.;iiize tile WOrkil i, into one large orgalIiza- tion ,othat we could not massacre whom we country. W\e have two good speakers here at Appeals to every type of reader, wage worker, student, scholar. lii•. , '1lr,•ll t t elhstlr,.v t1lt' ;mii l illlll,l. thu ,hlea-,ed. Not onlh- do we protest against such Ipresent, but the stealdy grind night after Address, James O'Neil, Box 28, Station C, -un-. anI the tbattlesIiles. as well as thlr us,' :ani infrinwi~elint oftour constitutional rights, night is enough to kill off any man. Come on Los Angeles, California. (X99) ftl thi,.s whih'l, n tillihns of other workers int we strenuously denounce the I. W. W. as to Sac. and hellp theim u,,t; there is work to ,v, ,uth.. Is that 'our idea of efTicibn'ytc Ieing unpltriotic. do now, ",'ome on anid help us do it. Stick to us amnd mayy we will send thugs C. L. LAMBERT, Secretary. All Railroad Workers Should Read after you socme day. THE STRIKE BULLETIN C(LASS TIE I LI NG D). •E'NEIA.TE KIII'SS, Secretary. CHANGE OF SECRETARY CARL E. PERSON, EDITOR TIII **'T\l'AINS OF INIWSTHY' Subscription ,,i li,-el to um about your God. The prod- Ivan ILincoln was dismissed fromn the lp)lioe Eug Krauss has resigned as Secretary and One Year 50 Cents Six Months 25 Cents force for criticising the authorities. Police- Frank Cady was elected to take his place. Ad- BOX D, CLINTON, ILL. men must not think. It is in open violation of dress all communications to Frank Cady, 309 Or we will send you THE VOICE for one year VYiuaI:,.I leott hilmu'g,. earned sour wvealthu. nmilitary law. D)avis street, Portland. Ore. and THE BULLETIN for 6 months for $1.00 TE"SPIRIT 01 1914 THE 00CEAN TO O•1A HIGHWAY AND HOW IT IS flING BUILT DONW' FORO1 BHv ' By Carl E. Person, in the Strike Bulletin In spite of the fact that automobile clubs lives! It is as eternal as the stars! The cause and associations are holding mass meetings I. W. W. SMOKER, OCT. Onward, ever onward, man moves toward the and collecting large sums of money for the 309 DAVIS ST, 8 P. M. heights! of building the great Ocean to Ocean come and gone,-. purpose Thousands of years have Highway, or Lincoln Highway, as it has been has continued uninterruptedly. the struggle very little of the. money ever gets to Entertainment Refreshments1 lhe free. The voice within is never named, Man must the roads, but is all squandered by the officials cry of the soul is for freedom. silent. The in big champagne and oyster suppers. After Best Time YouAI Will Have 2TBefore the Revolution proplhet preached the brotherhood ''The first, each blow-out the press and pulpit laud them sermon will never grow old until of man; the to the skies for the great work they are do- ADMISSION 25 CENTS the "Peace on Earth" that we find fulfilled ing. In reality here is what they are doing; with the emancipation of the toilers. will cornic at least this is the way the California end of clannot be jailed; justice may be de- WALL STRUT'S USEFUL PAITEII so33 POL OtrAL Truthl the road is being built. The first link of the NonE sUs it, cannot be destroyed; right is a nied, but road from the cost through Los Angeles to of moral mathematics, ro problem The Young Men's Christian Association The Socialists of all denominations are goiang principle San Bernardino, something like 75 miles, run except by its use. Mistakes in ought to announce its complete alliance with to come together at last. They canIbe olved over roads already improved, so the real road now have mathelmatics do not change the immuta- the powers of evil or else eease to pretend to found a great mission worthy of their moral building commences at San Bernardino and united of the law. anything else. So far as the average man can wind. news came to me in a very ea. ble imnmortality runs 250 miles, or more, through a mountain the walking delegate of the cow- see it has become nothing but an ae- tensive document from a mixed Cunning, and desert country to Needles on the boundary local of the and dishonest, is busy. It has come to tive adjunct of Wall Street and the 8. L. P. in Los Angeles. After several closely artlly line of Arizona and Californa. It follows the be destroyed, as refined banditti thereof, and just as the written pages of apology for Germany Social- destroy,- it will fail,--it will Santa Fe Railroad the whole distance; so that every otlher evil force allied in warfare journals most effective for reaction are ism, the writer (probably Trantmann) comes will the unemployed, working men traveling common good. those that most pretend progressive senti- at last to the purpose of the document. against the through this district are the victims who are This creed of faith and hopefulness has ments, brigandage has no more useful ally "Socialist in parliament and councils of building this road. Any working man in this since I have been in jail. I am than one that sings psalms the while. nations have proclaimed the dictates of the in- grown on me district who is caught out of work is grabbed the faith of the pioneers,-the trail- At present the bandits have a particular pur- ternational proletariat. They will not tolerate sure it was either by R. R. hulls or deputy constables, and makers who built the first roads to make easy pose to serve in heading off the rapidly grow- territorial aequisitions from established as- is kangarooed for 30, 60 or 90 days' work on the of the opl)ressed. ing sentiment in favor of the public ownership tional units, they must, therefore, with all mlar(ch the Lincoln Highway. They are treated just I am leaving the cell of the Clinton county of public utilities. The Young Men's Christian powers at their command prevent the humilia- the same as state convicts. Rotten grub and jail to take my place in the prisoner's dock at Association of New York has established what tion of any one nation to the advantage, ag- the bare ground for sleeping quarters; and for Iincoln, Illinois. The charge is murder, the is called a "Finance Forum," and has been grandizement, and imperial enlargement of violation of rules they are whipped my spirit were it the least giving out some rather choice information to another. very charge would weaken the same as the black slaves were in the South not for the fact that I know I am innocent. the young on this subject. One of its lec- "Quoting here the words of representatives before the Civil War. On top of this this sen- The taking of a human life is hard to justify. tures recently delivered was called "Invest- of the working class we must reiterate that tence is extended. If a man works hard, I did n* take a human life,-I was compelled ments in Public Utilities and How Held," and "The right of every established national unit and is able to live through his entire sentence, the object was to show that the stock of the for its national independence and self-defense to,--the tragedy was not of my making; I am of 35 he will be paid the magnificent salary exploiting public utility concerns was so wide- must be safeguarded, and all efforts and wars its victim. cents per day. This is seldom necessary, for I tdo not care to rehearse the facts that led ly owned among poor and other people that for conquest must be condemned, and infringe- just before a man's time is up, if they see he of December 30, it was absurd to say they were monopolies ments on established institutions for the Demo- 111 to the unfortunate affair is about broke down and no longer able to do I decoyed from and dangerous to disturb their ownership. S cratic control of further industrial advance- 1913, except to write that was a (lay's work, they will give him a chance to my office, attacked from the back, and brutally This edifyig course was given by the Asso- ments of each people must be inhibited and run away. I saw a few men who managed to ciation undei'the direction of an "Advisory prevented." beaten until, in defense of my life, I was com- get their 35 cents per day for 30 days paid to Committee" composed exclusively of repre- The rest of the document tells how "The Ielled to kill my assailant. I am satisfied that them in the form of a check, but they were un- but the agent of others. He sentatives of Wall Street firms and corpora- working class must in thunderous tones en- Tony Musser was able to cash. the checks and were forced to was cut out for tions, among which one is instructed to read force its mandates." We presume that the was hired and paid, his work walk :30 or 40 miles to a town where they could him. The real criminal that sought my life is the name of every conspicuous financial ex- thunderous tones will be loud enough to drown get them cashed. In the mean time they must still alive,. It is still on the job. It is financing ploiter in the United States, the Consolidated the noise of cannon. go hungry or beg. If they are caught beg- andl directing a man-hunt. I have wounded Gas Company, the General Electric Company, I guess we were mistaken about the aims of ging they will be grabbed and given another this beast. From its wound came yello- blood, four trust companies, the traction trust, and the international proletariat. The class struggle (60 to 90 on the great Lincoln Highway. -it is called gold. It came from the heart of (lays many other popular institutions of the kind, is not about the products of our labor ways of keeping at all. You can see they have many all enlisted in the great work of causing youth Socialism does not intend to overthrow capital- the corporation,- -its ,ocketbook. The yellow the slaves on the job and keeping them from circulation was tapped. of the land "to think right" and in favor of ism. The only reason why the workers should getting any money out of it. Now you may The woundedl beast Iecamne furious. Millions exploitation. unite is to perpetuate national boundaries. ulink they could not get enough men in this of drops of its yellow blood were lost. These They never lose a trick nor overlook a bet, The document also calls upon the socialists way to do the work but there are so many yellow dropls are called dollars. It is fighting do they? Newspapers, magazines, church, in all the countries of Europe to send dele- unemployed that they can afford to select the back. I have been selected as its victim. The pulpit, college professors, universities, chari- gates to an international congress to be held best. When the bulls grab a bunch of jobless thing that wounded table associations, prayer meetings, saloons, in Philadelphia. Does any sane man believe the Illinois Central and slaves, 504)at a time, they line them up, ex- IHarriman lines was the Truth. In our paper bawdy houses, vote brokers, bribers, politic- that the Socialists in the European armies are amine them carefully and select the strongest we told the truth about these unions of crimi- ians, Murphys, Chadbands, and the Y. M. going to stop fighting long enough to nominate looking men for the kangaroo court. As for nal dollars; we told it in the name of thirty- C. A., all brought together in one glorious in- and elect a delegate to a peace congress, or the rest they are unfit to survive and are given five thousand men who faced starvation rather spiration for work in behalf of Privilege and that European governments will let such peace a few swift kicks and told to beat it and be than make surrender to the beast. We shall Loot. Isn't it sweet -Pearson's Magazine. delegates get here. quick about it. continue to tell the truth; To me the whole crazy rigmarole looks like omnpronmise we will .Jobless, homeless and propertyless slaves not; surrender, a desperate effort to use the European war for never. are building this great hyi•way and all they THE SOUTH I do not know what the out:!ome of the trial advertising purposes. get out of it is kicks, jails and rotten grub. I at be. Lincoln will 'lThe fact is, this is not my doubt very much if they will be allowed to OU1 Scabby Pollock. Latest reports from chi ef concern. The outcome of the present SEATTLE TO THE REfSCUE walk over it after they have finished it. Pollock, La., are as follows: Twenty-five men struggle for justice, is of supreme moment. The working class as a whole are facing laid off in one day; a ten per cent cut in wages, Fellow Worker Frank Cady: The circular A legal fight., they cail it. Tihe prosecution this kind of a career with nothing but death an increase in house rent to the tune of $1.00 is powerful. Back of it is money,-politics- letter was read at the meeting yesterday; at the end. flow can we reach the working per month and Robersary Groceries gone cre- and the well-oiled machinery dentials and of a system that class with our plan to improve conditions. So higher than the moon. I am of the opinion a donation list will be given to recognizes idollar values before human values. that it will soon get their guts to growling if Hlarry Lloyd and others who may have time to I far we have reached one in a thousand. The will nimake my defense with Truth as my one great rmuass know nothing of any plan to better nothing more. spare, and an active canvass made to collect grow- as much funds as possible, and a meeting will "Tlhere is no adamantine armour against their condition and have no holpe in life. Can Sweet Home job is no more, tram road with be held in the hall next Saturday evening, and anyone devise ways and meauns, first to put the ing up in weeds, grass and cankering Iutrt like the Truthi." W. W. rust. Was the strike successful Readers of the collection go to aid the "Voice." whole plan of the I. in as small and Trusting 'l'bly have money behind them; I have. nr concisc the Voice are the judge. that the members and locals of the bel,,Iind a pliill'llet as possible, and( then get mre. ThIe spirit and flesh of tihe work- it before every working man, women and child It is reported that the big mill at De Ridder, I. W. W. will be big enough and broad enough ers' nmovemtenit is thle only support I want. I at once. If we can I am sure that out of the La., went up in smoke last week. to keep all the publicity agents we have in an, grateful for the field, and not put thenm on the bum because every kind tlnought and good whole mnass we could get a working The unemployed army of the South is grow- wish tihat haIs come majority, of petty differences of opinion on some non- to me from my brothers ill with a militant minority to put life into it and ing each day by leaps and bounds, and it is lihe ranks of toil; grabtful because, whatever matters. steer the movement of the rocks. out of the question to get a job of any kind at essential may hall'ppcn at lincldn, I am happy in the c'lear Yours for Industrial We have no right to say the working class any price. Everybody is doing it, doing it, Solidlarity, convict ion thlat you Ibelieve in me. TIO)S. WIIITEIlEAD), has rejec(ted the I. W. W. until we have doing it. D)oing whatt Riding a Side-door ''llree yea:lrs we have stoodl on the firing put Secretary C. C. C., I. W. W., Seattle. line the whole thing squarely before all of them. Palace car from job to job, and it is the same hCen ti,giether. 'rlhe days have idark. We have Let's get busy before the masters puts us un- damn thing every time, nothing doing. slTff,,rl. ''Those we love hIave suffered. The der military runl,when there will be less W. C. TAYLOR. The militia closed ul, the saloons in Butte tragedy of thi em(pty hY. envelople has been chance than there is now. [loping that this when tey first entered that city. That was ours;s et, . Iiore lh'iebe,(tn comnj •ensatiotns, there article may be the means of bringing The Salvation Army attempted to hold its only a temlporary spurt of virtue. The mine li;a\v' hIiri lights ill the gloori. hiave thie ques- We smiled tion of reaching the working class before the customary services in the Silver lBow county owners want people, to get drunk so there will in o(lr tltears. WVe were conscious that our fight entire memlHrship, 1 remain yours for the jail. Then the music started. The salvation- be an excuse for starting troublle, and the wasi fr our firesides, our loved ones, our rights o•cial and Indlustrial Revolution. ists sang "Boundless Salvation" while the saloonkeepers want to sell oze. Thle saloons :ts fret' \workilng nlen. AIFREDI audience sang "llalleluja, I'm a Bum." Major have therefore been opened, again. But it Outr re-t'usal to give up our right to organize 1. TUCKER, Box 16"3, Victorville. Jordan is sore about it. lie thought he had was easier to make the muiners stop drinking S~; a: vietlrv for tile labor movement. We an audience thalt could not get away, but than to start irinkinrg again. f;.el :in issue tlhat mustube mnet. If the Amenri- would have to listen to his sermnnons. lie was c:tn w,,rking manii does not possess the right, MY POEMS mistaken. They stayed all right, but they did Jeffersonian Democracy .fl' lerson harra'ck. s :, free mf,amn, to organize,. while dollars are not listen. Ir,''ite'l', in their right to organize, then Word just received from the Illustrator says The business men are getting sick of the I'r,,to,,•i is a fiction, and thie constituional that the poems will be out in time for the holi- whole ,usiness. It is costing them about NOW IS THE TIME nari,,te. ':i ,joke. ()n this one issue tile future day season, that is the volume will come out in $4000 per ,lay to get tlheir town put on the of the hilhor ti\ov-niment will Ihe decided. November or December. The title of the book lumm. Militarismi is an expensive luxury. TO READ B. E. NIL880N'S PAMPHLET We a re tetntint on the 1lains of Armagedd(on. will be: "Songs of Love and Rebellion," and We ae hIatt lintg for tite Fatherhood of (od ansI it will contain several poems never before pub- This driving the unemnlployed from one town "Political Socialism Cap- lre Irot•hlerlood,1 of Mlan. lished anywhere, such as "The Last Message," to another, is a very bright ili,. It hais don,. "Night," "My Woman," and other songs. The mriore than any otther one thing to improve the turing the Govern- Religion- L1ulling tlie slave to sleep. Wtak, cost will be about 50 cents a copy, but don't l,reed of vermin tlhat inlhablits '"our glorious ii!'! ment." send me any money until book is advertised as .jails." ready for sale; just let me know how many It will ,he sold to loals ai,,l Seak.rM at Poverty---lack of w-isdom and substance copies you want and your address. "Damaged Goods"-A story in three parts. $2.50 per hundre'.i copic.s, pHstpfllag pjrepaid, as atminig tlhe, workers. COVINGTON HALL. Part 1, Poverty; Part 2, l)isease; Part 3, Ieath. long as they last. Single ,opi,.s live cents.