As Trials Draw to Close More Emphatic Grows Each Day's Revelat-ions of Development of Premeditated Murder-Plot;?First Shot Fired from Near McRae; Deputies Shot at Drowning Workers; Further Proofs of Perjury by Ex-Sheriff; Faotfc Developed by Cross Examina-

tion Even More DamiilnpfThan Direct Evidence. C By CHARLES ASHLEIGH

The Defense, in the case of Fellow Worker Thomas H. Tracy, has now reached the important point in the development of the case. The preliminary portion* of the dence are now entirely in and the whole strength of the Defense is now centered the actual happenings of November 5th.

So far, it is the opinion of most of those who have followed the trial that it would be almost impossible to return a verdict of "GuiltV* at the termination of the case. Dur-i n g the past week the witness stand has been occupied by one witness after stoother,—*11 of them citizens of Everett,—who observed the slaughter of our fellow workers from the Great Northern tracks, from Johnson's Float, from boats or from other points of vantage. The long train of witnesses who were actually on the "Verona" is but just starting. Also, there have been a number of Everett boys who have testified to the picking up of revol-ver and rifle shells on the wharf. Besides this, a waitress of the Commercial Club has sworn to the existence of sufficient arms in that build-1 ing to convert it into'a veritable arsenal. We, are in the last lap of the trial; the workers, should watch the march of events with as

:much vigilance as ever. The bosses ai eager.to take advantage of some chink

A number of to testify regarding the angle at "Verona" stood out from the wharf •ber 5th. All have said that the stern was swung out from the dock side. With the help j of a wooden model in court of the boat and the dpek, most witnesses have succeeded in; approximating the position of the steamer with reference to the dock. This is a most -important point, as the Defense is endeavor-; ing to prove that the vessel was at such an • angle that it .would have been impossible to have seen Tracy in the position in which he | was alleged to have been by the "identifica-'

have bgsn

Shot at Singing Men. The; projection into the water known as

Johnson's Float constituted a most favorable, altlio rather distant, viewpoint for observation of the events on the boat. The fact that the "Verona" intervened between the observer and | the dock, prevented those who were on the float (rom seeing the actions of the deputies. Other, firing parties, however, on other por-tions Of the dock or on other docks, were seen

"4>y the Johnson's Float .witnesses. The first of these was Robert Thomson who

testified, on Tuesday, April 17th, that he had seen persons with long-barrelled guns—he could not say whether shot-guns or rifles shooting from behind the Klatawa Slip on t Everett City dock. Thomson was subjected to a grilling cross-examination by the and acrid Cooley who. however, failed entirely to shake his story.

He had stated that the first shots were fired while the men on the boat were still singing. The venerable Cooley strove mightily to alter this but in vain were his efforts.

His testimony was completely corroborated by that of Fd Thomson who was on the float with him. These and other witnesses all tified that five or six men fell overboard and that 'bullets were splashing around them tho the gallant deputies were firing at drowning men. From this it would appear that the death toll of Everett, taken by the

• citizen deputies, would amount to eleven or twelve.

Disproving Conspiracy Charge. {/ Alfred Freeman, a member of the I. W. W. • and a', passenger on the "Verona" gave tes-

I **. tlmon^ that opened up a long series of similar ' evidence.' Each "Verona" witness is ques-

tioned/first by our attorneys With reference to their movements on November 4th and the morning of the 5th prior to starting This is

i kill the!

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I • part of the move of the Defense l

conspiracy" idea the Prosecution has been o assidously hatching. I produce the opening portion of Freeman's

testimony as a sample of the way in which the examipation by Moore or Vanderveer of all, 'Verona" witnesses starts.

After enquiring as to name, age and work, counsel proceeds:

'ere on the Steamship "Verona" on November 5th?" ,

'Yes." 'You met with the others at the hall Sun-

day morning?" 'Yes, •! was there." »

"About what time were you it the hall, Free-man?" .

"I should think* about eleven o'clock." "Was there any meeting in the hall at that

time?" "No. sir." "Did you go down to the bo« with the other

boys?" "Yes, sir, I did." "Now, Freeman, did you seqany Vlubs, guns

or any other kind of wcapotj in the halt, at the dock or on the boat?"

"Did you see them break chairs hall to make clubs?"

"No, sir. 1 never did." Such has been the prelude, in

tion of every "Verona" witness so far, to the questioning on the actual tragedy of the dock-side.* Following the questioning anent the marching down to the dock comes usually the eliciting the movements of the witness upon the boat. Here is a sample, also taken from Freeman's examination as reprejenta-

>y weapons of any ve of them all: "Where were > Everett?"

i the boat on the way

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"On the lower deck on the stern." "What part of the lower deck?" "Around the piano." v \ The witness Is then asked to indicate the

whereabouts of the pianq and himself on the model of the "Verona."

"What were you doing at the piano?" I '* "I was sitting around there singing." | "What were you doing?" *

"Well, there was one or two playing the ano. We were all singing and having a good

Each witness was of course questioned as to his whereabouts on the steamer at the time of the landing and the firing of the first shot.

Shooting at Drowning Workers. I. W. McDonald, an Everett barber, stated

that he observed men with' rifles shooting from the wharf. He also said that he

that bullets were splashing around h««i That was the last he saw of the man in the water. He was then asked:

"Do you know Mr. H. D. Cooley, one of the attorneys for the prosecution. He is not in court just now?"

"Ye«, I do." ' "Did you see Mr. Cooley that day?"

"Where did you see Mr. Cooley?" "I saw him on the dock between the two

warehouses." : This was where the Commercial Cluk de-( puties were standing. We strongly suspect j that Mr. Cooley had an inkling that this ques-! tion would be asked and that that was why he happened to be absent from court jnet then! The same witness testified that he had

I known ex-Sheriff McRae for some time and tha^h's r e P u t a t i o n f°r sobriety was not very

John Josephson, whp gave similar testimony, staled, under cross-examination that he saw three or four shots come from the boat later on during the shooting. They appeared to come

, from around the smokestack on the hurricane j deck. Two or three other witnesses gave simi-i lar evidence, all saying that the shots from • the boat, very few in number, came at a com-i paratively later stage in the proceedings.

Jury Go to Everett

( On Wednesday, the 18th; the jury, accom-| panied by Judge Ronald, the attorneys for I both sides, the defendant Thomas Tracy and the court stenographer, went in automobiles to Everett to inspect the various places men-tioned in the court proceedings The party stopped on the way to Everett to look over the scene of the Beverly ^Park outrages of October JOih. Nobody but the Judge spoke to the jury, pointing out the various features at the request of the attorneys who remained

I in the background. A visit was made to the disputed speaking

corner. Hewitt and ^'etmore and then the party went down to the dock. The ware-houses were carefully examined; a large num-ber of bullet holes were discovered which showed that they had been made by firing from within.

The party then went aboard the "Verona" which was subjected to a searching examina-tion. The jury discovered that the boat was riddled with shot holes. Particularly the pilot house, they discovered, was full of holes in

->me of which buck-shot was still found. Did McRae See the Invisible.

The captain was told to swing the boat ut at the same angle at which it was bn

November 5th. Then someone was sent to stand in the window where Tracy was alleged by the State's witnesses to have been. The

. members then stood upon the dock at the place said to have been occupied by the "identification witnesses." THE MAN IN THE WINDOW WAS ABSOLUTELY IN-VISIBLE!! !

The visit to Everett was a most important :ore for the Defense. The actual physical

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d. prefiguring the new. cross, a gibbet. Take the past the men who the prison, the thumb of being pioneers of

e is left but the story entities as meaningless

der? What highwayman would stop at m der when he could buy others to do killing under the protection of his lei tools. ,Murdcr was perfectly logical uni the conditions in Everett. Murder is alwj perfectly - logical in a society founded the survival of the fittest—criminal.

As we landed on the dock we saw the e dences of the perfectly logical method

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of the heroisr gate from which we could tier of cells that answer in a the aspirations for liberty, democracy answer the cs

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Ewfelpuggery Trip on JVerona Suggests Many Phases of Class Struggle; Brutality Does

Not Avert But Hastens Movement of Toilers Towards Freedom; Move-ment Stronger and More Firmly Rooted in Everett Than Before Massacre; Fussilade of Shots Heard Round the World.

(Br !• Knot )

BEGGARS RESULT OF THIS CASE

It is some time now since that memorable day of August 3rd, 1913, the day of the Wheat-land Hop-yard riots, in which two working, men, one deputy and a district attorney wer< lulled.

The most prominent among those arrestsd and held for trial in connection with it were Richard Ford Herman D. Suhr, Wra. Beck and Harry Bagan.

The trial began on January 19th, 1914, with Lewis and Royce acting as attorneys f< defense and Carlin playing the leading role as chiaf prosecutor. In his final talk to the jury Carlin asked for the acquittal of Beck and Bagan and for a conviction that would

Xa life sentence for Ford and Suhr. The being grateful for the many favoi

the hands of Carlin, did as they were told and brought in a verdict in almost the same words as Carlin had instructed. And on February 6th Fellow Workers Ford and Suhr roaded to the penitentiary for life.

The case was immediately can-Third District Court of Appeals at Sacramen-

' t o This court, with the connivance of the State's Attorney's office played politics with the lives of Ford and Suhr. and monkeyed around to see what effect the agitation being carried on in behalf of our imprisoned felloe workers would have on the general public, and on the hop-picking part of the community in particular. And on September 10th, 1914, they gave their decision upholding the lower

C°Apetition for hearing was immediately filed with the State Supreme Court. They likewise played politics with the lives and liberties of Ford and Suhr. They waited until after election and on November 9th, 1914, they re-fused a hearing of the case.

During the time that the State Supreme Court was playing politics, anothi

On Friday the editor of the Industrial Work-er went to Everett on the Verona The Sec-retary there told us that he would have Mayor Merrill give us a fitting Everett welcome with a band—vigilantes of course.

In the trip we had two objects. We wanted at leisure to examine the steamboat which led a band of workers to a shining place io the story of the struggle of men for blood-bought freedom.'—and the "City ok Smokestacks" to the destiny of merited loathing, contempt and

pages of the history oi the the place to which Nero attained as

he result of a ~tong reign of barbarous irutality, Everett reached among cities rowning Sunday >rgy.

ton of fiendish death

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pense of Ford and Suh: other than the "fnend of the working class" Hiram W. Johnson, King of the Pick Handle Brigade. He was elected on the strength of his dtaiements during his campaign that he "would see that the hop-pickers got a square deal." But the hop pickers did not get the "square deal." A petition for pardon was gott-en up by the A. F. of L. and was heard before him in the Mills Building in San Francisco on March 5th. 1915. The petition for pardon was turned down by him on September 11th, 1915. He gave as his reasons for upholding the courts that he thought Ford and Suhr were guilty, and that he would not consider them further until Sabotage and threats of Sabot-age were cut out by the friends of the impris-oned men. He brought forward no proof,

with the notes of '"Hold the Fort," the battle song of Laboar.

Excursions, the common enjoyment of life, had been denied them, but their's is the power to enjoy greitly, feel deeply. It was one of the few periods of enjoyment in lives of slavery aftd toil In remarkable contrast with the misery of their lives and the destitution which is the rewartj of the producers was this Sun-day excursion and the beauty of the scenery on the shore, till they thought that these shores, meant to be the property of all, had been monopolized by the few. Even this but reminded them of their mission, and filled them with thje Joyous thought of a great duty to perform.

A, Scene Sadly Heroic.

Then presented itself to our mind another

•and lai tshed of the blood of

these same decks—a scene sad as slavery, but showing that men of the working class can die as heroically as they can live, that Labor i» invincible. We saw these same decks covered with the death fruit of master-class rapacity, cowardice and barbarity. We saw men who were a few hours ago exultant in the strength of their purpose breathing their last on decks seeping with their blood. We pictured them propped in the arms of thei friend as they sang their challenge to the old and the dawn songs of the new. Shot by the

•ith the manhood j murderous J>uHets of hireling ruffians, they in atonement for j died!—men measuring up to every standard of the betrayers of! manhood, themselves f<

out the manhood! which to measure the workingclass of the Id of their offal > future.

Fools! Murderers! Tools! You sought destroy the onward sweep of Labor with thugs, gunmen, rifles, shot-guns, revolvers. Five :

oon we left the Coleman dock with its . dead, others found a grave in the waters mstle which did not for one moment i y o u r shores! oin us that it was a place of slavery. ( Taken Up by Army of Industry. uld see the work being done by a race • ts working for a pigmy. But the giants I But what of those who saw them die! Soi

the pigmy I went on that deck mere unionists wanting

and Suhr had ever been caugl.t or sen i for any acts of Sabotage. : A. F. of L in convention at SanU

Cal., on October 8th, 1915. asked tlia he case to be reopened on thi don of Ford and Sulff. Thi

request has so far been ignored by him. Ford and Suhr were taken to Folsom Prisoi

on November 12th, 1914. 1 visited them oi December 9th, 1914, and on leaving I promise that I would stick wiffl them as long as ther was a doughnut in the United States, 1 als' promised them for YOU, that you woul stick with them for the same length of tim< By YOU. I meant the entire membership of the I. W. W. I visited them once ea for quite a while but on September 14th, 1915 1 was refused further visiting at the priso and was told by one of the underdogs thi the only time I could visit them again woul be when some nice friendly sheriff brought n for a long visit. Needless to say 1 have n< been there since. 5

There has been some fine work pulled off . behalf of Ford and Suhr during the time thi

their case held the center of the stage, but docs not seem that they have stayed wil thein long enough. True, the boss has fe quite a gnawing at his pocketbook! For has cost the boss on an average of ten millic a year to keep Ford and Suhr in the pen. Bi it has not yet produced the goods. We mu have those men free!

If we can't get them out one way why not try another? We could make it a point tell each farmer and orchardist and hop-grower

'that Ford and Suhr are still in their prisoi Use your own judgment as to how you ai going tq tell it to him. If you can't make hii understand through one method, you may J>y another. We have tried to free them through the courts. We have tried to free them through petitions. We have also tried to free them through threats of Sabotage. Shall we be forced to use it to the limit? Ford and Suhr must be free! Shall we make another try at it, or shall we change that motto from "we never forget" to ''we easily forget?" It is up to YOU. What are you doing to make good on that last promise to Richard Ford and Herman Suhr?—C. L. Lambert

the port of determined on you nt. one of the | of a warring world

rs it is true— They who clothe looked at the shelter you and who rred, shot and j ed and ruined are

j The volley ol'youi

which tig perfectly logical' murder was com-mitted. Inside the ^hare'house on the end of the dock two boards vere taken off the

One learned in the art of warfare had probably' suggested -j two ranks kneeling and the other sttnding as the best methods for throwing l<^d into workers.

both warehot^ep _arc the holes punched by ballets fro* 'inside the r e -houses. There, are bullets imbedded it

of the waiting room plainly shot by thugs of uncertain aim. lb the clock is waiting room next to tf»e ceiling is pathway of a bullet. At what was it fired? A thug was probably trying to shoot God,

i the Commercial Club did not need him ley had Thug MacRae, Thug Cooley and ig boss Hartley. That the Commercial Club hirelings iccessful in the murder of workers, the ounding of. others, the jailing of many e»w history. But deliberate murder was at planned without a purpose. That pur-use was the destruction of working-class rganization in the city of Everett and the nrestricted reign of gunmen. That ne\ as massacre more unavailing we were ,n< > learn. We went to the I. W. W. Hall le city of Everett. Not the I. W. W. hall,

which had been closed when some time ii October we spoke on jhe stteets. Afte being continually driven out of that hall by the hirelings of the Cloughs and the Hart-leys—and refusing to stay driven out in the characteristic I. W. W. way—they had finally been driven out by the workers of Everett. Defying the economic power of the masters these workers made the hall their rallying point till they forced the movement into a larger and better hall. Here we found workers of the same fight-ing class who have made the I. W. W. the terror and dispair of the bosses. Asleep a few months ago. thousands of Everett workers have been jolted into wakefulness by the massacres and brutalities of Everett thuRdom This is one Everett rallying point of what has been aptly called "Irrepressible I W. W." There is another which we were next to visit Guided by one of the mem-bers we went thru the city labor had huildrd for the Hartleys. On the way we passed the Commercial Club where the

i behalf of kdwtxial unionism, capitalist-minded workers say we are dreamers. They My that all this tafic of 1

Industrial Freedom is a dream; the* say we want the impossibta, , *

Our answer to tbem is: If indnsf&l nnioa-ism is a dream, then re-write your hiitorUa, take down yotor monuments! Every page of your histories has been made bright by men who have lived and died for a dream; yoor monuments comtaemorate the deeds and lrfes of dreamefe. „Cease to speak in honor of John Brown; ceasC to praise Burns and Whikelreid, v. Hofer and Nathan Hall, Lincoln and Gari-baldi } cease to admire that consummate flower of American life, Wendel Phillips; for an these men were only dreamers. Cease to think that the race can progress; cease to think that in any way life can be made decentr cease to think well of your fellow man.

industrial unionism is a dream, then civi-lisation is also a dream. Then everything in all the world is a dream, save only the capital-ist idea of master and servant and the grinding toil of the masses of mankind—that is a hor-rible reality 1 .•!' x'< ,4

The man who lives in a world filled with unnecessary horrors and who never makes a protest, that man Is partkips crimmis. If be sees all around him these nettfteis miseries and offers no word of objection; u he stands beside this stream of men and women flowing downwards to destruction and offers no hand; if against it all he has iflfr word <J of protest, then he has helped to push farther down the poor woman of the street, "IfevJias helped to

ike down his brother, fallen on the in-dustrial battlefield. ^

We members of the I. W. W. may not in the next ten years see the complete emancipa-

of the working-class, for which we strive and hope, but at least) we do not feel respon-

ible for the whole wrong, for day after day we protest, and protest, and protest I And

I continue to protest till the time when I crush the capitalist system. Crush it the end that at last thjj world of ours

e fit for the habitation of the working so that at last men and women may the blessings of happiness; that little

children shall have their inheritance of joy; hat there shall be love upon earth and no nore hatred; joy upon earth and no more mis-

ery; peace upon earth and no more strife; light upon earth and no more darkness.

-kers of the i and mingled with it is the strains of ' the Fort" dying with the life of a w hut to be taken up by the army of ind nevermore to die till it mingles with the rati le of your system.

met of evolutionary torces ne mo noi un- ana i tand. he dijLnot know thaUthe punctured | t of the Verona was lus answer. j j them the Virona was but an incident. a | A '

the war. One said he could why the workers were not en! dently did not know there ' offices in Seattle. Blind mole product of evolutional derstand,

To them the topic of conversation. It represented but a poor means of transportation, by which the willingness of travellers to stand poor accomo-dations on account of good scenery was capi-talized. They could not imagine the happiness and elation which broke in song from the hearts of workers bent on a great mission.

We lost sight of the passengers, puny, in-significant, little-purposed flotsam, rudderless on the sea of life, as we imagined these same decks on the morning of November fifth. There were boys with the idealism of youth,

i great things seem easily possible, their thoughts focused on the future. There were nen old in the one struggle which means nything other than slavery for humanity.

The recruits in the struggle for freedom rub-bed shoulders with veterans of that handful

ho pitted their lives and their overalls against le armies, the thugs, the gold, the power and >ot entrenched in the strongholds of industry

Greatest Words in /Vocabulary of Labor.

And with the sor ine blended the w now and hope fo words in the voc Workers." Do yc

do no

vrds of comradeship, • the future, the gi ibulary of labor—"Fellow j know what these word if you have not heard thei

lips of the crusaders of the social revolution! Denied the comradeship that into "home," "sweetheart," "baby," all the tenderness, all the strength, all the ail the aspirations of these men are focused and compressed in the words "Fellow Work-er." There is in it all the moods of the sigh of the winds, the boom of the surf, the crooning of love mingled with the of the storm and the thffnders of battle. We ctn hear these notes as soft, as low, as wild, as stirring as the lives they lead mingled

led. Forgejful of Self.

FREE SPEECH.

Make no laws whatever concerning speech, nd speech will be free; so soon as you

make a declaration on paper that speech free, you will have a hundred law-

yers proving that "freedom does not m « n abuse, nor liberty license;" and they #ill define and define freedom out of existence. Let the guarantee of free speech "he in every man's determination to use it, aHd we shall have no need of paper declarations. On the other hand, so long as the t>e<Tple do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; -for •yrant^

ardent, and will dev< name of any number of gods, itherwise, to put shackles upon

' —Voltairine Be Cleyre.

; the organization which is the ex-1 cast of their revolt against the thral-jami ndustry. If thc>I had been in the ; in Hall or on the, fob they could not wit!

unconcerned in ill except the fu- ly he workingclass There was the thai

the clear thinking, the comrade-1 in , h has made the I W. W. the great- stat

tred their thoughts ke]

is not the" supreme joke of a itic, if evolution is leading us > slaughter, prisons such as that prisons athrill with the spirit ich is ever the spirit of prog-more significant than the bar-

or of a tinsel civilization of

as those murdered at Everett. Rvrrett. enjailed at Everett for a real democracy, will be the

i the fight for still greater fa-for humanity. Not ours to do

a slave in a world enslav.ed in own making: they belong to the

vhich has no race re personifications of the un-t of progress, proof that his-icaning and humanity a goal.

CLOAKING VI^ENCE.

Constitution of e United

-R. Lee Russell.

Patriotic, resolution, Repre-h Carolina, said:

May Day of revolt.

THE iNPuarnoAL

Oxman (By Win. Thurston'Brown.) remembered that these working

tection, i not appealing to legal pro-

i On the colitraryi" they know that they bare all to risk in -doing so. They know that the policeman's club is for them. They are acquainted with the inside of the jails. The government affords thim no protection. The constitution might juf t as well not e*ist at 111, so far as they " concerned. It is no shield for them at What do these municipalities or these corpo-rations care either for the constitution pr for the laws?

What, then, does this state of things mean? It means a state of aggressive warfare being now conducted by the forces of capitalism against the worktrs. It is proposed to crush these men of the working class who have the spirit of revolt against intolerable conditions i * their veins, It means more than that. You can't have w*ar in the long run. without hav-ing two belligerent forces, and we have them right now. The working class itself is be-coming conscious of its situation and is fight-ing, fighting for its life, and it is going to fight harder and harder every month-

Lsing Industrial Solidarity. They have no militia or police at their com-

mand. They have no arms. They are not using guns. They are using, as they used at Lawrence, their own industrial solidarity, the power of the general strike. And when they learn to use the general strike, intelligently, swiftly, completely, they will be resistless. And it: is because these workers are becoming aware of their potential strength, as they in England and on the continent, that Ba< Powell has written as he has in his book tl lines about the unemployed.

The parasites are beginning to see t finish. There is only one thing an exploi class can understand—and that is power, un-til you have power you make no impression on them. I will have no part whatever, now or at any time, in asking anything f.*om the em-ploying class ior the working class. 1 will not ask the', employing class or any part of It for permission to speak onjhe streets. And I don't want to see the workers doing that. I want them to speak on the streets without

• asking anybody's permission. Suppose they do club you or bayonet you? There things that can happen to a man than being clubbed by the police or put in jail. 1 want ti sec the workers of America aggressive, impud em, self-asserting, bold, daring. Let them call a spade a spade Let them act upon the pre-sumption that there are no rights in all the world which are not theirs to the limit

Read the story of the French revolution, and . you will find this to be true, that the

thing those old feudfl autocrats could under-stand was power. The enemies of that great revolution were the spineless compromisers. And remember that any kind of legislative body. I carc not by what name it is called, is rotten with compromise. The demands of the workers for the coming days are not to be entrusted for a moment to legislative bodies. We get in this world exactly what we have

ail Does Not Deny writing Rigall Letters; Smith Woman Was Of-fered Five Figure Sum for Conviction of Workers; Fickert's Star Chamber Grand Jury Idea Punctured; Wanted Release of Prisoners to Protect Self But Commercial Club Wants to Throw Prosecution as Sop to Popular Sentimeilt. ' . *

Special Wire to Industrial Worker. SAN FRANQJSCO, CaL, April 21. —After

Captain of Detectives Matheson had admitted on the witness stand that there was no evidence against him. Ed Nolan was released on bond today. As rthe result of the greatest exposure of the frame-up sys-

used by the masters against the workers the widespread evidence of perjury, public

opinion is thoroly aroused and certain of the innocence of Tom Mooney and the other tims of the United Railroads.

Last night the San Francisco Labor Coun-cil assessed all its members to probe the frame-up and expose and convict the perjurers and their masters. —

Estelle Smith has made an affidavit that Oxman promised her fe five-figure sm jure herself in order to murder Weinberg. She states#that she told Fickert of this effort bribery. Oxman has been arrested for sub*na-tion of perjury. His trial comes up Monday. April 23. Oxman has admitted the writing of letters to F. E. Kigali Fickert and Cunha are trying to throw him overboard to protect them-selves. Fickert tried to dismiss all cases to escape punishment, but the Chamber of Com-merce vetoed the proposal, as they are willing to have Fickert and Cunha made a sacrifice to popular sentiment. Fickert tried to bring up the cases to the grand jury under direction, naively explaining that as all about the cases he would be the logical

So damning is the documentary evidence of e greatest murder conspiracy of modern nies that the law and order Rang tried to rob

the safety deposit vaults in the Crocker Bank to get the letters exposing Oxman and Fickert. Anxious to escape thru confession fresh ex-posures are daily being made bjj those connect-

the frame-up.

I, affiant, repeated in substance the above affidavit to Charles M. Fickert at abovt the time it occurred.

Miss Smith's affidavit is the second cuse Oxman, the "frank and open-hearted cat-tleman," of conspiring to hang a man by false purchased testimony^ f

F. E. Rigall, who is now en Francisco, and who was a friend of .Fickert's Star witness in the Mooney trial, has already told under oath how Oxman had lur^d him San Francisco by misleading letters and < deavored to have him testify to- hating se Mooney. Billings and Weinberg at &e see of the explosion, despite the fact that Rigall was on the other side of the continent on the day of the bomb outrage.

Rigall made affidavit that Oxman had of-fered to "cut" three ways with him on the re-ward. one-third to Oxman and on^-third tc Miss Smith. The latter's affidavit,pf yester day. made public last night in The- Bulletin, shows how Oxman attempted to make good the second "cut" by offering to buy (estimc which would place a third man in thie shadow

SAN FRANCISCO. CaL. April 17.-An affi- Qf ,he gallows. davit of Estelle Smith, chief prosecution wit-' That Oxman was not acting for himself, but ness against Warren K. Billitgs, that she had jQr m m 4 n «hjgher up." is shown in Miss been offered a "bribe in five figures" by F. C. S m i t h ' B affidavit: r Oxman. who is accused by the attorneys for asked said Oxman: Thomas Mooney of having engineered a gi- -'Did Fickert send you to me? gantic frameup lo send Moonty to the gallows, | "'No; the men higher up than Fickert is in the hands of the defen* lawyers today, j m e tQ yQlL-»

Miss Smith made affidavit voluntarily that1 M;,, Smith told today of having gone to Oxman had come to the deital office where' (-ap tai0 ,,f Detectives Duncan Matheson last she is employed, at 721 Markd Street, and had! l . r | (ja y wj tj, her disclosures of the attempted offered her the big bribe tO'testify that | V»ril»e. She said Matheson had advised her

Israel Weinberg, tie jitney driver i a j f a j n s t going to the defense attorneys with

public sentiment, the grand jury refused and will ask the Attorney General to appoint a special prosecutor to take up this-case.

Fickert says that he tymself would be better Sle to conduct the investigation, being famil-x with all the facts. The general sentiment that Fickert is too faAiilfcr with all the facts

» regard to the perjured evidence to be fitted > investigate those who ^ave evidence undet

him.

State Will Look After Own Witnesses. LOS ANGELES, Cal, April 17.—F. E. Rigall

with his mother and wife, arrived at Los An-geles this afternoon-on their way to San-Francisco where Rigall will confront F. C. Oxman to confirm charges Df subornation of perjury. In addition to confirming all the charges against Oxman he repeated a coi sation in which he told Oxiftan that it might prove a very dangerous thUg to give

cent organization of the I. W. the Iron Ranges of Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan never looked brighter than they do today. The members are more de-termined than ever to carry the mesaage of the One Big Union thru the mine tunnels, open pits, and every, part of the mining in-dustry of these three states. '

The state of Minnesota has passed to anti-I. W. W. law. modeled, or rather, copied after all the other anti-L W. W. laws that have been passed lately thru out the entire United, States. But I catft see where that is going to get them anywhere in Minnesota, at least a* far as the mining re-gion is concerned, for one cannot eat or sleep in any of the Finnish Co-operative boarding houses on the entire Iron Range unless he or she produces the little red card of the I. W. W.

The organization is growing by leaps anfl bounds, as is evidenced by the fact that during the month of February, the head-quarters of No. 490, Metal Mine Worker!' Industrial Union, sold something like worth of due stamps, and in the month ,6i March sold over $1,350. worth of due stamps.

The mine bosses, the newspapers and p i of the business element on the Range sfi|y that the 1. W. W. is dead. By the way flje miners are lining up in the "dead" uni0t; it looks like it might come to life and w $ e up the business element before long

The miners are going to hold a May Day celebration in Virginia. Hibbing, Aurora and Crosby. Minn,, on May 1st. and also At Marquette, Mich Speakers will be there to speak in Finnish. Russian. Italian. Au-strain. Croatian and English. There will also be dancing in the Workers' Opeca Houses in these four towns in the ev^ing.

Sure! The I. W. W. is dead on th^Iron ,Range; but God help the Steel Trust when

—C. L Lambert

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal , April 19— At thirty p. in. yesterday a desperate attempt made to Ket possession of the letters from F. C. Oxman to F. E. Rigall which landc<l Dis-irict Attorney Fickert's "honest old cattleman in jail. Attorney Maxwell McNutt. who repre-sents Thos. J. Mooney, against whom Oxman sought to induce Rigall to give perjured deuce, placed the letters a few days ago Late yesterday afternoon

the bank. "This

allege*^ by Oxman to have taken Mooney and Billings to the scene of the ecplosion.

The affiant further assertl that she told District Attorney Charles M Fickeri. of the bribe offer. This assertion is denied by Fick-

| ert. In her affidavit before Defense Attorney j | c r c d

Tho Miss Smith told of Oxman to the <jental parlors, of

his offers to lake her to diiner and to the >h<. H. (heater, and finally of the «ffer of a bribe. > Her sworn statement, in pa t. follows: { jn ,

That said Oxman asked affant if it was not i bomb a fact that she had seen the defendant, Israel, a n , | s

r r n f l ( „ v , . . | t Weinberg, standing by a posfon the afternoon ! of July 22nd. 1916, in front ol said 721 Market

r story at this time, but when Attorney Conner asked her directly wheth-r a bribe <1 been ol'fered. she admitted the Jacts. hdward Cu:iha. Fickert's assistant and the

telling the Dist the bribe offer. Miss Smith

tinha characterized her story as "bull,* d. and both ignored her disclosures.

cw of the recent developments in the asrs I went to the District Attorney attested to him that he as>j for the

charges against Solan.

. , . . Street, That your affiant ©Id said Oxman fjrst p!a< unknown telephoned lo, ' . ... . . . . w • , w r vi,,* I a m u„ab1c l h a t B h e h a d n e v e r m h e r b f f l , e e n M l d W e m ' ml I want to get some berg until after his arrest. Said Oxman then ,| here in a safetv deposit: Stated: t will stop for them Let! "If you will testify and totify right 7 —"

AMERINGER ON DIVISION.

(By n^car Ameringerl • Gentlemen, you've got to show us. from Missouri, from our red half down i crooked heels If you've got anything \,a What

results—results right here in this man's town, not in Hong Kong or Kalamazoo, or in any oilier of those out of the way places where patent pay dividends.

You who have such a cock-sure confidence |n craft organizations, and who jierve to break down industrial i US what you have accomplished in fhow us the closed shop, the r the childless factory, show us Vou have wrested from the masters.

Now don't shout all at once about the Brick-1avers or Typographical Union—we know that some high-skilled crafts have practically a monopoly on tlieir trades. Strike-breakers who can manipulate linotype machines arc about as scarce as thugs who lay bricks; but show us o*e big plant where improved con-ditions have been obtained for all kinds of labor through"your brand of organization.

Gentlemen, this silence is oppressive; you 'are making a noise like a hunk of lead striking

sand pile. Vou have failed; own up and repent.

You have a number of organizations that are. useful only as collecting agencies for the support of ornamental national officers. A labor organization that is ppwerless to better

' the conditions fulfills the same function i painted watermellon in the dining roon looks all right, but it don't satisfy hunger,

i The masters are a mighty shrewd, hard-head-ed set. You will never wrest concessions from them by paper organizations; neither tories won by tying yourselves hand and foot with contracts, truces and protocols.

You can't scare 'em any longer with your little craft unionism; they've learned

• tricks in organizing themselves and they don't . start an Anti-Steamfitters Society, or a Mutual

Protective Society against the encroachments * of Nut-Makers. Not on your life; they ar

wise to spend money on such tomfoolery. They havq organized into powerful n

' facturers' associations, and oppose hopelessly divided labor with compact industrial organi-

i zation. j You still may be able to lick some little $ one-horse concern into line, or prepare it

a feast for the trust, but you can't touch the j» trust itsejf—that's too hard a bite for your : old teeth.

fivi figures and will not have to work any mon. No one who

1 knows anything about the banb case will ever : would! know you and you can stat all over again Fickert! where no one knows you."

il before the grand jury early this j I asked said Oxman: urging then, lo take up the Oxman j "Did Mr. F.<*ert send you to me?

with himself conducting the investiga-j And said Oxman replied In view of the fact that Fickert is under' "No the Oxman scandal and fearing to arouse | me to

"OUR CARDS, OUR MORNING."

at Reno as a pa'fcker on a pack Lost Creek Sheep 'Company at

"going wages." which the captain said was fifiy dollars a month and found. The pack train consists of three mules and three bur-ros, or rather four burros including myself, as under the present conditions the worlBtr is only a pack animaL

(>ne evening at the camp fire the talk was of "«oing wanes." F.very man was getting fifty five dollars a month—five dollars more than ibis long-eared slave. I saw I had been "hoosicred upon " But my innate selfishness and revenge suggested that inasmuch as "El Capitan" had hifed ine for fifty, happy thought.

him pay $60 a month all round, a little talk all of them wanted the ami they wanted to ask "the patron"

he increase in the morning. But well I that there I would be playing his cards.

only five miles from

i higher up fian Fickert i

HYMN OF COURAGE

By JAMES WALDO •'AWCETT

("pronto I . j He acted

I human slave driver.

I see old men grow tired and fall beside the path. I see sweet youth bend in the storm, and take The sheltered road beneath, and furl our flags. And speak no more of that great day in which Revolt Shall flame across jhe sullied skiea, and strike The shackles from broken limbs of Man.

I see the roses fade in girlish cheeks, and eyes Grow dull and dim that once were filled with fire. And see the old. worn kings go marching proudly by And masters bend the race unto their will, and take The bread from children* mouths, and steal the love From out the souls of brothers in the strife.

Qit I am not cast down; my heart still cnes for p ace, \y eyes still hold the glint of hate for tyrant pow> r \y lips still sing the rebel song, my hands still |che "L catch the fallen banner and go down i V rapped in its folds all crimson with < Sied in the deathless cause of Light at

ild h< m n glad blood with Night.

CRIME AGAINST SOCIETY. The Constit

ome stand together, Brothers, for the fray; ake up with me the broken sword of common wrath,

^nd with me climb the steely gates of fortressed- shame knd plant the people s pennon on the crumbled tower

.peak to all the world of Right too long denied; ie stand together. Brothers; dawn is here!

Every attempt to gag the free expression L^vides that the right of fit speech shall not of thought is an unsocial act, a crime against h a(,rj,jKed. and adequate jrmedies are pro-society. That is why judges and juries w h o

v i d c d a n y g r o U p of men. j hether in office enforce these laws make themselves]^ ^ t o a r f e j t p < .o p i c | c f o r c they have

poken and to ship them ridiculous.

make themselves very hard for a robber to ;ims that he is acting in

their behalf and for their good- Is there no parallel between the gag of the burglar and the gag of the law? Why does the burglar use a gag? It is because he wants

get away with your goods, and he doesn t nt you to make an outcrw and call the

neighbors. He knows that He cannot con-vince you by argument • that \he is entitled to the goods and that it is really to your best interest to pass them over Capitalism holds up the toilers; it robs theht of their labor and is enjoying life fullest on the result of its plunder. Natur-ally it doesn't want to be deprived of special privilege, therefore it puts the gag of the law in the mouth of anyone who at-tempts to make an outcry. —Jay Fox.

John Capitalist, you are perishing, and you are doomed to perish utterly from the face of society.—Jack London.

m IU sii'i* of any The argument At would uphold

such an action is analogotfcto the argument used to justify the Georgi^nob that lynched Leo Frank. Are the authbitics justified in breaking the law and spirliof the Constitu-

pretext that ^conflicting local ordinance might be violatf? This, it seems, has been the case in Evfctt. and to make the offense doubly dami ale the legalized outlaws have cloaked tti r violation under the cry of "law and orde

Neither Loyal N Speaking against the w

tentative Kitchin <?f N< 'Let takes neither moral declare war for others to of neither loyalty nor pati tis to get into war. when he self is going toUtay

fflmin the house that

- W . C. S.

NO"J LIKE IN AMERICA.

He had never heard of striking away out in the desert,

the middle of a snow storm. When he became coherent he wanted to know what I

I told him 1 was going to change "goitiR wages."

He was going to fire me out of camp, pronto. A Spaniard came to the front and gave a pow-erful lecture on Solidarity; he said "fire one, fire all." We stood like a rock amid a sea of swear words. Then he tried physical force. A painful and bloody ear, with which he had hit a fist, told him that it was a large con-tract lo run six determined men out of camp.

He changed his bulling tactics to a senti-mental appeal. "Now look here, my friend, how much do you think I have to pay for

thing further re-the mind of a rebel? I onions were concerned,

interested in eating them—lots of •real, round onions at 22 cents a pound afterwards let him have communion

i the East who have it the public opinion

of the village freely expressed. F.ach man scrupulously respects the rights of his fellow, and any infraction of those rights rarely or never takes place In such a community all arc nearly equaL There are none of those wide distinctions of education and ignorance, wealth and poverty, master and servant, which are the product of our civilization. There is none of that wide-spread division of labo^, which, while it increases wealth, produces also con-flicting interests. There is not that severe com-petition and struggle wealth which the dense populati

•itably creates. / great crimes thus wanting, and the petty j

Should Join I. W. W. And Get Increase. PHILADELPHIA. Pa—The M. T. W. on

the Atlantic Coast is making good progress

are making better conditions for the sea-faring men in all departments. Several shipping com-panies in New York have granted a bonus of twenty-five per cent to the men employed, which amounts to about $10 per month. There

lysical courage fht. It is evidence

to urge others i that he him-

grant a raise of $10 per month in-of civilized i stead of the bonus, as it is better understood

The present scale is: oilers. $65; firemen, suppressed partly by the influence of[$^0: coal passers. $55; also

public opinion, but cheifly by that natural j e of justice and his neighbor's right *fhich

: in some degree inherent :

n.—Alfred Russell Wallace.

Instead of being crushed by the machines life should be made fairer and happier and nobler by them.—Jack London.

for all I. W. W.'s in the steward's department. The sailors of the International are sailing at the same old wages $45 per month— W. T. Neff. Secretary M. T »W. No. 100.

PPUSTR1AL '

INDUSTRIAL serrat ion b y t h e f o I W n g extract f r o m • letter wri t ten t o t h e H canton Chronic le b y Mr. Fred L. B a i k a l i n protest f e i n t the raw ou trace* that i * v * b e e n recent ly c o m m i t t e d against M n d M o p p o s e d t o w a r b y the so-ca l led patriot*. Mr. Bec-ker wri tes not a s a Pacif ist . b u t s e e m s t o s ense the danger o f t h e s e outrages, that they tend t o p r o v o k e t h e v e r y thing the Militarists seek t o al lay. In this h e m o w s a d e e p e r k n o w l e d g e of p s y c h o l o g y than d o e a t h e a v e r a g e b a a -nest-patriot a n d his letter is o n e o f the first sane express ions I hfcve seen f r o m pro-war aide of the house'. J f a t in the course of hia letter hfe aayat "I fo l ly agree that tooenatfwho e v e r my a w o r d that tenda t o incite rebel l ion againat the g o v e r n m e n t o f thia great, free country, ahould e v e r g o unpunished ."

It waa thia aentence that inc i ted m e t o theae reveries o n rebell ion. ,»

A n d I l o o k e d b a c k tip the b loodsta in-e d path o f history, a n d aaid: But for

J. A. MAC DONALD, M m j h g M t <

Mail Addrcaa: B o s 1857, 8«*ttls, Wash. Telegraph Address: 2l lS--7th Arem*

Telephone Addrcsa: Elliott 4344-J.

revolt. " W e are progT«

Not for Red Cross, to Double Cross.

TH E Washington State Harvesters' League, l oca ted at 6 3 0 Central Building in Seattle, is asking workera to p l e d g e

a number of weeks ' work in the harveat fielda to the R e d

Cross. Thia R e d Croaa p l e d g e has as ita purpose to d o u b l e

croaa the Agricultural Workera' Organizat ion of the 1. W . W . O n e of these cards which has b e e n forwarded b y mistake

to the editor of the Industrial Worker , is m a d e out b y a worker w h o wants to d o n a t e his w o r k in the harvest f ie lds

from January 1st to February I . W e h a v e nothing against the R e d Cross except that as it

is the ev ident purpose of our present civil ization to injure

and destroy as m a n y workers* l ives as poss ible its funct ion is

at least doubtful . S topping the m o u t h s of cannon w o u l d

appear to b e far m o r e logical than s topping the w o u n d s

they cause. i

*Tis that which stirs the race today'— 'Tis that which m a k e s truth's l ightnings

p l a y — . "fts Revolut ion in its b f r t h — T h e soul of F r e e d o m — the light of

. e a r t h —

I will guarantee to take from this jail, or any ja i l in the world , f ive h u n d r e d m e n w h o h a v e b e e n the worst criminal* and lawbreakers w h o ever got into jail, and I will g o d o w n to our lowest streets and take f ive hundred of the mpst aban-d o n e d prostitutes, and g o out s o m e w h e r e where there is p lenty of land, a n d wil l g ive them a chance to m a k e a l iving, a n d they will b e as g o o d p e o p l e as the aver-age in the communi ty .

— C l a r e n c e Darrow.

Every citizen m a y freely speak, write and publish his sent iments on all subjects, be ing responsible for the abuse of that liberty. N o law shall ever: b e passed to curtail or restrain the l iberty of s p f p : h or of the press.

-—Constitution of C o n n e c t i c u t

Subscription*. Yearly .

Subscription. Three Months Bundle Orders. Per Copy (In Canada). Bundle Ordera, Per Copy (In United States)

CASH MUST ACCOMPANY ALL ORDKK8.

INDUSTRIAL WORKERS OF T H E WORLD. General Headquarters—Room 307, 184 W. Washington Sc.

Chicago, Illinois . D. Haywood — — —

GENERAL EXECUTIVE BOARD. William Wiertola, F. H. Little, C. L. Lambert, Richard Brasier

and Francis Miller.

mighty blue. N o t a lone has all their property b e e n taken

f r o m t h e m b y their creditors. E v e n their houaehold furni-

ture haa n o w b e e n taken to p a y their debts .

Thua ia o n e part of the fight growing out of the W h e a t l a n d

outrages, o f wh ich the workera w e r e victima. c o n c l u d e d . F o r d

and Suhr are atill in the penitentiary for the crime of inciting

workera to atrike againat unbel ievable condit ions .

Ford and Suhr must be freed. T h e workera of Cali-

fornia are generat ing the power t o ach ieve thia end . Dur ing the next aummer w e h o p e to see a great mass ing of the work-

ers in the orchards and harvest fields of C a l i f o r n i a W h e n

the fruit is ripe, w h e n the grain is ready for the harvest, w e

h o p e to s ee the worker^ g o o n strike, not for higher wagea

abetter condit ions, but for the release of F o r d a n d Suhr. W i t h the workera thua al igned on the batt le f ie ld of induatry, wi th

the ir -economic p o w e r as weapon , all the 4. W . W . m e m b e r s will n e e d to d o is to fo ld their arms, the farmers and orchard-

ists of California will fall all over themse lves gett ing F o r d

and Suhr out of the penitentiary.

Entered as second-class matter March 2S, 191J, **** • f i l e s st Seattle. Washington. under the Act of March S, 187*.

May Day—Our Labor Day.

MA Y D A Y — O u r Labor D a y ! I May D a y ! D a y w h e n nature, herself in revolt against

the t jammels of the ice and cold, with sun and earth in har-mony. preaches the gospel of progress I W h a t more fitting

than that this day should represent and give expression to

the battle of the irresistible forces of society m o v i n g toward

c o m p l e t e reconstruction.

True. you. our masters, have g iven one day a year

day for Labor.

W e the militants of labor want no d a y contaminated

and disgraced by legal sanction. Your Labor D a y means

the perpetuation of capital ism; our , m e a n . i t . overthrow.

Your Labor D a y symbol izes the ens lavement of the worker . ,

ours their approaching liberation. Your Labor D a y is l o a d e d

with memories of our past slavery, OUTS is fi l led with

of future f reedom I

Looters of our lives, murderers of hum)

ask you for n o t h i n g — n o t even a Labor D a y w e b e g g e d and met the fate of beggars. T o d a y w e are

ing not to beg but to t a k e — n o t one d a y but all dayi

a part but all w e have produced.

Your Labor D a y means ni

Tis the Neva Tearing Loose.

B y Victor H « g o

( A Predict ion of the Russfcn R e v o l u t i o n )

WE are in Russia. T h e N e v a ia frozen. H e a v y carriages

roll u p o n its surface. T h e y improvise a city. T h e y lay

out streets. T h e y build houses. They buy. T h e y sell. T h e y

laugh. T h e y dance. T h e y permit themselves anything. T h e y

e v e n light firea on this water b e c o i t e granite.

There is winter, there is ice a n j they shall last forever.

A g l eam pa le and wan spreads over the sky and one w o u l d

say that the sun is dead .

But no, thou art not dead , O Lber ty l A t an hour w h e n

they h a v e most profoundly forgotten thee, thou shalt shoot

bright and shining rays, thy heat, t ly life, on all this mass of

ice b e c o m e hideous and dead. D o y o u hear that dull thud, that trackling. d e e p and dread-

ful? T i s the N e v a tearing loose. Y o u sakl it waa granite.

See , it splits like glass. "Tis the bretking of the ice. 1 telf you.

"Tis the water alive, j oyous and terrible. Progress recom-

mences . T i s humanity again beginning its march. T i s the

river which retakes its course, u p n o t s , mangles , . trikes to-

gether. crushes and d r o w n s in its w i v e s not on ly the empire

of upstart Czar Nicholas, but of relits of ancient and modern

the Bebels , Mankind w o u l d atill b e liv-ing in the c a v e s and jungles, for the first m a n w h o sa id: "Let us l e a v e the c a v e s a n d g o out to dwe l l light of the o p e n pla ins; there w e will b e freer and healthier than here ," w a s d e n o u n c e d aa a Heret ic a n d Rebe l b y all w h o heard him. A n d as ! g a z e d back-ward I saw the Rebe l Carpenter of Nazareth, charged with b l a s p h e m y and treason, hanging there on the cross; and then I saw Spartacus and his l eg ions g o d o w n to dea th and 6 , 0 0 0 of t h e m hang-ing to crosses on the A p p i a n W a y for n o other cr ime ( tfian trying to c o m e up out of the c a v e s of R o m e , for rebellion. T h e n I saw Caius and Tiberius Grachua. b o t h aristocrats, s tabbed to dea th in Italy in one of the first recorded strug-gles for free land, all because Tiberius had cried: "Men of R o m e , y o u h a v e conquered the W o r l d , but in Italy y o u h a v e n o place to lay your h e a d ! " I saw the grandest b o y that ever l ived. Robert Emmet , mount ing the scaf fo ld in Erin to expiate the crime of having call-ed his countrymen to rebel l ion against an alien despot ism, and later I saw

Connol ly! Skef f ington . McManus. i

s w a l l o w e d u p the broth w o r l d in a m a d orgy o f war . Y e t all t h e t ime the hour h a n d o f h u m a n daatiny m o v e s forward t o w a r d s the n o o n t i d e o f h u m a n liberty, equal i ty a n d f r a t e r n i t y thru co-operat ion .

M y heart beata faster o n thia M a y D a y , for I catch the v i s ion o f a alaveleaa earth of international bro therhood . I a m caught wi th the forward s w i n g o f t h e pendulum. M y f a c e ia qn the hour h a n d of h u m a n deatiny.

A Vision of Democracy. ( B y o n e of the Everet t Prisoners . ) ,

A t the present t ime, w h e n t h e ifavorite past ime of all the great nat ions of t h e earth aeema to b e the destruct ion of auto-cracy and the en thronement of republ ic* and d e m o c r a c i e s u p o n the ashes of all the o lder existing forms of government , it is l ike c o m i n g out of a st iff l ing a b y s m a l c a v e into the o p e n w h e r e o n e can b r e a t h e again and see the free spaces ^ f the h e a v -ens, t o turn a w a y from the h ideous a n d do le fu l program of submiss ion^and d e -p e n d e n c e which haa obta ined since t h e d a w n of civilization, to the p lan a d v o -cated b y the a d v a n c e revolutionists o f the world . ,

T h e conf ident a n d a p p r o v e d p u r p o s e of the Industrial Workers of the W o r l d is the restoration of Liberty a n d F r e e d o m of opportunity' to the w e a k e s t m e m b e r o f the human race as wel l as to the e c o n o -mical ly strong.

coming, in rebellion, up out of England. Scotland, France. Ireland. Germany, Spain, and many other lands of Europe; and later I saw their children rising in rebellion, proclaiming that. "All govern-

happiness. w e . despot ism. I ™ * ^ d ® l J V J h ' t h i T w a ! T o o long h a v e ! T h e trestle work floating away? It is the throne. That | a n / r e b e | U o n , , o o k h c a r t

learn-' other trestle? It is a scaf fo ld . T h * old book, half sunk? It | f o r j # a i d C e o r j ? e Wash ington and

( n o t is the o ld c o d e of capitalist laws an4 morals That o ld rook- T h o m a s Paine were rebels; T h o m a s Jef-ery just sinking? It is a tenemenJ house in which work ing ! ferson. Patrick Henry. Benjamin Frank-

: lin, John Hancock . Lighthorse Harry . , . . Lee. all. all were rebels; and I c a m e on

by. never nore to return; and for this d o w n ,h < . v a | ( . o f t i m e a n d beho ld ,

gulfing, for this supremdvictory of life over death. A b r a h a m Lincoln. Robert E. Lee. Stone-hat has been the power necessary ; Jackson, they and all the brightest

- , , , , z-v c i and noblest souls our land has bred. o ( ,h>' 1 < , o U ° S u n ' ' w e r e rebel , ; W e n d e ! Phi l l ip , w a , a

O n e stroke of thy strong arm. ? Labor! b e | . K a r l Leibknecht is a rebel: Eu-e e n r D e b s

rebel: all

their declarat ion to prevent al l and Casement , after the heroic Battle of j private m o n o p o l y and through it all rob-Dublin, shot and hanged for the self- bery and exploitat ion, b y laws m a d e a n d same crime of calting their p e o p l e on to , administered by the workers and produc-freedom. T h e n I turned to my native i e r s of the wor ld"s wea l th in their o w n land, and I saw our sires and mothers union ha l l*

It is their proc la imed purpose to s e e that the m e t h o d s by which monopoly* of the wor ld ' s material resources, a n d through it the exploitat ion, crime, ignor-ance, poverty, prostitution, want , a n d al l the other attendant evi ls of such a v ic i -ous social system, shall b e impossible .

They des ign that the l imitations u p o n

A Strike Bretker.

means n i>t,onal , .m. d iv i . , o» of the , P ~ P ' « l i v e d

[ernat ional ism—the . o l i d . r i t y of the S « "" P«!

Your Labor D a y s h a d o w s the past

rs prefigures the d a y when w e will

fc as a capitalist. irs is the future, brought nearer and

Labor Days.

Behold the depth of our contempt ! Your victims today w e honor! O v e r the graves of our martyrs w e pile the red . P R O M I N E N T clergyman

roses. Symbolic of growth, beauty and revolt. W e chant the | / \ m e n l a , his idea of scab. batt le songs of our c l a s s — t h e songs of your d o o m ! W e j been c o m p e l l e d to associate with tfcm for a short t ime:

scatter the ashes of one w e have learned to l o v e : w e sing his | "Af ter G o d had finished the ntt lesnake. the toad, the

songs of revolut ion; w e recite the epic story of his l i f e — t h e | vampire. he had s o m e awful subshnce left, with which he

grandeur of h i . death! j m a d e a . cab . A . c a b i . a two-lefced animal with a cork-W e are learning that our a r m . are many, our p o w e r vast. K r e w # o u l , a watersogged brain, ant a b a c k b o n e of jelly.

a lone are the creators of w e a l t h — t h e makers of e m - j "Where others h a v e a heart, hacarries a tumor of rotten

Vc are united. In our union is our p o w e r and your principle. W h e n a scab c o m e s ddfrn the street, honest

individual and private enterprise shall b e removed in reality. That the humbles t and most obscure worker in the w o r l d ' s industries shall know that he. a n d h e alone, is the architect of his o w n destiny. In this manner the next generat ion of children, as they c o m e to take our p l a c e s in the administration of the w o r l d " s wel l -being, will not have to be the proteges or servants of either an inhuman or a

rebel; Bill H a y w o o d is I b e n e v ° l e n t master. T h e y will real ize have s tood in the ages ! tha , t

1 }hcy are the arbiters of their

ce gave the fo l lowing state-' things and

stxke breakers, after having a "-

. . . . . . . of today for nobler j ^ H - b e i n g and destiny and that they a r e freer life for all Mankind. , n re®. I , ty f r " t o

L * ° / b o u t m f l t , n 8 V h c , r

an. an were and are rebel . . o w n 1 , v e a w h a l l " e y desire and will t h e m Rebel l ion is but the iUrge of the hu- I t o b e * - - soul ever toward" the light, ever ^

sing, vo ic ing the revolt w e f t t l i Singing the songs w c HUB, , U , " U » v are the workers of Italy, the peasants of France, the o p p r e %

ed of Germany. Wi th the snows of Siberia as a s o u n d i n *

board, e c h o e d by the hills of the Balkans, in the factory he l l ,

of England, in the cannon roar of your trenches, f inding

response in hearts asking the w h y of slaughter, w o r l d - w i d e

as your trail of b lood , is t oday our . o n g of revolt . T h e Mar-

seillaise, to the notes of which perished feudal s lavery, wi th ita "Ye . o n . of toil awake to glory I Hark, hark, w h a t myr iads

bid y o u rise;" is n o w chal lenging y l u r reign of g o l d —

and the myriads are answering. T h e songs w e sing are not the songs of a race or creed.

T h e y sound the might of a class. W e are conf ined to n o country, no flag. Our . o n g . herald your overthrow.

This is Our D a y . W e are the forgers of r e v o l u t i o n — t h e

destroyers of the o l d and the outgTown. W e are the nemes is

of id l ers—the d o o m of mas ter s—the emancipators of slavea. W e are revolution.

their backs, angels w e e p tearjin heaven , and the devi l

shuts the gates of hell to k e e p hfc out. N o m a r h a . the

right to scab as l ong as there is a i o l of water d e e p enough

to d r o w n his b o d y in, or a rope l o t enough to hang himself

with. "Judas Iscariot was a g e n t l e m s c o m p a r e d with a scab,

for, hav ing betrayed his f e l low worler. he had e n o u g h char-

acter to g o and hang himself , and ( s c a b hasn't. Esau so ld

his birthright for a mess of pottag« Judas sold his Savior

for thirty p ieces of silver. B e n e d i c t A r n o l d sold his country

for the promise of a commiss ion inthe English army. T h e

m o d e r n strike breaker sells his birthf{ht, his country, his wife ,

his children, a n d his f e l l ow worker for an unfi l led promise

from, a trust or corporation. "Esau w a s a traitor to himself , -ludas was a traitor to his

G o d . Benedict A r n o l d w a s a tra i to fo his country. A strike-

breaker is a traitor to his G o d . hiSbountry, his family, him-

self. and his class. A real m a n ia ^ver a .trike-breaker. There is on ly o n e object ion to fe a b o v e description, and

that is the impl ied insult to the r^tlesnake and

tained in the first sentence.

A soul-breath s w o r d s m ^ cannot kill. Nor gold, nor cros. , no>: rifle still.

R E B E L L I O N !

mes, hope's / s^c red fire, Is Freedom'i

S o for the first t ime in history w e shall toward wider taste the full cup of a consciousness, not

of the charity of a benevo lent group o f i, but of Liberty and F r e e d o m of

opportunity, which is the only wine that :ver refresh and revive the spirit o f oppressed and explo i ted workers o f

the world .

H i m Asia calls her l igh4 and blest: With Quetzalcoat l . l o n g ' j g o . It stirred the heart of M |kxico.

With Moses it for f reedom sought; With wild Mahomet toq^it fought; It gave Zoroaster all lit) ffame. Confucius his deathless Aflame.

With Cromwel l ' s legionp, grim and cold.

It trampled on the s t a t u t e o l d ; With Voltaire. Marat Jancl' St. Just. It raged 'till Europe ro je from dust.

tiled A b e Lincoln ifrdm the plains.

Set Marx and Ferrer breaking chains. A n d hovered o'er the C o m m u n e w h e n It fired the souls of w^rkingmen.

But yesterday, from Er^i'f woes . With Connol ly and Pe^rse it rose; In Washington , and not in vain. It marched to death wi th Harry Lane.

There is only one cure for evils w h i c h ewly-acquired f reedom produces, and

that cure is f reedom. W h e n a prisoner first l eaves his cell , he cannot bear the light of day, he is unable to discriminate colors, or recognize faces. T h e r e m e d y

to accustom him to the rays of the

T h e blaze of truth and l iberty m a y at first dazz le and bewi lder nat ions w h i c h

b e c o m e blind in the house of b o n d -But let them g a p e on, and they wilP

be able to 'bear it. In a f ew y e a r s l e a m to reason. T h e ex treme v io -

lence of opinions subsides. Host i l e theo-correct each other. T h e scat tered

e lements of truth cease to contend , a n d begin to coalesce . A n d , at length, v a system of justice and order is e d u c e d out of the c h a o s

Ma habit of laying it d o w n as a s e l f ev ident proposit ion, that no p e o p l e ought to b e free until they are fit to use their f reedom.

m a x i m is worthy of the foo l in t h e o ld story, w h o reso lved not to g o into-the water till he had learned to swim. If m e n are to wait for liberty till they b e -c o m e wise and g o o d in slavery, they m a y indeed wait forever. — M a c a u l e y .

be with t

sort of shell: revolver, rufle and shot-gun. Several of the boys had picked up several score of these shells, the total number that they must have all gathered indicating a fearfully heavy firing. These boys also testified to the condition of the walls of the warehouses which were splintered in such a way that the fir-ing must have been from within. Discovering Migratory Workers Are Migratory

James Hadley, Mario Marino and B. B. Armstrong, all members of the I. W. W., and passengers on the ship on Bloody Sunday, testified on Monday. All three were subjected

regarding their trip on the "Verona" but also as to their travels. It seems to be the ob-ject of the Prosecution,—all decent means fail-ing,—to try to discredit witnesses by the de-liberate dwelling upon the inevitable travel-ing incidental to the life of the migratory worker.

In Red, White and Blue Banting. Miss Lillian GoIdthorpev a young woman

who work*] at the Everett Commercial Club, testified as to the storing of arms and am-munition there. She stated that she had taken some shells out of members' jacket pockets for souvenirs. On inspection these shells turned out to be rifle shells. She also stated that the arms were later smuggled out of the Commercial Club wrapped in red, white and Slue bunting.

Archie Collins, I. W. W. and /Werona"

Under direct examination, Luke also testi-fied that he broke the leather thong of his sap when taking p. swing at a man at Beverley and lost it: He also swore that, on the dock, —he' was guarding the approach, the shore end,—a man ran to him and asked him to ex-plain the workings of a rifle. This was while the shooting was still going on. Onq more blow at the faint-hearted contention bf the State that^-even if there were rifles—they were

But by far the best stuff that the igiant ex-deputy gave was under cross-examination by Cooky, the citizen-deputy special prosecut-or. 'He testified that, up at the Sheriffs office, the night Rowan was arrested, the Sheriff said to him "jump into the car with -me, big fellow, there's a Wobblife down there. I want to pick up.* He denied the story that Edith Frennette on ,ope occasion led a crowd to the County Jail; and incited them to bring about a jail delivery.

Saps Were to Slug Workers. It was with some effort that the audience

restrained laughter at one juncture when Coo-ley < was examining Luke with reference to the'' night the people crowded around the jaiL Luke had ju|t stated how the deputies came out and dispersed the crowd. Cooley asks him, with reference to his dub.

STOCKTON. Cal.-Thi trongest A. F. of L. cit

The workers in the entire San Joaquin val-ley are ripe for organization, and the organiza-tion is getting into shape to soon enlist them all. The main thing we lack now is a number of good job delegates. Discontent is being shown on one of'the ditch jobs near here to such an extent that we expect a strike soon, and if it does occur we count on lining up three-fourths of the men.—Wm. Weyh, Sec. Recruiting Union No. 73.

SEATTLE'S MY MY "Did you strike them ar ose it to posh them

away, or as a threat?" "I nied h as a club and struck them and

drove them a -way with It" "Why* didn't you use your hands and posh

them' away?" . ^ , "I don't believe we have a right to." . "What do yon mean?" "We haven't any right to ose our hands." "Why, what do you mean by that?" "Well, what do they give os the asps for?" It was during Cpoley's cross-examination

that the fact incidentally cropped up that Mc-Rae had driven to Beverley Park in the same car as Luke. And McRae had sworn to having ridden in his own two-seated run-about I t happened while Cooley was trying—very dis-astrously—to show that the brave deputies were quite outnumbered by the I. W. W.'s.

"In your car, how many I. W. W.'s were there?"

"One." w

"And how many deputies?" "Three deputies and the Sheriff." "What! Did Sheriff McJRae go in your

J plrytical the way of the Prosecution's attempt to prove Tracy's guilt.

First Shot From Near McRae. The evidence is beginning to show, more and-

id ore, that Sheriff McRae, when he stood for-ward upon the dock, raised his hand and then dropped one, gave the signal for the slaughter which follqwed. On Thursday, April 19th, Frank Brown, an insurance agent of-Everett who witnessed the battle from the railroad tracks, testified that as McRae dropped hand the first shot came. '

Attorney Vietch, special Prosecutor from £j>s Angeles, was particularly searching in

^cross-examinatitp on tWs matter but only succeeded in getting if're-stated with perhaps even more force and surety. Vietch was ques-tioning Brown on the position of McRae at the time ov the firing the first shot:

"Wis his left hand still in the air when you heard the first shot?"

"He was already lowering his band." '"Was h© already lowering his hand when

.the shot was fired?" "He stood that way (illustrating), and then

AS HIS HAND DROPPED THE SHOT CAME FROM HIS RIGHT."

This location of the first shot as having come from a spot slightly to the right of the Sherrif on the deck, has been gi

"He did." "A five-passenger car?" "A five-passenger car." "And did be go out and return in that car?" "Yes, he did."

What Commercial Club Recommended. Later, talking of Beverley Park, Cooley un-tentionally brought out another facer for

the Prosecution. "What was your purpose in striking at the en ?s they passed?" "Rushing him along to keep him a-going." "But. why did you hit him?" persisted Coo-

mal little | ,ey« , i u , e knowing that that persistence would j bring forth such dread defeat.

backj "Well," replied the ex-deputy, "if

Mike Luney, an Everett resident, had an in-teresting little bit of testimoify to offer. He was down at the'entrance to the wharf at which the "Verona" landed,—the City Dock,— but was prevented from going onto the dock by the deputies. He saw automobiles loaded with rifles come down, he swore, befoi shooting. Then came a sens piece of evidence: •

"Did you see any of the deputu- —. .. .~r..— — — .. j — off the dock, to where you were, during the I to know, that was the idea of the Commercial

Club. That was what they recommended."

anything wrong wit "He appeared to b? crazy.'' "Did you speak to him?" "Yes, I asked hfm what wa

said: They are shooting froi "Had he been shot?" "Yes, he had been shot "By whom?" "HE SAID THAT ONE OF THE DEPU-

TIES HAD SHOT HIM IN THE EAR!" Deputy Said McRae Lied.

One of the most dramatic and clinching blows for the Defense was struck when there was introduced, as a witness for the Defense, Fred Luke, ex-Deputy Sheriff and McRae's

Luke

Luke gave his testimony in an absolutely cold-blooded manner. When talking of the brutali-ty of Beverley Park he spoke as would any butcher speak of his daily work, in cold, pre-cise tones. Luke is a tall ard well-built man, heavy and muscular.

\Vhen asked as to why the deputies white handkerchiefs around their necks. Luke replied casually:

"So that we wouldn't be hammering i other!"

Regular readers of these weekly reports remember that ex-Sheriff McRae swore on the night of October 30th, he did not main at Beverley Park but returned immediate-ly after the 41 boys had been taken out there. Luke completely gave this evidence the lie.

"Who was in charge of proceedings at I verley Park?"

"5heriff Mclac." "How long did he stay out there?" "I came back with him after it was

and sink, they had seen rifles in use dock. With almost wearying similarity »cession of Everett citizens filed in and

peating the story with but differences and slowly forging the strong in the chain of evidence for th^ De-

Many of the labor and radical bodies of Seattle amf vicinity have combined ,aod will fittingly celebrate Labor's International Holiday. J

Delegations of workers from all towns within a radius of fiity miles are expected to attend and from a* far as Portland there will, be representatives sent to take part ii the observation of Hay Day.

Promptly at eleven a. m.„on the first day of May, these delegations will form in line

the I. W. W. Hall, 20BJ4 Second Avenue South, where each marcher will be furnished with a red flower t>y the committee charge, f

Preceded by a sixteen-piece band, the pro-ssion will proceed to Mt. Pleasant Ceme-

tery. Street cars will be stationed outside the business district tp carry those who do

•>t care to march the entire distance. At the gravesides oif. Hugo Gerlot, John

Looney and Abe Rabinowiz, three of the workers murdered by the Everett mill owners

Bloody Sunday, November 5, 1916, fit-service will be held The ashes of

martyred fellow worker, Joe Hill, who judicially murdered in Salt Lake City,

will be scattered to the breezes, in accord-with the wish he expressed just before

death. The ashes of two less widely known, but none the (ess valiant and loyal soldiers of the dass| war, will also be sprinkled over the grass—and those who

Jessie Lloyd and Patrick Brennau will feel that the right to this placc in Labor's memory was well-earned by these two low workers.

i deputy telling him that a lot of the boys had >een sworn in. Possibly dreading to lose his ob. Schofield was sworn at the Commercial

Club. He received a revolver Vom Carlson.— t from the Sheriffs department, but from ; mill boss! Enough said! At the Conimer-.1 Club he was presented witi a club and so

thod ' equipment wa"s completed iiru this hfoppy twofimion of Commercial Club and nill boss Ques-

Since the beginning of the Worker Thomas H. Tracy, been an awakening of interest off of funds. And tfiia is when we toeed funds mostl . 3 ? 1 i,

We hate to talk about money;' We are side to death of eternally begging tflfe Membership to come thro. This Committee Is f, good deal more tired of appealing for fundj: than you are of listening to the appeals.

But what can we do? We are pfimged into the heaviest part of the expense this trial, right now, AND OUR RECEIPTS ARE LOWER THAN B^VER BEFORE! 11 The financial help is trickling in day •fey day in ever decreasing amounts.

DO YOU REALIZE THAT TO BE CRIP-PLED FOR MONVY JtT THIS STAGE IN THE GAME MEANS EVERYTHING? DO YOU REALLY REALIZE WHATflT DOES MEAN? We can hardly believe you can, be-cause we have appealed and appealed during the last two weeks and our appeals have been unattended. r

Only the membership, and the yorkers at

Another deputy, Fred Plymale, ^ras called to confirm the statements Of Fred Luke. He had occupied the same car as Luke, McRae, another deputy and the I. W. W. victim, on the night of the Beverly Park trip. He en-tirely confirmed the statements of Luke thus strengthening the impeachment of McRae's testimony. McRae, it will be remembered, swore that he was in his little run-about and that he returned from Beverly Park as soon as the procession arrived there, without wait-ing for any of the gauntlet proceedings. Ply-male supported the evidence of Luke, saying that McRae remained at Beverly until the entire affair was over and then returned with Luke and the rest—minns the I. W. W.—in the

mght out by Yandcrveer in his re-direct immation with regard to the methods used

by the Prosecution. It seems that, as soon as Luke has given his evidence, the .Prosecution was hot on the trail of the other passengers in the car.' Mr. Cooley, who was in court and had just cross-examined Plymale must have

en somewhat embarrassed at the following: Would Not Perjure Himself.

"Did you not, a few days ago. have a con-rsation with McRae about the matter of overly Park'"

The night before last."

[PPLED FOR 1 T ~ FAILS FOR THE <

SEQUENT INEFFICIENCY, WHOSE HEAD WILL THE BLAME BEL # YOU WORKER? We cannot do more thaj we do; if the funds don't come in, with the best spirit in the world we are cramped axut held bock.

This is a heart to heart talk with yon, fellow workers, and a frabk one. What are yoa going to do aboot h? y \

THIS IS A MATTER OF IMMEDIACY. NOT OF NEXT WEEK OR NEXT MONTH BUT OF NOWIII 1

Now, fellow worker, go to it and do you* share. If you have already done it do it again! A good deed always bea'rs repetition. EVERETT PRISONERS DEFENSE COM-MITTEE

Send those funds—and send them now!—to Herbert Mahler, Secretary-Treasurer, Everett Prisoners' Defense Committee Box 1878, Se-attle, Wash.

passenger, gave his account of the fatal voy-age. - He also atated that' he had had some conversation with Tracy on the boat on the way over and testified that he saw no signs of arms of any kind in the defendant's pos-session, nor was any mention made of fuch. The usual tactics of the Prosecution were used to shake his story, this time—the cross-

ier being Black—drawn out to an in-bly tedious length. His examinations

usually act as'a soporific; heads are observed nodding dully thruout the courtroom and one

led to wonder whether, if he were allowed continue, there would not be ar^ort of

fairy-tale scene in which the surprised visitor !o the court would sec audience, jury, liw^ers, judge prisoner and functionaries buried in deep slumber accompanied only by a species of hypnotic twittering which could be traced iventually to a dignified youth who was lulled o sleep by his own narcotic burblings but con-

chanically. to utter tlrj same ques-

Old and New Meeting. So the rase,—the greatest, perhaps, i

history,—goes on. Witness after witni n the gradual unfolding of this the most^sor-

did history of a town's decadence that has been told. And, outside the courthouse, aiting the thousands of the workingdass ting for news of the faring of their broth-In the court* there are two things stand-.tarkly face to face: the old decaying r. supported on tyranny and brutal ex-ition. which is the Commercial Club; and

erty from the miasma of humanity's suf-of the gene-

dftrveer offered to prove that he could show that McLaren, Vietch and Cooley were not being paid by Snohomish County at all but by the Commercial Club and certain business in-terests of Everett; therefore, he said, the State of Washington was not prosecuting this case at all. Judge Ronald ruled adversely upon the admissibility of this and the Defense there-upon took three exceptions, one each for the disallowing of this testimony from McLaren, Cooley and Vietch. \

Henry Luce, a resident of, Everett stated that, on the morning of November 5th, he had seen one W. P. Bell, an attorney of Everett, in Dailey's Sporting Goods Store in Everett looking over some rifles. Later he observed him on the dock and he had a gun over his shoulder with a tag On it. Paul Blankenship, another Everett witness, Stated that right aft-er the first shots he saw smoke arising from the dock. ^

A number of witnesses testified regarding the men who fell into the water from the boat and the splashes, evidently made by bullets, which were visible around them. The Prose-cution battled hard to stem the rising tide of conviction. They did not seem to relish the idea of the jury hearing that the respectable gentlemen of Everett who composed the citi-zen deputy gang were so enamoured of law and order and the preservation of civic peace that they even shot down men who were struggling in the watev On one Black—the nominal Prosecutor—aiki ber of foolishly minute questions of a witness concerning the splashes he said ne had seen around a man.- He asked him how high the splashes were, how wide they were—aye, even to an Inch!—and whether they spread or not, and so on, and so on, about as comptete an exhibition of insanity as this humble chron-icler has ever been thoroly bored with.

On Saturday one of the most important witnesses the Defense has produced so far was brought to the stand. This was Joseph Scho-field, onq time citizen deputy of Everett, now farming in Oregon. At the time he becaifSe a citizen deputy he was working in one of the Clark-Nickerson mills in Everett One of the bosses, a Mr. Carlson, requested him ty become

rars wienjoe Ii He oiled me ; hea<J with the butt

"Anybody el "Yes. McRac "What for?" "I don't kno for."

rere Mcfceand Irving?" "That night Irving was prett drunk. Also

from all indications McRae hadbeen drinking. Irving was so drunk that, aftei he hit me, he leaned against me and I smeltais breath."

"How badly were you hurt?? "He cut a place in my headan inch and a

quarter long. They took threl stitches in my head. I had to lay off four otfiive days."

"Where did you go from til dock?" "They took me to a drug-st|e and then the

doctor came and took me up | his office." "Did you pay the doctor hi?"

"Were you paid any moneyj>y anybody on account of this?"

"Yes, Mr. Clough left $75yith my wife. Also my wages ran on just t^ same while I wasn't working."

"Did you ever talk to Irving bout this?" "Yes, sir. The day after, £ the Cascade

Club." "What did he tell you aboul "He said that he was

was telling me about how badle felt about and he said: 'I hit every one <*thcm lick at Beverly on account ofjhat' He said one man also complained aboulaving hi broken and that a doctor loof said he was all right Then he|aid he hit hii another Uck as he went dowi|the line.'

crowd ruhed for shelter. In d< the relation of the return journey of the hell-ship, loaded with dead, dying and wounded, shattered with rifle-fire blood.

On Monday, the Defem

The team will be arrayed in white suits fith red trimmings. I. W. W. will be promi-icntly displayed on the breast.

For information regarding the team write oe Thompson, Mgr., Box 85 Nippon Station, leattle. Wash.—Joe Thompson.

I. W. W. PROGRESS IN STOCKTON.

was formerly the northeast of San

sio. but three y*ars ago the M. & M. rge siege to that organization, and now former job control is a memory only, o hope that they can ever revive, the 1. W. W. has been carrying on a latic campaign all the time, and the re-

sul{ is that we are now obtaining some very gratifying results. A Women's Propaganda league is doing gqod work here. The Glass Blowers are expected to soon join the I. W. VV. Recruiting Union No 73 started a branch in Modesto that is likely soon to outstrip this union in members and activity. We wjll also

Turlock and Pittsburgh in

B | JUSTUS EBERT.

It U not often that an intelligent working-man can s^y a word In favor of present-day religious myotics. They are almost always mouthpieces that give churchly approval to the capitalistic exploitation of labor and are to be more censored than praised. Recently there has co^ie to these shores one of the cult who seems to be "somewhat different;" who has, in ;fact, been condemned in some capitalist quarters and it likely to be con-demned in all such quarters because of this radical viewsJ He is the poet Rabindranath Tagore.

A native of,India, he is one of the oppress-ed and as such speaks substantially their thoughts, if not their language. Tagore's. mysticism condemns nationalism most ve-hemently as expounded in the March At-lantic Monthly. He attacks nationalism in the West in words that scorch. He aays "it is a dehumanizing, mechanical organization for the enrichment of a self-seeking few. It destroys not BO much the bodies as the in-dividuality, ideality, and spirituality of its victims. It transforms them from men into monsters and causes them to build up a Frankenstein that will in the end devour it-self; as it has within itself the germs of its own destruction."

He says, "The idea of a nation is one of the most powerful anaesthetic that man has invented. Under the influence of its fumes, the whole people can carry out its systematic program of the most virulent, self-seeking, without in the least being aware of its moral

The working class as represented in their onion organizations is icJpay the only force in the world that is xtmsciously working to ^maintain such civflifKtion as we have, while at the same timeVfaboring to extend the services and uses of*: the civilization for the benefit of all mankfcd

Opposed to this, the fas ter class as rep-resented in their governments and employ-ers associations are cofaijcioufly devoted to a policy of rule or rui|$ and in their pro-gram therfe is no consideration of anything but-'their own master^ Personal honor, human lives, virtue, eve:^ their own integri-ty, are to the masters {efcs than a blade of withered grass. With Jfcem the only con-

bunk cars, electric lighted and steam-heated, with hot and cold water and shower baths. Men are called at S:30 to a rotten breakfast, and at 6:40 are started to work. Nine of us were put in a section crew, and eight had red cards, while the ninth had an 1. L A. card

While the track was jacked up about eighteen inches high a distance of 600 feet the king snipe sasscd one of the men, so all sang "Soli-darity" and walked away.—Gurley Armstrong.

hundred to parade. But what can you ex of a bunch that has McRae for member? h.—There is some construc-

on around here. The wages concrete men is $2.75 to $3.00 I was caught agitating, and

ired for i t But the stickers id, and I find it pays to ad-iy as well as in others.—Chas.

"At that we would not be so averse to Colo-nel Roosevelt leading his own army into ^Germany if there was the slightest prospect of his being shqt; but we believe the mortality of major generals is about the same as that of quaker ministers."'—Seattle Union Record.

A struggling sph, striving to smile ever SO' wistfully thru the drizzling rain of May.

•\ The long and glistening asphalt of the r Thames Embankment, with its row of me-thodically placed seats; to the right the great fabrics of the Cecil and Savoy hotels and the ever-rumbling murmer of the Strand , trickling down the narrow side-streets. And, to the left, the dark-grey flow-ing of the Thames with its variegated float-ing populace of lighters, tugboats.

I And After Crowing After having walked nine hundred miles,

crossing the up-rearing mountains of the Andes and the plains and forests of Argen-tina and Chile, I at last arrive at my des-tination; the Pacific Coast. Dnsty and travelworn, I and my comrade make the last lap of our eventful coast-to-coast journey and limp into the city of Valparaiso, upon the blue Pacific's shore. We stand upon one of the main streets, looking around and hesitating as to which direction to take. Soddenly I hear a fait tremble of dista sound; too far to be distinguishable. B it becomes plainer with its approach and

But the Thames Embankment is different today. The usual close-pressed derelict oc-cupiers of the benches are not there, or are lo^ in the swarm of people. For the em-bankment is filled.—filled as it is only once a year, upon the First of May. Against the grey sky are flaming the crimson banners: banners of plain red, banners scrawled over with the blazoned insignia of a hundred or-ganizations. And the eternal hum of Lon-don's traffic is drowned in the full-trumpet-ed blast of the Marscllaise. the Interna-tional or the Red Flag, from a dozen bands.

There are also wagons, wagans full of singing children These arc the pupils of the workingclass Sunday schools. T h e ! h a d fo"rgot t t .n d a t c j wagons arc draped with red and every child | slowly the procession comes up the wears the red badge of international broth- j T h c r c a r e , h e f l a R S , h e d f a r 5tandards of erhood; and each is singing the songs of in- j j m m o r t a l which stand for the Revolu-tornational brotherhood. The cyclist ^r*"jtion in which our lives have their spring gades of the Scouts,—the swift, fighting jan(j tj,eir purpose. They march by, these vanguard of the Propaganda are there j Chilean workers, smiling and exultant are also the various associations of^Lon-| t |1 0 j n anticipation they were tasting the

tumph of the day of working-

It is music: the blare of instruments am the lusty chorussing of -many voices. An< then my tiredness slips away from me an< I am caught and uplifted as upon the wing: of some spirit. It. is the "International'

1 turn to look at my friend. He also has straightened up and seems to have been made anew. For a moment we look at each other and then simultaneously it leaps from

the First of May!" We

the unions; each with its ing hundreds.

Slowly the great proc inite form Marching thousands start out on 1 age to Hyde Park wher

four abreast, the i i m p

heir yearly pilgrim- K o m

f platforms, speak- I n f )

tory of the world- j ^

Thousands of j

spects the welfare of mankind, is whether it will strengthen their position of mastery and domination in the World.

Marquis Okuma, format, Premier of Japan has certainly been in p position to know the inside history of life governments of the world for the past thirty ye^rs, and in a recent magazirfe article he makes the fol-

Will Prepare Themsalvem. When Necessary. "Though on the surfac; of things, interna-

tional morality appears Jo have made some progress, it has, in fact, witnessed little or no development. Whenever any internation-al controversy occurs, armed force is re-sorted to as the only means of deciding it. With whatever solemnity treaties may now be concluded, they are of ho practical value, as the most colemn oath taken in tHe name of God is readly broken in case of neces-

v-oncluded by

But the working class, though it has Bade many mistakes ia the past, has xonstaatly learned by those mistakes. 7 " modern working class action declares its. object to b*, not to make a change of masters, bat to overthrow all forms of mastery.

Consciously, and without apology, does the working class today attack the masters at every point Never before has the work-ing class been so eager for the fray as now, and never have they been so ready to. at-tack at all points. Consciously, the work-

say that they will build and guard,aad administer their own civilisation. Without apology the workers say that all masters thruout the world must be forever abolish-ed, and that freedom shall be proclaimed for atl.

Apostles of Revolt are Everywhere. In Russia the working people yesterday

overthrew the Czar. Today the German • Kaiser implores his workers of the muni-tion factories to remain faithful * The United States is seething with revolt, and could all know the minds of each other, the

ers would even now be in flight from ce. Only recently, revolutionists were

hanged in japan to break down the revolt, and ^treet speakers are talking -every night in the working-class districts of- a new China. Ln England, France and Italy the rulers are more afraid of their own working classes than they are of ^ n y foreign foe that they face today. Everywhere we look, the workers are demandingv^ accounting

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lankind j n By j *1

Old Meeting New or» German Labor Day 1

Here is a surginp crow rd is a small Ger- ' y. Tbe workers a ,re in their Sunday

best : til e creased black of the German work- 1

cr whic i for the First of May. I ive ry one of trfrn i is wearing a red ' tie. Th e^rujjbcr men have been on '

tility at id of tension in this First of May cclcbrat

Sudde nly a speaker lea lustradc and bcKins to a iddress the crowd, i' Several policemen haul li iim down and this j

ignal for the raid. The mounted po- 1

lice, the ir helmets and sal iers, flashing in the ' young May sun. force the ir horses in among the crowd striking right ; and left with their ! swords.

The c rowd is dispersed. 6ut that night the i' Winters ous meeting-place !1

beneath a great glass « lomc, is filled as j * never w as it filled before And. despite the '* presence r of the police official, who sits •a

with hi* i-'hclmet before h im upon the table, i * next to the chairman, ^nd the presence of

so-called prosperity, ^ a t the spirit of re-will not rise here. The cry for bread, nost terrible cry ever heard in any na-was heard in the streets of our cities

winter, and we are tofil that each per-n America must eat one loaf of bread

s each week during the iffcxt year, or conditions will be many times worse

;t winter. Frantic efforts are being tie by the masters to ward off the doom y have prepared for themselves.

A Glorious Experience. glorious experience to

if revolution arid remak-] ing of the world* ideas. In the servile in-

ealized this ! surrections and slave rebellions of the past has been ithe strikes could be nothing more than com-

r set ahou^j parativelv local, owing to the lack of com-the present munication: now the serf of Russia calls

mpts of the • in the factory worker of America;; the ry to escape cnoly of China sends greetings to the miner fundamental I of England; the munitions worker of Ger^

use with the shep-ishermen of Scandi-

w workers of illian coffee planta-o all. and from all th^' cry of "Down the Revolution."

hundreds of gendarm the great crowd rise< er pledges viirkcr ii

heir rcbelli And let us

k-orkingclass

the Cause that

give our thoughts to the whole which lies in the harsh prison shackled with the bonds of

and let us pledge ourselves that w on every recurring May Day shall

goal; just Labor Day Under Southern Cross.

*n T h c A\enida de Mayo, 1 am m a r c h - f a r t h e r along the long road that leads s m g * from the dungeons of wage-slavery out

I i n l ° l h c , , c a , i n B sunlight of industrial eman-cipation.

Aires. On either side are the striped and spotted awnings of the cafes where, at the little tables on the pavement, are seated the elite of Argentina's capital, looking with half-afraid contempt at this cortege of the underdogs.

There are the lines of the Socialist Party of Argentina, the banners of the Confedera-tion of Labor, the Workers' Free Thinking Societies, the Italian Garibaldi Clubs with their members all in the scarlet shirts< of the Garibaldian Legion, and. here and there among the drab city workers, are , some Argentine Gauchos—or cattle ranch work-ers—members of the just-born Agricultural Organization, who have come in from the pampas for International Labor Day. They make a speaking dash of color, in their bag-gy light-colored pantaloons thrust into rid-ing boots with enormous silver spurs; their scarlet sashes, around which are worn silver belts, are wound several times around their middle; they wear embroidered shirts and,

4 around (heir necks, handkerchiefs of purple or green silk. But, dull or picturesque, everyone is at one today whrfn Labor cele-brates its unity.

inite' internatitial groupings and than there weft national groups 2 cies in the Unjed States of America follow-ing ihe close e the war for independence? No jktudent of history capable, of compre-hensive compajson will fail to perceive the immense diffetfnee in favor of intcrnational-

which "Red" pound, potatoes | cussed chart t soaring out of- been delivered >efoi

Cell Mate— kiybe not; but you a

LATAH, V tionvwork g for Muckers for )j|ine hour wasjx)f cours can'?; well J?e

irt^e in that

I. W . W . P r e a m b l e j The working class and lhc employing class have nothing in common,

nahsmj There can be no peace to long as hunger and want are. found among Na. j millions of the working people andi the few, who make up the employ-

it war | ing class, have all the good things 6f life.

allied,! Between these two classes a struggle must go on until the workers nsider-; of the world organize as a class, take possession of the earth and the ma* f even chincry of production, and abolish the wage system.

We find that tbe centering of the management of industries into fewer hands makes the trade unions unable to cope with the ever grow-ing power of the employing class. The trade unions foster a state of affairs which allow one set of workers to be pitted against another set . of workers in the same industry, thereby helping defeat one another in wage wars. Moreover, the trade unions aid the employing class to mis-lead the workers into the belief that the working class have interests in common with their employers.

These conditions can be changed and the interests of the working class upheld only by an organization formed in such a way that all its members in any one industry, or in all industries, if necessary, cease work whenever a strike or lockout is on in any department thereof, thus making an injury to one an injury to all.

Instead of the conservative motto, "A fair day's wage for a fair day's work," we must inscribe on our banner the revolutionary watchword, "Abolition of the wage system."

It is the historic mission of the working class to do away with capi-talism. The army of production must be organized, not only for the every-day struggle wkh capitalists, but also to carry on production when capitalism shall have been overthrown. By organizing industrially, we are forming the structure of the new society within the shell of the old.

Agitata They Cannot Fire.

Mail List North Yakima.

There is mail at North Yakima for the fol-lowing: Charles Peterson, W. Smith, Donald Chisholm. J. Wagner, Thomas Madden, Frank Reiley, Myron Elsworth, Mrs Wm. Van De Car. Harvey D. Wyatt

There are also duplicate cards for Ed. Ken-nemuri. Chas Rider. Earl Patrain, Mark Wil-son, Homer Felty, Frank Fisher. These cards will be forwarded to the Fellow Workers if they will send their numbers to John E. Thompson, Stationary Delegate, 19 South

t St, North Yakima. Washington.

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Special Wire to Industrial Worker.

I EUREKA. Mont , April 25.—The tie-up on the drives on the Fon-tine River is complete. The employers have been unable to get any pf»(m and die strikers are more determined than ever to go back on the job only when their demand of five dollars for an eight :hour day has been unconditionally granted. When men, brought in by the employ-

e r s for the purpose of breaking the strike, arrive here they either come over on the? picket line and show their I. W. W. cards, or line up.

Solders are guarding property, but so far there has been no vio-lence.

Information has reached here that all drivers in Eastern Washing-t o n and Idaho are to strike, as the men are almost solidly organized ' in the I. W. W. - . -* * * * • •

Special Wire to Industrial Worker.

EUREKA, Mont., April 24.—The Eureka Lumber Co., through misrepresenting conditions in claiming no labor trouble, and no Union, shipped sixteen Chippewa Indians here from Minnesota, only to have them get "wise" and refuse to "scab" on their arrival. Press Committee. j i? % u

THE GRANDEST ARMY.

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T.F.G. DOUGHERTY

LABOR QUITS, ALL STOPS.

EUREKA, Mont.—The greatest power in the world—the power of the folded hands of the workers, is making itself felt on the Fon-tine. The lofty stack of the Eureka Mill has ceased belching its black spew into the crisp Montana air.

The whirling belts, the roaring wheels, the tcreechtng saws are now silent. The Capital that is supposed to have built these mills is Still there. The lumber barons are still there, but the brawny muscles, the trained fingers of the labor giants have been withdrawn and the machines are lifeless.

The strike is still on and the men are stand-ing solid for their demand of fire dollars for An eight hour day. The worker# arc staunch, sober, imperative in their immobility and the popular sentiment is in our favor. On the

:enth Fellow Worker J. I. Turner ad-dressed a large and appreciative audience. Graphically he recited the long painful struggle Of the working class up thru the changing forms of human slavery.

i logic

The sky was leaden. The morning wi chill, and the snarling wind bit with a wolfish fierceness. I, too, was heavy, cold, bittei

I hear the heavy tread of hobnailed boots; I look down the street and there com* array of men with firm tread, blanket laden uniformed in guady mackinaws and stagged pants. I enquire and am told "A strike

the drive." What a glorious army I Giant-thewed,

firm jawed; no crashing cymbals, no thun-dering drums, no shrill buglevand no flutu ing flags to lead them. Yet the gleam revolution is in their eyes—the spiked boots strike defiant sparks from the pavement With-out helmet or plume, without tinset or braid, but with Hudson Bays and buckskin! No stiff, conceited captain at the head, but their feet

the "quick-step" towards the Rattle

He dwelt ^ith vigor* ciency. the necessity of one b workers to withstand the en the bosses and bring the war of the enemy till Labor, the owner of all it has made. | in

Solidarity is making the boss tired He isjaf showing worry, but still peddles his accus-1 te tomed amount of bunk, hoping against hope. |

, Meeting some of the boys on the picket lines j di ^his talk

for bread—every heart beating the glad har-mony of universal brotherhood and pulsing with victory—victory over the age-long, world-wide wrong. Not graduates of Harvard and Yale but students of the rough contact with the elements and ruder Man.

f the | Perhaps with fingers too clumsy to turn ts of | over the pages of the classics and with brains camp untutored to glean the gems of literature, s the i poetry and art! But with sinewy hands reach-

i ing out for their "rights" and with brains He is; aflame with intelligent protest and discon-

I T . f . , ii. - 1 1 >

The tlmij is now dj* for concerted action oa the paft of all workers engaged la the marine transport industry, regardless of race, creed or cdor. i

There ^fe as many different*, nationaBties imong th« ship owners as there are among the workers. The only difference between them is th^t the pwnert stick together to pro-tect their ftuterial interests as against the dif-ferent nationalities amort* the workers. The workers must likewise stick together against the masters.

The last coastwise 'strike was a first step > act toguther, bat the solidarity needed to tin result* was lacking through the form of

organizatich and the various craft organiza-tions dividing up the workers. The form of organization prevented the workers presenting a solid frotpt against the ship owflers, who at all times supported each other.

Playing frith politicians at the head of Port Commissions will bring the workers nothing

in a water front strike. . The Port Commission of Seattle says that the port terminals belong to the workers, and that if they struck against the port commission they would be striking against their own material interest This was the biggest bugaboo that was ever thrust upon the wage workers. Any wage worker who thinks he owna any of the port commission dock, or any of the dividends from it, should try to collect his so-called share, and where he heads in.

The politicians at the head of the port minals say they, are fighting the large ship owners. Either the ship owners are asleep— or the politicians are lying. In Seattle th« port terminals are used by some of the bigg-est ship owners, among them being the Frank Waterhouse Co.

The I. L A fell for some of the cute tricks of Waterhouse when the last strike took place on the coast. You will remember how all of his warehouses were rfilled with cargo, the ships were tied up because the workers would not move the goods. Then Waterhouse tried to get the United Dock Workers to go back to work at any price they wanted—if they would only scab on themselves and the I. L. A. who had gone out on strike two days after the new independent union.

Played for Suckers.

The I L. A. officials declared a ten-day's truce—at a dollar an hour—and Frank Water-house agreed to it, until bis warehouses were cleared—and then decided that he did not want any more union men to work his boats. Don't forget: When the warehouses again, stick until the strike is settled for good. No more truce should be accepted. An> a

on must be the straight goods in the futui Another point for your consideration lis: The cargo workers must not go back id leave the lumber handlers in the lurch i they did the last time. The lumber ship owners beloi

lanly fellow

~)i>ank of soin^ i i what we want.

logs on the I t valueless. We know j pe a i

heroes of the irtyrs of the for-

soldiers of the

We also have the organized

Scabs! Yes. the company got scabs. They Cost them three hundred dollars for transpor-tation and then—horrors! Every goldarn one Of them was an I. W. W.

Of course we have been made part of the war tone. Three hundred federal troops have just landed. They are going to protect rail-road* property.

They have learned a rgani and r i the

" b low

A Harmless Critter.

INTERNATIONAL FALLS. Minn—In a further attempt to humanize certain afflicted portions of Koochichin county, one Fred Mad-den who admits Big Falls as his home Jias lately received his credentials as a deputy Sheriff. Fred has a special mission to perform, his duties being to keep all I. W. W. agitators Out of the International Lumber Company's camps at Gemmell. As Fred is a harmless kind Of a critter, its too bad he's had such a hercvl-ean job wished on to fiim.—Griff JuAior.

Yes, but you detect the smell of whiskey on that fellow over there! The one with the slanting forehead, the rough, bearded, brutal face. And look what a guerilla shape he has, and such monster, hairy hands!

Perhaps he is what your environment has battered him into. Or he inherited it—it is the hereditary environment of his ancestors. Anyway he is what you have-made him; if he leers at you with gleaming, beastly eyes, and threatens you with his beastlike strength, I trust that "Divine Providence" will rescue you!

I can hear again the triumphant tread of the glorious army as they qiarch up the si and with glowing exultanulook I fondly watch them go the way of the meat future, "whose end is lost in light!" The-Vhought that they and their class are so often misunderstood reviles and tortuses me. Yet in your teeth fling a challenge and defiance for so ah was Christ, Bruno, Copernicus and Lincoln misunderstood.

A VISION OF THE FUTURE.

(By Robert G. IngersolL) I see a world where thrones have crumbled

and where kings are dust. The aristocracy of idleness has perished from the earth. I see ii wdrld without a slave. Man at last is free. Nature's forces have by science been enslaved. Lightning and light, wind and wave, frost tnd flame, and all the subtle powers of the ^arth and air are the tireless toilers for the human race. 1 I see a world at peace, adorned with every form of art, with music's myriad voices thrilled, while lips are rich with words of love and truth; a world in which no exile sighs; no ^prisoner mourns; a world on which the gib-bet's shadow does not faU; a world where work and worth go hand in hand, -where the poor* girl, trying to win bread with a needle— the needle that has been called "the asp for the breast of the poor"— is not driven ti desperate choice of crime or death, of suicide

•6r shame.. !•' I see a world without the beggar's Stretched palm, the miser's heartless, stony Stare, the piteous wail of want,* the livid lip of lies, the cruel eyes of scOm. j£ I see a race without disease of flesh fcrain—shapely and fair, married harmony of iorm and function—and, as I look, life length-ens, joy deepens, love canopies the earth; and ovei: all in the great dome shines the eternal

r of human hope.

THE WORKER.

(By Berton Braley.) have broken my hands on your granite, I have broken my strength on your steel;

I have sweated through years for your pleas-

You master Enough so I c

To beg for

and drivers of

y gladness and; youth; ie, and spent nje, and crush-

You have shut my eyes off from the sunlight, My lungs from the untainted air.

You have housed me in horrible places, , Surrounded by squalor and care.

I have built you the world in its beauty, I have brought you the glory and sr^oil,

You have blighted my sons and my daugh-

You have scourged me again to my toil, Yet I suffej- it all in my patience,

For somehow I dimly have known, That some day this WoAer will cSnquer,

In a world that was meant for his own I

, the irgo ! nd the only way to settle for all the wcnki i to stick it out There should b« no m< cheming against each other like there w hen San Francisco and Seattle were worki

fhile Tacoma was on the picket ood many other mistakes which icmber for the future. The only thing the m

t hatfc

yet. Aftei vill find that the

t the I. L A. The

May. Day, the International working class Labor Day; the day on which "he revoln-

nary workers of all coontriel do honor to the men and women who gave life or liberty td the world-wide class straggle; celebrate past victories or. defeats and send

each other fraternal greetings and renew-ed pledges of support and co-operation I

In France," Italy, England, Germany, Au-stria, the history j f the past is reviewed and high hopes of fofeire solidarity express-ed. In /the United States, May Day *

refresh the memories of those who took part in the glorious battle for the eight-hour day, waged by the workers organiied in the great Knights of Labor, which corded its height in 1886 and went down before the united opposition qf an aroused and militant capitalist class and a divided working clasl

May day is the "labor day" \hat the work-g class has taken for itself and is not tc • confused with the "legal" ''labor day"

of the A. F. of L handed down by a capital-government after much begging and

pleading. May Day with its joys and sorrows of the

past and its hope for the future—the future I What of the present May Day? Where on this first day of May, 1917, is the working

celebrating the International Labor Day?

On the blood-drenched battlefields of Eu-rope the international working class is mur-dering each other in the interest of the capitalist class. The falsehoods'of capital-

, aided by the misleading teachings of itical socialists, is fostered that inter-ionalistic prejudice vitally necessary for

the perpetuation of the ruling class of a

Nothing to Say of Its Ending. The war group in the ruling class of each

country charges the other with beginning the war; each claims to be on the defensive. But the workers of all countries who are fighting the battle had nothing to do with

ing the bloody conflict and they will nothing to say as to its ending. The

ers of all countries are fighting to preserve "their" nations. And yet the only "right" the worker ha# in any nation is to produce profits for the master class; and thousands of these workers in "peace" times are even denied this "right." After their bloody murderfest ceases, thousands of workers now fighting for "their" country will he forced to leave that country and seek the blessed privilege of performing un-paid UhoT for the master class in some

Capitalism unconsciousl k-n grave The capitalist c illions of the world's wor field; it has forced mill

Idren from home into lis; it has consolidated industries and mobilized w plined indust

Italy may be next. The worker* must not be fooled; these are bourgeois revolutions; but they are the prelnde to the great world-wide social revolation that will completely overthrow capitalism, the canse of all mod-ern wars, and do'away with economic class-es in society. This is. the historic mission of the working class.

Then on the Msy Day let us pledge our-selves to the work of emancipating onr Class,—the working class. To do this intel-ligently we must understand what capitalism . is and our class position in present so-

jot flow in the stream of blind Economic freedom must be the

We must organize industrially and con-sciously construct the frame work of the new industrial democracy within the shell of the old capitalist society. The world is t

ready for the world's industrial workers when they organize to take it.

Then—organize in the Union of your class—the Industrial Workers of the World.

ciety, and i evolution, result of o

and

is that' a right form event there being any scab tion takes in all workers c

heart. They are disgustei n.in any form, and I belies E right thing for ourselvc

right thing for us and for th«

Comparing the dollar

for

^ - Placed a h. • front. I glorified V

scabs a n t i ],jRha

nsified ulture

The

d what and the small wages paid, _we

simply working to get food to keep us in working order, and no more.

Will Depend on Worker*.

The 1. L.< A- will hold a convention in Taco-a early in May. It will depend on the work-•s themselves whether they have that kind [ unionism on the docks again or not, and

travel in the same old rut of allowing the offi-cials to carry strike votes around in their pockets. These officials wanted to throw the

W. W.'s out of their union, but their failure a good sign that Buffalo, N. Y., is about

me. That is, unless the workers fall for some Dre of that junk! This is going to' be a good year for the arine transport industry, and the workers

might just as well get something for thei hard labor. Remember this: The workers i the shipping industry do the work as in a other industries. If the workers stop, th shipping will stop until they start it.

The ship owners will compare notes ver soon, tf they have not already done so. They are going to figure out whether the I. ] or the I. W. W. will be the best for them which will be the best for the workers. They will decide which is the best for their material interest.

I am of the opinion that they will bac the I. L. A. to head off the I. W. W. Watch the elements in action at the coming conven-tion in Tacoma, and you will see the-influences at work. It is not that the bosses like the I. L. A. as a union, but they would rather have it than the I. W. W. because it would be easier to handle.

The I. L. A. is not a working class union, but a conservative bunch of politicians who tell the workers-that the port commi docks are all right towork on while we strike on the others. But don't forget this; An in-jury to one i san injury to all, and Marine Transport Workers are included in this.

has waste and proclaimed and

1 Useful, all for the great' rnational capital rrnational plutocracy unde' guise of democracy is bori

nust not be fooled by fin.

feudal-capitalist and the moderi

saddle ; the Hum

FREE MINDS AND FREE LIPSI

In all ages, the truest lovers of mankind have iled to imbue their fellows with the spirit

of open-mindedness. The cause of free speedy ! most glorious martyrs in history, hose name we hold in reverence

today, was murdered by the Athenian people for seeking to lead them to think for them-selves. Bruno in death, and Galileo "in^im-

paid the penalty of loving truth than public opinion. Roger Bacon up-

held the cause of scientific research against ibered persecutions. Milton perceived o error was so fata] as the suppression

of thought, and penned his glorious Areopagi-. which i . this dai

» all wh< >, either from mental ous disposition, seek-ipeculation or ezpres-nd a host of ^thers

to set bounds I sion. Voltaire, Pain have followed in demonstrating thai free minds and free lips are necessary, in order that men might grow and learn. In our own land Elijah Lovejoy gave his life for the principle of free-dom of the press; and from his martyrdom was born the grand apostleship of Wendell Phillips in the cause of freedom. We stand indeed on holy ground, when we approach the sublime company of those who, through the ages, have striven to secure not only for them-selves. but for all mankind, the right of unfet-tered utterance on every theme. Well for us, if we are found worthy to tread in their foot-steps, and to bear the most humble part in this great work—James F. Morton.

AS OTHERS SEE US.

Labor Union i 1. W. W. ides

he accusation that the Alaska responsible for the spread of

hing that makes for an ideal in Anchorage," made by one

the Alaska Labor News of the papers th<

"Frank P. Walsh, the chairman of the In-dustrial Commission, said in speaking of the I. W. W., that it was the most truly American institution in the United States today, that no organization so thoroly expressed the spirit of the Declaration of Independence and made for the preservation of truly American prin-ciples and democracy as the Industrial Work-ers of the World, in the United States."

Continuing, the News makes the statement: "We may differ with some of our I, W. W. brothers on matters of tactics, but we certainly agree with them in their demand for the over-throw of capitalism and the economic and so-cial dominance of the working class and the abolition of all other classes in society.

"A union that does not stand for this as its

ailed ;

A CONSTANT ADVANCE.

Eight branches have e of them report any-ance against the Ship-them also report that sec themselves unable

from being discussed and adopted among the and Sailors.

the old 1. L. A.

NO MORE SLAVERY.

AUGUSTA, Kansas—After a year's silent >altle with death, Ed. Manninghan succumbed >n April 16th. at the St. Margaret's hospital, t Kansas City, Kansas, where he had been *nt by the fellow workers of this branch.

>rker that he eath he confided t, >uld bear his burdei

Prio. this • had bra

the Officials the old

rely attempted to work : he had slaved off and

• hard long winter. mire rebelled and forced him to defeat in his long, hard, single-

We provided him with a com-and such medicines and dainties

i physician. Fellow Worker

> the >od. The Sec the Atlantic Seaboard also is alt

ary of Mi T. W. No. that there are 10,000 Strong Organizations

ine Transport Work-h a larg^ measure of

W. T. Neff, report ihers in that Union being built up at al )ught to see the M; Industrial Union vt control.

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Advised by the doctor that the fellow worker needed hospital care. Fellow Worker Lacy got him in shape for the trip to Kan.sas City, accompanying him to Wichita, and advising Fellow Worker J. J. Mara to receive and care for him.

All efforts were unavailing and in a few days we received word that he had «'ied—Phi-

The I. W. W. does not rel Dut it will not halt the Revolution because oi

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The Progress of the One Big Union of Workers in All Departm of Industrial Activity; the Class War Told by the Actual Fighters in

the World Conflict for the Domination of the World. Special Wire to the Industrial Worker.

1 ' ' ST. MARIES, Idaho, April 25.—After the shortest strike in the history of the dumber Industry, the river drivers in this

territory have won an unconditional victory. The old scale was three and a half dollars for twelve hours. The scale they | ]

«i have won as the result of their Industrial Solidarity under the banner of the I.W. W. is five dollars for eight hours. It pays '

to organize. A COMMODITY SAME AS FERTILIZER. I he is there for the "purpose of truckling to

Secretary Lane of Wilson's cabinet has a the bow instead of taking care of the camp. plan to supply a travelling corps of farm labor for the coming season. It may work, but if it does it will mean free 'transportation for the workers or increased wages so that they can pay their own transportation. But the Seattle Times has a complaint to make, to the effect that the plan docs not go far enough. Here is the way that paper proposes to settle the

"In order to produce greater crops this year, more acreage must be brought under culti-vation. To accomplish this end, two things a*e absolutely necessary—an adequate supply of fertilizer at reasonable prices and an ade-quate supply of labor at the times when labor is in greatest need on the farm.

The fertilizer problem can be solved by operation between the government, the import-er of such commodities and the agriculturist. The, labor problem ca"n be solved by co-opera-tion between the government, industry and the food producer. In each case, the first steps inust be taken by the government, which mands resources that are not at the command either of the exporter or the farmer.

The 1, W. W. has always claimed that labor power is sold on the market the same as other | commodities: and

And' at that he has not much of a camp to care for. The company has a clipping from the P.-I., two song books, and a lot of advice about the viciousness of the I. W. W.. posted

their office window, as they find it cheaper give advice than to make decent conditions-Del. No. S3.

Seattle Scandinavian I. W. W.'t Doing Good Work.

Klizabcth Gurley Flynn spoke in Norway Hall in Seattle on the evening of the 22nd to an apdience that filled the hall to capacity. About sixtyfive dollars was realized for tne Kverett Defense Fund. The hall was donated by the Lodge Arbetet of the I. O. G. T. for the evening, and the meeting was arranged by the Scandinavian Defense Committee. Aft-er the speaking there was some good by the Scandinavian band, refreshments served, and all enjoyed a social dance.

The Scandinavians are contributing liberally to the defense funds and are also doing agressive work in organizing. Arrangements have been made for Ragnar Johnson, Scandi-navian Organizer for the I. W. W. to work 1

Seattle during the month of May, and his j idly scored fori first meeting will be held in Norway Hall at i

fact. Capitalistic sup-' 1109 Virginia Street on the evening of May 1st. I , porters are now admitting the correctness of I Everyone is cordially invited to a"«n<I F«Ho w jr=r= that claim, and may soon be expected to admit Worker Johnson's meetings. strike some more of the truth we have been telling . • • I«d but all them. But we wonder if the fertilizers and | Organizers Needeo. laborers are to be shipped in the same cars. VANCOUVER Wash.—The cannery

pany at this place is building a large addi-j

THE EDITOR'S DREAM

The strikers s uui . . . expected to j

I —Harry Lloyd.

Rebel Women Organizing. ( j o n t o ,hcir plant, and will empl< DULUTH, Minn.—The Domestic Workers'; hands the coming season. They expect to!

Union No. 115 of Duluth, in conjunction with j start canning about May 15th, and have noti-j the other I. W. W. unions of that town held J f;cti (heir old employes that they will not pay | a very successful entertainment on April 8th ] the ia st year's scale. Last year the women : for the benefit of the F.verett prisoners. The | were worked from six a m. till 9 p. m. and I proceeds 475.50, were sent lo the Defense Com-| the wages furnished a bare existence There mittee. i is much dissatisfaction wit-, the conditions.'

Addresses were made by Finnish and F.ng- | a n j a good woman organi*er could do well lish speakers, a play Was staged by the Finn- here as soon as the season opens ish Fellow Workers, songs were sung by the j • * ' audience, the orchestra rendered several beau-tiful selections, and lunch was served by the girls of Domestic Wofters' Union No. 115,1 throughout Iowa,

good notice to the n e r ( | c j everywhere, and

The Whole Secret. The man who had made a huge fortune

speaking a few words to a number of students at a business class. Of course, of his address was himself.

"All my success in life, all financial prestige,' he said proudly, "I one thing alone—pluck, pluck, pluck!"

Tic inade an impressive pause here but the effect was ruined by one student, who

W. Steel Trust and others that far from dead in Minnesota.

Domestic Workers' Union No. 115 ing fast and strong, and the girls at

their enslavement. The bosses arc scared of

S r o w - Men coming | k j ( l s

here. We ha i ought t«i mal

wages of the girls if they will slay away from! arr it. But the girls are determined to have the union and the raise in wages as well, and are planning to line up all the wofking girls in the city of Duluth this summer.—Lillian Jaaska-

Industna! Boom ATKINS, Iowa—<

job delegates are

workers The big jobs at e at Atkins. McGregor and Denison. jeing shipped from Chicago to At-1 there will be about 1.000 employed ;

partial control on one job. and j it complete in another month, lining up fast

"Yes. i find t : right

n preventing the output of two million tin cans ' B A N Q U E T E D IN JAIL. day. Secretary Redfield pointed out the j

unusual needs for canned goods the country j ,On Sunday, April 22nd, the rebel women of will shortly face, and called attention to Mr.; Seattle gave a banquet to the Everett prison-Gompers' recent statement that there would j ers in the County JaiL A long table was placed

: no strike during the war. ; in the corridor of the jail and after this was • • • | set the boys came from their' tank and were

The "Heathens" Our Inheritance. forced to run the gauntlet of the women who ALHAMBRA, Cal—More than 200 Mexi- j P'repared the feast; but in this hutance they

__in and Japanese orange pickers went on j came thru smiling and if there wete any . • strike last week. Eight packing bouses of i effects they were due to too much habdsba*- £ j Riverside arc reported to be planning to close j 'nS- The feast lasted two and one-half hours v

down until the present labor situation is set-1 a n d was very much enjoyed by the boys and V , tied. They hive asked the railroads to bring - more so by those who had th^leasure of serv- \ }

1,000 men to work in thf gro/es. The-'nB them. present wa^e scale is $1.75 to $2.00 per day.— ' Elizabeth Gurley Flynn pronStHwed a bene- ? j Oliver C. Geyer. ! diction in the true Flynn style.' When their

• • • 1 appettties had been partially appeased Fellow j Winning Membeh. I Worker Flynn made a short talk, telling the

The raffle for the oenefit qjf the French 1.1 o y s °* t ' , e activities on the outside and also I. W paper was held on .ipril .5th. No. 1 ? a t e t h e m ^ e late.^ development, of the

3406 drew the first prize, an£ No. 3173 drew • Moopey •case. Caroline > o we: was then »sked the second prize. The ConSittee is unable | ° s h e W W t o d that the program

, i . <• ' I , , be turned over to the boys, who then sang to make a complete financial statement at „ ., . , AH t i ^ - w, Hold the Fort and many other songs. ,J present. All Locals or persons having any i . J, « • T

monev in this account are asked to send it in I J u s t a s t h e , c e c r c 4 m a n d Cake . w e r e b e , a * il at once s the accounts can be maue up served Fellow Worker Thos. Tracy, who a once s e c^ou ^ ^ ^ e n his deputy out for a long walk,

GREAT FALLS. Mont.-A hall has been , r < t u r n c d !° ' h e . AHe .V*

opened at 120 South 3rd Street. The location • c h c e " a " d * e n , n y , t e d t o ^ ' n

is good, and we have a fine display of literature | T h e *>'* w e f e * r e f t , y h a T e

in the window We have branches of 400 and T / a c * » m o n « ^em. even for a short time, as also several cards for members , , h c / h a d n ° l 5 e € n , h , m " a c e t n a ' • t o r t < d ; Worker, No. 900 and R R I , * «'acn] soc»l *imt t h e » h a d u n ^ ... , , • . . . the boys went back to their tank, when the VII rebels passing this way arc , ' . . . i I

.. T . - , , hope was expressed that the next banquet i 1,1 8 Ca " 15 °"e ° C' might be held at Dreamland Rink. V.

573. and havi of Coal Mini I*. No. 600

most important labor-distributing points in Montana, and a good health)* organization should be built up here—P. C. Wetter. IN MISSOURI MINES.

RIGHTS AND MIGIJT OF LABOR. | WEBB CITY, Mo—The South Western There is much twaddle among sentimentalists j portion of Missouri is famous for its lead an^ *

and those who do not understand the economic I zinc mines. It is also infamous for a number * foundation of society in regard to the "rights" I of reasons. Joplin is in this territory. / of Labor. Labor has no natural or inalien-1 The wages for machine miners range fron^ able rights. No class has any rights except | $3.75 to $4.25 and for helpers—often called such as it has the power to take and to hold. | dummies—the bosses are paying $3.25, largely

far i

Strong on Pood Conservation. k EDM ONI), Wash-The Campbell Lum-

$1.75 to $3.50 per day, board $5.25 finally let t

I that the boss

They threatened to deport

the slaves there

Farmers are short of hell) $35 to $50 per month in Iowa and Illinois. Webster have a two and one-half million ^

• job at BartonsviUe. III.—J. R. Parker. |

j off 1 i merely having the boss

Reaping the Harvest. SPOKANE, Wash—The education that has

been carried on through the Spokane district in the past has begun to show godd results. The workers are studying and educatiiy^ them-selves in the principles of the O. B. U. and are also joining at an encouraging rate in all the industries throughout this district.

Latest news from the strike zones is very encouraging, as the men are using good judg-ment regarding tactics, and are staying strictly sober. A^ Moab and Otis Orchards the men won the eight-hour day.

We are taking one thousand copies of the May Day edition of the Worker, as the inter-est of the workers is very keen regarding the battle lines of the class struggle.—W. Moran, Secretary Spokane Ind. Unions.

A Compliment From a Jailor. BILLINGS. Mont. April 16.—All of the

Fellow Workers but three have been released from jail. Two are held and will be turned loose the 19th. It seems they want to'hold Ireland. I was at the county jail, but could not see him. I was at the city jail yesterday with papers and tobacco for the two Fellow Workers there, and the jailors asked me if was one of "them G— D— I. W. W.'s"

•told them I was an I. W. W. but not a G D— I. W. W. There are only a few Wobs in the town now.

I received my orders yesterday to leave, but am still holding the ifort. All rebels coming this way remember Billings.—Archie Williams.

Advice is Cheap. The conditions in the Clear Lake Lumber

Co's saw mill are all to the bad. It U the* old style camps where the bull-cook thinks

Need Right Kind of Workers. PASCO. WashAjPasco Branch of the I. W. ' is conducting 14 strike at Burbank Ranch

for $55 and board," and ten hours work day. The work is planting fruit trees, irrigating and ditch work. Nembers are asked to get

the job. Ship 6ut from Federal Shark. Federal bull on the job. It is necessary to be a good scissor to get on the job, and neces-

be a good Wobblie after you arc {here. Sec the Secretary at Pasco before going out. The hall is en the main stem, with a classy window sign.—W. B. Lane. Sec.

CUT BA^K, Mont.—The G. N. is double tracking from this place to Shelby Junction,

distance of 25 miles Porter Bros, have the contract Common wages is $2~0 per day

hours, and one buck for board. Men apd horses are furnished tents with straw to sleep on. Spring !s late, and ftrm labor is in big demand. There is a good prospect of lots of building to be done through this coun-try this season; any one who can borrow a saw and hammer will find plent> to do, at a little above the common wages The train crews are coming into jthe I. W. W. strong

divisions.*—Jean Haskins.

Paper Mill Strike. CA MA S, Wash-1—A strike was called on

ril 16th in the big paper mill hfre. Over 600 men walked out. and have made a demand for a general inclose of fifty cents per day all branches, an eight hour day, and no d crimination against any striker by the co pany. The old wage scale has been $240 the lowest wages, and the new scale demanded

of $2.90 a day. asked to slay away while thfs

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U. S. as Slave Driver. YAKIMA, Wash.—There are three gov-

jobs near here, and like most govern-t work, the wages are low and condition* from bad to worse. Twelve men were

found agitating and singing songs in one camp, d were promptly fired, but there are still few woblies there. Wages are from $2.40

up for 8 hours, but there arc only a few draw-ing above the low wage. There is ranch work here it $40 a month and board-—Frank Reilly.

Bemidji Mail List. Worker Frank Watson is asked to

nee with the Bemidji Branch of the L. W. O. regarding matters of import-

ice^they have for him. There is mail at Bemidji Branch No. 500

for the following: Phil Serader, W. Bugman, Herbert N. Anderson, Edward Curran, Wil-liam Diethlcf, Walter Bergman and Tom A. Wilson.—G. L. Smith, J J. Dunning, Com. Box J\\, Bemidji, Minn.

What's in a Name? "It-is of no consequence by what

call ^our people, whether by that of freemen or slave. In some countries the laboring poor' men are called freemen, in others they are called slaves, but the difference is imagin-ary (inly. What matters it whether a landlord employing ten laborers on lus farm-gives them annually as much as will buy the of l|fe or gives them those shorjf hand."—John Adams at Continental Con-

* Save One Can For Gompers. WASHINGTON, April 17.—Secretary Red

field,today asked! Samuel Gompers to use hia official position to speedily terminate a strike at tlje Wheeling Steel & Iron Co. which is

Plenty Construction Work SIOUX CITY. Iowa.—Construction work is! once

carting all over Iowa. Wages are 30 to 50j^ay-ents per hour, and the farmers are begging; *^s 1

icn to work (or $45 per month. Tile ditching! while

contract basis especially. They make from $1.50 a day up. There is a tradition that once one of these made seven dollars in a

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safety appliances and mine protection, ere arc a few deputy mine inspectors

hour and board I her«- w h o are seen riding the shaft with the This looks like a banner vear for the I. W. W. | superintendent or underground boss, there is

Workers Industrial Union! not one mine in this territory which would E. X Osborne stand a proper inspection. I have seen service • • • ! in the Douglas Island slaughter house, in

P Orcg The chief of police ( Bingham Canyon, British Columbia, Califor-) tried to run som • of the n i a a"d other mining territories, but nowhere >ut of this slave pen. but the! have I seen such a disregard for the protec-ng on all the time, though ' t , o n of the health and* lives of human beings

arc needed to | a s «n 'his territory. plenty of work j The cost of board is about $6.00 a week,

crying for men for. For the conditions here there is but one logging, saw mill work and coal min

i labor is $2.50 and up. coal mi up for 8 hours. One dollar i hospital, dollar for spring and ty rents a day for board; and

grumble*

g. Com-1 solution, the industrial organization of the ng $3.25; miners. But thousands of workers would charged | rather endure mine dust with its slow murder, natlress, j waiting for cars, being treated as animals and one who | other abuses rather than take the easy road

down the line.—Carl Swclgin > of organization. The miners in this section • • • j will have to learn t

New Branch Secretary San Pedro. Fellow Worker C. A. Johnson is. now in

charge of San Pedro Branch of the M. T. W. I. U. No. 700 as Stationary Delegate. asks Al Johnson, Earnest Moody and Sachs to write to him at oi urgent importance. Write' Pedro. Cal.

Delegate I'Ater Ginise of the Eureka, Cali-rnia. Local is requested to write to the

3 e n , Eureka Local and send in his credentials im-r of; mediately. Members knowing the whereabouts

Box 307. San of this man are asked to communicate with Eureka. Cal. Local—A. Bassi, Sta. Del. No

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Doing Good Work. CHICAGO.—The Scandinavian Defense

Committee has been holding some successful protest meetings lately. They as

early $50 to the Everett prisoners nore to follow.—Ed. Mattson.

innot traffic in our principles, we can. compromise, no .agreement with thof1

sending \ ruling system We must break with the ruling ^ with system and fight it to a finish." Thus spake <

Liebknecht the elder, and the son seems t{)_ be following in his footsteps.

Still Useful Work. The New Curate—Is your husband in,

Jones? Cottager—No, zur, 'E be gone drill in'. Curate—Ah, I'm glad to hear that. National

Guard, I presume? : Cottager—No, zur, Turnips.

• BISBF.F.. Arizona.—The M. W. Industri-al Union No. 800 is making good headway, and a branch of the Conttiruction Workers'

Organizers are also badly needed at the Twin i Falls Logging Co. at YacolL There are no ' ' union men on the job, but five or six active ; men could swing the whole outfit, as the work-ers are ripe for revolt.—Alvin C Perry. 'J

P. A. Vibers is asked I Worker Chas H. Cody : Washington.

i •• - A j p if' * Iv iv ? " L . ,

LeRoy Howell Elmer Johnson geles, CaL

being started. A smoker April 1st, and the sum of $71-80 for the defense fund

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