Ko. 241 H H -H M i m m iiii- i- i n i l i r i ii- ii i m :: 3 TO V ER I vi-i i » m 11111111 n-ri 1111 h - h - i - h - m i m - i h - h tin n ì h - h - i - m i ■**< i-i- n i i n h - h - h - m - m - i - h - h - h : 11 h h - h - i-i-ii-i h m i - 11i h - h - i - i - f h i m h - h - i i u i h - h i i t i- ii 4-n-i-ii t “It is a right to be maintained in peace or war. It is a right that cannot be invaded without destroying constitutional liberty. Hence this right should be guarded - and protected by the free men of this country with a zealous care, unless they are prepared for chains or anarchy.—Daniel Webster on Free Speech. 1 -4- H 1 1 » 11 I 11 I 11 H - H - H -t- H-1 11111 11-1 1 1 l H - H - H - H - H H 1 -II1 1 1 I 1 I 1 H -F-F+ H - H I - 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1111 111 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 M - H I - l l I t 1 1 H H -H -1 1 1 1-H- l- 1--1-1-1 1-1 ■1-1-1-l -F 11111 1 ■! -F H - H -1-1 H - 1 H -1 1 111 I l - I l l I I 1 N ' t'I I I K H I I I 1 I I H U I I I I H I I t LET THE RUMORS GO that it will go ill with this country when confidence is lost • 1 in the courts. R um ors are abundant th a t some of the ship­ T h e accusation thus entered against the courts of San F ran ­ y ard w orkers intend to break faith with the cisco is not a m atter of opinion. union soon and go back to the yards under con­ It is a judgm ent entered by a empaneled jury, ditions nam ed by the boss. This has bred suspi­ regularly Against M ooney’s wife was cion and is affecting the m orale of the men on brought the same charge that strike. was brought against him. The case against her was the same L et these rum ors circulate if they will. E very­ as that against him. The w it­ body ought to know who is circulating them. Any nesses who swore th a t they m an who has not the stam ina to stand up a n d , saw him in a taxicab with a suit- waddled out of the court room, cringe and scrape at the feet of , for the American Federation of given them a s “p u n ish m en t” for stan d in g loyally by the b ro th e r A m er­ neither ’to ihe • right or the big corporation, and fall over Labor. Is that radical? « glancing /• ican w orker. left. each other in their efforts to “The industrial unionism it You cannot say in th is case th a t fh e best thing th at can be serve it. The city and county brags about is purely theoretic if th ey don't like it they have alw ays said of Allen is, that he is the r afficials are its lackeys, the and has to evolve in the various been allowed to go back to th e porest liar that ever went on newspapers its mouthpieces. industries out of the experience country w here they w ere born. They have gone, and now they a re ru n n in g the witness stand in many a “The workers have been the of the trades unions in these th e ir country for them selves. P ro ­ day. only people who have ever ques­ industries. T his evolution is visional P re sid e n t pro dem o of th e C. J. Sturgeon, a wounded tioned the power of the gigantic proceeding carefully, but progres­ F in n ish S en ate (actu al p rem ier), is veteran of the Spanish-American copper company to rule the des­ sively in the various industries a m an w ho had experience as a iner, w orking in W yom ing a b o u t war and the son of a veteran of tinies of the largest mining camp and, all things considered, there m tw en ty y ears ago. H e know s how the Civil war, with a daughter in the world, a city with a pop­ is no other possible wav by "sw e et” th is country can be for tho lying ill in a Seattle hospital ulation of nearly a hundred thou­ which industrial unionism could w orkers in d ark holes. And th e re with a broken leg, was one of sand. be established. Is it more rad ic al, are, thousands of o th ers am ong tlv> ,, , . • , I ran k s of R ussian rev o lu tio n ists who the unhappy victims brought “The m iners of B utte had a to ta lk ab«.ut a th in g th an to have th em selves w orked in A m erica, here by the M cLachern union once, and, largely through do it? o r have close rela tiv e s who have alone, if need be, for the ordinary hum an rig h ts ¡casc near the, sfen,c 01 the cxplV down Company s agent. H is tesiti- the efforts of the misguided or- “ It talks about working class done so. They know' w hat kind of th A m erican capitalism has for of a workman, ought never to belong to a union i side. The jury in her case reject- inony was uncontroverted by the ganization that d rank Little rep­ solidarity and spends about half tee them w onder if they tu rn cold a t all. He should g et th e boss to tell him w hat is a’1,)WS on entering the car this side r>f | recently this ex-m ayor and was pre- “ 1 repeat: fhe I. W . W . is rev e rses to th e aim s of fhe adm in­ has tak en a solemn and m anly oath not to re tu rn but because he sought to organ- Portland, told him there was no venter from addressing a public not only a mistake, it is a serious istratio n of th e U nited S tates, but I th a t difficulties in th e path of to the yards until the union, as a body, vote to do^.e a strike on the San Francisco trouble here; th at the first he m e etin g in the city—w ithout disaster. But it is composed of A say m erican diplom ats is largely due to knew of a strike here was when offering an excuse the police part of the working class, mis­ the fact th a t A m erican in d u stria l so. A nd he who violates th is pledge, for W inters entered the car a ,short closed the hall and forbade the taken though it he; and when cap tain s for y ears have not tre a te d reason w hatever, would b etray his country to been one of coruption and crime distance from Astoria and said: citizens to hold a peaceful m eet­ the common enemy strikes at the foreign labor as they should have done. A m erican c a p italists and pol­ th e enemy under the sam e circum stances. i v . “ w e(1 , t o ’w ” ’J’"1; lts <.l etec' “ Bovs, I appeal to you as .Amer­ ing to discuss their grievances. organized workers through one iticians a re gettin g around and will ican citizens not to go to work * p i 1 1 p n * j * tivcs “iranicd up the testininy, Russia in* the palmiest days o f : of its members, I am up in arms* reap what they have sown. is a case of loyalty to one s fellowmen. And tr,illed the district attorney’s in the M cLachern yards as a the Czar never witnessed su c h iand I place a wreath on the it is not my business to teach he who will betray a union will betray his coun-! office, and packed the jury. From strike is on there. ' (. zaristie tyranny. 1 m arty r’s grave and sw ear anew them how to m ake the world safe I he evidence was clear enough, “ Having the big m iners’ union ¡by his memory my fealty to the for them selves, but it seem s th a t try or anything else th a t should be sacred and ,,n.e e,’. ( l u‘. the country to the the law is clear enough and the A m erican ca p italists and politicians as a background, the building ’ cause of labor.’’ , v -1 . .1-. ,i . ¡other th e re is no t a lab o r u n io n ­ are yet unable to u n d erstan d th a t dear, and only a craven will do that. ist who does not understand the jury were clear enough. They and miscellaneous trades became : --------------- ---------------- in tern atio n al difficulties will be in­ out about four minutes. well organized in Butte, and ! . creased by prosecuting here the peo­ . zx »x »• The cause of the shipyard w orkers of A storia issue, and if the conspirators are were ple who a re foreigners. It looks as not balked of their prey the con­ W hat in the world were they have enjoyed comparatively good ' AmCriCa.Il Uor i mi 1 • i i i just it the (lefcmLin t is fall of the m iners’ union, the New Labor Troubles employers men to fill your places. They are m aking a b lu fi,|J u n io n is t. have been scheming W ires have recen tly carried a dis­ Threaten to Tie Up to destroy all the other labor patch from P etro g rad telling th at b u t a b lu ff is all it am ounts to. As a m a tte r of The case, moreover, has an j several thousand R ussian Bolsheviki- an d ik in g to an nnpar- was announced by the depart- huge mistake. for w orkingm en, who by unem ploy­ inquiry. If he is too en­ ment this afternoon. Federal unionism gone to seed. It is an m ent w ere driven to seek w ork here. over by the wheels ami perhaps injured fatally. grossed in other affairs, F.lihu conciliators at New York also interloper in the field of organ­ n e a r like it. You m ay blam e a n y th in g under Root, eminent law yer; Theodore have succeeded in adjusting the ized labor. It should never have the sky for m aking such an im pres­ Roosevelt, preacher of social differences between employers been organized, and many of the sion of your own country, and of Another Boy Cut Up. WHAT ABOUT THE what we have, but it is far more justice, 'I'he milk wagon driven by and Samuel Gompers, and 1000 garm ent workers en­ well meaning but misguided men your own elected officials, but it re ­ valuable to know how the work­ m ains an absolutely unchanged fact. Alex Sarpola was struck by a head of the American labor BABIES HERE? ers can get more and consume gaged on raincoats and slickers who were active in its early his­ T here is no anim al living th a t for­ movement, could do no better for the army. tory have so adm itted to me. It gets pain caused by buck shots, bayo­ street car on Alameda avenue more when they have it. is a dual organization, and every nets, clubs, rubber hose and everything at the foot of M elbourne Satur- Let us inform the children, for their country in the present “The 22,500,000 school chil­ hich is so plentifully^adnunis- ' dav, and Sarpola's little brother, crisis than to investigate anil I. W. W. Fallacies union man knows that dualism clsc^w tered to foreign laborers living in who was on the seat with him dren of America are being en­ that their hunger is not caused report on the Mooney case.” has been the greatest curse of Am erica. S trik es in Colorado, W est listed for the week's campaign bv scarcity of food, hut because Virginia. M innesota, M ichigan, B utte, at the time, received severe in­ the labor movement. we do not own it. (By Jay Fox.) from O ctober 21 to 28 during Arizona and m any o th er places have juries. Sarpola grabbed his bro­ “The I. W. \V. is a wild-word­ SHIP COMPANY DID NOT “ I sec bv the papers,’ said which it is planned to enroll been the occasions when foreign la-.thcr in his arm s and attem pted ed calum niator of the labor move­ borers have m ostly suffered a t t h e 1,,, dub, “ that the good law-abiding DO ANYTHING BAD j,;m i,„t 22.000.C00 families for food con­ CALLING HALT ON hands of hirelings of A m erican cap­ ment out of which it sprung. It citizens of Butte, invaded a hotel, servation. ’,u.v was knocked off to one italists - an.^ a11 o f th a t s u f f e r in g . (Continued from P age One) GREAT CRIME kidnapped a man named Frank gues before the unorganized and j it?Vs.ts: “O ver half the families of the which foreigners have borne was side of the track, so the report Little, an I. W'. W. organizer, attacks with all the venom of U nited States are represented in took him to a railroad bridge fanaticism the labor movement, Allen: “ I told them there was the school rooms, and the teach­ Aroused at last to the horrible a strike but no trouble." and hung him. I ’d like to know thus injuring the cause it seeks 44 ers are told that if they can perversions of justice in the Cross-examination. what kind of a desperado that to champion. The effect of its arouse the intelligent interest of Mooney case at San Francisco, man L ittle must have been to propaganda has been most dis­ A ttorney F u lto n : “ Did you The time has arrived when the workingmen of the country the hoys and girls they will carry the New York Globe, a conser­ astrous, especially am ong the mean to say you took charge of have aroused these civilized, must unite! Organized capital is strongly united in its efforts to their enthusiasm into the vative daily, has this to say in a tim ber workers of the South and crush the rightful demands of the workers. The so-called capitalist Christian gentlemen to the per­ the car?” hom es.” burning editorial of recent date. petration of an act which, if com­ W est, where it is now most dif­ papers are always trying to form public opinion against the work­ A llen: “ No.” Continuing, the above quota­ “The time has arrived for Fulton: "W as it a private m itted on the European battle­ ficult to approach these workers ingmen. They publish news and articles in the interest of the tion, which is from the U. S. every serious-minded, patriotic field. they would themselves de­ with the message of unionism. car?" ‘ m aster class only. Food A dm inistrator's press circu­ American to take note of the " It is said the 1. W. \\ . is nom inate as ruthless German A llen: “ No." 'I'he workingmen of Astoria and vicinity know this to he an lar, conveys the idea, that the Moonev case in San Francisco, radical, and on that ground Re-direct examination. barbarity ?” absolute fact. The workingmen of this comm unity can see there conservation of food is necessary This week the s upreme Court claims the support of the prog­ M annix: “ If you did not have “ Frank W. Little was not a is only one paper in Astoria that is publishing the facts about the in order to feed the starving of California has affirm ed the ressive element in the labor charge of that car, why did you desperado,” said the union man. strike and that paper is “ the Daily T overi” (The Daily Comrade). children in Belgium. Unselfish regularity of the sentence of world. In what is it radical? It “( )n the contrary, he was a peace- order W inters off of it? ” This paper has been published in the Finnish language only, as the object may he. we can­ death pronounced against Moo­ is radical in words that it can­ loving American, an idealist, Allen: "1 had charge of the for about ten years, but we saw the urgent need of a paper not refrain from saying, that nev after a farcical trial. It is not fulfill. It is radical in prom striving to aid his fellow work­ car. that could hc read by the English-speaking people also, so we there are children in this c o u n try , tin'ie to dism jss t i,e assum ption ises it cannot make good. It decided to do all we could to let all the people know the real ’d f it was not a pri- ers in their efforts to hold their Mannix that need help as well as those that ;he nu,rderous conspirators vate car, whv did you order own against one of the largest shouts loudly about what ought facts about the strikes and all other m atters im portant to the abroad. _ responsible for the crooked and and most powerful tru sts in the to be done w ithout the least cap­ W'orkingmen, which are kept dark by other papers, If our memory serves us right, corrupt verdict will not dare to him off?” Allen: “It was a private car.” world— the copper tru st; and his acity for doing it. Is that rad­ is not very long ago, when a re­ ge further. W IL L YOU U N IT E W ITH US FOR YOUR OW N SAKE? M annix: “If you had already m urder was the most cowardly, ical? port was circulating in newspa­ “It talks about fighting, but Mooney is innocent of the told the men there was a strike the most bloodthristy and out­ Do you want the Daily Comrade to be YOUR COMRADE? pers, that tens of thousands of it is rounded up in herds and No ] on, why did you object to W in­ rageous ever committed in the You can answ er this bv simply cutting out and filling the school children in New York crime charged against him. thrown into jail without resist- subscription blank below. Bring it or mail it with the subscrip­ interest of organized capital. C ity were forced to go to school !»>ne in San Francisco or outside ters telling them also?” “ Little was a labor organizer, j ance ; then it comes to us to tion price to: Allen: “ He was hollering w ithout breakfast. ¡of it who has studied the evi- \ W e would therefore suggest dence in the case has anv doubt. around that he was an American W ho was interested in getting burn money to hire lawyers. Is an additional feature for this He is the victim of a group of citizen and I thought he was him out of he A-ay? W ho hut that radical? (W hen it comes The Daily Comrade, the employers of the men he is to real action on the job the cam paign for food getting, and wild men. controlled hv the crazy.” Cor. 10th & Duane St., M annix: “You thought he was charged with helping to organize American Federation of Labor th a t'is , th at children be instruct- i fiercest kind of class hatred, who Astoria, Oregon. the Anaconda Copper C om -¡has it backed off the map.) It ed to ask their fathers w hether happen tem porarily to be in con- crazy because he said he was an Please enter my subscription to the Daily Comrade for panv. T hat gigantic corporation I has sapped the labor movement or not thev are m embers of i trol of San Francisco’s judicial American citizen? ...........................m onths for which please find enclosed $ ..................... has the working people of Butte ¡of some of its most active and Re-cross examination. unions ami fighting for higher machinery. The testim ony given by the throats. By the power ' aggressive fighters and made F u lto n : “ Did you really have against him is adm itted to be a wages. of its vast wealth it dominates mere knockers out of them. Is Name It should be of first impor- mass of crude perjury. It is| charge of that car?” the business and commercial in­ that radical? A llen: “ No.” tance th at the children in t h e ' contradicted by the most con- Address “ It has a centralized, auto- terests of people and no business Fulton: “W as it really a pri­ schools are taught the elem entary : vincing evidence and by docu- man dares to offend it. He 'Cratic form of organization dis- principles of social economy as m ents and circum stances whose vate car?" would be ruined. As a conse­ carded by the workers of A m er­ A llen: “ No.” well as economy in domestic w eight no one challenges. The Then Mr. Allen put his plug quence the petty business men, ica thirty years ago when they Subscription rates: $4.00 per year, $2.25 for 6 months, $1.35 for affairs. It is all well to know­ case thus appeals to every lover abandoned the K nights of Labor 3 months and 50c per month either by mail or carrier. how to use to our best advantage of law and order w-ho realizes hat on the hack of his head and a pack of cowardly sycophants, n Local Notes United We Stand, Divided We Fall”