Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1910-01-20
Barbarians Would Blush
For American Capitalists
Spokane, W ash.

s,1llatlon exists, that should Drlng the
attention and assistance of every
working man and woman, that has a
drop OF red, rebellious blood within
his or her veins.
In an effort to forever squelch our
organization in America, the Chamber
of commerce, and other capitalist or
-ganizations in Spokane, are using
methods that would make barbarian
hush with shame.
In. our effort to force from the city
of spokane, freedom OF speech anu
nress, we have incurred the enm1[y
of our masters, and as result, over
$50 men have been incarcerated IN
the iaIIs, school hosues and military
n.,svils. where they have been sub
11c,sa to the most inhuman treatment
Inv LIE snot gun men and police thugs
. Wro are guarding them.
Men have their eyes blinded, teeth
knocked out, jaws broken and other
WISE maltreated, while women mem
bers of our organization, have been
east into prison with prostitutes, and
have been insulted while thus coon
fined. by these law and order gents,
called policemen.
Officers of the l., NV. are at pres
emit serving sentences of six months
each on the chain gang in Spokane,
being forced to do so by gun men.
Three editors of our official organ,
The Industrial Worker, have been
arrested on tiimsy charges, and are
also sentenced to six months on the
chain gang, and herded by thugs with
shot guns.
The official organ was confscated
by the police on December 10th. as
twas coming off the press.
- Hundreds of men are being slowly
starved to death on two slices of old
sour bread day.
1t costs the city less than two cents
to feed each prisoner each day.
Men are so weak that they7are I'M
able to walk across the floor. They
could have better food if they would
consent to work on the chain gang,
but the great majority refuse to worn
for nothing. These men are all sen
fenced to- 10 days each. They are
charged with violence, and violence
consists of saying fellow workers oil
the street.
Our hall was raided every othei
night by the police, and any one who
dared to make speech on Industrial
Unionism, was Immediately: arrested,
thrown into Jail, and then kangarooed
off to the chain gang for six months,
OF placed on bread and water, which
means starvation.
After these repeated raids. the po-
lice closed our hall, after having
smashed the furniture, and inside
doors with axes, and dubbed the
members who were in the hall al
the time
All newsboys and members who
were selling the Industrial Worker
on the street on December goth, were
arrested and put in the sweat box.
The paper is now being printed IN
Seattle, Wash.
Scurvy has broken out among the
prisoners, and their gums are rottlng
in their mouths, as. result OF small
rations of old sour bread and they
are now unable to eat the small NOR
sci of bread offered to them.
Chamber of Commerce is the Law,
as they are the economic power n
Spokane. :,
There are thirty speakers, officers
and editors in Jail, charged with
criminal conspiracy. Those of then.
who have been tried have been SEN
fenced to six months hard labor, ex-
cept one, young girl, Elizabeth
Curly Flynn, and she was sentenced
by jury of capitalists to three
months in the county jail.
All these members are entirely in
nocent of any crime.
OF the sol gases treated in the
Emergency HOSPITAL of Spokane. in
the month of November, 6S1 of them
We're members of the 1. w. w.
As there are less than 400 mem
oers in the jails, you will see that
many were in for treatment more
than once. This win give you some
idea of what police brutality is, and
to what length our masters viii go to
suppress an organization that they
are afraid to see grow.
\ Twenty-eight of our members were
1nrown into cell that was air tight
5or Sc hours with steam turned on,
until great number of them tainted