The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-06-22
A CALL TO ARMS
WORKERS OF AMERICA, RISE IN PROTEST!
PREPARE FOR ACTION.
by Frederick Forrest Berry.
WORkfliS OF AMERi CA. RISE IN PROTEST.,
PREPARE 70 ACTION

| must be aroused.
If legal kidnapping of workers is
! TO be the method adopted to apDease
/ the vengeance of the masters, all
| other rights of the workers will be
abridged, and tyranny in its worst
| form become the standing rule of
! the land
The infamy of the employers, the
suspension of all rights TO the work
ers must be answered with >uSIen-
sion of all work by the toiIerS as
the only measure to force for the ac-
cused an impartial trial before their
peers, and the prosecution and extra
dition from this country of all re-
sponsible for this last act of infamy.
The appeal to workers, organized
as we'll as unorganized, to PRE-
PARE FOR y GENERAL STRIKE
, OF ALL on the day when the trial
Of the accused will begin, and thus
enforce the mandate of the working
class that the band OF criminal de-
| tectives and capitalists. in whose pay
they are, be surrendered and held
accountable for the highhanded con-
conspiracy against the freedom and
the rights of workingmen.
The time to protest is now:
Don't wait until the conspiracy
is successful. Nbw is the time.
Conferences must be called in all
cities and towns Of all organizations
and associations composed of work-
ingmen. Mass meetings must be ar
ranged in all Industrial centers. The
latest outrageous acts of the capital-
lists must be made known to the mil
liens of toilers unacquainted with
the facts.
Again! The time to protest is be-
fore the trial. not after.
\ GENERAL STRIKE ALIIN-
DtSTIiIES MUST B: THE ANS-
WEIR OF THE WORK EIiS TO THE
CHALLENGE Of THE MASTERS.
TIE UP ALL INDUSTRIES! TIE
UP ALL PRODUCTIONS.
ETERNAL VIGILANCE is THE
PRICE OF LIBERTY:
IAll labor papers are requested TO
copy. and cooperate in the plans of
calling mass meetings for the pur-
pose of preparing the general strike
on the day when the trial is set.
Thus spake WILLIAM d. HAY
WOOD. the unhung, undesirable cit
grace-of-ROOsevelt. and the
unconquered champion of labor. AT
the Aschenbroedel Hall in this city
Sunday afternoon. April 3Oth. You
all know Bill Haywood. and what he
did for You and what the capitalist
class tried to do to him. He is the
man whom. together with George
Pettibone. Charlie Meyer, Stove Ad-
ans and Vincent st. John. all men,
bers of the Western Federation of
Miners. the vested interests of the
West tried legally to murder
Meyer. Haywood and Pettibone
night. ironed. gagged and railroaded
Thousand miles by special train
ont of their native state into Idaho.
ana thrown. without legal process,
INTO THE IDAHO STATE PENITEN-
IlARG. locked up in the deaf h-dun-
geon and the "death-watch'' station
ed at the doo- of their iron tomb.
All this despite the fact that the
United States Constitution guaran-
tees to every citizen that he shall
not be deprived of his life or liberty
without due process of law.
TO HE'LL WITH THE CONSTR
TUITION. said the authorities, I'VE
have them CMoyer Haywood and
Pcttibone) in our power said the
irust-owned Governor Gooding. of
Idaho, and they shall never leave
idaho alive. Two state govern
m"ntS took part in the kidnapping of
these innocent men: all forms of
law and legal procedure was Swent
aside: they wore torn from their
homes NJ dead of night: denied the
privileges Of saying good-by to their
FAMILIES. who knew nothing of their
whercabouts: refused the right of
counsel. and held in prison EIGHT
| ZEN LONG MONTHS WITHOUT A
TltlAL' No! Not in Russia. but
| IN AMERICA,
| 1t was then that Theodore RooSe-
| Welt. the then president of the I'M
/ trusted and unbusted trusts of tn.
! United States of Capitalism descend
| ed from the Watch-towcr of his mas
| t"rS IN Washington, spranG upon the
! stage at the opening of this shame
! ful tragedy. and while these big
: heartd comrades of human brother.
0 hood were manaclrd and gagged, de-
. lib"rately kicked them in the face,
! You're undesirable citizens the
! coward Kissed through his studhorse
fan"s. Then rhc supreme Court
, the watchwolveS of Capitalism
! proceeded to legalize the crime of
kidnapping of WORI<INGMEN.
1T WAS THEN THAT LABOR
SPOKE.
Only for the Socialist press and
an aroused working class said