The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1912-09-11

with American labor. 1t unites in a
loose bond hundred alien races with
a message of hope. Ii gives them a
labor organizations as loose confed-
Grafton is different from a close cor
poration. 1t was able to unite the SO
races employed in the Lawrence mills
and to make of them a splendid fight
| ing force, because the revolutionary is
everywhere a better fighter than the
man whose fight is simply for an adj
vantage The passion of Haywood was
a cohesive force among the so Law
renee races; the elaboration of Com
pers would have been altogether dis
ruptive of their solidarity. The COM
mon good then has the I. w. w. to
thank for a leadership which not only
bettered the conditions of the Law
renee workers by its fiery devotion but
forced the mill magnates to show their
depraved greed in their outrageous,
murderous plo. against labor.
1t now seems thoroughly certain that
the militia was called to Lawrence as
the result of conspiracy between the
mill owners and the city officials, and
called over the head of the police chief,
who when he said he could keep order
was deposed. 1t seems certain that
the resultant trouble, the riotings, the
beatings the shooting, which followed
are to be laid directly to the door of
the millionaires' greed just as the dy
Mantle plant, which was confessed by
one of them.
The domination of the officials by |
the magnates seems to have been alb |
solute. William Wood, waxed fat up |
on the toll exacted by an .ndefensible
wool tariff, sat back-a modern Nero
and at the signal of his thumb the Of
ficials did that within their power to
put an end to the solidarity of labor.
The most outrageous of their many
outrages was the arrest of Ettor and
These two leaders, with Haywood,
were the backbone of the strike. Both
spoke Italian fluently. Also other Ian
suages, by which they held together
he heterogeneous crowd of laborers.
woman was shot-shot by a police
nan. These two men we're arrested
Ipon a charge of murder. They were
lot within a mile of the shooting. No
striker did the shooting. They had
trikers to hold themselves in leash, |
o do no untoward act. Yet they were
leld, without bail, on charge of !
murder, because by some process of I
easoning convenient to the mill own \
rs, the officials conceived-or charged !
t least-that by their speeches they \
ad melted the shooting.
Never before in American history \
as such a spectacle been presented /.
he men have been in Jail for months. \
heir only crime is loyalty to down \
rodden laboring class.
The !. w. w. proposes a general \
tfike as a protest against the inn 4
We have no sympathy n
18th such a strike, for the strike is n
weapon like dynamite, and not to be \
layed with. Under such a strike \
ne sufferers would be not the guilty n
Tool trust magnates and the Law n
ence officials, but an entirely in y
ocent nation with its commerce par a
lyzed in whatever proportion the N
trike is successful.
The men who are guilty should be =
A strike can serve no pur-
ose other than to call attention to d
heir guilt. The same thing can be A
chieved by publicity. 1t would be far s
etter, if the |. w. W. adopted the r
merican formula for their purpose Ii
nd let the light in on the facts of the V
otorius outrage Just as District At
)rney Pellitier of Boston, is doing. =
The protest of publicity should be Il
eneral; not confined to the |. W. w. d
Two wrongs cannot make right
cannot cure suffering, and ),
general strike would entail suffering c
pom the innocent-upon the |. w. w. 0
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