Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1912-05-18
TWO SETS Of
TROUBLE MAKERS
San Diego Vigilantes Con-
demned in Report by
Commissioner
INDUSTRIAL WORKERS CODE
End Justifies the Means Accord.
ng to California Labor
Agitators.
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Sacramento, Calf, May 1S.-Colonel
Harris Weinstock, special commission
er appointed by Governor Johnson to
investigate the San Diego free
speech campaign carried on by the
Industrial Workers of the World, finds,
! in his report made public today, that
the vigilantes of San Diego have
been guilty Of more culpable offenses
than the Industrial Workers and rec
ommends their prosecution.
Prosecution for kidnapeTs.
Sacramento. Calf, May 1S.-Colonel
Weinstock, who is the head of large
Sacramento mercantile firm, and has
! been prominent in state industrial af.
fairs for years, declares that the dis
trict attorney of San Diego has failed
to do his duty and, in pursuance OF
recommendation, Governor Johnson is
comforting with the attorney general s
office as to advisability of beginning
prosecution of the men accused OF
! having kidnapped and beaten the agita
/ tors.
Agitators LawIess By-Products.
/ The report, which is a voluminouS
document, compiled after persona
study of the situation by Colone
/ Weinstock, concludes that while the
Industrial Workers are comprised
largely of a lawless by-product o
European oppression they have beer
denied their constitutional rights o
free speech and that the disturbances
have crystaliZed growing problems
which demand immediate and careful
legislation.
Industrial Workers. Code.
The commissioner finds that the,
teach and preach the following doc
trines:
A That workmen are to use an.
and all tactics that will get the result
sought with the least possible eXpend
iture of time and energy.
B. The question of right or wron
is not to be considered.
c. The avenging sword is to be ur
sheathed with all hearts resolved o.
victory or death
D. The workman is to help himsel
when the proper time comes.
E. No agreement with an employe
of labor is to be considered by tn
worker as sacred or inviolable.
F. The worker is to produce inft
rior goods and kill time in gettin
tools repaired and in attending to r'
pair work; all by a silent understand
ing.
G.. The worker is to look forwar
to the day when he will cOnfiscate tn
factories and drive out the owners.
H. The worker is to get ready
cause national industrial paralysi
with the view of confiscating all indus
tries, meanwhile taking forcible po
session of all things that he may neet
I. Strikers are to disobey and tres
with contempt all judicial injunction
Advises Action by Attorney Genera
In summing up, Commissioner Well
: stock says: I'm view of the straine
conditions existing at this time
5 the county of San Diego and in vie
Of the utter lack of confidence on til
/ part of the victims of the so-calle
Y vigilantes committee in their beir
| able to obtain justice and redress ;
, the hands of District Attorney H.
, Utley, of San Diego county, becaus
of his pronounced hostility to the
and to their causes of complaint, yo,
commissioner would suggest that ye
give due consideration to the advis
bility of instructing the attorney ge
: eral of the state of California to co
+ slider such evidence as may be su
+ mitted to him by the attorneys of II
: victims of these outrages, with vie
: of taking an active part in or chars
of such criminal proceedings in So
Diego county.