Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-08-15
DARROW AND OTHERS

Growing out OF the noted strike In the mllI
of Lawrence, Mass, is fiery attack on present
day methods of dealing with industrial and con
lstitutional questions by writer in recen
number of the North American Review. Th'
scenes of violence during that strike, the doubt
full help 81 the militia and the police in preserv
Ling order, and the well.founded stories that il
many cases the arm of the law was used solel.
Ito drive the strikers into submission, gave thu
basis for an argument that the United States il
mot settling its industrial problems by q sobel
resort to reason but by a resort to force. Tht
writer now quoted, Percy s. Grant, declares thai
the United States has turned over the settlement
of such problems to "strong arm squad, ano
continues his Indictment as follows:
aInstead of referring labor, controversies t.
boards Of cancellation or tocourts of arbitration
we ring up the police, arm bands of priyate.de
tectives swear in special deputy sheriffs call ou
the militia and organize yigilantes, who proceed
to gag discussion, to arrest LABOR leaders, to in
timidate strikers, to wound and to kill. Force
and free speech are again arrayed
"0ne of the t1eepF rooted grievances Of honest
working people is that during strikes, in order
to clear the streets, police magistrates will &C
eept the unsubstantiated testimony Of the police
|acai1st prisoners who have been arrested upon
charges Of yagrancy or of disorderly conduct
etc, and that these Judges railroad troublesome
pickets or laborleadersto Jail In this way the
police and the courts act together and judicial
position becomes merely accessory force; that Is
to say, it does not perform the function OF slit
ing evidence and securing justice; it is. only
another heavy hand pushing the work. ngman OF
labor-leader to prison.
The Indictment is a severe one, and is justi-
fled in measure, but the writer fails to take
into account the fact that almost invariably Sc
rious strikes lead to violence on the part of the
enraged employees, and that the only argument
such people know is the argument of the butt
end of gun or the stick of a policeman When
the strikes insthe United States cease to be led
nv emotional, overwrought Italians, profess
sional >agitators of the type Of Haywood, who
was tried for the murder of ex-iov Steunenberg
of Idaho; when the leaders of the strikers will
refrain from calling together street mobs and
them to a wild pitch of hysteria;
when, in brief, the strikers keep steady hand
on their impulses and are in mental condition
TO IISl0I1 uuu
be no need for force.
The trouble has been that strikes have been
and are the expression of trades unionism, and
in the United States such men as Gompers, Moy.
er, Haywood and the like have been the leaders
and such men as Harry Orchard, Ortie Mechanic
agl and the McNamaras have been the weak or
INSCRIPTIONS tools. If the trades unions will
purge themselves of the men by whom they are
brought into disrepute, their complaint against
the use of force will be needless. $50
The subject is vital now because of the inn
portance of the barrow trial Regardless of the
outcome of that trial, there will certainly remain
a moral conviction in the minds of the majority
of people that barrow is guilty at least of know
ing bribery was going forward. That an attor-
ney as closely in touch with his case and as keen
of intuition, as barrow should be ignorant. of
Franklin's coarse work is unthinkable Wheth-
er or not the Chicago attorney engineered the
dirty deal designed to corrupt the Mcnamara
jury cannot be definitely told from the testi-
mony, but barrow is discredited. He is no Ion
ger an asset to. unionism. He is an argument
against the structure built up under GOmpers.
Now that the Astor baby has been born, the
Mexican revolution can get space again in the