Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-02-15

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years ago. some Of them surviving
for over week. Compared with this
heart-breaking catastrophe the Los
Angeles Times affair pales into in
significance, but this is not murder.
The coroner's jury fixed the RESPONSE
bility upon the capitalists, but they
are not guilty Of crime.
The capitalist proprietors Of the
Bayless mill at Austin, Pa. as de.
liberately Mlledtheir employees in the
dam disaster there, according to the
scoroner's inquest, as if they had
placed dynamite under their novels.
but this is not murder, and not one
Of them will be punished.
The capitalist mine owners Of Penn
sylvania had the sheriff and his depu-
ties massacre body of miners who
were marching peacefully along the
road near Latimer, with an Ameri-
can flag at the head Of their process
sion, and this is not murder.
Under the ethical code Of capitalism
the Staying Of worlingmen who resist
capital is not murder, and as a work
ingman / absolutely refuse to con-
denim men as murderers under the
moral code Of the capitalist class for
fighting according to their light on
the side OF the working class.
If the Mcnamara brothers had been
corporation detectives and had shot
dead twsnty-one inoffensiye union
pickets, instead of placing dynamite
under the Los Angeles Times, they
would have been protected by the law
and hailed by admiring capitalists as
heroes.
/ utterly abhor murder, but have
my ideas as to what constitutes muir
der. John Brown was an atrocious
murderer in the eyes Of the slave
power, but today he is one Of the
greatest heroes Of history. Sherman
blew up and otherwise destroyed all
the property within his reach, killed
indiscriminately, and spread desOla-
ton and despair all the way from At
lanta to the sea. but he was q hero
and not a murderer.
I DO the capitalists ever rave and tear
their hair over killings committed by
them, or their mercenaries, in their
interests and for their profit?
Does an Otis ever howl with rage
when workingmen are buried alive or
blown to atoms in q mine through the
criminal greed Of their capitalist mas
ters?,
It is only when a killing interferes
with their piracies that it is murder.
All their tender sensibilities are then
aroused and in frenzied concert they
cry about 'the law" and invoke all its
terrors to glut their merciless ven
geance.
I / have not changed my mind about
the theory that the dynamiting Of the
Los Angeles Times was instigated by
the capitalists themselves. am con-
WINGED that all these dynamiting
crimes had their inspiration in capt.
talist sources and their genesis in
capitalist camps. have many rea'
sons for this which time and space
will not now permit me to fully set
forth. can but suggest . few Of
these. which to most Of the readers o.
the Majority are sufacient in their sug
gestiVeness:
First the war Of the steel trust o.
ali the iron and steel workers unions
and the declaration Of Morgan thai
the unions had to be destroyed.
second, the fate Of the Amalga
mated Association. the Lake Seamen,i
Union, and others which were crushed
beneath the iron heel Of the trust
Third. the Joining Of these unions
81 the police spies and detetclTss p
lie steel trust. such Is Mechanical.