Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1912-05-23
IS ANARCHISTIC
ORGANIZATION
Industrial Workers of the
World Is Ana, chistic
Pure and Simple
MAKE NO CONCEALMENT
Historical Sketch of the
Organization Shows its
Real Purposes

That the Industrial Worker of the
World is an anarchistic organization
pure and simple, and makes no con-
cealment of it's nature or object, is
asserted by Lorin F. Deland in the
Atlantic Monthly in a careful and
comprehensive study of the Lawrence
strike. 1t is clear from this study, as
well as from many other analyses of
the situation that the trouble at Law
renee was not originated by the l.
turned to it's advantage, and that the
same thing may happen elsewhere
where similar conditions exist. Both
organized labor and the manufacture
ers held aloof from the hordes of
ignorant laborers at Lawrence, and
at the opportune moment this anar-
chistic ganization-frankly and con-
fessedly anarchistic, as Mr. Deland
shows by it's own literature and inter-
front.
1t would be misleading to speak of
the l. w. W. as labor organization"
this writer says, for that expression
has come to have a very definite
meaning in the last quarter of CEN
tury. A recent commissioner of Ia
Dor in New York state said to him
not long ago: "You may like the Ia
Dor unions or not, but the time is
coming when you will be grateful to
them as the only thing that stands
between you and anarchy"
Historical.
OF the character and history of the
I. w. w.. Mr.. Deland says:
"Its aim is the overthrow of the ex-
listing social order, the taking posses
sion by labor of all the machinery Of
production and the driving out of the
capitalist class. The organization was
conceived in the brains of two men as
recently as 1904; the project was dis
cussed in that year in Chicago by a
small body of chosen spirits. They
sent word to all the labor organiza-
tions inviting conference. Those
who responded came from the West,
where the strength of the l. w. W..
is still found Six months later they
held their first convention. The back
bone of the movement was the West
ern Federation of Miners, the organ
ization presided over by Meyer, Hay
wood and Pettibone, and made ia
nous by the dynamite work of Har-
ry Orchard.
In 1908 the l. w. w. (then years
old) divided into two factions, and
it remains divided. Both agree on
the end to be attained, but the De-
troit faction believes this end should
be attained in a democracy of the
ballot, while the Chicago faction
(strongly anarchistic) believes in 'di-
rect action Haywood and Ettor are
despite division, the l. w. w. gained
great headway, spreading like a pes
thence through the Northwestern
lumber camps and the metalliferous
mining fields, Montana, Idaho, Ne
vada and California are the hotbeds
of the movement. In the great strike
at McKees Rocks, Pa, in 1909, they
served notice on the state constab-
ulary that for every person killed a
life would be demanded by the strik-
ers, and they kept their word. In
one battle 10 strikers were killed and
the |. w. w. collected it's ghastly toll.
This civil war resulted in victory
for the strikers.
"In New England (outside of Law
rence) the |. w W. has some strength
in New Bedford and in Providence.
They have no power in New York
state, but they are very strong IN
Paterson and West Hoboken, N. J.
The famous preamble to the consti-
tuition of the l. w. w. written by
man named Hagerty, can, Mr.. Deland
SAYS, be condensed into one word,
War One day he told Haywood
that he would like to talk over the
preamble with him, as he had heard
if called a terrible document. Hay
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