The Mena weekly star., 1912-04-11
SAN DIEGO AIM OF NEW L.W.W. ARMY
One Thousand Men Will March From San Francisco t0 Dis turbances May Be
 Turned Back.

kodi dhNiotof -hPt il fs--N llH lut events of the last week. the strug- gle between the employers of the Pacific coast and the Industrial Workers of the World has narrow ed to two issues. X manifesto is- ued by the San Diego Free Speech League says the league is making the fight to spread open shop pro- paganda. The question of higher wages and shorter hours has been eliminated, at least temporarily, in the northwest by the stand of the strikers on the sole issue of reeoe- hilton of the Industrial Workers | organization.
 San Diego has been beset by the free speech agitation since Janu- ary 1, and the announcement was made yesterday that new army numbering 1000 men would mobil- ize in San Francisco, Sacramento, and Stockton and march to the southern city. Posses of police, special deputies and citizens have deported some of the invaders and have repulsed others at the out skirts of San Diego. They assert they will meet the endorsements now headed southward and drive them back before they enter the city.
 Street Speaking Forbidden.
 The enactment of an anti-street speaking ordinance late last De- cember precipitated the San Diego warfare. The grand jury recom- mended an ordinance establishing more down town "congested" dis tricts where street speaking would be forbidden. The city council passed the measure and added an emergency" clause, making it im- mediately effective.
 A protest meeting was called at which 5000 persons were present including members of the Indus trial Workers of the World and representatives of Socialist locals and of the American Federation of Labor. The two latter have re- mained in the fight with the Indus trial Workers. On account of the opposition there is doubt as to the legality of the emergency clause and the ordinance was not made ef- fectiVe until month later.
 On the day upon which the or- dinance went into effect the labor men and Socialists organized a pa- rade which ended in a riot. Forty of the agitators were arrested and from then on clashes between street crowds and the police were almost daily occurrences. Nearly 300 men and women were in jail al one time. When their attorney Fred II. Moore, asked them what he should bring them, they asked for Karl Marks Capital, Rousseau: Confession and books by Nietzche kropotkin and Suderman. Tht i books were supplied.
 New Allies Daily.
 New allies came daily. Some rod, on brake beams and some walked | ihtt tiAC tltS. Mdly WtIt ldktll it the outskirts of the city, supplied with water and sent back across tht desert. A delegation of 100 mer from Santa Anna was met morn ing of April 3, and after being com pelled to kiss the American flag, tho invaders were made to sing "Tht Star Spangled Banner" and sen back along the railroad track. Leaders in the agitation said the street fight in San Diego was made necessary by a meeting of employ CTS held in San Diego early in De- cember, at which plans were begar for organized movement against the open shop. In the last manifesto issued by the Free Speech League the position of the agitators is de- fined as follows.
 The life principle of organized labor is the closed shop. This is the storm center around which the contending forces of labor and the merchants and manufacturers arc struggling for supremacy. Victory or defeat in the battle for the clos ed shop spells life or death for the right of labor to have voice in determining the condition under which it is to toil."