El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-06-21
W. LILLIAN E, TRAUTMANN has

w : LILLIAN E. TRAUTMAHN has
w written a lengthy letter to
William D. Haywood, attack
ing certain leaders Of the / W. W or
ganizatiOn.
Trautmann has been on the inside
OF the J. w ". The letter Of Traut-
mann to Haywood is as follows:
To william ID. Haywood: The sU-
preme court of Massachusetts has
nOlle-prOssed the indictments for con-
SDlraCE on IS counts against YOU and
others. The supreme court of Massa-
chussetts. through the master Of chan
Gerry appointed, has given out a finding
on the Lawrence strike funds. Both
these cases hung like a cloud over the
heads of the few who know. and knew
all the inside facts. The cloud is re-
moved. Further silence would be con-
strued as crime against the prOletar-
ian movement
You know promised disclosures as
early as in July last year That time
I wanted 20 risk my own liberty and
20 TO Jail But others had TO be con-
sideTed- Silence became supreme
duty No -nors so today Silence would
be a fe.sny, on my part and, I say it
emphfztlcally, on your part also.
re Industrial Workers OF the
TT ord has lost the confidence OF the
trusted as being sincere with the pro-
letarlaL You know it. and YOU strUg-
gled hard TO make the organization
redeem itself It seems to be impOs-
sible
Attacks on all those who disagree;
insults and vilificatiOn against all who
believe in working class political ac-
ton through working class parties,
the sneer. at and jeer OF ideals and
ethics as strong motive forces in the
struggle for working class emanCipa-
tom by an element which Kari Marx
and so also Engels branded as the
tScaTeuEeTG' the hattie field 0f Ia
Dor. form today the whole destructive
propaganda Of the Industrial Workers
of the World.
You are aware of these facts. You
complained about You promised and
tried hard to use your influence for
remedial enactments. Has anything
been acomplished2 No, decidedly no!
The Lawrence Affair.
In the Massachusetts supreme court
your name, and also mine, are con-
nected in an evident desire on the part
Of our enemies to impIicate the Indus
trial W OrkerS Of the W Orld In Lnan-
CiaI wrong doing. But on the Lawrence
strike fund you and J. and others. can
claim a clean bill And why 500 In
Lawrence, in Lowell, and I presume so
also now IN Paterson. the workers.
through their own committees and in
stitutiOns, administered all affairs.
They cOurted not nor cOuntenanced
outside inference. They supervised
the funds, ordered and examined all
expenditures The actions. the speeches,
the educational work done by the ser
wants OF the workers and YOU were
one of them subject to control by the
workers and their committees.
But this democratic management OF
affairs which marked the Lawrence
and the Lowell strikes, as historic
landmarks in the labor movement. was
destroyed Immediately after the ter
nina tiOn Of these conflicts. You are
aware of the aUtOcratic orders by
which in defiance Of the expressed
VIII Of the rank and file in Lawrence,
the supervising committee over the fl
naucial transaction was dissolved It's
bad business was your only comment.
And this high handed act engineered
by the all powerful general secretary
treasurer Of the Industrial Workers OF
the World is responsible that now it's
charged in the findings Of the Massa-
Chusetts supreme court. that thousands
of dollars have been misused.
The labor movement Of America has
passed. in the last seven years. through
three important developments. In all
of these the employing class tried to
pit against the working class its re-
seruces, its wits, its political and eco
nomic agencies. The workers had moth