El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-06-21

given all the legal assistance Press
and public are used TO champion their
cause. There can be no objection. but
it disproves the theory that the break
ing into Jail" TO undo Objectionable in
reference in the rights of workers IS,
after all, the evaporation of dlseaScI
brains Yes, II al "oulo preak IN
If all would be willing to share in the
sacrifice-perhaps the arguments that
sthe tax payers would have to go bank
rupt would hold water But prefera bic
that would be TO the prison ruled life
under state Socialism, 20 be sure
"BreakinE Into JAIL
Break into the jailsl The moro
heads are cracked, the more lives are
lost in the skirmish, so much more
publicity, so much more money for the
strike Will come in" This is what on
of the chief volunteers of the L W w.
declared in presence Of witnesses. all
strikers, all members OF the cOnUrlDu-
ton committee of the Akron strike
". d. Haywood, do you think that
anyone has a right to play IVA Banque'
with the lives and well being of work
ing men2
There in Akron. in the climax to
all malfeasance. We hear general or
ganizer Speed tell the strikers, on Feb
ruary 18th, to respnOd to the call OF
county sheriff Ferguson to enlist as
special deputies Fifty and even more
follow the advice. In the great melee
in the second week of March these
l. ". W. deputies cracked more heads
of the foreigners then on picket duty
than the regular police who from the
start had displayed more sympathy
with the strikers than they were given
credit to.
This is political action" on revOlu-
uOnary lines, as revolutionary as the
filling of jails with unfOrtunates with
out legal defence. But what's the use2
Then there are the volunteers with
sneers for all those who voluntarily
dig up for the support of strikers such
easy markS-they all are The selling
for the strike fund, as a preteXt thOus-
ands of booklets and song books to
the credulOus. harvesting from Feb
ruary u to February p any amounts
of money. for the revolution, Sympa-
thetic people pay them p cents, even
dollars. and it pays TO follow tile call
for volunteers. One of them. who has
never worked for three years. Swasey,
got off to England; what others har-
vested will ever be unknown. But that
is industrial uniOnism-Of course tho
fountain heads of the Industrial Work
ers of the World dispatched these COl-
unteers there and they had right 70
work the suckers
Strikers Don't Control.
There was no such thing as control
of affairs by the strikers. There is
no such intent To develop the qualities,
the possibilities of the workers i'm the
factories and in the mills, as ii was
tried in Lowell, in Lawrence. in Nc
KEGS Rocks. and other places and frus-
trated whenever the inner circle so dc
creed Akron furnishes the most awk-
ward Illustration of what the 7. W. w.
of the "scavenSer" conception really is.
They were given halls by the Socialist
party; by the Socialist Labor party
first. The volunteers made places OF
pestnence and filth out of them. They
slept, they ''mooched.' they occupied
these halls, uncontrolled and un-
restricted in their foul talk and per-
verted language; they stole clothing
from the strikers they raved and ram
bled, under the name of Industrial UNI
1onism when supplicatiOns were made
they should respect the rights of 9TH
ers- Driven out of the halls where they
made their sleeping quarters. they
the sewer pipes, turned on the
water. flooded the floors. broke the
furniture, and hung up the red flag
over their scavenger district of van
dallsm with an inscription. Sabotage
the landlords if they refuse you halls
and rooms"
Haywood. YOU know of this. You ar
rived in Akron the same day when that
happened. but. of course it was only
bad business" Karl Marx once wrote
TO Dr. kugelmann: The most despi-