The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-07-06

| markable document which may prove
10 have place in history equal to the
Magma Charta, the Bill of Rights
and the American Declaration of In
/. dependence. A remarkable thing
that Catholic priest, of religious
sect which has now condemned the
Il. W. W., should have penned this
terrible preamble. declaring war on
the social structure reared by the
centuries.
Here is the famous preamble writ
ten by the Rev. Thomas ]. Hager-
ty Roman Catholic priest, and
adopted with minor changes by the
| founders of the Industrial Workers
of the World ten years ago.
! The working classes and employ
ing class have nothing in common.
There can be no peace so long as
hunger and want are found among
millions of working people, and the
few who make UP the employing
class have all the good things of
of life.
Between these two classes a strug-
gle must go on until all the toilers
come together on the political as well
as on the industrial field, and take
and hold that which they produce
| by their labor through an economic
organization of the working classes,
without affiliation with any politi-
cal party.
The rapid gathering of wealth and
the centering of the management of
| industries into fewer and fewer
hands makes the trades unions un-
power of the employing class, be-
cause the trades unions foster a
state of things which allows one set
of workers to be pitted against an
other set of workers in the same in
dustry, thereby helping defeat one
another in wage wars. The trades
unions aid the employing class to
mislead the workers into the belief
that the working class have inter-
ests in common with their employers.
These sad conditions can be chang
ed and the interests of the working
class upheld only by an organization
formed in such away that all its
members in any one industry, or in
all industries, If necessary, cease
work whenever a strike or lockout is
on in any department thereof, thus
making an injury to one an injury
to ALL
Among the other leaders in the
Chicago convention were William d.
Haywood, who shortly afterward
stood trial and was acquitted of the
murder of Gov. Steunenberg of Ida
no. Chas o. Sherman, William E.
Trautman editor of the ,Brauer Sci
tung, Frank Bohn who had been an
organizer of the Socialist Labor Par
Ety; Ernest Mills, at one time secre-
tary Of the Western Federation of
Miners; and another Haggerty,
spelling his name differently from
the priest.
1t was in the West that the l. W.
) w. perated mostly the first half
dozen years of its existence There
} were serious disorders at many
: points.
The agitation has kept up in the
( west but now it is spread or rather
scattered all over the country.
Some of the more famous struggles
/ were the war for free speech in
: Spokane, which resulted in adher-
ents of the l. w. w. being denied
5 the right of obtaining American cit
( izenship in three states; the San
5 Diego and Los Angeles riots, one in
7 cident of which was the forcing of a
hundred 1. w. WIS to kiss the Ameri-
t man flag preliminary to being run
: out of San Diego; and the spectacular
f strikes in Massachusetts and New
e Jersey mill towns.
g successful tactic of the I. w. w
: leaders is to jump into a strike al.
Y ready started by the other organiza.
: lions, show the strikers how much
more they can obtain by the / w. w
e plan and convert the strikers. The
h /. w. w. did this at McKeesport
e Pa, Lawrence, Mass, Little Falls, "
e Y, and Patterson, N ].
: This is not surprising when one
: remembers that the /. w. w. origin
a ated in the bull pens of Colorado
d The distressing scenes of the 1908
t struggle between the Western Fed.
Grafton of Miners and the Mine Own.
h ers Association led directly to the
: CVhicago convention of the succeed
e ing winter.
S Far astray as some OF the leaders
: may now have led, the origina
d means of campaign of the l. w. w
S We're pacific, or rather MASSIVE Strike