Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-08-20

public prejudice, malice and ill-will al
ways have opportunity to operate. 1t
is under the law of conspiracy that the
Government secured it's convictions
against Parsons and Spies and their
comrades. 1t was Governor Altgeld
who, after fair and dispass1onate in
vestigation of the evidence upon which
these convictions were secured, IN
granting a pardon to those who were
given penitentiary sentences, wrote
the most severe arraignmnt OF the law
Of. conspiracy that we have. Massa-
chusetts attempted to convict Ettor
and Giovanitti under the theory OF
conspiracy. Ford and Suhr have Just
been convicted at Wheatland under
the law of conspiracy. Until the law
of criminal conspiracy as it exists to-
day is wiped out, no active man or Wo-
man in the industrial war is safe. AS
matter of law, labor has won, after
years of struggle the right to organize,
but the victory is meaningless II those
in the organization are at all times to
be held responsible, criminally, for
every act of each other man in the
organization.
THE DEATH PENALTY. 4
For j. M. RangeI, Charles Cline, E.
Aizalde and j. A. Cisneros the prosecu-
ton will ask the death penalty, as they
are the men who, because of their I'M
seIffshness and loyalty in the cause of
the education of the workers OF the
South, have incurred the greatest ILL
will of those who exploit. In the
words of Judge Hudson, who, up to
| the present time has been in charge
of the defense of these men, Moth
ina will be left undone by the state to
secure the death penalty against Ran
gel and Cline"
A Call to Action
| SHALL WE. THE WORKERS OF
| AMERICA, ALLOW THE EMPLOY
| ING CLASS AND THE AUTHORI-
TIES OF TEXAS TO CARRY OUT
THEIR PLAN OF PUTTING A ROPE
IAROUND THE NECKS OF RANGED,
CLINE, CISNEROS AND ALZALDE?
NO! And let million NOS ring
| ont from all over this nation, and let
the PROTEST SWELL UNTIL OUR
FIGHTING BROTHERS IN THE
SOUTH ARE BACK IN OUR RANKS.
Our duty as toilers corresponds to
the greatness of the danger tos our
brothers. If these men are so valuable
that the master class of the South
would strangle their voices, then they
are so valuable .&that the workers
should not rest until they are free. II
their activity in Labor's ranks and
their capacity for organization and
education has been SO. great that they
have incurred the enmity OF the state
land the employers, then by the same
sign we should devote ourselves to the
1qustion of saving them.
Shall we allow the master class to
lpick off our valuable men one by one,
as they have in the past? No. And
we call on Labor everywhere to join
lin the answer. NO!
The man who says that the voice OF
a strangled worker is more powerful
i than that of living worker, Is man
without red blood in his veins and
devoid of real social consciousness
These men must be saved, their voices
must once more be raised in protes
a gainst the industrial conditions of the
Southwest; their energy and skill II
ORGANIZATION must once more be al
4 bowed to express itself. If they are t.
i. die. they ought at least be given the
onportunity to die a more fitting dealt
) Ethan by dangling at the loose end OF
hemp rope, made by workers. We be
liieve that the time will come when the
militant workers will not be satisfied
with meeting death as felons, but viii
AT least demand the right to meet i
as men unafraid and on the ramparts
| if need be.
Significance Of the Revolt
of the Mexican Worke
Nor wears the American Federation
mr. the Western Federation
Miners the United Mine Workers an
The Industrial Workers of the Wori
have attempted to reach the MeXlca
l. IS of the South Speaking ger
terallv. their efforts have been unsut
ccssful, Up to within the last twent
years the Mexican industrial life ma
= been primarily agricultural. Nowher
does the. agricultural worker take t
Nlindustrial organization readily, but (
/ recent wears the tremendous economl
Nldayelopment Of Mexico along lines
| modern business, that is, the bu1ldln
If railroads, the opening up OF tn
Ilmines, the establishment Of industr1e
HItaken together with the creation
great landed estates running into hui
Il dreds of thousands of acres, has crea
ed. a new psychology upon the part
1.-The Mexican worker The politician
and foreign corporations having 70
bed him Of the land, his only means
existence, he has been peonized an
e in most cases reduced to actual sla
! cry. Therefore, he has naturally al
: inevitably seized the cry of Land al
p Liberty" President Wilson, in a
3. cent interview dealing with the Me,
3 can situation, was quoted by Mr.. Sa
y. - dan-.41.-. n sfrIifiS MRXic