The Washington times., 1914-04-06
Ettor Explains New Creed;
Race Suicide Latest Weapon
eader of the !. w. w Defines
His Theories, Which Are
Shared by Thousands of Ad-
herents in America.

A neW and startling weapon is
I ing welded by group Of Indus
ial Workers of the World. Its po-
tCHtidlities are greater, its effects
more tar-redchiHg, than any meth
Of yet devised in the /. w. w. at
tcck upon Capitdl-With a big &C. 3"
This weapon is race suicide.
Give us pdges enough to sup
por large families or NE WiH re-
d zee the families and labor piu be
more COSTLY" is the surprising ar
sumeHt.
Joseph !. Ettor, conspicuous fig
ure in the Lawrence strike and u
recognized /. w. w. leader, dis
CHSses this neW propaganda. He
Likewise outlines the platform of
the |. w. w.
However strange his ideas may
Seem to the Average ear, this pieW-
FRONT, shared BY more than a mil
Ion 0dhereHts of an organization
G.tTdctiHg more and more attention,
is interesting. Howeper unwel-
come his theories, they must be
recognized and coped with.
By J. R. HILDEBRAND.
More radical than sabotage and
more alarming than syndiculism is
the .preachment, as an industrial
doctrine OF race suicide by a group
OF Industrial Workers of the World.
Race suicide among the laboring ]
classes is the grim, portentious blow
THIS faction or the workers would
oeaL what they choose to call, en-
treHched capital Its first intima-
ION was the Withholding from the
'lails last week in New York of
The Woman Rebe,,' an ]. w. W.
Vrgan published by Mrs. Margaret
sanger. a heroine of the Lawrence
strike. In that issue of her paper
Mrs. Sanger asserted there are TOO
mary children in .he world. and
suggested methods OF race control.
Joseph ]. Etttor, In Washington
tooay. following his address before
tho Economic League last evening"
gave his Endorsement TO Mrs. Sang
er's vfews.
Lracticed all along by the rich, fire.
QUently by the middle classes, but
now II becomes 4 crime when il is
rescrted to by the poor he asserted
- Slr nrf 49,.
tions are nothing new. II labor Is
forced TO take -suci measures capital
VIII suffer. Capitalists reserve the
light TO regulate their own fam
hat the privilege be extended 10 the
working classes, tney see the out
oTlc. There will l.e IesseninG re-
crUits for toll, and dividends viii
criminal''
Mrs. sanser's clash with the postal
authorities attracted wide attention
IN labor circles IN Washington. She
nsured prominently IN stories OF the
~trikes at Lawrence, and helped TAX,
many children to New YORK 10 Fnd
nomes. She also testified here in the
inquiry into strike conditions.
While he Endorsed Mrs. Sanger's
"rk and her IDEAS, Ettor declared
1er ropeganda was not part Of
the I. W. W platform. He set out
and his definition put IL III a different
Light from that suggested BY many
newspaper accounts of I. W. W. ex-
DlOits.
No organization has been so great
v misrepresented. and no noble DUR
pose so greatly misconstrued as
ou.s.' Ettor declared, TO offset
mis- Misrepresentation. ] am willing
% present my side OF the case"
There is nothing Of the rambunc-
..Ous. assertive type OF labor leader |
bout EttOr. He is Z rather diffideur.
deliberate. slow-speal;inr young man. |
and his voice WAS not raised above !
q conversational tone. even when h.
complained. with evident emotion. /
Df what he believes to be bitter |
wrongs to workingmen. A tenser
nose. slower utterance, a deeper |
tone attested his sincerity and car
lied the conviction that. however
strange his theories might seem. !
he believed in them.
Though most OF his ideas arr So
alistic, nanv OF them bordering or
the sHarchistic. his presentation o.