The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-05-13
|. v. v. TO MAKE
JUNK OF CITIES
Big Towns Either Will Be
Raced or Made Monuments
to Folly, Says Haywood.
AND IT MAY COME SOON!
Leader Tells Industrial Commission
Political Action Won't Bring
Revolution.
AND IT MAY COME SOON!

When the program OF the Industrial
Workers of the World has been carried
into effect and thoroughly established as
the new order OF things. New York. along
with other great cities. will either be
destroyed or left merely as a monument
to the foollshness OF the present age. ac-
cording to William u. Haywood. secre-
tary and treasurer OF that organization.
Mr.. Haywood made this statement to the
Commission on Industrial Relations yes
terday.
l. W. w-ism was defined by Haywood
as socialism with its working clothes
on Himself he characterized as a para
site. because he no longer was pro-
Queer. and to illustrate his attitude to-
ward the courts. he declared:
"P7astered with Injunctions.
I've been plastered up with injunc-
tions till I didn't need a suit Of clothes,
The new order Of things. he said, would
be brought about by revolution. rather
than by the slow process of evolution.
Aehtu WITCH IL "oHiN eOi'ie' 'io S@'i an
could not tell.
"A year ago" he said. mo one could
have foretold that the world was to be
plunged into war. Our revolution may
come just as quickly as war. There
are workers who have come to the con-
clusion that there is only one way to
win this battle. Personally i do not
think 1t can be won by political ac-
ton.
I'VE hope to see the day when no
child will labor. when all men will la
Dor. either with their brains or their
muscles, and when every old man and
every old woman will have assurance
of dying in peace. l have an idea that
we can have a better society than
we've got. and have another idea that
we can't have a worse one"
Police Commissioner Arthur Woods.
of New York City. told the commission
earlier in the day that since he as
sumed office the attitude Of New York
City authorities toward street meet
ings. strike picketing. etc. had been
changed. and that the police now I'M
dertook to protect strikers in the
rights of free speech. free assemblage
and picketing. The result has been. he
said, that there are fewer disturbances,
and fewer complaints against the po-
lice from both sides of labor contro-
versies.
Tells About Gunner.
Commissioner Woods testified that
thanks to "Dopey Benny" who had turn
ed States evidence. the grand jury on
Tuesday had been able to return thirty
four indictments against gunner and la
Dor leaders who had employed them for
murderous work In times of strikes. Gun
well as by unions. he said, but in the
latter instances the employment was
usually indirect. through private detec-
tive agencies. and there was no evidence
that employers had used gunner nearly
so extensively as the unions had used
men had been used by employers as
them. He had known of New York
gunmen's being taken to Boston. Phila
delphia, Chicago. and other cities. but
knew nothing of their use in industrial
outside their home city. The
commissioner Of police also told OF the
existence Of gun women, but did not go
into details as to their activity.
The number and viciousness of gunner
gangs has been greatly reduced in the
last twelve months. Mr.. Woods said.
and he closed his direct testimony with
the promise that the gunner could and
would be blotted ont