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The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-09-16
POLITICAL LIBERTIES AT
STAKE

"The problems of industrial rela-
tions, therefore, demand the attention
of congress, not only because they de-
termine the life, security and happi-
ness of the twenty-five million citi.
zens of the United States who occupy
the position OF wage earners, but be-
cause they affect for good or evil the
government of localities and states,
and to a smaller degree that of the
nation itself. What eachiof these wage
earners shall eat, what he shall wear,
where he shall live, andshow long and
under what conditions he shall labor
are determined by his Industrial status
and by his relation indi sidually or col,
lectively to the person Or corporation
employing him. Similarly and almost
as directly this relationship deter
mines whether the machinery of gov
eminent shall be used for or against
his welfare, whether his vote shall
count for or against his own interest,
whether he shall be tried by a jury
of his peers or jury selected in col
fusion with the employing company,
Or, under conditions of so-called mar
tai law, by no jury whatever; wheth-
er in fact he shall be a free man or
be deprived of every right guaran-
tced by federal and state constitu-
tons, imprisoned without warrant for
the commission of crimes of which he
may be innocent, or forcibly deported
from the community or state in which
he has made his home. For these rea-
sons, it seems desirable at the outset
to suggest a recommendation to con-
gress that these problems of industrial
relationship should occupy their due
prominence in the deliberations of
that Honorable Body, and that the en-
tire machinery of the federal govern
ment should be utilized to the greatest
possible degree for the correction of
such deplorable conditions as have
been found to exist.
"The lack of a proper industrial re.
lationship and the existence of bad
! labor conditions is a matter of the
most serious moment during times of
peace, but the events of the past year
have demonstrated how enormously
their menace to the welfare of a ma
ton is increased during a period OF
war The present European war is
being fought on the farms and in the
factories as much as in the trenches
| The effective mobilization of our in
dustrial resources is as important sim
ply from the standpoint of war, as
the mobilization of our military and
naval forces.
1T is equally important that action
should be taken now rather than after
war is a reality.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-09-16

A crowd of 5000 silk mill workers
surrounded the Erie railroad station
at Paterson, N. j., wildly cheering
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, the l. w. w
organizer, as Chief of Police Bimson
and half-dozen detectives forced her
to go back to New York, following a
decision of the mayor and chamber of
commerce that Paterson will not toll
crate the l. w. w. agitation.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-09-16
Workers Rebel Against
States Injustice
DEMAND RELEASE OF
PROSECUTED WORKERS
GOV. HIRAM JOHNSON WARNED
"Direct Action" In Progress

sGovernor Hiram
Johnson announced last Saturday that
Industrial Workers of the World and
other persons had threatened whole
sale devastation of the industries of
California, and even worse" unless
Richard Ford and Hermann Suhr, two
members of the organization serving
life sentences for murder, were par
doned by certain date, which has
passed. The statement came upon the
heels of reports from the California
and Oregon hop fields of widespread
incendiarism. The governor declared
that so long as incendiarism and other
such acts continue he will not listen
to any appeals for executive clemency.
Ford and Suhr, it will be remem-
bered, were Convicted" and sent to
prison for life because they were so
bold as to organize the hop pickers on
the burst ranch, in California, so that
certain insufferable conditions might
be removed.
Gov. Johnson has had two years now
in which to right the wrong done by
capitalist courts to these two work
ing-class martyrs, and he has seen fit
to serve the interests of those to
whom he is politically indebted,-the
capitalist class. Now he declares that
he will listen to no appeals for ex-
ecutive clemency" whilst incendiarism
continues.
The capitalist governor, "friend of
Labor" is a few hours too late. It'll
be up to his class to appeal to the
LW.W. for executive clemency" from
now on, if reports in the daily press
are to be credited. Generally they
are not; this time we believe they
are citing facts.)
If the IW.W. have entered upon a
campaign of direct Ection," brute
force, incendiarism, "or worse" in
defense of their martyred comrades
the ruling-class of California have nc
one to blame but themselves. Advo
Gates of rule by brute force them
selves, they cannot logically complain
if the victims of their law-and-order
brutality emulate their methods, fight
them back with their own weapons
to-wit: brute force, violence, "oI
worse"
Governor Johnson and his class may
be sorry they got such firm hole
on the bears tail before this fight is
over, no matter which side wins in the
long run.
THE WHEATLAND RIOT
We have not space here for the
story of the riot on the burst ranch
Wheatland, August 8, 1913, but We
feel that no real understanding of tn,
present situation can be obtained with
out reading of an article quoted il
this issue from the July 31st issue O
Solidarity, official organ of the NV. W
1t is worth reading, as a record of on
phase of the class struggle in our owl
times.
The Northwest Worker does no
sanction the direct action or "sabot
age" tactics of the IW.W We prefe
the Socialist method of capturing Il
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-09-16
ODen Letter to the
Governor of Utah
PROTESTING AGAINST LEGAL
MURDER OF JOE HILL

Sir
1t has been with deep interest and
disgust that l have followed the re-
ports of the trial of Joe Hillstrom
(known to us as Joe HilD. 1t was
with deeper disgust that l read of the
decision of the lawmakers of your
state to murder him legally on the
first day of October. We who under
stand something of the underlying
motives of judges and juries know
why he was thus condemned on the
flimsy evidence presented
Aside from the fact that no proof
of this mans guilt was offered, this
farcicial pretense of disappearing of
murder comes with poor grace from a
class who continually teach the fine
art of professional murder, from the
time boy enters the kindergarten,
until he is graduated as a finished
product, decked in hideous, garish
uniform, with the implements of muir
der in his hand / have served many
years in the public schools of the
country, and no one knows better
than | do how well the murder-lust is
cultivated in the hearts of little chill
dren. The public educational system
is ably supplemented in this respect
by the church, as exemplified by the
careful nursing by it of the boy scout
movement.
And slowly the masses are begin
ming to think Slowly but surely they
are becoming intelligent and class
conscious. A few more Ferrers, a
few more Ludlows and Calumets, and
one or two more Joe Hills, and the
education will be sufficiently com
plete to be effective. ! realize fully
that your class are within their
rights" to murder legally, because
you and your kind have made it law
full to murder legally. In short, you
the RIGHT. You have been teaching
US this for thousands of years. Thai
lesson, too, we will soon have thor
oughly learned. There is a time com
ing, and it is not too far off, wher
the millions of Joe Hills will realize
their mighty strength And in tina
day and hour, remember it will have
been your class that has taught then
THAT MIGHT is RIGHT.
And another thing, too, should b,
borne in mind Joe Hill will be NOR,
effective dead than alive. You cal
murder his body, and bury it a thou
sand feet deep, but you cannot nun
der his spirit, the spirit of rebellion
that will be nursed and fostered al
the more because of the fact of hi
having been murdered, murdered b
the class to whom the teaching c
the art of murder amounts almost t
religion in all countries today. Hi
life shall have been taken in col
blood, in malice prepense by a elias
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-09-16

David Lloyd George announced that
1870 additional plants making war mu-
nitions have been taken under con-
troll by the British government since
Sept. g. The total now is 715.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-09-16
MINERS GUST FIVE

The United Mine Workers union
struck blow at the state militia
when it ousted five of its members
for belonging to the guards.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-09-16
PEOPLE MUST KNOW FACTS

IAN attempt is made in the sue
ceeding pages of the report to sug
gest some of the measures which
should be adopted, with a full realiza
ton, however, that no action will be
effective which does not come through
an understanding by the American
people of the essential facts regarding
industrial conditions. Practically,
however, there are only two alterna-
tives for effective action, first, the Gre
alton of a huge system of bureaucratic
paternalism such as has been devel-
oped in Germany; or action which will
remove the many existing obstacles
which prevent effective organization
and cooperation, reserving for per-
Torrance by the government only
those services which cannot be effec-
lively conducted by voluntary organ
izations, and those which are of such
vital Importance to the entire nation
that they should not be left to the
hazard of private enterprise"
The Introductory statement closes
with the following quotation from Car
lyle, the Scotch historian, which, it
asserts, contains in few eloquent
sentences the very heart of the stu
alton in American industry:
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-09-16
|ndustria|Iy and Politically Organized
Workers Would End War!
By Marvin Sanford, Oakland, Cal.

| II is the task of the Socialist move
ment to teach the workers class con
seriousness, that they, too, may see
their interests are identical and op'
posed to the masters. Then they may
be in a position to fulfill their historic
mission of freeing themselves from
wage.slavery, and upon their enamel
patton. administrate in their own in.
terest.
Any radical movement that does not
teach the class struggle and the way
to its removal by the supremacy Of
labor, is wasting energy and is mind
befuddler.
Knowing the class struggle, know
ing the way of its end by proletarian
victory, which will abolish all classes
and enthrone justice, is to be class
conscious.
The industrially and politically or
ganized intelligent laborers will erect.
upon the overthrow of the capitalist
social system, an order of civilization
wherein every member of society must
perform for it some useful function in
exchange for the means of a cultivat-
ed existence, and be assured the right
to the earning and the possession of
these
THE CLASS STRUGGLE IS THE
ONE GREAT FACT AND VITAL IS-
SUE OF OUR DAY AND AGE.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-09-16
ACTION IS IMPERATIVE


In an Introductory statement con
gress and the public are urged to re
gard. the question of industrial rela
tons as more fundamental and OF
greater Importance to the welfare OF
the nation than any other question
except that of our government"
1.-THE only hope for the solution OF
the tremendous problems created by
industrial relationship" says the re-
port, 'lies in the effective use of our
democratic institutions and the rapid
extension of the principles of democ'
racy to industry
The immediate effects of the form
and character of industrial organiza-
ton are held to be greater and closer
to the lives and happiness of all
classes of citizens than even the form
and character of our political institu-
tions."
"The ordinary man." it is pointed
out, whether employer or worker, has
relatively little contact with the gov
eminent. If he and his family are
we'll fed, we'll housed, and well clothed
and If he can pay for the education OF
his children, he can exist even under
an autocratic monarchy with little
concern until some critical situation
develops in which his own liberty is
interfered with or until he is deprived
of life or property by the overwhelm-
ing power Of his tyrannical ruler.
BUT HIS INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
DETERMINE EVERY DAY WHAT
HE AND HIS FAMILY SHALL EAT,
WHAT THEY SHALL WEAR, HOW
MANY HOURS OF HIS LIFE HE
SHALL LABOR AND IN WHAT SUR
ROUNDlNGS. Under certain condi.
lions where his individual or corpor.
ate employer owns or controls the
community in which he lives, the edu-
cation of his children, the character
and prices of his food, clothing and
house, his own actions, speech and
opinions, and in some cases even his
religion, are controlled and deter
mined, insofar as the interests of the
employer make it desirable for him
to exercise his control. Such condi-
lions are established and maintained
not only through the dictation of all
working conditions of employment by
the employer, but by his usurpation or
control of the functions and machin-
cry of political government in such
communities.
INDUSTRIAL FEUDALISM
an the available time it has been
impossible to ascertain how general
such conditions are, but it is clearly
indicated by the investigations that in
isolated industrial, mining or agricul-
turai communities, which are owned
or controlled by single individuals or
corporations, and in which the en-
ployees are unOrganized, industrial
feudalism is the rule rather than the
exception.
'In such communities democratic
government does not as a rule exist,
except in name or form, and as con
sequence there now exist within the
body of our republic petty industrial
communities, which are virtually prin-
cipalities, oppressive to those depend
ent upon them for a livelihood and a
dreadful menace to the peace and wei
fare of the nation.
Such conditions as these are the
direct and inevitable consequence OF
the industrial relations which exist in
such communities. Political freedom
can exist only where there is indus
|
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-09-16
QUOTING CARLYLE

QUOI1NG CAhL LIZ
with the working people, again, it
is not so well. Unlucky. For there
are from twenty to twenty-five mil
lions of them. Whom, however, we
lump together into a kind of dim COM
pendious unity. = =, as the
Masses Masses indeed: and yet,
singular to say, the masses consist
whom has his own heart and sorrows;
stands covered there with his own
skin, and if you prick him he will
bleed. Every unit of these masses is
a miraculous man, even as thou thy
self art; struggling with vision or with
blindness for HIS infinite kingdom
(this life which he has got, once only,
in the middle of eternities); with a
spark of the divinity, what thou call
est an immortal soul, in him!
Clearly difficult point for gov
eminent, that of dealing with these
masses; if indeed it be not rather the
sole point and problem of government,
and all other points were mere acct
dental crochets, superficialities, and
bleatings of the wind! For let charter
chests, use and want, law common
and special say what they will, the
masses count to so many millions of
units; made, to all appearance, by
God, whose earth this is declared to
be-"
That section of the report so far
made public deals almost entirely
with the causes of industrial unrest.
CAUSES OF UNREST
The report finds that the causes of
industrial unrest group themselves
almost without exception under four
main sources which include all the
others. These four are:
l. Unjust distribution of wealth
and income.
2. Unemployment and denial of op,
portunity to earn living.
8. Denial of justice in the crea
ton, in the adjudication and in the
administration of law.
A. Denial of the right and oppor
tunity to form effective organizations
(To be continued)
Patronize YOUR Advertisers
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-09-16
HAVE NO VOTE"

The IWW. truthfully state that the
master-class election laws deprive the
migratory workers of the suffrage, so
that they can have no redress for
grievances through use of the ballot.
They are, therefore, so they claim, left
with but one resource sabotage.
Well leave the answering of this
argument to the gentlemen who make
the election laws.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-09-16

police powers of the state by the
peaceful methods of political action.
We are willing to leave violence and
lawlessness to the capitalist class and
the l.W.W.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1915-04-23
10 Years
Taken from
H1 the Files of
ASO De NdlIep
==:. C0untp Ca
Sette Of Mir teen Years Ago.
sette Of Mir teen Years AGO.

Sheriff Willis went to the last end
of the county on business last Sunday
returning Tuesday.
Plas Price of Hinsdale was among
the many cattle boys who visited the
city OF Wednesday.
E. D. Coleman has fitted up a read
ing room in the basement of his hotel
for the accommodation of the public.
DR.. Montrose and Frank Lemmer
went to Poplar on a duck hunt Mon
day evening, but they didn't get the
ducks.
Andrew Nelson, the Vandalia bon
anza sheepnan, was ~transacting bust
ness with the merchants Of Glasgow
Tuesday.
Robert Able and wife of Saco, were
among the out-of-town who attended
the Odd Fellows ball here Tuesday
evening.
A large number of Valley County
stockmen attended the meeting of
the North Montana Roundup asso-
citation at Chinook this week. -.
Jas. Deegan of Hinsdale, was in
Glasgow on business this week.
Warner Colwell, post trader at o.
wego, spent Wednesday in our vii
lage.
Clarence Broadbrooks, of Saco; r
w. Garland of Malta, and C. w.
Stafford of Culbertson, were among
those who attended the convention
here yesterday.
NJ. E. Miner and j. L. Harrison
will represent Valley County in the
executive committee chosen by the
Montana Stockgrowers association al
Miles City last week.
Ex-Governor Leslie, U. S. district
attorney for the state of Montana
was in Glasgow as prosecuting attor.
ney in the Dunn case this week. The
governor presents a striking resem-
blence of Abraham Lincoln.
Lemmer & St. Clair have built a
wire fence around their Society Row
mansion which is a great improve
ment and d:spenses with the "keeI
off the grass (gumbo)" sign, adopted
by the present administration.
The parties having in charge the
digging Of the court house well
struck water at SO feet which gushed
forth like an artesian well. When
completed it will undoubtedly be the
best in town.
Jas. Linnehan, formerly an engin-
eer on this division but now on the
Havre and Blackfoot division, was
renewing old acquaintance in Glas-
gov owe Sunday. He was occom-
panied by Peter Gowrie, Marshall at
Havre.
Los Blackman's wagon camped or
Cherry Creek Wednesday and all the
boys, including "Daddy" Deans, who
looks as spry as a two-year-old colt
despite the fact hat he hovers around
the seventies and has had more range
experience than any other man in this
part of the state, spent the evening
in town.
The convention for the nomination
Of delegates to the state convention
from Valley county, was held at the
court house yesterday afternoon. The
meeting was called to order by Chair.
man Mabee who read the call ane
stated the object of the meeting. The
delegates who will represent tn.
county at Butte, on the 18th of May
are o. d. Policy and Sid A. Willis
R. w. Garland and C. S. Staffort
were appointed as their respective al
ternates. Nearly every portion o,
the county was represented and ev
erything went off tremendously with
out a hitch, their being no opposi
tion-friendship and good feeling be
ing the order of the day
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1915-04-23
Railroad NeUS
Special Correspondent

CIlklICC1
cal for John Hoffman.
Engineer Ohlson took engine 1476
to Havre shop last week.
Engineer Frank Miller returned to
work last week after about a mnOth's
absence.
Engineer Schumacher was up to
! Havre last Monday to have his eyes
| examined.
Storekeeper A. L. Thompson vas
IN to Havre Friday of last week Of a
business trip.
Fred Mann laid off for a few trips
last week and Bill White was on No.
/ and 4 with Archie Stone.
Engineer E. ]. Dixon has returned
to work and is on engine 534 on work
train on first district.
John Kamla and the two cubs +
specializing on dead work and at pre-
sent are over-hauling the Goat.
Eugene Kelly is laying off and is
out on the homestead planting pump
kins. Gene expects to husk a good
crop next fall.
Captain N. Hahn has signed up an
other ball player for the round house
, team. This is Albert Schroer who
is working as oil boy at present.
The round house ramblers are begin
ming to warm up now and if their
ball playing is as good all season as it
was on the try out they will be at the
top of the list.
Rastus, the colored pug, has left
for better parts. He says that he
thinks he will have to go to Havre and
live with the colored folks since Jack
johnson took the count.
R. r. Schulz was down again last
week taking work reports. He had
Ed Iverson assisting him as Ed is
looking forward to a job of travel
ing engineer in the future.
Machinist George Gebhardt has re-
signed. We are sorry to see George
go as he has been one of the main
stays of the round house for several
years and always kept things livened
up.
Engineer Ted McCarty is back on
the 1903 after about ten days lay off.
While he was laying off, Ted put up
a fine residence in the northwest part
of the city, where he expects to make
his home.
Engineer Hartzel and Fireman
Hyde are going to put on a show at
the Orpheum theater next week, if
they can make terms with the man.
ager. They will feature their man.
dolin playing as they had such good
success at the Grand at Williston.
Andy Solem laid off for a day last
week to rest up. Last month he
changed nine pair tank wheels and
took all the back boards, side curtains
and other winter equipment off the
engines and he says that he thinks a
little rest wouldn't do him any harm
Shoes has been worried lately over
the way the round house bunch treat
his spring hair cut. It's all right to
throw graphite on it and smear a
little grease over it but when it comes
to lamp black he draws the color line
he says.
J. R. Hamilton has been asked te
take the job of General Yard Master
of Glasgow yard. He is undecided as
yet whether to accept this position OF
a General Managership of the N. P.
which he has also been offered. Al
present he is running the yard here
and if enough salary is offered we ex
pect to see him stay.
While making a fast run one da!
last week Ben Davidson got what HI
: thought was a cinder in his eye. Or
going to the Doctors Office to have i
extracted it was found to be a larg,
rock. DR.. Hoyt says that is was tn
largest substance he ever remove
from any human eye.
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1915-04-23

A cutomer, after waiting several
minutes for an oxtail soup, called the
waiter to him and asked the reason
why it was behind.
The waiter, who was Irish, gently
answered.: "Oxtails are always be-
hind, sir"
She lat dance)-"I was just vaccin-
ated and it hurts horribly"
He docking at her spotless arm)-
"Where were you vaccinated?"
She with lowered eyes)-"In New
York"
The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1915-04-23

"When a bit of sunshine hits We
After passing of a cloud,
When a bit Of laughter gifts We
An yer spine is feeling proud,
Don't forgit to keep and fling it
At a soul that's feeling blue,
For the mint that We sling it
It's a boomerang to you"
Hoo Hoo Bulletin.
"Gimme three cigars" says Drake.
"Strong or mild"
"Gimme the strong vans. The
weak vans break in me pocket."--Ex,
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1915-09-16
BECAUSE NE LOVED Her
BY LOUISE OLIVER.

Frederick Adair rolled over In bed
and squinted through the open door