The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1916-04-22
UNCLE SAM JAnS
MEXICAN EDITORS
Charged With Using MAILS I'd
Incite Murder, Arson and
Treason.
SYMPATHIZERS FORM
LABOR DEFENSE LEAGUE
Believe Wall Street Is Behind
Move to Promote CONNER
cial imperialism.

| LOS ANGELES, Cal, April .2o.
| Charged with having used the mails
Ito incite murder, arson and treason''
| Ricardo Flores Magcn and his
brother, Enrique Flores Magon, edit
ors of eel Regeneration" a paper
! published in Los Angeles in the inter-
/ ests of free land and free men in Mex
| leo, recently have been arrested and
! jailed.
! This is the third time the Wagons
have faced the penitentiary; for
! twice they have been convicted of
breaking the neutrality laws and
| have served terms in The state prison
of Arizona and the Federal peniten-
tiary on McNei's island. In a. revo-
lutionary career of twenty years. ten
! of which have been spent in the
United States they have passed more
than five years behind the bars.
Justice and not bullets, is what
! ought to be meted out to the revo-
lutionists of Texas; ard from now
! on we should demand that the per-
secutions of innocent Mexicans
should cease. And as to the revo1u-
tionists, we should also demand that
! they be not executed."-
Don't Like Reforms.
1.-THE ones who >: ould be shot are
the 'rangars' and the band of BAN
| dts who accompany them in their
| depredations."
Enough of reforms! What we
hungry people want is entire liberty
! based on economic independence.
Down with the so-called rights Of
private property; and, as long as
| this evil right continues to exist we
shall remain under arms. Enough
| of mockery!"
These utterances constitute the
counts against the Wagons; and these
with one or two others of a similar
nature are quoted in the grand jury
indictments against them. And for
this they face from two to five years
| in the penitentiary! 55sFs
! =. Liberty of Press.
The arrest of the Wagons and the
| Indictment of their English collabor--
ator, William c. Owen, is the seventh
attack in 80 days on the liberty Of
| the working class press of this coun-
try. Following the arrest of Mar
garet Sanger 'for. misuse of the
mails came in sinister succession,
| the arrest of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
and Emma Goldman, the suppress
! sion Of '"The Alarm" and Revolt .
followed now by the arrest of the
Wagons; and while these lines are
being written comes the news of the
suppression by the postal authorities
of the last issue of '"The Blast" edited
by Alexander Berkman.
This list is regarded as significant
Wall Street is eager for an era Of
commercial imperialism hacked by
the bayonets Of preparedness" To
these ambitions there is no serious
| opposition save that voiced by the
labor and radical press; and those
in touch with the situation believe
that Wall street, controlling the fed.
eral machinery, has begun an attack.
upon the liberties of speech and
press the most determined and far
reaching in the history of this eoun-
try.
In answer to this campaign Of sup.
preston Workers International
Defense League of Los Angeles has
been organized. It is a permanent
and widely-based organization repre-
senting on it's executive COMMITTEES
every division of the labor and raili-S
cal movements; and its services are
at the disposal Of "all who need de-
tense and aid in the struggle for.
economic justice"