Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1916-08-03
|. w. w. and Citizens
Clash in Portions Of
State South Dakota
"Disorderly' Is Applied to the |. w
W.-cIashes in Various Cities
Of the state.

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AT Redfeld and Mitchell and q few
other places in the state there have
been clashes between the citizens and
what th newspaper correspond
have denominated the |. w. W..
which stands for Industrial Workers
OF the World.
But much Of the disorderly con.
duct attributed to members az the or
ganization is believed by some to have
been on the part OF persons not mem.
bers.
At Aberdeen one murder has been
committed and the guilty party placed
under arrest but the Aberdeen Daily
News declares that the crime was not
committed by member OF the asso-
Iciation referred to. Holding no brief,
Ehpwever, for the order, the News
gays, in part:
In Aberdeen, the members of the
81. W. w, SO far as the News and
lso far as. the city and county author
tiles have been able to ascertain, have
been peaceful and laW-abiding. There
has been but little begging, less than
A,the usual amount at harvest time.
The l. w. W.s have been quiet on the
streets. The streets have been
crowded with them, 1t Is true, but the
only drunkenness the News has OBJ
served since the !. w. w. has been
in town has been among a very few
men who have resided In Aberdeen
from two to ten years and they have
been Just happily, not noisiiy drunk,
and are not members Of the i. w. w.
| There has been a minimum of
thievery, such as usually occurs at
| harvest time. The killing last night
wac not ane to the presence Of the
| I. W. W., but was due to the fact
that a man from Tennessee so far
forgot the traditions that q man from
Tennessee is supposed to adhere to,
that he played game of craps wirh
a negro ething no true southern
gentleman is supposed 10 de- and
then, when the negro trimmed the
southern gentleman, the laxter, after
trying to borrow gun from several
l. w w. members without success,
finally found a man. presumably not
an L w. w. who probably didn't like
negroes anyway-at least he loaned
the southern gentleman gun. and as
a result Brown county has murder
trial ou its hands.
But the killing was in no wise due
to the i. w. w The chief ofense
of the +. w. W., then, SO far as the
behavior of the organization In Aber-
deen is concerned, is that they are
demanding excessive wages from far
mers, are said to have threatened
other laborers who have been willing
to work for less, and this in the face
of the fact that the organization is
not. like most labor unions, composed
of men whose homes are in the state
where they work, who have a stake
~ ~ ~ IAAoiC ~ cAld IuCl OiOlO lu1y a1NG
some Justification for their demand.
These men, rather. are in q position
where they should accept the reason
able wages the farmers feel they can
afford, or else return to their homes,
or wherever they may feel disposed to
go, and make room for men who are
willing to work for reasonable pay
Surgeons found it necessary to am
putate at the shoulder the right arm
Of Policeman William O'Meara to pre-
vent the spread of blood poison.
Several weeks ago O'Meara, who is
one OF the most popular officials in |
Lead, arrested a man who resisted
and O'Meara was obliged to strike
him. the mans teeth forming an abrae
sion on the officers right hand. The
wound was not properly attended to
at the time and blood poison set In.
5O'Meara is now in precarious con-
chandise, selling them If they were
contraband.
And under the. international postal
convention. our government could
make no effective protest. That ef-l
fort therefore, soon died out:
Many Americans, however con-t
Itriyed to get provisions and other
acontraband articles through 70 the