The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-01-01

workers make up their minds along these lines that they will have them.
 Schmidt's conviction is remark able one. It is in direct conflict with the instructions of the Court. The Court declared that the evid- ence to prove the main charge was insufficient and that the jury must make up their minds before con- vincting that Schmidt had aided. abetted and counGclled tho dyna- hitting. This had not been dcne.
 Moreover it is no surprise that the conviction shocks the court, but it will not shock labor.
 When the plans gre laid as care. fully to convict a man as have beer the plans laid to convict Schmidt, 1t would be a distinct shock If Schmidt were net convicted.
 We said that it wasn't Schmidt the criminal or alleged criminal who was On trial.
 Everything goes to show that. Ii Schmidt was an ordinary malefactor who was being brought to justice, dinary routine that one observes ill the courts. There would have been no trained witnesses like M'Mani gal; no special prosecutor like Noel; no high grade experts like the Burns men; no special care iii , securing the indictment, no special care in picking tho jury, Tho trial would have been over and done with weeks ago. There would have have been none of this suporabund- ant energy in convicting a man O. a crime committed or alleged to have been committed years ago. Not three raps are cared about Schmidt tho individual. But Schmid, the personification of unionism anG aggressive union;sm is totally diff ferent man. In convicting him la bor is to be convicted and in rail- roading him labor is to be railroad ed It is to be taught it's subordi- nate position; it's under-dog oxisten- ce; it's hopeless task in combating the organized might of capital which at the word of command can move mountains of governmental machinery and roll over the hGpless laborites as the spiked wheels Of the Juggernaut.
 Take that same state of Califoc- mia or take any state you can think of. There have been crimes innum- erable committed. There nave been cowardly dastardly and fiondish crimes infinitely moro base, infinite Fly more heinous than the Times ex- plosion The men involved have been tried and given fair trial. No excessive attempt has been made to convict Prosecution and defense balanced equally. There was no re- sort to special prosecutors; there was no resort to special staffs of expert detectives.
 But this Schmidt case is differ ent It's not Schmidt the alleged dynamiter who is on trial. Not on your life. It is not Schmidt the all legged dynamiter who is convicted Not by jugful It is that the delegations made against tho uniona for violence are to be upheld and the lesson finally inculcated that a. bor is powerless before capital. | And it is doing no such thing, but 1 just the reverse.
 If there is anything certain about this Schmidt case it is that the case will increase the solidarity of labor. It shows labor what labor car. expect from any othor class but 1t self. Practically the judges instruc- tions were for an acquittal. but the we'll selected jury returned Q cor- viction. Can you beat that in all the annals of capitalist criminality. l Where have you heard of . jury
 that erred on the side of severity