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The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-09-21
BRADDOCK WORKERS
SHOT IN BACK

In the "Braddock massacre" in
Pittsburg, when workers of the Edgar
Thompson Steel Works were moved
down by machine guns and rifles of
guards of the company, most of the
victims were shot in the back, accord
ing to Mrs. Samuel Semple, member
of the State Industrial Board, whose
report appears in the bulletin of the
Department of Labor and Industry.
From this Mrs. Semple judges that
the strikers could not possibly have
been shot at "after offering resist
ance," as it was claimed at the time.
Another statement made by Mrs.
Semple is that the crowd seemed to
show no hostility to the militia, evil
IDENTIFY preferring the guardsmen to
the armed guards and hastily picked
up deputies on duty at the plant.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-09-21
ULONSKA TO ADDRESS
NAVY YARD WORKERS

At noon next Saturday, September
23rd, Carl Ulonska will address the
workers in the Bremerton navy yards
in an open air meeting and in the
evening will conduct street meeting.
Comrade Sophus Bonnevie is in charge
of the Bremerton meetings and there
success is assured.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-09-21
KATTERFELD LECTURE
DATES FOR NEXT WEEK

Sunday q PM Sept. Marshall.
Sunday Is PM Sept. 24-Spokane.
Mon. Sept. 25-Beaver Greek Bowery.
Tuesday, Sept. 26-Hayden Lake, Ida.
Wednesday, Sept. 27-Hillyard.
Thursday, Sept. 28-Medical Lake.
Friday, Sept. 29-Reardon.
Sat. q PM Sept. 30-Davenport.
Sat. e PM Sept. 30-Sand Flat.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-09-21
How many sub cards do you want {?
CAN YOU?

Can you sell some tickets for the
Benson meeting in Everett? If you
think you can, send in your name and
address to The Northwest Worker and
we will send you some tickets. Tick
cts are 25 cents.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-09-21
BURLESON USED
CONVICTS ON HIS
RANCH, HE
Sherman Declares Postmaster
General Rewarded Overseer
With Job in Texas

WASHINGTON Senator Sherms
of Illinois. ~.eated a sensation VII,
Nc charged that Postmaster &c
Burleson, only few months be-
entered the Wilson cabinet,
large employer of convict labor
5000 acre Texas plantation, a.
after he became postmaster
he rewarded the overseer of
victs by making him post
Longview, Texas.
This overseer, according t,
had been indicted, while in
employ, for beating a convi
but was acquitted by the
grounds that the only evid,
him was that of other co,
Sam Gompers Ment
These facts may have
known to now" Sherman
Burleson and Gompers !.
in an effort to re-elect Y
make these facts public
lied labor of the country
the character of the man
Gompers associates.
"For years union labt
trying to have congress
forbidding the importat;
made goods or interstate
ton of convict made good,
they were trying to ge'
through member of VII
the wealthiest member
was great employer OF
Democratic Senators
Sherman spoke. Not
fered word in defense
Sherman Cites h
Sherman cited in sub.
report of commission to
the Texas convict labor
newspaper accounts of the
ton of conditions on the
Johns estate, as well as ac>
the indictment and trial of
overseer. He inserted these
Congressional Record. 1t is
stood they will be sent broadcast
the country by the Republican cam
paign committee.
In conclusion the senator said
"Gompers and Burleson are at
tempting to deliver the labor vote OF
this country to Wilson. have nc
doubt Gompers can deliver more OF
the convict vote than he can of the Ia
Dor vote"
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-09-21

with the exception Of one, tl.-t of
Capt. Mitten, but the men refused to
leave until the Captain was released
and the authorities who had had all
they wanted, acquiesced and the Cap
tain sailed forth into the free air
(the only thing that is free).
The daily press had it that these
men begged to be released, but any,
body at all familiar with the tactics
of the Industrial Workers of the
World knows that this is barefaced
lie. Of course it would never do to
let "the people" know that the Off
Gals had backed down, but when one
considers that these men went back
for Capt. Mitten and that one of the
prisoners had already been given a
sentence of six months and others of
a lesser period it is indeed preposter-
Gus on the face of it.
McRae and Ramwell Charged
Sheriff McRae and Captain RAM
we'll have been charged with violating
the Federal laws, and it certainly
looks black for McRae unless the
judge interprets the law just as the
mill owners would have it interpret
ed. McRae has not been around town
for several days but some of his depu-
ties still have blood in their eyes.
1t must be kind of hard on these
fellows to have to admit that they
have been beaten and that those bold,
bad CD l. w. WIS are once more free
to carry on their work of educating
the rest of their fellow slaves to their
true position in human society. Pub
lie sentiment is strong against the &C
tons of the Commercial Club, and the
little business men are already feeling
the effects of the boomerang that they
welded last week.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-09-21
DEMOCRATS NEED
BETTER WAYSTO
BEAT SOCIALISM
Suggest Training Schools for
Anti-SOcialist Speakers
in Oklahoma

OKLAHOMA CITY,-The meeting
of the Democratic state committee in
this city was overshadowed by the
scepter of Socialism, according to
Harlow's Weekly, a Democratic maya
zine published in Oklahoma City.
The Democrats have suddenly awak-
ned to the fact that the Socialist
arty of Oklahoma can no longer be
ken lightly. 1t has become politi-
Il power.
Must Train Democrats
tty.-Gen. Freezing suggested that
Democrats in the state should
speakers who would be able to
with clever Socialist debaters.
FAR, he said, the people of Okla
had taken readily to Socialism,
; they had heard only Socialists
question and therefore had
only about the attractive side
)ctrine. 1t is now the duty of
ocratic party, he said, to fight
oSiI- III ny IHdklfk
he people of the state the i'm
and conquences of Social
Weekly thinks that right
main difficulty which the
will have to meet. The So
ers are well educated and
They cannot be beaten
I'd abuse. They must be
sly by equally well post
speakers.
earn Something
to combat deep and
philosophy with plati-
rguments based upon
FUNDED as deeply or as
> as those which it is attempt
to oppose" writes Harlow's Weekly
eff the Democratic party expects
to drive the Socialists out of the field
in Oklahoma by ATTACHING them direct
it is entering an arena where only
skilled combatants can hope to MAIN
tain themselves, and it had best be
gin at once to increase the number of
careful students of science, philosophy
and economics, who will be able to
meet the Socialists on the ground they
have chosen. 1t is impossible to do it
with the type of oratory that has so
far prevailed in Democratic campaigns,
in Oklahoma.
Socialist Leader Astute
'1n most states the Socialists move
ment has maintained solely it's philo-
sophie character, but in Oklahoma
under leadership the most astute
which it has ever developed in Amer
lea, it has taken the deceptive gen.
eral appearance of an ordinary politi-
cal party.
"a few close observers have come to
some realization of the ability of Pat
rick S. Maggie. The state as a whole
has yet to learn the shrewdness, acute
ness, adroitness and everlasting per-
sistence with which he has directed
the Socialists of Oklahoma until his
is far the most important
and dangerous in America, yet to I'M
derstand the almost autocratic control
which he exercises over it.
Socialists Have Advantage
"But even under his able leadership
the real purposes of his movement re-
main the same; it looks to a complete
ly changed and reorganized society,
a government fundamentally recon-
structed to fit that society, and the use
of the present forms of government
for it's peaceful revolution.
"The contest, then, is between two
utterly alien conceptions of society,
politics and government. In this the
Socialist leaders have the decided ad-
vantage; they know exactly what they
are about, while apparently neither
the Democratic nor the Republican
leaders have even begun to understand
the nature of the menace which con-
fronts them"
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-09-21
GOTHAM CAR STRIKE
ALREADY COST 100000

NEW YORK.--Salarie of SIS to $40
a day to strike breaker and expendi-
lures of hundreds of thousands of
dollars to crush uniou, are told by
James T. Waddell, khg of strike
breakers, in an interiew following
his arrival here to tan charge of the
traction strike.
81 will crush this strike in as
hours" said Waddell unless some
thing unforeseen occrs.
81 have $500 strife breakers here
300 of these sc now working
levated, suway. and surface
% moe than enough to
"e companies
wer house
alone.
Ike.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-09-21

ne leader of the recent at
street car strike, Thomas J..
ley (as we'll as his wife, an in
offensive music teacher,) ignored his
complete alibi and charged him with
heading conspiracy" The chief of
pickets of the recent Machimsts' strike
Edward d. Nolan was taken for veng-
eance's sake, without evidence, and
they announce in the papers that they
'have the hemp stretched around the
necks of ALL" Isreal Weinberg, prom
inent in the Jitney Bus Operators
Union, which is troubling the United
Railways, was jailed and accused of
murder. Warren X. Billings, past
president Of the Shoe Workers, was
charged with the actual dynamiting,
and an eyewitness who saw an alto
gether different man place the suppos-
ed suitcase bomb, was assaulted in
the office of the prosecutor.
Five conspicuous enemies of the en-
ployers were thus caught and appar-
emily doomed. The warnings in ad-
vance that had been received through
the mails, were thereafter ignored.
Direct evidence of eye-witnesses was
ignored. The Chamber of Commerce
had the men it wanted
Every newspaper blandly declined
to print a word without approval by
the claw and Order Committee" Sew
eral newspaper men working on the
case came secretly to us to whisper
that they knew the men were innocent
but "for Gods sake don't mention u.s."
One detective working for the prosecu-
cution told member of the Interna-
tional Workers Defense League that
the men were to be convicted on fake
evidence, now being cooked up, but
mot to let on who told you" Only
by keeping the men from having any
defense could they be convicted, so the
prosecution had the indecency to try
to prevent any prominent lawyer from
taking the case. A judge forced upon
the principal defendant, fighting for
his life, greenhorn lawyer of one
years experience.
By making it clear to a prominent
criminal lawyer that the accused are
not guilty, we have gotten him thro-
ugh sense of justice, to take the case
for fee much lower than his usual
charge. But we have not even that
much money.
Twenty-one Thousand Dollars blood
money is in the sight of the horde of
eX-Pinkertons and United Railways
detectives, and they will not give up
their prey without tough fight. The
prisoners are in the hands of men who
consider labor unionism in itself a
crime. They are now proving this by
making peaceful picketing a prison
offense.
We have demonstrated to many I'M
ions the innocence of the men and got
ten them to send delegates to the
League.
We are not defending bomb throw
ers, but innocent men. They will be
executed practically without trial if
we don't get money to defend them.
Send money, and much of it, QUICK
to the international Workers. Defense
League, Robert Minor, treasurer, 21O
Russ Building, 1886 Montgomery street
San Francisco Fraternally,
International Workers Defence
League.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-09-21

Are you member of the Leaflet
Distributing Brigade?
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-09-21
THOUSANDS In
PROTEST MEETING
Everett Citizens Hear the Truth
About the Actions of Com
mercial Club Tools

More than six thousand people
gathered in the city park last Friday
evening to hear the true story of the
riotous conduct of the armed thugs
that run amuck in the city some days
before.
National Organizer Weber Of the l..
W. w., was the principal speaker at
this great gathering. He told of how
the capitalist press covered
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-09-21

the sake of prepared IS" were Syri-
ans, who had been promised brass
band if they marched. Letters of pro-
test, written in good English, have
been received by local newspapers
from the Syrian-Americans who
claim that the banl was not as repre-
scented.
The parade was a huge success up
to the day it was scheduled to take
place. The business men who pro-
NOTED the idea and the promoters who
took the money of the business men
to promote the idea promised dem
onstration that would have included
all the colored Odd Fellow lodges, the
Syrian Boy Scouts and the school
children draped in American flags.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-09-21
SERIOUS DOINGS
NSAN FRANCISCO
Chamber of Commerce Have
Labor Officials Held On
Cooked Up" Charges

Out here in the big West, a whoop-
ing, yelling mob of "Vigilante" bus
mess men are trying to wipe out the
last labor union. Hiring an army of
bristling gunner for a spy and strike
breaker system, they have slowly add
vanced from conquered Los Angeles
to the siege of San Francisco.
The opening fight here was to force
Labor, against it's will, into "pre-
paredness" parade, Every organized
man refused to move, and the parade
for military tyranny was cut down to
handful of the unorganized who
ulldo2ed into line.
Labor, victorious, was
ompletely through with
the day of march.
viduals, fired by the
for military violence,
warnings through
nat they would blow
bomb. Employ
5 tried to keep this
ed Labor men dis
ested their fellows
g for such thing
ioor, by abstaining
d treating the par
tempt. This was
the unorganized
ket street behind
society women,
nings. A bomb
six people out
ng later. A prom
commerce man was
"This is fine
N shop"
Chamber of Com
tools in public Of
on it's most hated
Oh
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1916-09-21

National Organizer Weber Of the /.
W. w., was the principal speaker at
this great gathering. He told of how
the capitalist press covered
real facts of the so-calle
trouble and of the br
the little tin business
how Sheriff McRae !
men ready at all tim,
ding and how he in
the bidding of the
the Northwest.
Fellow Worker Re
try and speak that
badly beaten up thS
fused to allow him
ing, but some of til
had been beaten up
and gave evidence
ment they had rece
of these vigilantes.
Deputies
On Saturday Mrs
brought up for trial
been packed with mel
ed the clubs on the
were: Fred Buell., in
and real estate shark;
ditto; F. c. Schock, dit
late of the wall paper
W. w. Flannery, of the
Co. Mr.. Flannery was t.
that was against convict
rest overruled him and Mr..
was found guilty of inciti
and fined 500 by Judge She
case has been appealed.
Getting Cold Feet
On Monday morning the
Al 4. n
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1916-08-09

sWhcn you yawn u good deal In
the daytime. feel dull achy and want
tn stretch frequently, 1t Is an unmis-
taxable symptom of malaria. and un-
lsse you do something at once you are
booked for a spell of chills. Herbine
Is Il chill medicine that will prevent
or cure the disease. 1t drives out the
Impurities on which the malaria germs
thrives. strengthens tho liver and
cleanses the bowels. Price soc. Sold
by Sibert's Drug Store.-Advt.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1916-08-09
'If you sit in a cool draft when yo,

If you sit In q cool draft when you
are heated and get a stiff neck or
lame back. you will be looking for
something that will ease the pain. Fix
your mind on Ballard's Snow Liniment
and don't be talked out of 1t because
1t Is the best pain relieving liniment
you can get anywhere. Price csc, soc,
and $1.0O per bottle. Sold by
Sfberts Drug Store.-Advt.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1916-08-09
Railroad Men May Agree to Arbitratc

New York. Aug. THAT the
threatened strike of four thousand
railroad employees will probably be
averted by arbitration Is reported
from railway association headquarters.
Labor leaders are not 80 confident
that the canvass of the vote of
whether the strike shall be called,
which IN being taken among engineers.
firemen, conductors and brakemen will
be completed tonight.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1916-08-09

Fort MN Couple Held for Court.
EQrt, MN, Aug, 4.--Isaac Campbell
am ~ She Mary Campbell were
art9lenoa before Magistrate r.. p.
Harris yesterday In preliminary
hearing ION the technical charge OF
highway robbery committed on the
outskirta OF town Wednesday and in
default of the required bond were
committed to York Jail to await trial.
The scheme Of the couple was said to
have been to entice young men to
meet the woman in retired spot
w.,on the man would appear and by
threats and force OF arms secure ,non-
ey from their victims. Some tnkiins
Of the affair coming to the knowledge
Of the local police. the case was
worked up and arrests followed. Sew
cral witnesses testified agaihst the
couple In court this morning and It
is t>pevsd that prosecution will follow
un(T the federal white slave act.
Tn came here from Danvines VA,
ane mtti this week wero employed h
ons'oS ths cotton mills here. .5
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1916-08-09

terests SO often are In apparent COLI
flict. Among the candidates this
year there Is man of this type in
the person of Mr.. w. Il. Thrower. He
was for many years. in the railroad
service--when the writer first knew
him more than twenty years ago he
was running IA conductors OH tho Sea-
board Air Lne--and he later held
other positions. subsequently leaving
the railroad to engage In the lumber
business. which gave him the oppor-
tunity to learn the other side of the
freight rate problem. As Mayor of
Cheraw and q member of the Board
OF Trade he was instrumental in OBJ
tanning readjustment of freight
rates for that town which had been
disseminated against by the tariff
then In force. Mr.. Thrower Is not
politician Of the glad-hand type and is
too modest to blow his own horn in
the usual manner. but he is solid
and dependable citizen who is well
fitted to make useful member of the
railroad commission. Some of the 9TH
or candidates may be as well qualified
as Mr.. Thrower. but we happen to
know him and feel sure that those
who vote for him will make no mis-
take. .,S
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1916-08-09

III your child Is pale and siclsly.
picks ut the nose. starts In the sleep
and srinds the teeth while sleeping, 1t
Is sure sign Of worms. A remedy
for these parasites will be found in
Whites Cream vermifuge. 1t not only
clears out the worms. but it restores
health and cheerfulness. Price 26c
per bottle. Sold by siberts Drug Store
-Advt.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1916-08-09

'For the stomach and bowel disor-
ders OF babies McGee's Baby Elixir Is
remedy Of genuine merit 1t ACTS
quickly. - pure. wholesome and pseasr
ant 70 take. Price 25c and 5Oc per
bottle. Sold by sibsrts Drug Store
Advt. ~, :, '-'-' ---'ss
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1916-08-09

Church Point. La. Aug. 6--The
first bale of the 1916 cotton crop In
Louisiana was brought here late yes
terday. 1t was grown in Acadia
Parish. weighed 617 pounds, and sold
for Is cents a pound.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1916-08-09
Mr., and Mrs. Ben Carlisle, of Dali
zeif' spent saturday in the city with
friends.

'if you,feei blue" no account .
h'zy. you need a good cleaning out.
Herbine is ulc. right thing for rsthat
purpose. 1t stimulates the liver. tones
Up the stomach and purifies the bow
els. Price soc. Sold by Sibert's Drug
s;tore.-Advt.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1916-08-09
sUMrER COTTON MARKET.

Daily by Rrncss Field. Cot
tOn buyer.
Good Middling 13 IA. y
Strict Middling 13. 2$
Middling ~ 3-l. tH 49,
Strict Low Middlins II IA.
Low Middling II a-4.
NEW YORK COTTON MARKET.
Ysst'dys
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1916-08-09

lOR RENT--My furnished home, for
summer, in the mountains, Lefoir,
N. c. Cool, "Nady; no dust. S. A.
Grier. Hickory, N. c.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1916-08-09

Miss Sue Sullins, of Orangeburg,
Is visiting Mrs. Wesley Brown on.
Oakland Avenue. y |
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1916-08-09

The ofiice Of Railroad Commissioner
should not be political Job. and
should not be held by nina who Is
primarily an Office seeker and without
any qualification Cor the Office.
save his desire to get on the pay roll
n Railroad Comm 81. .oner should have
special knowledge about the details Of
railroad management and should also
bo n business man of sound judg-
ment and judicial temperament. who
will deal fairly and Justly with both
the public and the railroads. whose In
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1916-08-09

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