The Glenwood post., 1917-07-21
ROUGH NEcKs' WILL RULE Il
WORLD, SAYS HAYWOOD

wood, general secretary-treasurer of the
Industrial Workers of the World and
the "big boss of the American tribe
had one of his busiest days today. He
kept messenger boys on the run be-
tween his new office and telegraph sta
Arizona, receiving and dispatching
messages, and finally decided to lay
the protest of his "direct method
army before President Wilson.
"We rough necks,'' he allowed,
'think the president of the United
States ought to look into this case. /
have sent him telegram notifying
our boys are out there on the desert
with nothing to eat and ought to be
given little lift.'
Haywood, bulky in form, has one
good eye. The other is entirely closed.
He has way of peering out from
under shaggy eyebrows with leer that
expresses the passion of a powerful
animal.
"It is not important what happens
to our men out there he said slowly.
at will be more important in the fu-
ture how the government of the United
States treats the situation today.
man going hungry isn't new. That 5
too common to excite interest these
day.
"But a man, even if he hasn't good
clothes on his back, being denied free
speech, free assembly, 'the common
rights Of dog even, at a time when
so much piffle is being spread about
the country over the war for democ-
racy, is important-and dangerous.
Then he Lit cigarette and glanced
at his map.
''They can't stop us, no matter what
they do we will go on and on until we
the rough necks of this world-will
take control of all productions. Then
we will work when we please and how
much we please and the man who
makes the wagon will ride in it him
self.
"Look at the map. There is North
Dakota. Not laborer will be found
in the wheat fields of North Dakota
this harvest who hasn't red card in
his pocket-the red card of the I. w.
W. All along down western Minnesota
there it will be the same way.
"We are on top in the lumber coun-
try. The agricultural districts are COM
ing in. When we get little stronger
We will naturally and quietly take
charge of all these things. For the
present we have got to keep on fight
| ing by every method open to us.''
He chatted about newspapers
'crooked newspapers was his term,
and it embraces most of them, he
thinks-and then about methods.
''Well,' he said, "what' g the use Of
talking about anything but the man
| who works with his hands?'
''Ours is roughneck gang. That 3
what they call us, but when all of our
crowd gets this thing straight in their
minds we will be in a position to die
tate terms to every industry in the
world. How! By folding our arms ami
completely stopping all work until our
terms are met. 1t will be easy.
''Then wage systems will be no more.
The roughnecks, as the highbrows call
us, will be the ones to be running
things. And the highbrows will have
to get on to our platform. We are not
going to theirs.'
Then the reporter fired lot of quss,
tions at him:
"What is your system of bringing
about the revolution? What methods
are you employing? What about
sabotage! Do you use violence! What
is the right and wrong of your moral
codey Have you any moralsg What
about the saloon?"
From his answers and the propa-
ganda literature which is now being
sent out from the central headquarters
in Chicago, Mr. Haywood made it plain
that the I. W. w. stands for these
methods:
l. Ths ordinary strike msthods Of
quitting work and tastng up industries.
Q. sabotsgs-'ths direct action, :"
8. Always staging strtksA u far ~
possible, 1t the time when the smploy.
Oh least desire-or when the industry
u running at high speed IN
In much Of the literature now being
circulated by the workers in this class,