The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-09-21
SABOTAGE, WHAT
is 1T?

SABOTAGE, WHAT
Is 1T?
Sabotage is a system of fighting
capital that was originated in
France in 1895, and was endorsed
by the unions in 1897 and again in
the year 1900.
1t differes from strikes in that it
does not bring work to standstill,
but seeks to cripple it while vet TAX
ing its substance in the form of
wages. 1t seeks to curtail produc-
ton by so handling the activities of
the workmen that they will absorb
the wages without giving any more
in return than they have to. SabOt-
age seeks to skillfully cripple ma
chinery so that it will delay produc-
tion as much as possible and also
create demand for more labor. II
it is .practiced by shoemaker he
leaves weak place in the shoe so
It will require repairs; IL practiced
by barber in haircut, he cuts off
as little of the hair as possible so
the customer will have to go right
soon to some barber to get another
haircut. 1t practiced by black
smith making some repairs, he con-
trives to leave a weak place that
will soon give way but yet not leave
evidence of his craft, and then 1t
will be necessary to stop production
and again patronize a repair man.
When practiced in a factory 1t seeks
to put a machine out of commission
at such time that as many en-
ployees as possible will be made to
wait and production be stopped
while repairs are made. In lum-
Der industry it resorts to such things
as driving spikes into logs so the
buzz saw will be ruined. In fruit
orchard it does such things as .driv-
ing copper nails or slivers into the
trunks of the trees which causes the
growing fruit to drop.
The I. w. w. is the most active
organization in American endorsing
and practicing sabotage. The fed
eral government has been making
thoro Investigations Of its activities,
finding abundance of proof, 1t Is
said, that foreign money and foreign
intrigue now dominate its work. It's
energies the past season have been
apparent in destroying materials
most urgently needed in prosecuting
the war, and in hampering their pre-
paration, transportation and delivery
to the places where they are needed
for use. It includes burning of for
ests whose timber is to be used for
making ships and airships, burning
crops, poisoning flocks and herds
and preventing workmen from serv-
ing in anything that furthers the
plans of the administration in carry
ing on the war. Applied to war it
calls for the destruction of every
thing belonging to the enemy, and
in Europe it has been carried to the
extent of destroying races by harsh
servitude and lack of nutrition, de-
moralizing it's fountain of life, and
vaccinating them with deadly poison
of contagious diseases under pre-
tense of affording protection. 1t has
been used in spreading contagious
diseases among domestic animals be-
longing to the enemy and in poison
ing their drinking water. It's pur-
pose, whether used in war or in
peace is to demoralize everything
but the interests that use it, and if
possible, to subsist upon it while de-
stroying it. In America its purposes
as already expressed are to harrass
capital and organized industry until
they are reduced to a level with all
the unorganized or unacpitalized
elements of society, and then start
in to organize industries again from
absolute chaos or to make equal di-
vision per capita of whatever there
is remaining in existence that has
value.
Sabotage in it's various manifesto
lions is the most powerful agency
operating in the world after men
tioning militarism whose purposes
run parallel to it. 1t is the visible
expression of that character denom-
mated the devil, and the organiza-
ton of that power known as the
allies is for it's destruction and for
the protection of equal rights to all
thru the opposite principle of equal
rights and comforts to the least as
we'll as to the greatest. Sabotage
claims to be seeking equal right and
Justice to all for some future per-
iod, but for the present it seeks the
greatest ease for self and the great
est hardship possible for others. 1t
is the purpose of the American ma
ton and the allies to organize a
greater power than sabotage and
militarism, and destroy them, and it
is now acknowledged by the world
that the outcome of the undertaking
rests with the nation that has been
for e14O years the acknowledged
cradle Of liberty.
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