El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-11-03
4 REVOLUTION IN ENGLAND?
IT'S JUST I. w. W. TREASON

THOSE who have been panied and angeTed at the
activities of the Industrial Workers Of the World IN
the United States, 1t may be some small measure OF
consolation to know that England IS having sone"Hal
similar experience and there reason TO believe that
Russia Germany and perhaps others Of the European coun-
also have the problem before them to ve1 and haass
The experience Of England is very fOTcefuly told
special article UnsenSa0nai journal as the London
Times, which starts off by declaring;
There exists at the present moment revolutionary
movement IN this country which has gathered considerable
momentum; has long passed the stage Of mere talk and
has realized itself formidable action There has been no
attack on the throne oting the Streets destruction
Of visible property; but changes already been brought
about which thwarng the efforts Of the government
conduct the with efficiency and If these changes 60
further they viii bring the country into confusion"
The Times 90 TO say that the revolutionary indication
Is eruent working within British organized labor, claim
ing for the pI0etauat aToue word OF the Socialist and
the ". W. self direction and enjoyment Of the whole
product Of industry indifference the conduct Of the
and ieconcable hostility to the existing order Of society
Its propaganda is widespread by young who talk
Of the theories of Karl Marx though they demon
straed facts, shout slogan 6emand upon demand
strike upon strike, blow upon blow until the captastC
state is destroyed That surely is the tenet OF the W
W which the Of the strikes at Bbee and Globe
made that the organization would consider these
strikes stepping other strikes that
recognized binding and that the ultimate object the
Wrestling of industries from their Thus, while The
Times makes mention of Industrial Workers of the
World and seemingly does not know of that Pernicous
cation Of the mmnence Of national peril together capt.
revolutionary element England Is l. " W in principle
If not II Parentheay let It be stated that pre-
cey the formula IS being promulgated IN Russia by
W W leaders Of Russian ancestry but trained IN this
country and who did return Russia until the revou-
ton had plunged the country into disorder and made the
ignorance Of the peasants easy work for any conenc
radical, glib Of tongue.
The Times says that upon the outbreak OF the Tea
zaiOn of mmnence Of national peril drew together CAPT
tai and labor and caused them bury their differences and
associate themselves closely together for the good
The liberalization Of needed industries the proclamation
Of the principle Of strikes during the (Which the
labor unions half heartedly Fought and the appliance of
universal CONSUMPTION after voluntary eusments had been
tried helped in the smalgamston. However it but
temporary and now, according The Times England may
be considered divided into two nations consisting Of
la5orers OF the organized labor kind and the other Of the
rest Of the nation The Times bames each nation" for
the drawing apart the employers in the nation" for
seeking many instances to prOzteer at the expense
their employees and labor IN the other nation for using
the strike weapon to practice eztortion employers
and the nation
The Times says that affairs have drifted so that the
government has been obliged to wink at strikes prohibited
though they were and to overlook the fact that labor
giving less and less Of itself for actual war duty and IS let
ting the other "nation" do the fighting and dying.
The Times the country that the tendency is to
effect revolution, possibly bloodless one but which
vii have the effect Of plungng London into the con-
fusion assnesS headessness and anarchy Petrograd
Is
That Is precisely what the l. W " wants. free rein
TO steal the other fellows property without having to %