Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1917-03-16
Unions and the !. w. W.

IlClHUCIS VI
Unions have long recognized an enemy
in the Industrial Workers of the
World. Only a week ago, the presi-
dent of the Chicago Federation of La
Dor denounced the I. w. W.. after
the Federation had refused to en-
dOrse certain of their agents in an
effort to raise funds for the defense
of the Everett rioters, yet the local
union labor paper publishes a com
munication from a Charles Ashleigh,
who places halo on the brow of each
of the "a men accused Of the Everett
murders and denounces every office:
Of the law connected with their ar
rest and trial as "a gang of utterly
constituencies hired mercenaries
whose sole purpose is. by hook or
crook to secure a conviction for the
prosecution"
Every citizen with respect for the
law desires the accused l. w. WIS
to receive fair, impartial trial and
acquittal if innocent. and proper
punishment if proved guilty. Every.
thing to further such trial has been
granted the accused A judge was
chosen by the governor, who was not
a resident Of Everett, at the request
of the defense. The first of the &C.
cused is now on trial. and the record
shows he is represented by eminent
counsel; that jury has been selected
as nearly without prejudice for or
against as is humanity possible. all Of
which shows the article referred to
the emanation of disordered brain
or wilful misstatement made for the
purpose of extracting funds from the
unsophisticated.
Weavers Union affairs at Everett by
the I. w. w. is known by intelligent
union men to have not only resulted
in several murders in that city, but
destroyed that union. Listen to Presi-
dent Fitzpatrick, of the Chicago Fed.
Grafton of Labor, speaking on the ap.
plication of the I. w. W. for aid in
collecting funds in that city:
There lin EveretD the l. w. w.
wedged itself into a situation that was
well taken care of by an organized
union and all that it succeeded in do
ing was in destroying the union.
Now it turns around and asks us to
sanction it's methods officially"
AS stated above. intelligent labor
union members know that there is
not only nothing in common in their
organization and the l. w. w. but
that opponents of labor unions have
no greater weapon than this organiza-
ton of criminal Syndicalism and adj
vocate of sabotage. whose goal is the
eXaltation of ignorance and failure.
the placing of the itinerant unskilled
laborer in the saddle.
Sabotage means. to quote from an
/. w. w. pamphlet, "either to slacken
up and interfere with the quantity, or
to botch in your skill and interfere
with the quality" Of work being pro.
duced Sabotage includes the DELHI.
crate wrecking of threshing machine
by harvest hands. the deliberate ruin.
ing OF costly fabrics by textile work
ers, the dropping overheard purposely
OF valuable packages by dockhands or
ship laborers. 1t proceeds by stealth
and under false pretenses and recog-
nizes as its major premise the right
Of any dissatisfied person to resort
to violence and destruction of proper.
ty out of resentment and revenge.
The I. w. W.. can depend upon it
that its policy of shouting coarseness
and blasphemy will draw more quick
ly than would otherwise be the case
the attention of the public to the or
ganization's nihilistic doctrines and
will result in stern regulation and re.
preston from one end of the country
to the other. The American people
is VIGOROUSLY tolerant. but there is a
limit.