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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-19

notes the ultimate success OF the
workers" Hence hopeless strikers
are stirred up. because lost strike
is considered even more useful IN
the long run than q victorious one.
The defeated ones go back to their
work in bitterness and revenge and
with instruction in sabotage. Ma
chinery is wrecked in order to arouse
the suspicion and anger Of the en-
ployer against innocent workmen.
If an l. W. ". member is punished
for his offences, the answer is more
sabotage. If member is arrested
in Oregon, reprisal comes in a fire
on the Mexican border. 1t is this
fact that has prompted some Of the
California authorities to advocate
a sort of non-resistance programme
in dealing with sabotage.
Another difficult feature Of the
sabotage programme is that some of
its most efficacious methods do not
involve the destruction of property
or the violation OF law. 1t is not
criminal for a group Of workmen to
promise to go to work and then not
work. 1t is not criminal to neglect
work or soldier" at critical mo-
ments. 1t is not criminal TO make
mistakes" 1t is not criminal to do
bungling work instead of good work.
1t is not criminal to misunderstood
instruction. Yet in these ways it is
possible to do as much damage and
work even greater confusion than
by deliberate violation of law.
There is need of laws making sa-
botage per Sc a crime. At this time it
is treason and should be handled by
Federal law and action.
Sabotage may be more in evidence
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-19

working slow. 1t may mean poor
work. Sabotage is a direct applica-
ton of the idea that property has no
rights that its creators are bound to
respect. The question is not, is
sabotage immoral, but does sabotage
get the goods?"
1t appears that there are two
forms of sabotage-mass and indl-
vidual. The latter includes attacks
on individual employers and the de-
structive work of the individual NAL
content. Mass sabotage seeks to tie
up a whole region, or even a nation,
whether by wrecking the machinery
of industrial organization through
strikes, the actual destruction of es-
sential physical elements of civiliza-
ton, or by so maneuvring the sup
rly of labor as to ruin, without any
physical act Of violence or crime.
Mass sabotage is being applied IN
California now through a deliberate
plan of deceiving the farmers and
packers as to labor conditions. DIFF
ferent districts are given to under
stand that plenty of labor will be
supplied when needed. The employer
awaits the harvest content, and then
when too late finds that he has been
duped. While his crops go to ruin
IDLE men, we'll supplied with money,
loaf in the cities. When the har-
vest season is over and work is scarce
their funds will not be in evidence
and they will become a burden or
nuisance to the community they re-
fused to assist in its need.
The |. w. ". often work through
sabotage in districts where they have
No organization. Individuals come
apd go, stirring up strife and I'M
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-19

in the West now than in the East
because there are more wandering
missionaries OF the propaganda here
but it threatens 20 spread over
the whole country. It's propaganda
is being ceaselessly carried on. Just
now in certain sections the pro-
gramme favors useless strikes IN
places like beet sugar fac
tories and canning establishments
that must do their work in a
brief season, rather than property
destruction or ordinary sabotage.
Everywhere its emissaries go,
seeking work only for the
purpose of getting into contact with
contented workers in order to
spread the doctrine of discomfort,
irritation, "slow-up" and strike.
Whenever they slip into a factory
they paste in every available place
the Haywood publicity stickers which
are recommended officially as "just
the thing to wise up the slave, jolt
the Scissor bill and throw the fear
OF the One Big Union into the boss.
picked up some>of these stickers in
Nebraska factory. They are
printed in black and white and
are usually illustrated with car
toons or diagrams. One of them
has a black cat silhouetted against
red moon and reads: Beware
Good pay or bum work. I. w. w
One Big Union. We never forget
SABOTAGE" Another runs
SLOW DOWN. Respect your
selves. Protect yourselves. The
hours are long, the pay is small, SC
take your time and buck them all.
All the country must buck them.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-19
Wilson Keeping
In Touch with
L. WV. Moves

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1s.-President
Wilson is making a personal study OF
the labor situation in the Northwest,
especially in Washington, Oregon, Mon
of the /. W. W. is threatened next Nor
day.
The President is keeping in. touch
with the situation through Chief Jus
| tice Covington, of the Supreme Court
of the District of Columbia, his per-
sonal investigator. now in the West.
| Department Of Labor conciliators on
the ground reported over night that the
situation seemed to have changed
slightly for the better, although it was
still grave. Offers of mediation Dave
| been made in some instances, and prob
ably will be made in others to-day.
Department of Justice officials saw
! little change in the situation. recon-
mendstion said 70 have been reached at
n conference Yesterday among Governor
: Lister, of Washington, the State Attor-
h cy General and representatives of the
! Department of Justice, had not been
received here to-day. The recommends.
/ ton, il was reported, was TO the effect
that all strike leaders should be sum-
msrily arrested when the strike be-
comes effective.
SPOKANE, Aug. ls.--James Rowan,
| district secretary Of the |. W. W., who
| issued the call for a general strike in
Montana, Oregon, Idaho and Washing
ton, to begin on Monday unless mem
| bers of his organization who are now
in Jail are released, continued to-day
to perfect arrangements for the strike.
The city and county officials Joined
| in an appeal 70 Governor Lister to-day
to take action against the !. W. W.
Mayor Charles Fleming refused to
agree to demand for Federal troops
and this was eliminated from the APP
peal
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-19
Defence Council
Makes Appeal

The Washington State Council OF
Defence has answered the general
strike call with an appeal to every
community in the state likely to be
affected by the general strike to take
steps to educate their laborers and
warn them against the false doc
trines Of the |. ". W., so that the
men will not be stampeded on Aug
ust 20.
However, those who have seen the
work of the soldiers here say that
better than all appeals would be the
immediate arrest Of every /. w. w.
official and organizer in the state
under the espionage law or simply
under general executive authority
IN maintaining the peace. The opin-
ion here is that promised Federal
government protection through civil
channels will not be sufficient. In
the camp and rural districts nothing
! but military force is qualified fol
the work.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-19

The Producers Protective Asso,
citation, a semi-secret organization
Of ,480 armed men, has been estab-
hshed and will deal Immediately
with the !. w. w. if the troops
should be withdrawn. This organi'
cation will not act with the gentle
security of the soldiers. 1t plans to
horsewhip every |. w. w. member
caught in the district and send him
out with two days rations.
Due to the presence OF the sol
diers. the Yakima Valley, which is
one of the richest agricultural dis
tricts in the West, shipping some
ten thousand cars annually, has en-
joyed more peace and security than
it has ever known and has a greater
supply of farm labor than ever be-
fore.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-19

pest and burning here and wrecking
there.
The doctrine of sabotage en- masse
is being applied to the nation. The
l. W. w. consider the war to be
merely struggle between two groups
of capitalists. They don't care for
nations, but they would terminate
the war by any means in order to
bring to an end wars destruction OF
life. So the pamphlet points out
how through its armies, its railways,
it's post and telegraph, ETC., whole
nation can be "saboted." That Is
really what is happening in Russia
now. Russia's armies are falling
back in rout not because of the cow
ardice of the soldiers but because
they are infected with the same
idea as the |. w. WIS, viz, that ma
tional lines count for nothing and
that the only struggle worth While
is that of labor against capital.
Russia is to-day the greatest tri-
umph of sabotage-sabotage en-
masse through the army. The |. w.
w. hope to bring America to the
same fate as Russia-to take advan-
tage of the stress of war to throw
the nation into such chaos and con-
fusion that the old order will be
abolished and there shall issue a new
era in which the destroyers of now
shall be the rebuilders then, with
capital abolished.
Sabotage Plan
Is to Rouse Hatred
According to the sabotage pro-
gramme everything that tends to
create disorder, confusion, class ha-
tired, discomfort and misery pro-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-19
Federal Troops In Yakima Valley
Ready for Strike by the |. W. W..

lem at this time, because it is trea-
sopable organization and because it
harnesses, impedes and opposes the
successful prosecution Of the war.
California cannot reach Haywood or
stop the publication Of the literature
Of sabotage.
have before me some of the pub
locations of the /. W. W., found when
their headquarters at Klamath Falls,
Ore, were raided, after the destruc-
ton of -four mill and elevator and
a large dairy. with loss Of several
hundred thousand dollars. One is en-
titled Sabotage; It's History, Phi
losophy and Function" AS becomes
its infammatory doctrine, it is bound
in red. 1t is dedicated mot TO those
who ADVOCATE, but to those who
USE sabotage" The capitals are the
authors, not mine.
This pamphlet defines sabotage as
the destruction of profits to gain a
definite, revolutionary economic end.
1t has many forms. 1t may mean the
destroying of raw materials destined
for a scab factory or shop. 1t may
mean the spelling of finished prod
uct. 1t may mean the destruction of
parts of machinery or the disar-
rangement of a whole machine,
where that machine is the one upon
which the other machines are de-
pendent for material. 1t may mean
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-19
Arson Squad
Strikes Hard

The larson squad does not fear
reprisals. 1t strikes, and strikes
hard, but does not always have the
support Of the authorities. Last year
the Imperial Valley was Illuminated
night after night with burning
barns and farmhouses. The fires in
yariably occurred the night Of /. w.
W. meetings, and there was strong
evidence that they were started by
the organizers Of Reorganization,
but no convictions were secured.
Many insurance companies withdrew
from the valley altogether. and it is
charged that some local officials are
members Of the j. w. w.
In one sense, everybody who is IA
miliar with I. w. W. activities out
here holds that il is Federal prob
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-19
California Is Alarmed by Menace
OIL. W. ". Strikes and Sabotage

there they were quickly withdrawn
because the constitutional appeal
from the Governor for Federal as
sistance was not Forthcoming.
So, with the National Guard in
Federal service, nothing of any con-
sequence to take its place and the
Governor holding that there is no
emergency calling for state con-
stabulary, well informed people are
preparing to be informed of some
monstrous outrage. The l. W. W.
are always lawless, but the present
is one of their seasons of special
activity all over the West. Their
natural and instilled love of destruc-
ton is now infamed by desire for
vengeance for the meeting of their
lawlessness with other lawlessness.
The Governors theory is reported
to be that the best way to defeat
their activities is not to make any
special campaign against them, for
fear of reprisals that will exceed the
original crimes. Other state officials
who have come in close contact with
the /. w. w. operations are firmly
set against the publishing Of their
doings, as they say that such adver-
Using is just the sort of blind notice
one group of the anarchists delights
to give to others. According to this
theory, a newspaper report of the
destruction of a mill in Oregon is
like a beacon signal for other and,
perhaps, distant groups to turn to
similar forms of sabotage.
Sabotage is preached to and by
the /. w. w. at all times, and every
member is fully aware of subtle
methods of destroying property with
a minimum risk to his liberties.
Phosphors in a wet gunnysack looks
innocent enough, but may start a de-
structive fire hours after the in
cendiary has departed. A magnify
ing glass arranged over a bunch Of
matches will start a wheat field fire
long after the criminal has made
good his escape. These things have
been done repeatedly.
Other methods of incendiarism
are so simple and so difficult Of de-
lection that the members Of the
famous larson squad" of the Pacific
Coast Underwriters, who have be-
come the most successful incendiary
detectives in America, dare not re-
veal them even TO their principals
for fear of spreading the knowledge
Of evil.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-19

SAN kANOlOOO, AuS' IL
When the head of the most purely
laxlsa public organization in the
world appeals to the President of
The United States to enforce the law
sgsint lawless persecution Of his
followers, while his crew are burn
ng property and preaching anarchy
"a thousand-mile front on this
uaa people out mere wonder on
Vtch side of insane asylum hos
vnls walls are the crazy. Are they
cut or in?
While Haywood threatens the ma
ton with strikes his followers are,
and long have been, striking the ma
ton in the back. Haystacks, grain
feds and -four mills are burning;
tans, dwellings and mercantile es-
ablishments are going up in flames;
ridiculous strikes impede industry,
and there is believed to be a plot to
practise one form of sabotage on
the entire crop of California.
Mysterious radicals are on the scene
Of every industrial dispute, willing
workers are inundated and medi-
tan threatened. Municipal aque-
tscs are blown up and there is a
tent, and inexplicable explosion at
The Mare Island Navy Yard, the
great naval base Of the Pacific Coast.
Responsible men in all parts Of
ne state are alarmed. Conditions in
California are such that a few plot
srs can achieve an enormous
mount Of destruction. A few sticks
4 dynamite can wreck irrigation
atvoirs and wreak destruction by
tsuing food and drouth.
Governor Urged
IoForm a Guard
delegation has called on Gov
nor Stephens to urge him to use
V emergency authority given him
2 he Legislature 10 create an
Ened state guard TO patrol the
'~s and protect vital points Of
'anss, railways and food supply, but
2 Governor takes the ground that
q emergency is not such as the law
Msnplated. As the crops that are
'nanmable in the fields are almost
.a1sred, he thinks the danger to the
90 supply is over.
10 the argument that, whereas a
20 IRE might conceivably destroy a
~a'snd acres Of grain, amounting
\ perhaps $1,000 bushels, a ware
we IRE might destroy two 10 five
s-'oa bushels, the Governor took
position that the owners Of the
r'Nf'y might reasonably be ex-
II 20 70 protect II. But the ware
Snen say their margin Of profit
20 mail 70 pay armed guards to
90 cher peoples property, and
insurance companies say that
nave right 70 expect the state
i N0teet them from losses occa-
" organized incendiarism.
4 ~, practical difficulties in the
sTn getting the hundreds Of own
~. the stored grain 70 furnish
e.'n 70 property that is not in
hands are obvious. Above all,
liz Stephens holds that the /.
~ problem is a Federal war
and yet when regulars
1 a. - nsshsd 70 Santa Clara County
We recent riotous strikes
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-19
Company of Infantry Ends Violence in Section of Wash
nqton and Furnishes Object Lesson to Government-
Disturbers Threatened with Horsewhipping
BY THEODORE M. KNAPPEN

WILLIAMSBURG, Wash, Aug,
II. 1s.-If the rest OF the
- Northwest is as ready for
" W. violence as the Yakima
y,ll,v. the trouble that is threat
. ,,5'i after August 20 will be short
"a sweet. The handling Of the
' ' here is an object lesson for
- Federal government.
o,s company of the Sd Oregon
r,f,ptry has kept this valley, which
80. formerly hotbed Of l. w. w,
..yrorism, in peace and security for
g.. weeks. In that time it has ar
....ss several hundred members Of
al ". W. and closed all their
,..Souarters in this section. They
,rs not permitted to congregate and
asv are not permitted to get in or
oat Of the valley, unless they are
travelling on railway tickets. The
,,,ops have had no difficulty in
m.intaining order and they are held
n the greatest fear by the Wobblies.
Three soldiers yesterday were
reuaring single-handed to arrest
,ro hundred of the revolutionists
loupd for Montana, but Captain
Vest decided that it was not within
rs authority to detain them.
No Charges Against
Men Detained
No charges are preferred against
40 men detained; they are kept in
ails and bull pens. Some are be-
no arrested and some are being re-
lsased daily.
No attention whatever will be
,,i5 to the l. w. w. threat of a
General strike on August 20 unless
no detained men are released. The
GREAT fear here is that the troops
will be withdrawn. To take their
race there is nothing except un-
souipped and unframed home
guards.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-19
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-19
Sabotage Plan
Is TO Rouse Hatred

According to the sabotage pro-
gramme everything that tends to
create disorder, confusion, class ha-
tired, discomfort and misery pro-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-19
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The sun., 1917-07-15
JOURNAL
DENOUNCES CREEL
and Navy Register
Calls Elaboration Fofuous.

WASHINGTON, July 14.-Under the
caption THE Doctored Naval Narra-
tive" the Army aud Navy Register, a
service paper. devotes It's leading edi-
torial this week to George Creels de-
scription OF the encounter between
American troop ship under convoy ard
German submarines
1T was about as fatuous n perform
ance of elaboration as II has been
alphabetically cited, as could well be
Imagined" says the editorial 1T Is
unpardonable upon any ground that is
acceptable to the newspapers which
were inclined to circulate It and then
the readers Of these newspapers who
were thus deceived.
The special rendition of this incl
dent has ELECTED the defence that It was
justified on the theory that the message
tattened with establishment in place of
the lean truth would In some mysterious
manner stimulate interest in the war
and at the same time crafty the Amer
lean public. on the same principles of
reasoning and incentive II would be
proper and profitable to describe Gen.
Pershing and his staff as penetrating to
Berlin and subtugating the enemy. That
indeed would be gratifying and stimu-
lating in increased proportion to the sur
passing flight of fancy. As for the stim-
ulation of public sentiment by the un-
real so long as IL is sensational there
might very well be a question of that
result In the present instance"
The sun., 1917-07-15
HOLL WEG'S RESIGNA TON
ACCEPTED BY THE KAISER;
MCHAELLS is CHANCELLOR
Hollweg Admitted
Germany Can't Win

T ,oND0N, July 14.-Reuter's
correspondent at Amsterdam
under date of July 13 says the
Bavarian Kurier publishes what
the RheiniSche WestfaIiSche Zei-
tuDg calls "an almost incredible
and sensational revelation" to the
effect that Prof. Harnack on
June 80 wrote in a letter which
he sent to Munich an account of
an interview he had had a few
days previously with DR.. Won
Bethmann-Hollweg.
According to this account the
Chancellor informed Prof. Har-
mack that his views closely ap-
proximated those of Philip
Scheidemann, DIR. Eduard David,
Socialists, and DR.. Karl Heine,
Social Democrat, but that he
could not yet free himself en-
tirely from the influences of the
Conservatives, who must first be
divided before he obtained free
hand for action.
DR.. Won Bethmann Hollweg
said that the greatest danger was
from Germans who continued to
believe in victory, and added: "In
the best case IL can only be q
draw"
The sun., 1917-07-15
GERMANY SEES u. S.
CRUSHING NEUTRALS
Editor Pictures Embargo az
NeUO "FrighffuIness."

Special Gable Despatch TO TIE Sun from the
London Times
LONDON, July 14.--As sidelight upon
how the American embargo shoe pinches
comes the comment OF the FrdnkJurter
Zeitun0. 1t is especially interesting in
view of Gsrmany's tender treatment OF
small neutrals as evidenced In the in
stance Of submarine ruthlessness,
Under the heading Campaign OF An
Inhalation Against Little 'Neutrals; !;
Brutal Assault by Americans" the Ger
man paper says:
"Never has brutality been more
shamelessly displayed than In the glori-
ficatlons Of violence of the toughest kind
that ascend from the complacent Amer
lean friends of the world. On the other
hand we hear complaints that II is
overwhelming their strength--the cry
OF the free citizens of the North. before
whose eyes the torture chamber is OPEN
ing. America dares what England
shrinks from doinG Am,rica no. only
loVercomes the nemtTala HIT will master
the Entente" I1