The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-01-22


 the reporter of a New York paper and a capitalist paper at that that 'Ya gotta beat 'em up, and il beatin 'em does them bohunks no good, Va got shoot 'em up. Such shocking lawlessness upon the part of the police, such utter disregard of the constitutional rights of the people, is nevertheless upheld as be- ing necessary to preserve order and uphold the law!
 Now take this case of Everett Whatever one may think of the de- termination of the l. w. W.'s or the wisdom or the folly of their methods the fact does stand out that they primarily were endeavoring to en- force the law of the land and to insist upon their constitutional rights as guaranteed by that law. They were driven from their meet ing halls; they were arrested on the street and depOrted; they were de- nied free entry to and free egress from a town where martial law was not proclaimed, and where in theory the rights of all were to be equally administered and upheld. The
 workers because their economic condition in the sawmills was such that they believed it should be bet tered. started striking. There is no law against such collective action and, we believe, it is moreover a sound doctrine and is an axiom of
 common law that there is no illegal 1 ity in the collectivity doing what 1 the individual can legally do. The men asked for organizers and got : them. and a persistent agitation was brought to bear on the. situa-
 ton for the purpose of improving la
 bor conditions. Thereupon regardless of the rights of workers, the Com mcrcial Club which contained in its membership the sawmill and other interests began with the aid, the assistance the conniyance and the
 active abetting of the sheriff and the
 police. a systematic effort to de stroy the strike, the work of orga- nization and all industrial agitation. They smashed up meetings, drove
 away union men, beat them up in
 disgraceful fashion, held them in
 communicate, and carried on things
 with a total disregard of the law
 and the constitution.
 So it is that in place of being
 advocates of lawlessness, in this in
 stance the industrialists and th'
 rest have been and are standing
 four square to the cardinal prin
 ciples of law and justice and th'
 constitution, and if there is an'
 anarchy it i2 the anarchy of an un licensed capitalism which trampia upon the constitution and male , the written and uuwritten laws mocEgry and by-word.
 This is not the first time that sucl , a condition has prevailed. It is no .lIely to be tha last. But exciting public attention to the damnabl 5 conditions that few lawlcss official , and industrial ruffians have brough , about through their contempt fo , law and the constitution, it ma I serve to make such recurrence ' less and less frequent.
 Deliberate and indefensible vio 0 enec no man can uphold. Niolenc . assuredly begets violence. But ther - is certainly a limit to human pat Q ence and when in the resort to law e less violence even upon the part 1 the officials the workers feel tn
 necessity of defending themselve V shall the working class be the fir' 0 to say nay to their more courage T ous brethren?
 s We have read carefully and Q detail every single criticism tn: r we could in the papers of this Ev r ret battle and, outside labor paper y have not seen any fair conner > upon it at all. We have seen u ,f most bitter, the most unreasonab
 attack upon the l. w. w. as lay n less organization, but not word ; il to the lawlesness of the officials al If the business interests of Evere l. who upheld such unimaginable co e ditions as existed prior to the ba e tie that caused the capitalist orgi