Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1917-07-20
A CRIMINAL ORGANIZATION.

Naturally, the l. w. w. leaders
claim their organization is legiti-
mate labor organization, whose objects
and purposes are just, demanding a
square deal for those who labor.
W. D. Haywood of Chicago, secretary
treasurer of the Industrial Workers of
the World, referring to the deporta-
tion of l. w. VS. from Bisbee, Ari-
IONA, declares:
IL wish to deny emphatically that
German money, German influence or
wartime motives are behind the
western copper mine strikes. 1t is
simply an effort to get living wages
and just working conditions for our
miners"
But let us take the printed litera-
ture of the l. w. w. and we are told
that the aim and purpose and intention
of the organization is to abolish the
wage system, overthrow the employing
class, and take POSSESSION Of the world
AS matter Of fact wages and hours
and food are only pretext for calling
strikes and paralyzing industry.
Right here in our own county, at Elk
River, men who were making as much
as 81 per day, who were doing con-
tract work and who fixed their own
hours and lived as they pleased, quit
and went on strike with the rest OF
the Webs to more completely tie uE
the industry. Bisbee, Arizona, the
citizens declare in statement to the
President of the United States, has
the highest wage scale of any copper
district in the world. The Wobblies
struck to further their scheme OF
nationwide industrial paralysis. MIR.
Haywood is not going to fool anybody
about the objects and aims Of his
organized outlaws. They are enemies
of this nation, menace to it's very
existence; they preach treason, dis
loyalty and destruction. The last
thing on ear.h they really want i:
employment. Their first and last ant
paramount object is the destruction Of
the employer, who, the l. W. w
literature and speakers tell us, is the
enemy of the laboring man.
At Spokane only last week. at &
public street meeting, attended by
Governor Alexander and others, VIZ
are told an I.W.W. orator spoke Of
dumping off (murdering), EN-
ployers. 1t shows what is in tn,
heart of this lawless element, ant
what reign of terror would follow
should they dare put their deviltr.
into practice.
They tell their members to commi
crime; they teach their thousands O
ignorant dupes that it is their duty t,
destroy property, and even instruc
them how to proceed. They max,
property destruction profession
Sabotage is part and parcel of thei
stock in trade, and is practiced in tn
woods, mills, factories and on tn
farms. Why, then, should Mr.. Hay
wood expect the public to believ
that the l. w. w. is legitimat
labor craft, struggling only for livin
wages, decent hours and sanitar
living quarters?
To the tune of "Ta-Ra-Ra- Boor
De-Aa" the l. w. W. tell how the
accidentally" slip and fall, runnin
pitchfork thru a threshing machine
causing the farmer heavy financis
loss, delaying the work, and cauisn
trouble during the threshing season
Men have been seriously injured
others have lost their lives thru tn
deliberate accident" caused by tn
l. w. w. buns, whose demand *
wages and other things is only PR
text. If their demands of today al
granted, tomorrow find them demand
ing more and more, ending in tieul
Legitimate organized labor hi
outlawed this alleged labor uniol
and it has no standing except amor
some socialists, who are really a
archists; and anarchists, whose lead
is Emma Goldman and others Of h
stripe.