The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-09-13
SAFETY OF NATION REQUIRES
SUPPRESSION OF |. W. w.

in raiding the /. w. w. headquarters
all over the country and selling rec
ords and papers to be used as evidence
against members Of the organization
has already had most beneficial ef-
feet In checking the agitation design
ed to cripple the industries of the
country at time when their highest
capacity is required by the govern
ment in it's preparation for war. 1t
Is officially stated that the records
seized contain evidence which will
justify the arrest of many of the
leaders on charges of treason, and
that proof will be produced that they
We're in the employ of the German
government, and that in their attempt
to call strikes in the metal mining,
lumber and agricultural regions they
were directly serving the kaiser and
betraying their own country for gold.
The department of justice has made
a splendid start in rounding up these
traitors posing as the friends of hon.
est labor, and we trust there will be
no disposition to relax In using the
evidence at hand to fix the guilt of
those responsible for the criminal
propaganda that has stopped and
threatened the industries of the coun-
try. Too much latitude has been al
lowed this organization before the
war. It's leaders have been permitted
to advocate violation and contempt
for the law and to our form of gov
eminent. Now that it is in league
with the enemies of our government
II the proof can be secured it's lead
ers should be made to pay the pen
atty of treason and the organization
forever stamped out of existence.
Senator King, of Utah, who has
made close study of the /. w. w.
organization, in a recent contribution
to the New York Times has this to
say of the organization:
ITO |. w. w. members there Is no
God nothing infinite immortal or
eternal. We are in a blind world of
chance without design or purpose.
Order, union, law, government.
wholesome restraint, religion--all of
these words are meaningless to them, |
and the FORMS influences and powers
behind them, and accompanying
them, are the objects of their hatred
and implacable fury. OF course, such
a creed will attract to it the Goddess,
the wicked, the corrupt, the criminal,
and all those whose british instincts
rebel at decency and right thinking
and right living. And so most of the
l. w. WIS are vagabonds and tramps.
They are the flotsam and jetsam on
the tumultuous sea of life. Many go
from the penitentiary to the l. w. w.
organization, and many go from the
!. w, w. organization to the peniten-
tiary--and more should go there
The result of course, must
be that the members of the labor
unions cannot be, and are not, in $
with the !. w. w. Trade
unionism fosters, as the /. w. w. says,
industry and the belief that there is
a common interest between the en- c
ployers and the employees. Trade :
unionism brings stability among the ,
aboring people and seeks to have :,
industry, peace and order and proper
development.
1.-THE true laborng man Is anxious q
or the perpetuity of society, the I
Of good government and :
roper growth and development in all
# the activities of trade and COM
nerce The l. W. W. proclaims the $
bolition of the wage system and de- a
lares that capitalism must be de- "
troyed. One of their principal teach
re- says The question of right and
frong does not concern us. All
pposition, so long as the wage sys-
EN- lasts, is but an armed truce At -,
ny favorable opportunity the strug-