El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-09-27

Leader of I. W. W. Says
Two Hours Work a Day
Is Enough.
BY }. E. GROWN.

~ bling overlooked along West
. .,-..uIsOn street.
I y big man whose cynical smile
! failed 10 obliterate or temper the
/ marks of his SCARED face, gazed out
/ Of a window overlooking the stream
Of humanity.
Fools he mutered. The world
gone mad; seeking wealth and happi-
! ness which by right belong 10 il. and
/ have been stolen by the capiIalistic
few Why don't they so and take
{ what belongs 10 them? If a man
steals my purse and / catch him at
/ it the law gives me the right to take
I II away from him by any means at
my command"
y company Of kha1i-clad soldiers
swung by. a band played a blood
/ tingling melody Of patriotism Tine
Z strains aroused in the boSoms Of the
J street crowd the desire 10 fight. but
/ the big man in the window growled:
Cannon fodder; if every man in
I the world refused to fight there
Z would be no such thing as war. But
] they must obey their bosses, their
/ bosses OF money, their bosses Of
power, their bosses of class-"
touched the man on the shoulder.
I de wheeled. held out his hand and
/ faced William D. Haywood, known
as Big Bill general secretary
] treasurer Of the Industrial Workers
n o. Llt " OElu-
saw at once why this man is a
[ leader, maybe Of discomfort OF revo-
luton, maybe Of destruction.
saw him leading mObs Of strik-
ing miners back in the bloody days
T OF Colorado. I saw him driven from
community to community. 1 saw him
in jail under charges Of murder. 1
saw him in the glare Of burning
plants and exploding mines. 1 saw
him defying battalions Of soldiers
ND Cd rrnnhg ~ u#rafI-a hra
Big Bills" face shows the power Of
the man. Its seams are broken up
into guiches and canyons, all livid
scars, the results Of physical battles
other.
BattIe-Scarred Man.
one eye is gone, but the other eye
can lOOk as hard as steel, or beam
/ like the gentle blue of a summer sky.
/ He stands over SIX feet. His Shout
I ders are slightly stopped from bend
/ ing in the Slopes Of mines where the
precious metals are knOtted and
broken from pick and shovel and oc-
casIOnally a club
/ told him candidIy that I did not
believe in his theories OF govern
ment; that l did believe that the l.
W W was responsible for violence
/ in this country. I explained TO him
I that his organization at this time. in
my opinion, was trying to embarrass
the government in its war with Ger
many, and that its members were in
Z effect traitors TO America told
him, however. that this story was TO
be his story, and that he could have
eve Ignore the War
I wish to deny emphatically in
the first place the foolish and vicious
intimatiOn that the J. ". ". is being
financed by German money" he said.
I Here are our books. which have
been gone over by the government.
Every cent that we have used has
been contributed by our mem bership.
II had my way l would disembOWel
the kaiser and strangle him and ali
Of his dirty, ruling brood with the
dried larlats OF his entrails. The l.
W. W. has nothing TO do with this
war. We are ignoring it,
His telephone rang Yes. this is
Haywood he shouted. and I have
just wired Gov Campbell OF Arizona
that Do is up TO his state TO see that
the men who made Arizona through
the sweat Of their brOws and the
palsying Of their muscles be brought
back TO their homes and their wives
and children in Bisbee. Hanging up
the receiver he looked At me hard for
minute and uttered the one word.
Violence"
'AIy God. man: talk about violence:
what could be more violent than the
mine owners Of Bisbee2 The men
they drove from their camp are the
men who made Bisbee. They pro-
duced sts wealth; they made the mines
possible and productive They filled
the pockets Of luxury loving owners
and bosses with money.
Would Abolish Wages.
Here" continued the boss OF the
7. ". w 4 think I should explain
the organization, the plans and the
hopes of the wage earners that have
enlisted under our banner We hold
that there should be no such thing
G That all wealth Re
duced by labor. That the results Of
labor should belong solely 70 the men
who make production possible. II
the men who work in a mine get
wealth out Of that mine, that wealth
should be theirs. And so with all
other industries. Our object is 10 do
away with all rulers and all money,
and all wages.
Two Hours n Fell Day.
7 believe that under present day
methods, with the machinery owned
by the workers themselves, two hours
would produce all the necessities Of
life for our millions Of people Men
should have time to enjoy their
homes. 10 make their wives and babies
happy and TO cultivate the finer
things within them.
Make Dreams Come True.
'Laziness is a disease In the years
to come we would all be workers. No .
one would have TO tax his energies
beyond what is healthful and right
The Industrial Workers OF the World
are looking toward n general strike Of
every wage Garner in the world This
would make our socalled dream come
true. II every spindle stopped turn
ing. every wheel stopped moving II
everybody in the world who works
with his hands and his brain would
suddenly decide TO go fishing on the
same day. and never quit fishing until
their property was turned over to
them by the bosses and sOcalled own
ers. our dream would soon come
true.
1T may take years 10 place all
property in the hands Of the ueop1e
who produce. but the time is certainly
coming when such a condition will
exist. There should be no such thing
as unions They only tend to weaken D
the cause OF mankind. The Industrial
Workers Of the World in their mani
festo says; This worn out and cor
rupt system offers no promise of i'm
provement or adaptation. There is no
silver lining TO the clouds Of dark
ness and desD9ir settling down upon
The world OF labor.
Could TIE Up World.
why. man. with the proper coon
Grafton 7 could tie uD the whole world
in - hours Suppose when our mem
hers walked ont Of the mines at Bis
bee the rauroad workers had refused [
~ haul the output Of those mines To
the markets. II wouldn't have been
lone before those mines would have
closed M as tiPht = s n drum. We do
not believe in killing the bosses o.
mal-inE theul % to work for a living Z
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