The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-08-07
|. ". ". BACKED BY
VIOLENCE AND TERROR
"IF ALL CAN'T RIDE IN AUTO
MOBILES NOBODY is CO.
ING TO DO So"
MEMBERSHIP Is DUBBED
AS VERITABLE ROUCHNECKS
Leaders Counsel Men, When They
Lose Strike, to Return to Work
and Slowly Destroy and Wipe Out
Employers Business.

anu oA0WAy destroy and wipe Out
Employers Business.
William D. Haywood, leader of
the Industrial Workers of the World,
epltomizes, in single sentence, the
dangerously fastastic theory along
which the organization seeks to ac-
complish the destruction of the en-
ploying class, and the control of all
Industries, farms and forests in the
United States by the organized
proletariat," unskilled labor. He
says: eve are all going to ride in
automobiles or nobody is going to
ride in them" Haywood recognizes
and endorses any means that will
help destroy the present social sys-
tenn.
Since its introduction into this
country in 1904, the propaganda of
cabOtage-the malicious waste or de-
struction of an employers property
has spread west of the Mississippi
until today vast industries in the min
ing and numbering districts of the
Northwest and Southeast are serious
ly crippled by strikes and threats of
violence. Thousands of harvest hands
in the Northwest carry the red cards
of the organization and are openly
counselled to destroy crops when
wages and conditions do not meet
with their approval
Members of the l. W. w. preach
the doctrine that the time to strike is
when the pressure is greatest, war
or no war When a strike fails, the
men are urged to return to work and
resort to sabotage.
Dubbed as "ROughnecks"
The membership of the 1. w. w.
today consists almost wholly of un-
skilled workers, the bulk of whom
are in the textile, steel, lumber, min
ing, farming and railroad construc-
ton industries. There is no effort
being made to enroll skilled Iaborers,
as the aim of the organization is to
acquire control solely by the class
which Haywood calls, "roughnecks.
1t is the I. W. w. contention that
as the inventive genius of the race
progresses and new labor-saving ma
chinery is devised, the time will come
when the skilled worker, sO-called,
will be in the minority and the great
majority of workers will gravitate
naturally and easily into the l. w. W.
fold. Then they will be strong enough
within the industries to effect par
| alysis, either by the ''rest STRIKE" by
which everybody they control would
simply quit work and tie up the COM
| merce of the entire nation, or, fail
ing in that, put the plants out of
business temporarily by the sabotage
route.
The paid-up membership of the l.
w. w. in 1914 was 3O,347, but Hay
wood says that figures are not being
announced any more. 1t is known,
however, that the general Office has
issued more than 10000 cards.
Slashing Into Organized Ranks.
The only means of accurately
guaging the number of followers of
the doctrine of terrorism is by sum-
ming up the reports of conditions
and the number of men affected as
| they come in to headquarters at Chi
cago from various parts of the West.
1t is claimed that when the confer
ence is called, at which a movement
will be launched to enroll miners in
the organization, many of whom now
are affiliated with the American Fed
Grafton of Labor, that approximately
100000 will be affected.
So active has been the l. w. w. in
making inroads into the ranks of or
ganized labor that for the first time
| in it's history the American FEEDER
alton of Labor is aligned with en-
! ployer and non-unionist employee
alike in combating the spread of the
Haywood propaganda against work
ingmen. At Butte, Mont, the miners
| induced the electricians to join their
ranks and refuse terms offered by
the Montana Power company, in vio-
lation of their agreement, after the
terms had been approved by officials
of the A. F. of L.
/. w. w. Tie Up Lumber Industry.
The greatest sensation of the week
was the announcement made by How
ard E. Coffin, chairman of the Air
craft production board of the Coun-
Gil of National Defense, that the l.
w. W., operating in the great spruce
forests of the Northwest, had block
ed the great S640,000,00O aviation
program of the United States and it's
allies The signature of the presi-
dent, which has been attached to the
aviation bill, is thus practically multi
fed by the organization.
Chairman Coffin says: mot
whpel is tI1rnincr in tha snrr1ce cow