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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-12
"Bis Bill" Haywood
WILLIAM HAYWOOD'S recent speech

n u
w made on the occasion of Frank Ltes
ties anti-American utterances, has brought
him again into the headlines of the Amer
lean press. This time big Bill" aps
pears as the champion sorely stricken
with grief at the fate Of comrade.
William Haywood first appeared before
the American public in 1907, when he was
charged with instigating the murder Of
Governor Steunenberg of Idaho. While
his trial for life was going on in Boise,
Idaho, he showed courage and presence Of
mind, gaining considerable popularity all
through the United States. After his ac-
quittal he came to be regarded by many as
martyr in the cause of the laboring
class.
During the years that followed he de-
voted himself entirely to organizing and
uniting the working classes. He was al
ways ready to listen to workingmen dis
satisfied with the wages they were receiv.
ing. Many important strikes in the
United States, paralyzing entire indus.
tries for weeks, have been ascribed directly
to his activity Several times he was az
rested for disseminating strike propagans
da, and on two occasions faced prison sens
fences which, however, he did not, in tho
end, have to serve.
Mr.. Haywood is opposed to trade unionA
claiming that the latter take into considef9
alton only the favored few who are able b
get membership. He thinks that To
working class can expect no reforms .
come through assistance of other classes
but that the carrying out of its ideals reste
with the laborcr alone. y,
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"March Into He'll" to Meet the Enemy

hurts less and death is easier in Oklahome
or Georgia than in Belgium or France! u
has been found that only one in fifteen IL
hurt or killed on the modern battlefield
where men protect themselves with trenches
steel helmets, gas masks and other contrivs
ances. 1t is probable that the casualties IN
battle fought between anti-drafters ana
government posses in Oklahoma or Georgia
would be much more numerous"
Senator Gore, who was one Of the eight
voting against the selective draft law, said
of the disturbance in his state:
"The trouble originated among the Semi.
noles and the Seminole freedmen, as the
negroes who used to be slaves in that sec
ton are termed. In the Indian bill OF last
winter per capita payment was provided
for the Seminoes. The Controller Of the
Treasury decided under an old law that this
must be held up because of a reservation
for q school fund.
"This became a grievance with the Indiana
Some of them said they didn't want to fight
for a government that would not pay them.
They thought they had a emulation OF
grievances.
81 do not think the disorder will amount
to a great deal The Indians may have to b
treated with some discretion, for they have
not long been citizens, and perhaps do not
properly understand the obligation OF cith
zenship.'"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-12

very phase of the question, from the basis
registration to the debts Of the drafted
nan and Stacker marriage, has undergone
,sorcbing analysis. Draft resisters,
,so.ber of the openly violent sort
.,bo have terrorized a part of the State of
oklahoma. or those who sought working
,,,;ne for sneaking out of their military
e,sv have been the subject of verbal ex-
o,,i,tion. The Stacker brigade that has de-
,ored behind the ramparts of feminine
torerie has been contrasted with men
,s,otbed in their normal emotions by "The
Indianapolis News" which paper wastes no
sympathy with the wearers of the lingerie.
This paper comments:
"A young woman who permits herself to be
40 used BY Stacker does so knowing full
.v.u what manner of man it is that she is
-u,,rving. She must know him for a coward
ar shirker, or, most likely, both. How can
she regard him with respect or confidence
No sympathy now, or in the future,
should be wasted on ellher OF Iheh'
\ lot Nearly All Asking Exemption
IN Can Receive 1t
Under the heading Draft Exemptions"
The same paper has this to say:
Reports indicate that not nearly all of
those asking exemption on the score of de-
,.ndents can be excused. In Boston seven
zen out of twenty-four who passed the physi-
cal examination asked for exemption. Out Of
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-12
dustrial Workers of the World had ar

ranged to send the body of Little to
Fresno, CAL, his home, for burial. A tele-
gram from Haywood, with the command:
Bury the body on the battlefield" al
tered their plans. About 5000 men are
said to have marched in the funeral pro-
cession. Some 200 messages from many
parts of the United States were read at
meeting after the funeral. All Of the
messages expressed resentment at the
lynching and some contained threats of
violence. Circulars distributed at the
funeral charged that Little was murdered
by men hired by the mining companies.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-12

and industries of the West is said by "The
State Journal" of Lansing, Mich, to
"come as near to high treason as anything
the ordinary man can apply that term to. F"
This paper adds: ,
"The factories of Detroit, the mines of
the upper peninsula and the West and the
harvest fields of the West are all necessary
to the country at all times, but doubly so
in war time. And the food crop not only
concerns our own country but all the civil
lied people of the world"
"The Journal" concludes:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-12
In CONGRESS Last Week
(From The Congressional Record

NTTOW Il ne IOHyIcSStOHut hcCOTu)
advise his friends in the House of Represent
atives to bring in rule to make this prop
osition in order in the House the next time
the House comes together?
Mr.. JAMES-Mr. President l sat in the
House for ten years and know how jealous
the House is of its rights and of outside in
reference, and / would not want to under
take 20 give any advice to what they ought
to do or interfere in any way in their delib-
erations; but is it not true, ask the Senator,
that the conferrees Of the House, both the Re-
publicans and Democrats, stood unanimously
against the proposition to create a committee
on war expenditures which the Senate had
adopted?
Mr. WEEKS-Mr. President, I am not
familiar with what happened in the confer
ence as the Senator from Kentucky seems to
be.
Mr.. JAMES-The Senator must not dodge
in that way. Is not my statement true, and
is not that the Senator's understanding?
Mr.. WEEKS-That is not my understand
ing; and, moreover, the Senator from Ken
lucky knows that the conferrees are the
creatures of the body which appoints them,
and that it is the duty Of conferrees to carry
out the purposes of the body they represent
Mr.. JAMES, know that the conferrees are
appointed in the House as they are in the
Senate, from the ranking members of the
committee having jurisdiction of given
measure, as was done in the case of the
food bill, and the Republican members on
that committee were unanimously in accord
with the Democrats in opposing this very
question which the Senator is now discussing,
namely, the creation of a committee on war
expenditures.
Mr.. WEEKS-Mr. President ! think il the
Senator from Kentucky will look up the
Record" he will find that the Republican
members of the conference in the House,
when they voted on matter in form which
the Senator from Kentucky admits was not
exactly a direct vote, supported this PROPOSE
ton. think he will find that is the case.
Mr.. JAMES-Well, the margin Of difference
is very narrow in the House between the two
political parties but the vote was overwhelm-
ing on this proposition against it. So it was
not united Republican vote, at least.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-12
|Only Admiration for the Man
~ Who Is Drafted

The chairman of an exemption board,
writing to "The Chicago Tribune" says:
There seems to be generally accepted
belief among young men that those who wait
to be drafted for the National Army will be
looked upon as slackers when they arrive in
the training camps, and will be so treated by
the petty officers who have their training in
hand"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-12
THE Lynching Is Condemned,
i Yet Provocation Is Admitted

All Of the Southern and Western papers
condemn the lynching, but most Of them
are satisfied the lynchers had the greatest
possible provocation. 1.-THE Galveston
Tribune" says that while the utterances
of the victim were Of sort 10 arouse mob
vengeance the people should have been
backed by the Federal and state authori-
ties In such q way that they could have
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-12

the nation has been awakened to the real,
sinister purpose back of the I. W. w.
The people of this country now are fully
aware of the danger threatened by the l. W.
W., and, being aware of it, ought to be en-
abled to act accordingly"
Many of the Western papers had asked
the government to take action against the
Industrial Workers of the World. "The
Ogden Examiner" says:
$50 far the nation has not taken this def
mite action, and the people of some centres,
as Bisbee, Globe and Butte, have become ex-
I trenely restless"
Going on to speak of the lynching "The
Examiner" says:
whether the people Of America feel that
the lynching of Frank Little was justified or
rot justified the startling action taken by
masked citizens Of Butte, Mont, must be
taken as the first definite showing of the
feeling of the West that the l. W. W. agi-
tators who discourse against the American
government must forever end such agitation
or take the consequences"
"The Examiner" further points out
that the majority of the people of the West
would prefer trial by jury or court-mar-
tial. and then sentence, to lynching
A Law Higher Than the
n Law of Montana
Another Montana paper, "The Western
News" writing of the deportations from
Butte before the lynching and anent the
neglect of the Federal authorities to act
against the Industrial Workers OF the
World, seems to think the citizens justi-
fed in going beyond the law:
"There is a law greater than that Of the
State Of Montana, greater even than that OF
the United States of America. 1t is the law
Of self-preservations If the national govern
ment does not soon uncover and punish this
enemy to humanity, if the law of military
necessity does not take supersedence Of
peacetime technicalities, then the people of
the communities threatened must for the &C.
casion make their own law"
"Tbe Butte Miner" returns to the sub
iect of the alleged neglect of the govern
ment, quoting message from Washington
TO the effect that drastic action by the
government to meet the labor disturbances
in the West, which officials are sure have
been stirred up by German propaganda,
will be taken if the situation shows any
growth"
The same paper comments editorially:
"This statement leads one to wonder just
how bad the Federal authorities want the
/ industrial condition to become in the West
before they think it worth while looking into.
at is owing to the failure OF the national
government to take any interest in the labor
disturbances created by the l. W. W. element
| in Arizona and Montana that some OF the
citizeng in these states have felt they had
an excuse for taking the law into their own
hands,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-12
The House
THE SPEAKER-The lady +

THE SPEAKER-The lady from Montana
l. asks unanimous consent to extend her
remarks in the Record" Is there objection !?
Mr.. MOORE, Of Pennsylvania-Mr. Speaker,
before that request is put ! want to ask the
lady from Montana il she will answer ques-
ton: Did the lady from Montana undertake
to lay any of these facts that she has so
graphically depicted before the President or
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-12
Willing to March Into Hell
w If Necessary

"The Journal points out that the des-
tiny of this country is in the hands of its
young men, and if they are willing to pre-
serve what their fathers have won they
will march into hell itself to meet
the enemy" 1t cautions the people in these
circumstances against talking about "red-
bloodedness," for at best this is compare
tive term and Eat worst it is soggy, tawdry
flattery."
"The Arizona Republican" asks for a
new deal in fixing Arizona's quota for the
draft, observing that:
"Arizona has been given population more
than twice as great as that of the census Of
1910. A more unfair basis than the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-12

Naged against it. President Gompers
4 secretary Morrison Of the American
''efaton Of Labor had induced that body
''hsider spending 100000 10 that end.
WAS Not Clear What
the l. W. W. Meant
Ae isoor unionists believed the country
unaware Of the character and make
~ the Industrial Workers Of the
.. mn and perhaps likely 10 confound that
10y with their own. Writing on this
IL, few days before the lynching Of
g. and especially with regard 10 the
49, william ID. Haywood 10 with
-. =" Z'0OO0 men from lumber and farm
-: "a the West, "Tbe Butte Miner"
long time the nation did not have
49, 49, Conception Of what the l. W. W. or
meant. In recent weeks
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-12
Of government and was himself lynched,
and "The News" continues:

"The men who lynched Little put into
practce-in so far as he was concerned
what Little himself had preached. What
fault can his followers find with what has
happened, therefore? How can they appeal
to established law for the punishment Of the
men who did the lynching? However much
the lynchers may be condemned by clear
thinking men, it is true that if ever a man
was hoist by his own petard,' that man was
Little, the I. W. ". agitator."
Haywood's threat to cripple the farms
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-12

registration could not have been devised
The mining counties will be espe-
cially hard hit. 1t is said the registration in
Greenee County includes aliens to the
amount of 70 to 80 per cent. Every native
and naturalized American registered in that
county will be taken, and then the quota
cannot be met"
On the question of governmental action
against slackers "The Birmingham Age
Herald" says:
"As the war drags on and it is more fully
realized that America will have to sacrifice
thousands, and perhaps millions, Of her
young men to win victory over Germany,
there is a growing spirit Of disaffection
which cannot be stamped out too soon. Over
in Georgia the anti-draft agitation has made
some Roadway, and in parts of Alabama a
similar state of affairs prevails, particularly
in the mountain districts. 1t is rumored
that men are not only organizing to resist
the draft law by peaceable protests, but are
being armed"
THE Age-Herald" assumes, however,
that the government is amply prepared to
stamp out reasonable movements of all
kinds.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-12

But "The Tribune" comments that it is
difficult to imagine an officer petty enough
to display any such spirit as this, and
points out that of such material were the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-12

1.-THE Boston Journal" makes a striking
" individual contribution to the discussion
Of the draft, asserting that "our century,
old boast of freedom and justice is put to
the test with all the world looking on" 1t
declares it would be both stupid and dan
gerous to conceal the fact that the draft
law and the regulations that surround it
do not grow more popular.
The same paper continues:
1.-THE cheerful assurances from Washington
to the effect that the draft had been accepted
in proper spirit may have been valid in some
measure a week or two ago, but they could
not be repeated to-day. Whatever the cause,
it is the effect which must now engage the
public attention-an effect which has alarm
ing aspects.
THE draft law was adopted as the swift
est and surest and fairest means of raising
an army. The men physically and economi-
cally eligible were to be selected for military
service in an orderly national programme Of
war development. The burden Of sacrifice
was to be allotted as evenly as possible.
"Ihen came horde of directors claiming
conscientious scruples and proclaiming a
preference for non-resistance. Then it was
learned that many thousands Of young men,
plain shrkers, had evaded registration. Next
followed what must be recognized as a
formidable question of the constitutionality
of the draft act in this instance. And now
there has been actually introduced in the
Senate bill exempting from foreign service
all drafted men who ask such exemption.
an this crisis no ordinary remedy can be
adopted. Government threats are cheap-it is
easy to say Jail But this is a republic, and
wholesale failing is out of the question. Nor
are the American people accustomed to be
led by threats
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-12

suE ethical standing, need for and
II ..rviceability of the selective draft
L army were discussed and conceded
-. oress of the country last week.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-12

"All of them will be rounded up, and all
whose guilt is made plain will suffer for it.
What shall IL profit young man not in
clined to soldering to find himself prs-
oner and a convict and thereafter enrolled
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-12
7 title Hope the Lynchers
l. Will Be Apprehended

"The Indianapolis Star" is skeptical, re-
fusing to believe that any one will ever be
arrested for the CRIME. 1t makes a singu-
lar analogy, thus:
at is suspected in some quarters that the
authorities in Butte will bring those Little
lynchers to justice along about the time
Georgia Furnishes Leo Franks slayers."
AS a result of the hanging of Little,
Butte faces several additional strikes.
About 10000 miners are still out in the
district, the streetcar lines are said to be
completely tied up, the clerks in stores and
railway offices threaten to strike, and, ac-
cording to the Metal Mine Workers
Union, the mine engineers are seriously
considering leaving their jobs. /
The funeral Of the mob victim, which
was expected to provoke considerable
violence, passed off very quietly. The In
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-12

dishonorably, as he might once have been
honorably?"
The most serious phase Of anti-draft dis
turbances occurred in Oklahoma. The
troubles there assumed the form of an
armed "rising" in which Indians, negroes
and small tenant farmers took part, to the
number of 500 or 600, OF the rising
1.-THE Boston Transcript" says:
at is not surprising that the first armed
resistance to the draft should break out in
Oklahoma. There are districts in that state
where the people are mostly incapable of
comprehendng war which they did not
start themselves. There Is much more ex-
cuse for draft resistance among ignorant
negroes and Indians than there is in the or
ganized conscientious objection Of Massa-
chusetts. The bottom crust of the Oklahoma
population has no national background. It's
vision has been limited to the cattle range,
the isolated farm, sometimes to the tepee,
often to the mud-chinked cabin in the river
bottom"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-12
THE Curious Case Of
L Oklahoma

"The st. Louis Post-Dispatch" sees in
the Oklahoma outbreak strange freak of
cowardce which makes some men unwit-
tingly bold to face suffering and death. 1t
soliloquizes:
Rather odd that fear Of Prussian bullets
should result in fearlessness of American
bullets. Do the anti-drafters think a wound
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-12
The / W. W. Opposes, Mob-aw DSposes and Frank Little

"Mr. Haywood should be taken in charge
by the Department of Justice"
"The Chicago Tribune" declares that
in the case of the lynching of Little the
Industrial Workers of the World were
treated to a taste of their own medicine
and that if the mine owners hired the men
that hanged Little they only anticipated
what the community would have been COM
peled to do if the law did not act. The
7 tribune" assumes that if the authorities
will not act when the safety of society is
concerned, the citizens will take it upon
themselves" and concludes:
"The howls of Industrial Workers Of the
World over the lynching of Little will find,
we believe, no echo in any reasonable Ameri-
cans heart. The wonder is that more OF
these agitators in the West have not been
treated in the same way by outraged COM
munties which have listened to their vicious
threats. Some of these men have gone so far
as to threaten the burning Of standing crops
if their windy warnings were not needed
Now that one of them has been treated to
"The Spokesman-R Review" of Oregon,
after several years of sporadic warfare
with the Industrial Workers of the World,
which it recounts, takes the stand that the
position of the country to-day is such
chat sullen and violent opposition to the
law is as actual crime as an overt act
would be-"
Several of the cities along the northern
Pacific coast are making preparations to
receive Industrial Workers of the World
aGitators should they be driven out of
their more southerly neighboring states.
In Seattle a conference of city, county,
state and Federal officials was held, at
which it was decided that the Industrial
Workers of the World should be treated
drastically; and it pledged every agency
possible "to cooperate in combating any
trouble that may arise"
While other states are making prepare
tions to check the acts and propaganda of
the Industrial Workers of the World the
authorities in Montana say they are
making every effort to arrest the lynchers
OF Little No one has as yet been arrested.
The police, the sheriff and his deputies as
sert they have no clews that lead to the
identity of the perpetrators of the crime.
Members of the Metal Mine Workers, how
ever, declare they can identify five Of the
lynching party.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-12

n n r. JAMES-Mr. President, will the
MI Senator yield to me for question
- Tbo pPESIDENT nro +omnore
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-12
A II Slackers Will Be Caught
n And Made to Suffer

"The st. Louis Post-Dispatch" believes
slackers are not numerous in proportion to
the population:
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-02-12
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