The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-08-15
.As TO STRIKES.

The announcement that senator has branded the I. W. W. as cri- minal organization in the Upper House will not be surprising. It would be astonishing if it were other wise. For months past the press Of the country has been almost uni formlv crying out against the ac- tivities of the Industrialists and de- manding not only laws against them but advocating lynch law
 There was the charge made that the Industrial Workers of the World was being subsidized by Ger man gold to promote strike agi'a- tion throughout the country, but federal agents admit that this charge has beer fully investigated and that it is without foundation in fact. Still inasmuch as the pa pers that printed the charge so freely failed to publish the an- nouncemnt of the result of the Fed eral Agents probe. the statement Is again and again repeated
 Furthermore the papers declare that the Industrial Workers of the World are committing illegal acts throughout the country, guilty ol violence and crimes innumeTahle.
 in not single case has this been shown. The statement is made to bolster up @ charge of criminaIItS and to justify lynch law, yet With nut those papers making it able to ehow one case of lawlessness oi which the industrialists have been guilty. ..,
 # is true that they have agitatea for higher wages for shorter hours 3nd that they have struck to eh- force these demands. But as yet that is not unlawful
 There is the Everett case. 1h3' danended upon who organized the resistance and the first attack IL ,yas shown at the trial by the States own witnesses that the battle oi Everett was arranged by the Sher't and the volunteer and professional gnnmen who fired into the Verona The jury found Tracy and with Tracy tho other defendants not guilty .-,
 The fact of the matter is that the industri3lists arc 0f9en'-'N@ the great mass of aaaH.ilcd "@rzeEs' the lowest paid ot ali workers iA inc countrv. they are organizing men whose wages have been wholly in adeouate at the present prices oi he- cessaries to maintain any one in de cencv. Furthermore their efforts have been attended with success anC likely enough it is there where inc shoe pinches.
 Hence this campaign of yiliiica ton and this wholesale advocacy O Iawlessness. which has not beel without result
 Turn to Everett again. The meI who went to Everett were taken to Beverly Park. Gunmen and deputies made of citizens of Everett anC acting for the sawmills lined ul there and compelled the members O the I. wv. to run the gauntlet 0 snch torture and abuse as to leaV many of them in a condition neare death than life. Some of the scene of deliberate and villainous crueit therein practiced were literally un belieyable. And that was before tn Verona battle.
 Turn to the Iron Range Charge were preferred for murder agains some of the miners whose home were raided and whose women fol were grossly assaulted.
 Turn to Bisbee, men who had re yistered, had subscribed to the L berty loan, who had subscribed al volunteered their services and bee accepted by the Red Cross wer driven out of the Warren distric because they asked for certain re forms in mining conditions an dared to strike to enforce their dt mands.
 Turn to Butte. Frank Little, a organizer of the I. W. w. arrives l that city and is taken from his hom and is hanged from railroa lrcstle by masked thugs.