New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-14

the organization, the keystone OF It's
strategy, is sabotage.
The /. w. w. agitator says sabo-
tage merely means to go slow on the
job. "Fold your arms if the boss
don't suit you" But he doesn't.
really mean that, for the I. W. w.
literature is filled with explicit in
structions for the destruction of all
kinds of property. The dissatisfied
domestic who carries a red card
an unholy lot Of them dds taught
that she can get even with the "Lady
of the House" by introducing bed
bugs to the bed linen. The harvest
hand in song and prose is told that
he can tie up the farmers work by
dropping his pitchfork into the
thrashing machine.
If Luther Burbank were to turn
his energies from vegetables to the
animal kingdom and grow rattle
snake fangs on every pet dog in the
land he would not accomplish a mi
mute part of the mischief that the
"wobbly' leader will if sabotage
takes firm hold in America.
The Creed ard
The Litany
The government will produce in
court, among other things, book on
sabotage, written by Walker c.
Smith. 1t was distributed to ''wob-
blies" over the land from the publi-
cation headquarters in 1901 West
Madison Street here in Chicago.
Here is an extract that NAV vet
cause the military authorities of the
nation world of trouble
"a bar of soap in the boiler (of \
railroad engine) would keep the SOL
diers at home or else force them 20
march to the strike" If this were
not possible there are water tanks
where the tender must be filled and
the saboteur can "Let the Gold Dust
Twins do the work." The inference
here is that powdered soap will ac-
complish the same purpose if thrown
into the unguarded water supply
tank at tie side of the railroad
tracks. All, it's noble creed.
1t isn't possible for anybody
to dismiss the activities of the l. w.
w. with wave of the hand. They
affect every soul in America. Hay
woods organizers have formed the
housemaids of the nation into unions.
The domestic workers are told how
they can practice sabotage. Some OF
1t is familiar stuff, but it does seem
that the inventors OF printing would
blush If they could read printed in
structions to "hircd girls" to secure
! better wages through these prac
tees:
Choke the family on soup into
winch red pepper has been Spilled"
Ioughen the expensive steaks"
Let the finest china fall and
break
"selve salty shcroet at a bridge
party"
Spill a pot of hot tea on the
model frock of the honor guest"
Put too much starch on father
favorite soft Shirt
There are other suggestions. re-
voting and unbelievable. The forms
mentioned were employed by the
Denver Union Of Housemaids.
Pouget in his book, also distrib-
uted by the I. W. W, which believes
IN free" press, suggests that:
"A farmland can make a mistake
with his scythc or hoe. or sow bad
seeds in the fields.
"A salesman can put stain on
garments and cause them to be sold
as damaged"
"A tailor can spoil a suit of
clothes or piece of cloth"
"Cabinetmakers can deteriorate "A
piece of furniture without the boss
noticing it at first sight"
Here is an epigram from Soil
darity" that refers to s,owire
down work in the mines:
when the cat (the sabcat) sits
on the pick handle brass buttons
(soldiers) go to pot"
"The Industrial Worker" another
suppressed publication of the I. w
w., printed on the Pacific Coast
significantly commented on the fact