The Arizona copper camp., 1918-06-08

honest labor union, working to better
the cause of the toilers and the or
.ganizatfon known as the T. w w, the
enemy of organized labor and the foe
of organized government | am not
Mr.. President, one of those pretended
friends of the honest working man
who would say in public document
that the |. W. w. was the edadly enc
my of organized labor when on o pre-
SiouS occasion [ had had my picture
taken in the embrace of two l. w WIS
kwhQ at the present time are being
prosecuted by the federal government
/ charged with sedition. | believe, Mr.
| President, we only have our pictures
taken with our friends. But have be
fore me, sir, booklet purporting to
enlanate from the Cook county jail in
Chicago On page 16 thereof l am
ashamed to say ! find the picture of
what | am told is the governor of the
state Of Arizona, standing with his
arms around two leading l. w. WIS,
both OF whom are now on trial for sedi-
tious utterances against the United
States. 1 blush with humiliation as |
am forced to admit that were it pot for
the legend at the bottom Of the picture
| would be unable to decide which of
the two were the l. w. WIS who are
being prosecuted, Shame again mounts
to my cheeks as I turn to page 4 of the
booklet in which the picture of our
chief executive appears, and find the
following addressed to H. G. Clabough
of the department of justice of the
United States:
I'VE understand how you as an ex-
officer of the navy, probably learned
ali you know of democracy at that
school of snobbery named Annapolis. y
Mr.. President, you being loyal
American citizen, your blood must boil
with righteous indignation as you hear
the school from which the officers of
our navy are graduated, who are now
fighting that democracy might live
Throughout the world, insulted and out
ragged when, but q few pages over in
the same book you find the picture of
your governor in the embraces of some
Of the authors of that insult.
Reasonable Language
And again, Mr. President, turning
back from page Is of this seditious
booklet, on which page the chief exec
utive's picture appears, to page 13,
find the following language;
tThe l. w. w. took no official cog
nizance of the war-one way or the
other. It's war was the class war and
it's attitude neither pro-ally nor pro-
German"
Those reasonable words purport to
have been written January 20, 1918,
and in them the l. w. w. says it took
no cognizance of the war, that it was
not pro-ally, that it knew no war ex-
cept the war that it waged itself. Sir,
OH that our boys in France, loyal to
their government were lining up in
their trenches, their hayonets fixed,
ready to dash forward and turn back
the Hun, giving up their lives if need
be while the author of those treason
ablo words languished in Chicago
Jail, boasting OF his disloyalty, secure
in theel1nowledge that the governor of
q great state was his friend and would
permit one o. his friends to journey to
Chicago to defend him, notwithstand-
ing the fact that the best recommends
ton that appointee had to loyalty to
his government was the fact that he
had subscribed $25 to the Red Cross
fund, no part of when he has ever
paid.
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governors message and | find that he
condemns those who deported the L.
w WIS and their sympathizers on the
ground that the strike that was i'll ex-
istence there was not a strike of the
T. w. w, but a strike of honest labor
ers and backed by honest labor unions.
If the governor is wrong and the strike
was called by the l. w. w, and the
men deported were l. w. WIS and
their Sympathizers, then the govern
nor's accusation must lose it's force
and come degree of Justification be ac
corded the deporters.
|. w w. Absorbs Union
On the 26th day of June, 1917, 471S
men were employed in the mines of
the Warren district, including union
and non-union men and |. w. WIS. The
wage paid those men at that'time was
$3.50 for 8 days work of eight hours.
Working conditions were on equality
with those of any other mining district
in the United States. For several
months prior to June 26th the l. w.