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New-York tribune., 1918-07-21
|. w. w. Becoming
A Real Menace

1t is pertinent to ask why this
lawless body, the I. w. W., has been
able to rally to its support persons
who by their profession and public
rt sition would naturally be regard
ed as opponents Of such an organ
iza1lon. This is one of the social
phenomena of the day. A few years
ago it threatened to become fad
with certain superficial members If
college faculties and women Of al.
emotional type of mind, who coui1
get front-page stories, illustrated
with their pictures, by the simple
process of fraternizing with the
I. W. w. type of hobos. Some OF
the poets, artists, charity workers
and htterati generally professed to
be greatly enamored of the 'insn'1
ing doctrines" Of this organization.
But the most surprising thing was
the manner in which certain radical
preachers espoused the doctrines of
Tho |. w. w. During the last few
years several churches of the
Protestant denomination have or
ganized social service departments,
scme of them dominated very large
ly by the radical contingents within
tAose bodies. At convention of
one of the largest Protestant
churches in this country, held in
New York in 1915, the rector OF
church in Brooklyn made az. ad-
dress in which he paid the following
tribute 10 Haywood and the othe:
sabotage and violence preaching
leaders of the Industrial Workers
of the World:
"Syndicalism, as every investiga-
tion has shown, finds field only in
our Industrial centres where immi-
grants are herded. Without vote,
strange, bewildered, put upon de-
serted by the Church, the labor
union and the Socialists, it was
their distress and gave them cour-
age and hope. All honor to the L.
w. W. leaders that they we're found
at the hottest point of the industrial
conflict"
At the time of this utterance
the l. w. W. had been expelled
from the Socialist party on account
of their "direct action" and an
archistlc methods. Since the |. w
w. began playing the German game.
however, the proc German, anti wac
Socialist party has rescinded that
New-York tribune., 1918-07-21
A Look Inside
The Organization

1t might be interesting to the SYM
pathetic editors, authors and social
workers who have tried to awe-in
spire the public by the mighty power
of this organizat tion, to look inside
where the wheels go round" Just
how big is this giant of destruction I?
Well, we have direct evidence on that
point. At the hearings before the
Federal Commission on Industrial
Relations in New York City, Vincent
st. John, secretary treasurer of the
/. W. W., testified that the member
New-York tribune., 1918-07-21


that demands be made all the time on
Governor Sulzer, Albany, N. Y. for
an immediate grand jury investiga-
tion Of the Little Falls authorities
BE SURE TO SEND ME- A COPY so
| can get it into the local papers;
that will help some here. 7 n1ioht
add that public meeting for such
resolutions consists of a chairman,
secretary and audience. So, you
see, three persons can be meet
ing. A tip to the aUise should be
sufficient for q lot of action along
these lines. Be sure and use all of
the hack-Wo1n expressions. etc.,
that you can think of. Paper is
cheap and mag do q little good IN
this instance.
"But the most needed here are
funds. DON'T FORGET THIS"
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Strikes Made
F or Relief Funds

That fund gathering has been the
dlligent occupation of these "porA
chop philosophers" and that strikes
have been fomented because they
afford opportunity for collecting
"relief funds" is asserted by John
IL. Steigler, ex-I. W. w. organizer,
IN his book, "The Memoirs of a
Strike Breaker"
Mr.. Steigler was expelled from
the l. W. w. because he demanded
an accounting Of the funds, which
ne believed were being shamefully
misused, and for denouncing the /
w. W. as "a union for disorganiza-
ton and revolution instead of for
organization and progress"
at is new kind of industrial
warfare that the l. w. w. have in
augurated and before it the author
TICS are helpless" says Steigler.
occasionally one of the more radi-
cal enthusiasts may get himself ar
rested, or may even be indicted, vet
this is all grist to the I. w. w. mill
1t gives them the opportunity they
want to justify plea for contribu-
tions to a defence fund. AS long as
the contributions continue to flow
into the Golfers of the l. W. w. the
leaders are happy.
ut is wonderful how these men
who never work-who never help to
produce anything but poverty and
misery among the misguided workers
create enthusiastic confidence in
the minds of their dupes wherever
they go. 1t is amazing, too, how
they manage to keep on squeezing
money out of the people when they
give nothing in return for it and sci
dom will even condescend to make
an accounting. -. 1t is good
professionalism the financial point
of view-that of the l. W. w agita
tor"
Writing of the Paterson strikes
Steigler tells the following:
Shortly after / was expelled from
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s1.e2 per day is easy and spectacu-
lar.
Had we kept as many organizers
in Lawrence after the strike as we
had during the strike we would have
an organization that could carry on
the next battle without the aid of
press agents or sensationalists. In
Akron it was the same story; the
members cried for sensations; Hay
wood was sent for. He filled the bill,
but after the strike was over every
organizer was called to other points
to supply the thrills called for by the
rank and file.
"Not one was left to build up an
organization in Akron.
at is getting to be a habit, and the
speakers are catering to it. In Pitts
burgh | heard one of our principal
speakers give voice to the following:
DO you think that | am going to
come here and talk to 200 people
when | can stay in New York and
talk to 10000 people direct and have
my speeches carried to thousands
more by the capitalistc press p"
New-York tribune., 1918-07-21

organization of the Industrial Work
ers Of the World, claimed for it by
it's intellectual friends, is not shared
by that body itself | will quote an
extract from leading article N
"Solidarity," the official organ Of
the l. w. W., published in the fal
of 1918, which ought to be conclu-
sive evidence on this point
To give emphasis to this absolute
conviction Of the "Solidarity" ed,-
tors, the article was double column
in width and double loaded, occupy
ing the most conspicuous place in
the paper.
"1f the Industrial Workers of the
World is going to organize the work
ing class then we will have to make
great change in our attitude toward
the labor movement and in the
methods that we are now using. At
present we are to the labor move
ment what the high diver is to the
circus. A sensation, marvellous and
nerve thrilling. We attract the
crowds. We give them thrills, we do
hair raising stunts and send the
crowd home to wait impatiently for
the next sensationalist to come
along. AS far as making Industrial
unionism fit the everyday life of the
workers We have failed mserably.
The crowd expects the sensational
from our speakers or organizers; the
members expect it, and our speakers,
if they intend to remain as such,
have got to apply them or go out of
business. We measure the success
or failure of our speakers by the
number Of spectacular stunts that
they arc able to pull off. 1t is child's
play to stand in front of some fac
tory and convince the slaves that
they have a grievance. Capitalism is
New-York tribune., 1918-07-21
By Ralph M. Easley

ment in favor of'the 40 I. w. w.
defendants, which might we'll BE-
come the subject of Federal Granl
Jury investigation, is made clear in
an article in "The New York Times"
of June 25, 1918, in which Roger N.
Baldwin, director of the National
Civil Liberties Bureau, is quoted as
follows:
Last winter a group of men. in
cludng Mr.. West. Mr. Fitch, John
Graham Brooks and Professor Carl
ton H. Parker, prepared, IN connec-
tion with the arrest of the |. W. w.
workers. pamphlet entitled, The
Truth About the |. w. W Subse-
quently meeting was held in this
city and a fund was collected to de-
fray the expenses of an advertising
campaign in behalf of the indicted
prisoners. Mr.. West, Mr.. Fitch and
myself then got together and in our
private capacities We drew up let
ter to about fifteen persons. asking
It they cared to allow their names to
be used in an appeal to be published
for funds for the men on trial. The
men whose names appear on the ad-
vertisement consented. We expected
to carry on the advertising and to
extend it to other publications.
This intensely partisan, mushy
and grotesque attempt to paint this
criminal organization in the hues of
the lily utilizes, for the purpose oe
confusing the public mind, the
names of persons who, from their
public connections, might be as
sumed to be absolutely opposed to
any organization or movement the
conduct Of which was, in even the
slightest degree, tainted with crimi-
nality Or disloyalty, but who, as
matter of fact, are and have been
for long time pronounced sympa-
thizers with and apologizers for the
l. w. w. movement and are them
selves radicals and, some of them,
members of the Socialist party.
AS a wholesome antidote to this
propaganda, this mawkish and per-
verted sentimentalism, I commend
the brochure prepared by r. Ever
EFT Harre, a writer of distinction
who has the additional qualification
Of having once been q Socialist ana
therefore knowing the dishonest
methods and tricky tactics OF the
radical mind. Mr.. Harre has had
access to records and documents
and he has painted the picture of
the |. W. W. with the brush and
paint Of lrrefutable facts. He found
no "lilies," as the reader will dis
cover.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-21

ship Of that organization was Id 900.
while at the same time their dilet-
tante defenders were claiming in the
public press that they had a member
ship of 100000. During the last
year they have claimed 100000 men,
bers--a sweeping inclusion of every
migratory worker from whom at any
time they have been able to collect
dollar, and thousands of whom have
no dtrstanding OF the (. w. w.
philosophy and would probably re-
pudiate it if they had. 1t was also
testified at the same hearings before
the Industrial Relations Commission
that the American Federation of La
Dor and the railway brotherhoods
had over 100000 dues-paying MEM
bers and that the American Fedora
ton of Labor had within it's member
ship thirty-five times as many un-
skilled men as the entire membership
of the |. W. w. What is even more
to the point is the fact that the
100000 men in the American Fed
GRAFTON of Labor and the railway
brotherhoods have no sympathy with
the anarchistic doctrines of the In
dustrial Workers Of the World
The I. w. w, naturally, have no
sympathy for the sane and success
full trade union organizations. In
fact, as shown by Mr.. Harre, the l.
w. w, wherever they can do so,
have sought to undermine and de-
stroy the legitimate organizations,
playing simply the role of the Hun
in the industrial field Shortsighted
and ignorant employers have some
times taken advantage of this fight
to help the l. W. w. put the A. F
of L. "out of business" only in turn
to be attacked by the I. w. w,
whose object is to put them out of
business, if they can. On such en-
ployers little sympathy need b.
wasted.
But the superior quality Of the
New-York tribune., 1918-07-21
The Reasoning
Of the New Republic

should like every American read
er to ponder on this pro,e1tncia4nento
carefully, TO delve into it's meaning
and to bring it home to himself. I
should like him to realize that. ac-
cording to this doctrine, when an I.
W. ". hobo blows up a railroad.
wrecks train or registers any such
Legitimate" protest against not be-
ing one of the owners Of the railroad
every American citizen who is part
of the present social order is mar
ticeps cTim5nis.
"The l. w W." purls the New
Republic with seductive reasoning
in so far as its tendencies are anti
social, is a sure indication of social
and economic acknowledgements. for
which we, as a democratic COM
munlty, are primarily responsible.
30 long as we persist in expiating
our own sins of omission by per-
scouting the individual victims af
our defective economic organization
the forces of rebellious discomfort
Will grow as certainly as epidemics
spread under the old demon exorcis.
ing and witchcraft polity."
The l. w. w leaders, according
to The New Republic" are not or
TRIAL IN Chicago for seditious con-
splracy in opposition to the conduct
New-York tribune., 1918-07-21
Their Ability to
"Bunco" the Public

The delicious frankness with
which the l. W. w. refer to their
ability to "bunco" the public is il.
lustrated by an appeal for money
published in this same official organ
"Solidarity," at the time Of the al
legged free speech controversy at
Little Falls, N. Y. An extract from
this appeal, referring to the strike,
which was signed by ]. S. Biscay
the organizer in charge of that par
ticular campaign, follows:
"In the meantime it is necessary
New-York tribune., 1918-07-21
The Signers
OF the Appeal

The advertisement in question is
signed by three of the Competent
industrial investigators and noted
economists" contributing to the
pamphlet issued by the National
Civil Liberties Bureau and already
described. Additional signers t,
this appeal for $4,000 are Percy
Stickney Grant, rector of the
Church Of the Ascension; Professors
John Dewey and James Harvey
Robinson, of Columbia University {,
Walter E. Weyl, Carlton j. H
Hayes, Inez Haynes Irwin and Helen
Keller, all known as members of one
or more Of the radical groups. That
these two moves-the issuance of
the publication and the raising of
the fund--are all part of the same
conspiracy" to create public senti-
New-York tribune., 1918-07-21
A Glance Through
The Pamphlet

The National Civil Liberties Bu-
reau, the sponsor for this remark
able defence of the l. w. w, in
cludes such good, fair, dispassion-
ate, loyal minded" men and women
as Crystal Eastman, John Haynes
Holmes, Agnes Brown Leach, DR..
James P. Warbasse and Judah l..
Magnes. 1t requires only a glance
through this pamphlet to discover
that "The Truth About the I. w. w"
is nothing more nor less than a bra
zen and transparent attempt, under
the pretence OF Imperialism, to de-
fend and excuse this most lawless
and seditious organization, whose
leaders are on trial in Chicago for
disloyal and Infamous conduct
aimed at the very vitals Of our gov
ernment. 1t was doubtless the hone
of the Socialists, pacifists and pro
Germans Of the National Civil Lib
critics Bureau that by the issue of
this pamphlet they might help
break the force of the start
ling disclosures Of the vicious
ness and criminality Of the I. ". w.
which were bound to be made by
the government as the trial pro
gressed.
That there is an organized at
tempt to influence public opinion
against the governments efforts in
the trial now in progress in Chicago
(of which the issuance Of this pam
phlet is one step( is now made ap-
parent by an advertisement in "The
New Republic" Of June %, 1918.
This sheet has openly criticised the
Department of Justice for it's pros
ecution of Haywood and his CO.
meters. The advertisement, which.
is cleverly written in a manner de-
signed to arouse sympathy, calls TO.
a subscription Of $4,000 as CON
tribution to the l. w. w. defence
fund. This money, when collected.
could, of course. be expended equally
as we'll in attempting to bribe jurors
rs for such legitimate expenses as
the payment of counsel, witnesses
fees. etc. Such an attempt wa,
made at the time the jury in this
trial was being impanelled
New-York tribune., 1918-07-21

I'm APRIL, 1918, pamphlet was
issued by so-called National
Civil Liberties Bureau, under
The title "The Truth About the
[. W. W." claiming to give the
''facts in relation to the trial in Chi
cago by competent industrial inves.
tigators and noted economists. The
competent industrial investigators
and noted economists" who have
undertaken this job prove, upon ex-
animation, to be Robert w. Bruere
the New York Socialist and I. w. w.
defender; Carlton H. Parker (since
deceased), who was described in an
appreciation written by his intimate
friend, Robert W. Bruere and pub
lished in "The New Republic" as
being "a compound of exuberant
child, impatient dogmatist, sympa-
thetic leader, prophetic iconoclast'
George 2. West, associate editor of
"The Public" the radical organ of
the Single Takers and a recognized
defender of the l. w. W. members; !;
John A. Fitch, industrial editor OF
''The Survey" the radical and paci-
fist unofficial organ of the charity
workers; Professor Thorstein We
blen, socialistic professor in the
University Of Missouri; Harold Cal
lender, radical writer on "The
Kansas City STAR and "The Detroit
News; John Graham Brooks, the
onetime admirer, expounder and
defender of the |. w. W, and Wal
ter Nelles, counsel for the National,
Civil Liberties Bureau.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-21
Aims and Philosophy Taken From Their Own Papers
and Speeches Reveal Them as Different From
Intellectual Reformers Notion of Them

FERVENT
fromM of
all
L. OF zed dsocnlst
NJ u
cors
OF Intended
Wa
e lin T1bm Auqust4.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-21

the police and the restricted district
ordinance was passed The
|: w. W. kept on sending men from
the entire Pacific Coast to San Diego.
Many of these men came Simply in
order to be SUPPORTED"
New-York tribune., 1918-07-21
'Heaven-Sent' Reformers
Not Above Graft

'The free speech game" as they
call it on "the inside" worked S,
successfully at San Diego, Paterson
and Lawrence, where riots were
held by the l. W. w. alone, that they
got to boasting in their journals of
the great advertising value of such
New-York tribune., 1918-07-21

the organization a man whom I knew
very well told me that, on arriving
at Helvetia Hall one day early in
May, 1913, he found Haywood, Miss
Flynn, Lessig and Koettgen seated
around table counting large pile
Of money. He watched them count it
twice. after which, he says, they divid
cd 1t into four parts and pocketed it.
"How about the |. w. w. agitators2
Do they go hungry along with the
thousands Of men and women in
Paterson, who, as result of the
strike planned and maintained by the
leaders of Che Red Invasion hav,
missed many meal and have been
face to face with privation? No.
much of it! Yesterday afternoon.
while the I. w. w. agitators were
trying to create public sympathy by
arranging to send hungry children to
the City Hall-children who were
made hungry by the false promises
held out to their parents by the rev
olutionary |. w. w. - Haywood,
Tresca, Gurley Flynn and Lessg
were filling their stomachs with the
choicest vlands of the season and
washing it all down with three or
four quarts of good red Italian wine"
New-York tribune., 1918-07-21


made hungry by the false promises
held out to their parents by the rev
olutionary /. w. w. - Haywood,
Tresca, Gurley Flynn and Lessg
were filling their stomachs with the
choicest vlands of the season and
washing it all down with three or
four quarts of good red Italian wine"
Avoiding Moral
Responsibility
"Social investigator" and profes-
s;onal exploiters Of economic condi-
tions-that class of uplifting dilet-
tanti, of caponized intellectuals,
who haven't had the red blood and
sound vision to recognize the issues
Of this war and have palavered
about pacifism and a separate peace
ism-have dandled this doctrine e
around as a new and wondrous dis
covery.
AS a matter of fact, the craven
effort to evade moral responsibility
is as old as the race. 1t began with
Ewes eating the apple and the
ascribing of all human lapses to
original sin. Up to seventy years
ago it was the teaching of certain
orthodox creeds, popularly accept
ed, that all crimes were due to "in-
herent depravity."
A new twist came into vogue dur
ing the period of rationalism-from
1850 to l8S0-when Darwinism at
tributed crime and moral obliquity
to "environment." Among the high
brows of that day it was fashionable
to relieve the individual Of all re-
sponsibility and place the entire
blame Of his acts on environment
doctrine as logical as predestina-
ton, denying TO mankind the power
of brain functioning, the possession
of the choice of free will and mers.
common sense.
1t remained, however, for the I
W. w. to make the miserable and
cowardly doctrine of moral evasion
the basis of deliberate policy Of
criminal behavior, to advocate and
carry out a programme of killing,
destruction and terrorism to the
end that society, driven in despera-
ton to protect itself, must surrer-
der the protection of all laws, all
order, all regulated adjustments
and established government for
that era of disorder and anarchy
which, the l. w. w. paradoxcally
claim, will prove the panacea for
violence and crime. That way, of
course, madness lies. But the amaz-
ing thing, as before stated, is that
this doctrine has been given Ger
tain prestige by a class of pseudo
intellectuals whose literary stage
props and h.gh-fown and lofty role
have impressed the unwary and
awed the unthinking.
This l. W. W. doctrine of vicari
GUS responsibility is expressed wirh
distinguished felicity, with charac-
teristic literary tinality, by that or
gan which cherishes the solemn il
somewhat green" tradition of do
ing the thinking of the nation, "The
New Republic" This organ de
clares:
The rebellious propaganda of the
l. W. w., we have suggested, is born
not OF the perversity of malicious
individuals, but of unhealthy social
conditions for which we, as a demo
cratic people, are responsible"
New-York tribune., 1918-07-21
Chairman of the Executive Council National Civc Federation

acton and its members are contrib
uting to the defence of their "broth-
ers now on trial in Chicago.
Haywood Talks
For Himself
Additional point is given to this
tribute by the fact that William D.
Haywood, in speech at Cooper
Union, delivered at a date previous
to this rectors address, had boldly
declared:
"Can you wonder that I dcspise
the law? l understand the class
struggle. l am not law abiding cit
izen More than that, do not be-
lleve that you here ought to be law
abiding citizens.
I'VE want to overthrow the capital.
list system and establish in its place
an industrial democracy. Why, then,
say we are law-abiding 2"
The Washington herald., 1918-06-26
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