Bisbee daily review., 1918-07-07
By RALPH Nj. PAISLEY

the facts In relallOn 10 lue lIAdl III Chicago by competent industrial inves- tigators and noted economists" The "competent industrial investigators and noted economists" who have un- dertaken this job prove, upon eXaml- nation, to be Robert w. Bruere, the New York socialist and l. w. W. de- fender: Carlton H Parker (since de- ceased), who was described in an ap- preciation written by his intimate friend, Robert w Bruere and puDhsh- ed in The New Republic, as being "a compound of eXuberant child, lmpa- tient dogmatist, sympathetic leader prophetic iconoclast'; George P. West, associate editor of "The Public" the radical organ of the Single Taxers and a recognized defender of the l. w. w, members; John A. Fitch, industrial Editor of The Survey, the radical and pacifist unofficial organ of the charity workers: Professor Thorstein Veblen, A socialist professor in the University of Missouri, Harold Calender, radi- cal writer on the Kansas City Star, and the Detroit News; John Graham Brooks. the one-time admirer, eXpound- CT and defender of the l. w. w.; ana Walter Nelles, counsel for the Nation al Civil Liberties Bureau.
 The National Civil Liberties Bureau, the sponsor for this remarkable de fense of the I. w. w, includes such good, fair, dispassionate, loyal-mind- ed" men and women as Crystal East man, John Haynes Holmes, Agnes I.rown Leach, Dr. James P. Warebasse and Judah l.. Magnes. It requires only a glance through this pamphlet to dls- cover that. ."The Truth About the l. w. w" is nothing more nor less than brazen and transparent attempt, under the pretense of imperialism, to de fend and excuse this most lawless ana seditious organization, whose leaders are on trial in Chicago for disloyal and infamous conduct aimed at the very vitals of our government. It was doubtless the hope of the socialists, pacifists and pro-Germans of the Ma tional Civil Liberties Bureau that, Dy the issuance of this pamphlet, they might help break the force of the start ling disclosures of the viciousness ana criminality of the l. W. w. which were bound to be made by the govern ment as the trial progressed.
 That there is an organized attempt to influence public Opinicn against the governments efforts in the trial now in progress in Chicago (of which the issuance of this pamphlet is one step) is now made apparent by an advertis- ment in The New Republic of June 2z, 1918. This sheet has openly criticised -E secution of Haywood and his co-lnclt- CTS. The advertisement, which IS cleverly written in manner designed to arouse sympathy, calls for a sub scription of S5O,O00 as a contribution to the I. w. W. Defense Fund. This money, when collected, could, of course be expended equally well in attempt ing to bribe jurors as for such legiti- mate expenses as the payment of coun sel, witnesses fees, etc. Such an at tempt was made at the time the jury in this trial was being impanelled. The advertisement in question IS signed by three of the competent industrial in- vestigators and noted economists con tributing to the pamphlet issued by the National Civil Liberties Bureau and already described. Additional signers to this appeal for S50,00O are Percy Stickney Grant, rector of the Church of the Ascension, Professors Jchn Dewey and James Harvey Robin son. of Columbia University, Walter E. Weyl. Carlton J. H. Hayes, Inez Haynes Irwin and Helen Keller all known as members of one or more rad ical 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 sentiment in favor cf the 1lO l. W. W. defendants, which might well become the subject of a federal grand jury investigation is made clear in an article in The New York Times oi June g, 1918, in which Roger N. Bald win, director of the National Civil Lib critics Bureau, is quoted as follows;
 Last winter a group of men, ln-
 cluding Mir West, Mir. Fitch, John
 Graham Brooks and Professor Carl
 :on H. Parker, prepared, in connec
 tion with the arrest of the l. W.
 w. workers, a pamphlet entitled
 "The Truth About the l. w. w"
 Subsequently, a meeting was held
 in this city and fund was collect
 ed to defray the expenses of an ad-
 veTtising campaign in behalf or the
 indicted prisoners. Mir. West. NIT.
 Fitch and myself then got together
 and in our private capacities we
 drew up a letter to about fifteen
 persons, asking if they cared to al-
 low 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 advertisement
 consented. We expect to carry on
 the advertising and to extend it to
 other publications
 This intensely partisan, mushy am grOtesque attempt to paint this crim nal organization in the huCs Of the lily utilizes, for the purpose of cOniusin the public mind. the names of person who, from their connection with inst tutions. might be supposed tO be al sOlutely opposed to anything tendin towards criminal conduct or disloyaltl have been for a long time pronounce but who, as a matter of fact. are an sympathizers with and apolOgizers fo the l. W. w movement and are then selves radicals and. some of then -.r 4f,