The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1919-08-14
Copy of Folder Cir
culated at the
Mines
APPEAL TO THE VICIOUS
Is Time to Take Determined
Action Against All Follow
ers of the Red Flag

THE LOWEST, most vicious and
most brazenly false appeal to
ignorance, prejudice and dis
loyalty is found in little fold
er that is being circulated about the
mines of the Occur d'Alene district
by the |. w. w. It Is a falsehood
from beginning to end, conceived in
the cunning of criminal mind and
distributed by enemies of honest
workingmen, enemies of social order
end enemies of the government that
unfortunately protects their worthless
lives. The Miner reproduces this
folder in full in order that the people
OF this county may know something
OF the poisonous propaganda that is
being carried on in their midst and in
the hope that measures may be de-
vlsed that will crush the alien mon
ster before 1t is too late The /. w. w.
Is an outlaw organization, it is a crea-
ture of bolshevik Russia and this viii
lainous appeal to workingmen is
part of Ne nation wide attempt to
introduce the horrors of the soviet
system in free America The l. w. w.
has a considerable membership in this
district, perhaps more than is gener-
ally credited, and the time has come
when drastic measures must he adopt
ed to stop the propaganda and free
the district of those who carry the red
card and follow the red flag. The
folder follows:
"MEN OF THE METAL MINES.
You who go down into the dark
ness where death is ever lurking in
the black shadows, and dig and delve
and keep the golden stream of wealth
masters. You who have been the vic
TINS of the masters greed, blacklist
ed and driven from camp to camp, shot
and beaten and starved, driven and
herded like cattle in the bull pens,
while your wives and daughters were
maltreated and raped and murdered
by the brutal scab- -herding soldiery:
deported from your own homes and
driven out upon the arid plains of
Kansas and the deserts Of Arizona to
hunger and thirst and die; betrayed
by the officials Of your own union
You are worn and tired and dscour-
aged with the long, long struggle. You
have ever fought the masters willing
ly and bravely. In Idaho and Michi-
gan and Colorado and Arizona and
Montana, at Cripple Creek and Calu-
met and Bisbee and the Coeur
dAlenes and a hundred other battle
fields Of the west, you have written
the record of your fight with the mas
ters in letters of blood; but the old
struggle still goes on and the end is
not yet. You are still robbed of the
products of your own labor and given
a pittance in wages. You are still in
and clothing You are still victims of
the blacklist and the rustlng card
system. Your wages of today will not
buy as much of the needs OF life as
they did ten years ago
"The time has come when you must
learn to discard the old tactics and
old unions that have only betrayed
you. The old way Of fighting will win
nothing in these new times with all
the masters aligned in the one big
union of capitalism. You will have to
meet force with force-the one big
union Of the masters with the one big
union of the workers,-the l. w. W.
''The Metal Mine Workers Industrial
Union No. 500 of the Industrial Work
ers of the world has come to the mills,
mines and smelters of the east and west
appealing to all the workers 20 align
themselves in this one big union of
the Workers of the World.
Thousands of the workers in the
mining industry have needed the call
of industrial revolution and have
aligned themselves under the red BAN
ner of proletarian solidarity and TAX
en- out the red card of the Industrial
Workers of the World, In the Occur
dAlenes and a hundred other battle
fields Of the past--where for years the
miners have been PROSTATE under the
iron heel Of the mine owners, the l. w.
W. Is sweeping everything before it,
The miners of Utah are joining the l.
W. w. and striking and winnig high
er wages in the camps. In the iron
and copper ranges of the Great Lakes
region and northern Minnesota the
workers are joining the army Of the
one big union by hundreds and thous-
ands. In Arizona and New Mexico the