The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-15
CONTINUED from Preceding Po0s.)


public the growth and nature OF the
l.. W. w. The searches had brought to
light the gigantic propaganda scheme
in operation. The speeches. 'litera-
ture," newspapers, song books and
stickerettes. all had the ayowed object
Of tanning the flames OF discomfort"
end arousing in the minds Of the igno-
rant and unfortunate classes the feel
ing Of opposition to- all Government
and authority. Mo- man. was ever
taught to look to himself for tho rea-
son for his failure In life, but made
rather to believe that he was the d.
rect victim of Wall Street capitalists.
He was shown that all law was made
BY capitalists for capitalists and
against the workers. No respect
should be given any public official. for
they were only the paid tools of capi-
ta,ism. Newspapers were "the prosti-
tuted press" and a soldier was a ''yel-
low leg and O "scab herder," No
high motive could be ascribed to our
part In the war, but instead 1t was held
20 be only an attempt to protect Wall
Streets millions loaned to European
Powers and to further enslave the
worker and force him 20 go to foreign
lands, there to kill the workers OF
other countries.
The foreigner, stranger to the ways
Of the New World. instead OF being
shown a land of equal opportunity was
taught by speakers, literature and
newspapers in his own language, that
he had come to a land Of slavery and
exploitation from which he could be
delivered only by joining the One Big
Union. The ultimate object was revo-
luton and the forcible taking over Of
all government and industry by the
workers themselves.
Character of the Defendants.
case were foreigners, banished from
their native lands, but allowed en-
trance to the United States by lax
enforcement of the immigration laws,
and permitted to remain here by pow
erful political influence being brought
to bear upon immigration officials. One
instance in particular was that OF q
Bulgarian Bolshevist, who had de-
serted from the army at homo and
made his way to America. Here he
was welcomed by radicals. anarchists,
Socialists and I. W. W., and installed
! rs editor OF Bulgarian ]. w. w.
paper, one Of the most disloyal and
seditious sheets that ever passed
through the United States mails. He
was twice ordered deported. but was
each time saved by influential friends
in the Department OF Labor and in
other high ofiicial circles at Washing
son.
II should not be understood, how
ever, that this trial had broken the
organization. Tho conservative and
sensible element had indeed withdrawn
: upon seeing the true nature OF the
\ order that they had either by mis-
take, or force, Joined; but the criminal
! element was still at large, and the
= two English and fourteen foreign ON
eisl ]. W. W. papers were still carry
sng to hundreds OF thousands the red
slogan OF I'VE never forget" One OF
their weapons, tho general strike, had
failed, 30 they decided to resort Il
? the other. the individual weapon OF
sabotage and terrorism.
h In resentment against the city o
Chicago, where so many fellow work
ers" had been convicted, a bomb wa
: placed In the Federal Building which
exploded in the rush hour of the da,
and killed four innocent persons, work
ers themselves. and injured hundreds
3 This great building still stands unre
paired. as a monument to the anarchis
in America.
The I. w. w. In tho West.
The workers Of the State Of Cali
fornia did not respond readily to or
Eanization. and when other locaiitie
obeyed the general strike call It dI
not seriously affect the industrie
there. The Western members, how
ever, were all active saboteurs an
seasoned criminals. A report in tn
printed proceedings OF the 1915 con
vention by general executive boar
member Charles Lambert OF Sacra
mento reads in part as follows:
Agitation and action on the lob ha
oesh continually carried on BY In
members OF the I. w. W., and m
state OF California has already pai
ss'ooo'ooo annually since 1918, II /,
not stcsrally known that more tina
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