The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-08-30
Noted Woman Lawyer Here To
See WObbIy Prisoners.
She Says Movement of "Under
Dogs" Can't Be Crushed.
"GHRIST IN EVERY JAIL"
Capitalists Spread Untruths
About Organization, She Says.
Plumb Plan Has Endorsement
of the 1. w. w. Members.

I. W. Wism. is the coming regime
and II cannot be crushed, Miss Caro-
line Lowe. of Chicago. attorney for the
Industrial Workers OF the World and
one Of the few eminent women law
yers in the United States. declared to-
day. Miss Lowe was in Topeka a few
hours looking after the interests OF
some OF her clients in the Shawnee
county Jail.
Miss Lowe is an attractive young
woman who has spent most of her life
studying the labor situation. She be-
came interested in # as a child and
in spite of the handicap of poverty de-
termined to tit herself to supply some
help to the great laboring class. For
years she studied law at Fort Scott,
Kan, and later in Chicago. She took
the bar examination in Topeka in
1915, and went to San Francisco.
where she established a practice. From
there she was sent to Seattle to han
die the trial OF seventy-siX I. w w.
members and then went to Chicago.
where she was taken on the corps of
attorneys employed by the organiza-
ton.
1. w. w. Revolutionary.
The / W. w principle is truly
revolutionary" declared Miss Lowe,
but It Is the coming regime. Like
all great reforms, it is being fought
bitterly, but eventually its will
triumph"
The woman lawyer asserted that the
majority OF the tales circulated about
the l. W. w. are untrue; that as
whole the organization does not be-
lieve in violence, and that it has the
only practical solution of the social
problem in the United States. She ad-
mits a powerful conviction that the
principles of the organization are
right.
She pointed out that the plans of
the T. w. w. called for government
ownership and democratic control oil
all big Industries. In the steel IN
dustry. for example, she said the gov
crnment would own the business and
it would be operated by the workers
who were familiar with the industry.
These workers would elect their own
forcmen, superintendents and over
SeerI
ist. congressman would represent the
workers All vestiges Of class would
disappear Every man would be en-
ploved in some useful occupation.
rs it true that the organization en-
dorses sabc:age?" she was asked.
Many Ways to Win Strike.
"Only so far as inefficiency is con-
cerned" she replied. For example,
IL the men go on a strike and lose,
they go back to work and work slowly.
There is more than one way to win a
strike. Eventually the employer will
grant the raise in order to restore ef-
ficiency The organization does not
endorse violence of any kind"
Miss Lowe declared that the 1. w.
W. are strongest in the west. especially
in the lumber and ship building in
dustries. Not more than half the
membership is of foreign birth, in her
opinion, she said
She declares that the vicious tales
told of the organization are circulated
by the capitalistic class and are un-
true She quoted the experience OF
Frederick Bressendine, a special agent
who was sent out from Washington
ny the department of justice to inves-
ugate the I. w. w. in the west. Bres-
sendine submitted a report completely
endorsing the activities OF the order
and published a bcol7 relating his ex-
periences and convictions.
Helped in Deportation Cases.
Miss Lowe worked on the famous
deportation cases, in which a train
load of young men convicted in Seat
tie, were sent to New York for de-
portation. AS matter Of fact. after
further hearings and the bringing OF
many writs of habeas corpus, most OF
the men were released and returned
home, she says.
Christ. she declared, is her ideal
and she expressed the conviction that
he is in every Jail where I. w. WIS are
confined. She likened the L w. w
movement to the birth of Christianity
which was ground beneath the atheist
heel for hundreds of years, but ulti-
mately triumphed.
Miss Lowe declared that the Glenn
Plumb plan for the government own
ership Of railroads is exactly in accord
with I. W. w. principles. except that
the I. W. w. plan is to carry it even
farther The employees would elect
their own superintendents and fore
men. she explained, and control the
railroad industry themselves.