The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-12-19
SABOTAGE SECRET
/. WEAPON Of |. ". v.
Entire Meaning of Word Is
Taken From Works Of Hay
wood, Is Explained.
From the Kansas City STAR
HnM -Rlr Elu- MaA-nnnh Known ~.

From the Kansas City STAR
How Big Bill Haywood, known as
"tcIow Norkur Haywood, IRON n,.
Clllrr IN chicago u4leLteu eve! .he,-
IA lac vIiurIs O, ,nv utudstrtd, ~ 1900
"a t.le vuttd To utsauIEc Tie oil Ir-..-
ttE AID the wheat ne,uS, evut Il i..Jd
"a tvu PROPAGANDA mo NaASas "4t,,
tkiInVna, anu now MS iOhuNvls
p,taCi-vu sabotage, defined rs POO.
gag, IuuT NUrN, was tod to me sa.y
al jug Jonn {. IOIOCKs cOutt A.
tvnt.s ~. NttneSsvS, letters anu par'tts,
ia thv Courtroom sat lav ~ u4vn A.
Cusvd "a urung lue active WORKERS. ln
tndt Conspiracy. Homc "a tue deIenu-
anus dozeu, some no,eued uuiy 10 the
testimony, out most ol t.,n ,.vrv busy
tdNtug hoes OF lneIr trIAL
lnU lury saw the b.acN Cat-emblem
Of sabotage, heard the boOn sent out
D. luc oiuor, entitled "SdDvlage.' reRu
ln lis entirety, ana saw iva Libetty
bonuS as Inc Witnesses SAID inc
'wooblies Cauvd tn1 /. ", ". meuI-
| bIrSnlp cards
rhe introduction Of Sabotage" came
| toward The close Of the day after Alex
k0hiur who had charge OF the pubuCa-
ton bureau OF the /. W W. NJ l1Ol
v est Madison street, Chicago, Lau
Identified tue book known as "Saho-
tagc'
Prom whom did YOU get the copy
| for TINS book? Samuel Amtdou, attor-
ney Tor the government, asked kph-
| iCr.
Il got all the copy from Fellow
| Worker Haywood ne replied
.Amidon then read these extracts from
| "Sa hOtage:"
Sabotage does not desire to take
| human lie. It is a direct proposition
| that property has no rights.
| "A boycotted institution is at all
! times subject TO sabotage,
You are destroying civilization, Is
| hurled at us, We reply. we should
| WorTy-Civillzation is a lie
| Sabotage will put stop to war,
| THE saboteur Is a sharpShoOter OF
the revolution, He has the courage to
| invade the enemys country
Sabotage does not mean poisoning
the soup, putting ground glass III the
| bread, or destroying human life, but
| is aimed solely at the heart--the pocket
| book
Every worker in the industry has
! sabotage at mis- commnnd--let the mas
ter know that he faces Industrial mu-
tiny
Sabotage is simply one of the weap-
ons in labor's arsenal
Illustrations Of sabotage given in the
book were also read to the jury. They
told the story OF the silk workers OF
Lyons, who damaged their product by
handling it with greasy fingers, ana
OF wage workers who had done less
work and loafed on the job to obtain
more pay. 1t also appeared that one
form of sabotage was to run down
the, product of the employer and. thus
damage his business.
Lou Purcell, sheriff of Butler county.
told how the l. W w. opened head
quarters in the oil country and began
to flood II with their papers and propa-
ganda. He identified papers seized In
the raid AT Annugta kag.
At this point of the trial the silent
agitators" appeared. They are little
stickers. On them are the black cat
and the wooden shoe. All urge workers
to loin the, |. w. W. ,-.
Were there many Of these silent
agitators' in the oil eountry?' he was
asked.
Very many OF them. They were on
the barns, telephone poles fences and
We even found them pasted on the steps
of the business buildlngs-they seemed
70 be everywhere" he replied,
He told how the "wobblies" gathered
in the woods just outside the towns and
caused trouble among the oil workers.
The defense attempted to show that
me men We're acting as individuals and
did not represent the order or its teach
ings.
Purcell stated when the men were
asked tn register for the collective draft,
they produced |. wv membership
cards, which they called their red
Liberty bonds"
At the opening of the court session
afternoon, Fred IL Moore. at
torney for the men on trial, told Judge
Pollock that the cells of those in jail
had been searched while they were in
the courtroom during the morning and
he understood the officers claimed a
screwdriver and file were found In
one of the cells, He declared that none
1 NJ the Hnfnn1pDtc had had thnun Irn1
Robertson, United States district at
torncy, hotly retorted that no search
of the cells had been made on govern
lnent order and that he knew nothing
about the statements of Mr.. Moore.
w. j. Wright sheriff of Wyandotte
county, said he had not ordered a
search of the cells and knew nothing
about it, but that the jailers might
go through the cells whenever they
desired TO do so.