Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-11-09
NOT EVOLVES" MAYBE.


Perhaps a state federation presi-
dent and two other men who, as a
committee, called upon President Will
son, were honest workingmen and not
evolves in sleeps clothing" as the
local labor paper charitably asserts.
They may have been as innocent as
deceived sheep. stalked by wolves in
the fleece Of lambs.
That jealous committee went long
ways beyond where labor organiza-
tons generally have gone, even be-
yond the step the American Fedora
ton of Labor refused to take in gem
eral conference.
Among the political prisoners" the
committee demanded to have released
were Debs, who INSTRUCTED the gov
eminent in the hours when loyalty
was needed to save defeat by Huns;
Mooney, in prison for bombing pa
triotic paraders, even though some
labor organizations doubt his guilt
and question court regularity; some
forty 1. w. w. plotters to burn wheat
crops of California to prevent ship
ment to troops of this country and of
the allies. the infamous forty having
jeered the federal court and refused
to plead or to testify to their inno-
cence; Emma Goldman and Bergman,
who habitually defied and INSTRUCTED
the war department and the depart
ment of justice to prevent rally of
loyal men to the needs of the country;
and there were others in the class the
Seattle trio asked to have exonerated.
No unified backing has been ex-
pressed to the president, in line with
the urge of the trio, who were in the
center of /. w. w. activity at Seattle,
where 1900 armed citizens and the
proximity of several thousand sol
diers were all that prevented the es-
Enlistment Of an l. w. w. or soviet
government of Russian type not in
favor by conservative union labor of
America.
The $500 union shopmen in rail
way employ at Sacramento have not
been asking for release of the forty
miscreants who defied the police, the
state and the general government, |
following the bombing of the resi-
dence of the governor; the capture of
some of them who called at an ex-
press office for baggage in which |
they had shipped dynamite; and their
refusal to recognize court authority, |
sitting scornfully during trials, refus- |
ing to accept attorneys or to ask
questions of any witnesses.
The Sacramento Bee. always friend
ly to labor, had abundant opportunity |
to see the ruthless aims of the gang |
that infested that state during the /
war, Selling the opportunity to de-
stroy industries upon which farmers
were dependent for prosperity and
labor for employment.
The Bee is a favorite among the
union men of the capital city, and Of |
the farmers of the Sacramento valley, |
because it is always frank. fearless
and not a trimmer for favors.
Las week, of the defiance by GER I
tain eastern radicals, of the president
and of the department of justice, and
threats against the country. the Sac
ramento paper said:
This march of Bolshevism. the
advance of l. w. w. ism, is not only
a danger and an evil to this country
and to all her prospects, 1t is men,
ace as well to labor unionism-the
greatest with which labor unionism
has been confronted.
And if labor unionism does not
kill it, it win throttle labor unionism,
and over its ruins erect, at least tenn
porarily Golgotha to its own shame
full victories-a Golgotha whose skulls
will represent principally the honest
labor of America
So labor unionism owes it to itself
as well as to the country and to the
citizenry-every labor union man
owes it to his wife and to his family
to stand squarely out against such
laWleSSness and such anarchy