The Connecticut labor news., 1923-04-20
States Attorney
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use eggs, use coal or indelible ink. Break foremen,s windows at their homes. Watch the .scabs when they come from work, lay for them, espe cially on pay day. Take them in a dark alley and hit them with a lead pipe. That is the softest thing you can use. Reimburse yourselves for what we have sacrificed for five months. Don't forget to bump off few now and then, so MT. Pearson will know that you are not getting cold feet.
 "'You car men know how to. ta ke a brake shoe off. Take the brake shoe and put it under something that will put the cars off the irons. A lit tie sand or emery in the journal boxes will help greatly. Don't be satisfied with trimming the engines. Put some of the cars on the bum. Also if con- venient put something in between the frames and rods of engines on sid ings.
 "'Get busy, young fellows, and trim these scabs. Things are running too smooth on the New Haven road, but let me hear from you while l am here Go ahead and rip things and don't let the in junction stop you from trimming these scabs. Don't forget to tie them up with derailments. You boys ought to cut them all up.'
 No Crime of Solicitation.
 Tt should be again noted that the solicitation, as in all the reported cases, was not addressed to any par ticular individual, but was an incen- diary appeal calculated to incite his hearers to numerous acts of violence,
 | .1 f ,Ao.I would no doubt result in grave and serious crimes, the guilt of which would attach-to the accused as an derethe law of this state the guilt of the principal offender. Such conduct, however criminal it might be, does not, under the authorities as 1 read them, constitute the common law crime of solicitation, which is the only offense charged in this informa- ton.
 "The state invokes in support of this information the English case of Rex /vs Most I4 Cox's Criminal Law cases, 583. In this case Most was indicted under "A and 25 Vict. C 100 3.4 for publishing in London a newspaper having a circulation of I,2oo copies, containing articles de S1Sn6Q ana lHISIlQou IO 6ICOuI age dlu persuade the murder of crowned and uncrowned heads of states wherever exercising authority. This statute provided that all persons who shall, etc, and endeavor to persuade, any person to murder any other person, whether subject of the queens or within the queens dominions or not, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor The indictment and conviction in this case was sustained as an offense directly within the statute.
 This case was decided in 1851 Ten years later Most was prosecuted in New York for incendiary lan- guage addressed at a meeting of an archists the day after the execution of spies and others in Chicago for murder This prosecution was un- der a section of the penal code, pro- viding. that when three or more per sons being assembled attempt or threaten any act tending towards a breach of the peace or injury to per sons or property. every person par ticipating therein by his presence, aid or instigation shall be guilty of a mis- demeanor.
 "Still later in 1902, a conviction of Most was again sustained by the New York court of appeals. He was charged with the publication in his paper, the Freiheit, of an article ad- vocating and advising revolution and murder. He was indicted and con victed under a section of the penal code providing that a person who wilfully and wrongfully commits any act which seriously disturbs or en- dangers the public peace, for which no other punishment is expressly pre- scribed by this code, shall be guilty of misdemeanor'
 Suggests Legislation.