Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1923-03-09
BIG BIZ WANTS
ia TIE PAID
STRIkEBREAKERS
By MARTIN A. DlLLNoN.
Mrlffsn for TIE RnNienl

! Aa1Atkeh AnT NE hfNAeAH
\. Loals.-fhe State Of Illinois is
not alone facing the menace Of the
move . bring the Russian cosSaek
! system . American soil. The people
Of Missouri are being asked . sw'al-
low perhaps the most vicious measure
ever peuned by human hand. The
proposal which Is being sponsored By
the open shoppers and starvation
wage advocates in Missouri provides
Tor state police system, organized
On strictly military basis. The
chief the dietator--is 10 hold
Office until his successor is appoint
ed TIE chief Is to be empowered
10 appoint an assistant chief--an as
slstant dictator. The chief dictator
would receive a salary of $1,000 a
year, assistant chief dictator. $500
4 year.
Tie captains. lieutenants, ser
geants, eorporals and privates are TO
be appointed-hand pieked-by the
chief dictator who shall also have the
power 10 fiN their salaries.
The drive for CosSacks in Missouri
Is being conducted BY an outfit styl-
ing itself Missouri State Police Com
mttee, headed by one Lyle Garrison
with permanent offices in down town
81. Louis. Quite unlike similar con-
spiracies in other states, Mr.. Garrison
frankly tells US that the state police
In this state are for scab-heriing and
strikebreaking. Garrison points out
the great service which could have
rendered the railroad companies in
the strike of shop crafts by a state
constabGlary. But we'll let Mr.,
Harrison testify in his own behalf.
Readers, 1t gives me great pleasure
- TO introduce TO you Mr.. Lyle
Garrison, head of Russian Cossack
boosters in Missouri.
During the past railroad strike"
says Mr.. Garrison. '.it cost the State
Of Missouri $3.50, 900 TO keep the state
militia in the field and the govern
ment $4,000 for deputies, a total of
$500 900. II the state had state
police force, such an expenditure of
money would not have been made"
According TO the Garrison plan,
the legislature would be asked mere
~ 10 authorize the Cossacks, and the
strikebreaang, head cracking outfit
thereafter would be supported byI
passing the hat to its friends. The
annual cost of maintaining a state
constabulary in Missouri is estimated
by Mr.. Garrison at 100000 a year,
and he believes this sum of money
could be easily raised by popular
subscriptions Just let us ask our
selves: What type of persons would
be the chief contributors to this lack |
pot when il is admitted that the
Cossacks are for stnkebreaking ac-
tivities? If ever more infamous, |
outrageous scheme was Matched on |
the brain of the enemies of the labor
the writer of this article |
never read of it.
This move for state police in the |
several states is closely related to the |
nationwide conspiracy to crush or
ganized labor, and intelligent minds |
have not been deceived by mock pre- |
lenses to the contrary. The Palmers,
Daughertys, Andersons, Wilkersons,
ct al, have played all of their trump
cards; but organized labor Is still do
ing business at the same old stand.
Organized labor should be most
concerned, since il Is the labor move
ment at which the blow is aimed.
Labor organizations throughout Mis-
souri, are going on record against the
proposed state constabulary, and the
full power of the Missouri State
Federation, captained by the honest,
fearless, fighting President r. T.
Wood, will be brought to bear to pre-
vent the passage of any legislation
creating a strikebreaking agency at
the behest of few hard-b boiled would
be masters of wage slaves.
If advice from the writer of this
article is welcome to his many friends
and fellow unionists in Illinois, he
would urge them to Immediately get
behind their old warhorse, John H.
Walker, and strengthen his hands to
fight this growing menace in Illinois.
That a state police act is not now on
the statute books of Illinois is due
solely to the courageous and COM
mendable fight of Illinois labor organ
izations.
The Illinois workers, however,
should not let past accomplishments
make them over-confident and lull
them to sleep. The most determined
and well-organized drive in history
will be made at Springfield this year
to get a mounted, armed, publicly
Il1dnceu DdHu VI Iuliidils SitdkNd Wy
law to help the One Big Union OF
Bankers crush and stamp out every
vestage of labor unionism.
1t behooves us to bring ourselves
10 an understanding of what this
military autocracy would mean. The
enemies of labor would be in COM
plete control; Labor could no longer
ever hope to become master of its
own house. Those who dared stand
on their own feet and speak out for
the rights of the common people
would be hanged or shot as traitors
traitors to a system under which a
few live in ease from the labor and
hardships of the many who are forced
into a constant struggle of begging,
striking and negotiating for enough
bread to keep their wives and babies
in barest comfort.
This is what the state police move
ment, in reality, means.