Southwest Washington labor press. [volume] (Hoquiam, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1923-02-09
THE ARKANSAS MOB.

There several extraordinary features connected with the
Arkansas mob that should interest citizen who puts his
trust in government by law
The Missouri North Arkansas railroad is an interstate
line under Judge Wilkersons Injunction which
issued at the request of the attorney general op awe
ness Now is stated several bridges burned and this
started the mob.
Where the attorney general when the first bridge
burned?
To injunction the attorney general
the deputy shoulder shoulder
sides of that railroad The regular army
also be called upon well aircraft fly
these bridges and with powerful searcghts night make the
destruction of property impossible.
Why these things done? Why the supre
macy of the law maintained? did information the
partment of justice that bridge burnings
to ncte the popuace and thereby aid the railroads aunOn
theory the attorney general is publicly committed to?
The attitude the president United States
noticeable In special to congress- last August he
depored h federal impotence with shocking
at Hern W and correctly condemned those "whO believe mob
warfare is admissible to any situation"
president failed to express any sentiment on the
Arkansas mob though workers have appealed him protect
their lives
the Hern case it must be remembered the federal
eminent has jurisdiction this purely state In
the Arkansas the federal interested because
of the Wikerson injunction.
The silence maintained by antiunOn employers as
socaons and by large section of the daily press
itself pleading for law and ORDER following mob
The Herrin mob the result of the killing three un
armed miners by private army of srkebreaers with
nlgnpoWer machine assumed control
of public highways
While every case generated the mob spirit
mob be defended if maintain faith
orderly rather than in primitive instinct While
opposes mOb also the mob spirit generated by big
business to railroad" workers to the penitentary.
In the Arkansas the usual mob frenzy lacking
mob acted cooy and with calculation It charged the
railroad placed special disposal Of the mob as
well is might for the mobs purpose smash railroad
strike though government to accomplish its
purpose One striker hung others fOgged and bupnned
and many strikers and sympathzers driven from their
The the great Arkansas remained nuts
while the of usurped that
takes human life and distributed white ribbon sto those strikers
who permitted to stay at their homes
leave the country. espss slats s.fss4es
denounced Illinois mob tina wreaked revenge on
imported remains silent while Arkansas mob compes
public officials to resign and corces citizens sign pledges to
withdraw from the strike the price for permission
Nothing be serious than this upheaval Of govern
ment While the taking of life terrible the instaa
ton Of anarchy is douby so.
When mob dictates public officials must resign and
what citizens must leave their homes and who stay at their
hOesan without protest by state and
izafion can truly be said to be attacked.
This anarchy together with the vhteeather inaction Of
public officials, the dy of green-bnded newspapers and
the silence Of antunop organizations that bat their 100 per
cent Americansm a combine to make the mob
feature Of Industrial warfare in the United States
These forces that loudly harped on law
now stand seonvcted the cheapesto pepnywgt dena
gogues They would government underned ID their hatred
for wage workers who dare reject low wage offers of
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Let workers ever bear in mind that the enforcement Of law
must not be matter Of choice by the paWns privilege who
stand frightened before these InOn-smashing anarShs
Law must be supreme must not be toy for high off
ca subserWent employers associations anti
union forces.