The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-27
CAPITALISTS OF
SAN PEDRO CARRY
ON AGAINST I.W.W.
Boss Press Wages War
on Industrial Workers
By J. STEVENSON.

SAN PEDRO, Cal-The activities
Of those in authority-and other.
wise-to stamp out Wobblyism in this
city continues undated. Now that
the memory Of the raid of June IA,
last-when the /. w. w. hall was
wrecked, helpless children almost
scalded to death, women insulted and
men tarred, feathered and beaten
has become less vivid, a systematic
campaign of anti-I. w. w. propaganda
is being carried on.
The local press, as usual, fulfilling
the role of filthy prostitute, never let's
up in its TRADE against the ]. w. w.
in general, and those Of SanPedro in
particular. The DAILY Pilot" Of San
Pedro and the Los Angeles Times"
of labor hating memory, being the
leading lights in the campaign.
Police Husky But BraIniess.
The police are fulfilling their func.
ton as agents of the boss class, and
carrying out their duty" in man.
ner which must bring certain
amount of confidence to the capital
lists who dominate and control the &C.
tons of this body of husky servants
Of the ruling class.
Lastly, those 100 per cent night.
shirt fanatics,-whose 100 per cent.
ism shows itself most powerfully
when they are 100 per cent stronger
in numbers than the object Of attack
have lost nothing in their reputa-
ton for coYardly tactics and cold
blooded brutality.
Armed Men Versus. Non-resistanoe.
The I. w. W., after the raid (before
mentioned), could find no place to
meet, no one would dare rent them
hall, so necessarily they were Sc
verely hampered in the carrying on
of their work. Last week a private
room where they had stock of Iitera-
ture was burst open by armed men
and all literature and supplies confis-
Gated.
Attempts have been made by l. w.
w. members to sell their papers on
the streets and as soon as they are
spotted by the dicks they are arrested.
The boycott and the blacklist are ap-
piled vigorously, and despite the fact
that call has been issued for volun-
teers to help carry on the fight the
efforts on the part of the Wobblies to
date have not been on scale to SER
iously embarrass the common enemy.
Mo Law Against Mobbers.
Up to the present time no indict-
ment Of the persons who participated
in the June raid has been made, no
conviction seems possible. Wobblies
who positively identified members of
the raiding party, are now doing time
in jail; convenient way of closing
their mouths.
Such circumstances would have a
depressing effect on the average per.
son, but to the militant rebel-never!
The day of the worker is coming, and
soon. The putrid and contradictory
system whose adherents on one hand
shout for law and order and on the
other blinks at atrocities, who mouth
of Jesus and his suffer little chill
dren," etc., and then scalds little kids
almost to death, cannot continue.
But a Part Of World Struggle.
While seemingly trifing in COMPARE
son with some Of the crimes that can
be laid to the door of the capitalist
system in other parts of the world,
yet the workers of San Pedro realize
that events here are but straws show
ing the direction Of the wind, and such
happenings will act as a means Of
consolidating the resistance of the
workers and the building up here Of
a section of the world revolutionary
labor movement whose methods will
be in line with modern developments
and whose final victory is certain.
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