The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-28


The history the IW.W significance political
action While there members who dey legislative and
yet the LWW has fought political battles for the working class
than other labor organization political in America They
against laws against criminal syndcasm and
for prison ignmny Socialist Party
Socialist Labor Party that they seldom
LWW. in these desperate political struggles
THE trial thing of the Although Orchard
fled to my being the Independence Depot Explosion the
Vndcao explosion and all the other daboca deeds Colorado
which he had confessed and although had been charged
of Cripple Greek district with of these crimes word
raised against after return from Boise and
made to revive these charges The mine whipped in their
thew knew thew would be bnned agaim If ever thew % anu
guilty ~ '' '' ~ WHICH 'S' themselves AA' l"a'''''
Many big offers of money different parts
country lectures aquta
Boise The Tures Gardens offered
dollars for weeks lick Abrams California offered
fifteen thousand dollars for forty lectures The Star Circuit wanted
to give me four thousand dollars week for eight weeks
talked the various offers with wife friends
while could that there opportunity to make large
be esened every day If limited NV lectures working class
every step made would be upward in the estimation Of the
workers In vaudeville should be speaking mixed audiences
carrying the message to the working class.
auspices of the labor organizations Socialist Parties of
In Chicago the first meeting Luna Park where there
~ thousand paid admissions before the crowd broke down the
at Riverside Park arranged by the Socialist Party where there
sixty thousand paid admissions At Milwaukee there audience
rate it was vast assenblage
Chicago days the guest of Anton
Johanser organizer
Schmidt Quentin Pentenar took me for an auto
through beautiful parks
Of the policeman with his club then still standing Haymarke
at this symbol of working class Then they drove out
foot of the monument the workers who had been hanged twenty
before burst into The remembrance of these had
had followed the details of their trial and execution
After going back to Denver returned to Boise where Pb0nes
his illness had been caused partly by his loneliness after left the
suffering mastoiditis
to remain seated in the About weeks after the trial
operation his We then Hilton charge
of the Richardson having withdrawn after trial
Pettiboaes trial began like repetition He himself
did take the stand because of his i'll health and finally
tried; against
missed soon after Pettbone's acquttal.
Pettibone died shortly after his John Murphy
too died at about the me of consumption The Western Fedora
ton put monuments to them both but speaking tour and
could not attend their funerals
IN the fall of 1907 the executive board of the WIN asked
to Godfed Nevada, behalf of Preston Smith,
convicted of killing keep
er Godfied Preston miner and all the workers in Godfed
WIN There had been connection front of restaurant
his hand and either fired or threatened who shot
and killed him. do not remember Smiths connection with the affair."
raroaded the penientary,
be done about securing their release.
At about the time Grant Hamilton American Federation
of Labor organizer and Mason of high standing Goed
quartered Club headquarters of the
short time later Of restaurant workers members
Fl a h = = Of T. were brought TO s0 on the "~ strike in Geld
Bitter feeling growing between the Lww's
Muaney whipped gun
Mh na 9hans sS Ira any shot him through G
in jail went to ST. John He was in bed his right
crippled
chapter Haywood of desperate struggle
Mvey and his from splitting
from the WW You can get free copy Of Haycoods book ah
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