THE SOUTH'S "CHEAP LABOR" IN REVOLT
Blanshard, Paul
the SOUTH'S "CHEAP LABOR IN REVOL Strikes In Tenn essee ctrid The Carohnas Serve Notice Starvation Pay and Long Hours Cannot Continue By Paul Blanshard GEEENVTLLE, S. C. THE poorest paid...
...The Commounist -Led Strike...
...and, Urtrd, settlement of future disputes by mediation between a committee of employees and the management, and in the case of their failure to agree, referring of the dispute to the United States Department of Labor...
...On April 18 a mob of men in white masks demolished their headquarters and relief store with axes and not a single aires, has been made of the large group Q* men who perpetrated this crime...
...The arrest of Mooney and Billings was not only an Insulting slap in the face of labor, but their continued imprisonment by the minions of industry and finance challenges openly and defiantly the intelligence and courage of every lover of liberty and Justice in the world, and constitutes a persistent threat against constitutional liberty in the United States...
...When Moyer...
...These new readers and recruits were not Socialists...
...The question is, has sack mt us the moral brawn to stand by 8*0* attrition of the Legion and shoe si courageous opposition to those wss ¦ guilty of mob violence...
...A Publicity Committee at Centralia is giving its attention to this work and trade unions on the Pacific Coast are doing what they can to free the Centralia victims...
...Why have they been kept there all hese years...
...Fred 'Beal and George Pershing are active leaden of this strike and are making a spirited fight against overwhelming odds...
...A Leader lew* Strike These South Carolina workers do not want a union organizer now, partly be cause they are saturated with the provincial spirit of the South, and partly because they are afraid that the presence of an outside organizer would only increase the bitter opposition of their employers...
...North Carolina, three other mills under the leadership of the Communists are on strike and at present the mills are closed, and in these three mills there are a total of about six hundred and fifty workers...
...It looks as though, as member of the Centralia Post, he has attempted to dictate to every other Post in the State...
...I stressed two reasons whereby the Legion Is hampered n its growth...
...In Gastonia, North Carolina, where Communists of the National Textile Workers Union are leading a spectacular strike of seven or right hundred workers from the Manville-Jenckes Company, the full force of Southern prejudice has been brought to bear against them...
...How could they be...
...Three witlesses vital to the state are today unirosecuted perjurers...
...You will recall that the same C. D. Cunningham was -counsel for the prosecution along with . H W. Abel of Montesano, who, by the way, has since the trial petitioned' the Governor to release the prisoners...
...It won these friends because it made its home where they lived, used their language, reflected their sentiments, adapted itself to their psychology, and...
...Some of the Legionnaires even mentioned the names of some of the men who lynched Wesley Everest...
...Imagine my surprise a few days later when the newspapers told us that the Convention had passed a resolution opposing the pardoning of the Walla Walla prisoners...
...Your own familiarity with our meetings should have made that point apparent...
...There is the Centralia case where on Amistice Day, 1919...
...Other Socialist papers and magazines had correspondents reporting every big story featured by The Appeal, but, able and scientific and literary as they were, these correspondents failed -to score...
...Newspapers of the region have hailed the reentrance of the American Federation into the cotton mills with Interest and considerable approbation because they now recognize the difference between the Communist-led National Tet48kV '«¦_> Union and the United TextnifCjJ...
...M by the awakening moral seme of tat state, what action win each lag***** take...
...They know not the truth because they are without the means of knowing...
...Positively and literally tt was established that the Mine Owners Association of Colorado and Idaho, bent upon destroying uninonism in the mining regions, cold-bloodedly conspired to take the hves of the chief officials of the miners' union by due process of law, and in furtherance of the project then kidnapped and carried to a little village remote, where, under cover of a conspiracy of silence, it was thought the job could be securely done...
...Workers -of the American federation of Labor is making a bold stand to set the standards of wages and noun in this new and important Industry of rayon manufacturing...
...The Appeal to Beacon was.able to do its gigantic work because back of it and sustaining it were millions of justiceloving men and women of America...
...Those who ostigated the prosecution, and certain fficials who carried it through, knew ,t jhe time that Mooney and Billings rere victims of a frame-up...
...With characteristic mendacity the capitalist press has maintained a policy of silence or flagrant falsehood.' The People Would Respond Here, I am going to ask the comrades of the Socialist Party, and the radical movement generally, what do you suppose would be the situation now as regards the Mooney and Billings case were The Appeal to Reason—the fearless fighting weekly of other days—on the Job, functioning as of old carrying its message into every workshop, tenant farmhouse and corner grocery in this nation, with its editors militant and determined to free these "men or know the reason why...
...Tremendous and electric was the reaction to the exposure of the conspiracy by The Appeal to Reason...
...In his talk m Comrade LeRoux said that this Convention was like any other, since eery act of the Convention had been planned weeks before it actually opened This being so...
...They are fighting against the ¦viis of one of the most Inhuman stretchHit systems ever applied to factory workts...
...I need not attempt -to prove that the Hoquiam Post, like many other Legion Posts, is a one-man-run organization...
...He knows that to antagonize the wolves and sharks of capital would mean his political and financial extinction, and he feels he can not afford to pay the price...
...Comrade Crawford, as you win recall, promised to give us the facts at our last meeting prior to the Centralia State Convention of August 8-9-10...
...In the first strike these workers increased their wages from twenty-two to twenty-four cents an hour, but when they returned to work they 'found their leaders discriminated against and they walked out in protest...
...Already tat I* gion has suffered through the tt Chamber" activities of some of S» *¦ members who are unable to est * handwriting on the wall...
...Even during the trial the lawyer for the defence stated that the Legion was merely the cats paw of those who were the real cause of the trouble...
...All through this section the striken have fought "on their own" and in several of the strikes they have been completely victorious, returning to work with the stretch-out system abolished At the Poinsett mills of the- Brandon Corporation they have demanded three things, first, restoration of the old machine system and the old pay...
...Washington, who fired upon the men that were attempting to raid the I. W. W. headquarters were fully justified in their act...
...in their hall...
...Our Constitution evidently intends that Legion leadership be placed in the hands of those who are citizens of She United States by birth alone and only then in matters that are sanctioned and carefully discussed at regular meetings by all legitimate members...
...You know that a large percentage of our members absent themselves because they resent having their minds made up for them on subjects that are discussed settled before ever a meeting takes place...
...The great agents of publicity are in the hands of the master classes ind by them are controlled to keep the people ignorant...
...the SOUTH'S "CHEAP LABOR IN REVOL Strikes In Tenn essee ctrid The Carohnas Serve Notice Starvation Pay and Long Hours Cannot Continue By Paul Blanshard GEEENVTLLE, S. C. THE poorest paid factory workers of America have at last declarer...
...when Comrade Crawford was to give his lecture, former-commander LeRoux pulled me aside and stated that it had been decided not to bring up the Centralia matter, since the subject contained "enough dynamite to wrejek the Post...
...A Legion Chief's Plea For the Centralia I. W. W. Captain Loll Declares Workers Serving Life sentences Acted In Self-Defense Against Lawless Raiders The Mooney-Billings and SaccoVansetti rases are not our only Dreyfus affairs...
...He will respond when aroused to any appeal which has Justice for its basis...
...No one win ever point the BBS of scorn at the physical courage ct* Legion...
...Coll late last year issued an open letter to his oven post of the Legion regarding this case which has had practically no publicity east of the Pacific Coast States and The New Leader pfesents this imjtortant document to its readers...
...IF i am pardoned for this personal allusion, I freely admit my inability to repeat these old Appeal to* Reason performances...
...I have conversed with people of every walk of life at their homes...
...The A.F...
...I think I can tell you...
...At Plneville and Lexington...
...The big dailes of Colorado and Idaho softpedaled as much as possible...
...i$Mn| Will it setae that npriaisiagi I believe that it win...
...This whole question, to my mind, is one or method and approach...
...Every person intimately associated rith this case knows these men are as nnocent of the crime charged against hem as new born babes...
...It can be an instrument ?t prejudice and destruction when directed by the manipulation of only a few...
...Here there is no workmen's compensation law, no separate labor department, and almost no organized labor movement...
...i Here in Greenville are the unorganised trikers of the great Brandon Corpor- j ition...
...1. American Legion wrote the following letter: "The I. W. W. in Centralia...
...They were American citizens learning for the first time the callous brutality of the capitalist game, viewing in the concrete as it were a visible example of plutocracy's attempt to perpetuate a great social wrong, and what they learned and saw goaded them to madness...
...The people work ten hours a day and often continue working through the noon hour, only grabbing a sandwich for lunch...
...Mooney's Beal Offense The working classes are not aware, aut the master classes thoroughly know that Maaney and Billings suffer dairy a living death because they were and are laker seen, defiant and challenging In their championship of the cause of labor, and uncompromising at every point in their atutade toward the enemies of the working class...
...Buift...
...He only needs to be shown to act...
...If the plain people, not the leaders, knew all the circumstances of this case —who Mooney and Billings are, their idealism, their devotion to real democracy, their fight against corporate greed in the years preceding their arrest— and especially if they understood* the reasons for the present treatment of these men, and the character of the pirate crew whose machinations brought them almost to the gallows, unquestionably the resulting roar of protest would shake this nation until the penitentiary doors gladly opened for their release...
...Second many ex-service men refuse to join the American Legion on account of our reputed attitude towards the neverto-be-forgotten killings in Centralia on Armistice Day...
...The workers in these strikes are apparently quite unaware of the difference between labor unions...
...So does he editor of every newspaper and magnine of consequence...
...In passing let me state that the eight volumes of the case may be read in the office of the Clerk of the Supreme Court in Olympia, but one may find enlightening reviews of the case by consulting the many sources of information in the reference room of any local library...
...After quoting the Preamble to the constitution of the Legion which, among other things, declares that it upholds the Constitution of the United States, officer Coll proceeds with his remarkable statement of the case...
...Among those who lost their heads and wanted to fight was a highly cultured university graduate who ranged high ss the most brilliant student of Marxian economics in the United States...
...Well, then, if it is common knowledge among at least certain Posts, of the American Legion that the attack upon the I. W. W. Hall began when Warren O. Grimm and other members of the Centralis Division broke from the line of march and began to batter down the door and windows of the hall, aren't we forced to admit that those who fired to protect themselves and property acted within their Constitutional rights...
...Yea, aniaj Legionnaire I wish to prevent the of the American Legion" from asm* the SHAME of the American Isfk...
...the Parole Board today has the"wworn affidavits of about thirty Centralia citizens stating that members of the Centralia Division in the Armistice Day Parade broke ranks and began the attack...
...SETT, Commanding Sliver Bow Fat fe 1, American Legion...
...The Battle of Elizabethton Meanwhile the great fight at Elizabethton, Tennessee, by 5,000 rayon workers of the Bern berg and Glanzstoff Corporations is going on with renewed courage and intensity...
...Who authorized Cunningham to make the resolution...
...Vnd, every conscienceless labor-baiting •xploiter in California, from Harry Chandler of The Los Angeles Times to the most mercenary manufacturer in San Francisco, with their henchmen followers and leaders of the American Legion and the Better American Federation, perfectly well know why Tom Moon?y and Warren Tt"""rrg were seised and (ailed for life...
...Commanding Silver Bow Post No...
...At an official conference at Oreensboro, North Carolina, on April 14, President Thomas McMahon of the United Textile Workers announced plans for the immediate invasion of the South by his union with a permanent office in Charlotte or Greensboro and an organiser chosen by the Southern labor organisations from the" South...
...As Elizabeth ton goes, so goes the rayon industry—that is the conviction of many observers who feel that victory in this strike will shortly bring the eight-hour day and a decent living wage to the, rayon factories of the country...
...and then when it was 'ound that they could not stand the ;train, they were lowered to 80 loams rtth the same pay per pound that they sere receiving for operating 96 looms, mat meant an absolute cut of three or j our dollars a week in their wages with, t tremendous increase of labor...
...You will also recall how shortly after the Centralia shooting Edward F. Bassett...
...as his classic and labored essays fell fiat, my crudely written and frankly simple-minded stuff was pricking the consciences and awakening the emotions of the toilers in the factories and on the farms and inspiring them to respond with subscriptions and cash...
...I Slave read and studied much since those days, and now that I am old...
...I "Whether the L W. W. tt a tag*, ious organization or not, whether tk popular or otherwise, should ^ solutely nothing to 'do with tat gThe reports of the evidence at Iks a* oner's jury show that the attack n made before the firing started, 8 B* is true, I commend the boy* irssafc the action they took...
...They have followed, the Communists because the Communists have come In with vigorous and active leadership bat the main strike in Oartonra baa dwindled a great deal during the but ten days and the outcome is now in grave doubt...
...For asttaaaa a] demand they are first-raters, jfe* constructive settlement of any kssvgj pute they are hopelessly bastes kga a strike starts...
...These mountain people who bare cooes to work in the mills refused to allow the management to discharge their union leaden in the last strike, so they have struck again and demand the reinstatement of their leaden and the recognition...
...Anyone ess k> comes a party to a mob bent tajes a> lawful violence cannot expect flu tag patriotic men of the American Legate condone his act—EDWARD T. Id...
...He also told me that the subject would be passed over in silence at the coming State Convention...
...One comrade especially erudite, I remember, who knew more Marx In a minute than I could ever hope to leam in a lifetime, and whose contributions to his paper were distinguished for their scholarly analysis of the issue involved in the Moyer-Haywood trial, regarded me somewhat as be would a freak, and .constantly wondered why The Appeal to Reason kept me on the job...
...Furthermore, many expressed their conviction that the men, now imprisoned in Walla Walla, received an unjust sentence and should never have been incarcerated...
...If the Centralia unit is guilty of mob violence, need the entire Legion suffer for this act...
...Their poverty is so appealing and their conduct in this strike has been so irreproachable that public sentiment in this region is overwhelmingly with them...
...TN my farewell address to members at 1 the Hoquiam Post at the regular meeting Df Beptrmoer 24, 192...
...Every informed liberal and radical In he United States knows why...
...South Carolina* leading local eoton mills...
...Very gingerly has the labor press handled the affair...
...His hands are tied, therefore, and the labor forces of the state, unorganized and without a medium of expression, are powerless to act...
...Another member was lynched...
...Tot, I day is coming when the prises aw will also open to liberate the ins** Walla Walla prisoners...
...Within several months a hundred thousand names were added to the paid-up subscription list...
...Moved by these sincere statements and being at that time unfamiliar with the facts in the case, I began a careful study of the entire Centralia tragedy...
...The fact that there were asm sac ican Legion men among tbe panda**) everlastingly disgraced themsebes ay eking part in the raid does not coed ¦ judgment in the least...
...great opportunity in niiiilkMiajT*' a new and favorable pahae OBeajst...
...Haywood and Pettibone...
...With wages averaging about twelve dollars a week and with the eleven-hour day and the twelve-hour night in many mills they have won tremendous support even in the Smith and have forced mill owners in a number of cases to concede tneir most imuurunu uuiunv...
...In Hoquiam, as I stated before, the subject was "dynamite" and no discussion took place...
...Meanwhile the Comrministi an gk yeoman service tn frightening aaXgaJ en and spreading working chat tea among these cotton mill tones* gg«5 those ideas most...
...I was curious to discover who was responsible for the resolution that opposed the liberating of the prisoners at Walla Wallav Knowing that Adjutant Goodwin of this Post served on the Resolution Committee of the Convention...
...This statement is based up3n my faith in the responsiveness of the amnion men' and women of this Republic to the spirit of fair play, and their willingness to fight for the right when shown the facts...
...Pot that they are punished, while the hellhounds of capitalism defy the liberal ind radical leadership to do its worst Knowing their Innocence, as he must, the governor of California dare not give these men their liberty for fear of reprisal on_the part of those who put him in office...
...He wrote from the head while I wrote from the heart...
...1906, and jailed on a trumped-up mux- j der charge, the Associated Press carried the matter merely as minor news...
...Provided the attorneys of the defense had the guts to fight to a finish, my humble opinion is, aside from an explosion of the frame-up, the trial would have been an acquittal, or the people, stirred to action by The Appeal ta Reason, would have organized for a show-down...
...Since the World War the unions affiliated with the American Federation of Labor have grown so conservative and the leadership so reactionary that mention of the Mooney and Billings case gets no response commensurate with Its importance, and the few resolutions of protest which have been passed are feeble and unavailing...
...Since then sn-en of the jurors hate signed affidavits declaring that they were intimidated by soldiers present at the trial end affirming their belief that the prisoners are innocent...
...These demand* are simple, but they represent a tremendous advance over the, unorganised, oppressed condition of these' South Carolina workers...
...By Captain Edward P. Coll...
...The Socialist Press...
...second, no discrimination against any striker in reemployment after the strike...
...The judge rho sentenced and the jury that returned he verdict were as much the victims of onspiracy as were the men convicted, jid have since so declared...
...Enough to Wreck the Post At our meeting of August 5th...
...I asked him who the prime mover was in saddling that resolution on the Legion...
...But, the people are not acquainted with the facts, and there is no way of letting them know...
...He frankly told me that it was "Chet" Cunningham of Centralia...
...191...
...Three affiants, former friends of Warren O. Grimm, admit their seeing him even breaking in the door of the I. W. W. Hall before a shot was fired...
...First, there Isn't sufficient thought and action on the part of each individual member and, as, a result, the spirit of wholesome spontaneity and cooperation is being killed by permitting a small group to take upon itself the running of our organisation...
...As in the famous Dreyfus tm I France, so in this State of WacUapi a great wrong has been done sat 1 innocent party has suffered...
...The American Legion should be a benefaction in the hands of the many...
...ASput 1200 of them are fighting ritbout union leaders and without outJde relief against the system of speed-up rhich has increased the number of looms or the average weaver from 50 to 80 ooms with an actual decrease of wages, rhe weavers of the Poinsett mill of this Corporation were first raised from 50 ooms to 96...
...Why should Centralia try such high-handed methods...
...They are a direct and fearless people, and once they are thoroughly aroused the German employers who own these gigantic rayon mills will find them hard to defeat...
...If the officers of the law cannot stop these raids, perhaps the resistance to the raiders may have that effect...
...I refer especially to the activities of Comrade Robert LeRoux...
...Meanwhile Mooney and Billings ir jail, and while the workers are poor enough to protest with reverence, they have no coordinating organ of publicity sufficiently powerful to make their protest heard...
...Why make Legion meetings resemble a circus where the whip cracks, «ie actors go through their prepared parts, and the act closes amid the applause of those who never realize what went an "behind the scenes...
...Seaae Other Labor Battles Needless to say, physical force as a fighting proposition was discouraged, and the men whose sense of justice was outraged were advised to buy The Appeal to Reason, read it and extend its circulation, which they did...
...war upon the mill owners of the South and in three places, Tennessee, North Carolina and South Carolina, having gone on strike for better conditions...
...Today bey are old men before their time, and rhile the spirit of each reflects a marfr's heroism, their bodies are broken and hey are physical wrecks by reason of heir imprisonment...
...False Tersssn of Tragedy With this in mind let us now make a rtudy of the unfortunate Centralia trag*b/ of ArJsttc* Day 1919 in the light of present day data...
...High financiers ind captains of industry everywhere unierstand the reasons for this sentence ind why the governor refuses to pardon...
...Many members of the American Legion have told me that the attack began on the part of the Centralia exservice men...
...of their union...
...Money was liberally offered by Interested persons to be used where it would do the most good...
...of L. Move* l^U-l The American Federation mv.Jg...
...I have grown too intellectually cynical as a result of my Marxian sophistication to be of any value as a social propagandist...
...American Legion paraders attacked members of the I. W. IV...
...A few davs after the above Incident Adjutant Goodwin of this Post expressed to me his displeasure that' the Centralia trouble should be discussed at a meeting, stating that the subject was "so much gun powder...
...It was not until The Appeal to Reason got into the fight, published its sensational exposures and pUloried the principals in the prosecution, including an internationally famous Pinker ton detective chief, that the country was aroused, money raised, lawyers hired and the Federation officials freed...
...Legion Used as Catssaw The vital question in the Centralia tragedy has always been—who began the'attackr^lkell...
...The average American is combative by nature...
...You have recent^ tad I the decision of the Methoe3st-apka*i Convention to make a careful keteesc tion on the entire Centralia esse...
...Why were Mooney and Billings framed Ad railroaded to the pent Herniary...
...My work as an Insurance man in Hoquiam and Aberdeen has taken me into practically every business place in these communities...
...Then there are the sworn statements of seven of the jurors repudiating their verdict in the light of present-day facts...
...a genuine discontent Uanssjean ! South against the Inl......— skCJesaa system...
...Among 'these members were four ex-soldiers who were killed by the invaders...
...I am quite certain...
...Great Wrong Camsvttsi Let us now read again the Prases: to the Constitution of the America* I* gion and then ask ourselves at aft vidual Legionnaires why in the nam ¦ God we permit that resolution at fe Centralia Convention to stand at stem against the Governor of the fta * Washington when it requires gnat a* al courage on his part, to the hps i existing prejudice, to even parage k nocent men...
...it so happens that a wrong interpretation has been put upon my words to you Of September 24th, so I am hereby outlining at length certain facts which you may easily substantiate and with which many of you*are already familiar...
...Tooth, with unconquerable spirit and illusions intact, is the agency best fitted for the work, unless we are endowed with a persisting adolescence, waters most of us are not...
...Mob rule in this country must be stopped, and when mobs attack the home of a millionaire, or of a laborer, or of the I. W. W. it is not only the right but the duty of the occupants to resist with every means within their power...
...In behalf of what Posts then did Comrade Cunningham act...
...Such is tot sag* of labor organisation in tba awdk a day...
...The |J| of trade unions throughout tt*j^_ Unas arc eagerly pushing gjcj fgS, textile workers organisation, ftat | w for a successful organising *SsSjga.i go on in the near future...
...if this is true of a single Post, how much greater the danger, should the State or National policies be formulated by "a unaQ closed corporation bent on Star Chamber work...
...At a Legion meeting of June 1928, many of you will recall my requesting former-commander LeRoux to outline the Legion view point of the Centralis trouble, so that we could answer outside criticism...
...while it was class-conscious and uncompromisingly Socialistic, it never forgot that it was American and was on the job to protect and champion the, plain people of the United States...
...Were another paper like it to appear, inspired with similar purposes and ideals, with editors and writers whose minds and hearts were" afire with a passion for social democracy, and who were not afraid to push their propaganda into the very midst of the devils of capitalism, there is every reason to believe that it would succeed...
...When I arrived in the State of Washington in March, 1928, my only knowledge of the Centralia trouble was the memory of former press reports that stated that members of the I. W. W. had formed a plot and without the least provocation had brutally fired upon an Armistice Day parade of exservice men and four veterans had been killed...
...Why does the governor withhold a »ardon in the face of their proven inlocence...
...In reply LeRoux suggested that another Legionnaire, Sam Crawford, outline the facts, since Crawford was at the time of the tragedy on the staff of a Centralia paper and had himself sent out press dispatches to all the big papers of the country...
...As a lawyer, he knew full well that under State Law, even if evidence were now produced proving these men innocent, only the Governor through the action of his Parole Board can free them from prison...
...If, as I have been told, this comrade is a Canadian by birth and was a Canadian citizen during the war, according to the Constitution of the American Legion, he may never become a legitimate member of the Legion and and his presence in the organization is by reason of the sufferance of Hoquiam Post No...
...The few Socialist papers that have taken the matter up have little influence and circulation...
...Seeing that I was a member of the Legion, many people to my surprise expressed themselves as dissatisfied with the Legion, due to the part the organization played in the Centralia trouble...
...a day of justice will yet dawn whet • memorial statue on the pedestal a) w) city park of Centralia will tmm* appearance of the torn, bsUatat * mutilated Wesley Everest, and ***** that statue will be Inscribed the **¦ indictment—"Mobbed and ¦ upholding hi* Constitutional Bad* Why Mooney Stays In Jail A Plea For A Stronger Socialist Press By Georgfe H. Shoaf DOR more than a dozen years Tom Mooney and Warren Billings have otted, literally rotted, behind prison ars in California...
...Mencken has told some of the truth, but not all of it...
...The prejudice against Communist leadership is so overwhelming in the South that It a bard to conceive of any Southern employer granting any of the demands of the National Textile Wor ken Union...
...At the time of their rrest they rejoiced in youth and health nd strength, with all the glory of prom>e and hope which these imply...
...Is this the way "to foster and perpetuate a one hundred per cent Americanism...
...That is their offense, their only crime...
...Now, you will recall how at our Legion meeting at Hoquiam on September 10th, a review of the work of the State Convention was given us by the delegates who represented the Hoquiam Post...
...So Inflamed were the people that from many places men wrote volunteering to arm and assemble at a designated point, whence they might march to Idaho and there by force free the prisoners...
...Since LeRoux had gone about the country after the tragedy lecturing on the subject to thousands of Legionnaires, I felt that he should be in a position to give use -the whole story...
...Is this the best way to Inculcate a sense of Individual obligation to the Community, State and Nation...
...The Communists have made bitter attacks upon the United Textile Workers, but the United has refused to enter the field where they are conducting strikes...
...Instinctively he loves the right and hates the wrong...
...Now they are getting leas than twenty aouars a week, and they are the cream of the textile workers of this region...
...Edward Patrick Coll, a prominent Legion officer, after a thorough investigation of the case, belicies that a monstrous injustice was committed and is giving his time to obtain the release of the prisoners...
...Here the United Textile...
...I have mingled with the workers in the mills...
...Men who yearned to fire a gun or throw a bomb were persuaded to get the paper in bundle lots, and so distribute mental dynamite...
...Only the Incoherent and inarticulate common people of this country are ignorant...
...Eight of the defenders of their hall were charged with first degree murder and the jury brought in a verdict of second degree murder , and the accused were sentenced to from 25 to 40 years in the penitentiary...
...officials of the Western Federation of Miners, were kidnapped and taken from Denver, Colo., to Boise Ida., in February...
...He also knew that a resolution of a convention is supposed to summarize the individual decisions of Legion Post...
...Now...
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