AMERICAN LABOR WARFARE.

NZ Truth, Issue 108, 13 July 1907, Page 7

AMERICAN LABOR WARFARE.

BLOOD, BULLETS AND BAYONETS. v

Capitalistic Conspiracies Against the People.

> Truth About the Idaho Alleged Murderous Conspirators.

News by the mail from the United j States indicates that th? fight tha<t is there going on bet-wee iu Labor and Capital is of the most serious character, and, ; m several of the States, particularly the Western States, has been marked by bloodshed and. loss of life. The trial of Haywood. P«ttibone, and Moyer, for alleged conspiracy to murder, is regarded by the American working classes as/ merely a "put-up job ;'.' and, considering how utterly unscrupulous are many of the capitalists ot the . United States, it is quite likely that those who so regard the trial are m the right. The fellow Orchard, who is alleged to have "confessed," is a notorious scoundrel, who is regarded by members of labor organisations as capable of any villainy, and as having been employed to commit perjury on behalf of the capitalists of the Mineowners' Association. In the course of the agitation that has taken plaoe cdnoerning the charges r gainst the f tnen Moyer, Haywood and Pettitiohev considerable indignation has 'been excited by the conduct of the President of the United States m referring tb 1 the two accusad men as undesirable citizens. This is, of course, an* act of the most flagrant contempt' of court, and must have most seriously PREJUDICED THE ACCUSED MEN on their trial. It has also been shown since the proceedings began that the mdne-owners who are a/t the back of the prosecution of Moyer and Haywood endeavored to suborn a man named Adams to give ' perjured testimony against the two accused mien. Both Adams and his wife have made affidavits 'to this effect.. "Wilshire's Magazine" for May makes the following referenoe to the proceedings prior to the trial :— 'After fifteen weury months of imprisonment, Moyer, Haywood and' Pettibone are at last witfl-m sight of their trial, which has been set for May 9 at Boise, Idaho. Their application for Change of venue to Washington County has been -sisfec ted, J>ut the defence was ofi?red the selection of Boise or Caidwell for the trial, and chose the foxmer. The legal wrangle over, this matter brought cJut many to show ,the BITTER . CLASS CHARACTER dominating the situation. Against six hunired signatures of residents of Canyon Co., which were put m oyidence to prove the impossibility of * a fair trial m -that county on account of bias a^alaist •• t'toc prisoners, the prosecution o^erod the sinister- number of twenty-three m rebuttal. Attorney Hawlev of tbo prosecution was profuse m his contempt for the six hundred sigrrers, whom he described as rabble of no account, and insisted that his twenty-three were of far more veci^bt, representing as they did the wealth and business interests of the county. . He also, insisted that the oase was merely an, ordinary murder case, and accused the defence of attempting to represent it AS A CONFLICT between labor and capital. His remarks drew a vigorous rejoinder from Attorney Richardson of the defence, but the motion for change of venue was denied. ' 'Despite the wishes of the prosecution, however, it is certain that the organised labor of the country ' persists m regarding the case as <„ most critical point m the struggle between labor and capital, and it will receive more publicity m the labor press than any other event of the kind THAT HAS EVER HAPPENED in .the. the history of the country. Preparations have been made to ensure this publicity on a large scale, and many hundreds of papers "will receive their reports of the trial uncolored ,by capitalist prejudice." This Idaho trial is an outcome of the war waged by the Mine-owners' Association against the unionists of Cr-ipp' 2 Creek and' ether parts of Colorado, which war >we gave accounts of m these columns at the time. Colorado and Idaho are not the only places -m the United States where conflicts af a bloody character have taken place between organised workers and others. Blood has been shed and lives lost m Nevada and California also. The following account of the Nevada affair is given by a labor organisation m San Francisco. It has been .distributed m leaflet form, pnd has been sent to us :— "In Goldfield, Nevada, M. R- Preston and Joseph Smith, two officers of the Miners' Union, were recently found guilty by a jury— M. R. Preston "Guilty of murder m, the second degree," and Joseph Smith. "Guilty of voluntary manslaughter." Besides these two, St. Jqhn. Jar-dine, Ben Donnelly, and others, nine men m all, are charged with tbe murder of one Frank Silva, a former restaurant proprietor of : <J ; oldfi©ld, who m life, besides being a, business-man, was also . KNOWN AS A "BAD MAN." "There wus ri dispute over wages between a waiter and Silva ; as a result the unk)h called out all of Suva's employees^ Silva then sent down to Tonjopah,/ after he was promised tlk? support, of Ihs Citizens' Alliance and a so-called Carpenters' Union, that was officei\d by .contractors who were members of the ' Citizens' Alliance, and opened ■ r-rs restaurant w>"fch scabs m his employ.-' /"Naturally, the Union appointed jackets to steer the uninitiated away #rom that scabby joint: Silva, time vapd again, was beard making / threats against the pickets, so, 'the pickets always provided themselves with shooting irons when they relieve ed each other, as they knew through others that Silva had threatened them and also koiew of his abusive and ( treaoherous disposition. '' [ "One evening, while Preston, employed by the' Union, was doing picket (duty, he told some minprs who rame ' down from Ihe hills that it was an iin-O.il" res tin rap I. ' Y, - hon lie noticed , .SHva running to the door with a Sgua'in his hand, gesticulating wild-

ly with his left hand, with the threat 'GO AWAY, I KILL YOU,' he levelled his revolver at Preston ; then, m self-defence, Preston drew his revolver and fired ; his bullet took effect, and the bourgeois bully was no more. "The Mineowners' Association and Citizens" Alliance proceeded to unearth a conspiracy, and the following nigh* Joe Smith, one of the business agents of the Union, was dragged out !of bed and also charged with murI der. About five weeks later the Grand Jury returned secret indictments implicating Vincent St. John, Ben Donnelly and five others m the conspiracy to kill Silva.' "Smith and Preston were tried first and never m history has there been a more stupid and viler conspiracy trumped up agaiinst innocent men. The Min?own2rs' and Citizens' Alliance, m their anxiety to .."preserve our institutions," had three learned lawyers bes'd-s the District Attorney,-, one all the way from Denver, prosecuting these two men. The evidence brought out at the trial was sufficient to prove that there could possibly have been no conspiracy, when, 10, and behold, a man appears who joined the Union m February last, and he was present when the . nine men were discussing the murder, and, when ask-ed to identify the men, he only called oira by his rigifot name. The night that the conspiracy was born m the Miners' Union 'hall the victims were not there, as the. hall was rented cu+' for a dance. , THIS PINKERTON SPY, W. L. Claiborn, branded himself as willing to sell away the lives of innocent men. -His testimony was one series of conti&dictiions. But it was not the testimqny of "Diamond Fieif 1 Jack," Davis, or W. L. Cia-iborn.tbat took the palm for • t!-ogeneracy, but the summing up speeches of the lawyers for the State (spell mine owners) > that outdid even the prostitution of Claiborn. "Reference was made to the testimony of Mrs A^'ley, a witness for the defence, who testified that she had hea y d Silva make certain threats. Mrs "Alley was designated as "a ilotorious female anarchist," and the lawyer decVred that Silva, vraspustilkid m making threats and carrying a gun. "Who wouldn't want a gun when aspailed by this murderous crew ?" dramatically asked Mr Douglas, one of the. lawyers ~£or.the prosecution. "Witness Jurgens, who testified m behalf of the alibi of Vincent St. John, was designated as "a one-eyed follower of the blood-red fag of an ardhy," and St: John as an arch-agi-tator, who 'bad caused more trouble, more sorrow, AND MORE BLOODSHED than any man m Nevada.' " 'Who are these men here before us ?' (indicating Presbon and Smith) asked Judge Malone of D-eiwer. 'No , man has fmor-e respect for the rights of homest labor than I have. I have lattor-ed all pay life. The defendants are not honest laboring men. They are not the" representatives of honest labor. How have these men added anything to the needs and happiness ;of their race. They have walked the streets as agitators ; they have boan parasites and not producers. 'What have they produced ? Only . trouble for themselves and' others. What have they created ? Only widows, orphans, and suffering. The result of their labors has .'been trouble, disorder and strife.' "Judge, Malon© continued his tirade as follows : — 'What do you th>ink about it ? Upon,, your verdict serious consequences rest, It means much to the defendants, but it means more to this city, this, county, and this State. Is this a safe place to build up a city ? Is this a safe place for home's ? Is this a safe place for the investment •of capital? Is the flag of our country the flag of this community, or is.. the red flag of murder and violence and lawlessness to be m the as-oend-ant ? ...If the. law is not to be respected, better it is- that this city be returned to the desert. Ohl y where the law is respected is Life worth living. • And .no man needs the protection of the law more than the laboring man. Such men as- these (indicating Preston and Smith) must be made > ' . TO PEAR THE LAW. By your verdict you must say to the people of the country that human life and property ' are safe here.' "Workingmen, do you not realise that thero is aigigan-tic conspiracy to throttle the voice of labor ? Union officials, that are true to their "trust are to be hounded to their death. Here are workingmen m Idaho and Nevada charged with conspiracy to murder. We know they are innocent." So much for Idaho and Nevada. In San Francisco, California, there has been most serious trouble and loss of life because of an industrial •struggle between the Carmen's Union and the United Railways. The following is an account by one of the San Francisco labor bodies, of one of the incidents of this struggle :— Patrick Calhoun, of the United Railways, has brought armed thugs into this city to violently disrupt the Carmen's Union. These thugc, under Calh-oun's orders, have been given revolvers, and the proofs are indisputable that they have, used them to MURDER INOFFENSIVE CITI- j ZENS. "Patrick Calhoun is a conspirator, and, according to the laws of the land, can be prosecuted for conspiracy to murder. NO law-abiding working men willdeny tlvatiif Calhoun's thugs are permitted to unwarrantably murder workingmen, then no worker nor no union is safe. "District Attorney Langdon has not prosecuted this conspirator whose thugs have fired into unarmed crowds and murdered inoffensive citizens. It is up to the workingmen to force the District Attorney to do his duty. The Grand Jury is m perpetu.al session." j The Carncn's Union makes the following references to the affair m *

manifesto headed "To the People of San Francisco" :-— • "Mr Pa-trick Calhoun has thrown law and order to the winds. He is the aroarchist, the enemy of government. Ho has raised A PRIVATE ARMY,he has built a private fortress, h« has sent out his paid assassins io deal death to the innocent people of San Francisco. "Are we living m a civilised country that such outrages should -be consummated and the law is silent and the Government does not move ? "The excuse for the shooting the o-ther day was the threatening attitude of the mob. Suppose the mob was as bad as they say it was, does that excuse shooting ? Even m a real rftot, where the officers of the law face the rioters with guns, the law demands that the rioters be formally commanded to disperse before extreme measures are taken. But the hired murderers of Patrick Calboun, by his orders, fired right and Wt at men an<d <boys without warning, without authority, without need ; anid that brilliant young blood, Thornwall Mulally, Patrick Calhoun's nephew, gaily takes the responsibility and tells the newspapers that ' . HIS UNCLE'S HIRED MURDERERS were instructed to use their guns 'with moderation.' "Who owns the streets of this city ? If. Patrick Calhoun has a franchise to run cars on them, the citizens have a right before and beyond all franchises to use them. Patrick Calhoun claims the right to run his cars unmolested by cobblestones. The right is his by the law. The people claim the right to use the streets without being perforated by Calhoun's bullets. The right is theirs by the law. Why does not the City Government enforce this right ? Patrick Callioun murdered; a citizen m our streets. How is it that he is still at large ? Patrick Calhoun <-hot others who are ! lying close to death. How is that he is still at large ? Patrick Calhoun is preparing to send < . j new cargoes of his hired murderers. How is it that he' is still at large ? "Mr Patrick Calhoun deliberately began TO CREATE RIOTin San Francisco for his own purposes. What right, had he, a private man, to establish an arsenal m the heart of the oity ? Yet this is what he has done with his barns. From those bams his agents hav6 fired on the public without cause or provocation. What are the police about ? If there is a disorderly house m the city, u^-at do the police do v ?If there is a house from whlich oonxs sounds of., strife, of d'isoharg-ed firearms, from whese windows bullets fly into the streets, what doj&e police do ? "What are the Turk-street barns but house ? Is there any element of disorder wanting ' from the- infamous character of the inmates to TTTEIR WILD SHOOTING/ upon the people on the streets- ?. "But what arc- the police doing ? What- kind of a government have we that will permit such a disorderly house to exist and create mobs and riots ? The remedy is not to drive the people back with clubs and lay opon their skulls with staves. The remedy is to suppress the disorderly house and arrest the armed hoboes m it for vagrancy. Chief Dinan, you know very well that if Patrick Calhoun's thugs were turned loose on the city to-morrow without an occu.pation you would be compelled, m order to keep the peace, to run them out of town or to throw them into gaol. Why shouldn't you do the same now when you know that they are hired by a rich man to SHOOT DOWN THE POOR ?" The extracts that we have given show that the Uftited States is m a very much worse position as regards disputes between Labor and Capital than Australasia; and that 'there may yeit break out m the United States a oicil war of a much more serious character than that between the North, and the South. ECZEMA. 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