The Socialist and labor star. [volume], May 31, 1912, Image 2

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Everything for Boys Td Wear
For These Last Weeks e! Sciwl
Here are the Norfolks that stand at
the head of the clothing class.
They average 100 per cent, on
quality, style aad individuality.
Large variety for large boys.
Prices $3.75 to $10.00
For the little ones all kinds of kin
dergarten novelties in Sailor Russian
Blouse.
Liberal assortment of Wash Suits,
$1.00 tc ?3.00
The Store That Was Born With Huntington
ISSUED EVERY FRIDAY
Ownfd and published by the Socialist Printing Company (Incorporated) of
Huntington West Virginia. Official organ of the Socialist Party and of The
Huntington Trades & Labor Assembly, Huntington
Business Office - - - 2007 Seventh Avenue.
W. H. THOMPSON - - - Editor
This paper assumes no responsibi
lity for the opinions of contributors
as expressed in signed articles.
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tive to your place of business.
Entered at the postoffiee at Huntington. West Virginia, as second-class
matter. May 31. 1912. under Act of March 3. 1879.
Address ail business communications to the Socialist &. Labor Star.
2007 Seventh Avenue. Huntington. W. Va.
Law and Order
We have been given an object lesson in just what is meant by
"Law and Order."
It seems that the powers thst be despaired of our ever learning just what
the phrase Law and Order", really means, bv simply hearing it eft repeated
by the coal operators' newspapers, so they treated us to a dose of the con
coction. even forcing it upon us by the right of might.
The first intimation that any "law and order" was abroad in Huntington
was discovered in the wee sma' hours uf Friday morning. May 9, when the
homes of those citizens who have been actively engaged in the production
of this paper were surrounded by officers and the sleeping occupants awaken
ed and dragged off to jail. With these desperate criminals safely incarcerated
"Law and Order" had a clear fie'd and it immediately went into action.
First i: visited the plant of The Socialist Printing Company, located at
the corner of Seventh avenue and Twentieth street, gained admittance by
crawling through the transom over the front u^or and the second example
of "Law and Order" iu its perfection was shown. The plant containing about
$4000.00 worth of material and machinery usual to the printing business
was almost entirely wrecked, The company's business papers, correspondence,
contracts, files, copy, books, etc.. were spirited away and have not as yet
returned.
Law and Order" then proceeded to Editor W. H. Thompson's residence
at 1950 Ninth avenue, forced its way into the iiouse. searched it thoroughly
and accumulated another assortment of private papers, correspondence, etc.
"Law and Order" deeming that it had sufficiently demonstrated its meth
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ods to the benighted citizens of this city, departed with its captives for the
Capitol City, its natural lair, where it deposited its victims in the filthy
Kanawha County jail. The aforesaid victims had ample opportunity during
'.he following 14 days to ponder on the ways and appreciate fuily the beauti
i iu1. system of this great, new invention ? "Law and Order."
Af:er two weeks' meditation on the part of the captives, ii was decided,
by ; hose ministers of the new species, that in all probability they had be
come ardent proselytes of the strange, weird ffelth, so they were turned out
of the Workers' Palace in the city where the new cult holds forth, and allow
ed to begin the pilgrimage back to their homes
A iargt. and efficient' company was engaged in .-.raging the first appearance;
of "Law and Order", iu this city. It was headed by two valiant local soldiers.
Major Tom Davis and Lieut. Tempieton. who in addition to their activities
in spreading the propaganda of the new cult a!s..- .abor diligently at drawing
pay from the local municipal government. These two leaders, evidently
wishing to give their fellow-townsmen and neighbors the best demonstration
possible. far exceeded their authority and instructions, it was alleged by
Geui-rai Eiiiott who seems to he high priest of the new doctrine, in launching j
the new movement in these waters.
k was a rather expensive experience to those recipients of the degree !
work ? costing them something over $2000.00 in property and business de-j
stroyed, and two weeks of their iives. ? I
However, ihe honor conferred by making them the sacrifics! offering will
no doubt in some measure atone for the pecuniary losses.
A COWARDLY ATTACK
After a year's silent waiting for an opportunity of cowardly revenge
upon The Star and its editor, the Herald-Dispatch welcomed the distraction
Of our plant and the incarceration of our staff as the long sought for opening,
alld evidently believing that we would never recover from the dastardly
blow, struck in the dark, it proceeded to puke out its long confined rage In
two columns of rotten lies, under the head of "confiscation.".
Among the mass of misstatements under this head we find the follow
ing libelous declaration, aimed not only at the Star and its editor but at the
3,500 union men of the city :
"The utterances of the paper did not comport with the views of
the RESPECTABLE PART OF THE CITIZENSHIP of Huntington.
While it was called in part "The Labor Star," its rabid utterances
; and its position as an abbetor of murder, arson and defiance of the
' law did not meet with the approval of the laboring men of the
city * * ? On the contrary they were the first to condemn it,
even as they have been the first to approve of the steps that have
been taken for its suppression."
While the Herald-Dispatch was circulating this libel the Huntington
Trades and Labor Assembly, composed of delegates from each of the 30
"affiliated local unions, was holding a special meeting to protest against the
ijlegal seizure of their official organ. In addition to the strongly worded pro
test sent the state authorities at Charleston, a committee of three, was sent
at the expense of the Assembly, to the national capitol at Washington to
demand from the highest authority in the land that which it had been im
possible to secure in their own state ? justice and respect for their rights
and property. Largely as a result of this action by the Workers Organization
of this city, those persons connected with the Star and who had been de
ported to a distant jail, were released, and promises of complete restitution
of confiscated property were made.
As to the vicious libels so industriously circulated by the mental prosti
tutes, moral prevertf and physical cowards who are responsible for their
appearance in the editorial columns o? the Herald-Dispatrh, they shall be
answered for in a legal and lawful manner when once again civil law is
established in West Virginia. j
AN EXPLANATION.
Only those of our readers who have seen a printing establishment
immediately after it had been struck by a cyclone can comprehend the diffi
culties we have encountered in getting out this, the first ...issue of The Star
jince our plant was wrecked by the militia during the night of May 8. We
have been compelled to set up and print small stctions of the paper at a
time, then distribute the meagre supply of type remaining after the wreck,
?nd set up and print other sections. This issue has been in process of con
struction for two weeks, which explains some of the paradoxical statements
it contains. For instance on page 3 will be found an article dealing with
the strike of the Bakery Workers Union. Since this was printed the diffi
culties between the Bakers and their employers have been amicably adjust
ed, as is related in the article on the first page. Various oilier similar cases
may be discovered, and we offer as an excuse therefor the difficulties as
stated above.
TIN HORN COMIC OPERA
The merry gentleman from McDowell county West Virginia is manipu
lating things in a manner that would furnish plots galore f'o: many an up
to-date comic opera. With a flourish of bayonets and a gallant charge of
valiant swashbuckling yellow boys, the Labor Argus was ,- ut to rout. A few
days of peaceful exploitation and coupon clipping isenjoyed. Then Caramba !
the miners are seen sitting in the quiet of the evening enjoying their pipes
with the Labor Star across the knees of every subscriber thu Labor Argus.
Again is there marching and counter-inarching. A call for volunteers is
issued. White to the lips but resolute. Major Tom Davis. Lieut. Rappitoe,
Lieut. Templeton, step forth prepared for the midnight raid on what ? the
enemies camp? No ? a printing plant and a sleeping boy! Here is fitting
work for the army of the little mountain state. Raids perpatrated at mid
night in the name of Holy Law and Order make a citizen smile ? or curse.
But the work is done and the Labor Star is temporarily unhorsed. Aj<ain
does the dividing up go peacefully on. But. Hell ablaze ! the guffaws up the
creeks can be heard clear to the Capitol. Almost cverv mine" ?i? West Vir
ginia is grinning and reading the Appeal to Reason. Now, Major Tom, here
is a man's job. Go and suppress the Appeal. But we'll promise you one
thing, when you after those Kansas farmers, who happen to be reai free
men. if they are not mountaineers, it will be different woil than chasing an
egg throwing thug up a back alley with him exploding blank cartridges in
your face.
THE JAPANESE WAR SCARE.
We sometimes wonder what powerful interests have stirred this
Japanese m?ss to the heat it .Mas attained. We do not have ten thousand
in America. Do we, who are so boastful of the glories of competition, fear
this little hand of Japs? Some interest more powerful than the small farm
ing element affected in California is fomenting this strife.
Ine tide of unrest in America is daily growing more menacing. The de
mands of the working class for better conditions, less hours, more education
are insistent and haughty. Our land, or the capitalist's land rather, presents
a spectacle of nation-wide industrial strife between employer and employe.
To divert the attention of the workers from their misery and enduce them
to go murdering Japs for patriotic reasons (?) is not beyond 'he American
bucaneers of finance.
- When we force all jingo editors, capitalists and preachers to bear the
brunt of every battle, then there will be no wars.
GOVERNOR HATFIELD.
Mr. Hatfield, salaried servant of the people of West Virginia, has seen
fit to order military confiscation of two Socialist newspapers that had the
effrontery to disagree with him in regard to the merits and ' merits of the
controversy on Paint and Cabin Creeks. In a manner unparelled in American
annals he has ridden roughshod over b!oud-ili>ught priceless liberties of the
American people.
Mr. Hatfield, you are dealing with American citizens not Russian serfs
and the man doesn't live who can tell us what to think and what to say.
The settlement you proposed in the coal strike did not suit Comrade
Thompson, and he, thinking he was in a land where free expression and dis
cussion is a cardinal principle, spoke up like a man and srd so.
For this you send armed midnight maranders and destroyed- our private
property. And then you call us anarchists ! Your order the home of a lone
woman ransacked without a warrant, and then you tell ui- we must obey the
law !
? You confine American citizens in foul jails indefinitely, without a hear
ing, and then you tell us we must obey the law.
This strange interpretation of law jars harshly on American ears.
If the Socialist and Labor Star libels anyone we should be punished.
If. the Labor Star has broken any law of the land we should be taken into
court, have a jury determine the extent of the wrong and mete out judg
ment. But we want to know the name of the American would say that
we should be accused and condemned by the judgement -.ne man.
*The working class pay the salary of every public offi in West Vir
ginia and if any one of them merits our displeasure we will --Hticise him, be
he Governor or dog-catcher.
A Peeved Schoolboy.
-Somebody on the illustrious editoria stall of the loca: H v.. ling-Dispatch
is peeved. Senator Kern, who looks like a real man to us. %y\< had the cour
age to say openly what every honest man knows in his ' irr. an 1 that is,
that the Socialists are in the vanguard of every fight fo- liberty and right.
The editorial strumpet on the Herald-Dishpan is imine, 1 * ; rely kicked onto
the job of defending his masters. And such a defense! Li. i-r the caption of
"Democracy and Socialism" this fetch and carry reveals w ,c extent a
person can prostitute his soul.
This mess of coarse, cowardly, lying invective Will sick~-i any intelligent
man or woman, and as for the opinion of fools we care c, ning.
Gillespie TeUs Hi*
Experiences As
Prisoner of War
C
On Friday morning May 9th at j
1:15 a. m., the writer with four ojiier
Stockholders of the Socialist Printing
Company, were arrested at the eom-1
mand of Henry D. Hatfield, Gover
of West Virginia, nd taken to the !
Cabell County jail. On Saturday morn- j
ing the Sheriff was ordered to turn j
over his five prisoners to the military j
officers. We were taken to Charleston ;
and placed in a filthy jail. The war- ?
rant called for our confinement in j
Cabell county jail.
After reaching Charleston, one of
the men arrested was taken to the
office of Adj. General Eiliott where]
he was questioned about the paper
printed in Huatington known as the
Socialist &. Labor Star. This man in- J
formed Mr. Elliott of the aflairs o! j
the company and the pnper printed i
at their plant. On Saturday night j
about 8 o'clock two others were called j
and taken before Cen. Elliot t who;
said in part, that the Governor w as j
called oat of town but he Sad had a;
short talk with him that day in regard j
to these two men. He began by say- ;
ing that the Governor, in looking for^
causes that resulted in the industrial j
war in the various counties in the j
state, had his attention called to the ,
Labor Argus and the Socialist and .
Labor Star, in conjunction with e'er- ,
tain labor agitators and socialist, be- ,
cause their speeches and writings j
had so inflamed the miners that they j
armed themselves with high power
guns, and caused war, and thai when ,
the militia went to the trouble zone i
there were more guns in a small dis-j
trict than were in the whole state ]
militia. He said that the Governor |
has power to arrest and imprison j
all persons who aid. abet, or assist in |
any way this alleged lawlessness, and j
as you men are teehnically responsi
ble for the printed matter in the.
Labor Star you are guilty because ,
you are officers and stockholders in
the paper.
He stated that mine guards have
been disarmed and either arrested ,
or driven out of the district; thai not
only miners but guards ami operators!
have been arrested for violation ??f ,
law. When a>k why all prisoners were
not tried by civil court with due pro
cess of law in West Virginia now. he
said that you could not get any one
to serve warrants or try to exercise
their duty as civil officers, fur ii was j
as much as his life was worth to go
in this district.
He said to Mr. Sturm that it was
a pity that men of such intelligence
as he would employ such men vis
Thompson to run a paper, "lamaj
student of human nature, he sain, ,
"and I believe that Boswidl, Brown, j
Merrick and Thompson have diseased j
brains, and are dangerous to the pub
lic. Such should be watched, and the ,
governor will hold them until such ,
time as the trouble in the strike zone I
is settled. The state according to the
militia has evidence enough to send j
them to the penitentiary." Asked: why;
not try them by jury? He became i
angry. He was told that that isvih.it
we demanded, a trial by jury for all j
prisoners. He told us about some of
the things he advocated that did nut I
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please the governor, such as treating
both sides of the conflict alike; that
the mine guard system was a menace
to peace; that men armed with au
thority based on force became vicious
and hrutaL and would do many things
that they otherwise wmld not do, and
it must not be continued. Also that
there was two sides to this trouble.
The operators had machine gun6
mounted on the hills and they with0
their hired guards were just as much
to blame for the war in Paint and
Cabin Creek as the miners who had
to protect themselves. He told of
some of the places where these miners
lived and said they were so bad that
if the company did not fix them fit
for-habitatipn he, Elliott, would burn
them down.
?He told us that he received several
telegrams from Huntington from
prominent men stating what kind of
men we were and because of these
telegrams he would allow us to go
back to our families. (We wish to say
here that we heartily appreciate this
action on the part of our friends.)
At this juncture we discussed
the protest meeting held at Hunting
ton, which was about the only sub
ject that we said anything at all tf.'i
ing how the meeting was disturbs!
and nearly broken up. He said Major
Davis had phoned him about tlir
trouble there and that he, Davis, had
tried to capture the disturbers. Then >
I to'd him that we only wanted our
conswitutional right and that I held :o
that subject in my speech.
He said we could publish o>ir pojH-r
if there was not anything personal or
libelous in it. With this he bade us
good night. G. W. Gillesph:.
The Star and The Labor Argus
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We liolii these truths to be self-evident; that all men are created
equal: that they are endowed by their Creator with certain INALIEN
ABLE RIGHTS: that among these are LIFE, LIBERTY, and the
PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS; that, TO SECURE those RIGHTS. GOV
ERNMENTS ARE INSTITUTED among men, DERIVING their JUST
POWERS .FROM THE CONSENT OF THE GOVERNED; that. WHEN
ANY FORM OF GOVERNMENT BECOMES DESTRUCTIVE OF
THESE ENDS. IT IS THE RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE TO ALTER OR
ABOLISH IT. and TO INSTITUTE A NEW GOVERNMENT. LAYING
ITS FOUNDATION ON SUCH PRINCIPLES, AND ORGANIZING ITS
POWERS IN SUCH FORM. AS TO THEM SHALL SEEM MOST
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Have you ever received interest on money you have saved? If not
a new sensation awaits you. Without lifting a finger the dollar you save
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If you want all your future years made easy by a liberal pension
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Come in aud open a savings account, we will loan you one of our
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