The Socialist and labor star. [volume], May 31, 1912, Image 4

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ceeded to call on varions Senators for
their support and interviewed the fol
lowing : Cummins of Iowa; Borah of
Idaho; Resd of Missouri; Swanson of
Virginia; Owen of Oklahoma; Gore of
Oklahoma; Hitchcock of Nebraska;
Southerland of Utah, and Morris,
Clapp and LaFallette of Wisconsin;
all these Senators promised their sup
port and records attest their truth
ful statements.
Your close observation will show
few Southern Senators mentioned,
the reason for this is, these southern
gentlemen have a game of their own
up their sleeve, to pull off next winter,
i. e. the disfranchisement of the negro,
and they want the help of certain
northern Senators, perfectly willing
to permit the white man to suffer to
spite the negro; poor politics indeed.
' The California Senators are holding
! back for fear if these precedents are
established, will lead to investigation
into the Alien land question in their
state.
Tuesday afternoon Senator Kern
reopened his support of his bill and
used all the information and data
your committea had furnished him,
with considerable more he had re
ceived. He showed where men had
been tried and imprisoned by drum
head court trial, deprived of judicial
rights; reviewing Mother Jones' case;
proved misuse of mails, etc. Showed
how children were deprived .of an
education on account of $500,000
being spent in maintaining a militia.
Not once was the Senator interupted
by opposition, but frequently question
ed by some Senator who was anxious
to gather valuable information for his
own benefit. The Senator proved
where mail was supressed and. rights
to organize stopped.
Senator Chilton finished thf. day
endeavoring to kill the bill, but his
remarks were weak and he continually
wandered in his appeal, sympathy was
conspicuous for its absence and public
sentiment against him.
On Wednesday afternoon at 2:00
o'clock Senator Goff took the floor in
his endeavor to have the bill referred
to the committee on education.
During his remarks. Senator Goff was
cross-fired by such hea\y guns' lie
Cummins, Borah. Reed, Southerland.
The continual humiliation Senator
Goff was put to by these giants
of law was pitiful to behold. Time
and time again he evaded the question
these judicial and constitutional mas
ters put to him, and every question
showed public sentiment leaning to
the Mexicanized West Virginians, who
were begging for industrial justice
the rights to organize and free speech.
White Senator Kern has been grate
ful in his endeavor to help the poor
suffering West Virginians in exposing,
the harrowing conditions in the strike
zone, yet organized labor in this state
must not over look such true friends
to our cause as supporters of Mr. Kern
we refer to Senators Cummins, Borah,
LaFollette. Reed, Hitchcock and
Southerland.
While the vote up to this time had
not been taken, your committee felt
safe in leaving Washington Thursday
on account of the optemistic outlook.
We left our case in the hands of
Messrs. Holder and Fairley who are
pushing the good work hard.
In summing up our report, we feel
it our duty to thank Mr. Morrison for
his valuable support and Mr. Wilson
of the Department of Labor. A. E.
Holder of the Legislative committee
of the A. F. of L.. and suggest our
Secretary be instructed to write them
with thanks for the willing spirit shown
towards your committee
Assuring you that we executed the
duties expected of us to the very best
of our ability respectfully submitted.
J. W. Swann. Chr'm. )
Harry Wright. > Com.
J. W. Holder. )
Another matter of great interest to
the Assembly was the bond election
to be held Saturday. It took the po
sition that if any bonds were issued
by the city of Huntington they should
be for the purpose of establishing a
municipal water plant, and decided
to oppose the proposed issue in the
election Saturday. A committee was
appointed to visit each local that met,
during the week and explain the po
sition of the Assembly \oward the
bond issue and urge their members to
vote against bonds.
Delegates fr?m the Bakers Union
reported that in all probabilities their
strike would be amicably adjusted
during the present week.
An assessment per capitia of 50
was levied to provide a special fund
for the Assembly to be used as it
might direct in cases of emergency.
Next meeting June 8.
Debs, Berger and Germer
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(Continued from first page)
letter the following has been received:
Charleston, W. Va? May 27, 1913.
E iwin Firth, Secy.,
Local Huntingtoh, Socialist Party
Huntington, W. Va.
Dear Comrade:?
Your communication of the 25th
inst. reached me last evening and has
been carefully read. I regret that your
members should censure me in my
absence and without a htaring and I
regrot this all the more because this
has been done, presumably, upon
evidence furnished by Capitalist news
papers.
Since our Committee has been in
this City a persistent effort has been
made to turn our menbers against us
and to create discension in our ranks
by circulating reports that are either
totally untrue or are but half truths
which are at times even more mis
chevious than downright lies.
I have made no statement that
could even be tortured into that for
which you have passed censure upon
me, and I think your members-should
know me well enough io know that I
would be incapable of such betrayal
of a trust by my Comrades as I am
seemingly charged with.
A deliberate falsehood was sent out
from here in reference to what I said
after our interview with Governor
Hatfield and I am satisfied that its
purpose was just . such as it reported
in your communication, viz, the turn
ing of our members against us and
their loss of confidence in us because
of our alleged betraval of our trust in
siding with the enemies of our fellow
workers. That any member couid en
tertain such an unwarranted charge
against us in such light regard, is in
deed a matter of pain as well as a sur
prise to me.
Yours fraternally,
E. V. Debs.
Following their last day of investi
gation in the Paipt and Creek terri
tory the committee sent the following
telegram to Senator Kern:
"It is imperative that the Kern reso
lution pass. Conditions have im
proved considerably but there is no
doubt that the federal constitution was
set aside in the coal regions. The
fundamental rights of citizenship were
denied, papers were suppressed, and
postal laws ignored. Under the guise
of law aod order, the military and
civil authorities substituted mob law
for constitutional government.
"Armored trains with machine guns
poured deadly fire into homes of de
fenseless men, women and children.
The senate owes the nation a search
ing investigation of the long reign of
lawlessness in the mining region of
West Virginia.
Ohio's Governor
Answers Goff
During a two-days speech in the
United States senate in opposition to
the passage of the Kern resolution,
Senator Goff became embroiled with
numerous senators of other states by
comparing industrial conditions in
West Virginia with those in other com
monwealths. Whenever the senile Goff
insisted that West Virginia compared
fovorably with some other state, in
varably a senator from the state thusly
libeled arose in his dignity and hotly
resented the slander.
In the course of his remarks Goff
attempted to point a moral by using
the Cincinnati streetcar strike as a
horrible example. "The governor who
will not call for the power of the state
if civil courts are not able to keep the
peace." said he, "is not worthy of the
aame of governor. If the governor of
Ohio would take a lesson from the
governor of West Virginia concerning
this situation where strife has prevail
ed and insurrection in fact exists, and
issue his martial-law orders there
would be peace in the great city in the
valley of Ohio."
Goff's advice that he should follow
Hatfield's example so enraged Gover
nor Cox. of Ohio, that he answers the
senator in asizzling letter which has
been incorporated in the Congression
al record. After pointing to the fact
that when the Traction Corporation
of Cincinnati found that he would not
frraish them the state soldiery to be
used as strike breakers, it settled the
difficulty with its employees,. Govern
or Cox pays his respects to Goff and
the state from which he hails, in the
following scathing arrangment:
"This was in marked contrast to'
the scenes so familiar to the senator
from West Virginia that one can easily
understand his resentment against a
civilized aud humane industrial con
dition that might sweep eastward over
the Ohio river and wipe out a situa
tion that has been a disgrace to the
republic for 20 years.
"In Ohio we court the intelligent |
criticism of our sister states, but we
looked with pity rather than resent
ment upon the lamentations of one
whose political and industrial stan
dards grew out of a condition ffiade ab
horrent in memory by the brutal
tyranny of government over human
rights."
A knowledge that there will be many
beautiful flowers heaped on my grave
won't pay my current grocery bill.
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"Fight 'Er Over Again"
Say Paint Creek Miners
By Sigurd Russell.
"We will have to fight her all over
again," is what the Paint Cabin Creek
boys are saying today. But the next
time they are going to win. And to
win they are willing to starve, to
freeze and fight again. They well
know that if they had held out a few
more days, that they would have
bettered their conditions. They well
| know that they were betrayed and
sold out at the lafet ditch and they
will never forgive or believe again
those who stood as their leaders and
who lead them back to work under
conditions worse than beiore the
strike. They can never forget the
threats made by a United Mine Work
er Union official on the 3rd of May
1913 at Hollygrove. when he came
there with Moore, who represented
the Governor, and said to them. If
you do not return to work we will
take down the tents from over your
heads." Nor will they ever forget the
letter they received two days after,
tellinff them that, "if they did not go
back to work thai iheir supplies
would be cut off."
Governor iiatfield cannot fool them
again, Tom Haggerty and Joe Vasey
they now know. And even the militia
cannot keep them from winning their
next strike.
General Elliott told me a few days
ago that all the men had returned to
work. That the miners were satisfied
and that their conditions had been
bettered. That the Mine Guard had
been ousted from the coal fields, and
that the men were committing num
erous acts of sabotage, such as burn
ing mines and tipples and that they
were secretly damaging property in
general.
I asked him to put some of his
statements on paper over his signa
ture and he refused to do so. Where
upon I decided to go up the Creeks
to find out the facts of the situation
myself.
1 started on the day Parsons went
home after 101 days of imprisonment
in various dungeons and Bull Pens.
It was holiday up Paint Creek. Miners
! were at each train to meet him. Men,
women and children, young and old,
rejoiced at the coming back of the
comrade who had made the first
speech on Socialism up the Creek.
They were greeting their blacksmith,
their lawyer and their fellow worker
who had shown himself true blue. It
was the happiest day that they had
lived since the sell~out-settlement.
Most of them simply said "Mighty
glad to see you back" or "You know
how I stood, that's how 1 stand now.
We will have to fight her over again."
I found that many miners had been
discharged because they were social
ists or because they were strong union
men. That many nad been refused
jobs, and that many refused absolute
ly to go back to work under present
conditions.
As far as the Mine Guards go,
though they are not committing as
many murders as before, they arc as
much in evidence as they ever were
and their daring :-.nd tyranny is still
beyond description.
As far as baing satisfied goes, no
men who have to work under star\
ing conditions will ever be satisfied.
They are disconted with the mine
owners, the Guards, the Governor and
the United Mine Workers Union. To
them the socinlisi s are the only foice
that can save thtm i-nd that is will
ing to stand by them through thick
and thin. And they wave the banner
of Socialism higher than ever before.
Soon they will strike again and no
force on earth can hold them from
victory.
Arvilla Girls Making
Hit At The Placade
The Placade is making the hit of its
existence at present .in presenting
The Arvilla Girls, headed by Sue
Goodwin, in Musical Comedy.
The girls are drawing packed houses
and nothing but praise for their ex
cellent work is being heard. The
entire program is changed twice a
week, and on Friday nights when the
local amatuers hold forth the fun
reaches its climax.
A special summer schedule of
prices. 10c and 20c, has been put into
effect, and will continue throughout
the season.
A splendid orchestra of UNION
musicians render the latest melodious
strains, and is in a great measure
responsible for the tremend jus success
being attained by the cozy little
theatre. Remember the Placade when
in search of real pleasure.
"Slug Tin and Jug 'fin"
Motto Suggested by Debs
By J. L. Engdahl.
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Charleston, W. Va. May 19. ?
"Slug 'em and jug 'em!" That is the
new motto suggested for the coat of
arm of the sovereign state of West
Virginia by T ugene V. Debs.
The veteran Socialist, who is again
back in the blackest spot on the
United States fighting for the rights
of the rising workers, feels that that
is the insignia that ought to float over
the Duchy Elkins-Davis. until present
conditions have been radically chang
ed in favor of the working class.
When wage slavery has been abol
ished and the last bit of feudalism
driven from the state, then it is con
sidered early enough to restore the
present state motto ? "Montani Sem
per Liberi" ? meaning "Mountaineers
are always fee men."
"The reigning policy in West Vir
ginia at the present time," declares
Debs, who has come to the state to
investigate conditions in the Kanawha
war zone as the special ambassador
of the Socialist party, "is to drive all
union men from the state and to beat
up, jail, and imprison the organizers
of labor. For that reason the motto
of, "Slug 'em and jug em" would be
especially appropriate."
Deb's last visit to the state was
during the presidential campaign of
last fall when he spoke in this city in
spite of the refusal of the authorities
to permit the Socialists to use a hall
and in the face of efforts to stop the
meeting altogether.
The coal czars of West Virginia
have heard of Debs before. As long
ago as August. 1897, he invaded the
state and was met with the first anti
labor injunction ever issued, this
form of judicial tyranny at that time
blossoming into popularity with the
rulers of West Virginia.
Debs was accompanied by William
D. Mahon.now the international presi
dent of the street car men. They
would not pern j ir him to go near the
mines. It was said, however, that his
words were like "ride shots" and the
men in mine after mine left their
working places and came out on
strike. In one part of the state the
miners held their meetings under a
large tree, all indoor meetings having
bjjen forbidden. The coal barons be
came so incensed over these meetings
that the tree was dynamited out of
the ground. All that now remains is
a large hole in the ground.
The fight of the West Virginia coal
miners has been a long fight. It is be
lieved that the present opportunity
will result in the complete organiza
tion of the entire state. There are at
present about 20,000 union miners in
the state with about 60.000 still out
side of the organization. West Vir
ginia' is one of the strategic points in
the nation's coal mining situation
from the workers' standpoint. This is
especially true insofar ns it pertains
to the miners of Illinois, Indiana and
Ohio, whose products come in direct
competition with the output of the
West Virginia coal miners, just as the
products of the non-union Alabama
mines compete with the union mines
of Pennsylvania.
The unionizing of the West Virginia
mines therefore means a closing of
the ranks in the forward march
against the power and the resources
of the American coal kings. It means
that the membership of the United
Mine Workers of America will soar
above the 400 000 mark making of
this militant labor organization the
largest body of organized workers on
the American continent and is
only superseded by the metal
workers' union of Germany.
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And God Said -"Let Ti'here Be Light."
By P. C. RijssELL.
Why should turning on the light sjo affright
If there's no awful sight, or feariVuil plight,
To be hidden from public observation?
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hern
^discrimination?
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Why are facts firmly sealed and
If nothing can be revealed in thd
That would show a reign of inf
To thoroughly investigate, cannot
Why should Kern, cause such co
Unless its feared he learn or dis
Some foul scheme or system o
J^arefuliy concealed,
coal .field
Hmous intimidation'.'
harm the state,
But. may legally terminate .and forever relegate
A system of hideous, criminal i ntoleration.
So, all the sickening cant of the sycophant,
Who is paid to rant by the cormorant,
Will not lessen the demand for an investigation.
A business that is right, need no$ fear the light,
Only intolerant might, which is nitver right,
Stands in fear of redressful, leg'pi regulation.
(By Covington Hall.)
Rebellion comes, hope's sacred fire,
To Freedom's son from Freedom's
sire:
A soul-breath swordsmen cannot kill.
Nor gold, nor cross, nor rifle still.
Wilh Lucifer it marched on God
And broke Jehovah's scourging rod:
i It stood with Christ in Pilate's hall
And doomed the Caesars to their
fall.
If sent Gautama on his quest,
Him Asia calls her light and blest:
With Quetzaleoatl, long ago,
It stirred the heart of Mexico.
With Moses it for freedom sought;
Wilh wild Mahomet, too, it fought;
It gave Zoroaster all his fame.
Confucius his deathless name.
With Cromwell's legions, grim and cold
It trampled 011 the statutes old;
Willi Voltaire. Murat am! St. .lust,
It raged 'till Europe rose from dust.
; It called Abe Lincoln from the plains.
Set Marx and Ferrer breuking
chains.
And hovered o'er the Commune when
It fired the souls of workingmen.
'Tis that which stirs the race today ?
lis that which makes truth's light
nings play ?
'Tis Revolution in its birth ?
The st >11 1 of Freedom ? the light of
earth ?
REBELLION!
Contentment may be better than
riches, but riches might help conside
rably toward contentment.
To be popular, be an appreciative
listener and if forced to say anything
say what your hearer wants to hear.
Socialist State Com
mittee Meetim
Ifiie state committee of the S
Pnfyy met fit Parkersburg Sunday,
with thi? following commitU'e!iu|i
present: Smith, Kenzer, (>illesjii<;,
Kirj|endii and Secretary Hoii^mi.
Coniradej Houston tendered his n -.ii;
natton aa Secretary, to tako c fleet
Junta lsfj which was accepted, ami L '
H. Jj^inzer appointed by the < ora
mitl^^qiil^i'the vacancy until \
refei^ejj^^eiection can be called
e pjh'cipal thing of interest jfi
ormiittee was the situation' in
Kaiiiwha county and the persecution
of Socialists and the. confiscation of
Socialist newspapeis by the military i
government. Resolutions endorsing
the Kern resolution looking to a l'etiu
ral investigation of West Virginia were
passed and copies sent to members
of the Senate.
A; message was sent loth'* National
Socialist Committee urging it to center
the support of the entire purty in it:e ?
West Virginia struggle.
Resolutions commending the elTnrts !
of the United Mine Worker:- of j
America in organizing the miners of J
the state, and pledging them tb*
active support of the party, v. ere |
pas
1 amendments to party s
lstitution v; ere proposed a:.'! j
iferred to referendum it f?-r: j
ilurphy, of Parker. sburg, :
state Correspondent. and will j
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