Published Monthly, $2.00 a year; Canada, $2.25; other countries, $2.50. Bundle Rate: 10 for $1.20; 20 for $2.40; 100 for $12.00-non-returnable. Published by the General Executive Board of the T Henry Ford for President HERE'S an old story told of a primitive settler who alternately encouraged a grim struggle between a bear and his wife, neither of whom he very highly esteemed, by shouting, "Go it, bear! Go it, Maw!!" The workers should feel the same way regarding the political struggle now going on between Wall St. and Henry Ford. They should shout, "Go it, Wall St.! Go it, Henry!!" in the hope that they will mutually despatch one another. One thing is certain, namely, since Henry has appeared as a presidential candidate many facts about himself, not generally popularized by himself, are getting extensive circulation. And before election 1924 comes round, Wall St. no doubt, will have exposed Henry for what he really is, while more truths than previously known will be afloat regarding "the world's greatest financial center" Go it, Wall St. Go it, Henry!! Rejoice, for between now and November, 1924, Henry Ford's brutal paternalism will be exposed! So will his moron-producing engineering and his scientific skinning of the working class. Then will his stupendous avariciousness, his colossal profiteering and absolute lack of philanthropic endeavor, together with his capricious Caesarean egoism, be given the light of day. Then will Henry Ford stand revealed as the American Herr Stinnes, swallowing the railroads, coal and iron mines, waterways, power plants, newspapers, movies, etc., etc. And, oh, what won't Henry say about Wall St. and its strangle hold on credit, its ruin of the farmer and its "crimes against the common people." We rub our hands with glee and look forward to as big a muckraking campaign as has agitated a presidential year since the Bryan-Altgeld days of 1896. Go it, Wall St.! Go it, Henry!! But all joking aside, why should not Henry Ford be the next president of the United States? Just as his counterpart, Herr Stinnes, is the dominant power in the German republic? The richest man in the world, economically speaking, ought logically to dominate the richest capitalism in the world, politically speaking. Then will politics truly reflect economics. Again, government is representative of big business. Whose business is bigger than Henry's that government can more consistently be representative of? And as the tendency of government is paternalistic, where is there a more paternalistic plutocrat than Henry Ford to make the government of the U. S. A. the most paternalistic of all? We wonder. By all means, Henry, pitch into Wall St. and, Wall St., don't forget to hand Henry a wallop as often as you can. Perhaps then some of what Frank Vanderlip calls "our economic illiterates" will receive a few lessons in an eye-opening prejudice-shocking manner. Go it, Wall St! Go it, Henry! What's On the Workers' Mind There is a general belief existing to the effect that the workers are too cowardly to organize for their own protection and advancement. It is charged that war hysteria has instilled the emotion of fear in them so deeply as to make them incapable of manly self-assertion in their own interests. Apparently, there is much to be said in favor of this theory. It does look as if the workers are afraid of their own shadows. But there are other and different theories accounting for the actions of the working class. One of these asserts that the working class is confused, nay, dazed, as a result of the war and its aftermath. They seem to be unable to straighten out the whole bloody cataclysmic tangle to their own satisfaction. say that this condition of working class stupefaction has at least one very hopeful feature, namely, those afflicted with it will listen. They will try to learn and get at the bottom of the matter that baffles their understanding. Such material should not be neglected by our readers. Get out among them. Straighten them out and set them on the road to working class industrial organization and emancipation. Begin by pushing the working class press among them. Make them familiar with the working class view of capitalism, war and labor organization. Do that and there will be a psychological revolution that will ultimately end in the ON San Pedro Strike Meeting. Conviction of 27 Starts General Strike N July 12, following the conviction of 27 I. W. W. prisoners at Los Angeles, Calif., the Marine Transport Workers' I. U. No. 510, went out on a protest strike at San Pedro, the harbor of the aforenamed city. Other industrial unions also took action. The General Construction Workers' branch at Portland, Ore., in special meeting the same day, went on record to call a general strike immediately for release of all class-war prisoners in support of action taken in San Pedro. Industrial Solidarity, in issue just off the press as Industrial Pioneer is being made up, dwells as follows on the situation created by the conviction of the 27: The General Strike may soon sweep over the Western coast ports and into the woods and agricultural districts! Three branches of the I. W. W. in Seattle, Wash., and in San Pedro, Cal., have been so roused by the hideously unfair verdict of the Los Angeles county jury in convicting 27 I. W. W. prisoners that they are calling on the membership at large and the unorganized as well to make this most serious protest. I. W. W. general headquarters in Chicago is in receipt of telegrams from these two points, at opposite ends of the Western coast line. The telegrams tell the story. The first was sent just before the verdict in the case of the 27 wobblies accused of criminal syndicalism was rendered; it is from San Pedro, and it reads: "Soon as jury brings in verdict, if it is guilty or fine; a five-day general strike starts in the Marine Transportation Workers' Industrial Union No. 510 of the I. W. W., and also in Oil Workers' Industrial Union here. Please ask East coast and also Agricultural Workers' Industrial Union to co-operate with us, and show their solidarity. John Farley, Port Delegate." The next wire sets the date for the San Pedro section of the walkout: "Marine Transport Workers' Industrial Union No. 510 of the I. W. W. go on record to go on strike the seventh month, the twelfth day, 1923, at ten a. m., in protest against conviction of the 27 fellow workers in Los Angeles. Yours for Solidarity. Let's go!-Port Delegate." So much for San Pedro. When the news of these actions reached the big I. W. W. stronghold in the Northwest, Seattle branch of Lumber Workers' Industrial Union No. 120 took the matter up at once. A special branch meeting elected a Ways and Means Committee of five to draw up resolutions to cover the matter of the conviction of the 27 members of the I. W. W. in Los Angeles, and to devise ways and means to co-operate with Marine Transport Workers' Industrial Union No. 510. The committee reported, and the following resolutions were carried unanimously: 1-We are in favor of the resolutions acted upon by this body being published in all I. W. W. publications and we request editors of the I. W. W. publications to write an article for their respective papers in connection with resolutions. 2-We, the undersigned, resolve that, insofar as 510 and 230 of San Pedro have gone on record for a protest strike in case of a verdict of guilty in the case of the 27 fellow workers who were active in putting out literature and propaganda during the strike for release of all class-war prisoners, and are asking the members of the Northwest for co-operation. Therefore, Be It Resolved, As a verdict of "guilty" has been brought in, we, the members of 120, Seattle branch, in special meeting this eleventh day of July, call upon members of other branches to take action in regard to pulling a strike off the job as a protest against the continued imprisonment of class-war prisoners and the recent Los Angeles verdict. Therefore, We ask the members of the I. W. W. to notify the ways and means committee as soon as possible in regard to any action that can be taken in other localities. Be It Further Resolved, That we call upon all members of the I. W. W. to make plans to call an immediate strike at any time in the future when a verdict of guilty is brought in against any of our fellow workers on trial for organization activities. (Signed) Ways and Means Committee, Card Nos. 788533, 741806, 259732, 412105, 510973. The war clouds appear to be gathering again in Europe. The British and French are now struggling for European economic supremacy. The Gaul seems destined to take the place of the Hun in the next "war for democracy," etc. The price of living is soaring. Organize to send wages up after it. Four TH 110's Best Drive Ever! HE biggest and best drive in the history of Agricultural Workers' Industrial Union No. 110 of the I. W. W. is under way. If the present rate of initiations continues, it will mean that 1923 will run 100 percent over 1922, which was a good year. As a result, the office of Agricultural Workers' Industrial Union No. 110 is taking on a very active appearance. The work of enrolling members is going on apace. The A. W. I. U. is also active in raising the I. U. 110 Bail and Bond quota of $13,150.00, and they are sure they will get their quota. In three hours a stationary delegate issued $1000 worth of bond stamps to delegates, and the job delegates are selling them like hot cakes. The season is in favor of the agricultural workers. In Kansas the farmers are holding up autos with the shipments of labor agencies, and "inducing" the workers thereon to go with them instead of the farmers to whom they were consigned. This demand will rebound to the benefit of the workers organized in the I. W. W. then for the migratory workers was one damned denial after another. "That was before the advent of the A. W. I. U. But since its coming these things have changed. If they have not been entirely uprooted, they have been considerably modified. Organization has improved the conditions for the migrant workers and more organization will bring greater comfort and more security. The standard of today when compared with that of a decade ago, is something of which the A. W. I. U. membership may well be proud. "And it is not only in the harvest fields but wherever the I. W. W. has secured foothold enough to influence industries, a similar improvement is to be noticed. The lumber, general construction and marine transport industries testify to the value of I. W. W. unionism to the working class. Life for the workers in these industries is better worth living than previous to the coming of the I. W. W. "We must not permit ourselves to lose sight of the fact that the destinies of the A member of 110 writes from the field workers in all industries and in all localities on the situation there, as follows: "It reminds me of conditions in the harvest field ten years ago. The hours of labor for harvest workers ran from 12 to 14 on the average, and wages were from $2 to $2.50. The food supplied was of inferior quality, without variety and badly cooked. The harvest workers were knocked around by bullying "town clowns" and plug-ugly railroad bulls. They had no status in law and secured no justice in the courts. Life are interlinked. So that, after following out our program for the small grain belt, we shall prepare to muster our forces for the final tilt in California which will end the criminal syndicalism law in that state, and prove conclusively that economic solidarity is vastly more influential than any other weapon the workers may employ. "The criminal syndicalism law is tottering under the resistance with which the I. W. W. has met it. Men with the spirit |