Daily British Whig (1850), 6 Nov 1912, p. 11

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a OBSERVER IN VANCOU RLDWIDE R THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, WE DNESD AY, NOVEMBER @. 1012 T VER CAMP : STUDIES REMARKABLE METHODS OF INDUSTRIAL WORKERS. repudiated by the American Federation! srighi, 1812, ¥¥ ihe New Fork Hermid Co an co! Labor and by the different craft unions. | Hopyr {1 b . . 4 arin : erred.) | "I'he craft and labor unions want a fair} "gh vas 8 camp of the Revi wage fur & fair day's work," says Vioeetit) Tution, that strange biv- $i Why should we receive a wage al 1a ali while some one else takes the profit? visited When the great revolniiofi comes We Wil rugged mountains where op the industries of the world and op- jug & railroad throwgh al-(1o do more than enough work to make Lis living. 'There will be no ae umulation of Jobin. "Why' should we strike for near - Vageouver, that? i men were engaged in hew- orate them, and no map will be permitted i BY MICHAEL J. WESTOVER, ouac which 1 is the wort impassable barriers thrown up by cap . nalnre, During the lavi year the jalls of Pa- We laugh sometimes at the frequency cific coast cities" from San Diego to) of 'peedtaiidns in onr Hittle Central Ameri- Prince Rupert almost continually housed can nelghbess, hat right now there is ath. WW, leaders. Sometimes they were crowded three in a cell. When it became with, perstaient movement wiming for. Ce authorities were locking revolution, (he "great revolution." {up organizers who delivered themselves Its promoters Weid no parlor socialists, lof inflammatory speeches there was 4 the men of thi camp, where 1,500 fabarers rush of seif-saerificing 1. W. W. mem fived in gnllen idieten, vefusing to return bers to the towns Where trouble Was : ; ' i t themselves 16 work withough the very men on strike 81000 dud these prompil, gv » : had Geen 'paid ligher wages for their work | "Is It trne." 1 asked the organizer of ghan that fype of Taborer had ever before the 1. W. W. camp, "ihal yon pay $00 reecived. They had been serving in con-|a month to every man who goes to Jane" stroction gangs and as shovel wen, and| 3 - heute. iS wre gery The A > = {general good, and for every. man a pecelved a mivimive of $2.75 8 day for the} a 10 Jail there Be 3 shinusnd wep ¥horel men and as bigh as $11 & day forl \on plese work on the ranaels. 1 showed him a handbill advoeafivg =» Bit a fafr wage for a fair day's work tri hour day, da¢ not jurerest the leaders of the Indus. | "You know that in impossible," ~ sail vA doctor couldn't practises bis professtan win Wan of the World ae inl that sehiednle a single day, Neither siéli Gd8bs Where (he motto may be need] 14 a nurse nor @ tewcher nor a vailrowd AY A war ¢ry to bpeed discontent among conductor live on those work hobrs. You workingmen. fu this case it was jmpe-|conld mot man your sewn home with you font | wife for partter one day on (hat seheme : S ould vise at six, welll say, and quit This statement is made in fall Knows: [Sr Mot How aboot Alster 8nd supye: edge and wilh the sanction of lenders, oq hedtime for the kiddies?" wite orgsniaed the camp iu the mountalan. | "No" he wid, "we couldn't run life on "Revoldtion Ix our watchword," says! hat scheme; but you mistake owr mu Viseent St. John, president of the I. W.ltives, We are not striking for ae elght) W.. "ang all 'our forts sre bent toward hour or a three hour day. We are not! fevoldtion. Wages, hours of work 10° giriking for bigger - pay. We are nol) terest ug only Jdpoidestally as they may! giriking for local government, We owel werve to cite Individual strikes, but what] hese as occasion arises. We are sielk | we 'sre 'reall; about Is a campaign of {ing for public ownership of dll indus! r: ecueation to teach the workiogman blsigye are striking io educate all worke: power, so that when the time comes 10ity their power. When they 'realivze the | dctlase the | great . general strike" --thel the warld would stop if they stopped worl | 3. W. WW. leadér siWways assumes &|. it means the great general strike. Iti dredmy. prophet-like uttitude When heithe revolution." speaks of the great strike or the great, The meetings in the camp Were mectvi | yevolition="he will know bis potever: lund, indeed, most of the organization aw | yealize that he has the power to coerce! workings of the 1. W. W. Is secret, Thes the whole world." maintain a sort of weevet service which tn the particular camp I visited the gecumulates a vast amoust of knowledge. 1.74% men on strike represented only one-{and often is able to inform the governing Sith of the laborers employed on the divik [body of the intentions of the capitalists jon. 'Tiey were amazingly young, mostithey happen to be fighting, of (hem less than twenty-five years old and| A boss cursed one of the men who was few 'wiove thaw thirty years oid. They on strike ia the camp, peferving to him In were of. eighteen nationalities, Poles, ia disparaging. manner. The wan tarned (ieekn, THindeos, Jnpavese, Slave, und it and outlined the boss's actual life history, required almost eighteen different las-| tracing i from early childhood fn Ireland guages Tor the leaders to address them. to Alaska, where be had been noted for In edijrnetion with the fact that 6.000 certain: devious doings, lLibareds refuked to go on strike with the] The organization bas spies in the wigority of their companions. it is inter: of the labor unions and in the very offices iting mouoie that the kW. W. has been of the capitalists. I met men on the Pacific, ISTS Weir le. ¥ all pride ourselves upon our sirob® WIN tr. Weal tee! that we cay' a man sitting ahead of us in thé street tar sare around I we fobk At the hike of his neck lowg enough «ft Wm to (urn, "See that pretty strument whith will demonsfrate beyond £11 doubt that the will' of w certain pe: centage of persons can be proved to exert a definite physical pressure; and he hopes to prove this to the sceptical world xeon, The appliance is simple enough, and lacks all the elaborate and delicate con gf sitting these Sewis shiead 'of WOTliivanees Wwhicli one woaold expect in a0 Veatch ow anbke Tier (arm round!" Welinerument of the kind. It consists §mpTyT ite all ered. passiviyy and we thouskbise wo Tantde one 'placed fiat ob (he Wane vr on when the youag Indy Ife ie and the other balanced on (wo Guexddun did pera arouid lu response 16] wooden pins which project from the lower the sient with Yer, it trae, thix fact 1 board. "The Totiy énd of the wpper board fir ware seicinifivaity evtrnordinaty, 8s) unsorted by w string sttecied to « A. 3 Balour in Jeared, than the spring balance, Iu this position the appr our earthipoind weighs five ounces, It eawnot he) ade fo weigh more. The hands are placed on the short end of the beard, If physical pressure be exerted on this end of the board it will have the effect of mak ing the long end of the beard go upward which is precisely what is wot wanted, Tv it will make the board weigh less. The greater the pressure of the hands the a the board will weigh. If the bands taken off altogether the board weighs [ii ounces, It cannot be wade to weigh six « seven or Wore ounces, If at amy tithe the scales regisicr a pressure of six or more ounces, it niiist Le due either to 8 pull upward by ihe, aud Mr. crash of worlda:abyd the end of in space, For the latter events Lave anal ogien, the former nope. 1¢. then, (he human will can be exerted in the manner desctibed it isa remarkably iniportant event, and still more important it tt conld be proved tbat the buman will is a definite phgaieal energy, capabie of moving certain 'material objects, or of being vegidtered by means of a moving basdle or a weale. Yet this is what han fen accomplished, and the will thereby proved to be & physical energy, ® new force, just mn new as eletiricity or mag: petism, But A thousand times more inter esting, since we all possess iL within ow selves! : That the suman will is a physical en- ergy fanfhe proved by tieans of a specially constitieted ipstrument, which is illus (eated.y The instrament ip question was aay end of the board. The fingers cana pull upward, B reason of their position; on the bosed; the hands were always ex- amined carefully to see they contained 'nothiug sticky. - It was siways ligh'! enough to see that no threads or hairs Juventedihg Professor Alors. of the Uni-iwere employed. Besides, ihese experi- versity of Upsala, Sweden, knows a a ents were not conducted upon profes enrelisl observer and for Nis works upon | Sonat mediums, but with persons who i fo terested in the subject from a pspchology. 'These fustraments are oot t of view and Who nsed sold. 'ORlY wo of thes exist in the world. iit point of ¥ Rlne the suitable temperament. Every one One of these is in Professor Alrutd's!canvot move the board; only a ceriain laboratory, #nd the ocier i i the poses: 4 : OF had Miia S13: Siaasts the 5 offdir. reward Carri ton, of New| peculiar power, whatever it may be. 10 wou uBR. Her ie cause n definite deflexion of the spring York cliy. a well knowd paychic uvestigh fy, in ghedienes to thelr silent will, | wor, wie Brought Busapla Paflading 14 the Pro Sheu ried the oars with United States for ddvestigation several oon) of bis friends, and among them sears age. Ever siuce that time Me. Car found three or four who couhl caise ington bad (Rew quietly earring ' ue andeluite opvines a Sue Sulabes- He! weries of 'experiments In wn endeavor to then tied several wowed fais a: of the" Millan medias Hed, aml again be found a cemain per ny : : ¥ eniage win could wove it. He ther took a WBE hort with him to the Paveholosical i be bas al Tr , n B # from Pacis and from Mane's "Radicals" of const from Ferrer's organizations celond, followers of H Londen J Then he told some stories, not very ¢ preity omes, of how [reight CBS of con gignments of merchandise had gone astray pngecountably. It was usoally fo puns a division superintendent "As an organization we force," said the camp o ones and rifles are not other side forces us fo reed ant 1 heard an inspired speach mm which he sail One = "If non-union men come In while we are (le on strike it 18 jost possible that stones today may roll down the wountain side, quite laborers by accident, do not repulse them. Welcome them and just"possibly be something in that coffee sugar, of course." the fingers or a pressure exerted at the long ive members of the congress before the! scientists wesearbied. Of those wi tried he fonnd owe in', partionlar wha could cause a continued depression of severdl grammes, purely by Grn effet of will. She would look at tie Hoard. wait seme time to "charge it up" sb to say, and finally look at the far vad at the board and esuse it tocdescend, as though invisible rays emanated from-her and pressed the ward downwend in rexputise to her silent with If she did wot "lok. at the bourd it wad nal de pressed. These cxperiments were seen by ali rhe, sttendunt. seivniists. and the facts were thoaght to be established beyond gues tion by thise who saw hem. folfowing is ah acount of coe of thine rials with two women as Gbjels Boul plaid their bands op. the board ti goilier. and the depressions were of very feng dnratian In dhese piperimenis every laborer whole We've got profits, f the experimenters betier rosnlis were depressed. alter these trials, of experiments. joct really $id £21 asleep daring the, ex- Au odd fact which should be noted In this conndetion is that ne results, wore obtained ailess the subject Joosed at the Yeog edd of the board will was bejar operated. Mr. Carsiogton believes the movements noted in copuettion with this beurd are scisnrificaliy, thar the proof that the Daman will is a throws & Hew fight o8 anny shseure psyebelogicnl awd physical to elphorde Wi thearies al leasth sed palilish them in an sx haviscive Trenties lar Inst found an lage, at Geneva, and tried several of Wwied paper Way faced under the wis | 73 Bol periment. extremely phisiral emergy phenvine a EVOLUTION Hindoos xd « was scarcely an the cheap foreign ele ¢ your labor rates?" I either 1." answered the organizer »f every nations Preaching Revolution in Their Mountain Camp. world. undercutting 3% y have been born nnder a different sky. ranks! give them a cup of coffee. There neight Labor is a unit to-day. Long ago laborers fought for feudalism and the overlord took Yesterday HARNESS HUMAN WILL TO MOV fa poe Tperiant He bopes eve il Is vow proved beyond slimy possession." | stalked there hose Labor is a world army wise to the folly one another and If tenderfoots come to camp fighting one another because they happen 14 was noted stitained if one of them cried "Naw," when the poard was 10 be The desire 10 sleep Was SIIOng Meer woted in paychic instance J PAGe FLEVIE A, LW. W. enemy know - er A -- me A. -------------------------- f l i tl 1 took the im the If i « and Eng! Colaiubia which Tea years age a ra sid t organize, The sat ned nt organized and won ft iid organized the Pacific lang edough aha when ihese are ovér arbitration, and Lailol done 1 We Itaneous strikes in a spurn the words! Once it awskens to its You will see ti labor is in a posit Yicrate, curs in Eng taneously oo tin for these}! apiial snd the overiord fst year {rom Fray and what ke was going to d sat to-day to California and Britist alr eibers didn sowe hing the labor world, Sa who r the cause of or and u OW jour o 1g to take the prof "If labor is, as you say, a big world unit we have Leena Todls the ballot; Ut strik ave. eoniract, ant se8 sim to-day why does the American Federation | coast strikes ar us? of Labor nor recognize sou?" vou will "How it," be shat churches did not lozep © nn to power, {uot ask, | "You wil say aceuninlation of wealth means that some person has saved aut of his living wage. He has worked oing to fight in! sitteen hours a day when others worked 1 wu of simul only eight, and his capital represents same craft till the years of that excess work and excess save nz. You will say that his profits, which at his one idea le takes while he gives us only 2 living po matter what wage are nothing mere tian compound interest on arrears amd years and acces If munlations of excess work. no wrongs, we! "And that is exactly so. That represents the capital system, and that is what we ate Erievances, no Wrongs, w *| fighting It isn't shorter hours or better pay, or this or that, we are fighting for. It is to transfer power from the capital side of the line to the labor side of the lias When that is accomplished we will elimi- nate feudalism. No man will be allowed to work for more than his living. There | will be mo unearned increment, no profits to recreate a capital system." It was suggested that some men might really enjoy work and not hate it as the {1 W. W. seems to. When asked what {would be done in a case like thiz the leamp leader sald: -- i "We would forcibly preveat it i "Present conditions are the result of {our political stupidity. We propose to [remedy all this, and the working classes {of the world pow purpose faking over {the resources of the entive world for cul {lective ownership and operation, back, "that the the Saivation th is recog ck sirike of They had to be educated ill simu the 1 and Germany, this rear Army at first? up to what the Salvation Army was do jug. They had to see off with the Salva w th were Scores i Ameri whe gh rica and France did to a slight extent 1a} : . their members go-'# un Arr the Army b were This ranks are mg Ne have world what the Salvation tion done fot sdosirial Its is we 18 done for the religions world. We shovel have organized the rabble, the men coming brigade, the 'manual toilers, the seen se, he - is. We mast co were labor the f the by | and when you come to t} shut out by e exclusive wnskilled men unions, the proletariat itinually strike. lor mor! whole world ink there noe grievances the unskilled are and work race, en to strike. If lof it the fellows who could not incite our wien tuild your railroads your lum-! there were uo A | "You noticed the number of foreigners lin the camp, especially the Hindoos and | the Japanese, We to oppose the {admission of cheap Asiatic labor, or cheap {alien labor of apy sdrt for that waiter, {80 we kept the cheap alien labor out but admitted the cheap products of his work. | Better admit the cheap jabor at ones, {There is no fear of tie half baked bour- tgeols amiliating with him. Let kim come {in and swell our ravks, He will organise with us and jncrease the votes that are |going the great revelas tion." "What are you golug to do If you fail In this present strike?' 1 asked "We will resort to sbotige," said the ; "That is, we will go back te { work, but we will idle away the hours, {confuse orders and in every way possible {interfere with the progress of work," | That is what these men in the mountain camp are striving forthe great revelu- Revolution is their watchword, As William Thompson, general organiser of the 1. W. W., said precetitly "The question of right or wrong does not enter into it. We will také what we are strong enough to take. If the govern. ment interferes we will defy the governs ment. Our flag is the red flag of brother. hood, and when it trinmphs we will come into our own, Health, happiness and We | prosperity will be realities, No man will army, and till the soil and act as the very couldnt get any fol te fill our i work more than another and no man will underpinning of all society. {benches and listen to us; but vhen we { enjoy more of the world's benefits than "Did it ever strike you that most of onr have the grievance, then we are ghing 2 another. The working man will awn the organization work is secret--that we have to use it to swing the whole labor world | world and he will run it to suit himself. our active members in every labor union lato a marching army. As to demands | "It is a question of what are we strong in America, that we are proselyting in and arbitration and contract, what gen- [enough to take? mot what ls right for us the army itself 7 Tell me one big strike! eral ever won a battle by letting the to take?" E A BOARD fdoubt that cegain human organisms can move material objects at a distance {by the exercise of their will power," lie used to bring about organizer {tion MIRA ber camps, and form the mainstay of the couldn't have any propaganda. of lowers laborers fought Indians in Arizona Invoke Rain God with Dance of Serpents "This has been established scien hrm this little instrument, |#a d tically and on a basis by means where all possi ity fraud and deception is abse will is importance, first place of This new proof that the rgy is of great dd il ene + variety of reasons. In the it throws a. new. Lght an. tue I, w y is not human w ed 10 be an energy t rather an effort of atten ng ne Up Waiting Word from the Priest to Rush lor Sasken.' BOUT 't Mou of August the {called the Asperger, who carries a mea 14 their cite bow] in both hands, an effort 10 At once fifty Snakes or dancers begin so! © haunting a weird soog which sone bul the ipriest can understand priest springs to the gestulations, makes a long sppeal to (he Suake God for rain so that his children's crops will ripen. The high priest plunges. lis arm inte & of writhing serpents, draws out a half 8 dozen and bands them to the fiearest of the snake dancers. This von thnues ottil all are supplied with reptiles. Round and round they go. The dance | rapidiy * 10 a freasied detnonniras Nine days previous to the dates the tion, the carriers often have two or thres iY Snakes, priesis af the tribe, soour the stakes iu their mouths and Your in each hand, the bite of sny due of which is enough 10 cause the death of an ordinary wan, The chant incresses to shouts and screams, the stakes maddened by this nusual treatment, writhe about the dene rs necks, through their Jong beck hair, and lisse continuously At sundown the high priest gives a vigna! sod the dancers throw thelr snakes inte a pie sod draw back. Pat one dincer is knows te have been bities and % A CL appease Indians of Ar seid sha autos ripen 1 Suddenly the hig) ' rizona hed bee frout, and, with ma "Th% free hiel objections to + will," and se § favor of t Boake God whe lives in the siwars has Sa . whose rattling { coi ¢ mane Leen iy @ a orked longue apparent the the ceiving will, conside as An im ve fan send ! material thing, affecting tering the arrangement ur delivale nerve centres, Rin, or 8 its molecules But if the an intelligent i sun worship from the WHI Azteca worship from northern thas A LEews . in ihe a physical energy i night them and the of scieptifi to free will sould ba "Parther, matter, braiu and thapght, Runde a new interpretation 1 om vee | From f ions in the whole prt if analyzed §t wi objection % ye town abolishe that . . of mind and jesert, befwesn (Wo theee es, chiefly raftiers the connection ng sod would. receive HROUS VIE n length. They are A. the sa Kisi, most disputed quest red broek tory of philosophy, Wl land Ee eet we found the objectivn is That the will being a wsog-physicyl energy, raEReT al fect the brath, But if & is a physical on argy this objection bs at removed Finally ggthe question af ongin of forces aod the origin of our workd 'wl - poives a new interpretation, I hope to fully in the Bear fnlove uw the sub- empl @ Un the day : lance the snakes are put Just iw : he miatvons aid mite Anverican r coltan woud brush. ! ones own eds of Indians, ts of the ew The iribe, smd the! {he Fecovered The dancers, sfter Hberating the shakes, divest themselves of their gure ments aod troop back te ihe mess for their annus) cleansing bath in a stieky Wack Guid, which In supposed to be un antidote for bites of the ratilers Sach is the stake dante at Arsite. fu ihe pew Site of Arfscns, wilkie & lew wiles of = large town, while the sts gather on roofs at wal the adobe houses { Fire pres Ble out of the il the plain tis wor the present, | would say fet that tae bomss wil is oo force is one of the mow: dmpuriang of whe histery of scence sod which will, 1 am persuaded, he pre fore any months have pees wl, of tnsivaoetit which 1 0 thal K bruh de find a « od wet in i and tee ET ie enirdnce and ied SUrn mies] as {oot mfssdugers; Tie procesgon! 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