Salt Lake Tribune | 1912-05-22 | Page 12 | Governor's Statement

I Governor's Statement. SVRAMKN'TO. Cnl., Mav 21. Governor Gov-ernor Johnson issued a formal statement state-ment todnv recardinc the Tndustnal Workers of I be WorU disturbance in San Dieco. in which he announced that he had instructed the attorney, general to proceed to San Diego immediately. Of conditions In San Diego, the govcr-"Tlie govcr-"Tlie problem presented Ik more than lnr.il. The same rlim'iilt let that beset Kan Diego from the Industrial Workers of (ho World mav enmn to any community commun-ity lit the, stnto In the near future, and T wished to learn the facts concerning the Industrial Workers of the World and I's propaganda, an well as to Investigate tho alleged art.M of cruelly and lawlessness lawless-ness In San Dlcco. If mistakes had been made In one community In dealing with lh problem they should not be rc-"Be-ond this, however anarchistic the Industrial Workers of the World must he. no organized government, can tolerate toler-ate the administrations of the 'law by vigilantes or any extra Judicial body." Governor Johnson then doclnred his belief be-lief In the nerimiey of the report made n hip commissioner. Harris Weinstocic. which has been attacked, and continues: "It appears that the constitutional ilrrhts of certain Innocent people In the 'Ity of San "Diego have been Infringed, and In pursuance of the power that Is mine. 1 shall direct the attorney genera! gen-era! of the state io proceed to San Diego I bat the. jaws may be enforced: that justice jus-tice may be done. I wish him. as the chief lav officer of the state, so fnr as he can, to afford redress to any who have suffered wrong, and to mete out cqunl and exact Justice to all."