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Show AFTER SABOTAGE AN ACHING VOID The Los Angeles Times, in a review re-view of the principles of the I W W says . Tbe I. W. W. faors sabotage even to the extremes of arson, dynamiting and murder, "physical violence.' says Boyle either brutally opeu or scoundrelly scoun-drelly treacherous and secre' is one of their main tenets.' John Graham Brooks says: Among some of the ablest expositors of I W. YV principles princi-ples there seems to me verv little pretense that violence may not be necessary at certain stages and under un-der certain conditions. They are now but Just started on their journey ' Etc, who through technicality escaped es-caped conviction as an accessory before be-fore the fact to the Lawrence murders mur-ders and who l on the executive board of the I. W W , sas defiantly: 'Our ideas, our principles and object are certalnh dangerous and menacing; menac-ing; applied by a uniled working class would shake society, and certainly cer-tainly those who are now' on top sumptuously feeding ifpon the good ih in ss they have not produced would feel the shock To talk of peace between be-tween capital and labor is stupid oi knavish.' Vincent st. John, the national secretary of the I. W Y . writes ir. j ; his historv The nue.otinn nt hv. -. and wrong does not concern us.' "Solidarity,' an organ of thp I v w declines to join in condemnation oi the McVamaras and declared that the dynamiting of The Times and murder of twenty of its workmen was onh an incident of a class struggle strug-gle ' If any great number of the American Amer-ican workmen become followers of the I. W YV. and believers In sabotage, sabot-age, this country will experience a reign of terror not unlike that which accompanied the French commune Sabotage can lead to nothing but anarchy, and anarchy offers neither hope nor comfort to any class in the United States, rich or poor Physical violence may be a force powerful enoogh to bring the people to a common level, but when that pulling down of the pillars of the temple has been completed, there will be onl wreck and ruin. oo |