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Saturday March 3, 1906
From the Montana News: Official Call from Industrial Workers of the World

The February 28th edition of the official newspaper of the Socialist Party in Montana published the following appeal from the I. W. W. which calls for the working class men and women of America to rally to the defense of Charles Moyer and Bill Haywood:

Official Call To Action
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Stirring Appeal Sent Out by Industrial Workers
as Result of Mine Owners' Conspiracy.
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Beginning at the Coeur d' Alene in 1897 a reign of lawless violence has been waged by the capitalist class in the western states, one phase of which was the unparalleled series of outrages perpetrated against the laborers of Colorado. Throughout this conspiracy there had been continuous attempts to crush the labor organizations of the miners by seeking to foist upon them the crimes committed by the capitalist conspirators themselves. Every one of these attempts has failed. In spite of suborned witnesses and terrorized and corrupt juries, every case has ended in complete acquittal. The failure of the conspirators' diabolical schemes has filled them with desperation.

The renewal of these outrages in the present arrest of Charles H. Moyer, Wm. D. Haywood and their associates marks the culmination of this conspiracy. The secret arrest, illegal deportation, and general criminal character of all the proceedings mark this as the first step to railroad these innocent men to the gallows, in the hope of thereby breaking up the radical working class organizations and putting an end to all resistance to tyranny.

We declare the arrest to be the result of a conspiracy premeditated by the capitalist pirates of the west, led by the mine owners and backed by the Standard Oil company. The latter had disposed of Heinze of Montana as an antagonist of its interests and found only the radical organizations of the working class left to oppose it. To put Moyer, Haywood and their associates out of the way would effectually clear the field for their brutal reign under the black flag of piracy. And this is the evident intention of the gang which has pursued our comrades mercilessly for years.

Speaking for the working class and the revolutionary working class movement, we accept the challenge in the name of freedom and will meet this outrage as it ought to be met, by calling upon our comrades to confront these debauchers of government who cry "To hell with the constitution!" and resort to every desperate means to intimidate and as the present situation shows, even to murder our fellow workers and comrades, who have never been proven guilty of a single offense charged against them.

Read the statement of one who was instrumental in kidnapping our comrades and separating them from their homes and families:

The officers of the Western Federation of Miners and those who were implicated in the secret designs of the leaders will never leave Idaho alive.

The Industrial Workers are here-by called upon to prepare for such immediate action as developments in this latest criminal outrage may warrant; first, by a series of mass indignation meetings, not to pass meaningless resolutions, but to act as becomes men conscious of their rights and determined to maintain them; second, by starting a defense fund, contributions to be sent to national headquarters of the I. W. W., 148 W. Madison street, Chicago.

It being evident that the Standard Oil free-booters have taken the law in their own hands, nothing remains for us but to meet them upon the ground and with the weapons of their own choosing. Workingmen of America, be prepared to act.

CHAS. O. SHERMAN,
General President.

Wm. E. Trautmann,
Gen'l Sec-Treas.
Chicago, Feb. 20, 1906

[Emphasis added.]

SOURCE
Montana News
"Owned and Published by the Socialist Party of Montana"
(State Branch of Socialist Party of America)
(Helena, Montana)
-Feb 28, 1906
https://www.newspapers.com/image/76891365/

IMAGES
Montana News, Helena, Feb 28, 1906, Vol IV No 24
https://www.newspapers.com/image/76891365
IWW Universal Label, IWWC 1906 Proceedings
https://books.google.com/books/reader?id=vQlQAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcove...

See also:

Fritz Augustus Heinze
http://ellenbaumler.blogspot.com/2013/06/fritz-augustus-heinze.html

"To Hell with the Constitution."
-by Emma F Langdon
http://www.rebelgraphics.org/wfmhall/langdon11.html#tohellwiththeconstit...

The Cripple Creek Strike
-by Emma Florence Langdon
Denver, 1904-05
http://www.rebelgraphics.org/wfmhall/langdon00.html
Appendix, April 1908
(Coverage of Haywood-Moyer-Pettibone Case)
http://www.rebelgraphics.org/wfmhall/langdon29.html#dedication

The Darrow Collection, Haywood Trial
http://darrow.law.umn.edu/trials.php?tid=3

PROCEEDINGS OF THE Second Annual Convention OF THE Industrial Workers of the World
HELD AT CHICAGO, ILLINOIS SEPT. 17 TO OCT. 3, 1906
PUBLISHED BY THE INDUSTRIAL WORKERS OF THE WORLD
310 Bush Temple, Chicago, III.
(Search with: Moyer Haywood Pettibone.)
https://books.google.com/books/reader?id=vQlQAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcove...
Note: at this time (February and March of 1906) the Western Federation of Miners is still affiliated with IWW.
That relationship begins to unravel during the 1906 IWW Convention.

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