men of America been driven to treat them as here described.  The reader may again address the I. W. W. National Headquarters for a four-page leaflet with the quaint title, “With Drops of Blood the History of the Industrial Workers of the World has Been Written.”  Despite the fact that it is a bare record of cases, there are many men serving long terms in prison in the United States for the offense of having in their possession a copy of this leaflet, “With Drops of Blood.”  But the readers of this book, being all of them 100% Americans engaged in learning the technique of smashing the Reds, will, I feel sure, not be interfered with by the business men.  Also I trust that the business men will not object to my reprinting a few paragraphs from the leaflet, in order to make the public realize how dangerously these Reds can write.  I will, of course, not follow their incendiary example and spatter my page with big drops of imitation blood.  I quote: 

“We charge that I. W. W. members have been murdered, and mention here a few of those who have lost their lives: 

“Joseph Michalish was shot to death by a mob of so-called citizens.  Michael Hoey was beaten to death in San Diego.  Samuel Chinn was so brutally beaten in the county jail at Spokane, Washington, that he died from the injuries.  Joseph Hillstrom was judicially murdered within the walls of the penitentiary at Salt Lake City, Utah.  Anna Lopeza, a textile worker, was shot and killed, and two other Fellow Workers were murdered during the strike at Lawrence, Massachusetts.  Frank Little, a cripple, was lynched by hirelings of the Copper Trust at Butte, Montana.  John Looney, A. Robinowitz, Hugo Gerlot, Gustav Johnson, Felix Baron, and others were killed by a mob of Lumber Trust gunmen on the Steamer Verona at the dock at Everett, Washington.  J. A. Kelly was arrested and re-arrested at Seattle, Washington; finally died from the effects of the frightful treatment he received.  Four members of the I. W. W. were killed at Grabow, Louisiana, where thirty were shot and seriously wounded.  Two members were dragged to death behind an automobile at Ketchikan, Alaska.

“These are but a few of the many who have given up their lives on the altar of Greed, sacrificed in the ages-long struggle for Industrial Freedom.

“We charge that many thousands of members of this organization have been imprisoned, on most occasions arrested without warrant and held without charge.  To verify this statement it is but necessary that you read the report of the Commission on Industrial Relations wherein is given testimony of those who know of conditions at Lawrence, Massachusetts, where nearly 900 men and women were thrown into prison during the Textile Workers’ Strike at that place.  This same report recites the fact that during the Silk Workers’ Strike at Paterson, New Jersey, nearly 1,900 men and women were cast into jail without charge or reason.  Throughout the northwest these kinds of outrages have been continually perpetrated against members of the I. W. W. County jails and city prisons in nearly every state in the Union have held or are holding members of this organization.