We are now helpless, and place the responsibility for the protection of our property and the protection of our employees upon the board of county commissioners and upon the officers of the county." Next President Riesinberg called upon a young reporter to read paragraphs of an I.W.W.speech he had heard made to a crowd of three hundred workmen.

It was significant that several members of the Chamber of Commerce called for a certain paragraph to be reread.

It was this: "If you working-men could only stand together you could do in this country what has been done in Russia," declared the I.W.W.

orator.
"You know what the working-men did there to the slimy curs, the gunmen, and the stool-pigeons of the capitalistic class.

They bumped them off.