stead of the
furnaces? It is child's play to put out of work the elevators and
other automatic devices which carry coal to the fire room. To put
boilers out of order use explosives or silicates or a plain glass
bottle which thrown on the glowing coals hinders the combustion and
clogs up the smoke exhausts. You can also use acids to corrode
boiler tubes; acid fumes will ruin cylinders and piston rods. A
small quantity of some corrosive substance, a handful of emery will
be the end of oil cups. When it comes to dynamos or transformers,
short circuits and inversion of poles can be easily managed.
Underground cables can be destroyed by fire, water or explosives,"
etc.

"The New Unionism," the book from which the above quotations were taken
and which was purchased by the author of "The Red Conspiracy" at the I.
W. W. headquarters, 1001 West Madison Street, Chicago, in the latter
part of the spring of 1919, also informs us on page 123:

"As far as sabotage is concerned, all the I. W. W. speakers and the
I. W. W. press countenance it although they steadily warn the
workers against the indiscriminate and unsocial use of that weapon
of warfare."

CHAPTER IX

INDUSTRIAL WORKERS OF THE WORLD IN ACTION

Members of the I. W. W. and Socialists who advocate sabotage or get into
trouble in one way or another, especially in strikes, are often put into
prison for their revolutionary talk or their violent methods. The One
Big Industrial Union and, of course, the Socialist Party then proclaim
their innocence, collect funds for their defense, and urge all the
working men of our country to strike in behalf of amnesty for "poor,
persecuted, noble protagonists of the cause of labor jailed because
freedom of speech and liberty of action are no longer tolerated by the
government." Thus on page 409 of the February, 1918, edition of the
"International Socialist Review," which was suppressed by the United
States Government, we read:

"Socialists Demand Fair Trial for Indicted I. W. W.--In a
declaration adopted by its National Executive Committee the
Socialist Party calls for a fair and unprejudiced trial for the
indicted members of the Industrial Workers of the World. The demand
says:

"'The Socialist Party repeats its declaration of support of all
economic organizations of the working class and declares the
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