Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 256, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1919 — HAMMOND IS NOW SAID TO BE SEAT OF I. W. W. [ARTICLE]

HAMMOND IS NOW SAID TO BE SEAT OF I. W. W.

Evidence that the I. W. W. promoters, who were frightened out of Gary and East Chicago by the combined efforts of the military authorities and the heads of lobar organizations, have transferred their activities to Hammond, is shown by the large amount of literature found in that city. Quantities of I. W. W. papers were scattered at different places in the city Sunday night and many citizens found leaflets on their porches yesterday morning. The leaflet headed, “Will You Unite?” is declared to be an effort to take advantage of the organization of Labor and to persuade the men who have already affiliated with unions to switch their allegiance to the I. W. W. It declares that the American Federation of Labor never will be able to defeht the steel trust, because the trust is one big organization, while the steel workers fighting the trust are really twenty-four different organizations “shot through and demoralized with dissention.” After referring to the efforts of “the silly American Federation of Labor” as futile and hinting that 1 they probably would be “peddled by' Gompers before it was over,” the workers are urged to save themselves by organizing correctly and joining the I. W. W. The literature is said to have been obtained from the Chicago headquarters of the I. W. W. . -_■ ... . i