﻿LOCK YOUR CARS 
 
Our beloved people are up in the air, and suffering. Not only the workers but poachers, bootleggers and businessmen as well. A general condition of bewilderment prevails all over the country including Seattle, Bismarck, Bay City and Harrisburg—where did you say you are going—Huh, why go: why not stand your ground and organize, huh? 
The bewilderment and bedevilment and “begodment” if the result of slack lines in the hands of labor. Chicago, Dekalb, Des-Moines, Mason City, St. Paul and St. Minneapolis are hit all alike— Dubuque, ditto. Omaha. Sioux City and Sault Ste Marie, likewise—Wise? 
Houses for rent; stores for rent; space for rent—it is really touching; it is pathetic—Garages for rent; second-hand cars for sale—I. W. W. press is crowded—sure its crowded—but WHY? 
Because labor is driving THROUGH THE CONGESTION with tender lines. 
How are you going to change this? Do you know of ANY WAY to do it without organization? 
Some will say “individual action.” 
Allow me to tell you my friend that state penitentiaries are full of such—and others—eating steam cooked food, acidifying foods. (18 times out of 21) which ruins their stomach, morals and mind; out of 1,080 convicts there are 125 per year that grow gloomy, hysterial, insane and are transfered into an insane asylum, every year—hash and bread—facts. Wherever the silent system is in force, 
That’s “reforming” — reforming want misery and cold; that’s punishment —punishing necessity; that’s deliberate murder—society murdering its victims—and I fear that if such men survive and make their second debut (in this world) they will not rush to kiss society upon either ear. Paper says: “Lock your cars—expert auto thieves have been released from “pen” according to gum-shoe grafters”—evidently they know the “reform” didn’t catch, grub didn’t kill and silence didn’t, craze. Lock your curs, but help the prisoners by organizing— at all times. They sacrifice much!