· THE ONE BIG UNION MONTHLY The I. W. W. Handbook The handhook of the L W. W., written hy Jnstna . Railroad workers, agrienltnral workers, miners Ebert. is now finished and in the handa of ita printer. It is the most comprehensive book ever issued by the organization. Its six chapters cover and metal workers, lumber jaco, transport work.. era, printers, textile workers, will find that the L W. W. handbook containa matters of special interest to them. Railroad workers will find the Plumb more phases of the I . W. W. than any other I. W. plan paralleled in almost every particular in the W. book ever published. There is no long, tedious Italian railroad workers' pian of 1910. Textile exposition, hut hrief paragraphs, all related and workers will find that the I. W. W. woolen workOfS developed together. Many subjects treated can be quoted independently. Each and every chapter can be printed in smaller pamphlet size, if 80 desired. are already informing themselves about the tech- nology of the textile industry and preparing to take the latter over. The lnmher jacka will learn the extent of capitalist concentration in the owner. The handhook bean the title, "The A. B. C. of the I. W. W. What It Is. What It Has Done. What It Aims To Do." This will indicate the character of the book, which is written not so much for the high brow and the revolutionists, as the average uninformed workingman and student. Do you wish to explain to some workers why the I. W. W. exists1' Then get him to read the first chapter entitled, "The Background of the I. W. W." Do you want him ship of timherlands. The trade unionism of the typographical industry is used as a horrihle example of A. F . of L. organization. So is the International Association of Machinists, Longshoremen and others. The "industrial union tendencies" of the A. F". of L. are exposed. In brief, all the workers in the basic and leading industries will find their indua- tries touched upon, or explained in the L W. W. handbook. to see how the I. W. W. was evolved, not made? Then induce him to read chapter two, enti tled "The Forerunners of the I. W. W." And so on. Each and every chapter tells something of the reason for the I. W. W., its pred ecessors, history, principles and forms of organization, achievements, economic and political ideals, influences, et e., etc. Job delegate systerM, shop organization, shop committees, local and industrial brancbea, district councils, industrial unions, 'the one big union administration, and the world-wid e character of the I. W. W. are not overlooked. Nor is the present. number of the industrial unions and the present membership of the I. W. W. These are all brought Figures are tiresome things, when given in big tables. There are statistics in the I. W. W. hand- book that are so presented as to do away with the tired feeling that generally accompanies the reading of such matter. Wealth concentration, labor organization, farm ownership, tenancy and labor, trusts, financial control, prices, wages, immigration, malnutrition, physical deterioration, poverty, war- these are a few of the subjects in whose elucidation figures are employed. up to date. The I. W. W. and the Negro, the I. W. W. and the Brain Worker, the I. W. W. and the League of Nations, the I. W. W. and the Farmer. the I. W. W. and Immigration, the I. W. W. and World-Indnstry - these are a few of the topics succinctly handled in "The A. B. C. of the I. W. W." Its a bo ok that you'll want to read and paas on to others to r ead. Price and date of publication will be announced later. WHO CONTROLS THE ARMY? Before me lies a photo of a regiment of soldiers from Camp Merritt just disembarking from a train on the steamship piers in Hoboken, N. J., for the purpose of acting as strikebreakers. The striking longshoremen and steamship clerks are asking for a little more pay, shorter hours and better conditions--a little more happiness in thouaands of workers' homes. And now the workers who produce all wcalth are to he crushed hy the military. The owners of the trusts who neither toil nor spin, but only exploit the workers, they also control the military. Slaves in army and navy, don't you notice this! Slaves in industry, don't you understand this! Join the army of the Induatrial Workers of the World in the struggle for freedom.-John Korpi. "EQUALITY BEFORE THE LAW" Milwaukee, Wis., Oct. lS.-Declaring that a confeased I. W. W. had no standing in the courts of the United States, Civil Judge A. J. Hedging today set aside a verdict which had been rendered by a jury in favor of a member of that organization. The man was J . H. Lane, a Finn, who was awarded $160 last week by a jury in a suit against Gnst PSihOgi08 for au8ult and battery. COMPULSORY LOYALTY There were more than 370,000 trials by court-martial of American 80ldien during the war, Secretary Baker informed the senate in relponse to a resolution of Senator Borah of Idaho asking for the facta of triala of soldiers. Mr. Baker asid that 22,000 cases were heard hy general courts-martia1 and the remainder by special or summary courts.