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Title
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Birth Control Review
Text
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Organization
Industrial Workers of the World
Person
Robinson, James Harvey
Veblen, Thorstein
De Silver, Albert
Fitch, John A.
Bruere, Robert
West, George P.
Dewey, John
Irwin, Inez Hayes
Weyl, Walter E.
Keller, Helen
Grant, Percy Stickney
Hayes, Carlton J. H.
Place
United States
New York, NY
Chicago, IL
Publication
The Labor Defender
Text
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<div>
LET'S HAVE THE TRUTH
<p>One hundred and one of the men and women who have worked hardest, longest and most
fearlessly for the wiping out of social and industrial evils are defined and dealt with
by the I. W. W., are on trial
in Chicago. The charge is conspiracy to obstruct the conduct
of the war and 10,000 crimes are alleged against those now under prosecution. The
charges, however, are being overshadowed by the great outstanding fact that the I. W.
W., as an organization, is on trial for its life. America may
be said to be divided into two camps--those who believe that
such organizations as the I. W. W. have a right to exist and those who believe that the
members of such organizations should be hunted down, jailed or lynched as menaces to
society. </p>
<p>This fact alone makes it imperative for the welfare of society that the full truth about
the I. W. W. be known. Any issue sufficiently keen and clear-cut as to divide the
country into two sharply defined camps brings with it a demand that, for the benefit of
society, the fullest possible light be shed upon the facts in the case. Society, jealous
of its own well-being, must see that the facts are known, in order that it may determine
its future course. </p>
<p>Besides this consideration, the fate of the persons on trial is of little
significance.</p>
<p>The trial of the I. W. W., however, takes on even a more compelling significance, when it
is remembered that the evils with which that body deals in its own particular way are
the same ones of which newspapers are constantly complaining, the same ones that occupy
the greater part of the time of the courts, of congress, of legislatures and federal
commissions, the same ones that claim chief attention of reformers, revolutionists,
churches, economists, social settlements, and the great army of uplift agencies, to say
nothing of labor organizations of every kind and description. The trial goes to the very
heart of the things which are occupying the social consciousness--the things of which
society at large talks and thinks all the time. </p>
<p>Moreover, the I. W. W. is a distinctly American institution. It grew out of American
soil, is the product of American conditions, deals with American problems. It is not an
importation--it grew here. The problems with which it deals, its ideals and its methods
are American. Until the problems are settled or conditions change, there will always be
an I. W. W. or its equivalent. </p>
<p>So far as society is concerned--and society is the chief party to the I. W. W. trial--the
demand rises clear, strong and unavoidable: "Let's have the truth."</p>
<p>The case itself gives the best available opportunity to get at the truth. The
government's prosecutors and its army of detectives, backed by that great mass of
employers, who hate the I. W. W., will present one side of the case. That much society
at large can be assured of but a trial is a legal battle and the prosecution does not
concern itself with bring out facts that might hurt its own side of the case; that is
left for the accused to do. For every apparently sound fact brought out by the
prosecution, there must, if the truth is to be known, be brought out another fact by the
accused. It costs great sums of money to get at those facts--it means the employment of
investigators and the bringing of witnesses from great distances, it means months of
work for lawyers even before the case comes to trial.</p>
<p>The cost of the I. W. W. trial will be at least $100,000. This sum will not meet all the
needs of the case, but it will assure the public of getting at most of the truth.
Whether you agree with the I. W. W. or not, you cannot escape the conviction, if you
know even so much of the truth as has thus far seeped through, that these men have given
up home, comfort and necessities--have risked liberty and life itself to bring an end to
those evils which society itself is constantly struggling to eradicate. The membership
of the organization has raised $50,000 for the defense; the other $50,000 must come from
socially conscious persons who have a passionate devotion to truth.</p>
<p>Realizing this situation and its vast importance to society at large, a group of widely
known liberals have formed a committee which is raising the second $50,000.
Albert De Silver, 2 West Thirteenth Street,
New York City, is treasurer and checks should be sent to
him. The committee is:</p>
<p>Robert W. Bruére, John
Dewey, John A. Fitch,
Percy Stickney Grant,
Carlton J. H. Hayes,
Walter E. Weyl,
Inez Haynes Irwin,
Helen Keller,
Jas. Harvey Robinson,
Thorstein Veblen,
George P. West.</p>
<p class="byline"> M. H. S. </p>
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Unknown
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Margaret Sanger
Date
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1918-08-00
Description
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<p>This article was also printed in <span class="journal"><span class="italics">The Labor Defender</span></span>, July
30, 1918.</p>
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msp#205588
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<span class="mf">Margaret Sanger Papers Microfilm Edition, Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College,
</span> S70:797
<span class="journal"><span class="italics">Birth Control Review</span></span>, Aug. 1918, p. 8
Subject
The topic of the resource
law-breaking and direct action
labor movement
Industrial Workers of the World--MS and
World War I--anti-war efforts
Title
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Let's Have the Truth
Type
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Published article
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Title
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New York Call
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Organization
Hotel Lafayette
Columbia University
Queens County Penitentiary.
Blackwells Island Penitentiary
Brownsville Mothers League
Birth Control League of America
Fleischmann's Baths
Person
Goldstein, Jonah J.
Murray, Keeper
Byrne, Ethel Higgins
Hope, Mrs. Augustus
Pinchot, Gertrude Minturn
Stuyvesant, Elizabeth
Sanger, Stuart
Stone, Margaret Grant
Sanger, Grant
Blossom, Frederick
Foley, Keeper
Halperin, Rose
Marion, Kitty
McCann, Joseph
Duncan, Isadora
Lewis, Burdette G.
Grant, Percy Stickney
Unidentified
Patch, Carolyn
Lesher, Robert A.
Todd, Helen
Place
England,
Lake Grove, NY
Chicago, IL
Text
Any textual data included in the document
<div>
<h4>MRS. SANGER OUT AFTER BALKING FINGERPRINTS</h4>
<p><span class="NYC">Mrs. Margaret Sanger, birth control advocate, who completed her 30-day sentence yesterday, won a two-hour
fight with the authorities yesterday morning when they attempted to take her
finger prints before leaving Queens county penitentiary. Because she persisted
in her refusal to submit to this bit of red tape imposed upon ordinary
criminals, her sentence was prolonged two hours and a half. Her followers, who
had arrived to welcome her at 7:30 o'clock, were kept waiting in the icy wind
till 10:30.</span></p>
<p><span class="NYC">Warden Joseph McCann went to Mrs. Sanger
the night before her release and told her that by order of Commissioner
Lewis, she would have to
remain under lock and key until she was finger printed. Immediately after her
sentence was pronounced and all through her imprisonment Mrs. Sanger had refused
to submit to what she regarded as an indignity.</span></p>
<div class="section">
<h4 class="sub-heading">Struggled for Two Hours.</h4>
<p>"It is time the authorities learned to discriminate between political criminals,
those who are fighting for ideals, and cutthroats. Warden McCann has
been very nice about it, as he has about everything else during my term here. But they kept after him to get the finger
prints. He had to get two keepers, Murray and Foley,
and they were unable to force me. The struggle lasted for two hours, until both the keepers and I were worn out. Then an
officer came in and said that he had received a telephone message from the commissioner to set me free."</p>
<p><span class="NYC">During the three long hours of waiting, Mrs. Sanger's friends paced
up and down the icy walks outside. An automobile waited her return to
civilization and a patient movie man stood valiantly by his camera and froze
his toes while the struggle was waging behind prison walls.</span></p>
<p><span class="NYC">Mrs. Ethel Byrne, who had been
sentenced to 30 days at Blackwells island
and who had been released after a hunger strike which lasted 11 days, was eagerly waiting for her sister, oblivious to the
cold.</span></p>
<p><span class="NYC">Jonah J. Goldstein, Mrs. Sanger's
attorney, was among those who waited, and Mrs. Elizabeth Stuyvesant,
at one time sought by the police on a birth control charge; Mrs. Eugene P. Stone,
sister of Dr. Percy Stickney Grant; Dr.
Frederick Blossom, Miss Helen Todd,
Mrs. Rose Halperin, Prof. Robert A. Lesher
of Columbia, Miss Carolyn Patch and Miss
Kitty Marion.</span></p>
<div class="section">
<h4 class="sub-heading">Sing the Marseillaise.</h4>
<p><span class="NYC">Miss Marion, who is a militant suffragist from England,
and who had hunger struck and been forcibly fed innumerable times, led the assembly in the singing of the <span class="song">Marseillaise</span>.
Attracted by the sound, the inmates of the penitentiary clustered at the
windows, opening them so that they could hear better. One feebly joined in, but
her voice emphasized the cheerless silence of the others.</span></p>
<p><span class="NYC">When at last, Mrs. Sanger came out amid loud cheers, Mrs. Halperin,
president of the , rushed
forward and pushed a huge bunch of roses and lilies in her arm.</span> <span class="HALRO">"From the Brownsville mothers,"</span>
<span class="NYC">she said. And, although later in the day, Mrs. Sanger was overwhelmed with flowers from
Mrs. Amos Pinchot, and
Mrs. Augustus Hope, she wore her clients' flowers all day.</span></p>
<div class="section">
</div>
<p><span class="NYC">With loud cheers that her prisoners at the window took up, Mrs. Sanger
was driven away to the Hotel Lafayette, where she received the first cup of
coffee she had tasted for a month, she said.</span></p>
<p><span class="NYC">During the luncheon-breakfast she was overwhelmed with questions as to her future
plans.</span></p>
<p>"The fight has been going on all month," <span class="NYC">she said.</span> "I haven't lost any time. Every
day, I had clinics among the prisoners. The statement was given out in one of the
papers, Mr. Goldstein tells me, to the effect that I hadn't opened my mouth about my
work since I entered the penitentiary. That is not true. Many of the women were
waiting for me and the information that I had to give them. There isn't a soul in
Queens County penitentiary that hasn't the information now."</p>
<p><span class="NYC">Because Mrs. Sanger has still to face the charge of conducting a public
nuisance, she will not be able to go far on the lecture trip that has been
planned for her by the Birth Control
league. She does not expect to travel beyond Chicago,
although the trip was planned to the Pacific.</span></p>
<div class="section">
<h4 class="sub-heading">Washes Off Prison Air.</h4>
<p><span class="NYC">Yesterday afternoon, Mrs. Sanger splashed ecstatically around in
Fleischmann's Baths.</span> "I want to get washed all over," <span class="NYC">she
said. In the evening she went to see Isadora Duncan.</span></p>
<p>"Already I feel fit to begin my work again," <span class="NYC">she said.</span></p>
<p><span class="NYC">Mrs. Sanger will spend the day with her and two children
at Lake Grove, Long Island, where they are attending school.</span></p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
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Contributor
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NY Call
Halpern, Rose
Creator
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Margaret Sanger
Date
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1917-03-07
Description
An account of the resource
<p>Sanger spoke and answered questions at a luncheon at the Hotel Lafayette
immediately after being released from Queens County Penitentiary.</p>
Identifier
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msp#422002
Source
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<span class="article">"Mrs. Sanger Out After Balking at Fingerprints,"</span>
<span class="newspaper"><span class="italics">New York Call,</span></span> Mar. 7, 1917
Subject
The topic of the resource
birth control--arrests, trials and imprisonment
Brownsville Clinic
Marion, Kitty
Sanger, Margaret--arrests, trials and imprisonment
Title
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[Statement on Release from Prison]
Type
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Published statement