There are no limits to which
powers of privilege will not go
to keep the workers in slavery.
-Mother Jones
Sunday July 15, 1906
From The Labor World: Case of Adams Found “Surprising”
From Saturday’s Duluth Labor World:
Besides Orchard, a man named Steve Adams has been charged with the murder of ex-Gov. Steunenberg of Idaho, and now they are telling some “surprising” things about the case of Adams. He is a voluntary inmate of the penitentiary at Boise, has never been taken before a judge, was not taken before the grand jury, has declined the services of the attorneys of the labor unions when offered to him, and has made no effort to get free, although clearly held illegally.
Some time ago Adam’s wife and children arrived in Boise, penniless and poorly dressed. They became the guests of the superintendent of the penitentiary, were taken out driving each day in the warden’s carriage, had plenty of money, and expensive clothes, and so on.
It is only one queer thing of the many in connection with Moyer-Haywood case. And it tends to give color to the suspicion that the real murderers of Steunenberg have never been caught, but that the Pinkertons and the mine-barons-and out west they are a desperate and bloodthirsty lot-are simply using Orchard and Adams as perjured tools to take advantage of the Steunenberg killing to fix the blame on their old enemies, the officers of the miners’ organization.
What the Parry-sites do in the West is only what the Parry-sites of the East would like to do if they only dared. They would stop at no crime to break up trade unionism.
—–[Photograph added.]
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SOURCE
The Labor World
(Duluth, Minnesota)
-July 14, 1906
https://www.newspapers.com/image/49588342/
IMAGE
Steve Adams, Haywood-Moyer-Pettibone Case of 1906-07,
-Darrow Collection
http://darrow.law.umn.edu/photo.php?pid=356
See also:
Steve Adams (Western Federation of Miners)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Adams_
Big Trouble: A Murder in a Small Western Town Sets Off a Struggle for the Soul of America
-by J. Anthony Lukas
Simon and Schuster, Jul 17, 2012
(Search preview with “Steve Adams.”)
https://books.google.com/books?id=d07IME-ezzQC
David M. Parry
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_M._Parry