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“... Hanford and Herman Simpson were
there, at that time full-fledged S. L. P. men.
Brutal Attack Repulsed by S. L. P. Men
It was long after midnight w'hen the attacking party ar-
rived. Henry Slobodin, an East Side lawyer, whom the rump
general committee made the national secretary of what devel-
oped to be the kangaroo party, accompanied by the illustrious
Loewenthal, came up as a parliamentary committee and de-
manded the surrender of the party property and insignia of of-
fice. They were told that there would be no such surrender.
They departed, and soon after came the charge, not of The
Light Brigade, but the heavy-booted, light-headed brigade.
How many there were would be hard to tell, but the stairs were
packed with them; there must have been about two hundred.
The first onslaught was met by the boys from the 18th As-
sembly District, who were especially handy in delivering upper-
cuts, hooks to the jaw, etc.; who, in short, were quite proficient
in the gentle art of self...”
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“... was generally believed that he would be
acquitted, and that once free he would with Vincent St. John
turn the tide in the Western Federation of Miners. This ex-
pectation, as. we shall see later, was not fulfilled.
At times like those, when the brutal, bloodstained hands
of the monstrous capitalist class in Idaho sought to stamp out
the economic organization of the wage slaves by hanging
their leaders; when the only-one-year-old industrial union, the
I. W. W., was treacherously wounded in its vitals by the
scheming politicians wearing the mask of Socialism and hiding
behind a Socialist cloak; and at a time when the masses of
workers were at the crossroads, about to choose whether to
take the road that leads to Revolution and Industrial Democ-
racy or to continue on the road of reform promises and craft
unionism that winds its way to prolonged wage slavery,at
such a time the Socialist Labor Party was in need of strong
men at the helm, men with one purpose alone; to serve...”
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