Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1902-10-30

occasionally such villainous deeds
are done that men who have connived at
smuggling hold up their hands in horror.
Think of the villain who, in the silent
hours of the night, places dynamite I'M
der the porch of the house of a non-union
worker, whose wife was about to become
a mother and to whose side nestled her
two little children while their father was
at work. That dastardly deed so aroused
the ire of one of the priests that he
charged the members of the union with
murder, ''not," said he, 'of men who can
defend themselves, but of innocent women
and harmless childen-yes, he added,
''you try to murder even the unborn.
Dynamite is the weapon of a sneak and
a coward. He cannot plead the excuse
of the man who loses his individuality in
the crowd Foully and by night does
this degenerate go to 'work, and he knows
not who may be the victim Of his nefa-
riouS deed. A doctor in one OF our
towns, who was on his errand OF mercy
about midnight, heard II yards ahead of
him the deafening roar of an explosion,
and saw the porch of a house blown to
pieces and the windows broken on all
sides. A saloon keeper who sold liquors
to deputies was suddenly startled from
his repose by an explosion of dynamite
which made the spirits quake. In an
other town three houses of non-union
men were dynamited. Fortunately none OF
the residents of these dwellings were
injured.
Every foreman is armed, and he keeps
his weapons near him every hour, night
and day, and must be ready to meet pos
sible emergencies. The windows Of his
Lo 3,rrioc honpinU
in front of his door, his children are in
suited on the street, their playmates
shun them, and in the public schools
they are victims of malignant epithets.
The wife is .ostracized, and the butcher,
milkma and baker are warned not to
sell their commodities to these families.
The heat of passion beclouds the judg
ments of both parties and the ordinary
demands of courtesy and charity are for
gotten. Beddall was buried under mill
tary escort; Winston was boycotted even
in death-the lodge to which he belonged
and the men who worked at his side and
were raised with him as boys dared no
attend his funeral. School teachers with
relatives among the rank of non-union
men are cut off from their means of sub
sstence remorselessly; beneficent socie-
ties are disturbed, and social bonds are
snapped asunder. Such is the contagion
Of the spirit of lawlessness that we have
seen ragmen pelted on the street by in
boys, so that they had to flee
'or safety from their prosecutors. Into
The tender minds of children the poison
IF intolerance and violence is instilled.
When lisping childhood grows white
With passion and clenches it's tiny white
land in rage, saying ME kill scab," it
,odes ill for the peace of society.
1t would be absurd to charge the
Miners organization with all these
,rimes and offenses. Their leaders, gen
rally speaking, deprecate them, and most
If the conservative men in the union
ave done all in their power to check
he spirit of lawlessness.
Mr.. Mitchell, l think is an honest man,
,ut we do not know anything about him.
lie is from the soft-coal region. He has
;hree eutenants-Nichols, Duffy and
Fahy. Mr.. Nichols is sober, industri-
ous man with good intentions, but of an
excitable nature, liable always to go
away on tangent. He is possibly the
pest man personally among the district
officers, but the worst leader. Mr.. Mich
ols is the author of this strike. Mitchell
said to him in the convention: nichols,
lon't think you are going to put this
strike on my shoulders. You will have
% bear the responsibility. 1t was Mich
>ls's fiery speech in the convention that
ed the people to cry for a strike.
Mr.. Duffy is possibly the worst of the
hree. He has come from the lower ele-
nent. All are English-speaking men. Mich
us is an Englishman. The rest-Duffy,
Fahy, and Mitchell-are Irishmen. Mr..
Duffy is the most ignorant of all the dis
riot leaders, but he has this power, he is
hail fellow, we'll met" He lives for
he organization. AS far as his working
'apacity is concerned, he is not worker,
,ut he is good organizer. He is no
but he is an agitator. Mich
lis is good miner as far as a workman
S concerned.
Mr.. Fahy once studied law,I have been
old, and did not make success of it.
lie is the first organizer of the present
Miners union in the anthracite coal
ields. He came to Pottsville about 1897,
md organized the Pottsville local union.
Then he came down to Mount Carmel
and Shanokin. He is a calm, cool, level
headed man, who sees the drift of things
far better than Duffy, and feels the re-
sponsibility that rests upon him far bet
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