The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-10-22
SENATOR T|LLMAN At
STOCK YARDS FAILS
Cannot Arouse Race Hatred
Where Negro Strike
Breaker Were Employed.
Socialist Papers Discuss Ac-
tion Of National Demo-
cratic Committee.

That the National Democratic COM
mittee was impolitic in sending Senator
Tillman to the Stock yards to pray
upon the prejudiced minds of the late
strikers against the negroes who help
ed to break their strike is now admit
ted by the party managers.
Chicago labor papers have COM
mented at length on the matter. The
most bitter is from the Socialist, which
is in part as follows:
During the strike a horde of debased,
beastialized blacks had been bought in
the labor market and shipped into
the yards as hogs are shipped for the
killing floors. The story of their brutal
debauchery has already been told in
these columns. Naturally the laborers
whom these disgusting products of
capitalism had been used to displace
felt a bitter hatred against the negro
scab. But those who damned the
"nigger." are beginning to look behind
the black weapon with which they are
struck to see the men that welded,
the brain that planned and the class
that profited by this use of the negro.
The Socialists had been pointing out
the fact that 1t was the class struggle
and not the race struggle which must
be waged II labor would be free. The
workers OF the yards are grasping this
fact and by thousands are preparing to
strike both Republican and Democratic
oppressors at the point where the
strike is sure to win, the ballot box.
But it did not suit the political and
industrial rulers Of this country that
race hatred should die out. Every
division in the ranks of the toilers
weakens their resistance to oppression
extends the term of their slavery, in
creases the profits of their exploiters.
So it is that extreme efforts are being
made to fan the dying embers of race
hatred. The better to do this they
! have imported that precious product Of
little capitalist domination. in South
Carolina,-that cross between South
ern chattel slave owner and Northern
wage slave exploiter, Ben Tillman. In
1896 Tillman came to Chicago eager
to speak for the Democratic party, but
his crudeness and Ignorance were so
notorious that the Democratic man
ayers feared TO- use him, and he found
every hall closed Ito his efforts. Now
Eheliss lpCmsd .ssfl slhe:sc scansbe
used. Now it Is hoped that: the " ork-
ers Of the yards are such crude fools
that they can be deceived by this bdf-
foon whose every speech has for it's
text damn the Niger" whose solu-
/ ton of the labor problem is the whip,
the moose and the stake, and the height
3~t4 4rko
is the question, would you let your
| daughter marry nigger?" This is
| the man who is now to appeal to the
| stock yards workers in the hope that
he may deceive andrrdivide them and
set them once more to fighting among
| themselves. II they will but fight over
! the question of the color of their skins
the capitalists may skin both alike.
If negro worker and white worker can
be turned loose upon each other there
Is no danger Of either securing free
dom.
WHY DOES T1LLMAN COME?
| A few weaks ago the laborers of the
stock yards were in desperate need of
| every particle Of assistance and SYM
pathy they oculd secure. They were
fighting for life, for themselves, their
families and generations yet to some.
Where was Tillman then? He should
! be asked by thousand voices at ev-
cry meeting he addresses where he
was when the strike was on, and why
he did not speak to or for the stock
yards workers then. Ask him whose
money is paying him now, that he
| should come here to raise the race
| question and set white worker against
black. Ask him what interest August
Belmont, McCurren. Clark, and the
money lords who are contributing to
the democratic party campaign fund,
from which his salary is paid, have in
sending him to the yards at this time,
other than to divide and enslave the
! workers to whom he talks. These men
who own both Republican and Demo-
cratic parties have seen the rising wave
Of intelligent discomfort that is start
ing in the stock yards, and which
! threatens to sweep them with their
ill-gotten gains out Of our social sys-
! tenn. That is why Tillman is sent
here. That is the sort of dirty work in
! which he is engaged.
| Are there any of the workers of this
city who cannot see through this trap?
Are there any so foolish as to bite at
such a miserable bait? Let the
workers Of Chicago attend his meetings
and send him back with the word that
our eyes are opened to our slavery
that we know him for the tool that
he is. Tell him to, go back with his
negro-hating gospel. TO: the State from
which he came Tell him that even
there his reign will be short, for the
rising tide Of Socialism is sweeping on
even toward the: "black belt"
Tell him that the workers of the
stock yards have Joined hands across
all lines Of nationality, and creed, and
race and color, In q common battle for
freedom Tell him that in our social
| warfare OF to-day we recognize but one