The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-04

the children of the citizens murdered
by the members of the labor trust.
These fatherless children number into
several thousand now, and the trust
adds quite a few each year, you know.
Don't let's talk about it," someone
says.
Lately there has been a decrease in
violence owing to public opinion but the
assaults and murders may be expected
again when new strikes are inaugura-
ted
OF course. it's easy to be a coward
and shut the eyes. turn deaf ear, and
preserve d discreet silence" so you
won't get the lash and bludgeon of the
trust on your own back or invite its
Influence" to ruin your business or
political chances.
Those are the threats the labor I'M
ions hold over the people, you know
But If you could be in the little barely
furnished home of the workingman who
left the wife and babies in the morning
to try to earn little to feed them. and
see the despair of the stricken wife and
the pleading children when the bruised
and bleeding body of the father was
! brought in at night the fruit of the
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trust, perhaps your inherent humanity
might awake and give you a fair look
at the appalling slavery all about US
slavery of American free born whites.
Within a moderately short time up
wards of 10000 of these have been bru-
tally beaten. generally until uncon-
scious sometimes acid poured down
the throat. eyes gouged out, fingers cut
off Cto prevent further work.. bodies
thrown into the water. thrust into red
hot furnaces, pushed of buildings, and
others placed, while unconscious. on
railway tracks for complete finish of
the Job Shooting and clubbing of
these poor victims IS so common that
frequently no mention is made IN the
papers, for the readers are so used to
such items that they cease to have
news value Is this Indictment true?
Don't ask the writer for authority, but
simply turn to the daily record for the
facts
/ It seems that the struggle Of our still
living fellowmen seeking to earn bread
for their little ones. in the face of the
danger to life and limb from the labor
trust, excites a sort of lukewarn SYM
pathy among the better classes but
am led to inquire how the American
people can steel their hearts against
the mute appeals of the little children
of these murdered fathers and the
widows left to battle alone for their
support why God permits such things
and how severe will be the punish
ment for our apathy. He alone knows
Some readers Of this. living in luxury.
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human beings by an occasional cry that
escapes, and they never have a close
look at the damnable steel manacIes
cruelty locked on the hands of the
common man and his wife and children.
But you cannot and must not refuse to
help with moral support. at least. your
fellows now struggling for relief from
the strangling grip of this rapidly grown
creature the tyrannous labor trust Ex-
anime it carefully, head, body, legs and
feet. In localities where It has full
sway and complete control. the work.
/ men must join the trust and pay fees
each month to support the rusers, or
they are not allowed to work and sup
d their families. That starts the
slavery. Then perhaps a fine Of $40 to
500 is put upon the slave, for some past
independence, or present infraction of
trust rules" He is ordered to quit
work at command. To quit trading at
his grocery, meat shop. or other store
where he has credit In many cases the
grocer or butcher is ordered" not to
supply food to certain citizens Other
citizens are ordered" not to buy the
favorite hat, shoes. or clothes. because
they do not bear the trust trademark.
the union LABEL
You mustn't read your newspaper for
it prints some truths not exactly favor
able to the labor trust.
You are ordered not to have your horse
shod at your blackslnith's for he uses
nails made in an independent shop.
You mustn't ride on the street cars for
the labor trust expects to break the
windows and tip them over.
GU are instructed not to have your
printing done in any independent shop.
Your public officers are threatened if
they award public printing to the lowest
bidder If he happens to be under the ban
Of the unions"
some newspapers are SO completely
| tied up by their union printers, stereo-
I typers and pressmen. that they dare not
| print facts and news not in sympathy
with the unions
The common man who works to sup
port his family and refuses to slave for
the labor leaders is liable to be beaten
/ unconscious and have his little home
and family dynamlted.
The public officer who endeavors to
maintain peace and support the laws is
threatened, and where the trust is strong
enough the citizen IS not allowed to
paint his house, fix bis water pipe lay
brick. mix mortar. play IN orchestra.
clerk n a store. dig trenches. wait on