Arizona republican., 1906-07-04


 } murdered by the members of the labor trust.
 These fatherless children number into several thousand now. and thC 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 ex- peeted again when new strikes are in augurated.
 Of course it's easy to be a coward and shut the eyes, turn a deaf ear and l preserve a discreet silence" so you won't get the lash and the bludgeon of the trust on your back or invite its "in- fluence' to ruin your business or poli- tical chances
 ! Those are the threats the labor ,,n- ions hold over the people. you know. but if you could be in the little bare ly furnished home of the workingrnan who left the wife and babies in the l morning to try and earn a 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 entertainment com mittee' of the labor trust. perhaps your inherent humanity might awake and give you a fair look at the ap- palling slavery all about us-slavery of American free born whites. Within moderately short time up- wards of twenty thousand of these have been brutally beaten, generally until unconscious, sometimes acid poured down the throat. eyes gouged out. fingers cut off (to prevent fur ther work), bodies thrown into the water, thrust into red hot furnaces, } pushed off buildings and others plac- ed, while unconscious, on railway tracks for complete finish of the job" Shooting and clubbing of these poor vic tims 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 records 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 danger of life and limb from the la bor trust, excites a sort of lukewarm sympathy among the better classes" but am led to inquire how the Ameri- can people can steel their hearts against the mute appeals of the little children of these murdered fathers, and the widows left alone to battle for their support Why God permits such things and how severe will be the punishment for our apathy. He alone knows. Some readers of this, living in lux ury. only know of the misery of their fellow human beings by an occasional , cry that escapes, and they never have a close look at the damnabIe 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 strug Sling for relief from the strangling grip of this rapidly grown creature, the ty- rannous labor trust. Examine it care fully, head, body legs and feet. In To- calities where it has full sway and complete control, the workmen must
 
 to support the rulers, or they are not allowed to work and support their families. That starts the slavery. Then perhaps a fine Of $1O or $lOO is l put upon the slave, for some past in dependence. or present infraction of , trust rules" He is ordered to quit 2 work at command To quit trading at his grocery. meat shop or other store . where he has credit In many cases the hut 1E,r 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 trade mark. the union label" You mustn't read your newspaper for it prints some truths not exactly favorable to the labor trust. , You are ordered not to have your horse shOd at your blasksmith's, for he uses nails made in an independent shop.
 , You mustn't ride on street cars be- cause the labor trust expects to break the windows and tip them over 1 You are instructed not to have your printing done in an independent shop. T Your public officers are threatened if they award public printing to the low est bidder if he happens to be under the ban of the unions"
 SOIie newspapers are so completely } tied up by their union printers, stere- otypers and pressmen that they dare not print facts and news not in sym pathy 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 dynamited
 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 al lowed to paint his house, fix his water pipe lay brick, mix mortar, play in orchestra. clerk in a store, dig trenches, wait on table, drive teams, deliver milk, or work as machinist, black smith. moulder carpenter. painter