New-York tribune., 1906-07-04

dropped in to inquire how the slaves in your
community are getting on these days, and what
is being done TO support the children of the cit-
zens murdered by the members of the labor
trust
These fatherIess 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 inaugurated.
OF course, it's easy to be a coward and shut
the eyes, turn deaf ear, and preserve a dis
Greet silence" so you won't get the lash and
bludgeon Of the trust on your own back or in
vite its influence to ruin your business or po-
litical. chances.
Those are the threats the labor unions hold
over the people, you know But II you could
be in the little barely furnished home of the
wOrkingman who left the wife and babies in
the morning to try and 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 entertainment commit
tee Of the labor 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 upward of
twenty thousand Of these have been brutally
beaten, generally until unconscious sometimes
acid poured down the throat, eyes gouged out
thrown into the water thrust into red hot fur
naces, pushed off buildings, and others placed,
while unconscious, on railway tracks for COM
plete finish Of the job" Shooting and clubbing
Of these poor victims is common that fire.
QuentIy 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
felOwmen seeking to earn bread for their little
ones in the face Of the danger to life and limb
from the labor trust eXciteS sort of lukewarm
sympathy among the better classes" but am
led 10 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 punishment for our
apathy, He alone knows.
Some readers of this, living in luxury, 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 damnable
steel manacles cruelty locked on the hands of
the common man and his wife and children.
But you cannot and must not refuse to helps
with moral support at least, your fellows now
struggling for relief from the strangling grip
of this rapidly grown creature. the tyrannous
| labor trust. Examine 1t carefully, head, body.
| legs and feet In localities where it has full
! SWAY and complete control the workmen must
| Join the trust and pay fees each month TO sup
port the rulers. or they are not allowed TO work
! and support their families. That starts the
! slavery. Then perhaps nne of $40 to 800 is
| nut upon the slave for some past independence
! or present infractiOn of trust rules. He Is or
/ dered TO quit work at command. To quit trad
/ ing 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 ordered"
not to buy the favorite hat shoes or clothes be-
/ cause they do not bear the trust trademark
/ 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 10 have your horse shod
| at your blacksmiths, 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.
You are instructed not to nave your printing
done in any independent shop.
| Your public officers are threatened II 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, stereOtypers and press
men, that they dare not print facts and news
not in sympathy with the unions"
! The common man who works TO support his
family and refuses to slave for the labor lead
ers is liable TO be beaten unconscious ana nave
his little home and family dynamited.
| The public officer who endeavors TO maintain
neaee and support the laws is threatened, and
Tvbere the trust is strong enough the citizen is
| not allowed TO paint his house, hx his water
! pine lay brick, mix mortar play IN OrchestLa'
| ccierI, in q store. dig trenches, wait on table,
drive teams deliver milk, or work as machin-
! ist blacksmith, mOulder, carpenter, painter.
| fypesetter, pressman. cigaFmaker, paperhanger,
/ or do anv other form OF work without pefmls-
| sion oP fbe labor trust and paying money 70
support its leaders Observe, say where the
fr1Ist is strong enough" and it is daily striving
~ get strong enough" in places where II IS YET
too weak 90 rule. Il even has a ho0 carriers
| ,,Tfor and "hOrse leaders union 10 federate
| with other slaves among the unionized doctors
| and graDd Opera singers. The punishment OF re-
| fraciOry members or citizens who dare assert
fieir personal rights includes attacks on funeral