The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1906-07-04
To MongreIs, Tyrants,
Slaves and Freemen

on these days, and what is being done
to support the children of the citizens
murdered by the members Of the labor
trust.
These fatherless children number in
to several thousand now, and the
trust adds quite few each year, you
know. Don't let's talk about il" some
one says.
Lately there has been a decrease in
owing to public opinion but
the assaults and murders may be ex-
pected again when new strikes are in
OF course, it's easy to be a coward
and shut the eyes, turn deaf ear, and
preserve a 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
unions 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 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 COM
mittee" Of the labor trust, perhaps
your inherent humanity might awake
and give you a, fair look at the appall-
ing slavery all about us-slavery Of
American free born whites.
Within a moderately short time up
ward of twenty thousand of these have
been brutally beaten, generally until
sometimes acid poured
down the throat, eyes gouged out, fin-
gers cut off Ito prevent further work.,
bodies thrown into the water, thrust
into red hot furnaces. pushed off build
ings, and others placed, while uncon-
scious, on railway tracks for complete
finish of the job Shooting and club
bling Of these poor victims is so COM
mon 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 in
dictment true? Don't ask the writer
for authority, but simply turn to the
daily record for the facts.
1t 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 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
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 pun.
for our apathy. He alone
knows.
Some readers of this, living In luxury,
only know of the misery of their fell
low human beings by an occasional cry
that escapes, and they never have a
close look at the damnable steel man
acles cruelty locked on the hands Of
the common man and his wife and chill
dren. But you cannot and must not re-
fuse 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. Examine it
head, body, legs and feet. In
localities where it has full sway and
control the workmen must
join the trust and pay fees each month
to support the rulers, or they are not
allowed to work and support their
families. That starts the slavery. Then
fine of $40 to 800 is put upon
the slave, for some past independence,
or present infraction Of trust rules"
He is ordered to quit work at COM
mand. To quit trading at his groc-
cry, 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
Funion 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 blacksmith'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.
You 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-
tpers 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
and have his little home
and family dynamited.
The public officer who endeavors to
peace and support the laws
is threatened, and where the trust is
strong enough the citizen is not allow
ed to paint his house, fix his water pipe,
lay brick, mix mortar, play in orches-
ira, clerk in a store, dig trenches, wait
on table, drive teams, deliver milk, or
work as machinist, blacksmith, moul-
der, carpenter, painter, typesetter,
pressman, cigarmaker, paperhanger, or
do any other form of work without
permission of the labor trust and pay
ing money to support its leaders. OBJ