The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1906-07-03


in your community are getting on these
DAYS. and what Is being done to support |
the children Of the citizens murdered By
tho members Of the labor trust.
These fatheriess children number iato
several thousand now. and the trust adds
quite a few each year you know Don't
let's talk about a." someone says.
Lately thore has been decrease in
violence owing to public opinion but the
assaults and murders may be expected
again when new strikes are inaugurated.
or course it's easy to be coward and
/ shut the eyes. turn a deaf ear and ore
serve a discreet silence" SO you woa't
get the lash and bludgeon Of the trust on
your own back or invite its Influence"
to ruin your business Of political chances.
| Those are the threats the labor unions
hold over the people YOU know. But III
YOU could be in the little barely furnished
home Of the workingman who left the
| wife ana babies in the morning to try
and earn "a little to feed item. and see
the despair Of the stricken wife and the
pleading children when the bruised ana
bleeding body of the father WAS brought
sn at night the fruit ~ the "eutertain
meat committee" of the labor trust.
perhaps your inherent humanity might
awake and give you fair look at tho
appalling savery an about ns slavery of
American free horn whites.
within moderately short time up-
wards Of twenty thousand of these have
been brutallv beaten generally untn un-
conscious. sometimes acid poured down
the throat cyese gouged out. fiugers cut
of 90 prevent further work., bodies
thrown into the water thrust into red
hot furnaces. pushed OF buildings. aad
others placed while unconscious. on rail-
way tracks for complete finish OF the
job Shooting and clubbing OF these
poor victim is so common that frequently
no mention Is made in the papers for the
readers are SO used to such items that
theg cease TO have news value" l. this
Indictment true? Don't ask the writer
for authority. but simply tuin TO the
daily record for the facts.
u seems that the struggle of orr still
living fellowmen seeking 70 cara bread
Tor thch little ones, in she face Of the
darser TO life ana limit from the labor
trust excitcs a sort OF lukcwarm sympa-
thy 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
numbered fathers. ald the widows left 4
battle alone for q cir supoort. why Go(
y permits such things ana how severe vii
he me punishment for our aaathy. ",
alone Knows
some readers of tnls. hVng ia Iuxury
e only SNOW of tho Misery Of thcir fellow
:" human beings by an occasional cry tha
'e esc,tpes ANA they never have "a close lool
IA the damnable steel innnaclos cruell.
? locked On the hands of the common maj
~ ana his wife ana children. but YOU can
moi ana must not refuse to help witl
' moral support. at least. your fellows nov
NJ Struggling for relief fron the stranglInl
'e grim of tbis rapidiy grown creature tn
o. tqgnt;hous labor trust Examine IL care
ftly head body legs ana feet IN %
Sc cslities ych,ee II has FUN sway a1d com
Us ,aet. cottrol the woflinpu,,n must ioh
'' tbe trust ami ,,y fees .arh n9atn h
H' snpnort 80. ,ii.rs or tf,.y ara not al
iloNe1 IN work and snpport their fam
ie Mos rbat starts tfe slavery The
'd perb,ps a nne ~ Si0 to 500 is put mo
~ IA. sloy, for SOM. mast nd4pendenc,
ae OF present iafr,ction Of must iilcs.