The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-07-04
70 MongreIs, 7yrants,
Slaves and Freen1en

/ 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 citizens
murdered by the members Of the labor
trust.
These fatherless children number
into several thousand now, and the
trust adds quite few each year, you
know. Don't let's talk about it."
someone says.
Lately there has been decrease In
violence owing to public opinion but
the assaults and murders may be ex-
pected again when new strikes are in
augurated.
OF course, it's easy to be coward
and shut the eyes, turn deaf ear,
and preserve discreet 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 busi-
ness or political chances.
Those are the threats the labor
unions hold over the people, you know.
But if you could be in little barely
furnished home of the wOrkingman
who left the wife and babies in the
morning to try and earn a little to
feed them, and see the despair OF the
stricken wife and the pleading child
rem when the bruised and bleeding
body of the father was brought in at
night, the fruit of the entertainment
committee" of the labor trust, per-
haps your inherent humanity might
awake and give you fair look at the
appalling slavery all about us-slav.
cry of American free born whites.
Within moderately short time up
wards of twenty thousand of these
have been brutally beaten, sometimes
acid poured down the throat, eyes
gouged out, fingers cut OF Ito prevent
further work., bodies thrown into red
hot furnaces, pushed off 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.
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 luke
warm sympathy among the better
classes" but l 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 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 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 help with moral sup
port, at least, your fellows now strug-
Cling for relief from the strangins
grip of this rapidly grown creature,
the tyrannous labor trust. Examine it
carefully, head. body, legs and feet. In
localities where Il has full sway and
complete control, the workmen must
join the trust and pay fees each month
to support the rules, or they are not
allowed to work and support their
families. That starts the slavery.
Then perhaps fine of $50 to 500 Is
put upon the slave, for some past indie
pendence, 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 favor'te 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
favorable 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-
typers 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 lit
tie 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 citizens is not al
lowed to paint his house, fix his wa
ter pipe, lay brick, mix mortar, play
in orchestra, clerk in a store. Dig
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