Evening journal., 1906-07-03
To MonSrelS, TyrantS,

port the cululen OF the cillNthS lhAl- /
dered 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," some
one says.
Lately there has been a 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 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 morn
| ing to try and earn a little to feed
them, and see the despair Of the strick-
en- wife and the pleading children when
the bruised and bleeding body Of the
father was brought in at night, the
fruit of the entertainment committee
of the labor trust. perhaps your in
herent 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 up
} wards of twenty thousand Of these
J have been brutally beaten. general,
ed down the throat, eyes gouged out
fingers cut off (to prevent furthei
work., bodies thrown into the water
/ thrust into red hot furnaces. pushed off
3 buildings. and others placed. while un-
conscious, on railway tracks for COM
= plete 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 indict-
ment true? Don't ask the writer foi
authority, but simply turn TO the daily
record for the facts.
1t seems that the struggle Of oul
still living fellowmen seeking to carr
bread for their little ones, in the face
= of the danger to life and limb from
the labor trust, excites a sort of luke
r. warm sympathy among the bette
y classes" but l am led to inquire how
Il the American people can steel thei
hearts against the mute appeals of tn
little children Of these murdered faith
ers, and the widows left to battle alonl
= for their support. Why God permit
l.. such things. and how severe win b.
d the punishment for our apathy, II
alone knows.
4 Some readers Of this, living in luxury
:, only know Of the misery of their fellow
human beings by an occasional or,
that escapes. and they never have
close look at the damnable steel mana
cles cruelty locked on the hands Of IN
le common man and his wife and chndreI
'r But you cannot and must not refus
" to help with moral support, at leas
~ your fellows now struggling for reli'
from the strangling grip Of this rapid
at grown creature. the tyrannous labC
be trust. Examine it carefully. head, bod,
ne lbgs and feet. In localities where II ha
d. full sway and complete control, u
re workmen must join the trust and pa
fees each month TO support the ruler
or they are not allowed TO work an
support their families. That starts ii
slavery. Then perhaps a fine of 81
to 500 is put upon the slave, for SON
past independence. or present infractio
q Of trust rules" He is ordered TO qu
work at command To quit trading
his grocery. meat shop, or other stol
A where he has credit In many case
y the grocer or butcher is ordered" n'
er to supply food to certain citizens Oth'
citizens are Ordered" not 10 buy II
favorite hat. shoes, or clothes, becaui
III they do not bear the trust trade-mal
the union label"
re You mustn't read your newspaper Il
he It prints some truths not exactly favor
.e able to the labor trust.
You are ordered not to have yol
he horse shod at your blacksmiths for
NJ uses nails made in an independent sho
1T You mustn't ride on the street ca
to for the labor trust expects to bres
e. the windows and tip them over.
You are instructed not TO have yol
~. printing done i'm any Independent sho
ss Your public officers are threatened
d. they award public printing 10 the loy
n. est bidder If he happens 70 be und
the ban Of the unions"
- Some newspapers are so complete
tied up by their union printers stere
| typers and pressmen, that they da
\ not print facts and news not in syn
pathy with the unions"
The common man who works to su
port his family and refuses TO sla'
for the labor leaders is liable to
beaten unconscious and have his lit
home and family dynamited.
The public officer who endeavors
maintain peace and support the Law
is threatened, and where the trust
strong enough the citizen IS not allo1
ed to paint his house, fix his water PHI
lay brick, mix mortar play in orche
4 ira, clerk in a store, dig trenches. wa
on table. drive teams, deliver milk.
work as machinist blacksmith. moul
er. carpenter. painter, typesetter, pres
4 man, cigarmaker. paperhanger. or
any other form OF work without pc
mission Of the labor trust and pa
ing money to support its leaders. o
serve. say where the trust is stro
81 enough" and it is daily striving 10 E
4 strong enough" i'm places where It
vet too weak to rule II even has
q hod carriers union and ''horse leader
81 union to federate with other slav
among the unionized doctors and gra
opera singers. The punishment of :
n fractory members or citizens who da
assert their personal rights includes
focLe on funeral rrooaccfonr and