The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1906-11-17
union LABOR Halter !.
TH|RSTS FOR BLOOD
Cleveland Leader of Strike Break
ers Makes Dangerous Threats
on Unionists. ~
Hurls Vilest and Most Unprintab1e
e pithets at Unionists-Is =
Church Member.

A. Penton, one Of the notorious grand
dukes Of the local plutocracy, has
started to run amuck. Like the late
despised and hated Trepoff, Penton is
| thlrsting for blood, and nothing short
| OF human suffering appears to satisfy
the mans craving.
Penton has achieved more than a
| local reputation as an implacable Ia
oor-nater and an especial enemy of
organized working people, and is in a
lair way of standing second only to
the ill-famed Parry or Post if he keeps
up his present gait.
! For years Penton has made war up
on the iron molders and machinists
and sought to stir up the strife against
The marine workers through his pub
lications
| And like the equally notorious Far
ley, Penton has grown rich at his
game OF trouble breeding, and never
overlooks an opportunity to add to his
1ll-gotten gains.
| Although Penton has repeatedly de-
clared that he does not own a dollars
worth Of stock in any printing house,
and that his publications are fully pro-
tected by contracts, yet he has deter
mined to meddle in the eight hour fight
between the printers and the unfair
employers.
The Penton publications are issued
from the office of the Whitworth
Bros, on Erie street, concern that
mas had considerable difficulty in Sc
curing and retaining competent print
ers to work nine hours a day. One
of the Whitworths has been particu-
Ivy A,,c{
though said to be good church men,
ber, he has hurled the vilest and most
unprintable epithets at strikers, and
has deliberately interfered in CONVEX
sations between pickets and strike
breakers upon every occasion Several
times this bitter fanatic has assaulted
union men who were strictly attend
ing to their business, and last week
Friday evening this series of unpro-
voked attacks eliminated in a coward
ly stabbing. affair on Erie street, where
Whitworth plunged chisel into the
back Of a picket named Black, while
the latter was peacefully walking
homeward.. When the would-be as
sassin was arrested the police found
slungshot and revolver besides the
chtsel on his perxon. Criminal and
civil proceedings have been begun
against .Whitworth and they will be
fought to a finish.
No sooner had Whltworth commit
ted his latest assault land probably
in the hope Of saving the latter from
well-merited public condemnation,
when up jumps the clustering Penton
and starts loud cry against the '1aw-
less' pickpocket who shouts "stop
theft" to divert attention from his
own criminal practices, Penton not
only denounces the unionists with holy
indignation, but this local Parryite de-
clares in so many words that the may
or, the police and the courts are un-
able to preserve order and peace, and,
therefore, he and his labor ha ting ca
bal intend to take the law into their
| own hands.
"Shoot to kill" is the edict that has
gone forth from the Cleveland union
| smasher.
! I'VE have issued an injunction that's
made to lead and can't be modified"
said Penton to a News reporter, show
ing a big revolver that he carried in
his coat pocket. you can say that
the strike is ended on Erie street
There'n be no more slugging by thugs
hired or imported to intimidate our
men. Our employees are instructed to
shoot any man who even jostles them,
| to shoot at once and shoot right. The
company will stand behind them. In
functions Of the garden variety are all
| right only they are sort of passe and
they don't injunct. This one is going
to stand, all right" Z.
No doubt Mr.. Penton is very brave
| man, and doubly so when he knows
| that the union men have been warned
throughout the strike, and that the
thugs hired or imported" are on the
Penton side. During the past year
nearly every act of slugging has come
from the employers side, and Penton
knows It. -