Bisbee daily review., 1907-09-01
TEARS HIS UNION CARD ID
 SHREDS
I fieiieglapher, Disguised Witt With Strike, Says He Will No Longer Be Slave to Fool Leaders in Luxury.

PASADENA. Aug. S1.-"That's the | lastt of me with the unions" ex- claimed Charles L. Linton, as he tore up a card in the Commercial Tele- graphers' Union of America. and stamped upon it, yesterday, in this city.
 T have been two months and half ] without work. was arrested be- cause could not pay my board bill, and today I fas compelled to sign a note for $100 to pay off SIP which was the sum of my board bill and court costs. I only owed S3S board, but the costs just ran it up. No more eating now and then for me. No more sleeping in orchards. am going to work, and today I made myself good with the Western Union, and will be back at the key tomorrow.
 T tell you the way this strike is being run Is rotten. In Los Angeles there is no provision made for a sub sistence fund. The strike committee has no restaurant where the hungry strikers may eat and there is no place where they can get bed. When this strike came on I had been out of work, owing to the trouble in San Francisco. and when I got to Los An geles l went with the men, although II was hungry and houseless. SC to speak. When I was arrested and lodged in the county jail, sent word 1 to the strike committee and asked them to help me out. I never heard from them.
 When I got out I went to the os- flee to learn why they had not helped men. The secretary told me that he had sent two men to the jail to give me assistance. l went OaCk to the county jail and made inQuirIss and was told by the desk sersei.its that no one had ever called.
 This morning the secretary told me that he had sent sixteen men at different times to look Ine I'D and help me if l needed it. Now what kind of brothers were those 'Hams?' There I was in the jail fast enough and these sixteen men could not find me, but I learned positively not soul had come to looK me up, or had even inquired for me. This $ brother hood, isn't 1t?
 "Now I want to know what is being N~AAN "ANA NHC SIA AlOuEN. SAutE unions have told the local committee 1 to call upon them fJ- anything in reason. Where does the money 20? I have found out that thc leaders and some few fayorites cad get eyury- thing they want. There is Ryan, they not only paid his room after he caused us all to out or . striSe, bul they took him to the Palace and fei him on the best. T. had everything he wanted at the Palace. Tbat know. I got this straight. There are others who have received the same treatment as J. F. Ryan. lived on the fat of the land, and there are others who have lived as I did
 Last week there was a baseball game that netted $500 for the union. I want to know where that money went. I am tired of reading about this man, Small, the president, living at the Waidorf-Astoria, while I am sleeping in orchards; but there is no more of that for me, am made good with the company, and I will be back at the key tomorrow. and when you get me out on strike again, just tell me about it. There Is my card in bits. and there goes the button (and with this Linton flung the emblem as far as good right arm could send it) I am going to work, and at present rate of wages, l will soon have that old board bill wiped out and something to the good besides.
 You can count me as a company man hereafter, and you can bet I am not afraid of the name scab. after the treatment I got. Just think of it, sent to jail and left to starve, all be- cause I followed a lot of loafers out on a fool strike because Paddy Ryan sassed Sadie Nichols and got fired for it This bunch of loafers seemed only waiting for any chance to make trouble, and If they want to yell 'scab,' they can get some of 1t with me at any time. I am big enough to make good and it is now up to them. I am for the company straight and for my self all the time. D-n this bunch that sent me to bed under the trees and left me to rot in jail until could get a chance from the company to make my name good on a note, and made me pay treble for honest debts.
 There are more in the same boat with me, and you can bet we will give the union the go-by from this 
 out"
 Linton will be back in the Los An geles office of the Western Union tomorrow, adding one more to the number of strike breakers, and he says he knows a score or more of local operators who are only shiver- ing like the little boy on the brink of the pool before they make the plunge. He made his declaration to- day before quite number of people and was loudly applauded when he tore up his badge of slavery to the Commercial Telegraphers' Union. and threw away his yellow dog tag in the shape of the Maltese button of rank slavery to horde of trouble breed CTS. Linton has been out of work for nearly three months.