Nome industrial worker., 1908-04-03
TIE WERE-W0LVES.

In the olden folklore we read of a terrible thing, half man and half-wolf, which our foremothers called the were wolf. This terrible thing, more heartless than a Pinkerton detective, was never known to meet it's victim in open battle, but, skulking and sinking along through dark and gloomy forests when the snow lay deep and soft upon the ground, it hung upon the trail of it's victim hour on hour, stopping ever and anon in the pursuit to send its demonalc howl, blood -curdling, through the darkness and so. hour by hour, it hunted until it's victim, dazed and exhausted, unable longer to offer re- sistance. sank upon the lonely snow clad road, and then the werewolf leaped from the jungle and sent its fangs down into the throat of it's help less prey. The were wolf never sprang until it's victim fell, and of all blood it loved best the blood of the brave, the innocent and the pure.
 The patron saints of the were wolves were Belial and Moloch, the gods of lust and gcld-gods in whose temples women were outraged, and on whose altars babies were sacrificed in an awful but vain endeavor to scar cut of the human heart forever the divine aEeaE of freedom and equality.
 The were wolves, like their gods and sters, hated right and justice :; noLs. md virtue were to them but infaL es; truth criminal fit only for the gallows; liberty their license to revel on the corpses of the nations their go Is and masters had enslaved, degraded and dehumanized.
 The were wolves bred in all colors- white, black, yellow, brown, red :; but, whatver their color, they always bred true to their nature, white-liv- cred and merciless towards ever ready to do the bidding of their gods and masters, no matter how low the
 
 work or how pitiless the deed.
 The were wolves were never lean and gaunt and hungry, for though their masters despised them, the mas ters knew that the were wolves would lap even their polluted blood were they denied their usual feed for a moments time.
 Treason was their father, Hypocrisy their mother, and the scab is an off shoot from them through the jackal.
 Such was the werewolf
 A few days after Small issued his order to the striking telegraphers to abandon their fight, there gathered in front of the unions meeting place things in the shape of men, some in white bosomed and some in flannel shirts, called by way of fattery, not We're wolves, but "chief operators, :" 'tchief linemen," 'rlocal managers, :" stc., who, lurking in the shadows of the skyscrapers, waited and watched, hoping to hear the despairing cry of defeat come sobbing through the open windows of the room where the work CTS, starvation and treason staring them in the face, were debating what was to them matter of life and death; and then as ringing cheer came through the open windows, the lurkers in the shadows of the sky scrapers hurriedly crossed the open street and were seen in their true na- tures-the were wolves of the Western Union Postal Telegraph Trust, out hunting for the blood of victims But there was yet worse to see and hear.
 A few days before the strike col starving babies clinging to her knees, a woman driven at last by hunger to do what she had rather die than do, 1T lone were to die, went back to F.ef @ and pleaded to be reinstat- a ,er position if only for her sta. children's sake; but the Wes Union chief werewolf told her that she had not treated him right (imaigne a werewolf making such 'statementD, and that regardless of the divine duty that had been impos- ed by the sacred fact of motherhood, there was no place for her within the holy precincts of the trust. Which means in naked words that iD the sunny South, whose soil has been bap