The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1908-07-09


labor is the building up of the
American home.
The American home is the most
sacred institution on Gods foot
stool, and the man who strikes a
blow at the sanctity of such a
home is an enemy to his country
and disgrace to the human
family.
The strike breaker or Bohunk is
The distinctive and arch enemy of
the Godgiven homes of America.
There is but one other class of
persons sufficiently low and de-
graded rs to be spoken of in CON
nectloh with the strikebreal,er
That class is the American divorce
mongers.
The depraved cheap labor evil
ana the divorce evil are insparable.
Both tend alike to DESTROY the
blessings, the inspiration and the
perpetulty of the American home
Shattcr the ties and bonds of tho
nome ana the way is open to di-
vorce.
Scatter the seeds of pollution
calling for divorce and the home
at once perishes by the weight of
shame and confusion.
The wages of the American
workman is the mainstay of the
American home. ANY act to
lower that wage is an act of hos
tlllty to that home and all it stands
for.
The strike breaker is not the
malntainer of a respectable wage.
Ills position, and UiUen his acts.
tend to lower wages, and hence
strikes Il blow at the home.
He invites an onslaught upon
the wage scale and holds himself
in position that renders him
powerless to assert his own rights
or to aid others in struggle for
just conditions.
For this reason the strikebreaker
and the cheap foreinger is petted
and tondled by those who wish to re-
turn to hat in hand conditions
when labor accepted whatever was
offered, instead of demanding what
was right and just.
The Individual who pets this
class is no better than this enemy.
because ne IS aiding In lowering
the standard of the home, and
thereby adding the divorce mania
that has become the black scourge
of America.
The plea may be set up by some
that divorces are more prevalent
among the highly wealthy than
among the poor. Are not these
wealthy ones the fast friends ofth
Bohunk, and are thus responsible
for wounding the sacredness of the
nome! Can any Individual be
thus long engaged without having
his sins visited upon his head?
Divorces rarely occur where the
head of the family is a union man
VINO enjoys the adequate wages
demanded by the union.
Divorces are most frequent
among those who have the most to
do In making onslaught on the
purity, the comforts and the hal
lowed influence of the enlightened
Christian home.
The degraded cheap foreign
laborer and the person who en-
courages him, deserves to be
ostracised in the community in
which they dwell. They and the
divorce monger should be made to
feel that he does not labor to pre-
serve the benign and hallowed in
1uence of the American home
citizens.
Organized labor has lifted the
tolllng masses from the depths of
poverty and degradation to the
plane of comfort and respectability.
10 do this it has cost those en-
gagged in the struggle an amount
In time and money sufficient to
pay our great national debt.
In view of these facts, it is a
crime ON the part of the strike
breaker and his supporters to be
engaged in an effort to dislodge or
weaken the forces of organized
! labor
The business man owes his sue
cess to the elevation and better
condition of the laboring class.
which is all due to the sacrifices
and untiring labors of the in