Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-09-14
Pass the Word
Along

! les. There are literally thousands of
cases wherein your fellow American
has been assaulted, manned or killed
by these men. The same work is going
on day by day. Suppose you make a
practice of picking out each day from
the papers, accounts of brutality to
American worlSingmen~ who prefer to
work free from the impudence and ty-
ranny of self constituted leaders (?)
than to be always subject to their beck
and call, pay them fees and be told by
them when and where to work, and for
whom. You will discover the same
daily attacks.
| In every case the workingman pre-
fers to be free. He has that right. He
then tries to go to work. He and his
family sorely need the money for food
or he wouldn't run the risk OF his life.
Many such man has wiped the tears
away and quieted the fears of a low
ing wife, left with kiss on her lips,
set his manly jaw and walked into a
| shower of stones and bullets to win
4
A good many have bee. brought
home on stretchers with blood oozing
from nose and ears, some cold, while
some gradually recover. and carry for
life the grim marks of the union lab
| ell"
They are your fellows, my friends,
and yet you supinely read the ac-
counts and say "too bad"
Have you grown so calloused that
you care nothing for the sufferings of
these men who need food and these
helpless ones who rely on the life and
strength of husband and father?
Let us hope that soon you may be
moved by a just God to rise in your
might and by voice and pen, by vote
and right arm you will do a mans
part in protecting yourselves and your
brothers from this onslaught on Am
erican citizens. This cruel warfare is
carried on not always to raise wages,
but to establish union control, kick out
1.-THE independent men, and establish the
"label."
Unfortunately the Labor movement
which started many years ago honestly
enough, has fallen under control of a
!, lot of tyranical, vicious "men of vio-
lent tendencles.
There are too many to attempt to
name You can recall them. They in
clude men who have planned the MUIR
ders of miners, teamsters, pressmen
and carpenters, shoemakers and indie
pendent workrnen of all kinds. Many of
them have escaped hanging by an out
"a ged public only because juries be-
came terror stricken end dared not
convict them.
Some have been punished slightly
and some, including the principal Of
ficers of this nefarlous crew are now
under sentence to Imprisonment but
have appealed their cases.
Right here some apologist rises to
protest against speaking thus of lab
oring men," Bless your dear heart, it
isn't the honest and real workman
who does these things, it is the eXcit-
able ones and the toughs and tugs who
don't work except with their mouths,
but have secured control of too many
unions. I don't even attempt to speci-
, fly the criminal acts these persons have
assisted or Winked at in their plan for
destroying free workingmen and fore
ing men to stay in ''the union" and
hence under their control. The news
papers for the past seven years con-
tain almost daily accounts of the GRIM
inal lawless and tyraalnical acts
(against American citizens and haven't
told half the tale. Right here it be-
comes necessary to say for the ten
thousandth time that there are scores
of honest laW-abiding union men who
deplore and are in no way response
, ble for the long infamous record of
the Labor Trust under it's present
, management, but they don't seem to
? stop it.
The men who manage, who pull the
strings and guide the policy have made
+ the record and it stands, as made by
, them.
Examine, if you please, the record
of a string of members Of the Am
, erican Federation of Labor and you
will view a list of crimes against Am
Z orleans, stupendous beyond belief
, They defy the laws. sheer at the courts
, incite mobs and are avowed enemies
of the peaceable citizens of all classes
t This band wields an iron bar over
. their Subjects and drives them ito idle
ness whenever they want to call a
q strike or exact extra pocket money
for themselves.
I'll Men don't want to be thrown out Of
v work and lose their livelihood. bu1
r what can they do when the sluggine
Y and numbering committee stands al.
Q ways ready to "do them" If they try
to work.
The poor women and helpless chill.
:, dren suffer and on one dares present
= their case to the public. They mus
: suffer in silence for they have no way
q to right their wrongs. while the
; notwithstanding leaders carry ou
their work.
(" These men can not thus force op.
d preston on the weak and innocent OF
v use them to bring newspaper notict
ell to themselves and money to thei
pockets unless they can "hold them il
n line"
81 Therefore, with the craft of the 70,
z and venom OF the serpent they devils,
the "union label" and tell the publ,
8 to buy only articles carrying that lab
u el.
e Smooth scheme, isn't 1t?
d They extract a fee from every un
}. ION man, and in order to get hhes
- monthly feess they must hold til