The San Francisco call., 1909-09-16
Pass the Word
ALONG.

been said there were 81 Americans
many of them fathers. killed in one
strike, (the teamsters in Chicago) and
over 5000 MANNED, many for Fife. That's
only one lesson" of these bullies.
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 workingmen who prefer to
work free from the impsRdence and
tyranny of self-constituted leaders CD
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 general conditions underlying all
these daily attacks.
In every case the worEingman pre-
fers to be free. He has that right. He
then tries to go to work He and his
family sorely need the Nancy for food
or he wouldn't run the risk of his life
Many such a man has wiped the tears
away and quieted the fears of loving
wife, left with a kiss on. her lips, set
his manly jaw and walked into a
shower of stones and bullets to win
food for the loved mother and babies.
A good many have been 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
LABEL
They are your fellows. my friends,
and yet you supinely read the accounts
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 mans
part in protecting yourselves and your
brothers from this onslaught on Ameri-
can citizens. This cruel warfare is
carried on not always to raise wages,
but to establish union control. kick ous
the independent men and establish the
label
Unfortunately the labor movement
which started many years ago honestly
enough has falleu under control Of a
lot Of tyrranica1. vicious 'men of vie-
lent tendencies"
There are too many to attempt to
name You can recall them They in
clude men who have planned the mur-
ders Of miners, teamsters, pressmen
and carpenters. shoe makers and in
dependent workmen of all kinds. Many
of them have escaped hanging by an
outraged public only because Juries be-
came terror stricken and dared not
convict them.
Some have been punished slightly.
and some. including the principal off,
GERS OF this nefarious crew, are now
under sentence to Imprisonment, but
have appealed their cases.
Right here some apologist rises to
protest against speaking thus of
1aboring men," Bless your dear heart,
1t isn't the honest and real workman
who does these things; it is the excit-
able ones and the toughs and thugs
who don't work except with their
too many unions 1 don't even attempt
to specify the criminal acts these per-
sons have assisted or winked at in
their plan for destroying free working
men and forcing men to stay in 'the
union" and hence Under their control.
The newspapers for the past seven
years contain almost daily accounts
of, the criminal, lawless and tyrranical
acts against American citizens and
haven't told half the tale. Right here
1t becomes necessary to say for the
ten thousandth time that there are
scores Of honest law abiding union
men Who dep1ore and are In no way
responsible for the long. infamous rec-
ord OF the Labor Trust" under its
present management. but they don't
seem to stop it,
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 American
Federation of Labor and you will view
a Lat of crimes against Americans,
stupendous beyond belief. They defy
the laws. sneer at the courts, incite
mobs and are avowed enemies of the
peaceable citizens of all classes.
This band -wields an iron bar over
their subjects and drives them to idle
ness whenever they want to call a
strike or exact extra pocket money
for themselves.
Men don't want to be thrown out of
work and lose their livelihood but
what can they do when the slugging
and numbering committee stands al
ways ready to do them if they try
to work.
The poor women and helpless chill
dren suffer, and no one dares present
their cass to the public. They must
suKer in silence, for they have no way
to right their wrongs. while the no.
toriety seeKing leaders carry out their
work.
These mon can not thus force op-
preston on the weak and innocent or
use them to bring newspaper notice
to themse1ves and money to their pock-
cts unless they can hold them in line.''
Therefore. with the craft of the fox
and venom Of the serpent they devise
the union LABEL and tell the public to
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Smooth scheme. isn't it?