The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-10-06

honest, Woodworking and deserving
men and women.
Just your moral support will insure
work, a living. and comforts which
are now either partly or wholly de-
MED them.
How so?
Come on, let's have a look.
You've often been importuned and
many have been commanded by ad-
v%e1tisement or otherwise to refuse
to buy anything unless 1t bears the
union label"
Looks harmless on its face, doesn't
it?
1t really Is a demand" that you
boycott the products made by e 80
per cent. of our American working
men and women, who decline to pay
fees to, and obey the dictates OF the
union leaders. e
1t demands that you ask the mer-
chant for articles with the union
label" thus to impress him with its
Importance.
1t seeks to tell you what to buy and
what to refuse. The demands are
sometimes most insolent, with q
"holier than thou" impudence.
1t demands that you take away the
living Of this so per cent. of American
workingmen and women.
Is that clear?
Why should a small body of work
men ask you to help starve the larger
body?
There must be some reason for the
union label" scheme.
Run over in your mind and remem-
Der how they carry on their work.
During a discussion about working
or striking in the coal regions, about
$4,000 men preferred to work, they
had wives and babies to feed. The
union men said openly in their con-
vention that If the employers didn't
discharge these men they (the union
mem would kill them.
So they dynamited about a dozen
homes, MANNED and crippled women
and children and brutality assaulted
scores of these Independent workers.
The big boys of the union men were
taught to pound the school children
of the independent men. How would
you like to have your little girl short
ly grown from the toddling baby who
used to sit on your lap and love Dad
dy"' pounded by some big DULLES on
her way home from the school where
she had gone to try and please Daddy
by learning to read?
The little bruised face and body
would first need tender care while you
ponder the inscription writ deep In
your heart, by that Master and Guide
to all human compassion, "1nasmuch
as We have done it unto one of the
least of these My brethren We have
done it unto Me-" Then perhaps you
would drop to your knees and pray
Almighty God for strength in your
right arm to strike one manly and
powerful blow for baby's sake, even If
you went to death for it.
Helpless children were brought
home, with faces black or bleeding
from the blows and kicks Of these
fiends, teaching independent Ameri-
cans that they must stop work when
told and pay fees to the leaders of
labor" Thousands Of men, women
and children have been treated thus.
From somewhere, Oh, Father of us
all, we try to believe that You look
with plying eyes upon these brutal
blows, cuts and scars on the many
human bodies made in your likeness
and image.
They + beautifully land wonder
fully made, each the dwelling place
Of a Divine Soul.
Is it Your wish that they be crushed
by iron shod heels, cut by knives or
torn asunder by bullets and dyna-
mite?
May we venture to think that a
long suffering patience is extended in
the hope that the men and women of
America may some day wake to O.
realization of the. awful cruelties per-
petrated by this spirit of oppression
and that they will some time learn
the lesson that the sacred gift of HUI
man freedom and liberty" was given
by God and must be defended ever to
death itself.
Our forefathers were used by the
Infinite God to establish our freedom
in 1776, and our fathers gave freely
of their blood and treasure to estab-
Nsh the freedom Of the black. Now
again it seems we are called upon to
protect our brothers and ourselves
from that old time spirit Of tyranny
which comes up from time to time to
force people to obey tyranraus rules
and bend the knee of the slave.