Arizona republican., 1909-09-15

5 Of cases wherein your fellow American has been assaulted. maimed or killed by these men. The same work is going on day by day. Suppose you make d practice of picking out each day from the papers. accounts of brutality to American workingmen who prefer to work free from the impotence and tyranny 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 dis cover the same general conditions un- | deriving all these daily attacks. In every case the wOrkingman pre- prefers to be free. He has that right he then tries to go to work. He and his family sorely need tile money 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 q 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 mark of the union label
 They are your fellows. my friends. and yet you supinely read the ac- counts and say too bad"
 ..saII har 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 Amer ican citizens. This cruel warfare is carried on not always to raise wages. but to establish union control. kick out the Independent men and establish the label"
 Unfortunately the Labor move ment" which started many years ago honestly enough, has fallen under control If a lot of tyrannical. vicious l men of violent tendencies" There are too many to attempt to name. You can recall them. They include men who have planned the murders of miners. teamsters. press men and carpenters. shoemakers and independment workmen of all kinds Many of them have escaped hanging by an outraged public only because | frfs md dared not convict them.
 Some have been punished slightly and some. including the principal of- ficers 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 laboring men" Bless your dear heart it isn't the honest and real workman who does these things. it is the ex- citable 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 specify the criminal acts these persons have assisted or winked at in their plan for destroying free workingmen and forcing men to stay in the union" and hence under their control The newspapers for the past years contain almost daily accounts of the criminal. lawless and tyrannical acts against American citizens and haven't told half the tale. Right here it becomes necessary to say for the ten thousandth time that there are scores of honest law-abiding union men
 
 sponsible for the long infamous re- cord of the Labor Trust under its 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 aud it stands. as made by them.
 Examine, if you please, the record of a string of members of the Amsri- can Federation of Labor and you will view a list of crimes against Ameri- cans, stupendous beyond belief. They defy the laws, sheer at the courts, incite mobs and are avowed enemi-s 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 extract 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 murdering committee stands all ways ready to do them" if they try to work.
 The poor women and helpless chll- dren suffer and no one dares present their case to the public. They must suffer in silence for they have no way to right their wrongs. while the notor- iety-seeking leaders carry out their work At
 These men cannot thus force op- pression on the weak and innocent or use them to bring newspaper notice to themselves and money to ~ IT pockets unless they can hold them III line"
 Therefore. with the craft of the fox and venom of the serpent they devise the union labeI' and tell the public to buy only articles carrying that label.
 Smooth scheme, isn't 1t?
 They extract a fee from every union man. and in order to get these month ly fees. they must hold the workers