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

1t won't cost YOU a penny to reach
cut helping hand to a great army of
honest, hard working and deserving
men and women.
| Just your moral support will insure
work, a living. and comforts which are
now either partly or wholly denied
them.
| How so?
Come on, let's have look.
| You've often been importunel and
many have been commanded by. adj
vertisement or otherwise to refuse to
buy anything unless it bears the union
! label"
| Looks harmless on its face doesn't
! it?
1t really is a demand that you boy
cctt the products made by over 80
per cent of our American workingmen
and women who decline to pay fees to-,
and obey the dictates of the union
leaders.
| 1t demands that you ask the mer-
chant for articles with the union
label" thus to impress him with it's
Importance.
II seeks to tell you what to buy and
what to refuse. The demands are
sometimes most insolent, with a "holer
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 tha
union label" scheme
Run over in your 10 ind and remen-
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 mad
wives and babies to feed. The union
men said openly in their convention
that If the employers didn't discharge
these men they (the union men )wou,l
kill them.
So they dynamited about dozen
homes. MANNED and crippled women
and children and brutally 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 shortly
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 ii
unto me-" Then perhops 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 dealt
for it,
Helpless children We're brought home
with faces black or bleeding from the
blows and kicks of these fiends, teach
ing Independent Americans that they
must stop work when told and pay fees
to the leaders of labor" Thousands
trof men, women and children have been
treated thus.
From som ewhere, 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 hui
man bodies made in your likeness aad
image.
They are beautifully and wonderfully
made. each the dwelling place of Di-
vine Soul
Is it, Your wish that they be crushed
by iron shod heels. cut by knives OF
torn asunder by bullets and dynamite:
May we venture to think that a. lone
suffering patience is extended in tbs
hope that the men and women oil
Am erica may some day wake to a reali-
cation of the awful cruelties perpetrat-
ed by this spirit of oppression and thai
the sacred gift of human freedom an6
liberty" was given by God and mus
be defended even to death itself.
Our forefathers were used by the
Infinite God to establish our freedom
in 1916, and our fathers gave freely @.
their blood and treasure to establish
the freedom of the black. Now agar
it seems we are called upon to pro.ec
our brothers and ourselves from tina
old time spirit OF tyranny which come:
up from time to time to force people
. to obey tyrannous rules and bend tn:
knee of the slave.
> In Wellston, Ohio, Thirty American.
sought employment in a factory. The,
. were seeking to earn food for thei
families. They We're bombarded ..
rocks and pounded with clubs in tn
hands of union men.
One Of the injured, John grannihan
, was taken to the city hospital with I
, broken jaw, crushed skull and othe
, cuts and bruises. He was theft
of two children, and was thought to b
dying. Perhaps he did. i don't know
but sometimes wonder what the chill
. dren said to Mother when Papa
: didn't come home and how they AM
the little woman got any food, and how
they could place their wrongs befor
their own American fellows.
/. Mayhap sometime some kind perso
, will equip a home where the orphan
., and widows of the victims Of the La1bo
:. Trust may be cared for and fed.
;. It would take a big home. It iia
: been said there were 81 Americans
many Of them fathers, killed IN on
; strike (the Transfers In Chicago) am
over 1000 manned, many Cor life
> AThat's onlx ono '1assou" of these bull