The Washington times., 1909-09-13

dren said to Mother when "Papy'
didn't come home. and how they and
the little woman got any food. and how
they could place their wrongs before
their own American fellows.
Mayhap sometime some kind person
will equip a home where the orphans
and widows Of the victims Of the Labor
Trust may be cared for and fed.
II would take big home. 1t has been
said there we're Jhirty-one Americans,
many Of them fathers. killed in one
strike. Cthe teamsters in Chicago and
over 5000 manned. many for life. That's
only one lesson: OF these DULLES. There
are literally thousands of cases wherein
your feliow American has been assault
ed, 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 orlinRmen
who prefer to work free from the I'M
pudence 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 discover
the same general conditions underlying
all these daily attacks.
In every case the workingman pre-
fer to be free. He has that right He then
| tries 70 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 loving wife,
left with 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 stretche-s with blood oozing from
| nose and ears. some cold, while some
| gradually recover, and C8rry 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"
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 NAV be
moved by a just God 20 rise in your
might and by voice and pen. by vote and
right arm you will do a mans part in
protecting yourselves and yonr brothers
from this onslaught on American clti-
zens. This cruel warfare Is carried on
not always 10 raise wages, hut TO estab-
lish union control, kick cut the indie
pendent men and establish the label
Unfortunately the labor movement
which started many years ago honestly
enough, has fallen under control OF a
lot Of tyrannical, vicious linen OF vio-
lent tendencies"
There are too many TO attempt %
name. You can recall them. They in
clude men who have planned the muir
ders Of miners. teaIusters. pressmen. and
carpenters, shoemakers. and independ-
ent worISmen Of all kinds. Many OF
them have escaped hanging by an out
ragged public only because juries became
tsrror-sticken and dared not convict
them.
Some have been punished slightly and
some, Including the principal officers OF
this nefarious crew are now under SEN
tence 10 imprisonment but have ap-
pealed their cases.
Right here some apoiogist rises TO
protest against speaking thus OF labor
ing men" Bless your dear heart. II isn't
the honest and real workman who does
these things, II is the excitable ones and
the toughs and thugs who don't work
except with their mouths. but have Sc
cured control of too many unions. 7
don't even attempt to specify the Grim
! inal acts these persons have assisted or
wtnked 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 seven years contain almost daily
accounts Of the criminal, Iawless. and
tyrannical acts against American cfti-
zens and haven't told half the tale
Right here It becomes necessary To saw
| for the ten thousandth time that there
are scores OF honest law-abiding union
men who deplOre and are in no nav Pc
sponsible Tor the long infamous record
OF the Labor Trust under it's presenr
/ management, but they don't seem n
| stop it.
Inc men who manage, who pull the
strings and guide the policy have made
the record AMI It stands. as made nv
them
/ Examine. II you please. the record of
a string Of members of the American
Federation Of Labor and you will view
| a list Of crimes against Americans. stu
pendous beyond belief They defy the
/ laws. sheer at the courts, inci.e nobs.
and are avowed enemies Of the peace
able citizens OF all classes.
This band Yields an iron bar over
their subjects and drives them 10 idle
ness whenever they want to call a
strike or exact extra pocket money for
| themselves.
Men don't wan to be thrown out of
work and lose their livelihood. but wha
can they do when the smuggling AMI
numbering committee stands always