The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-14

will equip home where the orphans
and widows of the victims of the La
Dor Trust may be cared for and fed.
1t would take a big home. It has
been said there were 81 Americans,
many OF them fathers, killed in one
strike (the teamsters in Chicago) and
over 5000 manned, many for life
That's only one lesson" of these bull.
lies. 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 practice of picking out each
day from the papers, accounts of bru-
tality to American workingmen who
prefer to work free from the impu-
dence and tyranny of self constituted
leaders CD than to be always sub
1ect to their beck and scall, pay them
fees and be told by them when and
where to work and for whom. You
Will discover the same general condi-
tons underlying all these daily at
tacks.
In every case the workingman pre-
fers to be free. He has that right
He then tries to 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 a man has wip-
ed the tears away and quieted the
fears of loving wife, left with a kiss
on her lips, set his manly jaw and
walked into shower Of stones and
bullets to win food for the loved moth
er 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 la
BEL"
They are your fellows, my friends,
and yet you supinely read the account
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 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
American citizens This cruel war
\ fare 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 con-
troll of lot of tyrannical, vicious
men of violent tendencies.
| There are too many to attempt to
name. You can recall them They in.
clude men who have planned the muir
ders of miners, teamsters, pressmen
carpenters, shoemakers and independ
4 ent Workmen of all kinds. Many OF
them have escaped hanging by an
outraged public only because juries
became terror stricken and dared not
convict them.
| Some have been punished slight
ly and some, including the principal
officers of this nefarious crew are
now under sentence to Imprisonment
but have appealed their cases.
j Right here some apologist rises tc
protest against speaking thus of la
boring 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 mouths
but have secured control of too many
unions. don't even attempt to spec
ify the criminal acts these persons
have assisted or winked at in theil
plan for destroying free workingmer
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
told half the tale. Right here it be
comes necessary to say for the ter
thousandth time that there are scores
of honest law-abiding union men who
deplore and are in no way responsible
for the long infamous record of the
Labor Trust under its present man
Iagement but they don't seem to stol
il.
The men who manage, who pull the
strings and guide the policy have
made the record and it stands, as
made by them
Examine, if you please, the record
of string of members of the Ameri
can Federation of Labor and you vii
view list of crimes against Ameri
cans. stupendous beyond belief The.
! defy the laws, sheer at the courts, in
> cite mobs and are avowed enemies o
], the peaceable citizens of all classes
, This band Yields an iron bar owe
their subjects and drives them to idle
ness whenever they want to call
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