Arizona republican., 1909-09-15
Pass the Word
 Along

It won't cost you a penny to reach
 out q 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 a look. You've often been importuned and
 many have been commanded by ad-
 vertisement or otherwise to refuse to
 buy anything unless it bears the union 1 label
 Looks harmless on it's face, doesn't it?
 It really is demand" that you boycott 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.
 It demands that you ask the merch- ant for articles with the union label." {" | thus to impress him with its impor- tance.
 It seeks to tell you what to buy and what to refuse. The demands are sometimes most insolent. with a ''holier than thou" impotence. It demands that you take away the living of this so per cent Of American l worlSingmen 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 laber' 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 25. 900 men preferred to work. they had
 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 mem would kill them.
 So they dynamited about a dozen { homes. maimed 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 Daddy pounded by some big bullies 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 l Guide to all human compassion. Tn asmuch as ye have done it unto one ! of the leaSt of these my brethren ye have 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 1 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 pitying eyes upon these brutal blows, cuts and scars upon the many human bodies made in your likeness and image.
 They are beautifully and 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 dynamite? :?
 May we venture to think that a long suffering patience is extended in the hope that the men and women of America may someday wake to a 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 human freedom and liberty was given by God and must be defended even to death itself.
 Our forefathers were used by the Infinite God to establish our freedom in 1776, and cur fathers gave freely of their blood and treasure to estab- fish 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 tyrannous rules and bend the knee of the slave.
 In Wellston. Ohio, thirty Americans sought employment in a factory. They were seeking to earn food for their families. They were bombarded by rocks and pounded with clubs in the hands of union men.
 One of the injured, John Brannihan. was taken to the city hospital with q broken jaw crushed skull and other cuts and bruises. He was the father of two children, and was thought to be dying. Perhaps he did. I don't know. but I sometimes wonder what the children said to Mother when "Papy" didn't come home. and how they and the little woman got their 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.
 1t would take a big home. It has heen said there were 3l Americans