The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-10-06

In Wellston, Ohio, thirty Amer
leans 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 Branni-
han. was taken to the city hospital
with a 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.
l don't know, but ! sometimes wonder
what the children 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 Amer
lean fellows.
Mayhap sometime some kind per-
son will equip a home where the or
phans and widows of the victims of
the Labor Trust may be cared for and
fed.
1t would take a big home. 1t has
been said there were 81 Americans,
many of them fathers, killed in one
strike, 1.-THE 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 fellow Amer
lean has been assaulted, 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 bru-
tally to American workingmen who
prefer to work free from the impu-
dence and tyranny of self constituted
leaders CD 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-
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 wiped
the tears away and quieted the fears
of a 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 lose and ears, some cold, while
some gradually recover, and carry for
life the grim marks of the union
label"
They are your fellows, my friends,
and yet you s%upinely' read the ac-
counts and say too bad"
Have you grown 80 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 a just God to rice 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 con-
troll, 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 of a lot Of tyrannical, vicious
men of violent tendencies"
There are too many to attempt to
name. Ybu cam recall them. They
include men who have planned the
murders of miners, teamsters, press
men and carpenters, shoemakers and
independent workmen of all kinds.
Many Of them have escaped hanging
by an outraged public only because
dared not convict them.
Some have been punished slightly
and some, including the principal Off
GERS Of this nefarious crew are now
under sentence to Imprisonment but
have appealed their cases.
Right here some a%pologist 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 excitable ones and the toughs and
thugs who don't work except with their
mouths, but have secured control or
too many unions. l don't ever at
tempt 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
7 years contain almost daily accounts
Of the criminal. lawless and %tyranni-