The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-14
Pass the Word
 Along

1 only one 'Tesson" of these bullies | There are literally thousands of case' | wherein your fellow American has been assa ulted, maimed or killed by these
 men. The same work is going on day
 by day. Suppose you make a practice l of picking out each day from the pa l pers. accounts of brutality to American 1 workingmen who prefer to work free from the impudence and tyranny of
 self constituted leaders CD than to De always subject to their beck and cal | pay them fees and be told by them when and where to work. and fol | whom. You will discover the same general conditions underlying all these I daily attacks.
 | In every case the worhingman pre- | fers to be free. He has that right lie | then tries to go to work. He ana ms 1 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 loving | wife, left with a kiss on her lips. set his manly Jaw and walked into a show CT of stones and bullets to win food Tor | the loved mother and babies. A good many have been brought | home on stretchers with blood oozing 1 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 suffertngs of | these men who need food and these helpless ones who rely on the life and 1 strength of husband and father? ha moved by a 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 Amer ican citizens. This cruel warfare 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 movement"
 which started many years ago honest
 ly enough, has fallen under control of a lot of tyrannical, vicious men of vio- lent tendencies"
 There are too many to attempt to name. You can recall them. They in- clude men who have planned the mur- ders of miners, tearu sters, pressmen and carpenters, shoeinakers and inde-
 pendent workmen of all kinds. Many
 of them have escaped hanging by an outraged public only because jurtes be- came terror stricken and dared not convict them.
 Some have been punished slightly and some, including the principal off,
 cers of this nefarious crew are now un-
 der sentence to Imprisonment but have appealed their cases.
 Right here some apologist rises to
 protest against speaking thus of la boring men" Bless your dear heart. 1t isn't the honest and real workman who
 does these things. 1t is the excitable
 ones and the toughs and thugs who don't work except with their mouths,
 but have secured control of too many
 unions. l don't even attempt to speci-
 fy the criminal acts these persons have assisted or winked at in their plan for destroying free work ingmen and fore ing men to stay In "the union" and hence under their control. The news
 papers for the past seven years con- tain almost daily accounts of the crim- final, lawless and tyrapnical acts against American citizens and haven't told half
 the tale. Right here it becomes neces- sary to say for the ten thOusandth time that there are scoreu of honest law abiding union men who deplore and are
 in no way responsible for the long in-
 famous record of the Labor Trust un-
 der it's present management, but they
 don't seem to stop it.
 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
 a string of members of the American
 Federation of Labor and you will view a list of crimes against Americans
 stupendous beyond belief. They defy the laws, sheer at the courts incite mObs and are avowed enemies of the
 peaceable citizens of all classes.
 This band wields an iron bar over
 their subjects and drives them to idle-
 ness whenever they want to call a
 strike or exact extra pocket money for
 themselves.
 Men don't want to be thrown out of
 work and lose their livelihood. but
 what can they do when the slugging
 and murdering committee stands all
 ways ready to do them" If they try to
 work.
 The poor women and helpless chill
 dren suffer and no one dares present
 their case to the public. They must suffer in silence for they have no way
 to right their wrongs. while the noto-
 riety-seeking leaders carry out their
 work.
 sion on the weak and innocent or use
 them to bring newspaper notice to
 themselves and money to their pockets
 unless they can hold them in line"
 Therefore. with the craft of the fox
 and venom of the serpent they devise
 the ''unlon labeT and tell the public
 to buy only articles carrying that label
 Smooth scheme isn't 1t? They extract fee from every union
 man, and in order to get these monthly fees, they must hold the workers in "the union" and force manufacturers to kick out all independent men