The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-09-16

1t won't cost you a penny to reacf
out helping hand to great army o.
honest, hard-working and deserving
men and women,
Just your moral support will insure
work, living, and comforts which arc
now either partly OF wholly deniec
them.
How so?
Como on. let's have a look.
You've often been importuned anc
many have been commanded by ad
vertisement or otherwise 10 refuse tc
buy anything unless 1t bears the union
LABEL
Looks harmless on its face, doesn',
1t.
ut Is really demand" that you
boycott the products made by over sc
per cent OF our American working
men and women who decline TO pay
fees to- and obey the dictates OF the
union leaders.
It demands that you ask the mer
chant for articles with the union la.
bel" thus 10 impress him with It's i'm.
portaoce..
II seeks to tell you what to buy and
what to refuse. The demands are
sometimes most insolent, with "ho-
lier than thou" impudence
1t demands that you take away the
living Of this so per cent Of American
workingmen and women.
Is that clear?
Why should small body OF work
men ask you to help starve the larger
body
union label" 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
$4,000 men preferred to work, they
had wives and babies to feed. The
union men said openly in their con-
yention that IL the employers didn't
discharge these men they (the union
mem would kill them.
So they dynamited about dozen
homes. manned 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
Ike to have your little girl shortly
grown from the toddline baby, who
used to sit on your lap and love dad
dy" pounded by some big bullies on
her way home from the school where
she had gone 10 please Daddy by
learning to read?
The little bruised face and body
would first need tender care while
You ponder tho inscription writ deep
In your heart, by the Master and
Guide OF all human compassion. "Inas
much ae ye have done 1t unto one of
the least OF these my brethren ye
have done 1t 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 babys sake.
even IL you went to death for 1t.
Helpless children were brought
home with faces black or bleeding
from the blows and kicks OF these
flends, 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 rs
all. We try to believe that You look
9 with plying eyes upon these brutal
blows, cuts and scars on the many
human bodies made in your likeness
and Image.
f,,lI 4
fully made. each the dwelling place of
a Divine Soul.
Is II 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
tho hope that the men and women OF
America may some day wake TO a re-.
alization of the awful cruelties perpe-
trated 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 10 establish our freedom
in 1875. and our fathers gave freely
OF their blood and treasure 10 estab-
lish the freedom OF the black. Now
again 1t seems we arc called upon 10
protect our brothers and ourselves
from that old-tlme spirit of tyranny
which comes up from time TO time
TO force people 10 obey tyraunous
rules and bend the knee OF The slave.
IN Wellston. Ohio. thirty Americans
sought employment in factory. They
were seeking TO earn food for theIr
families. They were bombarded by
rocks and pounded with clubs i'm Inc
hands Of union men.
One of the injured. John Brannihan.
was taken to the city hospital with n
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. don't
hnow. but sometimes wonder what
the children said 10 Mother when
"Papy" didn't come home. and hog
they and the little woman got any
food. and how they could place their
wrongs before their own American fel.
lows
Mayhap sometime some kind nor.
son Will equip a home where the or
phans and widows of the victims of
the Lahop Trust may be cared Tor and
fed.
J. w0Giu take 4 big home. II has