The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1909-11-27

In Wellston, Ohio, thirty Amer
leans sought employment in factory
They were seeking to earn food fol
their families. They were bombardef
by rocks and pounded with clubs II
the hands of union men.
One of the injured. John Branni
han, was taken to the city hospita
with broken jaw, crushed skull an
other cuts and bruises. He was the
father of two children, and was
thought to be dying. Perhaps he did
don't know, but sometimes wonder
what the children said to Mother
when "Papy" didn't come home. ane
how they and the little woman go
any food. and how they could place
their wrongs before their own Amer
lean fellows.
Mayhap sometime some kind per
son will equip 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, (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 OF
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 5ru-
tally to American workingmen who
prefer to work free from the impu.
dence and tyranny of self constituted
leaders ~ 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 man has wiped
the tears away and quieted the fears
of loving wife, left with 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 nose 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 supinely read the ac-
counts 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 a just God to rise in your
might and by voice and pen, by vote
and right arm you will do a man g
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 lot of tyrannical. vicious
men of violent tendencies.
There are too many to attempt to
name. You can 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
juries became terror stricken and
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 apologist rises tt
protest against speaking thus oil
laboring men," Bless your dear
heart, it isn't the honest and rea
workman who does these things, it i:
the excitable ones and the toughs ant
thugs who don't work except with theil
mouths, but have secured control o
too many unions. l don't even at
tempt to specify the criminal act.
these persons have assisted or winket
at In their plan for destroying FIRE,
workingmen and forcing men to sta.
In 1.-The union" and hence under thei
control. The newspapers for the pas
years contain almost daily account
OF the criminal. lawless and tyranni