The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-15

It won't cost you a penny to reach out a helping hand to a great army of hon. est 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 advertisement or otherwise to refuse to buy anything unless 1t bears the union label"
 Looks harmless on its face doesn't it?
 It really Is a demand" that you boy colt 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 merchant for articles with the "union label" thus to impress him with it's importance
 It seeks to tell you what to buy and what to refuse The demands are some times most insolent, with ''holer than thou" impudence
 It demands that you take away the liv- ing of this 80 per cent of American work ingmen and women.
 Is that clear?
 Why should a small body of workmen ask you to help starve the larger body? There must be some reason for the union label" scheme.
 Run over in your mind and remember how they carry on their work.
 During a discussion about working or striking in the coal regions about 25,000 tn 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 dozen homes, maimed and crippled women and children and brutaaly assaulted scores or these Independent workers.
 The big bows 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 readi The little bruised face and body would first need tender care while you ponder the inscription writ deep la your heart by that Master. and Guide to all human compassion, "Inasmuch as ye nave oone it unto one of the least of these my preth- ren ye have done 1t unto me-" Then per hans you would drop to your knees and nray Almighty God for strength In your right arm to strike one manly and pow erful blow for baby's sake, even II you | went to death for 1t.
 1 Helpless children were brought home' with faces black or bleeding rom the blows and kicks of these nends, teachihs | independent Americans that they must | ston work when told and pay fees to the | leaders of labor" Thousands of men. 1 women and children have been treated | thus. From somewhere Oh, Father of us ail' | we try to believe that You look with pity | ing eve upon these brutal blows, cuts ano | scars on the many human oooies i'auo III your likeness and image | They are beautifully and wonoeriuhy made. each the dwelling place Of Divine l Soul h.,
 Is it your wish that they be crushed py | iron shod heels, cut by knives or toin asunder by bullets and dynamite? 1 May we venture to think tnat d iohe | suffering patience Is extenoeo III tne nops 1 that the men and women of America may l soneday wake to a realization or the | awful cruelties perpetrated by this splrl' of oppression and that they will some time | learn the lesson that the "sacred gift ol | human freedom and liberty was giVeI | Inv God and must be defended even te l death itself.
 Our forefathers were used by the Infinite l God to establish our freedom In lIi6, anc | our fathers gave freely of their blood anc | treasure to establish the freedom or the | black. Now again it seems we are callee 1 unon to protect our brothers and our l selves from that old time spirit or tyr l amy which comes up from time to time to force people to obey tyrannous rules
 and bend the knee of the slave.
 In Wellston, O., 30 Americans sough | employment in factory. They wer'
 seeking to earn food for their families
 They were bombarded by rocks an' l pounded with clubs in the hands Of unloi | men.
 One of the injured, John Brannihan, wal
 taken to the city hospital with orokei l flaw. crushed skull and other cuts ant | bruises He was the father Of two chii drsn. and was thought to be dying. Per haps he did. I don't know. but some trnes wonder what the children said t
 mother when "papy' didn't come home
 and how they and the little woman go
 any food, and how they could place thel
 wrongs before their own American Tel
 lows.
 Mayhap sometime some kind person VII
 equip a home where the orphans and wid
 ows of the victims of the Labor Trus
 may be cared for and fed
 It would take big home. It has bee | said that there were 31 Americans. man of them fathers, killed in one strike 9th teamsters in Chicago). and over 5oc l maimed. many for life. That's only on l .rAason" of thAaA hiallias Thars ara lii