Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-15

lesson" OF these bullies. There are lit
orally thousands of cases wherein your
fellow American 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 brutality
to American w~orkingmen who prefer to
work free from thu impudence and tyran-
ny of self constituted leaders CD than
Ito 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 con-
ditions underlying all these daily attacks.
In every case the w~orkingman prefers 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 ooEing 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 accounts 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 q just God to rise in your might
and by voice and pen. by vote and right
arm you will do a mans part In pro-
tecting yourselves and your brothers
from this onslaught of American citizens.
This cruel warfare is carried on not al
ways 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 honestly
enough, has fallen under control of a
lot Of t~yrannical, 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, pressmen and carpenters. shoe
makers and independent workmen of all
kinds. Many of them ave escaped hang
ing 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 officers of
this nefarious crew are now under sem
tence to Imprisonment but lave appealed
their cases.
Right here some apologist rises to pro-
test against speaking thus of laboring
men" Bless your dear heart it 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 con-
troll Of too many unions. I don't even at
tempt to specify the riminal acts these
persons have assisted or winked at In
their plan for destroying free working
men and forcing men to stay in the
union and hence under their control.
The newspapers for the past seven years
contain almost daily accounts of the
criminal, lawless and %tyrannical acts
against American citizens and haven't
told half the tale. Right here 1t becomes
necessary to say for the ten thousandth
time that there are scores of honest law
abiding union men who deplore and are
in no way responsible for the long in
famous record of the Labor Trust" under
it's present management. but they don't
seem to stop 1t.
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, stupen-
dous 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 Yields an iron bar over their
subjects and drives them to idleness
whenever they want 10 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 smuggling and muir
dering committee stands always ready to
do them" II they try to work.
| The poor women and helpless children
| suffer and no one dares present their
case to the public. They must suffer in
silence for they rave no way TO right
their wrongs, while the notwithstanding
leaders carry out their work.
These men cannot nus force oppres-
sion on the weak and innocent or use
them to bring newspaper notice to them
selves 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 "union label" and tell the public to
buy only articles carrying the label.
Smooth scheme isn't II.
They extract a 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!
Can anyone devise a more complete and
tyrannieal trust?
II allowed full sway. no independent