Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-09-15
Pass the w ord

1t won't cost you a penny t" reach out help
ing hand to a great army Of honest, Woodworking
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
70 refuse to buy anything unless 1T bears the
union label.
Looks harmless on its face. doesn't it:
II really is demand that you boycott the
products made by over so per cent Of our Amer
lean workinemen and women who decline to pay
rees n. and obey the dictates Of the union lead
ers.
1t demands that you ask the merchant for ar
ticles with the union LABEL thus to impress
him with its Importance.
1t seeks to tell you what to buy and what to
refuse. The demands are sometimes most In
so,ent. with ..holier than thou impudence.
It demands that you take away the living OF
this 40 per cent q American workpgmen and
women.
IL that clear:
Why should small body Of workmen ask you
to help starve the larger body!
There must he some reason for the union
label scheme.
Rim over in YOUR mind and remember how they
carry their work.
During discussion about working or striking
in the coal regions, about 900 men preferred
to work they had wives and babies to feed. The
union men said openly in their convention that II
the employers didn't discharge these men they
1.-THE union mem would kill them.
So they dynamited about dozen homes,
MANNED and crippled women and children and
br,tally assaulted scores Of 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 DULLES on her way home
from the school where she had gone to try and
please Daddy by learning to read?
The little bruised face and body would first
need tender care while you ponder the inscrip-
ton writ deep In your heart. by that Master and
Guide to all human compassion. "Inssmuch as
We have done it unto 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 baby s
sake, even II you went to death for It,
Helpless children were brought home, with
faces black or bleeding from the blows and kicks
Of these nends, teaching independent Americans
to the leaders Of labor" Thousands Of men,
women and children have been treated thus.
From somewhere. oh, Father Of us all. We try
to believe that You look with plying eyes upon
human bodies made in your likeness and image.
They are beautifully and wonderfully made.
each the dwelling place Of Divine soul.
Is 1t Your wish that they be crushed by iron
bullets and dynamite?
May venture to think that long suffering
patience is extended in the hope that the men
and women Of America may some day wake to q
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
to establish our freedom IN 1176. and our fathers
gave freely Of their blood and treasure to estab.
Iish the freedom Of the black. Now again ii
seems we are called upon to protect our brothers
and ourselves from that old time spirit Of
tyranny which comes up from time to time to
force people to obey tyrannous rules and bend
the knee Of the slave.
In wellston, Ohio, thirty Americans sought en-
ployment in a factory. They were seeking to
earn food for their families They were bonn.
barded by rocks and pounded with clubs in the
hands Of union men.
One Of the injured, John Brannihan, YVES taken
to the city hospital with broken Jaw. crushed
| skull and other cuts aud 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 'Pappy" didn't come home. and how
they and the little woman got any food and how
they could place their wrongs before their OWL
American fellows.
Mayhap sometime some kind person will equip
home where the orphans and widows of the
victims Of the Labor Trust may be cared for and
fed
1t would take big home 1t has been said
there were 81 Americans. many Of them fathers,
killed In QUE strike 1.-THE teamsters An Chicago.