Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-09-17

II won't. cost you q penny to reach
cut a helping hand to q great army Of
honest. Woodworking and deserving men
and women
lust your moral support viii insure
work, living. and comforts which are
now either partly or wholly denied them.
Come on. let's have a look
you've orten been iunDortuned and many
have been commanded by advertisement
or otherwise 70 refuse buy anything
unless Il bears the union label"
4 -~eIi- - a --aernznd'- that you boy
cot the products made by over 50 Per
cent OF our American workingmen and
women who decline TO pay fees to, and
obey the dictates Of the union leaders.
Il demands that you ask the merchant
kor articles with the union label thus
- ~ 1sI ,, i'S Sl1t 10 buy and
what to refuse The demands are some
times most insolent. with "holier than
thou impudence.
Il demands that you take away the
living OF this 50 per cent OF American
,workingmen and women.
5 that elear1 - ...
yrhv should a small body OF workmen
ask you 70 help starve the larger body7
There must be some reason for the
union label" scheme.
Run. over In your mind and remember
how they carry on their work.
During discussion about working or
striking in the coal regions. about 5000
+. men preferred to work. they had wives
s and babies TO feed. The union men said
openly IN their convention that II the
employers didn't discharge these men
they Cthe union mem would will them.
SO they dynauited about a dozen homes.
MANNED and crippled women and children
and brutality assaulted scores OF these
Independent workers
The big boys Of the union men were
taught 10 pound the school children OF
the independent men How would you
Ike 10 have your little girl shortly grown
from the toddling baby who used 70 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 70 read2
The little bruised face and body would
first need tender care while you ponder
the Inscription writ deep in your heart.
BY that Master and Guide to all human
compassion. "Tnasmuch as we have done
It unto one Of the least Of these my
brethren ye have done Il unto me" Then
perhaps you would drop to your knees
and pray Almighty God for strength in
your right arm 70 strike one manly and
powerful blow for baby's sake. even II
you went 20 death for g.
Helpless children were brought home.
with faces black or bleeding from the
blows and kicks OF these fends. teaching
Independent Americans that they must
stop work when told and pay fees to the
leaders OF labor Thousands OF men.
women and children have ben treated
thrs-
From somewhere. on. Father OF US all.
ne try 70 believe that You look with pity
Ing eyes upon these brutal blows. cuts
and scars on the many human bodies
made in your likeness and image.
They are beautifully and wonderfully
made. each the dwelling place Of a Divine
soul
Is Is 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 the hope
that the men and women OF America
may some day wake 20 a realization OF
the awful cruelties perpetrated by this
spirit OF oppression and that they will
some time learn the lesson that the
sacred gift Of human freedom and lib
erty'' was given by God and must be de-
tended even TO death itself
Our forefathers were used by the Inf
mite God 20 establish our freedom in 1776.
and our fathers gave freely OF their blood
and treasure to establish the freedom OF
the black. Now again II seems we are
called upon to protect our brothers and
Yourselves 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 employment in a factory. They
were seeking TO earn food for their fam
HES. They were bombarded by rocks
ard, pounded with clubs in the hands Of
union men.
One Of the injured. John Brannihan,
was taken TO the city hospital with a
broken jaw. crushed skull and other cuts
and bruises. He was the father Of two
children. and was thought TO be dying.
Perhaps Re did I don't know but I
sometimes wonder what the children said
70 Mother when "Papy' didn't come
home. and how they and the little woman
got any food. and how they could place
their wrongs before their own American
fellows.
Nayhap sometime some kind person
VIII equip a hcme where the orphans and
widows OF the victims OF the Labor Trust
may be cared for and fed.
II would take a big home. II has been
said there were 81 Americans. many OF
them fatherc. ksiIeo IN one strike Cthe
-~smsters IN Chicago. and over 500
manned. many Cor life That's only one
lesson" OF these bullies. There are lit