The enterprise-recorder. (Madison, Fla.) 1908-1933, 1909-10-07

In Wellston, ONO, thirty Amer"
leans sought employment In factory.
They were seeking to earn food for
their families. They were bombarded
by rocks and pounded with clubs In
the hands Of union men.
One Of the injured, John Branni-
han, 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 he did,
] don't know, but sometimes wonder
what the children said TO 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 Amer
lean fellows.
Mayhap sometime some kind per-
son will equip home whore the Or
phans and widows OF the victims of
the Labor Trust may be cared for and
fed.
1t would take a big home. It has
been said there were 81 Americans,
many Of them fathers, killed in one
strike, (the teamsters In Chicago)
and over 5000 manned, many fer life.
That's only one lesson" of these
DULLES. There are literally thousands
of cases wherein your fellow Amer
lean 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 bru-
tality TO American workingmen who
/ prefer to work free from the impu.
| dence and tyranny of self constituted
leaders CD 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
I discover the same general conditions
underlying all these daily attacks.
1 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 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 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 &C.
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 rice in your
might and by voice and pen, by vote
and right arm you will do mans
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 age
honestly enough, has fallen under
/ control Of a lot Of tyrannical, vicious
men of violent tendencies"
There are too many to attempt Il
name, You can recall them They
include men who have planned the
murders of miners, teamsters, press
men and carpenters, shoemakers anC
! independent workmen of all kinds
Many of them have escaped hangin.
by an outraged public only because
! juries became terror stricken AM
dared not convict them.
Some have been punished slight,
and some, including the principal OH
GERS Of this nefarious crew are nov
under sentence to Imprisonment bu
have appealed their cases.
Right here some apologist rises Il
protest against speaking thus o
laboring men," Bless your dea
heart, 1t isn't the honest and rea
workman who does these things, 1t 4
the eXcitable ones and the toughs an,
thugs who don't work except with tn eli
mouths, but have secured control O
too many unions. don't even at
tempt to specify the criminal act
these persons have assisted or winke,
at in their plan for destroying fire.
workingmen and forcing men to sta,
In "the union" and hence under thei
} control. The newspapers for the pas
Z years contain almost daily account
Of the criminal. lawless and tyranni