The San Francisco call., 1909-09-16

1t won't cost you penny to reach
out helping hand to a great army OF
honest, 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 look.
You've often been importuned ana
many have been commanded by adver-
tisements or otherwise to refuse 70
buy anything unless it bears the union
LABEL
Looks harmless on it's face, doesn't
It?
IT really is a demand" that you boy
cott the products made by over 80
ner cent, Of our American workingmen
and women who decline to pay fees TO-
and obey the dictates of the union
leaders.
n demands that you ask the mer-
chant for articles with the union
label" thus to impress him with It's
Importance.
r. seeks to tell you what to buy and
sometimes most insolent, with 'holler
than thou inpudence-
1t demands that you take away tne
living of this 80 per cent OF American
workingmen and women.
Is that clear?
why should a small body OF work
men ask you to help starve the larger
body?
There must be some reason for the
"union laber' 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
20, 900 men preferred to work; they had
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 men) would
kill them.
So they dynamited about dozen
homes. manned and crippled women
and children and brutally assaulted
scores of these independent workers.
The big boys 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 20 try and please
daddy" by learning to read?
The little bruised face and body
would first need tender care while you
pondered the inscription writ deep in
your heart, by that master and guide
to all human compassion. "Inasmuch as
ye have done it unto one of the least
of these my brethren ye have done it
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
fiends, teaching independent Ameri-
cans that they must stop work when
told, and pay fees 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 these brutal
blows, cuts and scars on the many
human bodies made. in your likeness
They are beautifully and wonder
fully made, each the dwelling place OF
q Divine Soul.
Is 1t 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 IA a women of
America may some day wake to a re-
alization of the awful cruelties per-
petrated by 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 1776, and our fathers gave freely
of their blood and treasure to estab-
lish the freedom of the black. Now
again it 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 employment in a factory. They
we're 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 q broken law, crushed skull An1
other cuts and bruises. He was TIN
father OF two children. and wae
thought to be dying. Perhaps he dtd.
don't know. but s0mAtfmes wonder
what the children said to Mother when
"Papyy didn't come home, and how tlley
and the little woman got any f0Dd,
and how they could place their wrongs
before their own American fellows.
Mayhap some time some kind person
will equip home where the 0ppl1ans
and widows OF the victims OF the La
bor Trust may be cared for and fed.