The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-09-15
Pass the Word
ALONE

DULLES There are literally thousands
OF cases wherein your fellow Ameri-
can has been assaulted, manned or
killed by these men. The same work
IS going on day by day. Suppose you
| make practice of picking out each
day from the papers, accounts of
brutality to American worzjngmen
who prefer to work free from the i'm
pudence and tyranny of self constitut-
ed leaders Cd than to be always sub
| ject 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 cOndI-
tons underlying all these daily at
| tacks.
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 sOTely need the money for
food or he wouldn't run the risk Of mis-
| life. Many such man has wiped the
| tears away and quieted the fears of a
| loving wife, left with 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 StTetcherS 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 ac-
| counts and say too bad"
Have you grown so caIIoused 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 just God to rise in your
| might and by voice and pen, by vote
| and right arm you will do a mans
| part in protecting yourselves ana your
| brothers from this onslaught on Amer
| lean citizens. This cruel warfare is
! carried on not always to raise wages,
| but to establish union control. kick
| out the Independent men and estab-
| Ish the label"
Unfortunately the Labor move
| ment" which started many years ago
| honestly enough, has fallen under
1 control of a lot of tyrannical, vicious
men Of violent tendencies
There are too many to attempt 70
| name. You can recall them. They
] include men who have planned the
| murders Of miners, team5ters, press
| men and carpenters, shOemaZers and
] Independent workmen of all kinds.
/ Many Of them have escaped hanging
| 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 Off
| GERS of this nefarious crew are now
| under sentences to Imprisonment but
| have appealed their cases.
Right here some apologist rises to
| protest against speaking thus of Ia
| boring men" Bless your dear heart,
| it isn't the honest and real workman
| who does these things, it is the eX-
| citable ones and the toughs and tugs
| who don't work except with their
! mouths, but have secured control OF
/ too many unions. l don't even at
/ tempt to specify the criminal acts
| these persons have assisted or wink
ed at in their plan for destroying free
| workingmen and forcing men to stay
in the union" and hence under their
| control. The newspapers for the past
| z years contain almost daily accounts
Of the criminal, lawleSs and tyTanni-
| cal acts against American citizens and
| haven't told half the tale. Right here
| it becomes necessary to say for the
| ten thOusandth time that there are
| scores Of honest iaw-abiding union
! men who deplOre and are in no way
| responsible for the long infamous
| record Of the Labor Trust" under its
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 1t stands, as
! made by them.
| Examine. if you please, the record
of a string Of members of the AmeTi-
! can Federation of Labor and you will
| view q list of crimes against Ameri-
cans, stupendous beyond belief. They
! defy the laws, sneer at the courts, in
cite mobs and are avowed enemies
| of the peaceable citizens Of all classes.
This band wieldS an iron bar over
! their subjects and drives them TO
idleness whenever they want to call
| 2 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 numbering committee stands al
ways ready to do them" if they try
70 work
| The poor women and helpless chill
dren suffer and no one dares present
their case 70 the public. They must
suffer in silence for they have no way
TO right their wrongs, while the notO-
riety-seeking leaders carry out their
work.
These men cannot thus force op-
preston on the weak and innocent or
use them to bring newspaper notice
TO themselves and money TO their
pockets unless they can hold them il
: | 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 that
label.
Smooth scheme isn't it?
| They extract a fee from every union
, man. and in order to get these month
. IL fees. they must hold the workers
, in the union and force manufactur-
| ers to kick out all Independent men
Can anyone devise more complete