Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-09-14

I1OTe tneiF own American i'iio"o-
Mayhap some time some kind person
Twill equip home where the orphans
land widows of the victims of the La
Dor trust may be cared for and fed.
1t would take big home. 1t mas
been said there were 81 Americans,
many of them fathers. killed in one
strike 1.-THE teamsters in Chicago) and
Power 5000 manned, many for life.
That's only one lesson" of these bui-
lies. There are literally thousands or
cases wherein your fellow American
has been assaulted, manned or Killed
by these men. The same work is go
ing on day by day. Suppose you make
a practice of picking out each day from
the papers, accounts of brutality to
American workingmen wro prefer to
work free from the impudence and
; Tyranny of selfconstituted leaders %
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 discover the same
general conditions underlying all these
daily attacks.
In every case the workingman pre-
fers to be free. He has that right He
then tries to so 10 work. He and his
family Sorcly need the money for food
or he wouldn't run the risk of his life.
Many such man has wiped the tears
away and quoted the fears of a loving
wife. left with kiss on her lips, set
his manly jaw and walked into show
er of stones and bullets to win food
. for the loved mother and babies.
A good many have hcen brought
home on StretcherS with blood oozins
from nose and ears, some cold, while
some gradually recover and carry for
: life the grim marks of the union la.
:, bel"
They are your fellows. my friends
- and yet you supinely read the accounts
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 or the life and
!, strength of husband and father?
Let us hope that soon you may be
- moved by just God TO rise in youl
- might and by voice and pen. by vote
:, and right arm you will do a mans par
:, in protecting yourselves and your
!, brothers from this onslaught OH Amer
;, lean citizens. This cruel warfare is
:. carried on not always to raise wages
:, but TO establish union control, kick GU
the independent men and establish tn,
label"
l., Unfortunately the Labor movement
y, which started many years ago honest
+, ,ly enough, has fallen under control o
10 a lot of tyrannical, vicious men o
!, violent tendencies"
:. There are too many to attempt I,
- name. You can recall them They in
l., clude men who have planned the mur
f., ders of miners, teamsters, pressmel
IN and carpenters. shoemakers and indie
=, pendent workmen of all kinds. Man
10 of them have escaped hanging by al
outraged public only because juries be
!. came terror stricken anG dared no
;, convict them.
- Some have been punished slightly
=; and some, including the principal off
~ under sentence to Imprisonment bu
M have appealed their cases
Right here some apologist rises t
80. protest against speaking thus of Ia
y, boring men, Bless your dear heart
a, it isn't the honest and real workman
:, who dares these things, it is the e,
ri citable ones and the toughs and tug
who don't work except with thei
:, mouths. but have secured control c
= too many unions l don't even attemp
to specify the criminal hcts these pc,
oil sons have assisted or winked at /
ar their plan for destroying free workin.
q men and forcing men to stay in til
union" and hence under their contro
ho The newspapers for the past seve
of years contain almost daily accounts {
- the criminal lawless and tyrannics
acts against American citizens an
-, haven't told half the tale. Right her
:. it becomes necessary to say for tn
!, ten-thousandth time that there ar
hv scores of honest, law abiding unto
men who deplore and ale in no wa
responsible for the long infamous re-
+, ord of the Labor Trust" under, II
~ present management, but they don
&c seem to stop it.
:. The men who manage, who pull III
IN strings and guide the policy have mad
W.T. the record, and it stands, as made b
,t them.
os Examine. if you please, the record ,
- a string of members of the America
H., Federation of Labor and YOU will vie
a list of crimes against American
stupendous beyond relief. They de,
." the laws. sneer at the courts. incl
~ mobs and are avowed enemies of n
sh peaceable citizens of all classes.
Wy This band yields an iron bar ov,
ne their subjects and drives them to idl
ness whenever they want to call
an, strike or exact extra pocket money {,
themselves.
Ter Men don't want to be thrown out
Ter work and lose their livelihood h,
be what can they do when the sluggir
Nv, and numbering committee stands I,