The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-14

It won't cost you penny to reacn out A helping hand to a great army oI honest hard-workinS ana sei'iNe men and women. -
 Just your moral support VIII insur work. living, and comforts which are now either partly or wholly oehieo them.
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 Come on. let's have look.
 You,ve often been importuned and many have been commanded by adver- tisement or otherwise to refuse to puy anything unless 1t bears the union la bel"
 Looks harmless en its face. doesn't it7
 If really is a demand" that you boy cott inc products made by over 80 per cent of our American workinsmen ana women who decline to pay fees to, ano obey the dictates of the union ieaoeFs.
 It demands that you ask the mer- chant for articles with the union Ia bel" thus to impress him with It's im- portance.
 what to refuse. The demands are sometimes most insolent, with 'hoiier than thou" impotence.
 It demands that you take away tne living of this 80 per cent of American workingmen and women.
 Why should a small body of work men ask you to help starve the large body2
 There must be some reason for tn, "union labeP scheme.
 Run over in your mind and remem' ber how they carry on their worK;
 During a discussion about working or striking in the coal regions, about 25. 900 men preferred to work, they hat 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) wouif kill them.
 homes, maimed and crippled women an children ana brutally assaulted scores of these Independent workers.
 The big boys Of the union men were taught to pound the school children or the independent men. How would you like to have your little girl shortly grown from the toddlinE baby who used to sit on your lap and love Dad dy" pounded by some big bullies on he way home from the school where she had gone to try and please Daddy oy learning to read?
 The little bruised face and body would first need tender care WhiIe you ponder the inscription writ deep In your heart, by that Master and Guide to all human compa ssion, "Inasmuch as ye have done 1t unto one of the least or these my brethren ye have done 1t un- to 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 if you went to death for it.
 Helpless children were brought home with faces black or bleeding from the blows and kicks of these fiends. teach ing independent Americans that they must stop work when told and pay fees to the leaders of labor" Thousands of men, women and children have beeI treated thus.
 From somewhere, Oh, Father of us all, we try to believe that You look with pitying eyes upon these brutal blows, cuts and scars on the many hu- man bodies made in your likeness and image.
 They are beautifully and wonderfully made. each the dwelling place of a p vine soul.
 Is 1t Your wish that they be crushed bv iron shod heels. cut by knives or torn asunder by bullets and dynamite? :?
 May we venture to think that long suffering patience is extended in the hone that the men and women of Amer lea may someday wake to a realization of the awful crueities perpetrated 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 In arIte God to establish our freedom in I776. and our fathers gave freely of their blood and treasury to establish the freedom of the black. Now agaiI 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 obev 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 families They were bombarded by rocks and pounded with clubs in the hands of union men.
 one of the injured, John Brannihan. was taken to the city hospital with 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 l don't know but I sometimes wonder what the chil dren said to Mother when "Papy" didn't come home. and how they and the It, tie woman got any food and how they could place their wrongs before their own American fellows.
 Mayhap sometime some kind person will equip a home where the orphans and widows of the victims of the La bor Trust may be cared for and fed.
 It would take a big home. It has been said there were s1 Americans, many of them fathers, killed in one strike, (ths teamsters in ohicago) and over 5000 maimed many for life. That's