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

out a neiplHS Hdnu 10 great army OF
honest, Woodworking and deserving
men and women.
Just your moral support will insure
work, living, and comforts which are
now either partly or wholly denied
them.
How so?
Come on, let's have look
/ You've often been mportuned and
many have been commanded by ad
vertisements or otherwise to refuse
to buy anything unless it bears the
union label"
Looks harmless on its face, doesn't
it?
1t really is a demand that you
boycott the products made by over 81
per cent of our American workingmer
and women who decline to pay fees to
and obey the dictates of the union
leaders.
1t demands that you ask the mer
chant for articles with the "unior
label" thus to impress him with it.
Importance.
/.
what to refuse. The demands are
sometimes most insolent. with /
"holier than thou" impudencc.
1t demands that you take away tn,
living of this so per cent ofsAmerical
workinglnen and women.
Is that clear?
Why should small body Of work
men ask you to help starve the large
body?
There must be some reason for tn
"union label" scheme.
Run over in your mind and remen
, Der how they carry on their work.
During discussion about worliin
or striking in the coal regions, abou
, $4,000 men preferred to work, they ha
|, wives and babies to feed. The unto
men said openly in their conyentio
that if their employers didn't di.
> charge these men they Uhc union men
would kill them.
So they dynamited about doze
homes, manned and crippled wome
!, and children and brutally assaulte
:. scores of these independent workers.
= The big boys of the union men wer
:, taught to pound the school children {
y the independent men. How would yo
: like 10 have your little girl shortl
, grown from the toddling baby VIII
: used to sit on your. lap and p low
= Daddy pounded by some big bullie
!, on her way home from the scho,
:. where she had gone TO try and pleas
Daddy by Tearing to read?
The little bruised face and bod
r. would first need tender care while yC
. ponder the inscription writ deep
:. your heart by that Master and GuiC
IS to all human compassion, "Inasmuo
If as ye have done it unto one of the lea
n of these my brethren We have done
, unto me-" Then perhaps you wou
10 drop on your knees and pray Almight
is God for strength in your right arm
n strike one manly and powerful bio
n. for babys sake, even if you went
" death for it.
" Helpless children were brougl
~ home. with faces black or bleedir
IF from the blows and kicks of thes
6 fionds. teaching Independent Amer
r. cans that they must stop work whe
n told and pay fees to the leaders
n labor" Thousands of men, wome
# and children have been treated thus.
in From somewhere, Oh. Father of
o. all. we try to believe that You loo
If with plying eyes upon these brut
ID blows. cuts and scars on the many Il
s. nan bodies made in your likeness al
a, image.
n. They are beautifully and wonderf,
a " made, each the dwelling place of
10 divine soul.
I'd Is it Your wish that they be crush
re by iron shod heels. cut by knives
,e torn asunder by bullets and dynamite
% May we venture to think that lol
10 | suffering patience is extended in &
N hope that the men and women
# America may some day wake 10 a
n llization of the awful cruelties PERI
10 tratcd by this spirit of oppression al
g. hat they will some time learn the Il
n. son that the sacred gift of hum
Up freedom and liberty" was given
, God and must be defended even
rs | Heath itself
as Our forefathers were used by the
# | Unite God 10 establish our freedom
t776, and our fathers gave freely
heir blood and treasure to establi
c the freedom of the black. Now aga
t seems we are called upon to prote
=. our brothers and ourselves from tn
I'D time spirit of tyranny which com
Up from time to time TO force peoI
" obey tyrannous rules and bend I
inee of the slave
In Wellston. Ohio, so America
fought employment in factory. TIL
we're seeking to earn food for thu
=. families. They were bombarded
rocks and pounded with clubs in {
hands of union men.
nd One of the injured, John Brannih;
81 vas taken to the city hospital with
e. broken jaw, crushed skull and 9th
Il .uts and bruises. He was the fatf
v If two children. and was thought to
n lying. Perhaps he did. | don't kno