The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-09-14

II won't cost you a penny to reach
out . helping hand to great army Of
honest, Woodworking and deserving
men and women.
Just your moral support will insure
work. q living, and comforts which are
now either partly or wholly denied
them.
How SO?
Come on. let's have a look
You've often been fmportuned and
many have been commanded by ad-
vertisement or otherwise to refuse to
buy anything unless it bears the union
label"
Looks harmless on its face. doesn
It?
1t really is a demand" that you boy
colt the products made by over 80 per
cent of our American workingmen and
women who decline to pay fees to, and
obey the dictates of the union leaders.
It demands that you ask the merchant
for articles with the union label" thus
to impress him with it's Importance.
It seeks to tell you what to buy and
what to refuse. The demands are
sometimes most insolent. with a "ho!-
Ter than thou" impudence.
It demands that you take away the
living Of this 50 per cent Of American
worl1ingmen and women.
Is that clear?
ingmen ask you to help starve the larg-
er body?
There must be some reason for the
union label" scheme. 90 +
Run over in your mind and remem-
Der how they carry on their work.
During q discussion about working
or striking in the coal regions, about
5000 men preferred to work, they had
wives and babies to feed. The union
men said openly In their convention
that II the employers didn't discharge
these mon they (the union mem 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 Dad
dy," pounded by some big bullies on
her way homo from the school where
she thad gone to try to please Daddy
by learning to read?
The little bruised face and body
would first need tender care while you
ponder the inscription writ deep in
your heart, by that Master and Guide
to all human compassion, "Inasmuch
a. ye have done 1t unto one Of the
least OF these my brethren ye have
done II 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 IL you went to death for it.
Helpless children were brought HON.
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 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 hui
man bodies made in your likeness and
image.
They are beautifully and wonderful
" made, each the dwelling place Of a
Divine Soul.
Is 1t Your wish that they be crushed
by iron shod heels. cut by knives OF
torn asunder by bullets and dynamite:
May we venture to think that a lons
suffering patience 10 extended in the
hope that the men and women OF
America may someday wake to real
ixation OF the awful crueltes perpe-
trated by this spirit Of oppression and
that they will some time learn the les
son 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
finite God to establish our freedom in
1776. and our fathers gave freely Of
their blood and treasure to establish
the freedom Of the black Now again
1t 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 t.
obey 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 a
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 I don't
know. but sometimes wonder what
the children said to Mother when
"Pappy" didn't come home. and how
they and the little woman got any food
~uA houy %hnv could y1aco fhoir v,rnnc g