The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-15
Pass the Word
 AlOnQ

erally thousands of cases wherein your fellow American has been assaulted. maimed or killed by these men. The same work Is going on day by day. Suppose you make a practice of picking out each day from the papers, accounts of brutal ity to American workingmen who prefer to " voIk free from the impotence and tyr amy of self-constituted leaders CD than 1 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 con- ditions underlying all these daily attacks. h every case the workingman prefers to be free. He has that right. He then tries to go to work. He and his family sorely need the money for food or he wouldn't run the risk of his life. Many such man has wiped the tears away and quieted the fears of loving wife, left with a kiss on i her lips, set his manly jaw and walked into a shower of stones and bullets to win 1 food for the loved mother and babies. l A good many have been brought home | on stretchers with blood ooZing from nose i and ears, some cold, while some gradually l recover and carry for life the grim marks l of the "union label"
 They are your fellows, my friends. and yet you supinely read the accounts and l say "too bad"
 i Have you grown so calloused 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? l Let us hope that soon you may be moved by just God to rise in your 1 might and by voice and pen, by vote ana | right arm you will do a mans part III
 rrFff- hTnt 1 from this onslaught on American citizens. l This cruel warfare is carried on not only ! to raise wages but to establish union 1 control kick out the independent men and establish the label" i JTnfortunately the Labor movement which started many years ago honestly enough has fallen under control or lot of tyrannical, vicious 'men or violent tendencies"
 There are too many to attempt 10 l name. You can recall them They ln- 1 clude men who have planned the murders | of miners, teamsters, pressmen and car l penters shoemakers and Independent workmen of all kinds. Many of them l have escaped hanging by an outraged | public only because juries became terror stricken and dared not convict them. Some have been punished s1ghtiy | and some including the principal officers | 1 sentence to imprisonment but have ap- l pealed their cases.
 Right here some apologist rises 10 l protest against speaking thus or lapor- | ing men," Bless your dear heart, It lsn 1 the honest and real workman who ooes | these things it is the excitable ones ana the toughs and tugs who don't work except with their mouths, put nase | secured control of too many unlons. | I don't even attempt to specify the crim- inal acts these persons have assisted or ] winked at in their plan for destroying 1 free workingmen and forcing men to | stay in the union and hence unoer their control The newspapers for the past years contain almost daily accounts l of the criminal, lawless and tyrannicai i acts against American citizens anu haven't told half the tale. Right here 1t
 becomes necessary to say for the ten
 thousandth time that there are scores or l honest law-abiding union men who de- | plore and are in no way responsipie Aoi | the long infamous record of the Labor
 Trust" under it's present management
 but they don't seem to stop 1t.
 The men who manage, who pun lne
 strings and guide the policy have maoe
 the record and 1t stands, as made py
 them.
 Examine. if you please the record or
 Q string of members of the American Fed-
 eration of Labor and you will view a is'
 of crimes against Americans stupendous Ebeyond belief. They defy the laws, sheer
 at the courts. incite mobs and are avowed
 enemies of the peaceable citizens or all
 classes.
 This hand yields an iron bar over their
 suhiects and drives them to idleness 1 whenever they want 10 call strike or
 exact extra pocket money for themselves
 Men don't want to be thrown out oi
 work and lose their livelihood, but wna'
 can they do when the slugging and mur-
 dering committee stands always ready
 to do them if they try to work.
 The poor women and helpless cnlidren
 suffer and no one dares present theii
 case to the public. They must suHer in
 silence for they have no way 10 risn'
 their wrongs, while the notoriety-seekins
 leaders carry out their work
 These men cannot thus force oppres'
 sion on the weak and innocent or use
 them to bring newspaper notice to them
 selves and money to their pockets un'
 1ess thev can hold them in line"
 Therefore. with the craft of the fo1 and venom of the serpent they devise
 the ..union label and tell the public t'
 buv only articles carrying that lapei
 Smooth scheme isn't 1t?
 They extract fee from every .unio' man. and in order to get these montni.
 fees. they must hold the worHers
 "tbe union' and force manufacturers , to lxick out all independent men. , i Gan anyone devise a more compiet ) and tyrannical trust?
 If allowed full sway, no fndependen an oo,.ld kaap workinR in fraa fac