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

That's only one lesson" Of these bull
lies. There are literally thousands OF
cases wherein your fellow American
has been assaulted, MANNED or killed
by these men. The same work is 60
ing on day by day. Suppose you make
a practice OF picking out each day
from the papers, accounts Of brutality
to American work1ngmen who prefer
to work free from the impudence and
tyranny of self constituted leaders co
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 working man pre-
fers 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 IRISH OF his
life. Many such a man has wiped the
tears away and quieted the fears of a
loving wife, left with kiss on her lips,
set his manly jaw and walked into a
shower of stones and bullets to win
food for the loved mother and babies.
A good many have been brought
home on stretchers with blood oozing
from nose and ears, some cold. while
some gradually recover, and carry for
life the grim marks of the union Ia
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 on the life and
strength Of husband and father?
Let us hope that soon you may be
moved by a just God to rise In your
might and by voice and pen, by vote
and right arm you will do mans
part in protecting yourselves and your
brothers from this onslaught on Amer
lean citizens. This cruel warfare il
carried on not always to raise wages
but to establish union control, kick
out the independent men and establish
the label"
OHlOTLuu6JCly IuC A0OoA AAO'S
ment," which started many years agc
honestly enough, has fallen under con
troll Of lot of tyrannical, vicious "mer
of violent tendencies"
There are too many to attempt te
name. You can recall them. They
include men who have planned the
murders of miners, teamsters. press
men and carpenters, shoemakers an6
independent workmen of all kinds
Many of them have escaped hanging
by an outraged public only because
iuries became terror stricken and dare
not convict them.
Some have been punished slightly
and some, including the principal Off
GERS of this nefarious crew are now un
der sentence to imprisonment, bu
have appealed their cases.
Right here some apologist rises t.
protest against speaking thus of labor
ing men," Bless your dear heart. i
isn't the honest and real workman WIKI
does these things. 1t is the excitabl'
ones and the toughs and thugs WHIT
don't work except with their mouths
but have secured control OF too man!
unions. don't even attempt to spec
lily the criminal acts these persons
have assisted or winked at in thei1
plan for destroying free workingme,
and forcing men to stay in the un
ion'' and hence under their control
The newspapers for the past sever
years contain almost daily accounts
of the criminal. lawless and tyrannica
acts against American citizens ant
haven't told half the tale. Right herr
1t becomes necessary to say for the tel
thousandth time that there are scores
OF honest law-abiding union men wht
deplore and are in no way responsible
for the long infamous record OF thu
Labor Trust" under its present man
agement, but they don't seem to stol
It.
The men who manage, who pull tn
strings and guide the policy have mad
the record and it stands. as made b:
them.
Examine, If you please. the recors
of a string of members of the Amer
can Federation of Labor and you viii
view a list of crimes against Americana
stupendous beyond belief. They de
~ the laws, sheer at the courts. incit'
mobs and are avowed enemies OF tn
peaceable citizens of all classes.
This band Yields an iron bar owe
their subjects and drives them to idle
ness whenever they. want to call I
strike or exact extra pocket money TO
themselves.
Men don't want to be thrown out o
work and lose their livelihood. bu
what can they do when the slugg1nt
and numbering committee stands al
ways ready to do them" If they try t
work
The poor women and helpless chill
dren suffer and no one dares presen
their case to the public. They mus
suffer In silence for they have no wa,
to right their wrongs, while the noto
riety- seeking leaders carry out thei
work.
These men cannot thus force oppres
sion on the weak and innocent or U.s.
them to bring newspaper notice II
themselves and money to their pocket!
unless they can hold them in line"
Therefore. with the craft OF the TO-
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