The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-10-06

II these poor wageworkers Will
thus brave fine and smuggling to help
out other men who seek to live a free
life under our laws and constitution
cannot you, reader, help a little?
Will you reach out a hand to help
IN Independent workman earn food
: for his wife and babies? Or will you
from apathy and c%arelessness allow
him to be thrown out Of work n
the helpless suffer until they pros
trate themselves before this stupen-
dous and tyrannical aggregation of
leeches upon honest American labor2
The successor of Henry Ward
Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brook
Ign, says:
Union labor hatred for labor
burns like a flame, eats like nitric
acid, Is malignant beyond all descrip-
ton. But the other day, a woman
representing a certain union visited
many families in Plymouth Church
asking them to boycott a certain in
stitution. Alas, this union
woman's hatred for n%on-union women
burned in her like the fires of hell"
She was pitilessly, relentlessly and
tirelessly pursuing the non-union
women and men to destroy the mar
ket for goods, to ruin their factory
and to starve them out.
In the French Revolution only 2
per cent. of the French people be-
lieyed in violence. The SO per cent.
disclaimed violence and yet the 50
per cent. allowed the 2 per cent. to
fill the streets of Paris with fostering
corpses, to clog the Seine with dead
bodies, to shut up every factory In
Paris, until the laboring classes
starved by the score.
The small per cent. element in the
Labor Trust which hates and seeks
to destroy the large per cent. of indie
pendent Americans sends out letters
declaring free" industries unfair and
tries to boycott their products. II
they could bind every one it would
bring suffering upon hundreds of
thousands, Unreasonable ruin upon
the country, and land it absolutely
under control Of the men now at
tempting. to dictate the daily acts of
our people and extract from each a
monthly fee.
There are babies, children, women
and honest, hard-working and skill
full fathers who rely upon the protec-
ton of their fellows, when they seek
to sell their labor where they choose,
when they choose, and for a sum they
believe it to be worth.
Every. citizen having the rights.
privileges and protection of a citizen
has also the responsibility of a citizen.
The Labor Trust leaders may
suavely request" Tor order those
they CAM to buy only union label"
articles, and you can of course obey If
you are under orders.
Depend upon it, the creatures Of
the Labor Trust will, upon reading
this, visit stores and threaten dire re-
suits unless all the things bear "the
label"
1uCs 81 SO q o0 W udfC luSlt
women pretend to buy things, order
yards of silk or cloth torn off and va
rious articles wrapped up and then
discover mo label" and refuse them.
That's been done hundreds of times
and Is but n of the petty acts of
hatred and tyranny.
Let no one who reads this article
understand that he or she is asked to
boycott any product whether it bears
a union label" or not. One has a
constitutional right to examine the
article and see whether it's makers are
Labor Trust contributors and slaves
or are free and Independent AmerI-
cans
| have tried to tell you something
about those who are oppressed, Will
fed, hated, and when opportunity Of
fers are attacked because they prefer
to retain their own Independent Amer
lean manhood. These men are in the
vast majority and include the most
skillful artisans in the known world.
They have wives and babes dependent
on them.
These men are frequently oppressed
and have no way to make their
wrongs known. They are worthy of
defense. That's the reason for the
expenditure of a few thousands of dol
lars to send this message to the
American people. Remember, I
didn't say my excuse for sending
it. The cause needs no excuse"
G. W. POST,
Battle Creek, Mich.
N. B.
Some "parlor socialist" who knows
nothing of the Russian Czarism of the
great Labor Trust will ask right
here. Don't Won believe in the right