The Washington times., 1909-09-13

It won't cost you a penny 70 reach
out a helping hand to a great army of
honest, Woodworking and deserving
men and women
Just your moral support will insure
work. a 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 importuned and
many have been commanded by adver-
tisement or otherwise to refuse to buy
anything unless it bears the union
label"
Looks harmless on it's face. doesn't
Il?
It really is a demand that you boy.
colt the products made by over 50 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 mer-
chant for articles with the union
label" thus 10 impress him with its
Importance.
It seeks to tell you what to buy and
what to refuse. The demands are some
times most insolent. with a "holieI
than thou impudence.
It demands that you take away the
| living Of this so per cent Of American
workingmen and women.
Is that clear?
! why should a small body Of worknen
ask you 70 help starve the larger body
There must be some reason for the
"union LABEL scheme.
Run over in your mind and remember
/ how they carry on their work.
During a discussion about working OF
striking in the coal regions. about .. OO
men preferred to work, they had wives
and babies to feed. The union mer
said openly in their convention that q
the employers didn't discharge these
men they Cthe union mem would Kill
them.
So they dynamited about a dozer
homes, manned and crippled women and
children. and brutally assaulted scores
Of these independent workers
The big bows Of the union men were
taught % pound the school children OF
| the independent men. How would you
like TO have your little girl shortly
grown from the tCddling baby who used
to sit on your lap and love Daddy
pounded by soms big DULLES on her way
home from the school where she had
gone to Try and please Daddy by learn
ing to read?
The little bruised face and body would
first need tender care while you ponder
the inscription writ deep In your heart,
10y that Master and Guide 10 all human
/ COMPASSION. "InasmuCh as We have
done Il unto one Of the least Of these
nv brethren ye have done n unto me. %
Then perhaps you would drop 10 your
| knees AMI pray Almighty God for
| strength in your right arm 10 strike
one manly and powerful blow for
/ baby's sake, even IL you went 20 death
I for Il.
! Helpless children were brought home.
| with faces black or bleeding from the
| blows and kicks Of these dends. teach
/ ing independent Americans that they
must stop work when told and pay fees
/ 10 the leaders Of Labor" Thousands
| Of men, women, and children have been
| treated thus
/ From somewhere. Oh. Father Of MS
all. we try to believe that You look with
/ plying eyes upon these brutal blows
/ cuts. and scars on the many human
/ bodies made I'm your likeness and image
They are beautifully and wonderfully
made. each the dwelling place OF a
| Divine soul
Is it Your wish that they be crushed
I by iron shod heels. cut by knives. OF
torn asunder by bullets and dynamite
Nav we venture 20 think that Ions
/ suffering patience is extended IN the
hope that the men and women OF
America may some day wake 10 a
realization Of the awful cruelties per
Ietratad 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 Inf
/ mite God TO establish our freedom IN l776
and our fathers gave freely Of Their
| blood and treasure TO establish the free
| dom Of the black. Now again II seems
We are called upon TO protect our broth
ers and ourselves from that old tim,
| spirit of tyranny which comes up from
/ time TO time 10 force people 20 obey
/ tyrannous rules and bend the knee oil
the slave.
In WeIston. Ohio, thirty Americans
1 SOUGHT employment I'm a factory. They
were seeking 10 earn food for theil
families. They we're bombarded By
rocks and pounded with clubs in III,
! hands Of union men.
One OF the injured. John Brannihan
was taken 10 the city hospital with q
broken jaw, crushed skull and Other
cuts and bruises He was the father
or two children, and was thought to bs
dying Perhaps he did. ] don't know
but 1 sometimes wonder what the chill,