Omaha daily bee., 1909-09-15

1t won't cost you = penny to 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 so7
Come on, let's nave a look.
You've often been importuned and many
have been commanded by advertisement or
otherwise to refuse to buy anything un-
less 1t bears the union label"
Looks harmless on it's face. doesn't IL
1t really lie 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.
1t demands that you ask the merchant
for articles with the union LABEL thus
to impress him with it's Importance.
1t seeks to tell you what to buy and
what to refuse. The demands are some.
times most insolent, with a 'holier than
thou" impudence.
1t demands that you take away the liv-
ing of this 80 per cent of American work
ingmen and women.
Is that clear3
Why should a small body of workmen
ask you to help starve the larger body
There must be some reason for the
union label" scheme. 90
Run over in your mind and remember
how they carry on their work.
During a discussion about working OF
striking In the coal r~egions, about 49,
900 men preferred to work, they had wives
and babies to feed. The union men said
openly in their convention that IL the EN-
ployers didn't discharge these men they
(the union mem would, kin them.
SO they dynamited about a dozen homes,
manned and crippled women and children
and brutally assaulted SCORES OF these In
dependent workers.
The big boys OF the union were taught
to pound the schoo children Of the indie
pendent men. How would you like to ave
your little girl shortly grown from the
toddllng baby who used to sit o n your lap
and love Daddy pounded by some big
DULLES on her way home from the school
where she had gone to try and please
Daddy by learning to read?
The little bruised face and body would
IlTSI ntcu lChdGN SalO WhAA " pSANNO
the inscription writ deep in you heart, by
tbs Master and Guide to ell human com
passion, "Inasmuch rs ye ave done 1t
unto one Of the least of these my brethren
We have lone 1t unto me-" Then per-
maps you would drop TO your knees and
pray Almighty God for strength in your
right arm TO strike one manly n pow
erful blow for baby's sake, even If you
went to death for IT.
Helpless children were brought home,
with faces black or bleeding from the
blows and kicks OF these fiends. teaching
independent Americans that they must
stop work when told and pay fees to the
leaders of labor" Thousands of men,
women and children lay been treated
thus.
From somewhere, oh Father of US all,
we try to believe that You look with pity
ing eyes upon these brutal blows, cuts and
scars on the many human bodies made
in your likeness and image.
They are beautifully and wonderfully
made, each the dwelling place of a Divine
Soul.
Is 1t Your wish that they be crushed by
iron shod heels, cut by knives or torn
asunder by bullets and dynamite?
May we venture to think that a long
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 pereptrated by this
spirit of oppression and that they will
some day learn the lesson that the sac
red 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 1875,
and our fathers gave freely of their blood
and treasure to establish the freedom of
the black. Now again IL 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 the people to obey tyran-
nous 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 fami-
lies. They were bombsrded 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. / don't know, but l some
times wonder what the children said to
Mother when "Pappy' didn't come home,
and how they and the little woman got
any food, and how they could place their
wrongs before their own American
fellows.
Mayhap sometime some kind person will
equip a home where the orphans and
widows OF the victims OF the labor
Trust may be cared for n fed.
II would take a big home IL has been
said there were 81 Americans. many Of
them fathers. killed in one strike. (the
In Chicago and over 5000
MANNED. many for life. That's only one