The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-09-15

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 de-
MED them.
How so?
Come on, let's have a look.
You've often been impOTtUned and
many have been commanded by ad-
vertisement or otherwise to refuse to
buy anything unless it bears the union
label"
Looks harmless on its face. doesn't
It?
It really is a demand" that you
boycott the products made by over so
per cent of our American WOTkingmen
and women who decline to pay fees
to. and obey the dictates of the union
leaders.
1t demands that you ask the mer-
chant for articles with the union Ia
bel" thus to impress him with its
importance.
It seeks to tell you what to buy and
what to refuse The demands are
sometimes most insolent, with a
'holier than thou impudence.
1t demands that you take away the
living Of this so per cent of American
worlingmen and women.
Is that clear? ,.- ........ .-
Why should a small body Of work
men ask you to help starve the larger
body?
There must be some reason for the
union labeI' scheme.
Run over in your mind and remem-
Der how they carry on their work.
During a discussion about working
or striking in the coal regions, about
$4,000 men preferred to work, they
had wives and babies to feed. The
union men said openly in their con-
ventiOn that if the employers didn't
discharge these men they (the union
mem would kill them.
So they dynamited about a dozen
homes. MANNED and crippled women
and ChflGren and bFutally assaulted
scores OF these Independent workers.
The big boys of the union men were
taught to pound the school children Of
the independent men. How would
you like to have your little girl
shortly grown from the toddling baby
who used to sit on 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 first need tender care while
you ponder the inscription writ deep
in your heart, by that Master and
Guide to all human compassion, In
aSmuch as We have done 1t unto one
of the least of these my brethren ye
have done it unto me-" Then perhaps
you would drop to your knees and
pray Almighty God for strength in
your right arm TO strike one manly
and powerful 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 Ameri-
cans that they must stop work when
told and pay fees to the leaders of
labor" Thousands Of men, women
and children have been treated thus
From somewhere, Oh, Father of us
all, We try to believe that You lock
with plying eyes upon these brutal
blows, cuts and scars on the many
human bodies made in your likeness
and image.
They are beautifully and wonderful
1y made, each the dwelling place OF a
Divine Soul.
Is It Your wish that they be crushed
by iron shOd heels. cut by knives or
tNth douAiANl ~ bAAlCAo anu u1
mite?
May we venture to think that a long
suffering patience is extended in the
hope that the men and women Of
America may SOmeday wake to a real
iZation Of the awful CTUelties perpe-
trated by this spirit Of oppression and
that they will some time learn the
lesson 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
Infinite God to establish our freedom
in 1875. and our fathers gave freely
Of their blood and treasure to estab-
lish the freedom of the black. Now
again it 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 people to obey tyrannOus 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 families. They were bombarded
by rocks aud pounded with clubs in
the hands of union men.
One of the injured. John Brannihan
was taken to the city hospital with q
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. l don't
know. but I sometimes wonder what
che children said to Mother when
'.Papy' 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 per
son will equip a home where the or
phans and widows Of the victims OF
the Labor Trust may be cared for and
fed.
It would take a big home. 1t has
been said there were 81 Americans
many OF them fathers. killed in one
strike, (the teamSteTS in Chicago
and over 5000 manned, many for life