United labor bulletin., 1910-01-14


and the distress of many workers that
has built up Morgan and Belmont for
tunes and that has given her the advan-
tage she possesses. She may not know
that the winning of all strikes will mean
equality of opportunity for all and be
the end to all unearned incomes. But
what she does know is that woman is
getting the worst of it in the present
struggle. That young dutiful girls can
be paid less than living wages and on
their demand for something more be IL
legally thrown into Jail, denied the COM
mon law right of personal liberty and
be given severe and illegal sentences by
magistrates that they have no voice in
electing.
All this she knows and more, for Mrs
Belmont sat through the night session OF
the Jefferson Market court.
AGNES H. DOWNING.
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WOMEN PRISONERS
HUNG UP BY WRISTS.
6dFDdFOuS CTuelIlCS TTdSllSSu III FNs'o"ho
Prison.
Atlanta, Ga, Dec. 31.-That white
women were hung up on the wall OF
cell room as though crucified, with ex-
tended arms, that at least one attempt
was made to whip a woman and that
prisoners were used to do work for prl-
vate citizens, were some of the things
testified to in the city council invest1ga-
ton of the city prison, known as THE
Stockade.
Charges that the city prison is filthy
place, unworthy of holding even animals;
that there has been graft and that bar
barous cruelties are practiced there have
been made. The grand jurors recently
indicted Superintendent Vining and two
guards for cruelty.
Ruby Gather, country girl IS years
old, told how she was hung up by the
wrists until she tainted. She saw other
women similarly punished. One girl,
Pearl Ryan, was put in the whipping
machine for the application of the lash.
ne lash Is utdNy lSdlhCi StiaP, "tSH
rivets studded in its surface. The Ryan
girl was so small that she slipped
through the chair and guards gave up
the attempt to beat her.
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LABOR AND THE STEEL TRUST.
CONTINUED from Page IL
out of rivals in any branch of the in
dustries upon which it enters.
Its crowning criminality, however, is
its bold and heartless enslaving of labor.
To disarm public Indignation against its
industrial and social crimes in this re-
spect the trust has instituted the So
called "profit-sharing" system which even
the slightest examination proves to be
transparent deceit, through which a
small minority of it's employees are sought
to be bribed to help in daily sweating the
vast majority in preventing the others
from joining labor organizations and in
breaking down the spirit of manliness
that has been cherished characteristic
of American labor. The trust methodi-
cally hires freshly arrived immigrants,
opens or closes mills to dishearten com
munities of its employees and substitutes
young lads in its work for fathers with
families.
The steel trusts methods of dealing
with labor lead to playing one set of its
employees against another in ruinous
competition, to suppressing trade agree
ments, to preventing the entire body of
workers from expressing their opinion
as to the terms of the necessarily chang
ing conditions under which they would
sell their labor, and so preventing in any
way their taking part in the modern Ia
Dor movement, which is rapidly uplift-
ing the wage-working masses through
out the civilized world.
The methods of the trade unionists Of
America. on the contrary, taken broadly,
free labor from a slavish dependence
either upon the unstable philanthropy or
the contemptuous labor traffcking which
are features of today's multi-milionair-
ism.
The trade unionists of America have
now their choice between lying down and
letting steel trust methods have their
sway or standing up and arraying them
selves with men who intend to fight to
maintain unimpaired rights, duties and
standards of the civilization that Ameri-
cas- founders and preservers bequeathed
to our generation and time.
Trade unionists, men of labor, friends,
in this contest the iron, steel and tin
plate workers have made great strug-
gle and are heroically battling not only
for their own rights, but for the rights
of all. Until the steel trust changes its
present hostile attitude toward labor
there can be no let up, even for a mo-
ment. in our activities in bringing it be-
fore the bar of public opinion. In this
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