Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-03-28
WE mi NOW HAVE
"A Fen Remarks

EIGHTY-TWO MORE Lii IVES sacrificed to greed
at the Jed mine Welsh, w Va last Tuesday. Half
hundred women have been made widows and two hun
bred children have been made orphans We being
told BY the capitalist press that the mine Of the
best equipped but that nevertheless "a rigid mYest
CATION viii be made We are always told that.
AS matter Of FACT the explosion was caused by an
accumulation of dust This could be eliminated and the
men have to be paid wages. So the Jed Coal Coke
pany preferred to kill 81 rather than spend the
ey to prevent their Deaths It is cheaper to kill them
You ask why the submit to It'll They have to-
With them it is case of work or sarVe The Jed Coal
company their master much any slave was
master Of his human property. And in their mas
terry they backed by all the powers of government
West Virginia. either consciously unconsciously from
the mine inspector who sights his work to hold his job
to the governor who sends militia to shoot the slaves
they rebel They are helped by guards whose bust
ness it is to club the workers into submission They are
helped the legislators who have refused to pass laws
the interests of the workers They helped judges
like Judge Dayton who has handed down decisions that
prevent the from organizing into unions for their
protection They helped by the editors who boost the
politicians who controlled by them. They are helped
by pulpit that sticks in sordd silence. They well
hedged about by all the powers Of government that the
only privilege left their hungry employees to change
masters-and be blown up in some other mine.
You will shudder when you read the accounts of the
holocaust your heart is not entirely caIoused by
tact with the misery about you And you should shud
der for you to blame for it all You guilty Of the
murder of these menof robbing these wives OF their
dren. You guilty because you see this thing going
and do not lift your hand against it. You talk OF other
things you pretend to be interested in the tariff the
liquor question: in saving souls while all about you cap
italsm grnds human bones to powder torturing help
less women and Furnishing little children Your cons
cence must be locked In sound safe your eyes
must be bandaged with binders your must be STOP
ped up with selshness that you talk of tariff when
capitalism is tearing out human hearts for the money
there in them that you pirate Of saving souls when
capitalism is crushing the Godke form Of man into
inhmnan beastl
Tear the binders from your eyes and see the upted
Of those widows and orphans stretched out to you
in duplication Tear the cotton ofseshness from your
ears and hear their moans It matters not if they speak
in tongues Of another cme misery has but one and
you understand it. Take your conscience out from
its sound-proof SAFE wrapped round and round with
reenbacks at it Isl and let it shver as the sound waves
beat it. the waves that from the rumble and the
Of the wheel Of Industry See it roll crnchng out the
lives Of the just they reaching out to- higher
things to nobler civilization See the girls is throw
ing aside upon the Streets upon its iron spokes the
manaced forms of tiny babies torn from their mothers
quivering breasts!
IF you stand for this you not men, not women,
you are things and just God will be ashamed to recog
nze you as his children And you will never be Chris
tian never be civilized be human, until you cease
to grasp with pleased vanity the boodsaned hands OF
profit-monger murderers until you rise and wipe the
profit system from the face Of this green earth.
FOR NINE LONG YEARS the beef barons Of Amer
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