United labor bulletin., 1912-03-21
THE czAR-sPANGLED BANNER. "

few days ago Mrs. Teller, member of the
Peace Pipe Chapter of the Daughters of the Ameri-
can Revolution, and the wife of Judge Teller OF the
district court, wrote and made public paper deal
ing with the United States government, corruption
IN high places and saying that the Star-Spangled
Banner should be called the ''Czar-Spangled Ban
ner For this breach of ethics Mrs. Tellers resigna
ton was accepted by the Peace Pipe chapter Mrs
Tellers paper dealt with the emigrants that to
America thinking of the home of the free and the
aand of the brave and she wrote these lines she
said:
1.-THE Czar-Spangled banner, long may it wave
Oer the land of the free and the home of the slave
1t seems that few members of the Peace Pipe
chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolu-
ton realize that they represent the descendants OF
the brave ment that fought for American freedom.
While they have organized to honor the memory of
their ancestors they have put ban on free speech
in their own organization. Little do many OF the
women in social life realize that there may be suf
cien reason for the expression of the cultured lady
that has given vent to the remarks that have been
accredited to her. Mrs. Teller made the paper public
when the strike of the textile workers at Lawrence,
Mass was at its height
Taking the Lawrence strike alone. is that not
sufficient for the remarks of Mrs. Teller. If that
is not sufficient will call your attention to the
investigation of the steel industry of the United
States where it was declared that the employees were
in actual slavery. Then have the stories that
come TO us from far off Aaska-the land of the Gug
genheims There, it is claimed, poor foreigners go
for employment. are killed in the mines and mills.
are buried on the companys property, and their tax
ing-off never made known to the public. They just
drop ont of sight and their relatives in Europe or
in the United States learn what became of
them We also have the mines of Westmoreland
county, Pennsylvania, where the workers were held
in slavery by the mine owners as helpless as ever
the negro was held slave. And in different parts
of the south peonage has been praetced by wealthy
lumbermen and others, and as proof, some of the
rich men now occupy cells in pententares
If this is not sufficient to convince the members
of the Peace Pipe chapter that there is truth
in the assertions of Mrs Teller let then point out
to the descendants of Revolutionary fathers the in
dustria conditions as they exist today. Men by the
hundreds are killed in the mines and their families
left helpless in an unfrendly land; men are killed
and manned on the railroads and in the mills until
TODAY there exists a multitude of widowed mothers
and fatherless children Let look back upon the
Triangle factory fire in New York. where women
were trapped and burned to death like rates in
trap Let us point to the deaths in the industrial
field of today and the Peace Pipe chapter will dis
cover that more men and women are killed in indus
trial fields than have been killed all the battle
fields since the beginning of civilization
A flag or emblem is merely the handiwork of
man A flag represents that which the people prac
tice over which it waves When the class that runs
the United StateS-the moneyed class-ensave the
people by buying the Lorimers and Guggenheims
and having them legislate the people into slavery,
then the flag represents Just what the government
represents-no more and no less.
But the pity of it all is that cannot express
himself publicly about the flag, the government, the
military or the church. or other alleged 'sacred
things without being expelled from the society of
his kind A ban ON free speech comes with very
poor grace from the Daughters of the Revolution
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