Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-08-20
Texas Workers Face Death
at Labor Exploiters' Hands
The Story of Range Cline and Their Comrades Who G.
On Trial In San Antonio Labor Mus Save Them.

ests of Texas and the South, where
their work has been most extensively
carried on.
Who Is Cline? ~:
Chas. Cline, the American, has been
an active member of the labor move
ment for many years. He was a mem
Der of Local No Z, Hotel and Restau-
rant Employees Union of Pueblo, Colo.
He has also been member of the In
ternational Slate and Tile Workers
Union, having held cards in the vari-
GUS local unions at. St. Louis, New
York City and Boston, and the Nation
al Industrial Union of Forest and
Lumber Workers. AS member of
I Organized Labor, he has participated
N six labor struggles-the Hotel anil
Restaurant Employees strike in 1903
and 1904; the Southern Pacific ma
,hine shop strike on tine Hartman
lines, beginning in 1911, and the
Louisiana lumber strike of two years
ago. BY reason of his capacity as a
speaker and organizer, he is regarded
IS a very dangerous character by the
umber barons of Louisiana and Texas.
His message has been "Labor's free
4 Who Is Range'7
]. M. Rangel is about fifty-four
years of age. He is widower with
four children, ranging from thirteen to
lincteen years. His home has been
sor years, Waco, Texas. He began his
life as a worker when eight years of
lge. He has had but one year in
school, but the capacity and the energy
of the man has been such that, not
withstanding this handicap he has
learned to read and write 'fluently in
10Th English and Spanish His read
ing and his life experience as worker
led him to the great classics of the
working class movement. Karl Marx,
Frederick Engels and Proudhoun be-
came familiar to him, but his mind
was too practical one to remain
forever in the realm of social theory.
He Joined the Mexican Liberal party,
which is the only Mexican movement
that, through all the years of turmoil
and revolution in Mexico, has chung
to a program which means social re
generation. In 1906 Rangel served
three months at Fort Davis, Tex. in
connection with alleged violation of
the neutralityNlaw; again, in 1909, he
served two years at San Antonio and
Fort Worth, on the charge OF violation
of the neutrality law. In 1911 he was
wounded in battle in, Mexico and taken
prisoner. He was held as a prisoner
of war for nearly two years. He Is a
man beloved by his friends, because
of his loyalty to the cause to which he
has pledged his life.
:. This whole group Of men were re
garded as excessively dangerous. Ia
Dor agitators" by the employers of the
South. A pretext alone was wanted
for the seizure of them. Their work
was too. effective to be allowed e
continue.
The Pretext.
And the preteXt to seize them and
strangle their voices of protest was
found
On Sept. II, 1918, our brothers left
the little town of Garlic Springs
Tex, intending to go to Mexico ano
assist in Labor's great struggle there
against peonage and slavery. They
violated no law. Peacefully proceed
| ing toward the Mexican border, oul
brothers were followed, unknown t.
them, by four deputy sheriffs. Tha
night they camped at Capones Wine
Mill. in Dimmit county, a few mile:
from Carrie Springs. Early the mex
morning, as they we're getting read,
to move on, shot was fired from be
hind, and Silvestre Tomas, veteran
| of the Labor movement both in tn
United States and Mexico, fell dead
1.-THE bullet having entered the base o
1.-THE brain and coming out through tn
forehead. At the time Lomas wa
killed his comrades did not even knoN