Strike bulletin. (Clinton, Ill.) 1913-1915, 1914-07-22
ORPHANS HOME
IS SCAB INCUBATOR FOR
ILLINOIS CENTRAL
FATHERlESS BOYS BOUND OUT TO
TAKE STRIKERS PLACES IN SHOPS
|. c. PRAISES INHUnAN TRAFFIC

strlk.breakers for the Illinois Central railroad
are being supplied from a ".cab incubator" in
Chatham. Georgia There 10 secrecy about this
inhuman barter In human rights there are no
excuses being made for this traffic that smacks
OF slave indenturr, only praise Is being given for
this new industry" by which young boys are be-
ing educated and led Up to the yoke Of greed
The "scab iscubator" Is the Bethesda orphAns
Home Its officers boast that for the last thirty
years the home" has been supplying Apprentices
boys TO take the places of union workers In the
shops on railroads that are endssvoring to stamp
nc during the last IS months has been with the
Illinois Central Railroad company.
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Here IL the way the home works union
railroad man 10 killed the tracks or In the
shops III. widow goes TO the poor farm. HIS
orphan children are sent to the Beihessia orphans
Home. The boys-the oliver Tvists"-are then
pu, through the course OF deprsvity for which
these institutions are notorious.
From the minute Of their admission the
Institution. freedom 10 gone forever Paid masters
with the power to inflict punishment ins,iii the
principles of s.rvih,y. The boys uniforms.
they march in lines. In convict order. Laughter
Is subdued. All that 10 human Is crushed out.
tn. story Of the discipline TO which they have
been subjected
IL Ns.s ss C.A SD Granny.
At the age Of ls the scAb Incubator 10 ready to
turn over Its product to the mastera without
consent or consideration the part of the boys.
they are turned over IN the name OF God and Char
ty to the masters which the incubator prepris,ors
select just What reason the home" officials
have for sendins the boys into the scab shops 10
not known because - yet the working asrsemsat
between these pious gentlemen and the niiaois
| Central railroad 10 . dark secret
But tksss hoya wAoss only crime 10 tAst we're
born TO . father whs save up his life In slavery
for . corporation. are sent into the shopo-ths
sesb shops. the finishing schools from which
graduated the hopeless wage slaves. The Bethesda
Home does its work we'll IL stAmps out
principle of Independence that the boy may have
II makes of him . senseless inanmats cog. willing
TO take whatever 10 thrown TO him. willing to do
as he 10 told-wiliins to ignore his own best inter
ests IN preference to those of his employer.
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A newspaper OF wsycross. Ga. recently devoted
half column in euiogy of this disgusting traffic
| In human beings. The paper says that the man
agement Of the home has received hundreds of
| letters from . number of railroads particularly
| the Illinois Central. praisins the institution for
! the early training that 10 apparent In the boys
This paper says that some Of the boys are bound
out to the Central Of Georgia railroad where they
are taught how 10 bend to the lash In the shops.
They then the scab shops of the
Illinois Central
| Georgia has Its convict camps Georgia has Its
blooihounds. Georgia has Its whips and chains and
relies OF the dark axes. and now We find that In
America. In 1914 Georgia has institution. doing
| business In the name OF charity. that 10 engaged
| In turning poor unfortunate orphan children into
hopeless seab wage slaves for y graspinE corpor-
alton. Do the union men of GeorsiA know this'