Denver labor bulletin., 1916-12-23

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the behest OF the distant arbitrary cor
poration.
Militia Camp in Schools.
In the school houses OF Gluck where
little children OF the workers used to
get the meagre education allowed to
them, now a company of South Carolina
soldiers are quartered. They are there
because the children have been put out.
With almost incredible meanness, these
wealthy, powerful and cultured gentle
men OF Boston closed the school houses
OF Gluck and Equinox TO these little
children OF the poor: Ii their fathers,
mothers, and the older boy and girl
wage earners would not truckle to their
far-away employers. if they would in
sist on their American right OF organi-
zation, then the Wellington Sears cor
poration would hit them thru the little
children, who could not yet be used to
make wealth for their owners in the
mills.
This almost incredible act OF mean
ness was possible, because the yelling
to-Sears corporation owned the land on
which the school houses stood, as the
homes and all the land uf the two vii
lagos And il believes that owning the
homes. the schools and al the usual pub
lie places. it owned the people and the
spirits OF the people. a well as their
bodies.
All Employees Native Born.
There was not a so-called foreigner
in the mills of Gluck and Equinox.
Every working man, woman and child,
was a native born American. This made
them neither better nor worse than men
and women OF foreign birth, who serve
in the textile and other mills OF the
country but j. showed The sham Of the
usual cry that only foreigner" in thc
mills demand better wages and are the
disturbers Of their employers peace"
In all the Northern mills Of the Vel
lingt0u- Sears people wages have been
increased five and ten Per cent making
! fifteen per cent in all since the strike
was instituted on August ] And now
new increase of ten per cent has either
been granted or viii be granted soon.
In all the other mills % the Anderson.
: C.. section corresponding increases in
wages have been granted but not a cent
has been given TO these men. women and
children in the Gluck and Equinox mills
by their Boston rulers The mills have
not nun. or have run only lamely and
crippled. The striking workers firm and
patient, but undaunted. and helped by
their brothers OF the United Textile
Workers. are still unemployed. or are
seeking employment in other textile
mills OF states whose governors are not
using the public soldierv to break the
strikes OF liberty loving men and women,
Attest Peaeefulness of Strikers.
Unprejudiced newspapers OF the sec
! tion, like the Anderson Tribune. the
| Charleston American, Charleston Review,
or Daily Piedmont OF Greenville, :. C.,
and Others, have attested the peacefully
and orderly conduct OF the strike They
have protested with yigor and indig-
nation against the perversion OF the mil
itary power OF the state to make the
militia practically mere gunmen and
| guards for the Boston owners
| A. one OF the leading members Of the
union has stated, the mills have the
state of South Carolina as their willing
servant in the effort to stamp out the
right Of labor to organize"
Another injury TO the state OF South
| Carolina has been pointed out by Miss
| Mary Kelleher. the chief organizer of the
! textile workers in the strike who points
out that the driving away Of the skilled
mill operatives chiefly to the Northern
| ecntcrs OF the textile industry is re-
| tarding the industrial development OF
that section OF the state.
The People Want to Know.
President John Golden OF the United
| Textile Workers OF America. and Secre-
tary- Treasurer Mrs. sara \. CoNboy, are
now centering the energy and strength
of their national organization in the pro
lection OF the liberty and manhood and
womauhood OF these South CNrulIna
workers. Ii Governor Manning will per-
sist to the last extremity in using state
militia as strike breakers. the United
| Textile Workers OF America. as well as
the whole body OF organized labor in the
United States wants to know it. II
lawful union organization can be pun
ished as a crime by an arbitrary oorpor-
| alton. then the textile workers and all
organized workers want to know that
| too.
1t is too far into the twentieth cen.
tury for South Carolina to permit its
workers homes to b. broken up and the
workers themselves to be beaten up anc
bullicd and exiled because they refuse to
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