Denver labor bulletin., 1918-11-16


Is guilty of Peoples Harm.
Hear now the Voice of the Peoples,
Man with the Palsied Arm.
You have broken the Laws of the
Earth;
You have broken the Laws of the
Seas;
You have butchered the babe in its
mothers womb,
AS the babe at its mothers knees;
You have ravaged our homes, and
defiled
The beds where our women lay;
Our daughters have carried the child
That was spawned by your Beasts
in Grey;
And the cry goes up, from our seething
towns I
To our loneliest outpost-farm;
"A seven-foot drop and hangman's
rope
For the Man with the Palsied Arm"
Our brothers corpses rot in the mud;
Our husbands rot in the seas;
Our starving sons have suffered the
lash
And the nameless infamies.
You have loosed on earth, in the name
of God,
The four white horses of Hell;
You have plighted troth, in the place
Christ trod,
With the Turk and the Infidel;
And the word goes up from the
Peoples mouth,
Pitiless, deadly calm:
"The gallows-tree and the hangman's
moose
For the Man with the Palsied Arm"
Our dead cry out from the Flanders
slime:
Our dead cry out from the Seas:
Our outraged women moan in the
house;
And your life is forfeit for these.
By the law of the Sword that you
loosed on earth,
By the law of a life for a life,
Or ever the new world blossom TO
birth.
Or the Peoples cease from their
strife,
There comes Voice from the Peoples
mouth,
From city and sea and farm:
He has broken the Laws of Earth
and the Seas;
He is guilty of Peoples Harm;
A moose, and a beam, and a felon's
death
For the Man with the Palsied ARM
President Samuel Gompers of the
American Federation of Labor Gre
ated n most favorable impression in
all the allied countries he visited in his
recent tour. Not alone for himself
but for the aims and purposes of or
ganized labor in the campaign to win
the war. Everywhere he was ac-
claimed as The Grand Old Man of the
Labor Movement" and his visit shall
certainly bear fruit in knitting closer
the workers of the allied countries and
opening the eyes of the world public
to what potent force for good labor
really is when organized and con-
Quoted along the lines followed by the
great American unionism movement.
l made note, in a recent letter to
Friend Birdsall, of the Christmas
package idea that has been sanctioned
;. by the A. E. F., which gives permis-
sion to each soldier to receive a three
pound package from the home folks.
And il seems TO me that better
scheme would be to divert the pack
ages intended for the Yanks to the
folk of France, Belgium and Serbia.
In those lands many and many are the
hungry and the cheerless peoples. For
going on five years they have been
without home and without fathers,
brothers and sons and husbands. The
women have had to toll and labor and
Christmas cheer has been so far away
The Americans over here, both in the
front and back areas, lack not of good
food and of good warm clothes; from
the many canteens, commissaries and
other places operated by the govern
ment and the Red Cross, Y. NJ. c. A,
Knights of Columbus, Salvation Army
and others, candy and extra smokes
and other things generally can be Sc
cured. And l believe that every SOL
dier would willingly forego the pleas
ure n Christmas package would bring
him if he knew that the home folks
had donated it to the Christmas of
the orphan and refugee. And as an
added recompense, if one were re-
quired, the home people could write an
extra letter or two. The war will soon
be over and if the good old U. s., by
the soldiers and the home folks would
send the packages to the needy and
suffering, can fathom no Merrier
Christmas.
Weather is fine and good health pre-
walls generally, notwithstanding the
Spanish foo running rampant DER the
world. The spirit of "up and at 'em"
permeates the whole rank and file.
With my best, l remain,
Your friend.