The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1922-08-04

July IA. 1923.
Editor Buffalo Commercial:
| wish to congratulate you upon
your stand during this trolley strike; !;
my hat off to you. From a careful
perusal of all the rest of the Buffa-
10 dailies, | conclude that it must
take nerve to attack a gang OF
thugs.
During the life of the strike to
date, have ridden on both the Main
and Elmwood lines just sixteen
times, not because my business COM
pels me but simply to show this
gang of buns that they cannot bluff
me any more than they can Mr.. Fin
negan. | have mingled with the
crowd at the Cold Spring barns and
what | saw and heard from the fe-
male element would put Canal street,
in its palmiest days, to blush. Those
rotten, fat, old slobs are pulling off
some of the rawest stuff ever heard
or seen on Buffalo's streets and get
ting away with it too-the cops see
and hear it but absolutely nothing is
done. This wrappered bunch of scum
look and act as if they needed both
an internal and external bath. They
are rotten to look at and rotten to
listen to and why the women Of
Buffalo do not come forward and
demand action, is beyond me.
hereby serve warning to this gang
of female animals, that any one of
them attacking one of the female
members of my family, shall get
just what man would get, namely,
a crack on her dirty, filthy jaw and
a kick in her filthy body and then
perhaps a much-needed bath of to-
bacco juice. During one of their
nasty outbreaks | noted a police cap
tain and two lieutenants beside num-
erous patrolmen but they made no
move to clean the set out. What do
these animals live, out in the butter?
They surely have no home because
they spend practically the whole day
on the sidewalks in this vicinity. A
fine bunch of trollops and a great
credit to both the city of Buffalo
and the strikers.
There are enough officers on Main
street to protect every man, woman,
and child if they so desire but my
conclusion is, they are hand and
glove with this gang of plugs. If |
were one of these officers, mayor or
no mayor, chief or no chief, l would
do my duty to the public and rely
upon public opinion to compel our
peanut mayor and his spineless chief
of police to give me a square deal.
What | would like to have the
Commercial do is Just this: Print a
full page. heading it: "Cowards OF
Buffalo" and then first on the list
~ &c a
for giving the |. R. c. its moral sup
port but not its physical support.
Why do not the members ride on the
cars-spend part of their luncheon
hour riding up and down Main
street? Is anyone more interested
in winning this strike than its MEM
bers-do they not realize that free
dom from union domination is at
stake? Are they afraid to ride or is
it Just Buffalo's old weakness crop
ping out, to let the other fellow do
it?
In the second paragraph l would
mention the women's clubs of Buff
falo for allowing members of their
sex to be assaulted by handful of
female blatherskites who never lived
decently and never will. l have
stated right along that it will be
the women who will win this strike
for The people of Buffalo but they
must come faster if all of them
want to be in at the glorious finish,
Merely a handful of women are rid
ing the cars every day and in my
talk with some of them they have
said, "Just let them touch me-" That
is the spirit of our forefathers. Our
history tells us that the head of the
family went with his old blunderbuss
under his arm and his good wife
came next and beyond trailed their
children and in this formation they
attended church and ultimately de-