Brsyo Arkansas Coal 1
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IJ’itg oflf to the Arkansas coal
iners!
They have routed the gunmen
cud delivered u holy blow to
govern n int by assassination.
For s > no time there has been
it stride on in the Hartford Val
ley, where one Franklin Bache
, arbitrarily refined to deal with
the union and insisted on oper
ating a scab concern . When the
miners in his employ struck he
promptly did what the operators
lu "'est Virginia and Michigm
did, and what the operators in
Colorado are now doing, namely,
he ordered on t his privately own
id and armed gunmen and as
sassins, a small army, equipped
with high power rifles, to slaugh
ter the miners and their wives
and babes, and reenact Ludlow.
But the miners had heard of
*sst Virginia and Michigan &
Torado and were not caugl.l
liapping. They were not so Well
armed as Bache’s red light gun
men, but what they laCkod in
physical equipment was more
than made up in moral stamina
ttnd. when the smoke of battle
cleared away several gunmen
Were found to have bittou the
dust and the rest vanished into
mist and no trace of them has
been found since.
liravo, ye coal digging slaves
of the pitsi you have done your
^ duty iu a heroic manner; and
deserve the applause of all lion
est men.
May the miners everywhere
catch your bravo spirit and
follow your inspiring example.
Government by private gun
men and the massacre of honest
toilers must be put an end to in
the United States.
We Socialists are for peace
and we are steadfastly opposed
to violence except when lawless
Violence is forced upon us and
We are forced to fight for our
lives in defence of oilt families
and homes.
In recent years the great
i^sts and corporations have
entirely outside of the law
to wage the it lawless waffars on
lawful labor unions. They have
established their thug rectuit
ing agencies in all the lafge hi
ties; through which they drag
the slums to recruit their unities
Of cut thrdats and assa^ins:
This private arnly of bdrpora
tions, an absolutely lawless gang
bf than killers; is ttfilied witli
machine guils tlnd high poweb
rifles, and wlietl Wdfkidgnien gd
out on strike; ds the^ HdVe a law
ful right td do; the bdtpordtiori
armyjif private thugs Is at o’nce
Ordered out td shoot theiti ildwn
like dogs and to1 insult outrage
HENRY JGKh
BARKER
, f'ront Strat, Nrct tafia Mam
m*oth Cfothingr Store
md slaughter their wives nn
in'ies as, they did in Cubii
Greek, Calumet and Ludlow.
To submit peaceably to sucl
erimin il invasion of their right
ind such infamous outrages up
on their manhood, workingmei
must be sunk to futhoailes
• lepths of degradation and dead
to every SMi time nt of self respect.
In the case down in Arkansa*
die scab oporator, following tin
example set by other operator
in other states, bad bis court in
unction issued, ordered out hi*
private army of mnn killers,then
-at lii.nself smugly dowrn in hi
oasy chair to wait until the min
ers whose labor had enriched
him lay weltering in their own
blood.
But this particular operator
was fooled. He got liis lesson
and he will not forget it. When
he battle was over his private
irmy annihilated and his mines
md tipples to the value of $200,
000 blown up with dynamite, n
mass Of ruins.
this is the Way government
by gunmen and assassins should
be made to react upon the crimi
oal master class every time they
put it in Operation.
BravO) once more, Arkansas
coal diggers. You have set a lie
roie and inspiring examplo to
the working class of the nation.
The corporation gunmen who
massacre workiiigmen, mnrde r
women about to become moth
ers, and suffocate and roast babes
as they did at Ludlow, are the
mst detestable of degenerates
ml (lie vilo-.t of outlaws. The
re more dangnrous than mad
ogs and should ho treated ac
ordingly.
They have obsopitely no righ
lint an li nu*t w irking u in is
•nuiul to respect.
They jp’o private assassin
md public enemies. They are
he fomenters of strife, the inci
<.rs of riot, and the shedders of
nnocent blood. They are a per
■etuil menace to peace and good
government, and they thrive on
y on violence and crime.
When these miscreants are
mnt out to slaughter honest
uen, pillage their homes and
■rill even the babes in their cribs
is time to lake up arms
igainst them.
If the law under capitalism,
jormits 1 *wle3sness and violence
hi the part of the <orporations
,n 1 their private army of thugs,
md workingmen are denied the
irotection of the law, then 110
thing is left for them but to de
fend themselves and their loved
ones, and if they have not the
manhood to do this they deserve
to be crushed beneath the iron
heel of their despotic masters.
Fred W, Holt, Secretary of
District 21 of the United Mine
.Vorkers testified in court that he
lad shipped the guns from McAl
■st«r, Okla., his home, to the mi
ners in Arkansas “for the pur
pose of enabling them to protect
their wives and children against
the outrages of the private arm
ed guards."
All honor to Holt for having
shipped the guns to the unarmed
miners and for standing up in
| i>ourt like a man and admitting it.
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If government by gunmen is
o prevail then li orty i"> dead
ind the labor movement is a
arce.
The Arkansas miners have
hrottled the monster and I ap
>eal to the miners everywhere to
'.rm themselves and prepare to
lo the samo. Thesy ^re striptly
vithin their lawful right inarm
ing themselves against lawless
invasion and in defence of their
homes.
i He next assessment that is
vied by the United Mine \Vo-k
*'rs and the Western Federation
of Miners should be levied for the
raising of a "gunmen defence
fi n 1” for furnishing each mem
ber with a high power ride and
r>00 rounds for the protection of
of their lawful rights, the defence
of their wives and children and
for wiping out government by
gunmen and assasination in the
Uiiited Statens.
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