The Rebel (Hallettsville, Tex.), Vol. [2], No. 64, Ed. 1 Saturday, September 21, 1912 Page: 3 of 4
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By Emerson Defense Committee
The Southwestern Lumber Op-
erators Association, that great com-
bine of "^brains" but for whose
"charity* all the lumber workers
and their families would Jitarve to
death before sundown, is, to use
the elegant language of their
chief detective, "on the hog". The
"great brains" started out declar-
ing they would listen to nothing,
or unreasonable, pro-*
test, demands or petitions from the
Brotherhood and, under the lead-
ership of the Sultan of east Texas,
clapped down a &hole drove of
saw mills and blacklisted more
than one thousand men.
To their astonishment no one
died of heart failure and the old
B. T.,W. was just as "sassy" as
ever. Then the "great brains"
evolved another great scheme to
scare the stuffing out of the "lou-
Iy lumberpacks,"as they cfclled us,
and filled the whole land up with
an army of "heroes" recruited
from booze-joints and bawdy-hous
Train wreckers intends to have the I
Reverend HarryOrchard pardon-1
*d from the penitentiary and bring j
him down here to curse us out of j
existence.
For Intervention to lanhri&na.
Wonderful, Wonderful, won-' HonoraV 'e Wm. H. Taft,
derful "great brains!"
BUT THEY CAN'T HAULH
TIMBER WITH DETECTIVES
OR SAW LUMBER WITH SIX-
SHOOTERS. Selahl. Remember
too, the bovs in jait that they hre
th«T for you and that is the duty
• • "'1 ■"> 4* VIM 4rt *4 M M 11 >M nAt^AU
Mtk V4 MO kV Utt HI -VMI
to help gather the funds necessary
to save them from the gallows or,
worse, penal servitude on the le-
vees of Louisiana, where the As-
sociation is working day and night
to send them.
REMEMBER! *
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Organize! Organize! Keep them
going! On with the One Big Union,
on to victory!
Resident of the United State*
Washington, D. 0.
sr 9th, 1918, report that
LANJ) QUESTION THE BIO
QUESTION.
Prom the first issue of The Reb
^ _ el we have taken the position unre
es, had tHera commissioned as de- TBervedly that the big question that
puty sheriffs and owlered them to the people should solve before pro
order us to obey Association law Uress was possible was the land
litest
even though we had to get off the
earth to do it.
To this we naturally objected,
and the more we objected the more
squirrel cider they got away with,
and the more they drank the brav-
er they got, until finally in an at-
tempt to assassinate President Em-
erson, they actually screwed up
their courage to the point of firing
from ambush into 'a mass meeting
of men, women and children with
pump gum and rifles loaded with
buckshot and soft-nosed, oOpper-
cased bullets. B ....
Then they had their "impart-
ial" Grand Jury turn loose all
their "heroes", indict all the most
active Union men who were within
one hundred miles of the "riot"
and, elated, went out to look for
he corpse or the dead B. T. W.,
mt picked up a live tiger-cat in-
jKJl '
The scratching they got, stung
them to the Bpleen, so that they
them to he spleen, so that they
I aeain retired to the outer darkness,
from when<& the free-love-hating
Sultan of east Texas was^ heard
hysterically crying; "Florence,
where art thou!!" (0 you Foxy
Grandpa, you"!) .
The Alkoond of Alexandria was
heard to say: "This damned Un-
ion is going to do something; its
got something up its sleeve, but I
don't know what in hell it is." ,
Then the Beelzebub pf Elizabeth
called on a triuneef converts from
the B. T. Wk to come forth and
cheer them up, and they earned,
sa^g after this
"Verily, verily we say unto you,
Your Excellency:
of even date, ( . ..^ m
yon are seriously considering the calling of Coiilt.n8 in special session
for the purpose of authorizing intervention in Mi xieo, on the ground
that three American citizens have been "robhftl.assaulted and even
I0011A /kilt tXPA VAIII1 PtT^llpTl f*V
tuutuvtou* wu® VIMJif
to at the same time ask Congress for authority to intervene in the
State of Louisiana, for here a Republican form of Government no
longer exists, all the guarantees of the Federal and constitution hav-
ing been overthrown by a combine of corporations known as the
Southern Lumber Operators Association
As ground for this petition, we pi forth the following illegal
acta and inhuman deeds: The Association, operating over several
Southern States, has established a "clearing house for labor" and no
man, today, can .secure employment in the Southern Lumber Indus-
try, unless he takes an anti-union oath and signs an employment ap-
plication hUnh releasing everyone, except himself, from legal liabil-
ity; it has, through this "clearing house," black listed end hounded
from State to State more than One Thousand men, thereby causing
them, their friends and families untold suffering; it holds thousands
of other workers, especially the colored poople under conditions that
are nothing short of peonage; it has fenced in whole twjrna^even in-
ersont" is now fully answered.
t y . As is well known, he is now
A> L. Emerson, the president of lodged in the Lake Charles, La.,
the Brotherhood of Timber work- ^ accused of murder. Wl om
ers,whio is in jail at Lake Charles, dlli *"111 No one, so Xar as
- r . # V U 01111 learn; QOr msde any attempt
% sixty of his brothers, m- t0 kill) or encouragcd othe„ t0 do
dieted because he was shot at for aoy killing. In jail for exercising
holdihg a peaceable meeting by the boasted "freedom of speech,"
the thugs of the timber trust, has which, until of late, has been an
had a very interesting career. Ilia accor(je(j r,g[lt l0 every American
biography ls published herewith. citizen. Another sporadic case, 1
The story is written by a former
employer of his who knew the
•«« k(* ♦ An n C
VUIHU «M
judge, of the Ettor-Uiovaunitti
type of ailments affecting our
body poiitie, which, if w Huiniprti
out effectually by protests and
votes, may soon become epidemic
and then where will the proletar-
iat be in his contest with cnpital-
you flatheads of the South, you
havei imbibed too freely of the
goods-getting ideas of the I. W.
W., else you would recognize that
you were whipped, kiss the Assoc-
iation's toes and be good peons for-
mer in the forests the Lumber
Kings have swiped away from
you. . „ • , Ts
"0 we love A. L. and the boys m
the jails.,
^ Like the Bainta love the devils
with long, forked tails!
' Ho-ho!
"On a sour apple tree, on a sour
apple tree,
We'll' hang Bill Haywood, Jay
Smith, Cov. Hall!
We'll hang each one, and we'll
hang them all,
On a sour apple tree, sour apple
tree, sour apple tree!
Rah! Rah! Rahl Siz! Boom!
Ah- h- h" ♦
This stunt so pleased the assem-
bzled intelligence that the Marquis
of Doa Allemands invited all pre-
sent to joih him at the house-boat
on the bayou where they could all
fill up on "Killem's Reform Spec-
iid" and discuss new schemes to
dnrupt the B. T. W. This discus-
wee small hours, when it was dec-
ided to leave it all tip to Burns,the
omnipotent detective, as the "great
brains" were tbo tired to think
Burns of eourse, decided
what waa needed wap more
detectives; that they *srted from
*>/" ■
lestion. We said that all other
questions paled into insignificance
beside it. Hence we published
"the Fake of Prohibition" attach-
ed the anti, lashed Bailey and his
constitution fifink, ridiculed the
tariff,' currency and like ."is-
sues" and insisted that the land
Ction must be pushed to the
t for settlement.
And now the sleepy old Fort
Worth Record rubs its eyes,
stretches its legs, yawns and comes
down to the solid earth with the
following:
In his annual report State
Land Commissioner Robison
calls, the attention of the leg-
islature to what he denomin-
ates as "land monopolies"
and to conditions which facili-
tate the consolidation of Bmall
land holdings into large tracts
under the ownership of one
person or corporation. He
declares that the old Mexican
grants, the 3,000,000 acres
held by the capitol syndicate,
the 2,000,000 acres held by the
university, and tracts ranging
from several thousand to a
million acres now held by in-
dividuals all tend to create a
land monopoly, holding back
agricultural and industrial
development and compelling
small-tract taxpayers to bear
the burdens of taxation, while
these large tracts of land are
held for an increase in prices.
Commissioner Robison is to
be commended for directing
public attention to an import-
ant subject. The "land ques-
tion is the big question in this
country today. The tendency
toward monopoly which Mr.
Robison has found in the
sparsely settled districts of
the West is also noticeable in
the densely populated sections
of the State. By reason of lo-
cal conditions peculiar the
West, consolidation has made
iQore rapid progress there and
individual holdings are larger
than in those parts of the
State where more of the land
is in cultivation and values
are higher, but the difference
in the results of this tendency
in these sections is in dgree
and not in kind,
Commissioner Robison
doubtless has in mind some
new policy of the State with
respect to the public domain
which will set as a corrective
of the conditions he deplores.
If so, he' is mistaken. The
State has, without doubt,
made many mistakes in dis-
posing oJ public lands, and it
is true, also, that some ,of
thestf mistakes have made it
easy for speculators and land
grabbers to acquire vast tracts
of land for less than fair val-
ue. 2-t ae-aa&sr
the State may dispose of its
public domain, it can not by
any oonditioU of sale prevent
It from passing into Jkhe hands
of monopolists or speculators
after the fetate has divested it-
self of title.
eluding the United States' Fost Office fit forces us, the Post Offices in
the Timber Belt being nearly always in a Company commissary, or
under the Company's control, to register large amounts of our mail
or it never reaches destination, the Association thereby committing
against us what it cries from the housetops we are intending to do,
sabotage in one of its worst forms; it has imported into the States
of Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas and Mississippi an army of gunmen
of the worst and lowest type and these thngs have been commission-
ed as deputy sheriffs by the local authorities and turned loose to
carry on their trade of promoting lawlessne* wind murder. -A few
ific cases will prove to Your Excelhmey that we have not over
istic exploitation t
I As AL. Emerson has been a
wage worker—not a millionaire.
ort Biography.
<.'A$entone, Ala., Aug. 25.
In the Aug. 3rd issue of Solidar-
ity, page 2,1st column, a question
is askeld, then partly answered. If
you can spare the space, 1 would
ft* ' .«*" r.rh!ld'7 .YvlT by any meuu—I Lav. tell aimou,
b'T^ if !«"« worker*
ill be ot interest just at tbe P«J- wouk] atu|l, by hiol m hij trial.
in his hour of need, or would he be
left to stand alone. Not a soul in
the wide world upon whom.he can
feel a natural right to call for help
and sympathy. But my heart is
cheered by word from him in a
w
ent time, and will supply the ' mis-
sing link" in the question asked.
Early in the season of 1893 my
wife and I were alone in our log
cabin on the wild, wooded sum-
mit of grand old Lookout Moun-
drawn the picture of conditions existing fcthe Southern Tiinber Belt,
especially in Louisiana, though its State government is now in tho
hands of "Progressive" Democrats and Rapnblicans.
Several months ago President A., L. Bmerson of the brother-
hood was assaulted in Lake Charles, La., by General Manager Shef-
field Bridgewater of the Industrial Lumber Company, knocked
down, and nothing was ever done to Bridgewater; at Zwolle, La., or-
ganizer Wiggins was only saved from being lynched by the thugs of
the Sabine Lumber Co., by the timely arrival of Union men and sym-
pathizers, and not one of these thugs was even so much as arrested,
at Oakdale, La., on July 6th, a thug of the Industrial Lumber Co.,
fired two shots from a rifle at H. G. Creel and, when Creel attempted
to make an affidavit against his would be assaRRin, he was told he
"could not do so, as he was not a resident of Louisiana," and, when
he finally made the affidavit, the thug was immediately released on
bail; on July the 7th while the Brotherhood and its allies were hold-
ing a meeting on the public road at Grabow, La., they were fired
upon by gunmen concealed in several different places on the plant of
tbe Galloway Lumber Co., three men were killed outright, fwo Union-
ists and one gunman, and forty or more wound id, one of whom has
since died, a Unionist, making a total^of four deaths on account of
the Grabow "riot." • " 7
Though women and children were in our assembly, the meeting
was fired upon by fifteen to twenty gunmen, using pump guns and
rifles loaded with buckshot and soft-nosed, copper cased bullets,
which last is'a weapon we understand the laws of war prohibit being
used even against savages. Immediately following the trouble, our
people were arrested and indicted by the wholesale and there are now
sixty-four of our men and boys in the parish prison at Lake Chsrles,
La., awaiting trial on three charges each of murder in the first de-
gree, whiel the Grand Jury released all the Sawmill Owners and their
gunmen. Since this "riot," during the month of August, Carl Cun
ningham was strapped to a log and frightfully beaten by the thugs
of the Great Southern Lumber Co., at Bogalusa, La., because he was
"suspected" of being a Union man, and Wm. M. Witt at the same
place, was called into the Company> "poliee headquarters" for hav-
ing committed the crime of distributing a few of our appeals for
funds with which to defend our indicted brothers, cross-questioned
and insulted in the vilest manner for over 2 hours and then ordered
uut of town at midnight under "penalty" if he ever returned. Nor
i8 this one-tenth, Your Excellency, of the crimes and outrages that
have been committed by the private army of the Association. Con-
trary to all law and Constitutional guarantees, the Association has
proclaimed martial law and established a reign of terror throughout
1 the State and the Governor of Louisiana, having ignored all our pro-
tests and petitions for redress Of these lawless and unbarable condi-
tions: Therefore, Your Excellency, we petition you that you ask of
Congress the authority to intervene in Louisiana as well as Mexico
' and this petition we make of you on the pround that a Republican
form of Gvernment no longer exists in the State of Luisiana.
^Respectfully yours,
Brotherhood of Timber Workers,
By Committee of Defense.
tain, in northeast Alabama, where " J.? . ..
we were .eekmg recovery of >•* bom. bat
health. Needing U one for hl me re W nd h'm' and th"
company for my wife while I was
away from home, and to have a
little help about the chores, we de-
cided to apply Jo the Orphans'
Home in Chattanooga, Tenn., 40
miles distant, for a small boy. Our
request was quickly responded to,
by sending the only available boy
at the hoiii$l at that time. A tall,
slender lad about 13 years old; an
orphan boy, with no living rela-
tives, so fsr as known to the boy,
or to the Home.
I shall never forget the sight of
the big, homesiok tears which were
coursing down his cheeks, when 1
met him at the station. To leave
his "foster mother," the matron
he feels confident of proving his
innocence of the charges made
against him. Beinfc a native of
Chattanooga, would it not be well
for his fellow, workers in that city
to take his case into special con-
sideration.
Respectfully,
Dr. C. F. Parker.
CORRESPONDENCE.
Grand Saline, Texas. Sept. 16.
My Dear Comrade Hickey, Edi
to The Rebel.
Enclosed please find 50c, price
of a year's subscription to The
Rebel, a paper that 1 very muth
of the Home, his teacher and the I appreciate, which is filliug so well
children he loved and go out into s long felt need in Texas. 1 shall
lqv
the cold world all alone, amonp.
strangers, was almost too much for
his voiing heart to bear. On reach-
ing our home, my wife was so
touched by his utter loneliness in j sometime and it has the
a I • • ... - --1 -1 i'L .i. ILa Lt>v> 1 nli, ♦ A m a HA T ttrtuli '
make a camapign for our ticket in
Van Zaudt county in October and
I want to take subs for The Rebel.
I have been watching its paves for
right jin-
this big world that she took him j gle to me, so I. wish The Rebel
at once to her warm heart to be a great success and am willing to
true mother to him. His tears soon help to make it the leading Social-
dried up, and he began to feel ist paper in Texas.
these columns the gireat prob-
lem which confronts this
country today is the problem
how to increase the number of
small landowning farmers.
Commissioner Robison has
called attention to one phase
of this problem, and in doing
so he has rendered a useful
service/
GOVERNOR'S SPECIAL.
The following is a corrected
list of the dates for the great lec-
tures of Reddin Andrews and T.
A. Hickey, the Socialist party
gubnatorial candidates:
Mineola, September 20.
Fort Worth, Sept. 21.
Halsell, (Clay Co.) Sept. 23.
Wichita Falls, Sept. 24.
Vernon, Sept 25.
Paducah (instead of Quanah)
And thus we learn from our
somnolent contemporary what we
have been, pointing out for more Sept. 26.
than a year, viz: that there is a Wellington, Sept. 27.
land monopoly in
! tremendous land monopoly
j Texas. "The great problem which
conironts this otrahtry today is uiu
problem of how to increase the
number of small landowning far-
mers" says the Record. Well, the
answer is to be found in the So-
cialist platform, National and
State and on that vital question
Wheeler, Sept. 29.
Shamrock, Sept. 30.
mootttuv, >v.
Lipscomb, Oet. 1.
Amarillo, Oct. 2.
McLean* Oct 3.
Plain view, Oct. 4, (instead of
1st.)
W. S. Noble, state chairman,
the way to the Unions, where they
wfli dfaw a lot of good association
oi#;^^ find Out nothiag, fell no
trees and saw ho lumber.
tme to "detectives"
in everV local union,that's actually
one of the latest schemes of the
etuymwrk "great brains'', Wyt, so
look out for them and bM-con them
to the IJmtt. v :
Lastly, it is understood that if
jfchis last desperate effort to dis-
Brothwho^^fiii COMM
have failed, the Apostle to the
. the Fort Worth Record's party is will accompany this tour and will
Whatever the corrective of as silent as the grave. YW P«o- look after details, including lie
^-V th#/0«at « k and distribution, of litera-
happy in his new home. My wife,
being a teacher, took the matter of
his education into her hands, and
as he was bright and eager to
learn, he made rapid progress in
his studies.
His name was Arthur. He prov-
ed to be s very respectful and
and energetic; sometimes a little
headstrong, but generally obed-
ient and good natured. He liked
to be well dressed and appear well
to others; was kind of heart, and
full of sympathy for any one in
trouble. He would never begin a
racket with his associates, but was
keen to make and save a little
money, though not "stingy" witjh
his earnings. This was the boy.
What is he a man! We shall
shortly see. ^
In about three years there came
a sad day for poor Arthur, as well
as to myself, an aged man. Sick-
ness and death of my wife, made it
necessary to find a neW home for
Arthur. One of our neighbors
kindly took him into their home,
and he went to work with their
young men in the timber; with
axes and saws earning wages
with which to clothe himself, and
go to school when not at work.
Three or four years of such life,
part of the time about a saw mill,
brought him to the period of the
Spanish-American war. He went
to Chattanooga to enlist as a pri-
vate, but for some physical defect
was not accepted. So he enlisted
as a teamster and went out with
Gen. Shafter's army to Porto Rico.
It was not long, however, before
he was stricken with the deathly
typhoid fever then prevailing in
the camp, and was placed on a hos-
pital ship and sent to New York.
As soon as he had recovered suf-
ficiently to travel by rail, he was
sent to my mountain home to ful-
ly recover.
Vvrietf able x* go toNvurk
he "knocked about" at various
jobs for a while, then .went off
southwest, and for a year of two
I lost track of Mm. Then he final-
ly tnrned up in a lumber camp in
the Texas-Louisiana timber reg
- _L. . liaa nmainttt anAtti
\ours for co-operation,
D. D. Richardson.
P. S. Please send samples of
platform leaflets and land pamph-
lets as I can handle that sort of
literature to good advantage.
must apply to the
laads of North and
Texas, as well as to the cheap
lands of the West. Large own-
ers of millions of acres held.
for an advance in price are in
the same class ss the land-
lords of North'Texss who own ,
several farms cultivated by
tenants. Any remedy that will
open the Wg westera pastures
for settlement will cut up the '
question and the SodsHst ilone ture.
possesses the solution for it -
The capitalist press la comment-
ing on the fact that our candidates
are the* only ones for which the
people, and multitudes at that
will pay admission to hear tell of
the issues of the estop *
nix, Arizona, reports a
and $124.25 net profit
THE CHVRCH.
By Covington HoU.
The church 'will swear allegiance
unto any leause that livesi,
. Phoe Teach anything, preach anything,
ed hall serve any cause that givea?
meet- Will, for a price, robe
"-feSST "otlust Mrti rf '.% Bow. Hwih. report, a aackeWb. Wrong In «ilh array, _
. „ "CTStaW ^ meetfiig and tl80.86 nefWiil etawb a -Coo U 4S e and Brotherhood
cheer * Calvin an his w*y. The question
ions, where be has remained most
of the time for aeveral yeara, an
aero* workman to various lines „ , ^ ^
OT THB njrmxw- THW> r av ni**
dustry. Ever watchful for im-
provement m his own personality.
and with a keen desire to improve
the conditions of his fellow crafts-
men. a self-made man, an all-
around good fellow, with whom it
is a pleasure to be acquainted.
Where is hef
Who is hef you ask
He is none other than Arthur L.
the nr*sWent of the
Palestine, Tex., Sept. 8, 1912.
Resolution to William H. Taft,
President.
Whereas, John Bonzano, a high
dignatary of the Roman Catholic
church has used his office to at-
tempt to influence a citizen of the
U S. to vote contrary to his con-
victions upon certain political
questions, prominently before the
people of this country, a coun-
try that guarantees to every citi.
zen religious and political freedom
be it,
Resolved, That we, the members
of the Socialist Local 806, Pales-
tine, Texas, do hereby enter our
protest against such abuse of
church influence and condemn it,
as extremely dangerous to the lib-
erty of our citizens against inter-
ference both of religious and pol-
itical freedom, be it further,
Resolved, That we consider the
said John Bonzana's actions eon
trary to the constitution, which
guarantees to every citizen the
right to worship God according to
the dictates of his own conscience
and still retain his political free-
dom, therefore we demand of you
that you use your influence to se-
cure his expulsion from our coun-
try.
A. T. Majors,
C. T. Anderson, „
« Carl Rosson." *
Mr. T. A. Hickey, Editor Rebel,
Hallettsville, Texas.
Dear Comrade: The Socialist
of Shelby county request that you
suggest through The Rebel to all
the locals in the state to collect 10
-* •-fr v -m —
-WW w
sent by their secretary to relief
funds of our friends and comrades
who are inprisoned at Lake
Charles, La.
Aodpted by Good Hope Local
No. 1406.
I. T. Gsxvntt.
County Chainbsn.
(We would suggest that every
suggestion and act on H at once.
Rend all moneys to Jay Smith, Sec.
B. of 1\ W., Alexandria, La. The
need for fnnds is urgent and im<
mediate.—Ed.)
Comrade Debs reports from
Oakland, Calif: "All our meet-
inss are great, splendid and in-
spiring. The only trouble is the
houses are far too small .to hold
the' State.,. M , L ,■ , „
As we have said before in profit
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ef Timber Workers th* pfmplt,who fl^jre to hear
asked, "Who is lSm-, message of fr«sdo a." f : J1
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