The Rebel (Hallettsville, Tex.), Vol. [2], No. 93, Ed. 1 Saturday, April 19, 1913 Page: 2 of 4
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*tat« preaa thia week in which he The Babel hazards a strong
m*ea a comparison between the guess that it ia up to Mr. Radford
working girls in tha to answer this question.
big MUBi nuu farm laborers in the '
•"mntry.
Inasmuch eg Mr, Radford was
recently uaed to kill the railway
mens "full-crew*' bill, he «png
moat viciously the state machinery
of the Farmers Union to do it,
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Now a word to the men getting
six dollars a week when they
work.
What are you going to do about
this situation ? Here are the figures
therefore what he saya on labor ,ianded to you by the president of
matters must be cum grano tb® Farmers Union. What are you
*a® ; nevertheless, there is ansa doing for yon? wife? What are you
■wasHent information in the fol- doing ft* F°ur Unbieaf
wis
road
nnt ptwiiit
socialist
lowing from hia pan.
•mm or riiai uiouoi.
The Farmer '• Union haa boon making
• comparison of the condition of fans
lahswn with other claaoea of laborers
|aT«M w,d in the United State*. Mr.
rmt Radford, preside** a* the Union,
ur Hacaseiag the subject mids— "The
has been shocked to
find young
receiving wages under $8.00 per
ww*, het did yoa #vor step to consider
*hs| the farm laborer works for less
••0ft The legislature has jut placed
• eight hoar law npoo the statnte
wea but did it ovor occur to yen that
tha nrmor works from tun to ennf
'The Farenrs' Uaioa Is la sympathy
- - f(kw
stand for
better wages for all
toil, bnt how abort tie farm lab-
orers! There are more men who labor
on the farms cf Texas than is all other
•esnpaWon, eombiaed." .
*«M«UBg to the report of the Fed-
w* Census Bureau, farm wages in T«-
es arerage I1S.00 per month with, and
fw.BO per montu with >nt board. Re-
to a weekly bask ft mease that
" rue raremrs' Uaioa is ia s
with the working girls and la
theeight hoar law aad wo si
«ww hoars and better warn
Don't tell me thaf you are work-
ing hard. I can Jake a chimpanzee,
fresh out of an African tree, and
train him to work hard.
What are you getting for your
work J, Radford says $6 a week
'and he ia correct. Why don't you
get morel Why do you allow four-
fifths of Texaa to be locked up and
thus prevent your getting a hotne
in the land that your fathers
fought fort
Why do you see the negro boot-
blacks of Ft. Worth, Dallas and
Houston organized and you refuse
to carry a card t Aren't you as good
aa a shoe-shining cooat Don't tell
me the negroes harp brains and
yen haven t?
Don't you know thia is an era of
organisation and the man that
isn't organised hi destroyed. Don't
you know thatf If you don't, whit
do you knowt If you do, why
whfdt has a Demo-Rep. mayor to
Haledon where there js a socialist
mayor, The:witalist rnsyor would
it Imn monk iwl th«
mayor would, that ia
why he waa arrested. There hi sure
ween a socisHsTmaj^ and a cap-
italist mayor.' *
The strike thai Bill ia leading is
the biggeat silk workerli atrike in
America. Just aa in Little Falls,
New York, Buffalo, New York,
Akron, Ohio, MerryviBe, louiia
na, and every other spot where th<
labor conflict has appeared thia
year, the entire powers of the state
have been turned by the Democrat-
ic and Republican officiala over to
the maatera of the bread.
If the tenants of Tessa have
enough braina to pound aand in a
rat hole, they wjil recognise this
fact and join the Socialist party
and the Renteif UnK(p,ntherwiae
they will be peoned jtuK aa aure as
the sun ainka in the Get busy,
get buay for thia is a glorious fight
that is on.
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of New York,
officers of the
papers in the suit
by the State
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unions on one
P ty and
the other"
«W to4n Belgium
movement Five hundred thoua- m th^aSlifrSn^Sfi^^^^
men Me pfMtieipy m Btlghm a
* worker. Hannah prophecy is about to
practiced in Lawrence, Mass., last true.
comt
A NE'w'SPECIES.
farm laboren at T«m***£M.00 don^ yoa W1 oW ?°ur haunches
per week where they board them selves 8nc* W* tile dost off of your knees
«dia many inataaeea they hare a and stand up like a man and join
&^erTa«rt°L^.'T, JUl ?e ^ ^ broth«" ^
f his hired help aad "shift the bur ght ^ M ^ ^ to °P€n 6P the
« «" to tha ooLJr aaboA^ £ "d gh* Molly and the kids
•ana with the merchant sad the maaa. a homsf
'5%£ S . ""J* " «« H i. W that
^dth of tha Kalian, he raoofres ml- 01 w«re cnt the day she I
oianna pay for his aerrfoe* Over-pro- married 3W , than go down through
JSi" l£ 5«w fBfc, tied op -fth.
ewnpetliag low wagw aad Ibag hoars. , ^ and causes
c'S^Uoi -*lm ?*** v* **1 more archaic ideaa for the space
wRhoutaneartWtyehance,because aUowed ttmn
some one not
re^lftor^n^ ^ quite aa obtuae as ita average1 staff
S;™1- k,re inCT""tf tog"f ^ hM to,d Mmethin« ^ aThiere-
ty Hp «aa answer and if rfvuhiM
After reading the above 1 will J? 1
"all special attention to the third U t theiTaK* fothere in you
The Rebel, owing to its large
circulation, is continually discov-
ering new specieb of the genus
homo. A very rare and almost ex-
tinct specimen haa been located.
He ia connected with the Houston
"Pest" and gives ua the most in-
telligent interpretations of the Wil
aon tariff program we have yet
discovered. It is aa follows:
"The last democratic platform,
on which Mr. Wilson himself ran
aa a candidate for tha presidency,
et yiopshrdl hrdlu mfjrp bgkql
mfwyp wypp mfw expressly pro-
vides that tariff revision should
not damage or destroy any Amer-
ican industry."
-Of course it ia generally admit-
ted that the "Past" entertains
npvwoi ahwuuuu u> uie luiru . . . — —
paragraph wherein we read that 2 Jlf8 sweated or starv- qopto AFTA THE suunmises.
the average wagea in Texas on the ^ f^ ^ (Coum™*a from
farm is "$19 per month with and Democrrt#a friandi have been in • (Conefaued from page i.)
- Texas to recover ninety-nine that is they have ceaaed work Tn t. mamnt. A,
*. .■ ^.hudred and^ se^v^^ity 0 ^ d P ^ their hsnds ^ Wj 5kCrS 10
ure uiooaana oouars poc*ef8 ^ w aom m A'-~tT.-.^-TNS-y-uy'mom
u«
*illtee that they are ^tTo" the
proper authorities.
Below is the story of the strike
as printed in the Dallas News of
April 14, 1913.
000) for violation of the anti-traat brought
law of .
When the Rebel learned that At- cialiata in command which is most
torney General Ixwney was getting logical inasmuch as they are the
Standard Oil again by instituting most radical, progreauve and intel-
a suit against it at Greenville, Tex-, lectual element in the international
as, we determined to look closely labor movement of our timea.
into the matter and the result ia This strike is for manhood auf-1
that next weeks' Rebel will con- {rASe- In Belgium they have a sys- Brussels Anrii .
tain one of the greatest Standard tem of plural voting whidkmeana raw will be the aeene of one ofTh
Oil stories ever published. that the nobility, the plutocracy" i «t«t general strikes the world >ia',
The Rebql will ahow how it haa and the big officials possess three #Ter J* i« expected to affe(.t
happened that the oil trust in spite votea where the worker possesses JI^amu«. iMrmSL1* the kinE
of all the antitrust suits and fines one. It is against this equality 800,000-r-wili cease work. p°*,ub:-v
haa never edited to do business in ^at the workers are peacefully Unlike most strikes, this movement
Texas, for one iingle day since they striking. - is not for aa iaewue in wages or a b«t
first Set their foot in thia state. 1 This strike is of immense signi- cf .wo,rk.i°sr ®< diti«ii«; it i«
The connection between Stand- licence to the American working LSi^nt' to'mt SS^r/iTt-1-6 gov
ard Ofl and democratic officials in It illuminates many dark hood saffrageTooal miners, raiC
Texaa will be clearly shown. The Place8, not only in the American men 8,a* workers, foundry men, ei
Dallas News and the other big dai- j labor movement, but in th^ camp fftrici*M &n<1 docklB«n have pied^i
lies in this state have had full ac- of the American labor movementsa the
cess to this story for years, but aa enemies.
might he expected, our muzzled
brothers would not print it.
The Rebel is in a position to
show the straight pathway to the
jail for Holy John and his assoc-
iates We are in a position to show
that the tariff will not cut any ice
in the Wilaon administration, but
To illustrate. Inside of the
American Federation of Labe&
there is a powerful Catholic organ-
ization headed by a certain Mr.
Duffqy, who ia also president of the
Brotherhood of Carpentere. This
organization ia known as. the Mili-
tia of Christ apd haa the support of
t ISA nilfiA a-C .a i_ • .1
the Professor from Princeton will, the Civic Federation of which the
be judged by whether he puts Hebrew, Gompera,
Rockefeller, Archbold et ai in pria-, ^(fht.
is a shining
on stripes through his attorney
general Mr. McReynohk
Knowing, thia let ua aak our-
selves what ia the big force in Bel-
socialist leaden to make the walkont
effective If the commands of the or
ganlzers of the agitation are needed
the men will refrain from acta of viol
ence.
Oororament Takes No Chances.
Indeed, the workera hare promi^d
that men will be famished to pomp
'the mines, keep the blast furnace* g0
iag aad otherwise protect the property
so that when the atrike ia ended an in
mediate resnmption of work ean be be
gnn. The government, however, is tak
iag no ehancea, and an a precaution
against possible disorders haa station
ed troops at struggle points in cue of
The Rebel ia delighted to be able Jf*am that has fought the workers
to make thia advqpce announce- ^ their demand for equal suffrage
ment of the biggest story of the the point where a nation is thus
year A. D. 1913. ) parefywd by a half of a million
If a quarter of a million copiea of laying down their tools
next weeks' issue were circulated The answer is: The "Centrum"
in Texas and Oklahoma, they or Catholic party. Thia is the larg-
would cause the biggest sensation ^t political party in Belgium and
in these states that haa happened 'or thirty years it has supported
in this genisration. ^ . .
Thousands of wopkn and children
hare been wnwifl of the country bv
tho workmen s^, tbfi&t they may not suf
for. The strike naders say they have
M,000,000 with which to carry on the
strik*.
The respective forces have prepared
in every way possible for tha atrike.
Tho govMBSMBt has maaaod soldier*
im,
at afl strategic points ia tUs kiagdo
oat of sight as
Pile in your orders for bundles
now.
bat is keepiaf th<
tlu. 1 * " 7; swsi ss possible to avoM anything that
the king nobility, plutocracy and s could bo regarded aa provocative
V
STARVING CHILDREN.
that
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It ia Mid that a young sparryw tions
everjp foe of organized labor. It ia Jfcrtactttamawi and FooS.
the last word in reaction, the foe of •The leaders have arranged to
fw huinan lihprty. ready haa been divided lata foar die
see Catholic organize- trieta, ia each of which eoup aa 1 bread
ing up in the A. F. of 7*? ^ ®«tribatod. Among other soc
can est its weight each ^iay in in- h.. we should as a matter of course d;Tice-v 10 I***9 *°
Th. ?™w grtThi. food, fight thorn, bw.™, tho 1^1'
he parent birds see to it. . .P°*trT to which contributions of
for the
does not change ita spots
A child needs more food for its This capitalist coalition is not
, weight than a man grown, but P^nliar to Belgium. The same ele
j 100,000 children go to school half- ™ant ^ ^ whipped in France,
WT without board." This means ^Trf0*! ^ 1118 campaiRn against the Appeal I fed in Chicago each day. Dean ^"naiy, England and Portugal
*6 per week, when employed and t>1„„ Keater8 Unioif, and if to Reason and Socialism in lieu of ' Swift ironically adviaed the Irish -?,n they are still in
n to sun, and baa- 1811 °®ar ^ will or- tb® support of said officiala in the in time of famine to eat thei:
work from sun
much as they do not work all the
year the income is less than $313,
and on top of that figure a wife
ind family to support and then
refl me how far removed is the
*hite farm laborer u Texas from
!iis peon brother in blood-spatter-
-d Old Mexico. Figures don't lie,
*ven though liars will figure. How-
ever in this case the figures are cor-
rect. and "the Rebel prints them
ind puts them up to its readers aa'
1 query: "What are you going to'
io about it!"
It is no answer to say, cs Rad-
"ord does, that the farm owners
•annot inereaso the wagea and thus'
aelp to lift the burden. What docs
mean
ganize one and then you will get
more than six dollars a week.
You will open up Texas. Ton
will take the Lone Star State out of
the greedy covetous hands that are
their own saddle, the workers mourn and
campaign to destroy the Menace, children. Hia advice waa arise, for f,n<1 .that the>* are their bitterest
an anti-Catholic paper with which
I am proud to be connected.
These are facta and are brought
out in open court with sworn testi
slowly from day to day murdering mony. (See Appeal to Reason,
you and yours You have a home of April 5th, and Menace, April 13.)
> our own. You wifl receive the pro- The infamy of the degenerates
iT ^ ^ «*"> repeat this damnable Ue about
* o y and the babies a fighting | Wayland lessens my surprise that
Clirist was villified and condemned
to die upon the cross.
1 have known Wayland personal
ly and intimately for the past six
years. I have known him as em-
chanee.
Now a final word. The Bible haa
some glorious things in.it. One of
the best ia where it says: "The
sheep riiall b^ separated from the |
goats" and that process of separa-l ployer, personal friend and confi
tion is going on now in Texaa and daut.
uuco ahoma and the other cottonl He was incapable of
Radford mean by farm oftmers T ®n , I murder as he waa of being a traitor
f>oe8 he mean Post, with his 200.-! W,iat are you, a sheep o.- a goat t to bis class, and his bitterest ene-
>00 aeres in west Texas, whoee pic-1 Remember this also from the m'es have never accused him of
*ure is in the rogue's gallery of the ■ 'Rible, 'He that is not with me, is ^at
"exas Welfare Commission along-! aS*'nst me." - J There never has been a sten-
«de with Radford und cheek-bv-j . re J"08 w,t^ y°ur wife, or ag- ograpner sent from the Appeal to
.owl with Kleberg of Mrs King's R,n8t her! Are >*ou with Post, or I the Menace, or vice versa. -
1.400,000-acre ranch, or does he! Are you with the The doctors of Aurora know of
mean Mr. Wagner of the Ft Worth ■ and a^arks, or against them!
tywk, whose officers Sre within a' Answer, these ^questions like a
man by taking out a card in the
Renters Union of North America
and voting and working for the on-
ly political party that, stands for
the freedom of the land — the Soc-
ialist party.
So aayeth the Rebel on the 19th
of April, 1913.
thereby they would have stopped
some hungry mouths and filled
some bellies. Capitalism is not as
kind; it lets both starve.
stories and verse already have been
mode by distinguish- d authors, includ
ing Annatole France, Haotorliaek and
othera. Socialist demonstrations were
held in many dtioo of Belgium today
No lees than nine were conducted in
Antwerp. All paaaod off quietly.
The most important meeting was at
Hons, the center of the great mining
district. There the speaker} were Emile
Vandervelde, leader of the ooeialisto.
and If. Vandermissen, the party's gen
eral secretary. About 20,000 parson*
paraded and afterward aaaembled n©ar
the city halL The orators condemned
violence. /
Violence Ia Condemned.
"If any comrade or any one else
wanta to work", ahoutod hL Vander
velde, "let them work. The socialist
who ia guilty of uaing vi -lence in this
struggle is an enemy of the party No
matter what the provocation, no mat
terhow in justly you are treated, re
member the sacredness .of our cause
and endure all for the sake of justice.''
Aa an illustration of the govern
Mock of Radford's with bis eight
lundred thousand acres! Or does
ie mean tbe saintly Slaughter with
bia six hundred thousand acres!
Or the Capitol Ranch pirates with
'■heir 3,000,000acres!
What does the doddering drawl-
ing Radford mean by farm owners
lv t&r
%
ALL iiail TO SOCIALIST
EDITORS.
The street car men who w;ork the
great electric cars at Buffalo, (N.
f., and daily and nightly encount-
er the zero weather that blows in
from Lak« Brie have been rending
a Socialist paper published in Buf-
___ Wo, called the "Buffalo Social-
ist". Tie Editor not only told of
their wrongs, but went on the cars
and personally distributed hand-
bills, advising the men to strike for
better conditions. They did so and
the capitalist officials ordered out
the militia who together with the
' companies' armed guards and pro-
' 'mal gunmen Started s reign
' 1
Of terror.
M<hi ami women have been bay-
onetted and two children were shot
in the presence of the police. Ev-
ery daily papa- in the city aided
News in th« Dallas street car strike
no criminal operation ever having
lieen performed here, and 1 can se-
cure affidavits to that effect.
The undertakers in Aurora have
never shipped any human body
of this description from here to
Canada nor have the two railroads
here ever received a body of this
description destined for Canada. I
caa also get affidavits to this ef-
fect.
The fact is, Wayland never com"
mitted a crime contrary fc. law or
against the peace and dignity of
the state.
He was simply a victim of the at-
tacks of the brigands of Capitalism
T'^
two years ago. As we go to prens
we learn that the companies have
been whipped firto arbitration and
the socialist editor is out of jail.
. The Rebel would rsia^ the
plotting aggregation with whom
his teachings have interfered and
whose economic power makes men-
tal prostitutes of spineless editors,
and whoja the history of this gener-
ation is correctly written, the n im
Af # a ♦ as* | . *
of P^fot h anfiinching oour-
tion. In what kind of a condition [ ege and devoton to a cause of a bet-
woufdjhs worbng class be in, in, ter humanty WiH be accorded to
tfiese Benighted States of North1 Julius A. Wayland, the inanired
rustle the sufca.
I Aurora^fo., April 10th, 1913.
enemies. The Catholic Church
and the reactionary state have
ruled Mexico for centuries with the
result that th« nation as plunged in
ignorance and blood And so it is
The Rebel has always believed j? ®v®ry nation on earth where the
that the capturing of the political b'ack?uard8 have aligned them-
power for the working * l«r ^ith the ruling class to en-
through the socialist movement will sIave the proletariat.
come from the country districts. In When Cardinal O 'Conneil of
saying this we do not desire to min- lio8t°n, Farley, of New York, Gib-
imize the value of the work of our ,Kms of Baltimore, and Archbis-
city comrades. When the men ',op Ireland of Minnesota and Mc-
from the grass roots and the forks J^nnon of St. Louis, Quigley of; „ BY
come with the immense majorities lcag°> McQuaid of Buffalo and' ment'" evident desire not to appear
to the city line they will be met by "t]her Princes of the Catholic1 Z°ZZt!!hu
euthrsJastic comrades there with Ch^rch, speak in honey tones to
sufficient numbers to sway the bal- l^c'r ^tlnded working class foil w-
ance of power in the state. We are ers ant* rp°feRs love for them, we
ran know then through their broth
crs who are now leading the fight
against the organized Socialists
and trades unions in Belgium.
When they profess love for the
workers they are the vampires
who before sucking their victims'
blood, fanned them with their
wings.'" - -■ ;t£y .
Prom now on we can expect the
fight between the reactionary
glad to see in the recent
city election that the ad-
vance regiments are being organ-
ised to meet the men who will come
in from the country with the mud
on their boots, revolution in their
sonla and the fire of determina-
tion in their eyes.
s\botage.
If
were visible to handle the vast crowd.
Tn addition to today's speakers, all
the leaders are warning the workmen
against violence. As far as can be
judged the temper of the men, though
in earnest, is calm.- The government,
howeve*, is taking no chances.
The transportation of dynamite, of
which thousands of tons are used in
the mines, has been prohibited. One
disquieting report is that a firearms
dealer haa had a brisk trade in revolv-
ers
"Hie steamer Lapland, doe at Ant
werp tomorrow from New York with a
heavy cargo and 10,075 passengers,
will be the first important vpmel af
of the
a thousand wage workers forces in America Und the progresr pall^ge^ on "thtli^huili
could go on strike and keep on ®ve forces that are represented by
drawing their wages just the same, the Socialist party and industry Brussels April i4.-^ftj
win. Doesn't it onions to take the form of a coali-
tion hidden or otherwise between ,r .--- rTW,M 1„r,nr
the Catholic Church and th ecap- ___ 'irst. norKm«Jn take part i the
italist state just as Belgium.
We may expect to Bee the proph
they ought to
look so!
Suppose they stay in the shop,
but work in such a way that the
boss loses money on them instead
of making money! The capitalists **7 of Mark Hanna carried out.
say this is immoral. So do some
Socialists. What do you think?
first you need to know more
about it, don't you? That is why
we have just published the new
book ,
SABOTAGE ..
By Emile Pouget Thfe ia the
classic workon the subject, telling
how this new weapon is used by the .J™ I WILL BE MAN
workingmen of Europe. It Was *0 <MT1? ADDRESS FOl
translated by Arturo Giovmnnitti F0UR ACi
while the Capitalists kept him in DON'T
jail last summer. He sbo wrote an
introduction. « ' ■ ■
Cloth. 50c,
Address
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strike, planned by th<>
ist trades naiona. at
The first workmen rr« tah<
movement were the night shift* of th*
mi « s «!•<( .uiils throughout tha ktui-
try. Ihey loft the various pltiti in
tfeargo of a ftW c*re akera, toMoff It
readers may remember that in Iff >?ona,i8t to keep tho prop,
the field marshal of the Amer- " ^«rio«tirg.
plutocracy said: "That the . ** ^ t50-M0 fan^their
fight of the twentieth eentnry^'
wold be between the Socialist aextfew^dljl *
$1 for 4 Years
' 5® The K«W fbr 40 weeks and tin
* Co., Lumberjack for one year, both for
«W A dmb-WOETK A DOLSAS.
My corrugated IroMtsg pnd
i«* aad iron, remaveo root, n
itvu perfectly smooth and
«taf«h fwp r
who his .omI a«n.jnM it
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