The Rebel (Hallettsville, Tex.), Vol. [2], No. 72, Ed. 1 Saturday, November 16, 1912 Page: 2 of 4
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trican labor, they are only con-
cerned with how much dividends
they ean sweat out of their slaves
that live '"in that blawsted coun-
try, don't yer know."
As the fight waxed stronger
the Socialist local in Merryville
•end the Rebel the following com-
munication :
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Why all Socialists
along, why all ,T,
become members, why all
ana should write at once;
plication for charter and
the other renters and orgauize, is
this:
It does not make any difference
what your politics are you have cer-
tain things in commtfn as renters,
that is you must have food, cloth-
ing and shelter and also you are a
land dwelling animal and aj
therefore compelled to live on the
1 suppose every one wh)
afsi
I'ours tor victory in i :r rivhi
far rights.
J. C. Loden.v •
Sec. Local Merry vile Socialist Par-
ty of the State of Louisiana. '
Now Rebels you have the facts assist them in capturing those o.
e ore you of this latest war on I another tribe and bring these poor
working people in the De mocratic captives aboard the slave ship, only
of Lo"18iana:. Remember at to find when too late that they too
no stage of the fight has there werc ^ raa(je prisoners and car-
teen one charge that could stand rje(] away themselves. Listen to me
investigation^against the men and y0U renter, you wiH find ths act of
women in this struggle except yours a boomerang that will return
is: That the men organized a and strike you and your own child
anion to improve their economic yet
th« tru8t de- Comrade Hickey has shown you
C e that they should not exercise that men have been placed under
Bus(MMhtutioMl right that is . bond „ot t„ take , d£nk „f whig.
par of le heritage of every Am- key for twelve months, in order to
mjmL • i . get to rent. |He his shown you that
hi 'umber magnates I men have been forced either to vote
i e Kirby, Ix>ag, and the Santa the ticket of their boas or move; also
plutocrats said: it has been shown that men have
e satisfied with our stinking been denied the right to rent land
commissariats, abortion of U. S. because they were preachers. I per-
noney, fake insurance and star- sonally call to mind a case in Gray-
?a ion returns for your labor. If 8on county where a man was a Ru-
jrou try to organize a union to get sellite and arranged some meetings
your wages paid in United States for one of hia preachers to be in-
money and to buy your goods formed by bis boss if he ever
Where you wish, a union that will brought another one of those
ave,something to say about the preachers on his place he would
doctors you employ and the hours I have to move!
you shall work then we will blaok-j Now, let's sum up: Already in
list you, shoot you through our order to rent the landlords have
v|un men, evict you from the piti- done what:
"backs you live in and make Forced the renters to allow them
you outcasts on the face of the to say what they shall drink, how
earth. Now you dirty, sorry they shall vote and what their re
working trash give up your union ligion must be. Think fellow work
or \ve will give you Hell." Lrs what this means. The prece
- Iif1"6 li*8 j *°° m.u°k 800(1 dent has been set, and as time goes
southern blood down in Eastern | on the abuse will grow. If they can
Texas and Western Louisiana so do this, they can say, as did the
they prepared to fight and the charcoal burners'foreman in Mass
tight is on and on now -and will achusetts: You must allow me to
ooutmue until John H. Kirby and sleep with your wife or daughter or
his northern and English friends move. The time to stop it is now
are whipped will the low down If they can regulate our politics
w t «A yoli for mcrcy- THEY appetite, religion, and standard of
Wi.^NOT' CANNOT PEONIZE living, they can slso regulate our
TITR WORKER IN THE SOUTH, morals! Organize before coridi-
Now Rebs help these men and tions become unbearable and men
u omen, help their babies and do take the law in their own hands,
if now. nelp thom with money, There is not a class of men on earth
help them with food and clothes, who are organized that the master
It s a last ditch fight and if they would dare treat as the renters of
win their victory will redound to | Texas are treated. Organize, ye
cd wifeand mile:
your stooped, frafged
think of the babe that was murder-
ed by the infernal eohditions that
took the mother to the field-then
organise. ,
me tell you fellow-*enters, I
attended State convention of the
waters at Waco November 8th, 28
counties Were represented, 112 dele-
gates were present. From the plains
to the gulf, the reports came, in,
ter s
Merryville, La., Nov. 12, 1912.
To The Rebel, Hallettsville, Tex.
Comrades: Enclosed you wili| 'aD(t.
find an article which we would reat3s this ***& Comrade Hickey's
like very much for you to publish exP°sure of the Russian like tactics ? ^ ^
for us and if you are able to add • Padgitt and bis man Friday^ mA'I say to you that the Leaday
anything to it, in the way of an Perhaps you democrats and Repub-
appeal f*>r funds, do so. jlican were guilty of saying that is
good enough for them. Perhaps
some of you > even assisted Padgitt
in evicting these poor Socialists.
I was reading today a story of
the slave trade, and found certain
slave dealers would get one tribe to
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every viewpoint.
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l^tate. The delegates
TT>. is no uncommon affair, and
the same thing is being done all
renters, organize I
Any man who would deprive an-
other of his politienl rights in this
way would not hesitate to make the
demand suggested above if he
Miought he could wtfi. He is un-
American, unprincipled, and a dn-
"raee-to the mother that gave him
birth. By organizing you can se-
cure a great deal that you cannot
now.
You can establish a rent scale,
your interest.
(Spccial to The Rebel.)
Merryville, La., November the
12th,1912.—The Trial of President
L. Emerson, and the others
47 members of the B. of T. W.. (in
connection with the Gray-Bow
Massacre of July the 7th,) has gone
down in History, as a Victory of
Labor, over the Southern Lumber
(Jiperators Association. .... ,,
After all of the trickery of 4a that ^ more equitable,you can
Burns Detectives, and a Congress-7" ?n Se"
man known among pur Ranks as nre ^eds for tools and team.
I'uke-O, (alias PujoP), the truth T T™ ^ter arrangements
leaked out, and a Jury of 12 honest | °Ut water* W00^'and Pastu^>
men, after about 80 minutes delib-
eration, returned a vordiot of]
aqquital.
This verdict was such a shock to
the operators that it took them a
few days to decide what action to
take next.
But My-My, when they did get
their thoughts collected, they at u «•
(Mice got busy; they sent out their t° f,nan™ ™m™ttee, Merryville,
proclamation that all men set free a Loe LovW> Secretary,
from the clutches of the law, by Men of Labor, young and hoary,
those honest jurors, and all of the Would you win a name in story t
defense witnesses, should not work Strike for home, for life, for glory;
in their Mills. Justice, freedom, right;
_ .Merryville Local No. 218, Bof. I Long in wrath and desperation,
T. W. decided that they could work Long-in hunger, shame, privation,
here, or the mill would not run J Have we borne the degradation
hance, we went on strike, but we 'Of the rich man's spite;
first sent bur committee disdaining useless sorrow,
ROSS and ask them to Ui the bdyfl] Hope from brighter thoughts we'll
go to work. The committees plei , ' -v ^ borrow;
to the BOSSwas, that those men Often shines the f aires tomorrow
^o had suffered the tortures of a] after stormiest night,
us win; we must win; for if we
lose, it menas that free speech
will be crushed in the Lumber Dis-
trict of the South.
You can also help us by telling
all unemployed men to steer clear
of Merryville. Send all donations
over the state. From Blossom Pra-
irie and other places I have heard
stories that shame Russia, the con-
dition of the chattel slave was «
neaven to that of some renters.
No slave was murdered by lying in
the hot sun between two cotton
rows; no slave child went througl:
life a cripple that a surgical oper
ation could relieve; no slave chib
died for want of proper medica
treatment. All this is left to you
rent slaves. Don't deny it, 1 know
your life because I have lived it.
Organize, stand together and jus
tice will come, the sun is rising,
light is breaking, organize. *
When I was a member of theFar-
iners Union, there were admitted
farm.laborers and day laborers. I
saw one night at the union the
trembling lips and pallid faces of
my brothers when the union passed
an order refusing to pay over jiOc
for picking cotton, when quite a
number-of members oftthe union
were cotton pickers. Thus one part
of the union put the knife to their
own brothers' threat; I refused to
believe that was brotherly. I then
saw the ne^essit of a union for the
workers. I told my wife next day
sometime the renters and day la-
borers would organize a separate
union from their landlords. At las:
it has come, let us get together-
there is no politics ih this, but a
class organization to put an end to
unjust conditions.
Remember the ftory of the bun-
dle of sticks, n0 one could break
them when bound together, but
when the thong that bound them
wa« cut the weak straws were brok-
en. We are weak and puny, our
strength is nothing, but • when
bound together, we will be unbreak-
able. Let us organize.
Now, brother renters don't go to
bed until you have written to E, 0.
Meitzen, Hallettsville, Texas, for
application for charter and aro out
and organize. Some who read this
will say who are you and why arc
vou so interested. In reply will say
T am a renter. This year I will work
40 acres of land and furnish my
own house. I AM A RENTER,
nnd that is the reason I sav organ-
ic- • W. S, Noble, r
Rockdale, Texas.
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lie second annual conytfu
mt^ hirtory./lt was an „
hours before the cha
tes were coming from
registered at the big "desk in the l«tbor haS a&d when* th^rnU^-oH
fciS? ,0m"'ttal 112 deleg,te" Wer*
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As might be expected this was. a more businnM-liir.
tnanjne nm one held one year ago." All sorts an^d^^T
gathering and the virion.^:
were con
.. MR u. ... -i to break
tiy sat upon and the convention went tn wort- un*t>
promptness md di^tch.' W. S. Noble of ^
poraiy chairman and J. C. Smith of El Campo secretary The .an...
Mtheiif<S0Willg committees: Constitution, J D
M tchtlljW S. Noble; B. P. Polk, J. j. Moye. This committee w'
cent shall be organized into separate local unions.
"Advance.'"^66 "Fun<i" " Stnke out word, after the word
SB
COfi-
tn th®eL8',8ami .arrticle change t0 read "20c to the State; 15 cents
30 to 36 Add thi S ■° th.6 C°Unty' provided' etc- Change also
ZHizxtzir™: "Membm",arge,h'"^
Sec,
etc.
' S 8a™e article t0 be changed after current term to "the
State «c™ury-tre«orer who .ball ,„d it to the-" secX£s, et
to "November; ex-
n . occ- iS, change, erase first Tuesday in June to "November'-
act date to be fixed by State secretary-treasurer 1
Art. 5, section 28 (rent payments) Strike out
«f the SrsmoT ch ^0U,,t °f ; V:
of cotton and'inwt2"Tbe™eale aeulr °k' ^ er,in *nd 14
XTSt, 30 by W'«StS?4"
Art. o, bee. 30. Strike out money rent and iniwrt "mnw * *
and seeretary-trehsurer shall constitute , spectaT^mmW^ fj™
ulate the secret signs and passwords." committee to form-
and ^wJ'<<S8tate4pmMeSd''ref ) °Ut 6XeCutive committee
will h«hv!e/m?Ddrneilti8 aFe beinS 8ent out to the membershiD as thev
will have to approve them by referendum vote before they be'eome ef"
w. NThCd,tX°S A-G- Mry'
following ringing resolutions which were adoDted ^A^8611?
cheers from the delecateo n i "„ a<J<>Pted unanimously with
crowded the rear end of the hall: nttmber of sympathizers who,
vW
months, (with their families on thej^oble days are Pawning;'
' / 1 J Aaan • v* J J 1. 1 • «
public for protection) should have
tlmir jobs back. But the BOSS,
said NO.NoW gentle people, this is
fhe condition 'of things at Merry-
ville, and it promises to spread all
over the lumbr district. We need
>./ financially, to win this
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Each one that reads these few
wofds, send us something to help
Heroic deeds, sublimer creeds, w uc Wtta
Shall herald Freedom's morning, shot down,and I know if my reader
YnilWI fni. n AAtnMKu ! .i, 11 • . .1 . J
THE WORKS OF BRANN.
1 he Rebel is pleased to announce
that on another page there will be
found an advertisement of the
works of the immortal Brann.
f\any man who wishes to
?et a good grasp of Eng
lisli as it it is wffiten should pur-
chase this work, and it will send
lim flying to the dictionary with
ihe result that his vocabulary will
>e enlarged aud his general knowl-
edge of language broadened. Don't
understand me to mean that Brann
is dry and deals with what is called
sesquipidollian words on the con-
trary he uses language that the way
aring man can understand nine
imes out o ten, but the tenth time
you have to chase up your diction-
ary to find just exactly what the
big word is and then you find that
it is a set ting of brilliants that il-
luminates the whoel paragraph.
And what paragraphs they are*.
How they sting and tingle and burn
how hypocrisy is stripped of its
thin veneer. You must read these
works to appreciate them; order a
set now and your home will be the
better, because it contains thiB mas-
ter piece of genius.
Brann was a southern man in all
the term implies, he was the otfe
great newspaper man of the
who refused to be muzzled, and.
writing this withiti one hundred
yards of the plaice where he was
Report of the Resolution Commit-
tee of the Land Renters Union of
• North America, Held at Waco,
November 8, 1912:
Resolution No. 1. ^
Whereas, at Leaday in Coleman
county one J. Tom Padgitt owns
about 20,000 acres of land which is
occupied by about a half hundred
tenants. A number of these ten-
ants were Socialists and members
of the Socialist party. These ten-
ants (11 in num^r) were forced
to leave this farm and it was made
known by the manager, C. A. Rives,
that no Socialists could rent the
Padgitt land. No other tenants
were forced to leave.
irAcrca,?, similar conditions have
been reported from Mitchell coun-
ty, Milam county and many other
Texas counties and from Oklahoma
and Missouri and other Southern
Statep.
Whereas, at Leaday the discrim-
ination and not stop with barring
Socialists as tenants but a boycott
was placed on the merchant, black-
smith and the business of these
men ruined, therefore be it,
Resolved, by the Renters Union
of America that we denounce such
actions as unjust, tvranneous and
un-American and we ask all ren-
ters, union men and the workers
everywhere to boycott Padgitt and
all landlords that use similar dis-
crimination aerainst their tenants
on account of their political or re-
ligious belief.
We further resolve that we, the
Renters Union, as a non-political
body protest against discrimination
of any character because of a man's
political affiliation.
We protest against these out-
rages of landlordism regardless of
the political affiliation of the par-
ties concerned.
, Resolution No. 2.
I Whereas, The *arme renters of
jTexaa are mindful of the wrongs
i and oppressions suffered by the
ferin^ u- °f ,MeXic°'their 8uf-
7 sX*8?*ing fr°m the ^at
Vil " es own the land UDon"
pe°pie must sub-
sist, therefore, be it
Resolved, That this convention
fl°VCCOr(J a sympathizing pro-
oundly with our brother workers
n Mexico, and hope their struggles
and Protests will not cease until
litically'fr^ po-
Resolution No. 3. *
Whereas, the timber workers of
Louisiana have been reduced io~a
condition of serfdom and peonage
on account of the heartless exptoi-
tation of the Galloways, the Kirbys
and other seducers of the soil,and
,. Aereas, % timber barons'are
directly responsible for the min-
der of four members of the Louis-
iana timber workers association,
and ~ '
• • Whereas, There appears to be no
serious attempt on the part of the
ate of Louisiana to bring these
opulent and arrogant oppressors to
the^ justice they deserve, therefore,
Resolved, That the governor o?
Louisiana be memorialized of these
facts and petition*! to use his of-
ficial power to the end that the
murderers of oUr brothers be prose-
cuted to, the fullest extent of the
law.
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Be it further resolved that a copy
of this resolution be directed to
the governor of Louisiana, person-
ally.
A. G. Maxey,
W.N. Beard, 1
Hampton Steele,
P.Tudon,
Resolutions Committee.
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#yw tax law wu*4u.
i- ! waco, Kov, ^ IttU
i'o loe jckuitur: r ^^ *
lOuMjr s uu patches gives us Ui,
Ui uue ucquitcai 01 iuitj work-
-'•(ft ■t'C", «-jiuul6wU WiUl Wiuuvi, UV
"... ' '
iiUiiitwr W, ui ura-
auegms witn tne at-
to organize tfte Auuuei"
,umerB wivu uie view ot ootttuung
-nuf w(ii(uU|4 amJ| JiVlXl^ cuuai-
uona for ineuiseivcs januues.
Xtoe ttepei, a Socialist paper pub
aUUeU JU XUUletUSVlUe. I CaoO. MVS
m iu mm Ot October 2b, mai John
H. Kiroy, president of uie iurby
2.umber Co., presiueut uf tue south-
ern Lumber Operators
also a Democratic candiu&te for
Representative gave out interviews
to the ettecL, that they, the iuumbir
Operators Association, would not
pennit the workers' organisation to
exist, that at a call meeting of that
Association, the mlft owners agreed
to shut down the mills, with a view
to starve the workers out of the no-
tion of fo^ni^g a union. They es-
tablished a blacklist system through
which every man With tendencies to
unionize was discharged and denied
work thereafter in the Lumber
Trust mills.
The Rebel openly charged ever
since the arrest of the Timber
Workers and the testimony during
'he trial substantiates the charges
hat the Southern Lumber Opera-
ow Association in general, and the
Galloway company in particular,
conspired and sent armed thugs to
disperse the peaceful meeting of
he union men, and shot and killed
a number of the men during the
riot which followed.
The testimony during the trial
brought out the facts that the com-
)any's officials were in conspiracy
with the local authorities, that the
company's men were kept drunk
'or the purpose of creating a riot
with1 the union men—anyway, the
union men were acquitted by the
ury, after a trial, in which the
court and the oficers of "Law and
Order* were siding, as is always the
case in such controversies with the t
company. -
While the daily press gave ev-
ery scant notice to the case, direct
information from Lake Charles,
where the case was tried, shows that
>ractically all ffie State witness**
or we might say, the Galloway Com-
pany s witnesses, broke down under
cross examination, and were shown
to be either in the employ of the
company,tor were doing business in
the place through the consent of the
company only.
There i8 little difference in that
case and that of the Woolen Mill
Workers of Lawrence, Mass. In
each^case the owners of the mills
conspired and had the crimes com-
mitted. In each c*se they deliber-
ately attempted to fasten the crimes
upon the workers. In each case
the machinery of law worked with
all its might against the workers,
and in each case, the daily press
eave sensational accounts of. trial
when it looked bad for the workers,
and only a scant notice when the
real criminal® who~were capitalists ¥
were found out.
Yours for a complete victory,
J. C. Loden,
Secretary Merryville Socialist Loo-
could visit that spot they would
feel as I do, that his work should
be kept living by having
7 every decent man put Brann's work
monies and provis- in his home, and thus help keep the
Send all
ions to Lee Lovejoy, Secretary flame of this genitis aliveT ^
Committee, Merryville, j Order from The Rebel
finance
| $3.30 a.set.
office,
Appointment of organizers to work in their various loSesTf^d
of $300 was pledged by the delegates present to this fend • A P Kinsr
w£vT, R0Ute V^lected presidL, and E 0 Mdtzt of Hal"
lettsville, was re-elected secretary treasurer; A. G. Maxey of Lo-
rena was elected member of the executive board. ^7
r^tpHthneD W!!h he?rty.hand cJasPs.and much enthusiasm the del-
egates adjourned convention and went to their home* determined
that when the next convention is called to order a great lonir step
wil! have been taken towards the destruction of landlordism whilte
they will at the same timejeave no stone unturned to improve the
present conditions of the land lenters of the Sunny South.
The International Socialist Re-
view sums up the Lawrence case as
follows: — ""7
The McNamara brothers, work-
ingmen, ^ planted dynamite and
drew a life, term for it.
John J. Breen, a Lawrence capi-
talist, planted dynamite to impli-
cate the Lawrence workers and
drew a fine of $500.
Lawrence and Boston capi-
talists who instigated the plot, ar*
allowed to roam the streets at will.
Ettor and Giovannitti, working-
men, have been in jail eight months.
(( {;ut 18 *>t true to say that
there is one law for the rich and
another for the poor." There is
simply no law at all for the rich
—its whole force is held in readi •
nes8 to fall like a ton of brick on
the poor at the proper time.
Remember: That Ettor an^Gio-
vanitti are not aeeused of having
committed any crime. The charge
is, that their talk caused a police-
man to kill a woman.
StramreThe policeman is at
large, the capitalist dynamiters and
cbnsnirators are at large, but their
victims are in jail - :.>• ,
n ■ -i ■ ft**"..* > ' ^Btirty. •****<■
(The above excellent article from
comrade Burry also appeared in the
jico Times-Herald this week.—
Ed.)
!
.Teacher with eleven years ex-
pawenee m iht ?«ibhr-schools of
Texas and Oklahoma would like
to secure a school ia « Socialist
community.
IK
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V.,-.
. J. A. Preeland
'Bee*, Texas. y<
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