ton and the other men who will
be killed on his soul. She is fight
ing with the untamed spirit of the
boy, but her progress is slow.
"I am doing this to save my
little brother," says Mrs. Lillian
Callahan Gross. "He already has
the hate in his heart. Our chil
dren get these hates early.
"It is so terrible. Our children
are so helpless. They draw the
feud spirit in with their breath.
It passes on from father to son.
"I want to make Breathitt
county so safe that no wife or
mother in the county will have to
worry when her husband or son
goes out of doors. The men
fight, but the women suffer. It's
about time the feud ended."
Mrs. Gross, who is better edu
cated than the average mountain
woman, is a graduate of a wom
an's college. She rode with the
posse that tracked down her fath
er's slayers. She was in the sad
dle for two weeks after Ed Callai
han's murder. But when Fletcher
Deaton was arrested her anger
was satisfied. She wants the law
to take its course and to end the
feud.
She will take Hargis Callahan
to Louisville and put him in
school. There he will have a
chance to grow up away from the
scenes of violence and he will not
be reminded of his father's mur
der. The sister believes that when
he returns to Breathitt county a
man he will see things differently.
The feudal atmosphere will have
been overcome. She believes she
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But the old men, whose live
have been spent in the hills, nod
over their pipes and disagree. If
Fletcher Deaton killed Ed Calla
han, then Hargis Callahan should
kill Fletcher Deaton. It is fate. .
A. F. OF L. TACKLING BIG W
ORGANIZATION PLANS..
Gigantic organization plans, to
take in the hundreds of thousands
of employes of the stock yards,
harvester trust and the steel
trust, were disclosed today by the
American Federation of Labor,
when John Williams of Pitts
burgh arrived in Chicago this
afternoon.
Williams is president of the
Amalgamated Association of
Iron, Steel and Tin Workers. He
will preside at a mass meeting to
be held tomorrow in East Chi
cago. The notice of the meeting was
the first information that organ
ization plans were definitely
afoot. Polish speaking organiz
ers have been circulating among
the foreign workers for months
stirring up sentiment for the
formation of unions. The great
est obstacle was the difference in
language among the employes.
More foreign-speaking organ
izers will be placed in the pack
ing house and the Deering and 9)
McCormick plants of- the harves
ter trust.
"We are going after these big
corporations were foreign work
ers are employed," said Emmett
Flood, A. F. of L. organizer. "We
are going to show them that
starvation wages and browbeat
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