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THE VOICE o EOPLE
Owned by the Rebel Lumberjacks of Dixie W An Injurr to One is an Injury to AIL
VOL. Ill-No. 13. NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA, THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 1914 ]IO-T Is RIhTr
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Lumberjacks, To Your Standards.!
Lumber Trust Has "Indicted" Chandler, Torry and Coleman Brothers and Sets Their
"Trial" For April 13th, 1914.
J. F. Ball, Lumber King, Reported To Have Put Up $5000 To "Convict These
Four Lumerjacks and Working Farmers, and District Attorney J. H. Hunter Is
Said To Be Offering To Bet That He Will Hang Them. Pimps, Onamen
and Detectives Over-running Country and Ready To Swear To Anything.
Get Busy! Defense Funds Badly Needed, Quick! Send Same To: O. T. Thompson,
Treasurer Defense Committee, Bentley La. Register All Funds.
Read The Letters Published Below From Rebels At And Near Ball Front, And Then
ACT! Railroad Workers On Lumber Roads, Help Us In The Fight For Free
dom! ALL Workers Get Busy And Soak The Lumber Trust Any
where, Under Any Name, In Any Way You Ca!! Strike
And STRIKE HARD FOR LABOR!
BULLETINS FROM THE FRONT.
Ball Front, La., March 18, 1914.
Things axe still humming here. The strikers are
all busy planting their patches of potatoes and corn,
although they still have their eyes on the job. At a
meeting Monday night, some twenty or thirty in at
tendance, expressed a determination to win this strike
or stay struck until the last tree has fallen.
The superintendent, Mr. Day, boastfully declared
that he would have that damn union busted and shot
to hell by January 1st. Mr. Day moved away last
Sunday; the union is still here attending to its own
busines.
If reports be true, hell has broke loose in the camps,
and all the weakened scabs, who couldn't stand the
fight that is being carried on by the body lice have
moved to other boarding places. Old toughs say its
the worst they ever saw. Well, we should worry,
neither do we give a damn.
Rebels of the Sunny South, awake to action! Four
'of our fellow-workers are to face trial in a few weeks;
all four are charged with shooting with intent to
kill George Grant, a scab. We know they are not
guilty, but they are to face "trial" just the same.
The Iron Hell of the Lumber Trust seems to be
hell-bent on sending them to the gallows or to the
pen for life. It' is reported that J. F. Ball has put
up five thousand dollars for their conviction, and
that District Attorney Hunter offers to bet that he
will hang hem. What can all his mean? Working
slaves, ask yourselves this question: Is it because
their tender hearts reach out in sympathy for a cheap
scab? If this is the reason, why didn't they pay
Grant's sanitarium bill as was expected?
Is it because they want to maintain "law and
order" that they ate prosecuting innocent boys for
a crime no one kno\·'s who committed? In my op;n
ion it is because the Southern Lumber Operators'
Association wishes t1 engage all the active union men
in the South in an effort to save these boys from the
gallows.
Rebels of the South, West, East andl North, what
are you going to do about it 1 I'; do ,ot want your
sympathy. Altion is all that counts. ACT NOW.
Funds arc u4r'jcntly nso, d for this fight. So get
busy to-day. Send itll funds to:
0. T. TIIOMI'SON, TREASI'RER DEFENSE
COMMITTEE. BENTLI: V, LA.
And hand :your A,\n ma.-ter a big dose of direct
action that will mal:e the powers that be sit up and
take notice. Ioak, 'that $*5000( ) ,pros(cuting fund
look Iik, a hanlfi f ,f sau,,dust. You can. Now, will
you who knm w yoi may he the next worker to
be prosecuted t,)r vi, laling the modern unwriten fugi
tive law
Get busy a rd without delayv
Yours for the overthrow of peot.'-, .
J.\iLLI AMSON.
Parish Prison, Colfax. La., March 1. 1914.
Fellow-worker Ia:i~l-I will write you a few more
lines for the purpos:' of giving TIIE VOICE a few
more names, witnesses against us. as follows: Leroy
Day, Tom Hicks. Jackson Vallerv. Clarence Brown, A.
C. Deene, Albert Lemmons and George Grant the
noted-who was hot.
OUR TRIAL IS SET FOR APRIL 13,1914.
We would be glad to have J. I. Sheppard here on
that occasion, as it is FACTS that prejudice is being
used against u
We appeal to ALL the Lamberjacks against the
Lumber Trut. OSCAR CHANDLER.
Bentley, La., March 17th, 1914.
The devils, better knon as scabs and gunmen,
crept in a peaceable SOLIDARITY STRIKE andi
started hell here in Grant parish. They have d
all sorts of hell, but that was not enough for thim,
so the dirty ears rumhed our of our boys to Colfax
jail and than appeard befaoe what was suppojei'
to be a just Grand Jury and sowrs that Fellow
workers W. C. and D. M. Coleman, Tom Torry and
Oscar Chandler lay in wait and attempted to kill
one George Grant, a strikebreaker at the Sweet Home
Lumber Company Front, and the Grand Jury found
a bill aginst them, this though our boys were at home
at the time, some of them four miles away.
Now, fellow-workers, open your eyes and come to
the aid of these four boys, for it will be your boys
next. You don't have to be in a strike in these days
and parts to go to jail, as saome of these boys were
not in the strike. So you can see that it is to YOUR
inerest to acset, and ACT AT ONCE, to overthrow this
damnable system of peonage-to ACT, by direct ac
tion, or roundabout action, or any other action that
will hit the Plunderbunds a blow to help loosen their
grip on the earth and force them to free these boys
who have committed no crime, except that of being
workingmen. Get buar, all working MEN I
Yours for ONE BIG UNION, C. W. BARTON.
GCrant Parish, March, 1914.
Fellow-workers-Four of our boys are held in Col
fax and Alexandria, La. jails (this letter was writ
ten before boys were "indicted." Ed.) charged with
-yes, that is the whole of it-they don't know whether
they are charged with some damnable crime the Lum
ber Trust's gunmen committed or what, but they do
know they are beinag held without bail to satisfy the
two-footed bloodhounds of the Boase.
What are we going to do, stand back and see our
fellow-workers rushed to the hellish pullpens of
Louisiana, to a living hell there to have their very
lives crushed to misery by the low-down fends of the
Capitalist Class, or are we going to stand together,
DEMAND JUSTICE AND SET THEM FREE?
Let's get together and show these hellish, murdrous
degenerates that the boys are not by themselves. Let's
stand together like MEN Show your Red Blood by
coming to their aid
Yours for the ONE BIG UNION and FREEDOM.
"A REBEL AT SWEET HOME FRONT."
Lumberjacks Libertarians The fight is on to
overthrow PEONAGE in the Land of Dixie ! This
struggle that now eenters around the jail in Colfax,
La., is but the culmination of a long series of out
rages on the Southern Lumberjacks by the Lumber
Trust and its stoolpigeons in the "Democratic" party.
Let them not make good To arms in the holy cause
of Human Freedom, 0 Libertarians of the World!
The fight is on--on with the fight!
COVINGTON HALL.
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THE SOUL OF MOTHIER JONES.
By COVINGTON HALL
They can throw you in their pullpen,
Mother Jones,
They who pass for fighting men,
Mother Jones;
Call from the slum the filth it hides,
Its sneaks and curs and pimps and snides,
To do their work of mothercides,
Mother Jones.
But, try as they will, in this they fail,
Mother Jones-
They cannot keep your soul is jail,
Mother Jones o
From dungeons dark as starless night,
Or 'neath the Red Flag's crimson light,
It leads the miners in their fight,
Mother Jones!
Where Freedom's farflung banner shines,
Mother Jones,
It cheers the Rebels on the lines,
Mother Jones.
Where'er Rebellion's in the air,
Or men need cheering from despair,
Your dear gray head is lifted there,
Mother Jones.
Try as they will, in this they fail,
Mother Jone
They cannot keep your soil in jail,
Mother Jones I
From dungeons dark as starless night,
Or 'neath the Red Flag's crimson light,
It calls the workers to the fight,
Mother Jones I
CLINE CAGED.
News comes from San Antonio Rebels that Cline
has been put in solitary, has not had a bath for weeks
and is not given even enough water to wash his face.
Such is "Texas justice." More next week. Sic
the Sabcats on the Cockatoos!
HOP PICKERS DEFENSE.
At the last regular monthly meeting of the Wheat
land Hop Pickers' Defense Committee March 16.
Andy Barber resigned as Secreary and another mem
ber of the committee, Don. D. Scott was elected as
Secretary. The committee now stands as follows:
Mortimer Downing, John Panener, Sim Powell, W.
Klahr, Andy Barber, H. C. Evans, J. Beareans, Don.
D. Scott.
Sand all funds to Don. D. Scott, P. O. Box 1087,
Saeramsnto, Cal
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writers as possible, articles of not over, say 500 words.
Nothing but your best will be accepted. The pries
will not be raised; we will lower it if we can.
Yours in the fight for freedom,
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THE OUNMAN.
When God made the coyote, the hyena, the moc
casin, the curdog and the shunk he gave the refuse
to Belial, the Iord of greed and vilenem, and told
him to take it to Hell and be sure to cremate it.
Satan, however, refusing to let Belial enter Hell with
the terrible substance. Belial bethought himself
to play a joke on God, and, retiring to the alums of
Sodom, placed the God-accursed stuff in the nest of
a leperous vulture and she hatched therfrom the Gun
man, which was reared on blood and given a were
wolfe soul by Belial. Since then this thing has been
the murder-proxy by which Emperors, Kings, No
bles and Capitalist have ruled the earth and main
tained "law", "order", "impartial justice", "civili
zation" and society" from destruction. The differ
ence between the gunman and the detective, with
apologies to the vultures, is that between a buzzard
and a carrion crow.
Compared to a gunman, a pimp is a man and a
coyote is a lion..
The money wasted on war would employ all the
idle of the world if put to productive endeavor. The
money spent in America would build homes for 30,000
workers a year.