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Show CONDITIONS AT HELPER FROM THE OTHER SIDE Special to The Tribune. WEST JORDAN, Utah, May 23. The Salt Lake Tribune of Sunday morning, May 22, contains an article on the "Bull Pen for the Strikers During the Trouble at Helper." Let me contrast the conditions as pictured in that article ar-ticle and us they exist. "A question without two sides is no question at all." Things have been pictured in such colors in regard to so many Italians working and on strike there. Perhaps the public Is not aware of the actual conditions. During the convention recently held In Salt Lake by the different trades unions of this State, the coal miners had as their representatives, two Americans, Jones and Phillips, and one Italian, not u Dago, but an Italian, understand. un-derstand. Delegates arc elected by the membership of local unions. Jones has lived and worked In the strike district for twenty-five years; he Is an American Ameri-can citizen. Phillips has lived and worked there for a good many years, and he Is an American citizen. Ber-gera, Ber-gera, the Italian, speaks the English language and can distinguish between Tight and wrong. The Utah Fuel company has endeavored endeav-ored to win Its point by working upon the race prejudice of the people and sloopcd to use every tool, and others oth-ers willing to sacrifice their fellow-man upon the altar of wage slavery. Americans Ameri-cans are entirely lost sight of in the company's endeavor to produce race prejudice and win its point. In regard to "Demolli, the Agitator," and wages, -it is asserted that from $7"i to $17f) per month was made at the time the strike was called. If this is true, why haven't the young men who were strong and husky, having more strength than sense, been able to mako expenses? Why is it they have left the camp discouraged because they could not make both ends meet? Is It altogether .because they are inexperienced? in-experienced? No. It Is because the Utah Fuel company Is looking out for number one even at the price of honor and does not care what means are employed em-ployed to hoodwink a community that Is forced to pay the price of the company's com-pany's loss. Any system that can be raked up to produce a prejudice is used. Now as to the Mag. It was not trailed in the dust, although a mistake was made and the boys placed it on the standard Inverted for which they aro and have been sorry. They apologized for it through their leaders. The "Red Rag" is the Socialist party's banner, and the only "rag" that at the present stands for "equal rights to all and special spe-cial privileges to none." The American nag at present stands not for liberty, but for military rule and the advancement advance-ment of every end of the corporations, regardless of tho cost to and the mlficry of the working man. The oncc-glorlous ling of freedom ls used to drive every spark of patriotism from the breasts of the American workmen. Why do the corporations fear "Mother" Jones? Because they know she Is Immune from the influence of their money. Because she speaks the truth; and the truth hurts. Because she has seen the inside workings of their schemes and she ls not afruld to tell the world the truth. Why did the officers not prosecute her for breaking quarantine? Because they were afraid to force things for fear the truth would be too well known. If Capt. John F. Cory and his colleagues col-leagues can find any glory by dropping into the camps of unsuspecting and unarmed un-armed men and women at daybreak, and ivllh threats, to drive them from their beds as if they were cattle, on a cold, bitter April morning, they are welcome to it. The truth will out and labor must and shall be respected. A. W. CHARTER. |
