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T0he PEOPLE Owned by the Rebel Lumberjacks of Dixie * an Injuryr to One Is an Injury to All Saboteurs! Call Ball's and Hunter's Bets ! This is Number 65 Organization 0 Is Power 6 6•ow • THE VOICE t0he PEOPLE Owned by the Rebel Lumberjacks of Dixie * An Injuryr to One is an Injury to All. VoL. III-No. 14. NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA, THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 1914 MarsT Is RIGOH CARL PERSON. A LETTER FROM CLINE. In a prison cell in Clinton, IlL, lies to-night Carl Dear Hall-Your letter of March 3rd to hand E. Person, Strike Secretary of the Harriman Sys- this A. M., and must say was more than glad to tem's Shopmen's Federation. He is charged with hear from you once again, and also to hear from the murder in the first degree in that he killed a gun- news bulletins what was really transpiring. When I man of the Illinois Central Railroad in defense of go to trial I don't know, but am in hopes it will LUMBER TRUST LAW. his life. The Illinois Central absolutey dominates be soon, for it seems as if it is a thousand years the town of Clinton, for there are few men there-- since I saw you and the rest of the live wires. the vast majority being scabs. Thus Carl Person I am entirely out of writing material and my has, in Clinton, about as much show of a "fair and little chewing tobacco I miss, so if you know any impartial trial" as would a Southern Lumberjack kind hearted rebel who wants to donate to the poor, in Kirbyville, Texas. kindly give the address of my present abode. Carl Person is held as a Social prisoner. It is The moving picture proposition proved a failure, not his life they seek but the life of militant and I think, for I had the lawyers get out an injunction effective Unionism. It is not in its full meaning, against them and now I am suing for all they got, SABOTAGE IT TO THE SCRAPHEAP I this "trial," a fight for the life and liberty of this which case comes up in the near future. Some one one man. It is the class war open, with the Capi- is sending me "Solidarity" for which I am thank. talists throwing off their masks and challenging all ful; the first copy this A. M., but for some reason the Clans of Labor. or other I did not get The Voice unless it was an WHAT ARE YOU ONE MILLION, SEVEN oversight and they forgot them. I am in hopes You! HUNDRED THOUSAND RAILROAD WORKERS you will Calls get the Justice news Lumberjacks, of my being isolated from GOING TO DO ABOUT IT-FIGHT OR LAY tht rest of the prisoners in the jail, (I got it. C. H.) Lumber Trust Has "Indicted" Chandler, Torry and Coleman Brothers and Sets Their DOWN for supposed reason that someone sent me a letter "Trial" For April 13th, 1914. ON WITH THE SOCIAL GENERAL STRIKE! from New Ordeans that they were coming to get me out. My correspondence of course, is limited, owing J. F. Ball, Lumber King, Reported To Have Put Up $5000 To "Convict These MAY DAY SPECIAL. to the fact that I can see nor talk to any good amari- Four Lumerjacks and Working Farmers, and District Attorney J. H. Hunter Is tians so as they can give me some writing material. Said To Be Offering To Bet That He Will Hang Them. Pimps, Gunmen Let us hear from you on the May Day Special Would like to hear from Ed. Lehman, "Doe" and Detectives Over-running Country and Ready To Swear To Anything. AT ONCE, saying just how many you will take. We Havens, or old Phin. Eastman, if they are not too will have to know just about how many orders we busy. I am glad they are again getting back into Get Busy! Defense Funds Badly Needed, Quick! Send Same To: O. T. Thompson, can depend on before we can go ahead, for the the Timber Belt so as the slaves can rouse from Treasurer Defense Committee, Bentley, La. Register All Funds. Special will cost considerably more than ordinary their slumbers once more and get better wages and ACT! Railroad Workers On Lumber Roads, Help Us In The Fight For Free- issues. All money, too, must be sent in with your better conditions. dom! ALL Workers Get Busy And Soak The Lumber Trust Any- orders for the Special, that is, when we definitely Best wishes from myself and all to all who are on where, Under Any Name, In Any Way You Can! Strike announce that we will be able to get it out. No arti- the outside.. Keep up the good work. And STRIKE HARD FOR LABOR! cles on the question of Decentralization and Centrali- I am, Yours for Freedom, zation will be published in the Special, this on opposi- CHARLES CLINE, from Decentralists. The Special will be purely Care County Jail, San Aatonio, Texas. LETTERGRAM FROM EMERSON. FROM HALL TO HALL. propaganda material for the ONE BIG UNION. Night Lettergram: New Orleans, Lbll on, T"nlnu., \lm'rth 27, 1914. La., March 23, 1914. BREAKING INTO GLENMORA. Honorable Luther WE, THE UNEMPLOYED LJunibeirjackst,;attentio! ILally! Another outrage E. Hall, Governor of Louisiana, We recently gave an entertainment at Glenmora, hLis i.een tnllllttedla u)pon your class. Remember Baton Rouge, By COVINGTON HALL. (side issue of MeNary, Cady town,) and caused a good ;lralm\ ,i/y yur sli•dlarity aipen the doors of Col- La. A letter received by me to-day seems to indicate deal of confusion with the I. W. W. moving picture fax jail and free 1our brothhers or deny you are men. that the four members of Forest and Lumber Work- We shall come, the Unemployed, the disinherited stereopticon show. Sand your alsh. ' Keep your tear's. Do your duty. ers' Union held in Colfax, La., jail by the of earth, As this entertainment is strictly educational and is If justiliablh 1 \ ill ,join you. l)v p,'lmpn('lntsdeter- Lumber Trust are not only in danger of having We shall crowd into your temples and your marble only given with three months' sub to The Voice or liine u ni ationl. A. L!. EMERSON. their consti- tutional rights violated, but to be in danger of per- halls of mirth; 25 cents worth of literature, they sent up a bunch of sonal violence We shall come as you have made us, ragged, lousy, boys to try and pay admission without taking any AN APPEAL FOR ACTION. as well, this last on account of publi- cation of names of indicters and witnesses against pale and gaunt- literature, but that does not go with us; then they '1o all 1. W. WV.,l ,lhls etverywhcere.-Last, but not them in TIlE VOICE OF THIE PEOPLE. I There- L'ou, the House of Have, shall listen unto us, the tried to damage the machine and sldes, but failed; least, 1i thelight i ici'lI iIsteing waged against four fore DEMAND that you use every means in your the Ilouse of Want. then they damaged a few seats. o 1f m',r best i.al'mle.rs, who a;re Low languishing in power to protect these men. I intend to publish The employers of labor did not like our program. We are sickened tit'h',,ll'ux, L•t.,<hltutgros. the history of this case in full and to see to it that of your "charity," our "God- but the slaves did. Goldman & Son have a sign out, appointed "poor man's friend." 1'lit ,,'f uI fllllr w-Vworkers ir.'to Ihe tried for a the Lumber Trust and the Burns Detective Agency lot"- Mr. Goldman fetched his two imys ,'rimle tha;t n14,,,la knol,\s \who e'mlllllittaed. Thiese four pulls off no more midnight trials in the State of We are wond'ring why us thousands in your slums up to the door and said he would be back in a ,l.ur ,1t"ofarI, I. W. W. must have the support of Louisiana. COVINGTON HALL. and prisons rot- few minutes and did not show up again; his boys We are measuring tha ,,rgallniz;titI or their t.'nvi,.tianl is sure, even NOTE-Up to time of going to press no answer the chaingangs that stretch from were the leaders trying to damage our outfit. Mr. coast to coast- thtiigh it hasdI•ln a 'vilaan,.e' Irought frtmn Burns has been received to the above wire, nor did we ex- Goldman is a dealer in men and women's clothing, Ila,,,•tie... 'Thea• ;aaIllttall is .sure if all the Rebels pect any. Our only intention in sending same was We shall come, us, us the right-less, us the "God- dry goods and notions; claims to be a "poor man's forsaken" S1I1irall).l 4atr1,,n theirt siuppart with funds. to put the "State of Louisiana" on record. We are host. friend,' and works against a move to get more wages by ,,atIin tlik tight all volu laIIlas all allng the lIne! well aware that there is no protection for the work- organization. We shall come in all the madness lkiitley, ,11.1;,ila 1 1na ; tao (. T. T'lah l.s-nI, La., ers and theirs outside the workers and, so, we ad- horn of hunger, Fellow-workers, remember Goldman when in I 4K1' r ,ill tundli . vise you Lumberjacks to, hold the men in charge of pain and strife, G(lenmora and patronize some one else.
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